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 [...]
Afghanistan Taliban Carries Out A Catastrophic Strike Against US Navy Seals B.RAMAN Seven officers of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the US and an officer of the Jordanian Intelligence related to the royal family of Jordan were killed in a suicide attack launched on December 30, 2009, by Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, a [...]
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 [...]
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 of [...]
US-Pakistan Counter-Terrorism Cooperation: The Ritual & The Reality International Terrorism Monitor —PAPER NO.723 B.RAMAN 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 [...]
Threats to Pakistan Nuclear Arsenal B.RAMAN The daring commando style raid into a Pakistani naval base at Karachi on May 22 by terrorists of the Pakistani Taliban has highlighted once again the poor state of physical security at sensitive infrastructure in Pakistan and the undetected infiltration by extremist elements into the Pakistani Armed Forces. [...]
USA: failed quadrangle of Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia Lee Jay Walker Global Security News President Obama likes to talk about human dignity and human rights but clearly he, just like other leaders of America, irrespective if Democrat or Republican, can’t bypass the lure of major military contracts irrespective of the reality of modern [...]
Osama Bin Laden: An Intelligence Failure & not just an ISI Failure, Claims ISI Chief INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR–PAPER NO.719 B.RAMAN The success of Osama bin Laden in evading detection and arrest by the Pakistani security agencies for nearly six years since 2005 when he lived in a house near the Pakistan Military [...]
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 [...]
