August 17, 2008 Name: Al-Qaida, Al-Qa’idah, al Qaeda, or “the Base” Type: religious (fundamentalist) Ideology: Militant Islamist. The group seeks to overthrow Western-influenced governments and to replace them with Islamic regimes under the rule of Shariah, or Islamic law. Al-Qaida, under the leadership of Usama bin Laden, has declared holy war on the United States […]
Will terrorists try to acquire and use WMD? Studies that examined this issue in depth are revealed.
Reports of Iraq’s missiles program face discrepancies as unilateral destruction of special warheads does not provide correct figures.
The extent of Iraq’s attempts at producing the nerve agent, VX, is the next priority.
Multiple investigations have discovered that Iraq had a centrally controlled mechanism tasked with concealing material and activity proscribed by Security Council resolutions.
UNSCOM seeks document from Iraqi side in order to have a full understanding of the way those weapons were conceived, produced and in some cases destroyed.
Following the first Gulf War the United Nations Special Commission was created to supervise the destruction of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and missile capabilities.
The group seeks to establish Islamic rule in Egypt by force and targets any secular establishment that they believe to be heretical.
International Export Control Observer (IECO) launched in September 2005. The IECO replaced the NIS and Asian Export Control Observers.
