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The peril of hasty triumphalism and Osama bin Laden’s death
No full textOn May 1, 2011 the headlines of a large number of newspapers and TV channels around the world were saying “justice has been done”. Those were the words used by the US President Barack Obama to announce to the world the killing of Osama bin Laden, the number one terrorist on the US most-wanted list.Publisher PD
Decentralised leadership in contemporary jihadism: towards a global social movement
No full textOn October 19th 2003, nearly six months after the outset of the invasion of Iraq by US troops, a video was released by al-Qaeda media arm al-Sahab showing Osama bin Laden directly threatening Spain. In his words, Spain, then governed by Prime Minister José Maria Aznar from the Partido Popular (PP), may face a terrorist attack should Spanish military forces continue to be part of the coalition that invaded Iraq[1] and toppled the Saddam Hussein regime. Less than six months later, on March 11th 2004, Madrid was shaken by coordinated bomb attacks in several commuter trains at peak hours, killing 191 people and wounding thousands. The “first well-known al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist conspiracy in Europe”[2] had been in preparation for years thanks to the long-term presence of radical Islamists on Spanish soil. The first jihadist bombing on this continent since 9/11[3] seemed to have answered Osama bin Laden’s warning call. Those who later claimed responsibility for these attacks pointed out Iraq as their main source of motivation. Symbolically the bombings were carried out a few days before the first anniversary of Iraq’s invasion. On the national scene, because “terrorism is meant to terrify”[4] and affect an audience, terrorists clearly intended to affect the outcome of the national general elections scheduled three days later. The Madrid terrorists were not self-starters, nor were they members of al-Qaeda who had performed an oath of allegiance to bin Laden. Instead, they were mostly first-generation immigrants from Northern Africa or the Near East who had been settled in Spain for years, had decent jobs and for some of them wives and children[5]. The setting up of the Madrid bombings was an illustration of the rising context of the contemporary jihadist movement, targeting a country and blaming it for what was happening thousands of kilometres away. This example is highly valuable to describe the continuously evolving nature of the jihadist movement up to now.Publisher PD
Global Support for Al Queda and Osama Bin Laden: An Increase or Decrease
No full textEl terrorismo operacional es un deletéreo resultado del terrorismo ideológico. Numerosos países han logrado dominar el contra-terrorismo operacional, pero no el contra-terrorismo estratégico. Para ser efectivos, la persecución operacional de los terroristas ha de verse complementada con la corrección de las ideologías. Reducir el apoyo al extremismo es vital par aminorar y controlar la amenaza del terrorismo y su socio, el extremismo ideológico. Este artículo explica los factores que están correlacionados con un aumento o descenso del apoyo a al Qaeda o su líder, Osama Bin Laden
Interview with Osama al-Baz
No full textفي هذه المقابلة، يتحدث أسامة الباز، وكيل أول وزارة الخارجية المصرية، عن النظام العالمي الجديد. أجرت المقابلة إيمان رافع.In this interview, Osama al-Baz, First Undersecretary in the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaks about the New World Order. The interview was conducted by Iman Rafi
Interview with Osama al-Baz
No full textفي هذه المقابلة، يتحدث أسامة الباز، وكيل أول وزارة الخارجية المصرية، عن النظام العالمي الجديد. أجرت المقابلة إيمان رافع.In this interview, Osama al-Baz, First Undersecretary in the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaks about the New World Order. The interview was conducted by Iman Rafi
Bruce Hoffman on Al-Qaeda After Osama bin Laden
No full textBruce Hoffman on Al-Qaeda After Osama bin LadenTerrorism and Counterterrorism/GeorgetownX/GUIX-501-01
Torture in Osama Al-Eissa’s Novel Al-Maskoubiya: Chapters from the Biography of Torment, An Analytical Study
No full textكثير من المعتقلين الفلسطينيّين كتبوا عن التّعذيب الذي ذاقوه ألوانًا في سجون الاحتلال الإسرائيليّ؛ وقد سجّلوا ذلك شعرًا ونثرًا، ومن أهمّ ما كتب في ذلك، ما كتبه الكاتب أسامة العيسة في روايته "المسكوبيّة: فصول من سيرة العذاب".
ما دفعنا لاختيار هذه الرّواية هو عنوانها الرئيس "المسكوبيّة"، ثمّ عنوانها الفرعيّ، وهو: "فصول من سيرة العذاب"؛ فالعنوان الأوّل ذو إيحاءات دلاليّة كثيرة لدى الغالبيّة العظمى من أبناء الشّعب الفلسطينيّ؛ إذ ما أن يسمع المواطن باسم "المسكوبيّة" حتّى يتبادر إلى ذهنه الصّفة المرافقة وهي "المسلخ"، فالمسكوبيّة لها معنى رديف في العقل الباطنيّ للفلسطينيين وهو المسلخ، أي مَنْ يدخلها، يتعرّض لعمليّة سلخ جلده عن عظمه، مع ما يُصاحب عملية السّلخ من ألم لا يُماثله ألم؛ فقديمًا، كان سلخ الجلد من أشدّ أنواع التّعذيب، ولا يُمارسه إلّا أكثر الحكّام ظُلمًا، ومنهم المدعو معدّ بن منصور، المُلقب بالمعزّ لدين الله العبيديّ، وقائده جوهر الصقليّ، الذي اعتقل العالم المسلم محمد بن أحمد الرّمليّ، المعروف بابن النّابلسيّ سنة (363 ه/973م)، وشهّره في اليوم الأوّل، ثمّ عذّبه في الثاني، ثمّ في اليوم الثالث أمر جزّارًا يهوديًّا بسلخ جلده وهو حيّ، ثمّ حشاه تبنًا.
في هذا البحث سنُعرّف بالكاتب، وروايته، ثمّ نتناول أهم أنواع التّعذيب الرئيسة، والفرعيّة التي سردها أسامة العيسة في روايته، وبالتفصيل الذي يعرفه كثير من الفلسطينيّين الّذين اعتقلوا في المسكوبيّة أو غيرها من سجون الاحتلال، وأهمها: التّعذيب الجسديّ، والتّعذيب النّفسيّ، والتّعذيب بالشّبح، والتّعذيب بالماء، كما سنتناول بعض الآثار النّفسيّة الّتي تتركها وسائل التّعذيب على المعتقلين.
وقد خلصنا إلى نتيجة مهمّة هي: أنّ الوسيلة الأهم في التغلب على أنواع التّعذيب المختلفة تكمن في الصّمود أمام المحقّق، الذي يجب أن ينظر إليه المناضل الفلسطينيّ المعتقل على أنّه موظّف يُدافع عن قضية خاسرة.Many Palestinian detainees wrote about the torture they experienced in Israeli occupation prisons, and their torture was documented in poetry and prose. One of the most remarkable written records in this domain is Osama Al-Eissa’s novel Al-Maskoubiya: Chapters from the Biography of Torment. The novel’s main title, “Al-Maskoubiya”, and its sub-title, “Chapters from the Biography of Torment” have informed this study. For the vast majority of the Palestinian people, the main title insinuates various semantic connotations, and as soon as the name “Al-Maskubiyya” is mentioned, it is immediately connected with a ‘slaughterhouse.’ Such unconscious semantic reference triggers a simulation of painful torture, where symbolic death ensues through exsanguination. In the past, skin flaying was one of the most severe types of torture, inflicted by the most tyrannical' rulers, amongst which Ma’ad bin Mansour, nicknamed Al-Mu’izz Li Din Allah Al-Obaidi , was the most vicious, arresting the Muslim scholar Muhammad bin Ahmed Al-Ramli, known as Ibn Al-Nablusi (363 AH. 973 AD). He defamed Ibn Al-Nabulsi on the first day, tortured him on the second, and ordered a Jewish butcher to flay his skin while alive, then stuff his body with straw. Along with addressing the psychological effects torture inflicts on detainees, this paper will present a detailed account of the most important main methods and sub-methods of torture mentioned in the novel and recognized by many Palestinian prisoners of Al-Maskubiya or other occupation prisons including physical torture, psychological torture, shabeh torture, and waterboarding torture. As such, the most significant conclusion of this paper is that overcoming the different methods of torture lies in standing up against the interrogator, who should be seen by the detained Palestinian fighter as an employee defending a lost cause
A critical survey and a design proposal for Al Balad, the historic district of Jeddah, KSA
No full textKesan pembunuhan Osama
No full textMINGGU ini dunia digemparkan dengan berita kejayaan tentera Amerika Syarikat (AS) membunuh pemimpin utama pergerakan Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden
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