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259 articles tagged "Bin Laden Terror"
DEBKAfile
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January 2, 2010, 1:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's counter-terror sources note that in the past year, Washington was strangely deaf to a flood of notices from Saudi, Egyptian and Yemeni security agencies warning that al Qaeda networks had established themselves in Yemen and so gained a jumping-off base into the Arabian peninsula and across the ...
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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 months ago, they might have detected pointers to al Qaeda's latest terror offensive ...
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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 religious ...
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December 27, 2009, 12:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
A major air disaster was narrowly foiled on Dec. 25 by good luck and the resourcefulness of passengers and crew. The only casualty of Umar Faroul Abdulmuttallab's attempt to blow up Northwest Flight 253 as it approached Detroit airport was the would-be bomber himself, who suffered burns.
Neither element is a ... 
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December 26, 2009, 5:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
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 described as admitting he tried to detonate ... 
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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.
He also slammed Palestinian ...
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December 17, 2009, 9:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
Nearly a decade after al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden vanished,DEBKA-Net-Weekly's intelligence sources have a good sense of his present location.
Our latest issue out last Friday opened a fresh windown on Al Qaeda's new set-up and what bin Laden has in store. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly click More... 
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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.
debkafile's counter-terror sources revealed earlier that in ...
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October 14, 2009, 8:08 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Algerian-born nuclear physicist Dr. Adlene Hicheur, 32, arrested in France on suspicion of links with al Qaeda's North African wing, worked at the Rutherton Appleton Laboratory in Didcot four years ago, conducting nuclear physics research, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
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October 1, 2009, 10:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
Berlin is on notice to pull German troops out of Afghanistan or face a nationwide Al Qaeda campaign, as the forthcoming DEBKA-Net-Weekly discloses exclusively. Five years ago, Osama bin Laden bent Spain to his will by blowing up Madrid trains. He plans to repeat his success against Germany - ...
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September 19, 2009, 2:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saleh Ali Nabhan was sought on suspicion of taking part in the 1998 attack on the US embassy in Kenya, in which 500 people were killed and, four years later, orchestrating the 2002 bombings of a Mombasa hotel which left 12 Kenyans and three Israelis dead.
A vehicle was targeted by ... 
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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. debkafile's ...
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August 9, 2009, 9:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
A six-year manhunt and a 17-hour firefight in Indonesia's Java town of Temanggung ended early Saturday, Aug. 8 in the death of Noordin M. Top, one of the most wanted terrorists in Asia. As linchpin of the al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah, Top was believed by the FBI to be behind ...
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July 31, 2009, 10:59 AM (GMT+02:00)
The al Qaeda cell newly installed in the Gaza Strip, which calls itself Jaljalat, regards the Palestinian Fatah as a pro-American stooge. It therefore sent three assailants on a shooting-grenade rampage against a wedding celebration of kinsmen of the Fatah strongman Mohammad Dahlan at the southern town of Khan Younes ...
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July 25, 2009, 1:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKA-Net-Weekly'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.
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July 19, 2009, 2:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
The coordinated attacks 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 outside was later detonated.
Jakarta police said two of the suicide bombers were paying guests.
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July 13, 2009, 9:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
Al Qaeda is plotting a new round of multiple attacks in W. Europe, Middle East and Asia, the latest DEBKA-Net-Weekl.yreveals.
Extra security has been laid on for the industrialized nations' summit in l'Aquila this week following an intelligence alert that the G8 summit was singled out for a terror spectacular. This and ... |
