by greenberg | Oct 4, 2012 | Africa, Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Europe, Narcoterrorism
by Nathaniel Greenberg Counterterrorism officials indicated this week that JSOC, in coordination with the CIA and the Pentagon, had begun to narrow its search for the culprits behind the attack on the American Consulate in Libya. From their investigations, articulated...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jul 25, 2012 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeTimbuktu, for most Westerners, is simply another word for the end of the world. Today, in fact, it’s a somewhat decayed real city on the southern edge of the Sahara desert. Once upon a time, however, Timbuktu was a vital commercial and cultural...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jul 11, 2012 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeNot so long ago Buddhists and art lovers of the world were aghast when the Afghan Taliban destroyed the famous Buddhist statues in Bamiyan. I thought of this tragedy when I learned that Salafist gangs known as the Ansar Dine (Defenders of Islam)...