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259 articles tagged "Bin Laden Terror"
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DEBKAfile
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October 13, 2002, 2:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
No group claimed responsibility for the two car bombs that turned the Indonesian island paradise of Bali into a fiery inferno Saturday, October 12, killing close to 200 and maiming many hundreds. But the hand of al Qaeda was hard to miss.
DEBKAfile
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October 7, 2002, 2:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
Hours after an explosion ripped a gaping hole in the French-owned giant oil tanker Limburg on Sunday, October 6, the various military authorities watching the thick, black plume rising over the Arabian Sea had no doubt it was a copycat attack on the same lines as the ramming of the ...
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September 17, 2002, 5:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sunday, September 15, the Macedonian voter overwhelmingly returned to power the former Social Democrat prime minister Branko Crvenkovski, dumping the ruling coalition led by the nationalist VMRO minister Ljubco Georgievski and partner, the moderate Democratic Party of Albanians. Both were widely accused of corruption.
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September 14, 2002, 2:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
The searches that Geiger counter-packing FBI agents conducted on the Liberian-registered freighter Palermo Senator that steamed into New York on Monday, September 9, left no doubt that the United States has strong suspicions or credible information - that Iraq or the al Qaeda terrorist organization - or both - have ...
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September 11, 2002, 2:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
In the days leading up to the first anniversary of al Qaeda's September 11 outrages against America, US authorities detected a sharp spike in the volume of electronic traffic flying around its component groups, raising the specter of a repeat terrorist attack. Yet no intelligence expert has succeeded in decrypting ...
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August 20, 2002, 6:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
After 12 years of obscurity in Libya, Abu Nidal surfaced in late 1997, taking up residence in Cairo with a small band of trusted partisans. What was Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak thinking of when he opened the door to this notorious purveyor of death? Thereby hangs an extraordinary tale, which ...
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July 5, 2002, 11:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
Hashem Mohamed Hadayat, 41, who gunned down Yakov Aminov, 46, and Vicky Hen, 25 - both from Los Angeles - on the 4th of July at the El Al terminal of Los Angeles, and wounded 7 others, is revealed by debkafile's intelligence and counter-terror sources as a Muslim ...
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June 24, 2002, 5:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
The next radical Islamic terror attack in America could well originate in a corner of the Balkans, where a new jihad force is taking shape quietly and unhindered. In its last issue, published on Friday, June 21, DEBKA-Net-Weekly's military sources reported that close to 20,000 fighters, battled-hardened veterans and ...
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June 18, 2002, 9:23 AM (GMT+02:00)
Between 75 and 125 operatives of the fundamentalist terror network, al Qaeda, are known to have illegally penetrated the United States in the last two months, mostly through American ports as stowaways in commercial sea containers. Many more are estimated to have slipped through unbeknownst to US authorities.
DEBKAfile
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June 10, 2002, 9:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
Washington staged an all-star performance to announce that an American member of the Islamist terror network al Qaeda had been had been arrested on May 8 on suspicion of plotting a "dirty bomb" attack in the Washington area.
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May 13, 2002, 9:35 AM (GMT+02:00)
Taking a leaf out of its adversaries' book, the al Qaeda Islamic network has created an elite force for defending the religious seminaries of west Pakistan, their traditional hideouts, against joint US-Pakistani raids. These Muslim seminaries have long been breeding grounds for the militant Islamic fundamentalists nourishing al Qaeda.
DEBKAfile
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May 5, 2002, 9:36 AM (GMT+02:00)
Osama bin Laden, his deputy, Ayman Zawahiri, and their top lieutenants were reportedly sighted last month at different places between the Little Pamir panhandle of northeastern Afghanistan, the Hunza region of Pakistani northwest Jammu and Kashmir, and the north Pakistani Karakoram Mountains further to the south.
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April 27, 2002, 11:01 AM (GMT+02:00)
A terrorist attack in one of Israel's main cities was prevented by the 24-hour Israeli incursion into the West Bank town of Qalqilya, which ended Friday night, April 26. Prior intelligence of this plan prompted the foray. This information was passed to the United States. Another batch of intelligence, transferred ...
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April 17, 2002, 9:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Bush administration has now concluded that Osama bin Laden was present during the battle for Tora Bora late last year, according to the Washington Post. The failure to commit US ground troops to hunt him was its gravest error in the war against al Qaeda. Intelligence officials have assembled ...
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February 24, 2002, 4:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
A freshly-carved hole in an underground passageway next to the US embassy on Via Veneto in Rome was one of several ominous signals that the al Qaeda terror network has resumed its terror offensive against the US and Europe.
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February 17, 2002, 9:57 AM (GMT+02:00)
Karnei Shomron was vulnerable because its shopping center was open to Palestinians from neighboring locations to work and shop there. The suicide bomber reached his target with ease, killing two teenagers and injuring more than 30 when he blew himself up in a crowd of teenagers out for Saturday night ...
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February 15, 2002, 5:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
An Israeli tank was blown up for the first time Thursday night, killing three soldiers. A huge explosion ripped off its turret and split the 65-ton Merkava (Chariot) 3 in two as it charged up the Karni-Netzarim route in the Gaza Strip to reach a civilian bus under Palestinian gunfire.
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February 11, 2002, 4:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
with Tehran's active assistance, one of Osama bin Laden's five top operatives, Zayan al-Abdeen Mohammed Hussein, better known by his nom de guerre of Abu Zubeidah, made it to Lebanon. There, he shelters behind a security wall made up of his own 30-35-man band of al Qaeda henchmen, some 50 ...
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February 9, 2002, 4:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
If the death is confirmed of Antar Zouabri, head of Algeria's ultra-violent Armed Islamic Group, the global war on terror will have chalked up a major coup.
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January 30, 2002, 4:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
Syria has filed a strong protest with Washington, accusing the Sixth Fleet of a "piracy operation" against two Syrian commercial vessels on the Mediterranean. The US Charge d'Affaires in Damascus was summoned to the Syrian foreign ministry Wednesday January 30 to explain Sixth Fleet interception and search off Cyprus of ...
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