al-Qaeda cannot convince men to die for their cause and that means they have no army to fight with. So now they are going after children to die for Bin Laden’s foolishness: Al-Qaeda fighters in Iraq are training young children as gunmen and kidnappers, the US and Iraqi militaries alleged on Wednesday, releasing a video […]

Update: See all the numbers and graphs over at Gateway Pundit. Bottom line: Surge is still succeeding – end update I noted in this earlier post that the threatened resurgence by al-Qaede during the months of December and January never has never really materialized. Yes, they did increase the US death toll in January back […]

Well, it seems we have a lead to where Bin Laden might have been recently, and we get to peak into his world and see how things look from the other side of the War on Terror. US intelligence forces (who operate on both sides of the border) have found letters from Bin Laden: US […]

Well it appears someone got a high level al-Qaeda leader in Pakistan, though I was hoping for someone nearer to the top (but was not expecting it): A senior al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi, has been killed, senior Western counter-terrorism officials say. News of Libi’s death first emerged on a website used by […]

Here is an update from Reuters regarding two recent posts of mine (here

I noted yesterday that there was an intriguing military operation in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region which had the earmarks of an armed Predator attack. Today ABC News is reporting we may have taken out a single high valued individual: Pakistani intelligence sources say they believe a “high-value” al Qaeda target was killed in a missile […]

Good news continues to come out of Iraq today. The purge of al-Qaeda in its last havens in Northern Iraq have resulted in the killing of another senior al-Qaeda leader: As Operation Phantom Phoenix and its subordinate operations progress in central and northern Iraq, Coalition forces confirmed killing a senior al Qaeda in Iraq leader […]

Lots happening in Pakistan. I posted earlier on a report that the number one suspect in Benazir Bhutto’s killing and a charismatic leader of the Taliban/al-Qaeda movement in Pakistan had been ‘sacked’ by Taliban leader Mullah Omar. Here’s an update to the news Baitullah Meshud has created a break within the militant community.It seems that […]

Michael Yon is reporting on efforts in Northern Iraq to finally snuff out al-Qaeda, and how it is working: Major operations against al Qaeda have begun in northern Iraq. Al Qaeda is in serious trouble. These are not ad hoc operations, but are deliberate, systematic, well-planned and working. I’ve been watching this unfold for months […]

Late last year al-Qaeda made a threat, a prediction, that they could wage a come back in Iraq. The promised to raise the level of carnage in Iraq over December and January to prove their vitality, there relevance, their ability to turn back America: “This campaign should be based on explosives and its target should […]