Chairwoman Harman, committee members, thank you for the opportunity to
testify today. My testimony aims to address the evolving threat from al Qaeda
to the homeland, to include the threat from al Qaeda itself, groups affiliated
or allied to al Qaeda, and those "homegrown" militants influenced by al Qaeda
ideas who have no connections to any formal jihadist group. This testimony does
not aim to be exhaustive but to cover the most serious cases of recent years
and to provide some overall threat assessment.
Noted terrorism analyst Peter Bergen stated at a New York-based think-tank conference dealing with counter-insurgency strategy in 2008 that it was very ...
But Mayer and the nonprofit New America Foundation report that more US drone strikes were launched in Pakistan during the first nine months of the Obama ...
... strikes in Pakistan this year and killed, besides Mr. Mehsud, somewhere between 200 and 300 people, according to a study by the New America Foundation. ...
The most authoritative assessment of the attacks, by the New America Foundation, estimates that about one third of more than 1000 people killed were ...
According to a just-completed study by the New America Foundation, quoted in Mayer's piece, Obama has authorized as many drone strikes in Pakistan in nine ...
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During his first nine and half months in office, President Barack Obama
has authorised as many CIA aerial attacks in Pakistan as George W. Bush
did in his final three years, according to a study done by the New
America Foundation. So far this year, the administration has sanctioned
at least 41 CIA missile strikes inside Pakistan -- a rate of
approximately one bombing a week. ... Original Article
... Yet roughly
once a week since that day, he has ordered the assassination of suspected
terrorists. These assassinations, carried out with Hellfire missiles fired from
hovering drones, are often messy. According to the New
America Foundation,
a think-tank, it took 15 attempts to kill Baitullah Mehsud, a Taliban leader in
Pakistan
who was finally blown to scraps in August. Hundreds of people, some of them
CNN terrorism analyst Peter Bergen disagreed with Hoh's assessment of Afghanistan. "It's not that our presence there is causing the problem," he said. ...
