List of Al Qaeda articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Addicted to Contractors
The United States is hooked on privatized warfare in Afghanistan. And it's more costly than you think.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Afghanistan Is Still Worth the Fight
There may not be a single or short explanation justifying a U.S. presence in Afghanistan. But that doesn't mean it's time to cut and run.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Al Qaeda’s Dissident
How the prison writings of Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, one of al Qaeda's founders now labeled a turn coat, are doing more to expose the terrorist group's hypocrisy than anyone else.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 My Nights With Hamid
The world is hounding the Afghan president to crack down on corruption and kick out entrenched warlords. I don't think he's going to do it, and I should know: I’m the man who wrote his autobiography.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Terrorists Among Us
Why an al Qaeda attack on U.S. soil is still a real threat.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In Al-Saud We Trust
How the regime in Riyadh avoids the mistakes of the shah
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Al Qaeda, the NGO
After floundering during the 1990s, can political parties learn a few lessons from nongovernmental organizations?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Web of Lone Wolves
Fort Hood shows us that Internet jihad is not a myth.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Think Again: Fundamentalism
For all the current focus on fiery Islamic extremists, religious fundamentalists are not confined to any particular faith or country, nor to the poor and uneducated. Instead, they are likely to spring up anywhere people perceive the need to fight a godless, secular culture -- even if they have to depart from the orthodoxy of their traditions to do it. In fact, what fundamentalists everywhere have in common is the ability to craft their messages to fit the times.