By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 August 2022
Osama bin Laden (L) sits with his adviser Ayman al-Zawahiri (R). Credit: Getty
Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is Dead: Ramifications and Implications
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United Nations Report Finds Al-Qaeda and Islamic State Reduced, But Reviving
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 July 2022
Islamic State in Palmyra, December 2016
The Islamic State is Taking Advantage of the Mess in Northern Syria
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 July 2022
The United States announced on 12 July that it had killed the Islamic State’s (ISIS) governor of Syria in a drone strike in the village of Galtan in the Jinderes district of the north-western Syrian province of Efrin on the border with Turkey. The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) statement identified the slain man as “Maher al-Agal”, though a more precise transliteration is Maher al-Aqal (ماهر العقال). Riding on the motorcycle alongside Al-Aqal when he was killed was a “senior ISIS official” with whom he was “closely associated”. This ISIS official was “seriously injured during the strike”, CENTCOM notes, adding that the Jinderes strike caused no civilian casualties. Continue reading
The Unlearned Lesson of 7/7
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 July 2022
Britain Won the Spy War with the Irish Republican Army
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 July 2022
An IRA parade in Belfast || Image source
Bloody Sunday and the Irish Republican Army
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 June 2022
The Challenge for Western Intelligence in Talibanized Afghanistan
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 18 June 2022
A U.S. helicopter above the American Embassy in Kabul, 15 August 2021 | AP
Britain’s Latest Surrender to its Unspoken Islamic Blasphemy Law
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 13 June 2022
Muslim protesters outside the Cineworld in Birmingham demand ‘The Lady of Heaven’ film is banned, 5 June 2022 [image source]
Islamic State Spokesman Announces a New Global Campaign
Rethinking the Atlanta Killings
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 April 2022
In 2020, HBO produced a miniseries, “Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children”, about the killing of more than two-dozen black people, most of them male and most of them children, between the summer of 1979 and the summer of 1981, in Atlanta, Georgia. The series has its own themes and slant, which one can take or leave, but it makes a convincing case the legal process that “resolved” the issue was grievously flawed. Continue reading
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