In a screen grab from a video released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on May 20, 2015, Osama Bin Laden is seen rehearsing a speech
Ken Bredemeier & Jeff Seldin, Voice of America: Bin Laden Predicted ‘Islamic State’ Would Fail
WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden predicted the demise of the Islamic State (IS), warning before his death that any effort by jihadists to declare a caliphate before defeating the West would be doomed to fail.
The insight is one of several emerging from 113 newly declassified documents, part of a trove found by U.S. Navy SEALs during the 2011 raid on bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in which the al Qaida leader was killed.
Written in Arabic and translated by U.S. intelligence, the notes and letters portray a hands-on administrator who had grown increasingly paranoid while struggling to keep the terror organization he founded from falling apart.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- March 1, 2016
In the Syrian Ceasefire Shell Game, the Good Guys May Be Bad Guys -- Alexander Decimina, Daily Beast
ISIS Eats Its Own, Torturing and Executing Dutch Jihadists. Or Did It? -- Nadette De Visser, Daily Mail
US and Russia in partnership over Syria -- Mark Urban, BBC
Iran’s elections have given moderates a boost – but not a free hand -- Dina Esfandiary and Ariane Tabatabai, The Guardian
Is it the beginning of a new political era in Iran? -- Inside Story/Al Jazeera
Iran Election Boosts President Rouhani -- New York Times editorial
North Korea Celebrates New Cold War With Commemorative Stamps -- Matt Novak, Gizmodo
Obama and Clinton learned very different lessons from the Libya war -- Zack Beauchamp, VOX
Mali's Long Road To Stability -- Giorgia Nicatore, Ramen IR
What explains the sometimes obsessive anti-Americanism of Russian elites? -- Maria Snegovaya, Brookings
France: Is There a Way Out Of Its Mess? -- Mark Lilla, New York Review Of Books
Omagh analysis: Stalled case suggests end of the line -- Gerry Moriarty, Irish Times
Will the Worst Attack of ‘the Troubles’ Go Unprosecuted? -- Adam Chandler, The Atlantic
Oil slump undermines EU’s green agenda -- Sara Stefanini, Politico
How to Deal With a Bankrupt Government -- Bloomberg editorial
1 comment:
The bin Laden BS ...will it never cease? Now, from the grave, we have his "insights." Even Obama doesn't have insights. Oh, I just noticed, Voice of America. Perhaps Obama is next.
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