Al-Qaida
Counting the dead in Iraq
July was the deadliest month in the Iraq for more than two years. Is this the same country that Barack Obama declared to be a “sovereign, stable and self-reliant”?
By Richard Hall | The Foreign Desk | Thursday, 2 August 2012 at 9:53 pm
Noncommital? Pakistan’s War on Terror
A year after the US attack that saw Osama bin Laden killed, efforts to crush the remnants of al-Qa’ida are at a pivotal stage.
By Mohammad I. Aslam | Notebook, Opinion, The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 4 July 2012 at 2:00 am
Obama’s legacy doesn’t live up to the terms of his Nobel Prize
As Obama nears the end of his first term as President, Chris Pleasance says he has done little to live up to the terms of the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, his is a legacy of continued war, questionable drone strikes and pandering to hawkish neocons.
By Chris Pleasance | Notebook, Opinion, The Foreign Desk, iPolitics | Monday, 11 June 2012 at 4:03 am
The Twilight War
Philip Zelikow, the main author of the 9/11 Commission Report, has written an afterword called The Twilight War to mark the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001. Prospect magazine carries an extract (pay wall), which is a good analysis of the different ways that [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Saturday, 27 August 2011 at 11:37 am
Time to pressure Iran
As the world was preoccupied with the ongoing fiscal debate in Washington, DC, important news that could have serious consequences for global security and U.S. national security passed by with little notice. After years of speculation, debate, unconfirmed reports and intelligence, the Treasury Department announced last week that Iran had struck an agreement with al-Qa’ida, allowing its operatives and facilitators to function there freely.
By Lord Alton | The Foreign Desk | Friday, 5 August 2011 at 10:40 am
Anders Behring Breivik: a disturbing ideology
A bomb goes off at the office of the Norwegian Prime Minister’s office. Hours later, a lone gunman goes on a killing spree on the island of Utoya. The news are quick to pin the blame to Al-Qa’ida, or in fact, any Muslims. Kurdish organisations, Muammer Gaddafi and Afghanis are mentioned. All without a shred of evidence. Another terrorist attack. Or as Murdoch’s Sun newspaper ran with the following morning, “Norway’s 9/11”.
By Jody McIntyre | The Foreign Desk | Monday, 25 July 2011 at 5:09 pm
Are al-Qa’ida and the Taliban driven by the desire to help others?
A worthy entry at number 602 in the chart of Questions to Which the Answer is No is supplied by Aditya Chakrabortty at The Guardian.
It is actually an interesting article about research by psychologists and economists into the motivations of suicide bombers. Although it is spoiled by Chakrabortty’s apparent endorsement of the facile conclusions one [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Tuesday, 3 May 2011 at 10:54 am
There is nothing normal about celebrating death
I thought justice was about bringing people to trial for crimes they have committed, not targeted assassinations. It seems I was wrong. I thought disdain for Britain and the US was born from our imperialist foreign policy, not one man recording video messages. It seems I was wrong. First, NATO bomb Libya and kill three [...]
By Jody McIntyre | The Foreign Desk | Tuesday, 3 May 2011 at 9:58 am
The civil war among Muslims in Britain
The previous government’s controversial programme for preventing violent extremism is currently being reviewed by the Home Office. How did it happen that programmes which were introduced with the aim of promoting “community cohesion” and preventing the influence of violent extremists ended upachieving the opposite of what they set out to achieve?
By Michael Mumisa | Notebook | Wednesday, 1 December 2010 at 12:00 pm
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