Middle East Strategy at Harvard Will the recent killing in Pakistan of "senior" Al Qaeda leader, Abu Laith al-Libi, have any tangible effects on the "war on terror"? Considering the headline news coverage, one might assume so. In fact, whenever any major Al Qaeda operative or leader is slain, the media is abuzz with it, implying that we are one step closer to eradicating Al … [Read more...]

Middle East Strategy at Harvard Full of the same old complaints, threats of retaliation, and victim status role that have become mainstays of al-Qaeda propaganda, Osama bin Laden's latest release would seem to offer nothing new. It dwells on the many "crimes" the West insists on visiting upon the Muslim world, simply because "their only sin is that they are Muslim"; it, once … [Read more...]

National Review Online Much of the current debate surrounding Iran's nuclear aspirations centers on the National Intelligence Estimate report which "judge[s] with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program." While such reports tend to be accepted as authoritative — witness the ongoing political maelstrom caused by it — it is imperative to … [Read more...]

The Al Qaeda Reader and Mein Kampf National Review Online   A number of book reviewers have recently pointed to the similarities between The Al Qaeda Reader and Mein Kampf. For instance, writing in the New York Observer, James Buchan notes that, In their [al Qaeda's] brutality and candor, their fulminations against democracy and loose morals, their obsession with … [Read more...]