Annie Jacobsen writes about aviation and intelligence. She blogs at TheAviationNation.com and is working on a new book for Little Brown and Company.
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?
This is what happens when journalists opt for sensationalism over substance.