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The Tragic Case of Abdulrahman al Awlaki

From On December 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The grandfather of the 16-year-old American-Yemeni boy who was killed by a CIA drone strike in Yemen last year is suing 4 US officials, including Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Former CIA Director David Petraeus, over his son and grandson’s deaths.

The father of the Colorado-born Abdulrahman al Awlaki’s was an al [...]

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AQAP Denounces Islamic Republic of Iran

From On November 15, 2010 · 1 Comment

I’ve written before about the thin evidence for the case that Al Qaeda is tied to Iran (Cliff May‘s argument boils down to: ‘Well, they’re all jihadists! Connection!’). But Max Fisher, writing for the Atlantic has another powerful counter-weight for these propagandistic accusations: Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the teeny-tiny but [...]

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