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US INTELLIGENCE AND AL QAEDA Analysis by Contrasting Narratives Online Appendix PETER DE WERD US INTELLIGENCE AND AL QAEDA Analysis by Contrasting Narratives Peter de Werd 66547_de547_de WWerd_Onlineerd_Online AAppendix.inddppendix.indd 1 004/09/204/09/20 44:03:03 PPMM APPENDIX Chapter 2 Selection of texts In chronological order, key texts underlined. Fisk, Robert, ‘Anti-Soviet Warrior Puts His Army on the Road to Peace: the Saudi Businessman Who Recruited Mujahedin Now Uses Them for Large- Scale Building Projects in Sudan. Robert Fisk met him in Almatig’, The Independent, 6 December 1993, 10. Abd-al-Karim, Ali, Ahmad Al-Nur, ‘Usama Bin Ladin Denies “Terrorism” Link, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, 9 March 1994, 4, as translated in FBIS, Compi- lation of Usama Bin Ladin Statements, 1–3. Al-Quds al-Arabi, Saudi Opposition Opens London Offi ce, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, 8 August 1994, 1, as translated in FBIS, 3. Bin Laden, Osama, ‘Our Invitation to Give Advice and Reform’, open letter to King Fahd, April 14, 1994, available at: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/ Our_Invitation_to_Give_Advice_and_Reform, last accessed 20 April 2018. Bin Laden, Osama, ‘Saudi Arabia Supports the Communists in Yemen’, 7 June 1994, available at: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia_supports_ the_Communists_in_Yemen, last accessed 20 April 2018. Bin Laden, Osama, ‘The Banishment of Communism from the Arabian Pen- insula, the Episode and the Proof’, 11 July 1994, available at: https:// en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Banishment_of_Communists_from_the_ Arabian_Peninsula, last accessed 20 April 2018. Bin Laden, Osama, ‘Quran Scholars in the Face of Despotism’, 19 July 1994, available at: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Quran_Scholars_in_the_Face_ of_Despotism, last accessed 20 April 2018. Bin Laden, Osama, ‘Saudi Arabia Unveils Its War against Islam and Its Schol- ars’, 12 September 1994, available at: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Saudi_ Arabia_Unveils_Its_War_Against_Islam_and_Its_Scholars, last accessed 28 April 2018. Bin Laden, Osama, ‘Urgent Letter to Security Offi cials’, 16 September 1994, avail- able at: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Urgent_letter_to_security_offi cials, last accessed 28 April 2018. 66547_de547_de WWerd_Onlineerd_Online AAppendix.inddppendix.indd 3 004/09/204/09/20 44:03:03 PPMM US INTELLIGENCE AND AL QAEDA Bin Laden, Osama, ‘Do Not Have Vile Actions in Your Religion’, 16 Septem- ber 1994, AFGP-2002-003345, 11-04-1415, available at: https://ctc.usma .edu/programs-resources/harmony-program, last accessed 28 April 2018. Bin Laden, Osama, ‘Important Telegram to Our Brothers in the Armed Forces’, 19 September 1994, AFGP-2002-003345, 14-4-1415, available at: https:// ctc.usma.edu/programs-resources/harmony-program, last accessed 28 April 2018. Bin Laden, Osama, ‘Higher Committee for Harm!!’ 15 October 1994, avail- able at: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Higher_Committee_for_Harm, last accessed 28 April 2018. Bin Laden, Osama, ‘Open Letter for Shaykh Bin Baz on the Invalidity of his Fatwa on Peace with the Jews’, 29 December 1994, available at: http://en.wikisource. org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Shaykh_Bin_Baz_on_the_Invalidity_ of_his_Fatwa_on_Peace_with_the_Jews, last accessed 20 April 2018. Bin Laden, Osama, ‘Second Letter to Shaykh Abd Al Aziz Bin Baz from the Reform and Advice Foundation’, 29 January 1995, available at: http:// en.wikisource.org/wiki/Second_Letter_to_Shaykh_Bin_Baz, last accessed 20 April 2018. Bin Laden, Osama, ‘Prince Salman and Ramadan Alms’, 12 February 1995, available at: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prince_Salman_and_Ramadan_ Alms, last accessed 28 April 2018. Bin Laden, Osama, ‘Saudi Arabia Continues its War against Islam and its Scholars’, 9 March 1995, available at: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/ Saudi_Arabia_Continues_Its_War_Against_Islam_and_Its_Scholars, last accessed 28 April 2018. Bin Laden, Osama, ‘Scholars Are the Prophet’s Successors’, 6 May 1995, avail- able at: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Scholars_are_the_Prophet%27s_ Successors, last accessed 28 April 2018. Bin Laden, Osama, ‘Prince Sultan and the Air Aviation Commissions’, 11 July 1995, available at: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Prince_Sultan_and_the_ Air_Aviation_Commissions, last accessed 28 April 2018. Bin Laden, Osama, ‘Open Letter to King Fahd on the Occasion of the Recent Cabinet Reshuffl e’, Communiqué 17, 3 August 1995, available at: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Open_Letter_to_King_Fahd_on_the_ Occasion_of_the_Recent_Cabinet_Reshuffl e, last accessed 20 April 2018; and AFGP-2002-000103-HT-NVTC, https://www.ctc.usma.edu/ v2/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Open-Letter-to-King-Fahd-from-bin- Laden-Translation.pdf, last accessed 21 February 2016. Bin Laden, Osama, ‘The Bosnia Tragedy and the Deception of the Servant of the Two Mosques.’, 11 August 1995, available at: http://en.wikisource. org/wiki/The_Bosnia_Tragedy, last accessed 28 April 2018. 4 66547_de547_de WWerd_Onlineerd_Online AAppendix.inddppendix.indd 4 004/09/204/09/20 44:03:03 PPMM APPENDIX Macleod, Scott, ‘The Paladin of Jihad, Fearless and Super-rich, Osama bin Laden Finances Islamic Extremism. A TIME Exclusive’, 6 May 1996, TIME Magazine. Sa’d, F., ‘Osama bin Laden Interviewed’, Cairo Rose al-Yusuf, 17 June 1996, 25–7, as translated in FBIS, 4–11. Fisk, Robert, ‘Arab Rebel Leader Warns the British “Get Out of the Gulf”, Robert Fisk Tracks Saudi Arabia’s Most Wanted Man to His Lair in Afghanistan’, The Indepentent, 10 July 1996, 11. Bin Ladin, Osama, ‘Ladenese Epistle’, 23 August 1996, as in Bruce Law- rence (ed.), Messages to the World: the Statements of Osama Bin Laden (London: Verso, 2005), 23–30; Gilles Kepel and Jean-Pierre Milelli, Al Qaeda in its Own Words, trans. Pascale Ghazaleh (Cambridge MA: Har- vard University Press, 2008), 47–50. Also as in Al-Quds Al-Arabi, ‘Bin Laden Calls for Guerrilla War to Expell “The American Occupiers” from Saudi Arabia’ (Bin Ladin Yadú li-Harb ‘Isabat li-Ikhraj ‘Al-Muhtallin Al- Amrikiyin’ min Al-Sa’udiyyah), Al-Quds Al-Arabi, 31 August/1 Septem- ber 1996, 1, as described by Flagg Miller, The Audacious Ascetic: What the Bin Laden Tapes Reveal about Al-Qaeda, Kindle edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), location 4873–5598; MSANEWS, ‘The Ladenese Epistle, Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places’, 2 October 1996, available at: http:// msanews.mynet.net/MSANEWS/199610/19961012.3.html, last accessed 14 January 2016). Furthermore, Osama Bin Laden, ‘Declaration of War’, 1996, trans. CTC West Point, available at: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/ Osama_bin_Laden%27s_Declaration_of_War, last accessed 20 April 2018; Al-Islah, ‘Bin Ladin Declares Jihad on Americans, Message From Usama Bin-Muhammad Bin Ladin to His Muslim Brothers in the Whole World and Especially in the Arabian Peninsula, Declaration of Jihad against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Mosques, Expel the Heretics From the Arabian Peninsula’, 2 September 1996, 1–12, as translated in FBIS, 11–28. Nuda’ul Islam, ‘Mujahid Usamah Bin Ladin Talks Exclusively to “NIDA’UL ISLAM” about the New Powder Keg in the Middle East’, October/Novem- ber 1996, available at: http://web.archive.org/web/20050206231030/ http://www.islam.org.au/articles/15/LADIN.HTM, last accessed 28 April 2018). See also Lawrence, Messages to the World, 31–44. Atwan, Abdul Bari, ‘Bin Ladin Interviewed on Jihad Against US’, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, 27 November 1996, 5, as translated in FBIS, 28–36. Roberts, Gwynne (director and reporter) ‘The Saudi Tapes’, Channel 4 Dis- patches, 20 February 1997, London, RWF World, available at: https:// vimeo.com/48150820, last accessed 15 March 2016. 5 66547_de547_de WWerd_Onlineerd_Online AAppendix.inddppendix.indd 5 004/09/204/09/20 44:03:03 PPMM US INTELLIGENCE AND AL QAEDA Al-Islah, ‘Bin Ladin Cited on Prince Sultan’s US Visit’, 3 March 1997, as trans- lated in FBIS, 38–9. The Muslim, ‘Bin Ladin Charges US Involvement in China Bombings’, Islamabad, 15 March 1997, as translated in FBIS, 39–41. Mir, Hamid, ‘Pakistan Interviews Usama Bin Ladin’, 18 March 1997, as trans- lated in FBIS, 41–8. Fisk, Robert, ‘Muslim Leader Warns of a New Assault on US Forces’, The Independent, 22 March 1997, 1. See also FBIS, 48–9. Fisk, Robert, ‘The Man Who Wants to Wage Holy War against the Americans: A Pilgrimage through a Broken and Dangerous Land of Death’, The Inde- pendent, 22 March 1997, 14. See also FBIS, 49–52. Bin Laden, Osama, ‘The Saudi Regime and the Reputed Tragedies of the Pilgrims’, 16 April 1997, AFGP2002-003345, available at: https://ctc. usma.edu/programs-resources/harmony-program, last accessed 28 April 2018. Mir, Hamid, ‘Usama Bin Ladin Dares US Commandos to Come to Afghani- stan’, Pakistan, 6 July 1997, 1, 7, as translated in FBIS, 52. Pakistan, ‘Usama Bin Ladin Urges “Befi tting Reply” to Horan, 7 August 1997, 1, 7, as translated in FBIS, 52–3. Malik, Zafer Mehmood, ‘Usama Bin Ladin Backs Harkatul Ansar against US’, Rawalpindi Jang, 20 October 1997, 7–8, as translated in FBIS, 53–4. Rawalpindi Nawa-i-Waqt, ‘Daily Reports Usama Bin Ladin’s Threat Against Americans’, 27 November 1997, 1, 5, as translated in FBIS, 54. Shaw, Bernard (anchor), ‘Impact, Holy Terror?: Osama bin Ladin Interview by Peter Arnett’, CNN Impact, New York, CNN, 10 August 1997. Interview conducted in March 1997, transcript retrieved from LexisNexis and at: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7204.htm, video viewed online via Confl ict Studies (YouTube publisher), Osama bin Laden Inter- view (1997), 14 September 2014, available at: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=IcVV9snalOI, last accessed 20 April 2018. See also Lawrence, Messages to the World, 44–57. Pakistan, ‘Bin Ladin Claims Foiling of UN’s Afghan “Conspiracy”’, 17 January 1998, 8–9, as translated in FBIS, 55. Al-Quds Al-Arabi, ‘Bin Ladin Condoles with Al-Bashir on Salih’s Death’, 16 February 1998, 1, as translated in FBIS, 55–6. Bin Laden, Osama, ‘Text of World Islamic Front’s Statement Urging Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders’, 23 February 1998, Al-Quds Al-Arabi, 1, 3, as translated in FBIS, 56–8. Also in Lawrence, Messages to the World, 58–62 and Kepel and Milelli, Al Qaeda in Its Own Words, 53–6.
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    FUTURE OF WAR POS 394/HON 394 SPRING 2019; WEDNESDAY 4:50 PM – 7:35 PM COOR HALL L1-18 Professor Peter L. Bergen Email: [email protected] Professor Daniel Rothenberg Email: [email protected] Office Hours: Coor 6692, Wednesdays 2:00-4:00 PM and by appointment COURSE OVERVIEW This course engages the social, political, economic, and cultural implications of the changing nature of war and conflict. The class provides an overview of some major philosophical and military-strategic theories and conceptions of war, an introduction to the laws of war and a consideration of broad trends in global politics. The class looks at some significant issues related to contemporary conflict including: drones and autonomous weapons; intelligence operations; refugees and internally displaced persons; the use of rape and sexual violence as tools of war; and the challenges of protecting civilians. It also engages issues of war and conflict in Afghanistan, Haiti, Iraq, North Korea and elsewhere. In general, the course contextualizes these issues and debates in relation to the post-9/11 wars, with a review of how the U.S. goes to war, the rise of ISIS, domestic terrorism and how recent conflicts have impacted American society. The class is taught by Prof. Peter L. Bergen and Prof. Daniel Rothenberg, co-directors of ASU’s Center on the Future of War (https://futureofwar.asu.edu/). Many class meetings feature guest lectures and presentations by nationally and internationally recognized experts including: journalists specializing in conflict reporting; scholars; former general officers; current military officers; former high ranking government officials; and key policy makers, the majority of whom are Center on the Future of War Faculty Affiliates or ASU Future of War Fellows at New America, a DC-based think tank.
  • DDA Board Not Receptive to Development of a Steering Committee When Coach Speaks FINAL MOVE!

    DDA Board Not Receptive to Development of a Steering Committee When Coach Speaks FINAL MOVE!

    Serving The Lowell Area for over 100 Years ^ 4. ' I ["I 1 , - 4 .. 4 Volume 21, Issue 7 Sewing Lowell AfCCl ReudefS SltlCC 1893 Wednesday, December 28,1994 Along Main Street DDA board not receptive to development of a arv"-.. k steering committee By Thad Kraus Lowell Ledger Editor Not wanting another layer of bureaucracy to hinder the LMS DRAMA CLASS PRESENTS focus already established, Lowell's Downtown Development "MEET THE CREEPS" Authority committee said it felt a downtown steering commit- The Lowell Middle School eighth-grade drama class will tee would be counterproductive. present the delightful comedy, "Meet The Creeps," Tuesday, The city council, DDA and planning commission, in a joint Jan. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the new middle school cafetorium at meeting, discussed the idea of forming a steering committee 750 Foreman. whereby the different government positions could be commu- If you liked the Addams Family, you'll love to "Meet The nicated back to the DDA. Creeps. Don't miss this free evening of entertainment. "The DDA discussed the idea at a separate meeting," DDA chairman Jim Reagan explained. "It concluded that it was not receptive to the idea at this time." COLLEGE FINANCIAL MEETING FOR SENIORS Several reasons were given for rejecting the plan: 1) The A college financial meeting for seniors, juniors and parents DDA was leery of creating another committee, 2) The func- is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 5, at 7 p.m. at Lowell Hieh tion of the committee was unknown, and 3) Its objectives were School. 5 unknown. Both Reagan and City Manager Dave Pasquale said representatives from the two government entities could still sit SHOWBOAT PRESENTS CAROL JOHNSON in on DDA meetings.