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US Kills Key Al-Qaeda Leader Behind 9/11 Attacks In 'A Precisely Tailored Airstrike' In Kabul
Tuesday, August 2, 2022 - 12:42am | 387The United States has killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Kabul almost a year after withdrawing its forces from Afghanistan. What Happened: President Joe Biden, in a speech on Monday from the White House, said Zawahiri was killed in a counter-terrorism operation carried...
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Anatomy Of A Decision, Part 2: The Newsroom
Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - 3:34pm | 576GLG has produced a new series of videos focused on decision making in the business world. As part of the series, GLG, the world's leading membership network for professional learning, has interviewed a number of business leaders to ask about what considerations go into making important...
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Brent On The Rise With Iraq's Largest Refinery At Risk
Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 8:21am | 328Geopolitical tension drove Brent crude oil higher on Thursday as investors worried about supply interruptions in the Middle East. The commodity traded at $110.61 at 7:30 GMT following reports that rebels in Iraq were moving in on the nation’s largest oil refinery. Earlier this week, a...
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William Russell Mead on Al-Awlaki's Demise
Sunday, October 2, 2011 - 10:20am | 571Brilliant observations (HT Instapundit) from a typically brilliant writer (bolds are mine): … it does seem to me that Al-Awlaki and his buds are at war with the people of the United States and that in war, people not only die: it is sometimes your duty to kill them. That the Al-Qaeda groupies are...
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Get Ready America: Al-Qaeda May Go After U.S. Banks (JPM, C, BAC, GS, MS)
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 - 11:16am | 115The FBI is coming to Wall Street, and this time, it's to warn them, not arrest them. Intelligence agencies are going to banks such as Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM), Citigroup (NYSE: C) and others that al Qaeda may send mail bombs or chemical weapons to top Wall Street executives...