Al-Qa'ida Statements Collection - This is a collection of 21 al-Qa'ida statements. At 131 pages long it is, at time of release, the most complete collection of statements available to the English speaking public. Normally such things are suppressed and then read only within law enforcement circles.
FBI and 9/11 by Sibel Edmonds - Over four years ago, more than four months prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks, in April 2001, a long-term FBI informant/asset who had been providing the bureau with information since 1990, provided two FBI agents and a translator with specific information regarding a terrorist attack being planned by Osama Bin Laden.
Frontline: Hunting bin Laden - Investigates the 1998 U.S. embassy terrorist bombings in East Africa which killed 224 and injured over 5,000. The U.S. believes wealthy Saudi Arabian dissident Osama bin Laden masterminded behind these terrorist attacks. The program probes bin Laden's life story - tracing his roots in Saudi Arabia's dissident movement, his participation with other Muslims in the Afghan war, the evidence gathered about his terrorist network, and examines the motivations of his radical Islam supporters and why they want the U.S. driven out of Saudi Arabia. The investigation also examines America's retaliatory missile strikes in the Sudan and Afghanistan against bin Laden's terrorist network and talks to a U.S. Muslim community about anti-Muslim stereotyping and prejudice.
Frontline: In Search of Al Qaeda (21 Nov 2002) - In December 2001, as American forces blasted mountain hideouts in the Tora Bora region of eastern Afghanistan, hundreds of Al Qaeda soldiers hastily fled, crossing over unguarded mountain trails and seemingly disappearing into thin air. What happened to Al Qaeda? Where did its members find sanctuary? Has the network been scattered and rendered ineffective - or are they regrouping and planning more attacks? And is popular support for Al Qaeda waning or growing in the countries where it has drawn its stength?
Interview with Saad Al-Faqih - Dr. al-Faqih heads the Saudi opposition group, Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia (MIRA), and is a widely acknowledged expert on al Qaeda. Terrorism Monitor Special Correspondent Mahan Abedin conducted this interview in London on January 23, 2004.
Iraq Connection Al Qaeda-Hussein Link Is Dismissed - Article by Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank (Washington Post, 17 Jun 04) reporting September 11 Commission finding of no "collaborative relationship" between Iraq and al Qaeda, challenging one of the Bush administration's main justifications for the war in Iraq.
IslamistWatch.org - Includes Islamic fatwas, communiques, resources, including texts such as the following:
Osama bin Laden Videotape Transcript (Released 01 Nov 04) - The tape, bin Laden's first videotaped appearance since September 2003, was given to the Qatar-based al-Jazeera television network, which released a seven-minute version 29 Oct 04. On 01 Nov 04 the network released the entire 18-minute tape, and U.S. officials issued a translation of bin Laden's entire message.
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011) - The founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. He was a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family, and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite.
Osamagate - Article by Michel Chossudovsky: "Confronted with mounting evidence, the U.S. Administration can no longer deny its links to Osama. While the CIA admits that Osama bin Laden was an "intelligence asset" during the Cold War, the relationship is said to "go way back ". Most news reports consider that these Osama-CIA links belong to the "bygone era" of the Soviet-Afghan war. They are invariably viewed as "irrelevant" to an understanding of present events. Lost in the barrage of recent history, the role of the CIA in supporting and developing international terrorist organisations during the Cold war and its aftermath is casually ignored or downplayed by the Western media."
President's Daily Brief (06 Aug 2001) - President Bush on Saturday, 10 April 2004, became the first sitting president ever to release publicly even a portion of his Daily Brief from the CIA. The page-and-a-half section of the President's Daily Brief from 06 August 2001, headlined "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US," had generated the most contentious questioning in the prior week's testimony by national security adviser Condoleezza Rice before the commission investigating the September 11th attacks. Dr. Rice continued to insist that the Brief did not amount to a real warning, while several commissioners seemed to think otherwise.
Shadow War, The - Articles in this NYT series examine the secret expansion of the war against Al Qaeda and its allies.
Smoking Gun Archive - Osama bin Laden documents, including: Central Intelligence Agency's unclassified fact sheet, murder by the book, terrorism manual excerpts, and interrogating a bin Laden disciple.
Terrorist Leader Osama bin Laden - A survey of the life of the al-Qaeda founder, whose death was confirmed on May 1, 2011, from Time magazine.
War on Terrorism: Osama bin Laden and al-Qa'ida - A select list of resources on Osama bin Laden and al-Qa'ida provided by the Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina.
Young Osama - By Steve Coll, The New Yorker, 12 Dec 2005.
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