May 24, 2022

Putin is Fighting the War He Chooses

As I returned from Ukraine a few days ago after my first post-COVID reporting trip and after a couple of days of letting my aging bones resume their proper position after the trauma of 10 hours in an economy-class airline seat, I do believe I have ga...

September 25, 2013

Interview with an Al Shabaab Member

Although Al Shabaab is the largest and most violent terrorist group in Somalia, there is relatively little known about this Al Qaeda group's day-to-day functioning. Formed in the chaos of Mogadishu in 2006 by the radical Islamic Courts in the capital...

November 23, 2011

Obama's New Libya

What hath President Obama wrought in Libya?  In a chilling possible foretaste of what awaits Libya, the flag used by Al Qaeda has been flown by the leaders of the revolution there backed by Obama. On November 2, 2011, an article was published in...