Is Obama playing games with security to win re-election?
President Barack Obama has announced that he is withdrawing 33,000 troops from Afghanistan to be completed by summer 2012, just months before the presidential election in November. He said that 10,000...
View ArticleTime to secure your legacy Obama
Barack Obama Barack Obama is enjoying a resurgence in popularity since the assassination of Osama bin Laden. Yet this was happenstance. Could Obama’s legacy rest on him raising petrol taxes to reduce...
View ArticleWho misses the Cold War: Al Qaeda, 9/11 and terrorism
The World Trade Centre has had interesting history, even before the horrific attacks on the 11th September 2001. In February 1993 a 600 kg car bomb was detonated in the basement of the North Tower....
View Article9/11 ten years later: How the world has changed
September 10th 2001. The world was a relatively quiet, predictable place. Neither the USA or UK were involved in any big wars, NATO and the UN were following peaceful lines. The Taleban were secure...
View ArticleBin Laden and Yassin – Two of a Kind
The ten year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and a recent Channel 4 documentary, ‘Bin Laden: Shoot to Kill’, shifted attention back to the assassination of Al Qaeda founder, Osama Bin Laden. I, like...
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