Arab Media Report AQAP Connection in Cargo Plane Bomb Plot
Several days after authorities in the UK and Dubai stopped an alleged plot to ship bombs via FedEx from Yemen to locations in the United States, Arab media outlets by and large reported that the plot was likely the work of AQAP.
Saudi Arabia’s al-Eqtisadiah compiled reports from Western media outlets. The paper cited a Reuters report that pointed the blame on Saudi citizen and chief AQAP bomb maker Ibrahim al-Asiri. In the same compilation, al-Eqtisadiah pulled reports from the French press that al-Asiri was the same bomb maker who manufactured the explosive device used by Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. “Asabi’a Al-Itiham Tatajih ‘ila Al-Saudi Ibrahim Hassan Asiri fi Qadiya Al-Turud Al-Mufakhakha Al-Murasila ‘ila Amrika,” Al-Eqtisadiah, October 31, 2010, http://www.aleqt.com/2010/10/31/article_463369.html.
The Counter Extremism Project Presents
Enduring Music: Compositions from the Holocaust
Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Counter Extremism Project's ARCHER at House 88 presents a landmark concert of music composed in ghettos and death camps, performed in defiance of resurgent antisemitism. Curated with world renowned composer, conductor, and musicologist Francesco Lotoro, the program restores classical, folk, and popular works, many written on scraps of paper or recalled from memory, to public consciousness. Featuring world and U.S. premieres from Lotoro's archive, this concert honors a repertoire that endured against unimaginable evil.