Abu Hamza al-Muhajer

Hook-handed Abu Hamza has changed his name to try to shake off his hate-preaching past. The jailed rabble-rouser now wishes to be known as Mustafa Kamal Mustafa. Hamza awaits extradition to the US, have been instructed to address him by his new name instead of Abu Hamza al-Masri. Last night a Whitehall source said: “He is trying to shed the enormous amount of baggage associated with his old name. “He can call himself what he likes officially...  

The jailed rabble-rouser now wishes to be known as Mustafa Kamal Mustafa. Staff at London’s top sec-urity Belmarsh Prison, where he is awaiting extradition to the US, have been instructed to address him by his new name instead of Abu Hamza al-Masri.  

Amman, 18 May (AKI) - The nephew of the founder of Al-Qaeda in Iraq has followed in his late uncle's footsteps by joining the terror group. Ahmed al-Harasha, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,'s nephew, has been in southern Yemen for the past few days with as a ...  

German court jails Al-Qaeda member for six yearsExpatica GermanyA German-Afghan man whose confessions helped spark a travel alert in Europe in 2010 over potential attacks was jailed for six years on Tuesday for belonging to Al-Qaeda. The higher regional court in the western city of Koblenz also found Ahmed Wali ...and more »  

Security Chiefs believe the identity of the double agent who foiled an al-Qaeda underwear bomb plot will be exposed by the Islamic terrorist group within weeks. MI5 fear that it will attempt to exact revenge on the British spy, who penetrated al-Qaeda in ...  

Look on the bright side: at least this would render the TSA useless. "Report: Al-Qaida doctors trained to implant bombs in humans," from MSNBC, May 13 (thanks to Kenneth): Western intelligence agencies believe that al-Qaida doctors have been trained to implant bombs inside the bodies of suicide bombers, Britain's Sunday...  

Osama bin Laden bemoaned "disaster after disaster" inflicted by the US onslaught on Al-Qaeda before he was killed and even mulled changing his terror group's name, a top US official said Monday.  

AN airstrike has killed 15 al-Qaeda-linked militants in their training camp in the country's south, Yemeni military officials said.  

An airstrike has killed 15 al-Qaeda-linked militants in their training camp in Yemen's south.