From Roughly Drafted’s Osama Bin Laden’s Dream of US Economic Collapse: “The current economic collapse among US banks has cost taxpayers over $800 billion so far in federal bailouts. Add in the trillions spent off the budget in financing the occupation of Iraq and a maintenance mode war in Afghanistan, and it’s obvious that the [...]
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Report? What Report?
March 13, 2008 – 01:43 pm
From Salon’s Report? What Report?: “With the fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war quickly approaching, the Pentagon sponsored a new study on the relationship between Saddam Hussein and terror groups including al-Qaida. The report found no ‘direct connection’ between Saddam’s Iraq and al-Qaida. The report did say that Saddam was one of [...]
Bush In Denial About Iraq
July 12, 2007 – 06:57 pm
From BarackObama.com: “According to an intelligence community estimate, al Qaeda has recovered to its pre-September 11th strength. Meanwhile, George Bush released his administration’s report on the “progress” in Iraq. The past three months have been some of the deadliest since the war began, and things are getting worse. Nonetheless, President Bush is claiming that “the [...]
Hussein’s Prewar Ties To Al-Qaeda Discounted
April 6, 2007 – 12:27 pm
From the “In Case You Didn’t Know” Department: Hussein’s Prewar Ties To Al-Qaeda Discounted: “Captured Iraqi documents and intelligence interrogations of Saddam Hussein and two former aides “all confirmed” that Hussein’s regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaeda before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, according to a declassified Defense Department report released yesterday. The declassified [...]
We Got Him - The Remix
June 8, 2006 – 10:53 am
This year’s “We Got Him” moment: “Al Qaeda’s leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed in an American air strike on an isolated safe house north of Baghdad at 6.15 p.m. local time on Wednesday, top United States and Iraqi officials said today.” Wonder who we’ll get next year, since, you know, we’ll still [...]
Blowing up the corporate structure
April 29, 2006 – 04:08 pm
Is it desirable to build a company utilizing the model of al-Qaeda? This is not the first time the question has been asked. There is at least one scholarly essay on the topic and an LA Times article that looks at how well al-Qaeda runs as an organization. But if we leave behind the reality [...]
Al-Qaeda jihad vs US ‘long war’
April 26, 2006 – 11:14 pm
The BBC is comparing the Al-Qaeda jihad vs the US ‘long war’, using Bin Laden’s most recent message, a 7,000 word philosophy of war, and the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review, released in February. As the BBC writes, “We therefore now have two almost simultaneous documents from the leading forces in the war and they are [...]
