Al-Qaeda as a Business by Iakovos Alhadeff - HTML preview

Articles

“The Afghan Oil Pipeline and the US Negotiations with the Taliban”.

https://iakal.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/the-afghan-oil-pipeline-and-the-us-negotiations-with-the-taliban/

“Al-Shabaab the Strongest Terrorist Organization of East Africa and its Funding”

https://iakal.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/al-shabaab-the-strongest-terrorist-organization-of-east-africa-and-its-funding/

“What is Al-Shabaab, and what does it want?”, July 2015

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And Al-Shabaab has links to other organizations. In February 2012, the group's leader, Ahmed Abdi Godane, and al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahirireleased a video announcing the alliance of the two organizations.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/23/world/africa/what-is-al-shabaab/

“Boko Haram's Bin Laden Connection”, May 2014

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In 2002, Osama bin Laden dispatched an aide to Nigeria to hand out $3 million in local currency to a wide array of Salafist political organizations there that shared al Qaeda’s goal of imposing Islamic rule.

According to an overlooked report from a well-respected international watchdog, one of those organizations was Boko Haram, the terrorist outfit that’s become globally infamous for its threat to sell girls into slavery. In other words, bin Laden helped provide Boko Haram’s seed money, this report maintains.

Officially, the U.S. intelligence community assesses that the group has only tangential links to al Qaeda’s north African affiliate, and that reports of bin Laden backing the Nigerian outfit are off-base. But inside the secret state, many analysts believe that the ties between Boko Haram and al Qaeda global leadership go much deeper—and are about more than a little seed money.

“There were channels between bin laden and Boko Haram leadership,” one senior U.S. told The Daily Beast. “He gave some strategic direction at times.”

At issue are still secret documents captured from Osama bin Laden’s lair in Pakistan in 2011. According to two senior U.S. intelligence officials, the trove of documents includes correspondence between leaders of Boko Haram and al Qaeda’s central leadership, including Osama bin Laden. Other U.S. intelligence officials who spoke to The Daily Beast have stressed that the documents only include letters from Boko Haram to bin Laden—the terror leader never replied back.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/boko-harams-bin-laden-connection-041508136--politics.html?ref=gs

“How al-Qaeda and Islamic State are competing for al-Shabaab in Somalia”, January 2016

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/12015075/How-al-Qaeda-and-Islamic-State-are-fighting-for-al-Shabaab-affections-in-Somalia.html

“The Terrorist Groups Lashkar e Taiba and Haqqani Network”

https://iakal.wordpress.com/2016/07/06/the-terrorist-groups-lashkar-e-taiba-and-haqqani-network/

“The Life of Osama bin Laden in Iran”

https://iakal.wordpress.com/2016/07/06/the-life-of-osama-bin-laden-in-iran/