Abu Hamza al-Muhajer

Al-Qaeda said that the bomb on the plane did not explode due to a clerical error Office of the international terrorist network al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the foiled terrorist attack on board an American Airlines Delta Airlines. Statement by the terrorists was published on an Islamist site. It says that the recent attempt of 23-year-old Nigerian blow up the plane is a response to the actions of the Yemeni army...  

A man claiming to be an Al-Qaeda member addresses a crowd gathered in Yemen... This undated photo shows Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, charged in the United S... Al-Qaeda claimed the failed December 25 bombing of a US-bound aircraft in a statement picked ...  

An al-Qaeda regional offshoot says it was behind the failed attempt to bomb a US transatlantic flight last Friday, according to an internet statement. A US monitoring organisation quoted al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula as saying the plot was to avenge US attacks on militants in Yemen. A Nigerian man has been charged with attempting to set off an explosive device on a Amsterdam-Detroit flight. It landed safely after the suspect was...  

Here is a video report by ABC News on news that Nigerian Terrorist Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab has told FBI agents that there are "more just like him in Yemen who will strik the U.S. soon." In the report, Brian Ross says an Al-Qaeda leader in Yemen boasted of "coming attacks in America," and said "we are carrying a bomb to hit the enemies of God.” The Al-Qaeda leader reportedly made the boast four days before the attempt by Abdulmutallab to...  

ROME - AL-QAEDA'S North African wing said on Monday it was responsible for the kidnapping this month of an Italian couple in Mauritania, Al Arabiya television reported. Salah Abu Mohamed, a spokesman for Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, said in an ...  

Al-Qaeda claims Christmas Day US flight bomb plot. “The accused, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, had co-ordinated the plot with members of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, said the statement, according to US monitor SITE Intelligence. Officials said at the weekend that the 23-year-old had told US investigators al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen had supplied him with the bomb and trained him in how to detonate it.” The government’s paranoia over this is...  

BBC NewsDetroit terror attack: al-Qaeda regional group claims responsibilityTelegraph.co.ukA regional wing of al-Qaeda, known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas Day attack on a US-bound passenger plane. Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab allegedly tried to ignite a device attached to his body as ...Qaeda-Linked Group Claims It Was Behind Bomb AttemptNew York TimesQaeda wing says behind attack on...  

T he airplane bombing suspect's claim that the attack originated with al-Qaeda's network in Yemen deepened concerns that instability in the Middle Eastern country is providing the terror group with a base to train and recruit militants for operations ...  

The Independent has a report on the background of the Christmas day bomber: Wealthy, quiet, unassuming: the Christmas Day bomb suspect The inside story of the privileged student who embraced al-Qa’ida and tried to blow a transatlantic jet out of the sky – and the lessons for us all. Here are a few details: Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab [...]  

The North African branch of al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of two Italians in Mauritania earlier this month. Al-Qaeda of the Islamic Maghreb said in an audio message broadcast on the Al-Arabiya television news channel that ...  

Foreign policy expert Marc Lynch points out the Christmas Day bomb attempt by Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab is barely causing a stir in the Arab media. Whether it's AQ or not, nobody in Arab media cares I don't know what kind of contacts the failed airplane bomber did or didn't have with Al-Qaeda Central or Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and neither does anybody else who has commented since it happened. The extent of such contacts will...  

The GuardianFoiled plane attack puts Al-Qaeda threat in sharp focusAFPWASHINGTON — Regardless of whether or not the Nigerian who tried to blow up a US-bound jet on Christmas Day was instructed in Yemen by Al-Qaeda, the White House insists it is not slacking in its anti-terror battle. In early December as he ordered 30000 ...Nigeria bomber's home town blames foreign schoolingReutersPlane plot probed for al-Qaeda linkAljazeera.netDetroit bomb...  

Raw video of scene on the ground inside al-Qaeda operational and training center in Yemen, blasted to smithereens by US and Yemeni forces in the last number of hours. (LINK)al-Jazeera video of al-Qaeda leader (unmasked) giving a rabid speech in response regarding the ramping up of the obliteration of a number of key al-Qaeda in Yemen, including the former Northern Virginia radical Islamist cleric "spiritual" handler of Major Nidal Hasan, Anwar...  

Thirty-two times since 2001 and four times this year alone, senior Al Qaida leadership in recruiting videos have used the prison at Guantanamo Bay as a clarion call to bring extremists from around the world to join their effort. Is Gibbs aware of what else al Qaeda criticizes? Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: We have declared a bitter war against democracy and all those who seek to enact it. Should we get rid of this "recruiting tool" too? What about the...  

On orders from President Barack Obama, the U.S. military launched cruise missiles early Thursday against two suspected al-Qaeda sites in Yemen, administration officials told ABC News … The Yemen attacks by the U.S. military represent a major escalation of the Obama administration's campaign against al Qaeda. And NBC reports the same: U.S. Navy warships fired missiles at suspected al-Qaida training camps in Yemen, with that government's support...