Wed May 15, 2013
259 articles tagged "Bin Laden Terror"
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
May 19, 2003, 12:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
The White House has said it hopes the postponed visit by Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon in response to the latest spiral of Palestinian terror will take place within days. President George W. Bush clearly wants to see Sharon as soon as possible. EBKAfile's Washington and Jerusalem sources explain Israel's ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
May 18, 2003, 12:49 AM (GMT+02:00)
mg class="picture" src="/dynmedia/pictures/ThumbME_medite.jpg" align="right" border="0">
Click on small map for spread of al Qaeda network`s international bases. 1. The casualty count in al Qaeda's chain of attacks in Riyadh on Monday, May 12, is between 94 and 96 killed and 196 injured - almost triple the 34 dead grudgingly admitted by ... 
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
May 13, 2003, 3:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
After midnight Monday, May 12, Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network struck the United States and Saudi Arabia with devastating effect. In a multiple, multi-layered terrorist operation plotted as carefully as any military raid, small suicide squads hit three gated and guarded estates housing westerners in Riyadh and an American-Saudi ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
March 3, 2003, 12:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
Armed forces and counter-terror security forces across the Middle East are tightly tensed up in a high state of pre-war preparedness and anti-terror jitters - even amid the jubilation over the capture in Islamabad of al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Shaikh Muhammed and the car bomb killing of Abu Musab Zarqawi's ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
February 14, 2003, 1:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
A bare two days after the latest audio tape attributed to Osama bin Laden was aired, al Qaeda has spoken again, refusing to leave the stage to Washington's comments and the guesswork surrounding the high terror alert declared in the United States, Britain, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Normally, months go ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
February 9, 2003, 5:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saturday night, February 8, in the Iraqi-Kurdish city of Suleimaniyeh, al Qaeda and Iraqi military intelligence fired their first shot of the US-Iraq war - by assassination. They used their shared surrogate, the extremist Kurdish Ansar al-Islam of northeast Iraq, to eliminate the top command of the pro-American Patriotic Union ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
February 4, 2003, 8:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
With the approach of American military action against Iraq, the United States and its war allies, including Israel, have gone on top alert to steel themselves against a multi-pronged mega-terror offensive assault. According to debkafile and DEBKA-Net-Weekly's exclusive counter-terror and intelligence sources, six entities have come together ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 4, 2003, 10:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKA-Net-Weekly'sintelligence sources report mounting fears within US and Israeli counter-terrorism agencies that al Qaeda's three command centers are preparing mega-terror attacks for US and Israeli targets. They believe that, for the time being, al Qaeda has foregone a nuclear, radiological or chemical option in favor of biological warfare, because ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
December 21, 2002, 10:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
German diplomat and member of European Union Commission Christian Waldrahs was saved by his bulletproof jeep from an assassin's bullets, fired as he came out of Jenin Fatah commander Mussa Kadura's home on Saturday, December 21.
debkafile's military and counter-terror sources report that Waldrahs has the unhappy distinction ... 
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
December 11, 2002, 3:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
The turning of a blind eye in certain, select cases has produced some strange anomalies in the global war on terror. debkafile's counter-terror experts note some striking instances. The most recent was the case of the North Korean cargo vessel, intercepted by a Spanish warship on terrorist patrol ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
November 30, 2002, 7:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
The combined US-Israeli-Kenyan investigation team has reached initial conclusions two days after the deadly al Qaeda twin assault on Israeli targets at the Kenyan resort town of Mombasa:
A. Backup teams were posted at both scenes of attack - the hotel and the airport - to take over if the first ... 
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
November 30, 2002, 7:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
The al Qaeda network that carried out the 1998 US embassy bombings in Nairobi and Daar es Salaam is also responsible for the twin attacks last Thursday, November 28, on the Israeli-owned Mombassa Paradise hotel at Kikamabala, and for the missile strike that missed an Arkia Boeing 757 after it ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
November 27, 2002, 12:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
Like a fox that hears the baying of the hounds, Saddam Hussein is reported to be in indirect negotiation with Osama bin Laden over a bolt-hole for a quick escape. He believes that no one but the Islamist terrorist can provide him with an extra-territorial base complete with partner to ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
November 23, 2002, 7:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
Efforts have been underway in Washington in the run-up to the war in Iraq to improve Saudi Arabia's standing in the eyes of the American public and repair some of the damage caused its reputation by the discovery that 15 of the 19 suicidal hijackers that carried out the 9/11 ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
November 23, 2002, 7:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
US President George W. Bush made a point of calling on Russian president Vladimir Putin directly after the NATO summit in Prague, to solicit his support for direct US military action against Iraq. However, Putin, who received his American visitor with pomp at the grand 18th century Catherine Palace near ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
November 19, 2002, 7:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Whether because of the proximity of Osama bin Laden in the Empty Quarter desert that fringes Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen and the UAR, or because of the debilitating squabbles besetting royal authority, debkafile's Gulf sources report that al Qaeda's followers in the oil kingdom are becoming increasingly brazen. ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
October 28, 2002, 2:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
The assassination early Monday October 28 of USAID staffer Lawrence Foley in Amman was carried out the day after a bomb belt carried by a Palestinian suicide killer murdered three Israeli officers and injured 19 Israelis just outside the town of Ariel on the West Bank.
Not only did the ... 
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
October 26, 2002, 4:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
NATO, Greek and Israeli navies are scouring three seas - the eastern Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the Aegean - for a cargo ship, the 1,600-ton Tonga-flagged Cristi, which is believed to be carrying a band of al Qaeda terrorists to a fresh target. Greek and Israeli authorities are on ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
October 19, 2002, 1:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile reveals that the long-lost al Qaeda leader, Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, is alive and inSaudi Arabia. He is believed to have landed secretly at the end of September, shortly before the latest upsurge of international terrorist attacks against the French oil tankerLimburg, the shooting of American Marines ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
October 13, 2002, 2:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saddam Hussein wasted no time before calling his leadership and parliament into emergency sessions Saturday, October 12, in response respond to the congressional endorsement US president George W. Bush gained for waging war on Iraq. debkafile's Gulf sources report that the day after the US Senate in Washington ...
|
