Tag Archives: Usama bin Laden

The CIA: In Theory and In Practice

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 December 2023

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Iran Admits Responsibility for the 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 October 2023

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Islamic State Introduces the Fifth “Caliph”

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 August 2023

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The Death of Al-Qaeda’s Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri: One Year On

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 July 2023

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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Bringing the Islamic State to Saddam’s Iraq and Joining Al-Qaeda

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 June 2023

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A Note on Iran and the “Axis of Evil”

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 June 2023

President George W. Bush said in his first State of the Union speech after 9/11, on 29 January 2002:

Our nation will continue to be steadfast, and patient and persistent in the pursuit of two great objectives. First, we will shut down terrorist camps, disrupt terrorist plans and bring terrorists to justice. … Our second goal is to prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening America or our friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction. …

North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens. Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people’s hope for freedom. Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror. … This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens …

States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.

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Jihadist “Forever Wars” Don’t End Because Western Troops Are Withdrawn

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 March 2023

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Al-Qaeda and Global Terrorism: What is the Current Threat?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 February 2023

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The ‘Strategic Plan’ of the Islamic State

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 August 2022

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One Year On: The Ongoing Consequences of Abandoning Afghanistan

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 August 2022

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