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Administration debates stretching 9/11 law to go after new al-Qaeda offshoots
www.washingtonpost.com-March 07, 2013
A new generation of al-Qaeda offshoots is forcing the Obama administration to examine whether the legal basis for its targeted killing program can be extended to militant groups with little or no connection to the organization responsible for the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. officials said.
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U.S. counterterrorism efforts in Africa defined by a decade of missteps
www.washingtonpost.com-February 05, 2013
The U.S. military was closely tracking a one-eyed bandit across the Sahara in 2003 when it confronted a hard choice that is still reverberating a decade later. Should it try to kill or capture the target, an Algerian jihadist named Mokhtar Belmokhtar, or let him go?
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Navy wants commando ‘mothership’ in Middle East
www.washingtonpost.com-January 28, 2012
The Pentagon is rushing to send a large floating base for commando teams to the Middle East as tensions rise with Iran, al-Qaeda in Yemen and Somali pirates, among other threats.
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More Than Luck
www.nationaljournal.com-October 29, 2011
In a string of successful operations this year, U.S. counterterrorism forces have drawn a bead on the top tier of the terrorist hierarchy. They killed Qaida chief Osama bin Laden last May, and then Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, two top leaders in al-Qaida’s dangerous franchise in Yemen. Ten years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, U.S. officials seem to be accurately “connecting the dots” from terrorism plots back to the masterminds who hatched them. National Journal Senior Correspondent James Kitfield spoke recently with David Shedd, an intelligence veteran who is now deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, about what the recent successes say about post-9/11 intelligence reforms. Edited excerpts from the interview follow.
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U.S. drone base in Ethiopia is operational
www.washingtonpost.com-October 28, 2011
The Air Force has been secretly flying armed Reaper drones on counterterrorism missions from a remote civilian airport in southern Ethiopia as part of a rapidly expanding U.S.-led proxy war against an al-Qaeda affiliate in East Africa, U.S. military officials said.
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Pentagon Lawyer Warns Against Over-Militarizing Anti-Terror Fight
www.washingtonpost.com-October 19, 2011
The Pentagon’s general counsel warned Tuesday against the “over-militarization” of the country’s approach to counterterrorism and said Congress should avoid micro-managing how terrorist suspects are detained and prosecuted.
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US Counterterror Chief: Al-Qaida Now On The Ropes
www.foxnews.com-September 01, 2011
On a steady slide. On the ropes. Taking shots to the body and head.
That's how White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan described Al Qaeda on Wednesday as he offered the first on-record confirmation that Al Qaeda's latest second-in-command was killed last week in Pakistan -- roughly four months after Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden there.
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Revisiting a Stale Counterterrorism Law
www.cfr.org-September 01, 2011
Nearly a decade after 9/11, the United States still relies on the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) for the killing and detention of those considered responsible for or associated with the terrorist attacks. But CFR national security law expert John Bellinger says it is becoming increasingly difficult for the Obama administration to justify some of its counterterrorism operations under this limited statutory authority.
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Ex-Counterterrorism Aide Warns Against Complacency On Al Qaeda
www.nytimes.com-July 29, 2011
The recently departed director of the nation’s main counterterrorism center said Thursday that Al Qaeda in Pakistan still posed a serious threat to the United States, and he warned that assessments that Al Qaeda was on the verge of collapse lacked “accuracy and precision.”
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AWOL Campbell pfc. arrested near Hood with bomb
www.marinecorpstimes.com-July 28, 2011
An AWOL soldier from Fort Campbell, Ky., has been arrested near Fort Hood, Texas, apparently averting another attack on the post, according to an internal message distributed by the Army Operations Center at the Pentagon.
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