Tag Archives: Al-Qaeda
Facebook details its fight to stop terrorist content
Last June, Facebook described how it uses AI to help find and take down terrorist content on its platform and in November, the company said that its AI tools had allowed it to remove nearly all ISIS- and Al Qaeda-related content before it was flagged...
YouTube bans all videos from an extremist cleric
YouTube's efforts to catch and take down terrorist videos include some far-reaching measures. The New York Times has learned that YouTube recently removed and blocked all videos from Anwar al-Awlaki, a cleric who turned extremist and was killed by a...
US builds a $100 million African drone base to fight Boko Haram
The Department of Defense announced on Friday that it is investing $100 million in a drone base located in Agadez, in central Niger. The base will serve as a central surveillance hub in the fight against both Boko Haram and roaming militant groups li...
America’s drone strike program needs a low-tech fix
Last week, The Intercept released a trove of classified documents (provided by an unnamed source) relating to America's use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as weapons of assassination. These activities took place between 2011 and 2013, throughou...
Osama Bin Laden’s Extended Family Members Die in UK Plane Crash
Family members of the late terrorist Osama Bin Laden were on board a private jet. It took a nosedive at Blackbushe Airport in the UK. The pilot along with three passengers died on the spot.The Saudi...
Two Hostages Killed By US Drone
In January, a counterterror attach that was meant to target Al-Qaeda accidentally killed two innocent hostages, one of which was an American. Wall Street Journal confirms that Warren...
Garissa University Massacre: Local official’s son named as terrorist
The massacre at Garissa University College in Kenya involved the slaughter of nearly 150 people and invited questions of why the incident even occurred. And more importantly: were there warnings, and...
Jihadi John indentified as Mohammed Emwazi from London
Jihadi John is suppsed to be Mohammned Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born British in his 20s, who lived in London. He lived in the house shown above. Jihadi John appeared in several beheading videos of ISIS. The...
Who killed Osama bin Laden? Robert O’Neill
It had been more than a dozen years since he had been chasing down and shooting the bad guys. And there were many of them from Al-Qaeda fugitives in Iraq to pirates in Somalia. But the one time...