Blog posts tagged "al-Qaida"

March 23, 2011 7:04 am 12 Comments

Cerebral and popular, General David Petraeus is being touted as a presidential candidate for 2016, but is America prepared for a leader who has these qualities and a military CV, asks Jon Snow.

December 7, 2010 12:06 pm 12 Comments

Leaks about US concerns over Saudi Arabia's terror links a year before arms deals between the two nations is as worrying as it is confusing, says Jon Snow.

November 16, 2010 9:25 am 31 Comments

As school boys we were excited to learn that Western spies could now read number plates in Moscow’s Red Square - that was well over three decades ago. How come then, as the freed kidnap victims Paul and Rachel Chandler return home, a bunch of crude Somali pirates are able to run rings around the most sophisticated navies the world has ever known?

May 14, 2009 1:23 pm No Comments

Yesterday in Downing Street I asked Gordon Brown whether Saudi Arabia is still funding the Taliban. I was attending a news conference he was hosting with Pakistan’s President Zardari. Mr Brown did not address my specific question. Sidestepping the Saudi aspect, he described the MI6 financial units that are now hard at work tracking Taliban [...]