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The new communique said the three had been taken to 'security bases,' which led the Spanish secret service to conclude they had been taken over the Mauritanian border to northern Mali. A French hostage was believed to be held there as well.  

A new study, aimed at persuading Muslims that Al-Qaeda’s violence is indiscriminate, finds that the overwhelming majority of Al-Qaeda’s victims are not Westerners but Muslim. The report draws on accounts from Arabic newspapers, allowing researchers “to avoid accusations of bias associated with Western news outlets or U.S.-based datasets.” It found the following: Between 2004 and 2008, [...]  

Iraqi officials say Al-Qaeda militants are suspected of involvement in a series of up to five vehicle bomb attacks in the capital, Baghdad, that are reported to have killed at least 127 people and wounded more than 500 others.  

A retired major in the Pakistani army has been charged with acting as a conduit between al-Qaeda and an American accused of conducting reconnaissance missions for the terrorist attacks on Mumbai.  

A Minnesota man whose tip helped the FBI catch al-Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui has finally received a $100,000 reward, but another man credited as a tipster has still received nothing.  

A spokesman for Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed the kidnappings of a Frenchman and three Spaniards, seized late last month in Mali and Mauritania, in an audio tape released Tuesday by Al-Jazeera television."Two units of the valiant mujahedeen managed to kidnap four Europeans in two distinct operations: the first in Mali where Frenchman Pierre Camatte was seized on November 25, and the second in Mauritania where three Spaniards were...  

Al-Qaeda's north African branch claimed the kidnappings of a Frenchman and three Spaniards, seized late last month in Mali and Mauritania, in an audio tape released Tuesday by Al-Jazeera television."Two units of the valiant mujahedeen managed to kidnap four Europeans in two distinct operations," said Saleh Abu Mohammad, spokesman for Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb."The first in Mali where Frenchman Pierre Camatte was seized on November 25...  

A spokesman for Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed the kidnappings of one Frenchman and three Spaniards, seized late last month in Mali and Mauritania, in a sound tape released Tuesday by Al-Jazeera television."Two units of the valiant mujahedeen managed to kidnap four Europeans in two distinct operations: the first in Mali where Frenchman Pierre Camatte was seized on November 25, and the second in Muaritania where three Spaniards were...  

Dec 08, 2009 (BBC Monitoring via COMTEX) -- A spokesman for Al-Qa'idah in the Land of Islamic Maghreb has said that his group had kidnapped four Europeans - three Frenchmen and a Spaniard - who were seized in November in Mali and Mauritania, in an ...  

An al-Qaeda offshoot has reportedly said its members kidnapped three Spanish aid workers in Mauritania and a Frenchman in Mali last month. A spokesman for al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb made the claim in an audio recording to the al-Jazeera TV ...  

" By Bob McCarty and Carrie Fatigante An e-mail Dr. Herbert Leon MacDonell sent to Capts. Meghan Poirier, Jason Elbert and Erwin Roberts — Army prosecutors all — just after 4 o’clock in the afternoon Feb. 27, 2009, should have warranted their attention for several...read more  

DUBAI: A spokesman for Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed the kidnappings of one Frenchman and three Spaniards, seized late last month in Mali and Mauritania, in a sound tape released on Tuesday by Al-Jazeera television. "Two units of the ...  

They can do this sort of thing with impunity, because one thing they can be sure of is that the Europeans will never stop giving the aid. "Al-Qaeda 'took French and Spanish hostages in Africa,'" from the BBC, December 8 (thanks to Twostellas): An offshoot of the al-Qaeda network has...  

He compared Al-Qaeda in Iraq to wolves, urging that the terrorist group be crushed since he believed its members would never reject violence. But the wolves got to the Iraqi counterterrorism officer first.Ahmad Subhi al-Fahal's death in a suicide bombing in Tikrit could embolden Al-Qaeda loyalists to try to make a return to the area around Saddam Hussein's hometown where he held sway.  

Robert Spencer reports that Libyan dictator Muamar Gadhafi has warned Switzerland over possible attacks against it by al-Qaeda.Therein lies the assumption that all acts of jihadist terrorism must be a response to some kind of provocation (real or imagined) from non-Muslims: after all, the apologists keep telling us "defensive" jihad is quite alright, caliph or no caliph.The Fraggle-haired  

the charismatic Saudi has not released any filmic evidence that he is still among the living. Nor, despite Bali, Atocha station, and the July 7 London bombings, has there been another al-Qaeda "spectacular'', the mass casualty attacks which commenced in  

Michael Burleigh, The TelegraphAccessibility links Digital Publisher of the Year | Monday 07 December 2009 | World News feed Advertisement Website of the Telegraph Media Group with breaking news, sport, business, latest UK and world news. Content from the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph newspapers and video from Telegraph TV. Enhanced by...  

Should an American soldier be imprisoned for killing a known Al-Qaeda operative in self-defense? Most Americans, I suspect, would answer that question with a vehement, "No!" -- or, in some cases, "Hell, no!" Unfortunately for Army Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna and those who love him, seven Americans thought otherwise.  

TRIPOLI – A Swiss minaret ban gives ammunition to the terrorist Al-Qaeda group to launch attacks in Europe, Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi warned Sunday, December 6. "They pretend they are fighting Al-Qaeda and terrorism whereas in fact they have ...  

ANTI-terror police investigating an alleged Easter bomb plot in Manchester believed they had intercepted a coded email urging al-Qaeda to ‘be ready to strike’. The message – a seemingly innocuous note about a wedding – was intercepted on April 3 this year, just a week before Easter.  

From the Arab news outlet, Maktoob Business: Swiss minaret ban invitation for attacks Dec 06, 2009 TRIPOLI – Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi said the Swiss referendum banning the building of new minarets was an invitation for Al-Qaeda to launch attacks in Europe, the official news agency JANA reported on Sunday. "They pretend they are ‘fighting Al-Qaeda and [...]  

Having trouble making sense out of the Recent Headlines: Is Doomsday Coming? Perhaps, but Not in 2012 [1] Survey: Nearly half of adults don’t plan to get H1N1 vaccine Fort Hood attack likely Islamist terrorism, Cornyn and Lieberman say Al-Qaeda still biggest threat to British security, says Gordon Brown Al-Qaeda terrorists being trained in Pak: British PM Backwardation in Gold & Silver – Tuesday 17th November 2009,  Silver and mining stocks...  

"He was transferred to Saudi Arabia in 2006 where he was placed in a national rehabilitation project." That's just worked wonders. Gitmo Recidivism Update. "Former GITMO detainee now al-Qaida brass," from United Press International, December 4 (thanks to all who sent this in): WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A former...  

Candidate Barack Obama urged a return to pre-9/11 counterterrorism-by-courts. President Obama’s Justice Department overflows with lawyers who spent the last eight years representing America’s enemies. Thus, Friday’s announcement that top al-Qaeda terrorists will be brought to New York City for a civilian trial is no surprise. That doesn’t make it any less inexcusable.The treatment of jihadist terror as a mere law-enforcement issue, fit for...  

The Pakistani Embassy and the Pakistani ambassador to Lebanon may have been the target of a terrorist attack Wednesday organized by a group linked to Al-Qaeda, according to informed sources. The sources said the attack on the embassy, located in Wata al-Msaytbeh in Beirut near Mar Elias School, was suspected to be the work of a terror group linked to Al-Qaeda.  

Al-Qaeda official in Lebanon Nabil Rhayem was sentenced to hard labor on Thursday along with three other suspects for committing terrorist acts. The Permanent Military Tribunal sentenced Rhayem, a Lebanese suspect and two Palestinians to hard labor and denied them their civil rights for forming an armed gang, carrying out terrorist acts and smuggling weapons.  

Washington, Dec.4 (ANI): Expressing concern over the deteriorating condition in the AfPak region, US lawmakers have pointed out that the presence of Al-Qaeda in Pakistan and the increasing threat to that country’s nukes were the two most important determining factors regarding the outcome of the ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan. Addressing a hearing on President [...]  

MALAYSIAN terrorist Noordin Mohammad Top was in the process of setting up an al-Qaeda branch in the region with plans to launch attacks "bigger than the one on World Trade Center" when he was shot dead by Indonesian anti-terror police.  

by al-Qaeda....Since 9/11, al-Qaeda's safe-havens have been the source of attacks against London and Amman and Bali.' This is utter nonsense, but even if he knows it is nonsense he cannot say so publicly. Al-Qaeda doesn't run training camps any it leaves  

Iraqi security forces have reportedly managed to arrest two senior military commanders with links to the terrorist al-Qaeda network in Iraq's northern Nineveh province. A Defense Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday that judicial warrants to arrest ...  

Washington - Al-Qaeda's presence in Afghanistan would return if the Taliban regains control of the country, the top US military officer warned Wednesday, saying the consequences of US and NATO mission failing would be grave. The chairman of the Join...  

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA), in a radio interview Wednesday morning, praised President Obama for fulfilling his campaign pledge to focus United States security efforts on the destruction of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan.  

The New York Times Thinks So The daily propaganda which masquerades as news and as learned opinion has just gotten my goat. Yesterday, the New York Times published an editorial condemning Switzerland as “intolerant” for having voted to ban minarets—minarets, not mosques. God, I cannot recall an editorial in their pages condemning Arab and Muslim countries for not [...]  

ReutersUS takes hunt for al-Qaeda to PakistanAsia Times OnlineAfter all, the objective of the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was to topple the Taliban regime as it had allowed al-Qaeda to operate in the country. ...Al Qaeda No. 1 Target in Afghanistan War Despite Renewed Focus on TalibanFOXNewsAl-Qaeda Heads Terror 'Mafia' With Afghan NexusBloombergAl-Qaeda's presence in Pak most important issue: US SenatorsThaindian.comHuffington Post (blog...  

Militants allied with al-Qaeda abducted three Spanish aid workers Nov. 29 just days after a French citizen was kidnapped in neighboring Mali by al-Qaeda’s North African branch. The Sahel region, which includes both countries, has seen several kidnappings of Westerners in recent months and remains dangerous. The Spanish aid workers were in the last car [...]  

Lee Fisher gets his MoveOn on: “Keeping America safe is our most sacred duty. That’s why I believe we must continue to aggressively target al-Qaeda and destroy terrorist networks around the world that threaten our nation. “But defeating al-Qaeda does not require 30,000 additional troops be sent to Afghanistan. As those on the ground have said, stabilizing [...]  

Our ultimate goal of homeland security will be served through a better understanding of the threat confronting it in order to “disrupt, dismantle, and eventually defeat al Qaeda and its allies.” Let me describe this global threat through a comprehensive survey that I conducted of all the al Qaeda plots in the West, all the al Qaeda affiliate plots in the West and all the plots done “in the name of al Qaeda” in the West since the formation of...  

Our pal Raymond Ibrahim reviews Al Qaeda in Its Own Words, edited by Gilles Kepel and Jean-Pierre Milelli, over at the Middle East Quarterly: Al Qaeda in Its Own Words provides the translated writings of four jihadis—Abdullah Azzam, Osama bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri, and Abu Musab Zarqawi. Edited by five people with Kepel, a French sociologist of Islam, as lead editor, it contains a wealth of data that, unfortunately, is presented in a rather...  

This was found in the 9/11 pager texts; http://911.wikileaks.org/files/messages_2001_09_11-10_30_2001_09_11-10_34.html 2001-09-11 10:31:03 Skytel [005344000] A ALPHA UD REPORTS ANONYMOUS CALL TO JOC REPORTING ANGEL IS TARGET JOC = Joint Operations Command = Pentagon Angel = Air Force One This call would explain why Bush was diverted to Barksdale AFB and away from Washington.  

Some of the nation’s wealthiest and most powerful law firms have donated hundreds of millions of dollars in free legal services to terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay prison. Their work, bolstered by left-wing activists groups, has helped to free, or force the transfer, of hundreds of al Qaeda suspects to third countries. Some have gone back to terrorism and the job of trying to kill Americans. The work of big American law firms on behalf of...  

London - Britain and Pakistan were embroiled in a public row Thursday over accusations that the government in Islamabad was not doing enough to "take out" al-Qaeda leaders believed by some to be hidin...  

While searching for something totally different online, I came across a Commentary blog post by Peter Wehner, which touts a New Yorker article by Lawrence Wright, author of the recommended book "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda...  

As he justified sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, President Obama's description of the al-Qaeda "cancer" in that country "left out one key fact: U.S. intelligence officials have concluded there are only about 100 al-Qaeda fighters in the entire country." "A senior U.S. intelligence official told ABC News the approximate estimate of 100 al-Qaeda members left in Afghanistan reflects the conclusion of American intelligence agencies and...  

The September 11 attacks (often referred to as September 11th or 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the...  

The governor of Yemen's Sanaa province on Sunday denied tribal claims that Al-Qaeda has taken charge of a Japanese engineer kidnapped near the capital a week ago."Reports that Al-Qaeda have seized the hostage and removed him to another province are unfounded," the defence ministry's website quoted Numan Duid as saying.The man, identified by Japanese media as 63-year-old Takeo Mashimo, was kidnapped on November 15 in Arhab, northeast of Sanaa...  

The U.S. State Department reissued a travel alert for Germany warning of threats by al-Qaeda against German interests. The original threats mentioned the German elections in September, but German authorities feel the threats remain and are taking them seriously, continuing to actively investigate them. The travel alert encourages Americans to remain alert and aware, to [...]  

A former horse riding school in the tiny Baltic state of Lithuania was used as a secret CIA prison to hold and interrogate top al-Qaeda terrorists, it has been claimed. The prison was reportedly built from scratch on the territory of a former horse riding school about 15 miles from Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, and included an underground annex. Pictures of the building said to be the former CIA jail show a bland-looking two-storey house...  

Osama Bin Laden’s terror group Al-Qaeda and several other Al-Qaeda clones seemed to have changed their strategy. It’s not too clear whether Osama is still alive and whether Al-Qaeda is still continuing with its agenda of bombing people, although terrorism in its various forms and with the Al-Qaeda stamp are still seen and mainly in Asia and Africa. Osama is most probably too ill and his days o...  

Zenpundit points to the amazing happening of al Qaeda strategist, tactician, and theorist Abu Walid al-Masri guest blogging at at All Things Counter-Terrorism. An excerpt: So we become ready for an intellectual dialogue with the security beauty and the terrorist fighter, Mrs Farrall, we take a tour with her in the different field of terrorism. She [...]  

London, Nov. 20 (ANI): The CIA reportedly used a horse riding school in Lithuania as a secret prison to hold and interrogate top al-Qaeda terrorists. According to The Telegraph, the CIA built the secret jail in 2004 and used it for more than a year, flying in at least eight suspected al-Qaeda terrorists from Afghanistan. [...]  

Former NYC prison guard blinded, nearly raped by al-Qaeda inmates warns against plan to try jihadists in city [Video also viewable on Paco's YouTube page]Is anyone in D.C. listening, or are they too busy playing politics and putting the supposed symbolism of the trial over the array of obvious security concerns? Louis Pepe Update, and an update on this story "Blinded Prison Guard: Don't House Terror Suspects in NYC," by Joseph Abrams for Fox...  

U. S. Senate candidate Andy Martin calls Mark Kirk the “Crybaby Candidate” for senator Martin says Kirk’s pandering to public fears about bringing Al-Qaeda prisoners to Illinois is “nauseating” NEWS FROM: ANDY MARTIN /2010 “The name you can trust” Republican for U. S. Senator 30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406 Chicago, IL 60611-4723 (312) 440-4124 www.AndyforUSSenator.com www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com...  

Candidate Barack Obama urged a return to pre-9/11 counterterrorism-by-courts. President Obama’s Justice Department overflows with lawyers who spent the last eight years representing America’s enemies. Thus, Friday’s announcement that top al-Qaeda terrorists will be brought to New York City for a civilian trial is no surprise. That doesn’t make it any less inexcusable. The treatment of jihadist terror as a mere law-enforcement issue, fit for...  

Gordon Brown has told the BBC that Pakistan must do more to "break" al-Qaeda and find Osama Bin Laden. Questions must be asked about why nobody had been able "to spot or detain or get close to" the al-Qaeda leader, the prime minister said. He said he ...  

Mitchell Silber, director of intelligence analysis for the New York City police department, before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs a moment ago: "The threat is now increasingly from within," regarding home-grown, self-radicalized terrorists. He concludes: The al-Qaeda threat to the homeland is no longer confined to al-Qaeda core . . . most recently, the home-grown, self-radicalized operatives who have no...  

My colleague Spencer Ackerman pokes fun at Rep. Pete Hoekstra of Michigan over his release of classified information concerning whose communications are being intercepted by the NSA. Check out Rachel Maddow going hard on Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) for publicly revealing that the U.S. intelligence community is intercepting the communications of al-Qaeda-sympathetic cleric Anwar Aulaqi, a former U.S. preacher now in Yemen whom Fort Hood...  

Iraq's Camp Bucca, the US-run jail where around 100,000 prisoners were kept over six years, was a breeding ground for the Al-Qaeda terror network, according to police and former inmates.Bucca, located in an isolated desert north of the border with Kuwait, was a school for scores of Takfiris, or Sunni extremists who usually ended up in Al-Qaeda, said Abu Mohammed, freed in 2008 after 26 months behind its bars.  

Two senior criminal investigation officers were ambushed in the Khashm al-Ein area as they were returning from the al-Wadia’ area with two of their guards. Thursday al-Qaeda announced their responsibility for the attack in a statement put on a al-Qaeda website. The statement also said that Abdullah Battis was the leader of this suicide-murder mission.  

London, Nov 9(ANI): The Scotland Yard has claimed credit for foiling an Al-Qaeda plot to blow up the New York subway three months ago after alerting the FBI. The Yard’s counter-terrorism branch was monitoring an email address uncovered in April’s abortive Operation Pathway probe into an alleged UK terror cell, when they intercepted an email, [...]  

Former French investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere said that Japan is among Al-Qaeda's prime targets for attack, while promoting a book about his 25 years fighting terrorism.Bruguiere, now retired at 65, also describes Pakistan as the "cauldron" of terrorism and blames ex-president Pervez Musharraf for failing to address the threat of extremists during his seven years in power."Japan has become a prime target for Al-Qaeda," Bruguiere told...  

London, Nov 9(ANI): Scotland Yard has reportedly foiled a deadly plot by Al-Qaeda to blow up the New York subway. The Yard’s counter-terrorism branch was monitoring an email address uncovered in April’s abortive Operation Pathway probe into an alleged UK terror cell, when they intercepted an email, which revealed the terror plot. It immediately alerted the [...]  

Maj. Nidal Hasan's treachery and terror jolted Americans. As Hasan's attack demonstrates, al-Qaida and al-Qaida-influenced fanatics can strike and kill on American soil. While Hasan serves warning the threat still exists, does Hasan's act forward al-Qaeda's political goals? Indeed, what are al-Qaida's prospects for victory eight years after the Sept. 11 terror attack on America? Analysts, and for that matter, political leaders rarely address...  

Gordon Brown has said that Pakistan must do more to "break" al-Qaeda and find Osama Bin Laden. The prime minister said that eight years after the 2001 attacks on the US, nobody had been able "to spot or detain or get close to" the al-Qaeda leader  

An Al-Qaeda-linked group claimed responsibility on Thursday for the killing of three senior security officers in Yemen this week, saying it had acted to avenge comrades held in Yemeni prisons.The three men and their two guards were killed on Tuesday in an ambush in Hadramut province, where they worked.The attack was "in support of our brothers in the prisons of Hadramut, Sanaa and others and in revenge for anyone who has the intention of...  

Al-Qaeda has intensified it's indoctrination to the offspring of  Muslims migrants in the west. This of course is to incite terrorism and create a 5 column within the homelands of what it see's being the...read more  

The kidnapping of Frenchman Pierre Camatte in northern Mali last week and the abduction of the Spanish aid workers on Sunday have both been attributed to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), even though it has not yet claimed responsibility.  

Nouakchott – The kidnapping of three Spanish humanitarian volunteers by suspected Islamic militants is a first for Mauritania which has seen a series of terror attacks claimed by Al-Qaeda in recent years. The three Spanish nationals, members of ...  

Three Spanish aid workers are feared kidnapped by Al-Qaeda of the Islamic Maghreb. NOUAKCHOTT - Three Spanish humanitarian workers have been kidnapped in northwestern Mauritania by suspected Al-Qaeda members, officials and aid workers said. The three ...  

BAGHDAD - The Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq has rebounded in strength in recent months and appears to be launching a concerted effort to cripple the Iraqi government as U.S. troops withdraw, Iraqi and American officials say.  

AFP - As the United States prepares to unveil a new strategy to defeat Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, the EU's counter-terrorism czar warned Monday that the network still poses the main security threat to Europe.  

CBC.caEgyptian al-Qaeda suspect released from holding centreCBC.caMohammad Mahjoub, seen in an undated family photo, has spent the last seven years in a Canadian jail as a suspected terrorist. (Toronto Star/Canadian Press) A judge has ruled that Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub, accused of having links to an Egyptian terrorist ...Hunger-striking terror suspect wins release from prisonCTV.caJudge loosens leash on MahjoubGlobe and MailTerror suspect...  

Egyptian Al-Qaeda suspect released from holding centreCBC.caA judge has ruled that Mohamed Zeki Mahjoub, accused of having links to an Egyptian terrorist organization, can once again be freed from custody under strict conditions, ending Mahjoub's months-long hunger strike. Federal Court Justice Edmond Blanchard ...Judge loosens leash on MahjoubGlobe and MailHunger-striking terror suspect wins release from prisonCTV.caTerror suspect released...  

Times OnlineBritain told Saddam had no al-Qaeda linksKarachi News... reviewing Britain's role in the Iraq war that there was little information that Iraq's then president, Saddam Hussein, had been colluding with al-Qaeda. ...Iraq 'scaled back al-Qaeda links'Aljazeera.netBlair's stance 'hardened' after Bush talks: probeAFP'Signed in blood' – Bush and Blair's secret talks at Texas ranchScotsmanExaminer.com -Global Security Newswire -ABC...  

The Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq has rebounded in strength in recent months and appears to be launching a concerted effort to cripple the Iraqi government as U.S. troops withdraw, Iraqi and ... The Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq has ...  

Madrid - Three Spanish aid workers have been abducted in the north-western African country of Mauritania, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. The two men and one woman were kidnapped Sunday by armed men, possibly members of the North African branch of ...  

Daily MailOfficials tell inquiry Iraq and Al-Qaeda 'not allies'BBC NewsThe UK investigated claims of links between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda but decided they were not "natural allies", the Iraq inquiry has been told. Despite "sporadic" contacts between Al-Qaeda members and Iraq in the 1990s, there was no "serious ...Inquiry announced into 'Battle of Danny Boy' Iraq abuse claimsTimes OnlineIraq inquiry: Tony Blair told 'days before invasion...  

As violence rises in Afghanistan, the power balance between insurgent groups has shifted, with a weakened al-Qaida relying increasingly on the Taliban. Afghanistan - Taliban - Al-Qaeda - War in Afghanistan - Asia  

On August 19, coordinated explosions rocked downtown Baghdad, resulting in over 120 deaths. Similarly, in the midst of heightened security measures, twin bombings on October 25 killed over 155 people in Baghdad, marking the deadliest attack since August 2007. Involving the participation of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), the operations suggest militants’ effectiveness in carrying out coordinated and high-profile attacks on supposedly secured targets...  

while "telling Muslims that the jihad must persevere until the globe is governed according to Islamic law [is] ignored"Our pal Raymond Ibrahim reviews Al Qaeda in Its Own Words, edited by Gilles Kepel and Jean-Pierre Milelli, over at the Middle East Quarterly: Al Qaeda in Its Own Words provides the translated writings of four jihadis--Abdullah Azzam, Osama bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri, and Abu Musab Zarqawi. Edited by five people with Kepel, a...  

Counter-terrorism police and Whitehall officials believe dozens of extremists could have arrived here by posing as students or legitimate visitors. They are concerned both by the relatively lax checks that are made on the visitors before they arrive and by the ease with which they can outstay their visas without anyone noticing. As many as 13,000 visa applicants may have entered the country from Pakistan in a seven month period since October...  

Our pal Raymond Ibrahim reviews Al Qaeda in Its Own Words, edited by Gilles Kepel and Jean-Pierre Milelli, over at the Middle East Quarterly: Al Qaeda in Its Own Words provides the translated writings of four jihadis--Abdullah Azzam, Osama bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri, and Abu Musab Zarqawi. Edited by five...  

AFPAl-Qaeda-linked group holding Frenchman abducted in Mali: security officialAFPBAMAKO — A Frenchman kidnapped in lawless northern Mali is being held by the feared Al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) group, ...Gunmen kidnap French national in MaliReutersTroops join search for abducted FrenchmanIndependent OnlineGunmen kidnap another Westerner in MaliGadling (blog)RTT News -TransWorldNews (press release) -afrol Newsall 46 news...  

Globe and MailAyoon Wa Azan (The War Is Necessary To Defeat al-Qaeda)دار الحياةPersonally, I wish that the American forces would focus their war effort against al-Qaeda, a terrorist organization that killed a larger number of Muslims ...Obama promises not to allow al-Qaeda, its allies operate in Afghanistan regionThaindian.comLiberals lash out at Obama for sending more troops to AfghanistanExaminer.comObama's Afghan plan will be a political...  

The question of whether to try the 9/11 perpetrators in federal court or a military tribunal is not an easy one. It turns, in part, on whether you see the Al Qaeda attacks as an act of war or a criminal conspiracy.  

BAGHDAD (Reuters) -- Al-Qaeda in Iraq is becoming more Iraqi and less dominated by foreigners as the insurgent group increasingly joins forces with Saddam Hussein's outlawed Ba'ath party, the commander of U.S. forces said today. Investigations into ...  

Los Angeles TimesEight Americans in Minnesota tried to recruit for Al Qaeda-linked group in ...New York Daily NewsFBI Special Agent in Charge Ralph Boelter announces Monday the unsealed charges against eight defendants tied to an Al-Qaeda-backed group during a ...US says men ran terror networkWashington PostUS youths recruited to fight in Somali militia, authorities sayLos Angeles TimesCharges Detail Road to Terror for 20 in USNew York...  

Myriam BenraadNovember 18, 2009Since the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraqi cities last June, Iraq has experienced a series of high-profile attacks by al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and its affiliates that raises questions about the durability of its stabilization process. Last week, Iraqi authorities arrested 73 people related to AQI and suspected of involvement and complicity in the pair of suicide bombings that targeted the Ministry of...  

Hard to believe these devoutly religious types would be involved in terrorism, isn't it? Next thing you know we'll find out we have terror moles in the military.Authorities unsealed terrorism-related charges Monday against eight Americans they said recruited young people to fight for an Islamist group in Somalia that is linked to Al Qaeda.The charges said Somali-American men were promised "true  

According to a recent report, the dreaded and perhaps the most notorious terrorist organizations of all time, Al Qaeda is now spreading its extremely violent propaganda through websites that are designed in English language and are speculated to be numbered to be 200. These websites spread Al Qaeda’s message by translating the writings and sermons [...]  

SANAA : A Japanese engineer kidnapped by Yemeni tribesmen has been seized by Al-Qaeda gunmen, a tribal source who has been seeking to negotiate his release said on Saturday. "The hostage was seized by elements of Al-Qaeda, who took him to an unknown ...  

A Japanese engineer kidnapped by Yemeni tribesmen has been seized by Al-Qaeda gunmen, a tribal source who has been seeking to negotiate his release said. “The hostage was seized by elements of Al-Qaeda, who took him to an unknown destination in the ...  

SANAA (AFP) – A Japanese engineer kidnapped by Yemeni tribesmen has been seized by Al-Qaeda gunmen, a tribal source who has been seeking to negotiate his release said on Saturday. "The hostage was seized by elements of Al-Qaeda, who took him to an ...  

BAGHDAD -- The Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq has rebounded in strength in recent months and appears to be launching a concerted effort to cripple the Iraqi government as U.S. troops withdraw, Iraqi and American officials say. The group ...  

BAGHDAD -- The Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq has rebounded in strength in recent months and appears to be launching a concerted effort to cripple the Iraqi government as U.S. troops withdraw, Iraqi and American officials say. The group ...  

British Ex-Spy Says Al-Qaeda Threat May Be WaningBloomberg26 (Bloomberg) -- The al-Qaeda terrorist network may be losing its capacity to carry out large-scale attacks in the US and UK because of improved security, ...and more »  

Al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb, a group originally from Algeria, has failed to gain a strong following as it extends into Africa's Sahel region, experts told a US Senate panel Tuesday. The panel, which focused on US counter-terrorism ...  

China Daily200 Websites Spread Al-Qaida's MessageABC NewsAP Nidal Malik Hasan, left, is seen in 2007 when he entered the program for his Disaster and Military. ...200 websites spread Al-Qaeda's message in EnglishDAWN.comall 252 news articles »  

President Obama stated today that al-Qaeda is the largest threat to the security of the United States. Furthermore, he said that al-Qaeda has moved from Afghanistan into Pakistan. Despite this fact, he is still committed to occupying a country who wants his armed forces to leave. Similarly, British PM Gordon Brown is attempting to appeal to other European nations to join in the conflict. I wonder if any of them are foolish enough to bite.  

Posted: Nov 13, 2009 3:14 PM Updated: Nov 13, 2009 3:15 PM MARION, IL (KFVS) - SNIPPET: "Ali Al-Marri, 43, is serving an eight year sentence for being a so called "sleeper agent." He has admitted to training in Al-Qaeda camps and having contact with the alleged planner of the September 11th attacks."  

Is anyone in D.C. listening, or are they too busy playing politics and putting the supposed symbolism of the trial over the array of obvious security concerns? Louis Pepe Update, and an update on this story. "Blinded Prison Guard: Don't House Terror Suspects in NYC," by Joseph Abrams for Fox...  

Sana'a, Yemen - Yemeni security forces have arrested a Somali man believed to belong to the terror al-Qaeda group in a raid on a mosque in the west of the country, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. The suspect was arrested along with five other ...  

A known al-Qaeda leader has called on militants to attack airports and trains in the West. Abu Basir Nasser al-Wahayshi, the terror group's apparent chief in the Arabian Peninsula, has urged followers to make bombs from household materials. In an ...  

WASHINGTON — Not long after he was rousted from bed and seized in a predawn raid in Pakistan in March 2003, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed gave his captors two demands: He wanted a lawyer, and he wanted to be taken to New York. After a nearly seven-year ...  

Al-Qaeda leaders are promoting ‘jihad’ from inside the high-security prisons in Britain by smuggling out propaganda for the internet and finding recruits, a Home Office-funded think tank has claimed. In an authoritative report, Quilliam, the think tank, said “mismanagement” by the Prison Service is helping al-Qaeda gain recruits and risks “strengthening jihadist movements”. According to the report, Abu Qatada, described by Britain’s...  

guardian.co.ukAl-Qaeda group claims Iraq blastsBBC NewsA militant group linked to al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for two car bombs which killed more than 150 people in Baghdad on Sunday. The Islamic State of Iraq said its suicide bombers had targeted "dens of infidelity" in the Iraqi capital. ...Al-Qaida Claims Iraq Bombings That Killed 155Voice of AmericaAl-Qaida linked group claims Baghdad attacksThe Associated PressAl-Qaida claims...  

Malaysia StarAl-Qaida agent gets 8 1/2 years in prisonChicago TribunePEORIA -- A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a former Bradley University student and convicted al-Qaida sleeper agent to nearly 8 1/2 years in prison, asserting that he still poses a threat to the American people. ...Former 'enemy combatant' sentenced in IllinoisCNNus judge sentences al Qaeda agent to 100 monthsReutersAl-Qaeda Agent Sentenced to 8 Years in PrisonWall...  

JOBS-Before the President left for Asia this morning, he talked about a subject near and dear to tens of millions of Americans…not health-care reform….not Afghanistan…not the housing crisis…just jobs. Rachel Martin: “President Obama today ... But the nationwide demand for teachers in 60 out of 61 subjects has declined from a year earlier, according to an annual report issued this week by the American Association for Employment in Education...  

Iraqi security forces, aided by U.S. advisors, arrested terrorism suspects and a suspected terrorist cell leader in Iraq in recent days, according to a Defense Department report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police. Iraqi ...  

London, Nov. 20 : The CIA reportedly used a horse riding school in Lithuania as a secret prison to hold and interrogate top al-Qaeda terrorists. According to The Telegraph, the CIA built the secret jail in 2004 and used it for more than a year ...  

Former French investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere said that Japan is among al-Qaeda's prime targets for attack, while promoting a book about his 25 years fighting terrorism. Bruguiere, now retired at 65, also describes Pakistan as the "cauldron ...  

Some of Britain's most dangerous Al-Qaeda leaders are promoting jihad from inside high-security prisons by smuggling out propaganda for the internet and finding recruits. In an authoritative report, Quilliam, a think tank funded by the Home Office, claims "mismanagement" by the Prison Service is helping Al-Qaeda gain recruits and risks "strengthening jihadist movements". Sunday Times, 15 November 2005 Although the study is not yet...  

'Japan has become a prime target for Al-Qaeda,' Bruguiere told journalists late Thursday at an event for the release of his book 'Ce que je n'ai pas pu dire' (What I Couldn't Reveal). –File photo PARIS: Former French investigating judge Jean-Louis ...  

Imagine a Christian preacher praising the killing of an abortion doctor. Just one doctor killed by a warped version of an ideology. Imagine a whole swath of Christendom staying quiet and not condemning the act of one errant believer. And yet, that’s precisely what Americans face today. The whole West is being asked to stay mute before a movement fueled by an ideology that praises murderers, glorifies death, and elevates religion over God...  

Paris: Former French investigating judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere said that Japan is among Al-Qaeda's prime targets for attack, while promoting a book about his 25 years fighting terrorism. Bruguiere, now retired at 65, also describes Pakistan as the ...  

(RTTNews) - India's Home Minister P Chidambaram confirmed Friday that two persons of al-Qaeda's "313 Brigade" were arrested in Pakistan on FBI advice. This indicated a Pakistani link to the terror plans of arrested Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) men David ...  

Al-Qaeda last week called for attacks on "any crusaders whenever you find one of them, like at the airports of the crusader Western countries that participate in the wars against Islam, or their living compounds, trains etc." Calling for freelance jihad. Just a coincidence, I'm sure. "Counterterrorism: Shifting from 'Who' to 'How,'" by Scott Stewart and Fred Burton for Stratfor, November 4 (thanks to all who sent this in): In the 11th edition...  

SANA’A – The governor of Yemen’s Sana’a province Sunday denied tribal claims that Al-Qaeda has taken charge ... man, identified by Japanese media as 63-year-old Takeo Mashimo, was kidnapped on Nov. 15 in Arhab, northeast of Sanaa, by ...  

Eurabia Alert, and an update on this story. "Italy: Al-Qaeda allies 'may carry out attacks'," from AdnKronos International, November 7: Rome, 6 Nov. (AKI) - Italy was susceptible to terror attacks by allies of the Al-Qaeda network, the interior minister Roberto Maroni said on Friday. Maroni warned there were terror cells that identified with Al-Qaeda and they had "authorisation" to carry out attacks in Italy. "Al-Qaeda is not present in...