International Terrorism

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump has promised to make public currently guarded secrets surrounding the 9/11 attacks, should he be elected President.  Speaking at a campaign event in Bluffton, SC, Trump continued his onslaught on the Bush presidency by once again raising the issue of the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001.   “We went after Iraq, they did not ...

The American Office of the Director of National Intelligence has now released a list of some of the books that apparently graced Osama bin Laden’s shelves in his Pakistan hideout. The translated declassified documents, mostly letters to and from bin Laden and his associates, reveal an unsurprisingly deep fear of surveillance, as well as things like applications for prospective al-Qaeda members and ...

As the first female vice president of Iran and the head of Iran’s Environmental Protection Organization, Masoumeh Ebtekar may be the most powerful woman in Iran. [12]  But long before her current role, Americans came to know Ebtekar in 1979 as “Mary,” the English-speaking spokeswoman for the Iranian student group that overran the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 52 ...

Sudan’s President has claimed the CIA, America’s intelligence agency, and Israel’s Mossad are behind the Islamist militant groups Boko Haram and Isis.  [1] [2] [3] Omar al-Bashir used an interview with Euronews to claim there was a connection between the American and Israeli intelligence organisations and both extremist groups.   Al-Bashir told the broadcaster: “I said CIA and the Mossad stand ...

A four star admiral, who was in charge of the largest single military command in the world, slammed President Obama. [6] His last duty assignment was Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, the largest single military command in the world. His initiatives contributed directly to the economic stability and humanitarian understanding in the Pacific and Indian Ocean regions and brought ...