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Anonymous Murder From A Safe Distance | The Japan Times

April 16, 2013

Anatol Lieven has a splendid and thoroughly knowledgeable article in the April 4 issue of the New York Review of Books, on the politics of disengaging from the war in Afghanistan. He concludes that it would be dishonorable and unreasonable for the U.S ...

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Boston Marathon Bombings: Investigators Sifting Through Images, Debris For Clues | Washington Post

April 16, 2013

The danger in any such investigation is that officials will be so overwhelmed by raw data that important clues may be missed. Philip Mudd, a former senior official at the FBI and the CIA, said that “99.4 percent of what you have is chaff. The wheat ...

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Film Review: Zero Dark Thirty ***** | Cyprus Mail

April 16, 2013

But it is disappointing to find out that the journalist and author Peter Bergen, an authority on Bin Laden, says that the one CIA officer who spent eight years searching for Bin Laden and tracked him to the compound where he was killed was actually a man.

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Some Useful Terrorism Facts And Figures | Daily Beast

April 16, 2013

Of the 380 extremists indicted for acts of political violence or for conspiring to carry out such attacks in the U.S. since 9/11, 81 were able to obtain explosives or the components necessary to build a bomb, according to a count by the New America ...

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Boston Marathon Explosions: Death On The Airwaves As Networks Scramble | The Daily Beast

April 15, 2013

“It could be al Qaeda…or a domestic lone wolf or domestic group.” CNN contributor Peter Bergen said the possibilities included al Qaeda terrorists and “right-wing extremists,” as in the Oklahoma City bombing, which some in the media initially ...

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Boston Marathon Bombings: What Could The Motives Have Been? | Christian Science Monitor

April 15, 2013

National security analyst Peter Bergen said on CNN that the attack could be the work of “right-wing extremists.” For the so-called “patriot” groups, anything from tax day to the heated national debate on gun regulations could have been the triggers for ...

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Obama Vows To Solve Bombings As Investigators Comb Video Files | Bloomberg News

April 15, 2013

Philip Mudd, former deputy director of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center and a former senior intelligence adviser to the FBI, said investigators will be studying the style of the bombings, which based on what currently is publicly known, do not bear ...

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HBO Canada Premiers Manhunt--The Hunt For Osama Bin Laden | Broadcaster

April 15, 2013

From filmmaker Greg Barker, the documentary is based on the book Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad by Peter Bergen and is produced by John Battsek, Julie Goldman and Greg Barker, and directed by Greg Barker.

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In Swat Valley, U.S. Drone Strikes Radicalizing A New Generation | CNN

April 14, 2013

The New America Foundation estimates that in Pakistan, drones have killed between 1,953 and 3,279 people since 2004 -- and that between 18% and 23% of them were not militants. The nonmilitant casualty rate was down to about 10% in 2012, the group ...

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With Al Qaeda Shattered, U.S. Counter-Terrorism's Future Unclear | Los Angeles Times

April 14, 2013

"It's very hard to work this problem from a coldly analytic perspective because that's not how the people who pay our bills, Congress and the public, think about it," said Philip Mudd, a former top CIA and FBI official who is author of a new book ...

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