Terrorism

US drone strike kills al-Qaida media chief : Yemen

US drone strikes in southern Yemen have killed nine militants linked to the al-Qaida. The government officials and tribal elders said on Saturday said that among the dead include Ibrahim al-Bana, the media chief for al-Qaida’s Yemeni branch and Abdul-Rahman al-Awlaki, the son of a known US-born cleric slain in a similar attack last month. [...]



Put terror suppoting Pakistani ISI agents on wanted lists: Riedel

The United States should move to a policy of containment for Pakistan, holding its army and intelligence branches accountable, and taking appropriate action against any Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) official found to be aiding terrorism writes Bruce O. Riedel, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “America needs [...]