Tue May 14, 2013
259 articles tagged "Bin Laden Terror"
DEBKAfile
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June 26, 2007, 10:54 AM (GMT+02:00)
In a statement emailed to AFP Tuesday, June 26, the Palestinian radicals demand that Jordan release the Iraqi woman, Sajida al-Rishawi, who was sentenced to death over triple hotel attacks in Amman that killed 60 people in 2005; Abu Mohammed al-Maqdissi, also held in Jordan since then; and the radical ...
DEBKAfile
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May 2, 2007, 10:23 AM (GMT+02:00)
The top al Qaeda operations leader, whose capture the US Pentagon revealed Friday, April 27, led the plot which caused the deaths of three Israelis and 60 injured at the Tel Aviv seafront Mike's Place on April 30, 2003. The US investigation revealed it was authorized by Osama bin Laden ...
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April 29, 2007, 2:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
A Pentagon statement does not say where he was captured, only that he was caught attempting to return to Iraq, his native country, to take charge of al Qaeda's affairs and possibly overseas operations. On his way he met an al Qaeda operative in Iran. The CIA handed a-Hadi to ...
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April 28, 2007, 12:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
The CIA's capture of one of Osama bin Laden's most talented operations officers, Abd al Hadi al-Iraq, Abu Abdullah, 45, is a major American counter-terror coup which turns some hidden pages in al Qaeda's arcane, bloodstained record.
Al Hadi is now credited with plotting the first direct al Qaeda suicide ... 
DEBKAfile
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April 27, 2007, 12:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
Mullah Dadullah told Al Jazeera television Wednesday that bin Laden ordered and orchestrated the Feb. 27 attack targeting Vice President Dick Cheney at the US Bagram base near Kabul. Some 14 people were killed including one American and one South Korean soldier. Cheney was a mile away from danger.
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DEBKAfile
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April 24, 2007, 8:45 AM (GMT+02:00)
A large band of masked men broke into the American International School in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya at dawn Saturday, April 21. After overpowering and tying up the Palestinian guards, they detonated three powerful bombs in two empty buildings, first pouring gasoline around them.
This was the Islamist ...
DEBKAfile
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April 15, 2007, 6:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Three explosions damaged two Internet cafes and a Christian bookshop. No casualties reported.
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April 15, 2007, 11:27 AM (GMT+02:00)
More than 30 killed, 220 injured, in two large suicide bombing attacks in Algiers claimed by al Qaeda Wednesday.
A bomb car drove into the main entrance of the prime minister's office in the center of the capital; a second targeted a police station near the international airport. debkafile ... 
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April 10, 2007, 9:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
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In 2006, the Pentagon spent $1.4 bn to develop sophisticated counter measures for roadside bombs, which account for more US deaths in Iraq than any other weapon. They were designed to locate and detonate the improvised explosive devices IEDs from afar, before ... 
DEBKAfile
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April 10, 2007, 9:27 AM (GMT+02:00)
In the first 9 days of April, 44 US servicemen lost their lives in Iraq, many of them from the deadly roadside bombs known as improvised explosive devices - IEDs. The Pentagon has fitted new systems on US vehicles to disarm those devices, but Al Qaeda had come up with ...
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March 25, 2007, 5:39 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iraq has seen six poison gas attacks in six weeks.
debkafile's military and counter-terror sources warn that al Qaeda may well expand its chemical war to other parts of the Middle East. Chlorine is readily available, used widely everywhere to purify water and in industry. Saturday, March 17, three ... 
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March 18, 2007, 9:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
As Palestinian and Israeli leaders, Mahmoud Abbas and Ehud Olmert finished discussing the Gaza Strip's fate Sunday, March 11, three events showed how little they and Hamas are in control.
Al Qaeda's No. 2, Ayman Zawahri issued a declaration of war on the Palestinian Authority and Hamas in a videotape aired ...
DEBKAfile
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March 18, 2007, 12:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
Our al Qaeda analysts strongly doubt the "A to Z" share he claimed - according to the transcripts of three military hearings at Guantanamo Bay released by the Pentagon - in the 9/11 bombing, the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl or the 2002 Bali and Mombasa bombing ...
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March 17, 2007, 8:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
Our counter-terror sources report that Johnston, 44, was snatched Monday, March 12, in Gaza City, by the same group which together with Hamas kidnapped the Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit in June 2006. It is led by the brothers Mumtaz and Muetaz Durmush.
DEBKAfile
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March 7, 2007, 8:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
The plot for 10 airliners to crash over US cities by detonating liquid explosives, hidden in hand luggage, disrupted British and transatlantic air traffic last August.
Six months later, the Lebanese police report the confiscation of the first batch ever found anywhere of these explosive devices at the S. Lebanese Palestinian ... 
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September 10, 2006, 11:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
The question asked often in the articles, analyses and programs marking the 5th anniversary of the attacks on New York's Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington is: Why has al Qaeda never launched another attack in America on the same scale?
There are plenty of answers: a homeland security ... 
DEBKAfile
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June 20, 2006, 5:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
"Operation Mountain Thrust," the biggest coalition offensive since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, has taken US-led forces deep into the remote mountains of the south. Its primary purpose is to abort the revived Taliban's drive to retake Kabul the capital, and the key city of Herat.
Operation ... 
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June 10, 2006, 12:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
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The final breakthrough in the long pursuit of the most blood-stained terrorist of them all, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, came from Jordan. The source was Ziyad Halaf al Karbouli, also known as Abu Hufeiza, one of the lowlifes Zarqawi employed to attack and rob ... 
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March 29, 2006, 12:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
In a dramatic reversal of his previous testimony, Zacarias Moussaoui, a confessed al Qaeda member, admitted Monday, March 27 that he was part of the 9/11 plot along with the British would-be shoe-bomber Richard Reid.
It is worth recalling that Richard Reid received his training for preparing explosives, concealing them in ... 
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December 19, 2005, 1:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
Since early December, a branch of Abu Musab al Zarqawi's al Qaeda in Iraq has been running a forward base in Gaza City preparatory to in-depth attacks in Israel, according to debkafile's exclusive counter-terror sources. It joins the Al Qaeda-Palestine cell established some weeks ago in the Gaza ...
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