So, some stuff’s been in the news lately… (This is part 1 of a 2 part links dump; the other stuff will mostly be older.)
Yemen/AQAP/Ansar al-Shariah
- AP - CIA derails plot with al-Qaida underwear bomb
- ABC - Officials: More Al Qaeda Bombs Unaccounted For
- CNN Security Clearance - Killing of al Qaeda leader in Yemen evidence of new U.S.-Yemeni offensive
- NYT - Militant Tied to U.S.S. Cole Bombing Said to Be Killed
- Frontline - AQ Militant Killed in Yemen At Center of Debate Over Pre-911 Intelligence Sharing
- CNBC - FBI chief in Yemen, drone kills AQAP leader
- IntelWire.com - Posthumous Awlaki Article Claims CIA, FBI Tried to Recruit Him as Informant
- France24.com - EXCLUSIVE - YEMEN: Meeting the fighters of Ansar al-Sharia
- Yemen Observer - A solution to Yemen’s corruption
Al-Qaeda Central
- Combating Terrorism Center - Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined?
- Toronto Star - Al Qaeda contemplated giving Canadian journalists ‘special media material’ for 10th anniversary
- Slate - How Al-Qaida Understood the Media
- AP - Al-Qaida Releases Video Of American Hostage
- CNN Security Clearance - Inside the plot to devastate New York
Miscellaneous
- Washington Post - Secret U.S. program releases high-level insurgents in exchange for pledges of peace
- Washington Post - Five myths about America’s decline
- Gunpowder & Lead - Still in Saigon
- Rocky Shoals - Natural Levels of Progression (Parts I, II, and III)
- Washington Post - Counter Islamists and Islam: The new religious opposition
- Religion Dispatches - Inventing Jesus: An Interview with Bart Ehrman