al Qaeda

this is a generic category<div>=</div><div><div><div></div><div>michael klare: all hell breaking loose etc bks</div><div>
</div><div>military DoD</div><div><a href="https://kpfa.org/episode/talkies-january-2-2020/">https://kpfa.org/episode/talkies-january-2-2020/</a></div><div>
</div><div>[talkies 1/2/20  2010 drought russia lost 1/3 wht crop --> arab spring?! food scarce africa and ME, food #1 expense in poor ppl budget --> anger at elites, libya, syria WAR, threat multiplier] desertification push nomadic into sub-s different ethnic and religion, jihadis exploit; nigeria boko; mali niger
ctr for naval    CNA report 2007
migrants tend to be rural ppl: carrib, centr am ...got to city for jobs (gangs)</div></div><div /></div><div>---mosul; bagdadiquite  LOT of history isis, al-q; syrian civil war isis metasticize, gain ground, grabbed mechanized column rolled into ramadi<a href="https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-november-25-2019/">https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-november-25-2019/</a></div><div>=</div><div>719 hmmn gmu</div><div>
</div><div><header style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 165px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; position: relative; color: rgb(56, 56, 56); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><div class="article--header" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; line-height: 1em;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/al-qaida-is-stronger-today-than-it-was-on-9-11-117718" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;"><span class="nobr" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; white-space: nowrap;">Al-Qaida is stronger today than it was on 9/11</a></h2><p class="byline" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); clear: both;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/christian-taylor-709289" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">Christian Taylor</a>, <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">George Mason University</div></header><div class="content" data-raw="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 165px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; color: rgb(56, 56, 56); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Bin Laden's extremist group had less than a hundred members in September 2001. Today it's a transnational terror organization with 40,000 fighters across the Middle East, Africa and beyond.</div></div><div></div><div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(25, 31, 36); font-family: Roboto, " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" text-align="text-align" center="center" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><li class="hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; padding: 0px 0px 23px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.33;"><a data-ga-action="Home Headlines: Headline" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2019/2/6/headlines/cnn_saudis_gave_us_weapons_to_al_qaeda_other_militants_in_yemen" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(64, 78, 92); text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px; border: 0px;">CNN: Saudis Gave U.S. Weapons to al-Qaeda, Other Militants in Yemen</a></li></ul></div><div>=</div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/heres-why-al-qaeda-may-be-stronger-ever-17-years-after-911">https://www.alternet.org/heres-why-al-qaeda-may-be-stronger-ever-17-years-after-911</a></div><div>
</div><div>andrew b</div><div>eventeen years ago, on Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaida conducted the most destructive terrorist attack in history.An unprecedented onslaught from the U.S. followed. <a href="https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/20177.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;">One-third of al-Qaida’s leadership</a> was killed or captured in the following year. The group lost its safe haven in <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/369161-2001-03-27-afghanistan-an-incubator-for.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Afghanistan</a>, including its extensive <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/369179-2003-06-20-afghanistan-camps-central-to-11.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">training</a>infrastructure there. Its surviving members were on the run or in hiding. Though it took nearly 10 years, the <a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/05/02/osama-bin-laden-dead" style="text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. succeeded in killing</a> al-Qaida’s founding leader, Osama bin Laden. Since 2014, al-Qaida has been <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2014/06/30/world/meast/isis-overshadows-al-qaeda/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">overshadowed</a> by its former ally al-Qaida in Iraq, now calling itself the Islamic State.In other words, al-Qaida should not have survived the 17 years since 9/11.<div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 20px;">But it has. Why?The ties that bindMuch of the credit goes to al-Qaida’s extraordinary ability to form alliances and sustain them over time and under pressure.In my book “<a href="https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15818.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Why Terrorist Groups Form International Alliances</a>,” I examine why a small number of groups, such as al-Qaida and IS, emerge as desirable partners and succeed at developing alliance networks.Understanding terrorist alliances is critical because terrorist organizations with allies are <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228192307_Allying_to_Kill" style="text-decoration-line: none;">more lethal</a>, <a href="https://academic.oup.com/isq/article-abstract/58/2/336/2963248/Terrorist-Group-Cooperation-and-Longevity1?redirectedFrom=fulltext" style="text-decoration-line: none;">survive longer</a> and are more apt to seek <a href="https://www.start.umd.edu/publication/connections-can-be-toxic-terrorist-organizational-factors-and-pursuit-cbrn-weapons" style="text-decoration-line: none;">weapons of mass destruction</a>. Though terrorist partnerships face numerous <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09546553.2014.993466" style="text-decoration-line: none;">hurdles</a> and severing al-Qaida’s alliances has been a U.S. objective for <a href="https://www.cia.gov/news-information/cia-the-war-on-terrorism/Counter_Terrorism_Strategy.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;">over a decade</a>, the fact is that these counterterrorism efforts have failed.It was allies that enabled al-Qaida to survive the immediate aftermath of 9/11. The Afghan Taliban stood by al-Qaida after the attack, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taliban-wont-turn-over-bin-laden/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">refusing to surrender bin Laden</a> and thereby precipitating the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. Fleeing, al-Qaida was able to turn to allies in Pakistan to hide its operatives and punish the Pakistani government for capitulating to U.S. pressure to crackdown on the group.It was alliances that helped al-Qaida continue to terrorize. In October 2002, for example, al-Qaida’s ally in Southeast Asia, Jemaah Islamiyah brutally commemorated the first anniversary of 9/11 by bombing a <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-19881138" style="text-decoration-line: none;">bar and a nightclub in Bali</a>, killing more than 200 people and injuring an additional 200.And it was alliances that allowed al-Qaida to project viability. With the “prestige” that came with conducting 9/11, al-Qaida was able to forge affiliate alliances in which partners adopted its name and pledged allegiance to bin Laden.Al-Qaida’s first and most notorious affiliate alliance, <a href="https://2001-2009.state.gov/p/nea/rls/31694.htm" style="text-decoration-line: none;">al-Qaida in Iraq</a>, was formed in 2004 with Jordanian jihadist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Using the standing he accrued through his role in the insurgency in Iraq, Zarqawi then helped al-Qaida acquire its second affiliate in 2006, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/world/africa/01transcript-droukdal.html?mcubz=0" style="text-decoration-line: none;">al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb</a>. Then, in 2009, al-Qaida designated its branch in Yemen and Saudi Arabia <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-11483095" style="text-decoration-line: none;">as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula</a>. Its alliances spanned the Middle East and helped it to project power, despite the U.S. war on terrorism.A lower profileWhile al-Qaida still sought affiliates, by 2010, it changed some aspects of the relationships.Al-Qaida forged an alliance with al-Shabaab in Somalia, but did not initially publicly announce it or ask al-Shabaab to change its name. Bin Laden <a href="https://ctc.usma.edu/posts/letter-from-usama-bin-laden-to-mukhtar-abu-al-zubayr-original-language-2" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">justified</a> the shift to a less visible form of alliance as a way to prevent an increase in counterterrorism pressure or a loss of funds from the Arabian Peninsula. He privately expressed <a href="https://www.jihadica.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/SOCOM-2012-0000009-Trans.pdf" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">concerns</a> that al-Qaida’s name “reduces the feeling of Muslims that we belong to them, and allows the enemies to claim deceptively that they are not at war with Islam.” Bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, saw the move as bin Laden capitulating to members of al-Qaida who worried about “<a href="https://ctc.usma.edu/posts/letter-to-azmarai-english-translation-2" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-line: none;">inflating the size and the growth of al-Qaida</a>.” After bin Laden’s death, Zawahiri <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda-allied-somali-terror-group-al-shabaab/story?id=15548647" style="text-decoration-line: none;">publicly announced</a> al-Qaida’s alliance with al-Shabaab, though al-Shabaab still did not adopt al-Qaida’s name.The “<a href="https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Newsroom/Testimonies/2018-ATA---Unclassified-SSCI.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;">staying power</a>” of Al-Qaida’s allies has helped it remain a threat despite the loss of its founding leader in 2011 and the ascent of a far less capable leader. <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/09/16/the-man-behind-bin-laden" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Zawahiri’s</a> rise to the helm of the group was itself the consequence of an alliance between his original Egyptian group, al-Jihad, and al-Qaida. The alliance culminated in a merger in 2001, with Zawahiri becoming bin Laden’s deputy and successor.Zawahiri lacks bin Laden’s cachet or diplomatic savvy, and his shortfalls are evident in al-Qaida’s alliances. His <a href="https://archive.org/stream/710588-translation-of-ayman-al-zawahiris-letter/710588-translation-of-ayman-al-zawahiris-letter_djvu.txt" style="text-decoration-line: none;">poor handling</a> of the strife between jihadist group al-Nusra in Syria and its parent organization, the Islamic State in Iraq – previously al-Qaida in Iraq and now known as the Islamic State – led to the alliance <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2017.1373895" style="text-decoration-line: none;">rupture</a> between al-Qaida and its affiliate in Iraq.Zawahiri has also struggled to manage the relationship with al-Qaida’s ally in Syria, the very group that spurred the conflict between IS and al-Qaida. Al-Nusra changed its name, an effort to gain <a href="https://ctc.usma.edu/al-qaida-lost-control-syrian-affiliate-inside-story/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">more legitimacy within the conflict in Syria by publicly distancing</a> itself from al-Qaida, which left a <a href="https://www.lawfareblog.com/true-story-al-qaedas-demise-and-resurgence-syria" style="text-decoration-line: none;">smaller faction still allied with al-Qaida</a>.Al-Qaida organized a new branch, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29056668" style="text-decoration-line: none;">al-Qaida in the Indian subcontinent</a>, in 2014. The branch in South Asia reflected al-Qaida’s success at expanding beyond its predominantly Arab base, particularly in <a href="https://carnegieendowment.org/2013/10/22/going-native-pakistanization-of-al-qaeda-pub-53382" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Pakistan</a>, and has allowed the group to expand its activities in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.Most of al-Qaida’s alliances have proven resilient over time. This is true despite ample reasons for its partners to abandon ties, such as the heightened counterterrorism pressure that comes with affiliation to al-Qaida; the death of its charismatic leader; and the Islamic State’s efforts to <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2015/03/isil-eyes-east-africa-foments-division-150322130940108.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">court</a> al-Qaida allies. Even the Afghan Taliban has not severed ties, even though doing so would eliminate one of the major reasons that the United States will not withdraw from the “forever war” in Afghanistan.There is still a window for the U.S. to damage al-Qaida’s alliances: It has a weak leader and major rival. But that window may be closing as the Islamic State <a href="https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/08/islamic-state-leader-downplays-territorial-losses-in-new-audio-message.php" style="text-decoration-line: none;">adapts</a> to its losses and al-Qaida appears poised for a <a href="https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/resurgence-al-qaeda" style="text-decoration-line: none;">resurgence</a> with <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/bin-ladens-son-steps-into-fathers-shoes-as-al-qaeda-attempts-a-comeback/2017/05/27/0c89ffc0-4198-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;">bin Laden’s son</a> as its future, more inspiring leader.</div><div></div><div><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" margin="margin" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><a data-ga-action="Home: Story Headline" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2018/8/14/ap_investigation_behind_the_scenes_in" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px; border: 0px;">AP Investigation: Behind the Scenes in Yemen, U.S.-Backed Saudi Coalition Is Working with al-Qaeda</a></h3></div><div><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/3b73068a-d1ed-11e6-b06b-680c49b4b4c0" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.ft.com/content/3b73068a-d1ed-11e6-b06b-680c49b4b4c0</a><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?424764-2/age-anger" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.c-span.org/video/?424764-2/age-anger</a>

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padding: 7px 18px;">Jan 25, 2017 - </a><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JQVEr7o7gYAJ:www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2017/01/age_of_anger_by_pankaj_mishra_reviewed.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">What America’s violent transition to modernity has in common with the rise of Islamic extremism. ... “Islam needs a Reformation,” went a popular but bizarrely ahistorical refrain in the mid-2000s. ... How soon we forget: This could be the motto of Pankaj Mishra’s new book, Age of ...</a><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JQVEr7o7gYAJ:www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2017/01/age_of_anger_by_pankaj_mishra_reviewed.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;" /><div class="Tib" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JQVEr7o7gYAJ:www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2017/01/age_of_anger_by_pankaj_mishra_reviewed.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"></a><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JQVEr7o7gYAJ:www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2017/01/age_of_anger_by_pankaj_mishra_reviewed.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"></a><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JQVEr7o7gYAJ:www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2017/01/age_of_anger_by_pankaj_mishra_reviewed.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;" /><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JQVEr7o7gYAJ:www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2017/01/age_of_anger_by_pankaj_mishra_reviewed.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;" /><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JQVEr7o7gYAJ:www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2017/01/age_of_anger_by_pankaj_mishra_reviewed.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;" /><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JQVEr7o7gYAJ:www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2017/01/age_of_anger_by_pankaj_mishra_reviewed.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;" /><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JQVEr7o7gYAJ:www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2017/01/age_of_anger_by_pankaj_mishra_reviewed.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;" /><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JQVEr7o7gYAJ:www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2017/01/age_of_anger_by_pankaj_mishra_reviewed.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;" /><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JQVEr7o7gYAJ:www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2017/01/age_of_anger_by_pankaj_mishra_reviewed.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;" /><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JQVEr7o7gYAJ:www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2017/01/age_of_anger_by_pankaj_mishra_reviewed.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;" /><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JQVEr7o7gYAJ:www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2017/01/age_of_anger_by_pankaj_mishra_reviewed.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;" /><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JQVEr7o7gYAJ:www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2017/01/age_of_anger_by_pankaj_mishra_reviewed.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Missing: <s>booktv</s></a></div><div class="Tib" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"><s>...</s></div><div class="Tib" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"> Mishra, a columnist at Bloomberg View and the New York Times Book Review, wants to remind Westerners of our own painful, violent transition to modernity and to emphasize that much of the turmoil in the developing world is a symptom of the same ordeal. Contrary to the assertions of those pundits who evoke “a worldwide clash of civilizations in which Islam is pitted against the West, and religion against reason,” we are witnessing—in the chaos, conflict, and alarming extremism around the globe—a replay of our own history.</div><div class="Tib" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">
</div><div class="Tib" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"> It’s a history we’ve chosen to erase from our collective memory, replacing it with a delusional cover story about the “peaceful convergence” of Western nations on “a benevolent Enlightenment tradition of rationalism, humanism, and liberal democracy.” But in reality, Mishra points out, “the history of modernization is largely one of carnage and bedlam.”</div><div class="Tib" style="cursor: pointer; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">...</div><div class="Tib"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JQVEr7o7gYAJ:www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2017/01/age_of_anger_by_pankaj_mishra_reviewed.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px;">The  observation that militant Islamic fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon is not new; the popular historian Karen Armstrong has repeatedly written, most memorably in 2000’s </a>The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, that fundamentalism arises in reaction to a rapidly changing world. Without that vertiginous change, it wouldn’t occur. </div><div class="Tib">
</div><div class="_Tib">But in Age of Anger, Mishra further points out the resemblance between jihadis and lone-wolf terrorists such as Timothy McVeigh (who described “science” as his religion) and Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen. The same roiling passions that drive such young men have also fueled, Mishra argues, the rise of nationalist demagogues in India, Turkey, and Thailand. Most tellingly, the whole lot harkens back, with often eerie similarities, to the revolutionaries and revanchists that harrowed Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries.</div><div class="text parbase text-4 section">This is a framework that pushes aside conventional, familiar divisions of left and right to focus on the profound sense of dislocation and alienation that spawned (and still spawns) movements ranging from fascism to anarchism to nihilism. All of these responses are animated by an upsurge in “ressentiment,” which Mishra defines as “an existential resentment of other people’s being, caused by an intense mix of envy and sense of humiliation and powerlessness.” No Westerner can read that description in 2017 and not think of the election of Donald Trump and a campaign that seemed defined far less by what the candidates advocated than by who voters hated most. Not only is the rest of the world undergoing a bone-rattling allergic reaction to modernity, but America continues to reel from it as well.</div></div></div></div></div><div></div><div>Saddam,  al-Awlaki and bin ladin all allies at one pt</div><div>
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</div><div>...AMY GOODMAN: So, you were in Yemen. You were investigating the drone killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, as well as his son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, who was 16 years old, born in Denver. Talk about these connections that they’re talking about right now, the actual meeting that Awlaki had with one of the brothers.</div>JEREMY SCAHILL: Allegedly, yeah. Well, and first of all, just to give context on who is Anwar al-Awlaki, you know, The New York Times had a front-page <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/world/middleeast/paris-attacks-anwar-al-awlaki.html" style="text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">piece</a> on this over the weekend. The Washington Post had a big piece on it. CNN is now running this big profile of Anwar al-Awlaki. And a lot of what is being said about Anwar al-Awlaki in the media is sort of what Stephen Colbert called "truthiness," you know, where like it’s sort of true, they’re kind of getting it right, but there are tremendous factual inaccuracies that actually are very relevant to understanding any potential role played by Anwar al-Awlaki here.First of all, Anwar al-Awlaki was an American citizen who was born in the United States. His father was a very well-respected—is, still alive—very well-respected Yemeni diplomat and scholar, who got his master’s degree in the United States and had intended to live in the U.S. And then the family went back—AMY GOODMAN: He was a Fulbright scholar.JEREMY SCAHILL: He was a Fulbright scholar. And he also—he had multiple master’s degrees in the United States, and remains a very dignified, respected member of Yemeni society. And—AMY GOODMAN: Anwar al-Awlaki’s father.JEREMY SCAHILL: This is his father, Dr. Nasser al-Awlaki. And so, the family is here for some years. Then Nasser al-Awlaki goes back to Yemen, because he was a water specialist, an engineer, and tried to help deal with the crisis of water shortage in Yemen, which is perhaps the greatest threat facing Yemeni society right now, not terrorism, but its lack of actual potable water. So the family moved back there. Anwar al-Awlaki was young. He goes to school there at a bilingual school with the elite of the elite in Yemen. In fact, he went to school with the future head of Yemen’s intelligence agency, who would be one of the main collaborators with the United States in trying to hunt down and kill Anwar al-Awlaki in a drone strike.Awlaki then returns to the United States, goes to university in Colorado, was not a particularly religious guy, becomes sort of radicalized by the Gulf War in 1991, when George H.W. Bush ordered the invasion and bombing of Iraq in response to Saddam Hussein’s incursion into Kuwait. And al-Awlaki starts to become involved with antiwar activities, ends up going to a local mosque on an invitation to speak there and becomes interested in the idea of actually becoming a religious scholar and studying to be an imam. And so his life takes a dramatic shift, and he ends up becoming an imam.He and his family—at this point, he gets married. He’s in San Diego. Two of the 9/11 hijackers were people that had been at his mosque. The 9/11 Commission determined that Awlaki didn’t have any sort of conversations with them beyond clerical conversations that like a priest would have with a parishioner somewhere in the Catholic Church, but nonetheless that’s something that keeps being brought up, that Awlaki had connections to the 9/11 attackers. If we want to talk about that and say that that’s evidence of something, we should also mention that at a time when 9/11 attackers were going to mosques where Awlaki was the imam, Awlaki was also invited by the Pentagon, shortly after 9/11, to give a lecture at a luncheon at the Pentagon. And he in fact went to the Pentagon, at the invitation of a senior Pentagon official, and gave a lecture about the state of Islam in the world today.Awlaki was clearly angered by the U.S. invasion of Iraq. He defended the right of the United States to go into Afghanistan to destroy al-Qaeda and denounced al-Qaeda as fake Muslims. This was all in the aftermath of 9/11. He was on NPR. He was profiled inThe Washington Post. He was considered a legitimate part of the commentariat in the United States post-9/11, as a person who was brought on TV shows to make sense of the position of Muslims in the world post-9/11. And part of the reason he was invited on these media outlets is because he was condemning al-Qaeda. He was condemning the invasion of—or, excuse me, he was condemning the use of Afghanistan as a base to plot the 9/11 attacks.Then Iraq gets invaded. Then Abu Ghraib happens. Then we start to learn about CIAtorture sites around the world. We start to see Muslim prisoners in orange jumpsuits with hoods being brought. Then there’s desecration of the Qur’an that happens. And you could see Awlaki becoming radicalized by these policies. And he goes back to Yemen, and basically didn’t know what he was doing with his life. He got involved with some real estate and other things. Then he starts—he basically starts using YouTube and the Internet as his online mosque. He already was known around the world for sermons he had recorded on CDs.And part of the reason he became so popular in the Western world is because not only was he fluent in both English and Arabic, but he spoke in the language of the street. He would make pop cultural references. He would sort of mimic the way that Malcolm X spoke, in terms of his riffs and other things. He would make references to international football teams and matches, and make comparisons with—you know, when you’re trying to spread the religion, you don’t wait to show up like the post office, you want to go at it like FedEx. And he would sort of—you know, he was a guy who, I think, has an appeal to particularly younger Western Muslims.And, you know, I listened to many, many, many, many days’ worth of Anwar al-Awlaki’s preaching. And up until the invasion of Iraq, there was very little that you could look at and say, "Oh, here’s a guy who is going to be very anti-American." In fact, Awlaki supported the war in Yugoslavia. He was on the same side as the United States in Bosnia. And, in fact, you know, Awlaki was calling for Muslims in the United States to fight the jihad against the Catholic forces of Croatia and the Orthodox Christian forces of Serbia, and he was on the same side as the United States. The U.S. was raising funds to arm Bosnian Muslims to fight in that war. They were on the—the U.S. was on the same side as Anwar al-Awlaki and Osama bin Laden in the war in Yugoslavia in terms of the position that they staked out on Bosnia.Once Awlaki starts, though, preaching against the U.S. wars and saying that Muslims have a right to fight the jihad against the United States, he became a public enemy, similar to what the U.S. did with Saddam Hussein. When he’s our guy doing our kind of repression, we want him. But if he crosses that line and affects U.S. or international oil interests, he’s now tantamount to Hitler. That’s similar to what happened with Awlaki. The U.S. then has Awlaki put in prison inside of Yemen for 18 months, where he was held in solitary confinement for 17 of those months. He was interrogated by the FBI while in that prison. And then, when he was released, he was a totally changed man.AMY GOODMAN: Where was he held?JEREMY SCAHILL: He was held in a political prison inside of Yemen, in Sana’a, Yemen. And, in fact, I reported in my book that when the Yemeni government wanted to release Awlaki, that John Negroponte, who at the time was a senior counterterrorism official under the Bush administration—and, of course, one of the butchers of Central America during the 1980s—John Negroponte had a secret meeting with Bandar Bush, the Saudi diplomat very close to the Bush family, where he—and the Yemeni ambassador, where John Negroponte said, "Our position is that we want Awlaki kept in prison until all of these young Western Muslims forget about him." This is a U.S. citizen who was being held in a prison in a human rights-violating country on very flimsy charges that he had intervened in a tribal dispute, and a senior official intervenes to say, "We want our citizen kept in your prison without any trial for five years, until people forget about him."When Awlaki eventually was released, he was a totally changed man and began increasingly to cross the line from praising people fighting against the United States, in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere, to actively calling on people to come and, as he put it, fight on the fronts of jihad in Yemen or elsewhere or in your own country. And this is where he really became considered to be a significant threat by the United States, that his words—not his actions, but his words—were going to inspire lone-wolf acts of terrorism inside of the United States.And when he really rose to international prominence was in November of 2009, when Army Major Nidal Hasan, who was a U.S. military psychiatrist that had petitioned to try to have some of his patients prosecuted for war crimes after they described to him what they had done in Afghanistan and elsewhere, he—Hasan had written—AMY GOODMAN: This is at Fort Hood.JEREMY SCAHILL: This is at Fort Hood, Texas. Nidal Hasan had written to Anwar al-Awlaki a number of times, praising Awlaki, offering to give Awlaki like a human rights prize of $5,000. Awlaki writes back to him and says, "Give it to the orphans and widows." Awlaki basically was treating Hasan like kind of a disturbed character. But if you read media accounts today about Anwar al-Awlaki, they say he directed the Fort Hood attack. The declassified emails, that the U.S. government has declassified, between Anwar al-Awlaki and Nidal Hasan do not show that at all. In fact, they show Nidal Hasan as sort of an unstable stalker who’s trying to get Awlaki to like him, and Awlaki is sort of dismissing him.Now, was Nidal Hasan inspired by Anwar al-Awlaki’s preaching and teaching to do what he did at Fort Hood? Absolutely, no question whatsoever. Anwar al-Awlaki was clearly saying—and Awlaki, in the aftermath, praised it and said, "What Nidal Hasan did was right, but I didn’t tell him to do it." And Awlaki was not a guy who wouldn’t claim responsibility for things that he actually did. He admitted that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was one of his students. Now, that could mean something very serious. It could mean that he was a student, and he said, "Hey, to do something like AQAP wants you to do, to try to blow up this airplane, is acceptable under Islam, because they’re attacking us, and under these codes of the Sharia, it’s fine to do."But to say someone directed a plot, in the case of the underwear bomber or in the case of Fort Hood, that’s just not proven. And if we want to say that we live in a society based on the rule of law, if there’s all this evidence that Awlaki was operational within al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, why did the United States never charge him with a crime? If I were a prosecutor, I would have tried to indict Anwar al-Awlaki for directly threatening the life of this American cartoonist in Seattle. Why was he never indicted? We indicted Osama bin Laden. We indicted John Walker Lindh. Why would they not indict Awlaki? If all of this evidence that The New York Times and The Washington Post and CNN now today claim that the U.S. has had for a long time, why was there never an indictment on Anwar al-Awlaki? What did the president of the United States serve as judge, jury and executioner of an American citizen? Why did the United States advocate for a human rights-abusing government to have one of their citizens placed in prison for indefinite detention, when he hadn’t yet been charged with a crime by the United States?AMY GOODMAN: Well, what’s the answer?JEREMY SCAHILL: Well, I think that the U.S., on the one hand, was afraid of Awlaki’s words. They didn’t want to give him a platform in a trial. I think they also wanted to continue to be able to monitor him to see who he was working with and who he was meeting with. And I ultimately think that they—that the calculus was, if we were to capture this American citizen, this is not the same as putting Osama bin Laden on trial, this is not the same as putting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on trial. This is an American citizen who speaks very articulate, fluent English and would probably have an incredible defense team. So I think part of it was that they never wanted him to see a day in court.Now, I found Awlaki’s words and his involvement with a number of people who went on to commit acts of terrorism or mass violence reprehensible. That’s not the point here. The point is, if you’re going to make these allegations, you better be able to prove it. So, if Awlaki did in fact meet with either or both of the Paris shooters, that’s a relevant part of the story, but what I know from my reporting on the ground about the underwear bomber is that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was a deranged young man, and AQAP wanted to make sure that he followed through on his plot. And my understanding is that they brought Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to Anwar al-Awlaki to essentially either groom him or to act as a sort of Islamic therapist who was sort of trying to get his mental health back up so that AQAP could do what they wanted to do with him. That’s my understanding of the role Awlaki played with AQAP, is that he was a guy who would help facilitate these people going to AQAP, but not that Awlaki was picking the targets or running the show.AMY GOODMAN: We have to break. When we come back, we’re going to talk more about Chérif and Said Kouachi, about Amedy Coulibaly...
abramoff guy: preston gates"A nominee to a key government procurement post has troubled some on Capitol Hill because of his ties to alleged <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Islam" title="Islam" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; line-height: 19.5px; background: none;">Islamic</a> extremists. Despite an April hearing on David Safavian 's appointment to an Office of Management and Budget job overseeing $300 billion in government contracts, the full Senate has not held a vote, in part because of lingering questions about his work for the former lobbying firm of White House ally Grover Norquist, now head of Americans for Tax Reform. Lobbying disclosure forms show Safavian worked for <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/this_just_in/documents/01848515.htm" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; line-height: 19.5px; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Abdurahman Alamoudi</a>, who <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26090-2004Jul29.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; line-height: 19.5px; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">pleaded</a> [sic] guilty this summer to aiding a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Libya" title="Libya" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; line-height: 19.5px; background: none;">Libyan</a> plot to assassinate <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; line-height: 19.5px; background: none;">Saudi Arabian</a> Crown Prince Abdullah and was<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/10/23/muslim.indicted/" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; line-height: 19.5px; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">accused</a> by prosecutors of having ties to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Al_Qaeda" title="Al Qaeda" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; line-height: 19.5px; background: none;">al Qaeda</a>. Safavian, however, said he never lobbied for Alamoudi. The real client was a man named <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/hall/newfullstory.asp?id=55248" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; line-height: 19.5px; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Jamal al Barzinji</a>, but that's not much better. A 2002 federal affidavit names Barzinji as the leader of a group suspected of aiding <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Terrorist" title="Terrorist" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; line-height: 19.5px; background: none;">terrorists</a>. Safavian told the Senate his work was limited only to pitching the firm to Barzinji."===</div></div>