Mar 11th, 2010 · Justice Department attorneys who once helped represent terrorism detainees are at the center of a raging dispute. Conservatives say that the politically appointed lawyers are influencing U.S. policy to help their former clients.
Mar 11th, 2010 · Justice Department attorneys who once helped represent terrorism detainees are at the center of a raging dispute. Conservatives say that the politically appointed lawyers are influencing U.S. policy to help their former clients.
Jan 5th, 2010 · The U.N. World Food Program says that attacks against staff and demands by armed groups that aid groups remove women from their teams are forcing it to stop distributing aid in southern Somalia. The WFP is pulling out of six areas largely controlled by al-Shabab, an Islamist group allegedly tied to al-Qaeda.
Jul 14th, 2009 · Did former Vice President Dick Cheney order the CIA to keep Congress in the dark about a program to capture or kill al-Qaeda leaders? NPR Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving, Reps. Jan Schakowsky and Peter Hoekstra discuss a potential congressional investigation. Meanwhile, will Attorney General Eric Holder appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of torture during the Bush administration?
Jun 11th, 2009 · In Descent into Chaos, Ahmed Rashid examines the United States' failures in Central Asia, where, the author says, Washington has helped create an unstable Pakistan, a reinvigorated Taliban and a entrepreneurial al' Qaeda that is profiting off the opium trade.
Dec 4th, 2008 · Matthew Alexander (a pseudonym) led the interrogation team that gathered the intelligence necessary to capture terrorist al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. He says it was his team's subtle techniques — not torture or intimidation — that made them so successful.
Nov 10th, 2008 · The New York Times reported Monday that a 2004 classified order authorized the U.S. military to attack the al Qaeda network throughout the world. Mark Mazetti, co-author of the article, discusses the undisclosed attacks that took place.
Sep 13th, 2008 · The U.S. military raid in Pakistan last week was part of an intensified campaign to attack Al Qaeda and the Taliban inside Pakistan. NPR's Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman talks with host Scott Simon about how CIA officers are being pulled from around the world for this campaign.