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New front challenges al-Qaeda in Iraq
From our Baghdad correspondent, May 8, 2007
The establishment of the Islamic State of Iraq — an al-Qaeda inspired organization that threatened to split the Sunni resistance and sparked high-profile attacks against American and Iraqi targets in Baghdad — has had the unintended consequence of uniting non-al-Qaeda Sunni resistance movements into a new umbrella organization, the […]
Posted: May 8th, 2007 under Al Qaeda, CF REPORTS, Iraq, War in Iraq.
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The faltering Islamic State in Iraq
From our Baghdad correspondent, May 7, 2007
After the declaration of the Islamic State in Iraq, founded by al-Qaeda leader Abu Hamza al-Muhajir in January of this year, several Islamic resistance groups based in the western part of Iraq expressed their support for the new state. The announcement of the establishment of the ISI was made […]
Posted: May 7th, 2007 under Al Qaeda, CF REPORTS, Iraq, War in Iraq.
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How to lose the war on terrorism
Part five: The politics of indignation
By Mark Perry and Alastair Crooke, Asia Times, June 8, 2006
The foundational belief of the “war on terrorism” is that militant Islam is hollow. We are not fighting a credible movement with a set of core beliefs, but “evildoers” - people who have nothing to say, who are without values, […]
Posted: June 8th, 2006 under ARTICLES, Al Qaeda, Alastair Crooke, Bush Administration, Mark Perry, Neocons, Political Islam, Salafism, War on terrorism.
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Interview: Fostering Muslim-West dialogue
Alastair Crooke interviewed by Humayun Chaudhry, Al Jazeera, August 8, 2005
Alastair Crooke is a former official with Britain’s MI6 intelligence agency who has worked in some of the world’s most dangerous hotspots.
He spent many years in the Arab and Muslim world and engaged in dialogue with Hamas and Hizb Allah, as well as facing paramilitary […]
Posted: August 8th, 2005 under ABOUT CF, Al Qaeda, Alastair Crooke, CF Interviews, Dialogue, Middle East, War in Iraq, War on terrorism.
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