A Compendium of reports on the current War on Islam
- By THE TIMES, AFP SAUDI Arabia has joined the US in prosecuting an undeclared aerial war against al-Qa’ida in Yemen by providing fighter jets to assist Washington with its covert drone strikes against terrorist targets, The Times reported yesterday. US drones are backing Yemeni forces combating militants of al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula, seen by […]
In rural Yemen, a botched attack on a terror suspect kills 12 civilians and destroys a community. – By Letta Tayler SANAA, Yemen — The villagers who rushed to the road, cutting through rocky fields in central Yemen, found the dead strewn around a burning sport utility vehicle. The bodies were dusted with white powder — […]
- By Sudarsan Raghavan Dhamar, Yemen — A rickety Toyota truck packed with 14 people rumbled down a desert road from the town of Radda, which al-Qaeda militants once controlled. Suddenly a missile hurtled from the sky and flipped the vehicle over. Chaos. Flames. Corpses. Then, a second missile struck. Within seconds, 11 of the […]
- By Jeremy Scahill On February 2, 2011, President Obama called Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. The two discussed counterterrorism cooperation and the battle against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. At the end of the call, according to a White House read-out, Obama “expressed concern” over the release of a man named Abdulelah Haider […]
