Annie Jacobsen writes about aviation and intelligence. She blogs at TheAviationNation.com and is working on a new book for Little Brown and Company.
Two French intelligence agents, supposedly on a public mission without need for cover, get kidnapped while posing as journalists.
Osama bin Laden's son may be more than just a "low-level" target, as U.S. counterterrorism official once described him.
Why would investigators tell a French newspaper that two terrorists boarded the flight only to recant the story later?
Why is Osama's brother pushing a bizarre construction project in one of the world's most dangerous areas?
President Obama should spearhead a multinational operation to free the 200 mariners still held captive.
Should Baitullah Mehsud's threats to attack our nation's capital be taken seriously? (Watch an interview with Annie Jacobsen here.)
Al-Qaeda operatives are being taken out in Pakistan. Why the secrecy about it?
Was the incident a simple Iranian "mistake" — or the prelude to a U.S. military nightmare?
Without cooperation from Islamabad, America will have trouble identifying terrorist sleeper cells in the U.S.
Has the National Security Agency already cracked the program that terrorists consider safe?