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259 articles tagged "Bin Laden Terror"
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DEBKAfile
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January 28, 2002, 4:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
A Pakistani Islamic group linked to al Qaeda, calling itself the National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty, claims to be holding missing journalist, Daniel Pearl, 38.
DEBKAfile
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January 26, 2002, 4:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
With pledges for US$4.5 billion under his belt from the Tokyo conference of Afghanistan donor-nations, interim Afghan prime minister Hamid Karzai set out for Washington Saturday, January 26, for his first encounter with US President George W. Bush.
DEBKAfile
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January 23, 2002, 4:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
The United States and the Philippines announced they would hold a series of military exercises over the next six months on the island of Basilan in the South China Sea across from Indonesia and Malaysia and in the nearby mainland city of Zamboanga.
DEBKAfile
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January 19, 2002, 3:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
The prize for which Osama bin Laden launched al Qaeda and his terror campaign in 1990 is now within his reach: the eviction of US forces from sacred Saudi soil. TheWashington Post and the Financial Times report that Saudi rulers think the US has "overstayed its welcome", a disclosure appearing ...
DEBKAfile
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January 12, 2002, 4:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
Not content with brandishing nuclear, chemical and biological threats over the cities of the Western world, Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda and his partners in the Egyptian Jihad Islami plan a series of assassinations to destabilize targeted Middle East and West European countries.
DEBKAfile
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January 12, 2002, 1:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
The conviction is gaining ground in some Western intelligence agencies that Osama bin Laden, his family, Ayman Zuheiri and thousands of al Qaeda fighters made good their escape from Afghanistan through the illicit sea route created by Lebanese-Iranian super terrorist Imad Mughniyeh for smuggling operations in the service of terrorist ...
DEBKAfile
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January 5, 2002, 4:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
As Al Qaeda and Taliban chiefs continue to elude US pursuit in Afghanistan, American and other Western forces continue to pour into Washington's next theatre, the Middle East and Horn of Africa.
DEBKAfile
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December 31, 2001, 5:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
Shoe bomber Richard Reid may have been strip-searched by Israel's security-conscious El Al airlines before they flew him from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv in July 2001, but in the Gaza Strip he was accorded upgraded hospitality.
DEBKAfile
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December 31, 2001, 4:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
In a provisional summing up of the Afghan campaign, debkafile's military analysts find that the sixteen weeks of warfare have cost the al Qaeda terror organization the use of Afghan soil - and possibly Pakistan too - for its primary command centers, its specialized training facilities, its logistical ...
DEBKAfile
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December 31, 2001, 4:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Taliban intelligence chief Quri Ahmadullah came across as brash and unbowed in an interview he granted on December 28 to a reporter of the Pakistani Pashtun newspaper Shariat. He invited the reporter quite openly to the Pakistanvillage of Datha Khail, south of Tora Bora and eight miles from the ...
DEBKAfile
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December 18, 2001, 5:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
The earlier debkafile report of peaking terror alerts in the US, Europe and Israel, was underscored Tuesday, December 18 by the US defense secretary in Brussels and Israel's military intelligence chief at the Knesset foreign affairs and defense committee.
DEBKAfile
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December 17, 2001, 4:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile was the first publication to reveal that China had sent thousands of armed men into Afghanistan in support of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban. Our first story came out on October 6, 2001, one day before the US went to war in Afghanistan.
DEBKAfile
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December 15, 2001, 5:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that over the last 48 hours, most of the al Qaeda fighters holed up in the caves of the Tora Bora mountains were able to creep past the siege thrown round the area by US-backed local Pashtun tribesmen, known as the Eastern Front, and ...
DEBKAfile
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December 15, 2001, 5:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
With the approaching end of Ramadan - marked Sunday, Monday and Tuesday by the Eid el Fitr celebrations - and the Christmas-New Year break, counter-terror authorities in the US, Britain, Canada, Germany and Israel have raised the alert level for major terrorist hits.
DEBKAfile
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December 14, 2001, 2:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
Bin Laden went to say: "...due to my experience in this field, I was thinking that the fire from the gas in the plane would melt the iron structure of the building and collapse the area where the plane hit and all the floors above it only." He added modestly, ...
DEBKAfile
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December 8, 2001, 9:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
Osama bin Laden has packed his entire family out of Afghanistan - wives, sons and daughters - and their wives, husbands and offspring. Roughly 10 days ago, debkafile's intelligence sources reveal, he transferred them to a prepared, well-guarded location in West Pakistan, leaving himself unencumbered in his Afghan ...
DEBKAfile
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December 4, 2001, 5:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
The videotape published in Washington after much deliberation shows a jubilant Osama bin Laden in conversation with a much younger Saudi sheik in a Kandahar guesthouse, crowing over the most ungodly act in the history of terrorism. The chilling effect of bin Laden's contemptuously amused admission is only exceeded by ...
DEBKAfile
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December 4, 2001, 9:26 AM (GMT+02:00)
One factor in the third general terror alert raised in the United States since September 11 relates, according to US media, to intelligence information indicating that the former Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden has gained possession of a so-called dirty or radiological bomb.
DEBKAfile
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November 27, 2001, 3:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
While US troops scour the mountains and caves for Osama bin Laden, the bulk of his al Qaeda army has also disappeared. It was found to be missing when the Northern Alliance seized control of the northern Taliban enclave of Konduz-Khanabad on Monday, November 26. Roughly 1,500 of bin Laden's ...
DEBKAfile
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November 23, 2001, 9:29 AM (GMT+02:00)
Fierce fighting raged around the strategic North Afghanistan town of Konduz Friday, as anti-Taliban forces hammered the Taliban-al Qaeda defenders with rockets, heavy artillery and tank fire. US B-52's pounded nearby Khanabad, where 1000 "foreign" fighters of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network were reported holed up.
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