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2023-08-06 Terror Networks
Whatever Happened to Al Qaeda?
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Posted by trailing wife 2023-08-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [15 views ]  Top
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#1 "...more agressive FBI efforts..." Oh yeah, like the period between the attacks on American embassies in Africa and 9/11. Essay written by Daniel Byman, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. And notable FBI bum-kisser.
Posted by Jerens Black9355 2023-08-06 08:01||   2023-08-06 08:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Solved the 'Branch Davidian' problem didn't they? Never hear much from those people anymore.

[sarc off]
Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-06 08:36||   2023-08-06 08:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Assets sold off, back in business under new management.
Posted by ed in texas 2023-08-06 09:45||   2023-08-06 09:45|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ what #3 said. The organization is bankrupt but the concept lives on.
Posted by magpie 2023-08-06 10:29||   2023-08-06 10:29|| Front Page Top

#5 They were nearly out of funds when UBL got whacked.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-08-06 13:56||   2023-08-06 13:56|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ UBL was likely months behind on the rent of his Abbottabad gov't Safe House. The US government made good on the lease and evicted the penniless occupants.

More news at 11:00
Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-06 14:03||   2023-08-06 14:03|| Front Page Top

#7 ^^^ I believe it was mentioned here at the Burg that perhaps the check didn't clear, or something to that effect.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-08-06 20:07||   2023-08-06 20:07|| Front Page Top

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