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Salafi jihadist organization founded in 1988
President Barack Obama did not notify Congress before the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and the administration framed the strike as lawful under the 2001 AUMF and principles of self‑defen...
The Obama administration carried out targeted strikes that killed at least one U.S. citizen — Anwar al‑Awlaki — and struck again days later in Yemen that killed his 16‑year‑old son Abdulrahman, also a...
President Barack Obama approved the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric, and U.S. strikes under his administration killed his 16-year-old son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki in Yemen; source...
Barack Obama’s administration developed a formal, internal framework (the Presidential Policy Guidance, PPG) that imposed specific constraints—such as geographic limits, a “near-certainty” standard to...
The available evidence shows that U.S. intelligence agencies possessed about al‑Qaeda’s intent to strike the United States in 2001, but there is that the government had clear, actionable knowledge of ...
President Barack Obama’s administration ordered at least one lethal strike that killed a U.S. citizen abroad (Anwar al‑Awlaki in Yemen on Sept. 30, 2011) and U.S. officials later acknowledged U.S. dro...
There is no single, authoritative count of “how many Islamist terrorist attacks have there been” in the sources provided; databases and analyses count attacks differently and focus on specific years, ...
President Obama did not routinely seek new, specific congressional authorizations for the wide-ranging drone and airstrike campaigns of his presidency; his administration primarily relied on the post‑...
Claims that “Bush did 9/11” are a central 9/11 conspiracy theory that accuses the George W. Bush administration of planning, allowing, or covering up the September 11, 2001 attacks; most mainstream in...
Major investigations and mainstream reporting reject the claim that “9/11 was an inside job,” concluding the attacks were carried out by al‑Qaeda operatives; government analyses such as NIST and debun...
The Quran contains verses that, taken out of context, appear to command violence — for example phrases like “kill them wherever you find them” have been widely quoted — but Islamic scholars, apologeti...
President Obama’s administration authorized at least one deliberate targeted killing of a U.S. citizen abroad — Anwar al‑Awlaki in Yemen — and the Justice Department produced a confidential legal fram...
President Donald Trump did announce that he planned to host senior Taliban leaders at Camp David and in Washington in September 2019, then abruptly cancelled those meetings after a Taliban attack; con...
President Obama’s administration ordered drone strikes that killed at least one U.S. citizen, Anwar al‑Awlaki, and the administration acknowledged that U.S. strikes had killed several American citizen...
Assessing whether “Islam is dangerous to the West” requires distinguishing between a tiny minority of violent extremists and the vast majority of Muslims, and between criminal-terror threats and broad...
The United States should not fear an imminent, organized of its government or territory; current assessments show international Salafi‑jihadist groups lack the capacity to seize control domestically, ...
Available sources do not provide a single, definitive tally of how many drone strikes occurred during President Biden’s term; independent trackers report that U.S. strikes dropped to historic lows und...
Allegations that Barack Obama “committed war crimes” focus chiefly on his expansion of drone strikes, “double-tap” tactics, and U.S. support for partner operations (reports cite roughly 563 strikes wi...
Osama bin Laden was killed during a U.S. special operations raid—Operation Neptune Spear—carried out by a team of U.S. Navy SEALs from SEAL Team Six (DEVGRU) on the night of 1–2 May 2011 in Abbottabad...
Claims that “9/11 was done by Mossad” are a long-standing conspiracy narrative tied to a few contested incidents and have been repeatedly debunked by mainstream investigators and fact‑checkers; author...