Archive for the 'Al Qaeda' Category

Strategy: The New Rules Of War, By John Arquilla

   Just a heads up, John was one of Rumsfeld’s advisors. lol  But he does bring up some good points to think about, and I wanted to put them out there for the FJ readership to analyze. Here is a quick run down of the rules the author came up with:
   Rule 1: “Many and Small” Beats “Few […]

Pakistan: Afghan Taliban Military Chief Captured, Aides Confirm

   Wow.  What a catch, and I certainly hope they are able to get all the information they can out of this guy in order for us to get closer to Usama Bin Laden or Mullah Omar.  We can only hope, and this is some outstanding war news. -Matt
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Afghan Taliban Military Chief Captured, Aides Confirm 
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Maritime Security: Lessons From Sri Lanka For Combating Terrorists At Sea

   This was a cool little report, and I had no idea that LTTE was conducting swarming attacks like this. This also gives me pause in regards to our current maritimes security challenges.  What if Somali pirates started using swarming methods in order to take down boats?  Could a security team on a ship, hold off 25 […]

Publications: Pseudo Operations And COIN: Lessons From Other Countries, By Dr. Lawrence E. Cline

   If you have the time, check out this excellent paper.  I loved it, because this is the kind of stuff that we need to be doing more of in this war. All it takes is one guy that we can use to deeply penetrate into Osama Bin Laden’s network or some drug cartel, and […]

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India: Terror Group Lashkar-e-Taiba Planning Paraglider Attacks In India

   Wow, these guys are getting innovative. The attack using a paraglider opens up all sorts of ideas and problems-both for the terrorist and for the defenders.  I believe many paraglider kits can be used for tandem jumping, so they could conceivably haul a payload of equal weight. So that could be a payload of […]

Al Qaeda: Al Qaeda Linked To Rogue Aviation Network

   I posted an article about this awhile back, but it was not as comprehensive as this report.  This is pure narco-terrorism, and should definitely cause alarm. Eeben wrote an excellent post about narco-terrorism, and I think this article is a good supplement to what he was talking about. -Matt
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Al Qaeda linked to rogue aviation network
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Maritime Security: Somali Militants Training Pirates

   So here we go.  This is the trend to watch, and jihadist privateering is now a reality.  My guess is that not only will piracy be lucrative for Al-Shabab, but they will soon be front and center with the drug trade and smuggling. And hey, they might even make some time to play holy war in […]

Al Qaeda: Al Shabab FAIL!!–Danish Cartoonist Intruder Shot

   That’s right!  That is a big fat FAIL for the Al Shaboobs! What else do you have, because this weak sauce. lol -Matt
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Danish cartoonist intruder shot
January 2, 2010
Danish police have shot and wounded a man at the home of Kurt Westergaard, whose cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad sparked an international row.
Mr Westergaard scrambled into […]

Al Qaeda: The Gitmo ‘Catch And Release’ Program

Overall, 14 percent of the more than 530 detainees transferred out of Guantanamo are confirmed or suspected to have been involved in terrorist activities since their release. 
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    This is as ridiculous as what we are doing with these Somali pirates when we catch them, which is release them. So what do you know! Piracy and terrorism […]