Hamas Praises Bin Laden

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Hamas Praises Osama bin Laden As Holy Warrior

The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has praised Osama bin Laden as an "Arab holy warrior" and condemned his killing by American forces in Pakistan.
Hamas praises Osama bin Laden as holy warrior | World news | guardian.co.uk

 

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Ignoring bin Laden's advice
April 27th, 2012 - No sooner did Osama bin Laden get killed than his advice was being ignored by his adherents.

That revelation is included in Peter Bergen's blockbuster article in Time magazine describing the al Qaeda leader's life in Abbottabad. Bergen, who is also CNN's terrorism analyst, has seen some of the documents seized by the U.S. Special Operations Forces during the bin Laden raid a year ago. Bergen reports that the al Qaeda leader warned smaller splinter groups about attaching themselves to the al Qaeda franchise. "On Aug. 7, 2010, he wrote to the leader of the brutal al-Shabaab militia in Somalia to warn that declaring itself part of al-Qaeda would only attract enemies and make it harder to raise money from rich Arabs," Bergen noted in the Time magazine article.

But just seven months later, al-Shabaab did just that, announcing a merger with the organization now headed by Ayman al-Zawahiri. A U.S. intelligence bulletin obtained by CNN after the two terror groups announced the merger suggested that relationship could "undermine" efforts by al-Shabaab supporters in the U.S., stating some have "previously claimed ignorance of al-Shabaab's designation as a foreign terrorist organization in court proceedings or otherwise indicated that they supported al-Shabaab primarily for nationalistic reasons.

Other insights Bergen gleaned from the bin Laden writings:

– In October 2010, al Qaeda leaders worried the Waziristan sanctuary was no longer safe because of U.S. drone strikes: "I am leaning toward getting most of our brothers out of the area," bin Laden wrote. According to statistics kept by Bergen and his colleagues at New America Foundation, 2010 and 2011 were the heaviest years for drone strikes.

– It would take two to three months for bin Laden to get responses to his communications because he relied on letters, rather than phone or the Internet, to get his messages out and receive letters. Ultimately, his reliance on couriers who helped carry these messages is what doomed bin Laden.

– The al Qaeda leader was trolling for ideas to mark the 10th anniversary of September 11th attacks and pondered trying to get attention from a U.S. network "that can be close to being unbiased such as CBS."

– He complained that Times Square attempted bomber Faisal Shahzad was breaking the oath of allegiance to the U.S. that he would have taken when becoming an American citizen. According to Bergen, bin Laden wrote: "It is not permissible in Islam to betray trust and break a covenant."

Ignoring bin Laden's advice – CNN Security Clearance - CNN.com Blogs

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Is the core of al Qaeda on its last legs?
April 27th, 2012 - No one is writing al Qaeda's obituary yet. But one year after its leader Osama bin Laden was shot dead by U.S. commandos, U.S. officials and experts say the terror network's core group holed up in Pakistan is hemorrhaging and could be in its final days.

CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen, for one, maintains that al Qaeda - at least its components based in south central Asia - is in terrible shape. "Their record of failure speaks for itself: No success in the west since the London attacks of 2005, no attacks in the United States since 9/11 (2001), almost the entire top leadership dead or captured," said Bergen. Adds Robert Grenier, the former head of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, "The movement has essentially been marginalized." And a senior U.S. official describes al Qaeda as "largely in survival mode, putting most of its energy into coping with the losses and changes of the last year with a disjointed focus on global jihad."

Ayman al-Zawahiri replaced bin Laden at the helm, but by most all accounts he is a shadow of the cult-like figure of bin Laden. According to the U.S. official, al-Zawahiri "lacks the charisma of his predecessor and his messages lack the inspiration that was bin Laden's hallmark." In al-Zawahiri's defense, "He inherited a bit of a lemon" - an organization in decline - "and he's not making lemonade out of it," said Bergen, who has just written a book entitled, "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad."

Last July, then CIA Director Leon Panetta said that with bin Laden dead, the United States was "within reach of strategically defeating al Qaeda." He went on to say that the group's remaining leaders were on the run, and it was time "to put maximum pressure on them because... we really can cripple al Qaeda as a threat." One of the tools being used, to this end, are missiles launched by unmanned CIA aircraft against members of al Qaeda and other terrorist groups operating from the tribal areas of Pakistan. While the pace has waned since the May 2011 bin Laden raid, drone strikes have been central to the strategy of President Barack Obama's administration - as evidenced by a dramatic increase since he took office.

Fran Townsend, a CNN National Security Contributor who was President George W. Bush's counterterrorism advisor when these attacks were first launched in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan, called them "very effective in making it difficult for (terrorists) to communicate, travel, plan and train." She added that she feels it is crucial the drone program doesn't become a bargaining chip in U.S.-Pakistan relations. That relationship - which has been tension-filled for years - spiraled downward in 2011, after U.S. forces' secret raid into Pakistan to take out bin Laden and a later attack on Pakistani troops near the Afghanistan border that left 24 dead. U.S. officials characterized the latter attack as an accident.

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