So my history with the bin Laden papers goes back to 2012 when the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the ODNI declassified the first batch of documents through the Combating Terrorism Center, the CTC at West Point where I was working at the time. Strictly these measures wouldn't be raised in the compound, but according to the CIA, he moved to the compound in 2005. I think it brings a lot of clarity to what is clearly a very politicized subject. Nelly Lahoud: Which is why, I mean, it was very important that we recognize when we are looking at these various jihadi groups that they are... though, they may all sing the praises or they're all operating under the umbrella of jihad. But in this case, Lahoud makes some highly controversial assertions while only serving up slices of evidence from the sources she cites. They they didn't negotiate as if they were the Taliban, they negotiated as if they were the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Nelly Lahoud Books | List of books by author Nelly Lahoud. Children were not being allowed to receive any education.
Through intermediaries, he regularly communicated with subordinates around the globe during the final year of his life. And you write at one point about a prisoner that Al-Qaeda took, I can't remember exactly when, this was I think a pack of... You tell me. I'm sure the wives would've told us about his whereabouts, but clearly it was a harmonious life in the compound, and they did their best to make life for the children normal in a very highly abnormal setting. Nelly Lahoud: The people who really worked on Osama's public statements were mostly his-- daughters, Miriam and Sumaiya. Very little of the current literature deals with political Islam globally, and very few books go much beyond the Middle East and its terrorist groups. It's not to say that bin Laden was absent. The women were sort of under house arrest and in order for the Iranians to keep them quiet, they ended up giving them some upgrades, if you like, and these were the detention centers that allowed some of Al Qaeda members to marry and to have children. New Books Network 2022. Anthony H. Johns has written widely on Islam. Dec 11th, 2005. Nelly is from where. one of the best poli sci professors. In November of 2002, U. intelligence officials warned al Qaeda might be planning, "spectacular attacks" that could cause "mass casualties. We send all orders via Royal Mail: within the UK, choose from 1st Class, 2nd Class or Special Delivery; for the rest of the world, International Standard or International Tracked. Reflecting the diversity and heterogeneity of the Muslim world, the book covers issues including: - the challenge of Islamism to the Muslim world.
Nelly Lahoud: Well, the Abbottabad raid was a good career move for bin Laden, you can say that, because he didn't have to suffer having to deal with that situation. Were all the resources necessary? "Nelly Lahoud's consummate analysis of 6, 000 al-Qaeda documents is a prodigious and indispensable achievement. Usama Bin Laden's greatest fear was not capture or death but the exposure of al-Qaeda's secrets. A Review of Nelly Lahoud's "The Jihadis' Path to Self-Destruction" by Aaron Zelin -. Secondly, the prisoners, the detainees in Iran, at least rioted against the prison authorities twice. Podcast | The Future of Al Qaeda: A Discussion with Nelly Lahoud. And this division had a lot to say about Al-Qaeda. And for almost a year, Al-Qaeda was able to evade the authorities. Or, as Nye wrote, "in the cyber realm, the difference between a weapon and a non-weapon may come down to a single line of code, or simply the intent of a computer program's user.
Now, they managed to make it to Iran because, and I'm using what is used in the letters, Baluch brothers, these were Sunni militants operating against the Iranian regime, were able to assist Al-Qaeda by forging IDs, renting places and so on. Now, to be clear my work on Al-Qaeda had mostly focused on ideological text prior to that, occasionally on some occasions, I've also written on the basis of captured battlefield documents. My previous appointments include being Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Senior Associate at the Combating Terrorism Center at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point; and Assistant Professor of political theory at Goucher College. Where is nelly lahoud from bravenet. So they didn't really feel secure, not even in North Waziristan. And my own sense is that your work is very far from the kind of politicized narratives that one reads about Al-Qaeda. Top leaders had been killed or forced into hiding and the terrorist organization was rudderless.
She was asked to lead the analysis of those documents for West Point's Combatting Terrorism Center. Cole Bunzel: Bin Laden papers, or we could say the Abbottabad papers. Nelly Lahoud: Al Qaeda did not anticipate that the United States would go to war. But also, we have this very strong note from Khalid where we see how distressed he was by the living conditions in the compound. The Bin Laden Papers" by Nelly Lahoud. How strong an organization was al-Qaeda in the decade after 9/11, and what were its objectives? He wrote back to bin Laden and said, "I've thought long and hard about this and absolutely not.
It's really astounding. A Discussion with Nelly Lahoud. Cole Bunzel: I think one of the problems in the analytical community that was devoted to studying jihadism or terrorism in the aftermath of 9/11 was that there tended to be a conflation of the terrorist attacks and of the general, the larger jihadi movement and Al-Qaeda as a centralized organization. Saul David, Sunday Telegraph. As former acting director of the CIA Michael Morell wrote, the agency was surprised to learn from the documents that bin Laden was not only "managing the organization from Abbottabad, he had been micromanaging it. And to be clear, the North African group was the most successful merger with Al-Qaeda simply because its leaders were pragmatic. For the first time, al-Qaeda's closely guarded secrets are laid bare, shattering misconceptions and revealing how and what Bin Laden communicated with his associates, his plans for future attacks, and al-Qaeda's hostility toward countries such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Pakistan. In subsequent letters, we find that both bin Laden, as well as, al-Zawahiri and others maintained their loyalty to Mullah Omar and referred to him as our friend [foreign language 00:54:55], and distinguished him from other senior Taliban leaders, whom they described as insincere, whom they described as those who are willing to compromise God's religion, and specifically who are on the payroll of the ISI, the Pakistani Intelligence Services. The War on Terror and the 'Rescue' of Muslim Women 6. Nelly Lahoud: That was actually in late 2008, and thanks to the North African group who actually mastered the craft or the art of taking hostages, Al-Qaeda learnt a thing or two from this group and they managed to capture and have an Iranian diplomat. Cole Bunzel: That's quite a way to live for, I think he was there from 2004 to 2011, something like that, 2005? Always to be fair to bin Laden. Bin Laden's Hard Drive. 'Is jihad still necessary?
So did bin Laden actually delete them and the CIA manage to recover from deleted information? Now these letters for me were shocking as many would've thought that this was a completely different relationship, much, much closer. Nelly Lahoud: I've been reading some of the public statements that Ayman al-Zawahiri released and couldn't have been easy for him to have to watch, even though he predicted it, but he must be really highly concerned about this. Don't judge her by 101, that class is a piece of**** no matter who teaches it. Nelly Lahoud is an Associate Professor with the Combating Terrorism Center in the Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy, West Point. Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined? They felt bin Laden felt that they were in sync in terms of their political aspirations and so on.