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Al Qaeda and US Homeland Security After Bin Laden-1
CERI STRATEGY PAPERS N° 12 – Rencontre Stratégique du 10 novembre 2011 Al Qaeda and U.S. Homeland Security after Bin Laden Rick “Ozzie” NELSON The author is the Director of the Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C. Portions of this paper relating to al Qaeda and its affiliates are drawn from The Al Qaeda and Associate Movements (AQAM) Futures Project, a collaboration between the CSIS Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program and the CSIS Transnational Threats Project. More information on The AQAM Futures Project can be found at http://csis.org/program/future- al-qaeda-and-associated-movements-aqam. Introduction In the past year al Qaeda has suffered a series of staggering blows that have severely damaged the group and will irrevocably alter the way it operates. Last spring, Osama bin Laden was killed in a dramatic raid on his compound in Pakistan, followed by strikes on a number of other prominent al Qaeda leaders, including Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman in Pakistan, and Fazul Abdullah Mohammed in Somalia, among others1. Further, al Qaeda was caught off-guard by the “Arab Spring” revolutions that broke out across the Middle East and North Africa. These revolutions have since succeeded in toppling several regional strongmen, an avowed goal of al Qaeda that it has been unable to accomplish through terrorism. With al Qaeda’s leaders on the defensive and the efficacy of its ideology threatened by a new generation of political activists, many policymakers are increasingly questioning the future of the group2. -
Al Shabaab's American Recruits
Al Shabaab’s American Recruits Updated: February, 2015 A wave of Americans traveling to Somalia to fight with Al Shabaab, an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group, was described by the FBI as one of the "highest priorities in anti-terrorism." Americans began traveling to Somalia to join Al Shabaab in 2007, around the time the group stepped up its insurgency against Somalia's transitional government and its Ethiopian supporters, who have since withdrawn. At least 50 U.S. citizens and permanent residents are believed to have joined or attempted to join or aid the group since that time. The number of Americans joining Al Shabaab began to decline in 2012, and by 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) replaced Al Shabaab as the terrorist group of choice for U.S. recruits. However, there continue to be new cases of Americans attempting to join or aid Al Shabaab. These Americans have received weapons training alongside recruits from other countries, including Britain, Australia, Sweden and Canada, and have used the training to fight against Ethiopian forces, African Union troops and the internationally-supported Transitional Federal Government in Somalia, according to court documents. Most of the American men training with Al Shabaab are believed to have been radicalized in the U.S., especially in Minneapolis, according to U.S. officials. The FBI alleges that these young men have been recruited by Al Shabaab both on the Internet and in person. One such recruit from Minneapolis, 22-year-old Abidsalan Hussein Ali, was one of two suicide bombers who attacked African Union troops on October 29, 2011. -
Al Qaeda's Struggling Campaign in Syria: Past, Present, and Future
COVER PHOTO FADI AL-HALABI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES APRIL 2018 1616 Rhode Island Avenue NW Al Qaeda’s Struggling Washington, DC 20036 202 887 0200 | www.csis.org Campaign in Syria Past, Present, and Future AUTHORS Seth G. Jones Charles Vallee Maxwell B. Markusen A Report of the CSIS TRANSNATIONAL THREATS PROJECT Blank APRIL 2018 Al Qaeda’s Struggling Campaign in Syria Past, Present, and Future AUTHORS Seth G. Jones Charles Vallee Maxwell B. Markusen A Report of the CSIS TRANSNATIONAL THREATS PROJECT About CSIS For over 50 years, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has worked to develop solutions to the world’s greatest policy challenges. Today, CSIS scholars are providing strategic insights and bipartisan policy solutions to help decisionmakers chart a course toward a better world. CSIS is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. The Center’s 220 full-time staff and large network of affiliated scholars conduct research and analysis and develop policy initiatives that look into the future and anticipate change. Founded at the height of the Cold War by David M. Abshire and Admiral Arleigh Burke, CSIS was dedicated to finding ways to sustain American prominence and prosperity as a force for good in the world. Since 1962, CSIS has become one of the world’s preeminent international institutions focused on defense and security; regional stability; and transnational challenges ranging from energy and climate to global health and economic integration. Thomas J. Pritzker was named chairman of the CSIS Board of Trustees in November 2015. Former U.S. deputy secretary of defense John J. -
SOMALIA: EVSURIVG LOVG-TERM PEACE AVD Stabilitu
UN ITE D S TATE S D E PAR T M E N T O F S TATE SOMALIA: ENSURING LONG-TERM PEACE AND STABILITY “Unchecked, terrorists will continue to undermine and threaten stability and the lives of civilians inside Somalia and throughout the region. Fighting terrorism in Somalia is not our sole priority, but rather is part of a comprehensive strategy to reverse radicalization, improve governance, rule of law, democracy and human rights, and improve economic growth and job creation. This is a difficult and long-term effort in Somalia. As we encourage political dialogue, we will continue to seek to isolate those who, out of extremism, refuse dialogue and insist on violence. We will remain engaged in working with our regional partners, Somali stakeholders, to ensure a successful political process leading to the return of effective governance and lasting peace and stability.” – Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer AL-QAIDA OPERATIVES IN EAST AFRICA Mukhtar Robow (aka Abu Mansoor): Senior military Fazul Abdullah Mohammed (aka Harun Fazul): commander spokesman for al-Shabaab; provided Senior al-Qaida operative in East Africa; was indicted logistical support for al-Qaida operatives inside for his alleged involvement in the bombings of the Somalia; has called for attacks on the African Union United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, forces in Somalia. and Nairobi, Kenya, on August 7, 1998. Ahmed Abdi Godane: Senior member of al-Shabaab; Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan: Senior al-Qaida operative NO PHOTO trained and fought with al-Qaida in Afghanistan; in East Africa; Wanted for questioning in connection AVAILABLE implicated in the murders of Western aid workers in with the 2002 attacks against a hotel and an Israeli Somaliland in 2003 and 2004. -
The Al Qaeda Network a New Framework for Defining the Enemy
THE AL QAEDA NETWORK A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR DEFINING THE ENEMY KATHERINE ZIMMERMAN SEPTEMBER 2013 THE AL QAEDA NETWORK A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR DEFINING THE ENEMY KATHERINE ZIMMERMAN SEPTEMBER 2013 A REPORT BY AEI’S CRITICAL THREATS PROJECT ABOUT US About the Author Katherine Zimmerman is a senior analyst and the al Qaeda and Associated Movements Team Lead for the Ameri- can Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project. Her work has focused on al Qaeda’s affiliates in the Gulf of Aden region and associated movements in western and northern Africa. She specializes in the Yemen-based group, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and al Qaeda’s affiliate in Somalia, al Shabaab. Zimmerman has testified in front of Congress and briefed Members and congressional staff, as well as members of the defense community. She has written analyses of U.S. national security interests related to the threat from the al Qaeda network for the Weekly Standard, National Review Online, and the Huffington Post, among others. Acknowledgments The ideas presented in this paper have been developed and refined over the course of many conversations with the research teams at the Institute for the Study of War and the American Enterprise Institute’s Critical Threats Project. The valuable insights and understandings of regional groups provided by these teams directly contributed to the final product, and I am very grateful to them for sharing their expertise with me. I would also like to express my deep gratitude to Dr. Kimberly Kagan and Jessica Lewis for dedicating their time to helping refine my intellectual under- standing of networks and to Danielle Pletka, whose full support and effort helped shape the final product. -
Somalia Terror Threat
THECHRISTOPHER TERROR February 12, THREAT FROM THE TERROR THREAT FROM SOMALIA THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF AL SHABAAB CHRISTOPHER HARNISCH APPENDICES AND MAPS BY KATHERINE ZIMMERMAN FEBRUARY 12, 2010 A REPORT BY THE CRITICAL THREATS PROJECT OF THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE THE TERROR THREAT FROM SOMALIA CHRISTOPHER HARNISCH February 12, 2010 Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 IMPORTANT GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN SOMALIA 3 NOTABLE INDIVIDUALS 4 INTRODUCTION 8 ORIGINS OF AL SHABAAB 10 GAINING CONTROL, GOVERNING, AND MAINTAINING CONTROL 14 AL SHABAAB’S RELATIONSHIP WITH AL QAEDA, THE GLOBAL JIHAD MOVEMENT, AND ITS GLOBAL IDEOLOGY 19 INTERNATIONAL RECRUITING AND ITS IMPACT 29 AL SHABAAB’S INTERNATIONAL THREATS 33 THREAT ASSESSMENT AND CONCLUSION 35 APPENDIX A: TIMELINE OF MAJOR SECURITY EVENTS IN SOMALIA 37 APPENDIX B: MAJOR SUICIDE ATTACKS AND ASSASSINATIONS CLAIMED BY OR ATTRIBUTED TO AL SHABAAB 47 NOTES 51 Maps MAP OF THE HORN OF AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST 5 POLITICAL MAP OF SOMALIA 6 MAP OF ISLAMIST-CONTROLLED AND INFLUENCED AREAS IN SOMALIA 7 www.criticalthreats.org THE TERROR THREAT FROM SOMALIA CHRISTOPHER HARNISCH February 12, 2010 Executive Summary hree hundred people nearly died in the skies of and assassinations. Al Shabaab’s primary objectives at TMichigan on Christmas Day, 2009 when a Niger- the time of the Ethiopian invasion appeared to be ian terrorist attempted to blow up a plane destined geographically limited to Somalia, and perhaps the for Detroit. The terrorist was an operative of an al Horn of Africa. The group’s rhetoric and behavior, Qaeda franchise based in Yemen called al Qaeda in however, have shifted over the past two years reflect- the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). -
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU)
12.9.2012 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 246/1 II (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 807/2012 of 11 September 2012 amending for the 178th time Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the Al Qaida network THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, natural person from its list of persons, groups and entities to whom the freezing of funds and economic Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European resources should apply. Union, (3) Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 should Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 of therefore be updated accordingly, 27 May 2002 imposing certain specific restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities associated with the Al-Qaida network, ( 1) and in particular Article 7(1)(a) and HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 7a(5) thereof, Article 1 Whereas: Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 is amended in (1) Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 881/2002 lists the accordance with the Annex to this Regulation. persons, groups and entities covered by the freezing of funds and economic resources under that Regulation. Article 2 (2) On 12 August 2012 the Sanctions Committee of the This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that United Nations Security Council decided to remove one of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 11 September 2012. -
Assessing the Vulnerability of Kenyan Youths to Radicalisation and Extremism
Institute for Security Studies PAPER Assessing the vulnerability of Kenyan youths to radicalisation and extremism INTRODUCTION country is also central to the region and thus deserves That there is an emerging trend of religious radicalisation in closer scrutiny. Although Kenya’s intervention in Somalia East Africa is not in doubt. Somalia, which has experienced served to incite a terrorist response, the experience of various forms of conflict since 1991, has often been seen Uganda, Ethiopia and Burundi, all of which have had troops as the source of extremism in the region, especially in Somalia since 2006, showed different trends. Only the following the attacks on the United States (US) embassies attacks in Uganda and Kenya were attributed to those in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi on 7 August 1998. Yet closer countries’ interventions in Somalia. And, despite the fact investigation reveals that Somali nationals were not behind that those directly involved in these attacks were Ugandan most of the incidents outside Somalia’s borders. Somalia nationals, Kenyans and Tanzanians helped plan and provides a safe haven, training camps and opportunities for execute the attacks, not members of traditional extremists to fight the ‘enemies of Islam’, but al-Qaeda and Somali communities. later al-Shabaab have executed attacks in the region by This is not to say that individuals within the traditional relying on local assistance and support. At the same time, Muslim community have not used frustrations and al-Shabaab managed to recruit Kenyan, Ugandan and vulnerabilities among the youth – Muslim and non-Muslim Tanzanian nationals to its ranks in Somalia. -
2013 Report of the Joint Committee on Administ
REPUBLIC OF KENYA KENYA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELEVENTH PARLIAMENT – FIRST SESSION - 2013 REPORT OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATION AND NATIONAL SECURITY; AND DEFENCE AND FOREIGN RELATIONS ON THE INQUIRY INTO THE WESTGATE TERRORIST ATTACK, AND OTHER TERROR ATTACKS IN MANDERA IN NORTH-EASTERN AND KILIFI IN THE COASTAL REGION --------------------------------------------------------- CLERK’S CHAMBERS PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS NAIROBI DECEMBER, 2013 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Preface……………………………………….……………………….….................. 3 Background on terrorism in Kenya….............................................................. 10 Joint Committee visit to the Westgate Mall site …………….……………… 23 Meeting with witnesses on terrorism…………………..……..……………….. 26 Meetings with Experts on intelligence gathering and counter terrorism... 30 First meeting with Cabinet Secretaries, Ministries of Interior and Defence, and the Director General, National Intelligence Service………. 33 Second meeting with Cabinet Secretaries, Ministries of Interior and Defence, and the Director General, National Intelligence Service ….…… 37 Meeting with the Managing Director, Nakumatt Holdings Ltd…..….……... 39 Presentations by Dr. Abbas Gullet and Mr. Abdul Hajji……………………... 40 Meeting with the Director, Immigration Services, Director, Registration of Persons and Ag. Commissioner, Department of Refugee Affairs…......... 42 Meeting with the Kenya Veterans Association……………………………..…. 44 Meeting with Althaus Services Ltd…………………………………………...…. 45 Meeting with Dixons Electronics Ltd…………….....…………………………. -
Updated List Is Attached to This Letter
TERRORISM U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control What WhatYou YouNeed Need To To Know Know AboutAbout U.S. The Sanctions U.S. Embargo Executive Order 13224 blocking Terrorist Property and a summary of the Terrorism Sanctions Regulations (Title 31 Part 595 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations), Terrorism List Governments Sanctions Regulations (Title 31 Part 596 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations), and Foreign Terrorist Organizations Sanctions Regulations (Title 31 Part 597 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations) EXECUTIVE ORDER 13224 - BLOCKING PROPERTY AND PROHIBITING TRANSACTIONS WITH PERSONS WHO COMMIT, THREATEN TO COMMIT, OR SUPPORT TERRORISM By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), section 5 of the United Nations Participation Act of 1945, as amended (22 U.S.C. 287c) (UNPA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and in view of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1214 of December 8, 1998, UNSCR 1267 of October 15, 1999, UNSCR 1333 of December 19, 2000, and the multilateral sanctions contained therein, and UNSCR 1363 of July 30, 2001, establishing a mechanism to monitor the implementation of UNSCR 1333, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that grave acts of terrorism and threats of terrorism committed by foreign terrorists, including -
Are Efforts to Reduce Terrorism Successful?
AI Reduce Terrorism INT 7/15/04 12:12 PM Page 1 are efforts to reduce terrorism successful? Lauri S. Friedman, Book Editor Bruce Glassman, Vice President Bonnie Szumski, Publisher Helen Cothran, Managing Editor Detroit • New York • San Francisco • San Diego • New Haven, Conn. Waterville, Maine • London • Munich AI Reduce Terrorism INT 7/15/04 12:12 PM Page 2 © 2005 Thomson Gale, a part of The Thomson Corporation. Thomson and Star Logo are trademarks and Gale and Greenhaven Press are registered trademarks used herein under license. For more information, contact Greenhaven Press 27500 Drake Rd. Farmington Hills, MI 48331-3535 Or you can visit our Internet site at http://www.gale.com ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means—graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, Web distribution or information storage retrieval systems—without the written permission of the publisher. Every effort has been made to trace the owners of copyrighted material. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Are efforts to reduce terrorism successful? / Lauri S. Friedman, book editor. p. cm. — (At issue) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7377-2334-3 (lib. : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7377-2335-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Terrorism—United States—Prevention. 2. Terrorism—Government policy— United States. 3. War on Terrorism, 2001– . I. Friedman, Lauri S. II. Series: At issue (San Diego, Calif.) HV6432.A74 2005 363.32'0973—dc22 2004042421 Printed in the United States of America AI Reduce Terrorism INT 7/15/04 12:12 PM Page 3 Contents Page Introduction 5 1. -
VERORDNUNG (EG) Nr. 881/2002 DES RATES Vom 27. Mai 2002
VERORDNUNG (EG) Nr. 881/2002 DES RATES vom 27. Mai 2002 (*) über die Anwendung bestimmter spezifischer restriktiver Maßnahmen gegen bestimmte Personen und Organisationen, die mit den ISIL (Da'esh)- und Al-Qaida- Organisationen in Verbindung stehen, zuletzt geändert durch die DURCHFÜHRUNGSVERORDNUNG (EU) 2016/2262 DER KOMMISSION vom 15. Dezember 2016 (**) DER RAT DER EUROPÄISCHEN UNION – gestützt auf den Vertrag zur Gründung der Europäischen Gemeinschaft, insbesondere auf die Artikel 60, 301 und 308, gestützt auf den Gemeinsamen Standpunkt 2002/402/GASP zu den restriktiven Maßnahmen gegen Osama bin Laden, Mitglieder der Organisation Al-Qaida und die Taliban sowie andere Einzelpersonen, Gruppen, Unterneh- men und Organisationen, die mit ihnen in Verbindung stehen, mit dem die Gemeinsamen Standpunkte 96/746/GASP, 1999/727/GASP, 2001/154/GASP und 2001/771/GASP1 aufgehoben wurden, auf Vorschlag der Kommission2, nach Stellungnahme des Europäischen Parlaments3, in Erwägung nachstehender Gründe: (1) Am 16. Januar 2002 nahm der Sicherheitsrat der Vereinten Nationen die Resolution 1390(2002) an, in der er feststellte, dass die Taliban auf die in mehreren vorausgegangenen Resolutionen gestellten Forderungen nicht reagiert hatten, und die Taliban dafür verurteilte, dass sie die Nutzung Afghanistans als Basis für die Ausbildung von Terroristen und terroristische Aktivitäten zugelassen haben, und in der er ferner das Al- Qaida-Netzwerk und andere mit ihm in Verbindung stehende terroristische Gruppen für ihre terroristischen Handlungen und die Zerstörung von Sachwerten verurteilte. (2) Der Sicherheitsrat beschloss unter anderem, dass das nach seinen Resolutionen 1267(1999) und 1333(2000) verhängte Flugverbot und einige der Afghanistan auferlegten Ausfuhrbeschränkungen aufgeho- ben und der Anwendungsbereich des Einfrierens von Geldern und das Verbot der Bereitstellung von Mitteln, die nach diesen Resolutionen auferlegt worden waren, angepasst werden sollen.