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January 2, 2010, 1:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
The failure of Lagos and Amsterdam airport security to detect the explosives the Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab carried aboard two flights on Christmas Day was only a small side-effect of America's flawed intelligence policies and performance with regard to al Qaeda. <br/><span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s counter-terror sources note that in ...</br/>
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January 2, 2010, 1:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
Had the White House National Security Council, US intelligence and counter-terror agencies properly studied al Qaeda's failed attempt to assassinate Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, deputy interior minister and commander of the Saudi anti-terror campaign in Yemen five motnhs ago, they might have detected pointers to al Qaeda's latest ...
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December 29, 2009, 12:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Alhaji Umarum Mutallab, former Nigeria First Bank chairman, ex-minister, told police Saturday, Dec. 26, that the 23-year old Nigerian who tried and failed to blow up the Amsterdam-Detroit Northwest Flight 253 Friday, Dec. 25, is his son. According to family members, he had been worried by his son's extremist ...
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December 27, 2009, 12:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
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December 26, 2009, 5:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
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The White House described as an attempted act of terrorism the resumed "firecracker" aboard the Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit on Dec. 25, Christmas Day. The suspect, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, a Nigerian engineering student at University College London, is said to have admitted to trying to detonate ...</p>
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December 24, 2009, 12:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's second top leader, denounced US president Barack Obama's Middle East policy as "nothing but a new stage in the Crusader and Zionist campaign to subjugate and humiliate us... and our religion" in a statement posted on an Islamist website Monday, Dec. 14. <br/>He also ...</br/>
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December 17, 2009, 9:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
Are Osama bin Laden's whereabouts really unknown?<br/>
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December 14, 2009, 11:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
US and Indian security sources say the arrest of the Pakistan-born American David Coleman Headley in Chicago on suspicion of complicity in the Mumbai terrorist atrocity in Nov. 2008 found him fully prepared to mount a wave of attacks this month on Israeli El Al airline offices, synagogues and Chabad ...
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December 12, 2009, 7:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
Pakistan-born US citizen David Coleman Headley, 49, first arrested in October in Chicago faces 12 counts of terrorist conspiracy to bomb public buildings in India and murder and maim individuals in India and Denmark, for which he could be sentenced to death.<br/>The son of a former Pakistani diplomat who ...</br/>
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October 14, 2009, 8:08 AM (GMT+02:00)
Terror suspect worked at British nuclear lab before CERN - report<br/>
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October 1, 2009, 10:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
Al Qaeda homes in on Germany as its next European target
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September 19, 2009, 2:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saleh Ali Nabhan, 28, was sought for 11 years on suspicion of taking part in al Qaeda's 1998 attack on the US embassy in Kenya, in which 300 people were killed including 13 Americans, four years later, orchestrating the 2002 bombings of a Mombasa hotel, which left 12 Kenyans ...
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September 9, 2009, 4:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Salafi Jalalat organization set up by al Qaeda in the Gaza Strip has vowed to avenge what it called the massacre inflicted by Hamas on one of its cells, Jund Ansar Allah, when their partisans clashed in the southern town of Rafah on Aug. 14. At least 30 were ...
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August 21, 2009, 8:36 AM (GMT+02:00)
Six Hamas combatants including a senior commander and two al Qaeda cell leaders were among the 23 killed in gun battles between Hamas forces and hundreds of members of the al Qaeda offshoot Jund Ansar Allah in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah Friday Aug. 14. Another 120 were ...
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August 9, 2009, 9:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Wanted Islamist terrorist Noordin M. Top killed
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July 31, 2009, 10:59 AM (GMT+02:00)
Al Qaeda aimed for massacre of pro-US clan at Gaza wedding
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July 25, 2009, 1:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
<span class="dnw">DEBKA-Net-Weekly</span>'s military sources reported that an aggressive new al Qaeda cell calling itself Jaljalat has been responsible for the last spate of cross-border attacks from the Gaza Strip. Our counter-terror sources report that Saudis, Yemenis and Egyptians who fought in Iraq and fled after being beaten down by US-led ...
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July 19, 2009, 2:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
Twenty-five Egyptians and one Palestinian suspects detained in Egypt have confessed to planning attacks on Suez Canal shipping and oil pipelines on behalf of al Qaeda. Tuesday, July 7, <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s counter-terror sources disclosed that a large group of 15-20 al Qaeda terrorists, trained in Pakistan and Algeria to ...
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July 19, 2009, 2:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
The nine dead included two Australians, a New Zealander, An Singaporean and an Indonesian. <br/>The coordinated attacks, which occurred five minutes apart, Friday, July 17, tore away the facade of the Ritz-Carlton and blew up a first-floor restaurant at the neighboring JW Marriott in the Indonesian capital. A parked car ...</br/>
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July 13, 2009, 9:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
G8 Summit under al Qaeda threat
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