How Somalia's Al Shabaab Turned Against Its Own Foreign Fighters
According to an insider account, the terrorist group al Shabaab has assassinated several foreign fighters on the CIA’s kill list and is putting Western recruits in secret prisons.
Jeremy Scahill
Jeremy Scahill is co-founder of Drop Site News. He was previously a Senior Correspondent and Editor-at-Large at The Intercept and is one of the three founding editors of The Intercept. He is an investigative reporter, war correspondent, and author of the international best-selling books “Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield” and “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army.” He has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Nigeria, the former Yugoslavia, and elsewhere across the globe. Scahill has served as the national security correspondent for The Nation and “Democracy Now!”. He continues to host the podcast Intercepted.
Scahill’s work has sparked several congressional investigations and won some of journalism’s highest honors. He was twice awarded the prestigious George Polk Award, in 1998 for foreign reporting and in 2008 for “Blackwater.” Scahill is a producer and writer of the award-winning film “Dirty Wars,” which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award.
Follow Jeremy on Mastodon at @jeremyscahill@journa.host. He can be reached at jeremy@dropsitenews.com.
Scahill’s work has sparked several congressional investigations and won some of journalism’s highest honors. He was twice awarded the prestigious George Polk Award, in 1998 for foreign reporting and in 2008 for “Blackwater.” Scahill is a producer and writer of the award-winning film “Dirty Wars,” which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award.
Follow Jeremy on Mastodon at @jeremyscahill@journa.host. He can be reached at jeremy@dropsitenews.com.
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Documents: Green Beret Who Sought Job At CIA Confessed To Murder
Internal U.S. Army documents detail how a Green Beret allegedly confessed to capturing, shooting, and cremating an unarmed suspected bombmaker in Afghanistan.
Drone Wars
Secret Details of Drone Strike Revealed As Unprecedented Case Goes to German Court
A secret report indicates the U.S. knew a drone strike in Yemen killed an anti-Al Qaeda cleric.
Drone Wars
Germany is the Tell-Tale Heart of America's Drone War
A top-secret U.S. intelligence document obtained by <em>The Intercept</em> reveals that the U.S. military base in Ramstein, Germany plays a critical role in the drone program.
Snowden Archive
The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets
Agency researchers conducted a multi-year effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads, presenting their findings at an secret annual “Jamboree."
Gemalto Doesn't Know What It Doesn't Know
The world’s largest maker of SIM cards is downplaying the hack by US and British spies. But security experts say the company is underestimating the NSA and GCHQ.
Snowden Archive
How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
U.S. and U.K. spies stole encryption keys from the leading SIM card maker, exposing communications on millions of mobile phones.
AQAP Develops Its Own Version of Reddit’s AMA and Twitter’s Blue Checkmark Verification
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has deployed social media operatives on Twitter to spread its message and to engage with its followers and critics alike. Despite U.S. government attempts to shut down its accounts, AQAP has proven effective at maintaining its own bizarro verification methods.
How Al Qaeda’s Biggest Enemy Took Over Yemen (and Why the U.S. Government Is Unlikely to Support Them)
Yemen's president, his prime minister and entire cabinet resigned, giving unprecedented power to the Houthis, a Shiite minority from the country’s northern highlands.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula: We Directed Paris Attack as ‘Vengeance for the Prophet’
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has now officially taken responsibility for the attack on the offices of <em>Charlie Hebdo</em> in Paris last Friday, but denied any involvement on the subsequent attack on the kosher supermarket in Paris.