Libya: An Old Evil Is Dead, A New Evil Is Born B.RAMAN No right-thinking person would shed tears over the death of Gaddafi, the Libyan dictator, but any well-informed analyst with his feet firmly on the ground would be nervous over the likely sequel to his elimination. 2.Gaddafi suppressed his people. He used brutal [...]
My Thoughts on Eve of 10th Anniversary of 9/11 International Terrorism Monitor – Paper No. 734 B.Raman The late Osama bin Laden never believed in carrying out terrorist strikes to mark important anniversaries in the history of Al Qaeda such as the anniversary of the terrorist strikes outside the US Embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam [...]
Links Between Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HUM) & Bin Laden/Al Qaeda International Terrorism Monitor B.RAMAN The Harkut ul-Mujahideen (HuM), also known as the Harkat-ul-Ansar (HUA), the Jamiat-ul-Ansar (JUA) and Al Faran, is reported to have denied a report published by the “New York Times” on June 24,2011, alleging that it had links with Osama bin Laden [...]
Kabul Terrorist Attack on Hotel INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR: PAPER NO. 731 After a gap of three and a half years, Kabul saw another terrorist attack on an important hotel frequented by foreigners and local VIPs on the night of June 28,2011. 2. The previous attack had taken place on January 14, 2008, when a [...]
Pakistan Sulking has had no Impact on Obama B.Raman INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO. 729 Pakistan’s post-Abbottabad sulking and partly-real, partly-manufactured anti-US anger have had no impact on President Barack Obama’s counter-sanctuary emphasis in his counter-terrorism strategy. 2. It was this counter-sanctuary emphasis that enabled the successful extermination of Osama bin Laden on May [...]
Al-Zawahiri: Advocate of Global Jihadi Intifada INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO. 728 B.Raman Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri – Six weeks after the death of Osama bin Laden on May 2,2011, Al Qaeda’s General Command has announced the appointment of Ayman al-Zawahiri, of Egypt, who was OBL’s No.2, as the new head of Al [...]
Pakistan and Al Qadea: After Ilyas Kashmiri INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO 725 B.RAMAN The USA’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has not allowed the death of Osama bin Laden in a raid by US naval commandos at his hide-out at Abbottabad on May 2,2011,to slow down its hunt for other high-value targets [...]
US-Pakistan Counter-Terrorism Cooperation: The Ritual & The Reality International Terrorism Monitor —PAPER NO.723 Secret commitments by both the political and military leaderships to co-operate with the US in counter-terrorism, ritual denial of such commitments in public statements, dragging the feet in the implementation of the commitments and fresh commitments. That [...]
Pakistan Perfidy Will Have No Enduring Impact On Its Ties With US B.RAMAN At the worst, there was collusion between Pakistan’s military-intelligence complex and Osama bin Laden which enabled him to live safely till May 1,2011, at Abbotabad, the cradle of the Pakistan Army. 2. At the best, the military-intelligence complex was aware of [...]
Insurgencies and Terrorism in India B.RAMAN India has been confronted with periodic eruptions of insurgencies and terrorism in different parts of the country since it became independent. These have had different causes—- feelings of ethnic separatism as in the tribal areas of North-East India, feelings of religious separatism as in Punjab before 1995 and in [...]
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