Ahmed Omar Abu Ali

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- The State Department has launched a different sort of raid against al-Qaida, engaging in a cat and mouse game to replace anti-American al-Qaida ads on Yemeni tribal websites....Read Full Story

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The State Department has launched a different sort of raid against al-Qaida, engaging in a cat and mouse game to replace anti-American al-Qaida ads on Yemeni tribal websites.Read Full Story

The State Department has launched a different sort of raid against al-Qaida, engaging in a cat and mouse game to replace anti-American al-Qaida ads on Yemeni tribal websites.Read Full Story

The Islamic Saudi Academy has made a small effort to clean up some of their textbooks that have been criticized over the years for their anti non-Muslim content but enough intolerance still remains which will continue to cause criticism.  I wonder why they even bothered. ----- Also see: Va. Islamic School Changes Texts, May Still Face Criticism Washington Post - ‎34 minutes ago‎ The Islamic Saudi Academy deleted some of the most contentious passages from the texts. But copies provided to...Read Full Story

Defense attorneys for an al-Qaida sleeper agent plan to argue at his sentencing this week that his five years spent locked up without charge was enough punishment and he should be immediately released.Former Bradley University student Ali al-Marri, a 44-year-old native of Qatar, pleaded guilty in May to one count of conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization. He will be sentenced this week in a federal court in Peoria, Ill.Prosecutors have...Read Full Story

An Islamic school in northern Virginia with close ties to the Saudi government has revised its religious textbooks in an effort to end years of criticism that the school fosters hatred and intolerance.While the Islamic Saudi Academy deleted some of the most contentious passages from the texts, copies provided to The Associated Press show that enough sensitive material remains to fuel critics who claim the books show intolerance toward those who do not follow strict interpretations of Islam...Read Full Story

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — An Islamic school in northern Virginia with close ties to the Saudi government has revised its religious textbooks in an effort to end years of criticism that the school fosters hatred and intolerance.While the Islamic Saudi Academy deleted some of the most contentious passages from the texts, copies provided to The Associated Press show that enough sensitive material remains to fuel critics who claim the books show intolerance toward those who do not follow strict...Read Full Story

The federal government's most secure prison has determined that two books written by President Barack Obama contain material "potentially detrimental to national security" and rejected an inmate's request to read them.Ahmed Omar Abu Ali is serving a 30-year sentence at the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colo., for joining al-Qaida and plotting to assassinate then-President George W. Bush. Last year, Abu Ali requested two books written by Obama: "Dreams from My Father" and "The Audacity...Read Full Story

Yemen says a wanted a leading al-Qaida member accused of bombing a French oil tanker in 2002 has turned himself in.The Yemeni Defense Ministry's weekly magazine and a statement from the embassy in Washington said Thursday that Hazem al-Mujali had surrendered amid a government crackdown on the organization.Al-Mujali was accused of the 2002 bombing of a French oil tanker and imprisoned, but on his release apparently rejoined al-Qaida.He escaped a highly publicized raid late last year in...Read Full Story

From the AP: ISLAMABAD, March 8 (AP) – (Kyodo)—An America-born al-Qaida member, Adam Gadahn, wanted in the United States, has been captured in Karachi in southern Pakistan, security officials said Sunday. Gadahn was arrested during a search operation in the vicinity of the Sohrab Goth area in the major Pakistani port city, the officials said. Gadahn has appeared in more than half a dozen al-Qaida videos, taunting and threatening the West and calling for its destruction, according to the...Read Full Story