Al Qaeda could easily have acquired devices or materials in the last decade. But since 2004, there have been no real clues whether Osama Bin Laden acquired nuclear, biological or chemical weapons or intended using them in terrorist attacks.

In introductory interviews to Islamist websites, Saleh Al-Qaraawi, the newly-appointed al Qaeda chief in the Levant (Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinian territories) threatens to loose a fresh wave of attacks on US and Israeli targets as well as UN peacekeepers in South Lebanon. debkafile's counter-terror sources report Al Qaraawi is presented as Commander of the "Abdullah Azzam Brigades" and an appointee of al Qaeda's No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri.  
 

Two female suicide bombers hit the two central Moscow underground rail stations in coordinated attacks during the early Monday rush hour of March 29, killing at least 39 people, injuring many more. The first exploded in the second car of the train at the Lubyanka station near the Kremlin and the Federal Security Services headquarters. The second blast hit Kultury Park station near Gorky Park. North Caucasian Al Qaeda offshoot believed behind ...

The US Naval Intelligence warning covers the world's busiest shipping routes through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden and vessels transiting the Suez Canal. debkafile reports al Qaeda has enhanced its striking ability from its Yemen strongholds. A decade after its suicides rammed the US Cole, killing 17 seamen, the Islamist terrorists are said by the US advisory to have developed sophisticated methods of attack including missiles.

Al Qaeda fighters from Iraq and Pakistan have infiltrated Gaza through the tunnels and introduced motor-cycle-mounted attacks by RPG-wielding terrorists to Palestinian extremist groups, debkafile reports. Friday night, March 19, three pairs of motorbike riders crashed through Gaza's border fence and opened RPG and automatic fire on Israelis soldiers. This time, they missed and swerved back.

Evidence has reached debkafile that the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing which crashed after takeoff from Beirut on January 25, killing all 92 aboard, was blown up in mid-air in an al Qaeda attack, exactly one month after its failed attempt to destroy an American Northwest airliner bound for Detroit. French and Hizballah passengers were also targeted.

The bodies were found strapped to their seats with their heads and limbs blown off, typical sign of ...

In his latest audio-taped message of Jan. 24, Osama bin Laden said he was responsible for the failed Detroit-bound airliner attack on Dec. 25. He vowed America would have no peace as long as there was "no security for the Palestinians."  But in al Qaeda's hottest arena, Yemen, Saudi Arabia turns out to have killed three of bin Laden's kingpins in a "mystery explosion" - and also produced evidence of Iranian backing for the Houthi rebels.

In a new audio message aired by Al Jazeera TV Sunday, Jan. 24, Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the Dec. 25 attempt to blow up an airliner bound for Detroit and vowed there would be more attacks. In a message addressed from "Osama to Obama," he said America would have no peace unless there was "security for Palestinians."  
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The Jordanian suicide killer's double cross was part of a wide-ranging al Qaeda-Taliban jihad against the CIA. They published a collection of his writings to demonstrate that the double agent duped US intelligence not just for one year - but five, starting out in Iraq.

Two men were arrested Friday, Jan. 8, suspected of being accomplices of Naijubullah Zazi, who was charged with a plot to bomb New York's transit system a year ago in Colorado. On Friday too, Friday too, the Nigerian, Umar Abdulmutallab, flanked by two American lawyers, told a federal court he was not guilty of trying to blow up the Northwest Airlines jet on Christmas Day.  He ...

Taliban-Pakistan released a video clip Saturday, Jan. 9, showing Hammam Khalil al Balawi, the suicide bomber who killed eight people at a CIA base in Khost, Afghanistan on Dec. 30, with the Taliban-Pakistan leader before the attack. He is filmed in Pashtun dress vowing to avenge the late Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and referring to the Nigerian Umar Abdulmutalleb who subsequently failed to blow up a More...