by Noah Shachtman | Jul 30, 2012 | Monitor
Stephen Cambone (center) was sworn in the Pentagon’s intelligence chief on March 11, 2003. Photo: DoD ASPEN, Colorado — There’s a broad consensus in the U.S. defense establishment today that the choice to invade Iraq was ill-considered and that the...
by Ashley Boyle | Jul 30, 2012 | Monitor
For the first time in over twenty years, Somalia’s National Constituent Assembly (NCA) convened on July 25, charged with with crafting a new constitution to go into effect upon the expiration of the Transitional Federal Government’s (TFG) mandate on August...
by The Long War Journal | Jul 30, 2012 | Monitor
Adnan Muhammad Ali al Saigh. Photo courtesy of the NEFA Foundation. A former Guantanamo detainee who joined al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) after completing a rehabilitation program in Saudi Arabia has reportedly turned himself in. The Saudi Interior Ministry...
by Marisa UrgoShaalan | Jul 30, 2012 | Monitor
In May 2009, Abu Abdullah Ahmed, leader of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb’s (AQIM) then newly-established "political committee" ("Comité Médiatique" in the French release), sat down for an interview with AQIM’s media wing, al-Andalus Media. The...
by Mary Kaszynski | Jul 30, 2012 | Monitor
Secretary Clinton with EU High Representative Lady Catherine Ashton, Sept. 2011 Last Friday The Washington Post reported that Iran is building up its military capabilities to respond to the U.S. presence in the Persian Gulf. The report was widely read and sparked new...
