Bin Laden
Opinion
Al Qaeda fan Zakir Naik at FIFA World Cup
Zakir Naik’s comments in defense of Osama Bin Laden were first exposed by Blitz back in 2005. Later the matter drew attention of global news media. Following series of reports published in Blitz, Zakir Naik was banned in the United Kingdom and Canada.
Counterterrorism
Osama Bin Laden and Islam’s crisis
Osama Bin Laden and allies sought redemption in purging Western influence from Muslim countries.
In 1999, House Taskforce on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare director Yossef Bodansky noted...
Counterterrorism
Islamist terrorism has afflicted nearly every Western country
Islamist terrorism has afflicted nearly every Western country and is likely to get worse. One reason is the radicals' aggressiveness; another is the feeble...
Opinion
US should sever all ties with Pakistani ISI, designate its chief as terrorist
It is time the US intelligence community sever all ties and instead focus its intelligence assets on the neutralization of the ISI and its...
Opinion
Michael Scheuer, an anti-Israel, conspiracy-mongering crank
CIA analyst Michael Scheuer emphasized the “overwhelming centrality of religion in all of bin Laden’s activities” in his 2002 book Through Our Enemies’ Eyes: Osama bin Laden,...
Opinion
Osama Bin Laden forbade children from joining Al Qaeda
In Pakistan, founder of notorious Jamaat-e-Islami, Abul Ala Moududi asked his children never to join the party as he knew, main objective of Jamaat...
Counterterrorism
Revival of Islamic State in African continent
Jordan Cope
Before 9/11, many forget that Osama Bin Laden largely made a name for himself in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Sudan, he conceived his Islamic Army Shura, laying “the...
Opinion
Terror-patron Pakistan has problems at its birth
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
It is not only the case of latest jihadist attack in Pulwama, where more than 40 members of India’s Central Reserve...