Osama bin Laden Articles

The Zawahiri Era

Michael Scheuer | Aug 24, 2011
Meet Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian doctor-turned-jihadist-mastermind—and the new head of al-Qaeda. He will out-terrorize his predecessor. Prepare for the new age of jihad.

Foreign-Policy Failure

Dimitri K. Simes | Aug 24, 2011
Obama’s foreign-policy decisions—from provoking Islamabad to two-timing Beijing to alienating Moscow—lack the strategic long-term thinking the U.S. needs. Hypocrisy and incoherence rule.

Unintelligent Design

Paul R. Pillar | Aug 24, 2010
In the wake of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, Americans cried out for catharsis. The 9/11 Commission delivered. What we are left with is an ill-conceived bureacracy in the guise of reform.

American Jihad

Bruce Hoffman | Apr 20, 2010
Al-Qaeda has accomplished the unthinkable: establishing an embryonic recruitment, radicalization and operational capacity on our shores. Our current strategy risks another 9/11.

Rogue Operators

Daniel Byman | Jul 02, 2008
Think that state sponsors of terror are pulling all the strings? Think again. Countries like Iran and Syria may play a big role in the terrorism underworld, but they’re quickly losing control over rogues that bite the hands that once fed them.

Could It Happen Again?

Peter Bergen | Sep 01, 2006
Given the scale of the damage caused to the United States, the 9/11 attacks neither required much money to execute, nor did they take a large number of plotters.

Courting Catastrophe: America Five Years After 9/11

Michael Scheuer | Sep 01, 2006
America will be attacked by Al-Qaeda again, and more destructively than on 9/11.

Al-Qaeda's Media Strategies

Marc Lynch | Mar 01, 2006
Jihad is as virtual as it is real.

Jihad, Unintended

Dimitri K. Simes | Dec 01, 2005
To err is human. Not to learn from one's mistakes--and to jeopardize the nation's security in the process--is unforgivable.

Trouble in Tbilisi

Whit Mason | Mar 01, 2005
Liberty and security are hard to combine. Georgians risk losing both.

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