US Citizen Who Edited al-Qaida Magazine Killed with al-Awlaki
A U.S. official says a second American citizen is dead in the same airstrike that killed radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. U.S. and Yemeni officials say Samir Khan and al-Awlaki were killed early Friday in a strike on a convoy in Yemen. The strike was carried out by the CIA and U.S. Joint Special Operations Command. […]
The NSA and 9/11: Letting the Hijackers Go
The NSA failed to pass on information about the hijackers, perhaps deliberately to aid CIA machinations, and has not even stated publicly whether and how it investigated this failure, let alone what the conclusions of such inquiry might be. Nevertheless, with remarkable speed it used its failure as a justification for massive new powers. This is just one of the legacies of 9/11.
Yemeni PM: al Qaeda is "Western-made"
Yemeni Prime Minister Ali Muhammed al- Mujawar said Saturday that al-Qaeda was originally a Western-made group and was never created by his country, the state-run Saba news agency reported. The prime minister’s remarks were made during a meeting in the capital Sanaa with ambassadors of Asian and African countries to Yemen to clarify Yemen’s stance against those who propagated negative impacts on Yemen over the bomb parcels shipped to the United States last week.