Tag: Al-Qaeda

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2009-02-17 "I think it's still possible for us to stamp out al-Qaeda to make sure that extremism is not expanding but rather is contracting.
I think all those goals are still possible [ ... ]
-- Barack Obama, President of the USA, in an interview with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp
2008-12 In the USA, more than a dozen Somali-American families in the midwest have reported their sons missing, fearing they may have fled to join al-Qaeda-linked groups in Somaliland / East Africa.
Members of the 70,000 Somali community in the state fear local imams are indoctrinating young men to join Islamist radicals (the al-Qaeda linked al-Shabaab) fighting the western-backed transitional government in Mogadishu, Somalia.
2008-11-27 “The Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has insisted that the terrorists were based outside the country. The Indian media has echoed this line of argument with Pakistan (via the Lashkar-e-Taiba) and al-Qaeda listed as the usual suspects.
But this is a meditated edifice of official India’s political imagination. Its function is to deny that the terrorists could be a homegrown variety, a product of the radicalization of young Indian Muslims who have finally given up on the indigenous political system. To accept this view would imply that the country’s political physicians need to heal themselves.
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Why should it be such a surprise if the perpetrators are themselves Indian Muslims? Its hardly a secret that there has been much anger within the poorest sections of the Muslim community against the systematic discrimination and acts of violence carried out against them of which the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in shining Gujarat was only the most blatant and the most investigated episode, supported by the Chief Minister of the State and the local state apparatuses.
Add to this the continuing sore of Kashmir which has for decades been treated as a colony by Indian troops with random arrests, torture and rape of Kashmiris an everyday occurrence. Conditions have been much worse than in Tibet, but have aroused little sympathy in the West where the defense of human rights is heavily instrumentalised.”
-- Tariq Ali, author
2008-11-14 In North Waziristan, Pakistan, a USA Predator attack demolished a compound owned by Amir Gul, a Taliban commander said to have ties to al-Qaeda. At least 11 people, including six foreign fighters, were killed.
2008-09-10 “No external force is allowed to conduct operations inside Pakistan.”
-- Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, chief of the Pakistani Army, in a statement criticizing USA for sending commandos into Pakistan to fight the Taliban and Al-Qaeda
2008-09-03 Raid by American Special Operations forces into Pakistan’s tribal areas, attacking a compound in South Waziristan where Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces were believed to be leaving a dozen or more Pakistanis dead.
2008-09 In Pakistan, 22 percent of the respondents reported mixed feelings and 19 percent positive feelings for al-Qaeda.
-- According to a recent world poll conducted for the BBC
2008-09 In Egypt, 40 percent of the respondents had mixed feelings, and 20 percent positive feelings for al-Qaeda.
-- According to a recent world poll conducted for the BBC
2008-08-05 There’s going to be an i-9/11 event. Which doesn’t necessarily mean an Al Qaeda attack, it means an event where the instability or the insecurity of the internet becomes manifest during a malicious event which then inspires the government into a response. You’ve got to remember that after 9/11 the government drew up the Patriot Act within 20 days and it was passed.

The Patriot Act is huge and I remember someone asking a Justice Department official how did they write such a large statute so quickly, and of course the answer was that it has been sitting in the drawers of the Justice Department for the last 20 years waiting for the event where they would pull it out.

Of course, the Patriot Act is filled with all sorts of insanity about changing the way civil rights are protected, or not protected in this instance. So I was having dinner with Richard Clarke and I asked him if there is an equivalent, is there an i-Patriot Act just sitting waiting for some substantial event as an excuse to radically change the way the internet works. He said “of course there is”.
-- Lawrence Lessig, Law Professor from Stanford University, told an audience at this years Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Half Moon Bay, California
2008-08 In September 2003, the White House ordered then-Director George Tenet to fabricate a letter describing a level of cooperation between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda.
-- According to Ron Suskind, in his book, “The Way of the World”












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