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259 articles tagged "Bin Laden Terror"
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February 1, 2005, 3:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
In a belated iron clampdown, Kuwait's security forces have waged four bloody gun battles with al Qaeda gangs in less than a month. Oman has rounded up several hundred "Islamists" in the same period. Over the weekend, Jordan and Saudi Arabia went on terror alert to hunt down a group ...
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January 17, 2005, 4:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saturday, March 2003, Abu Mohammed Al Masri, or Farouq al-Masri was walking back to his store from regular prayers at the central mosque of the South Lebanese Ein Hilweh Palestinian camp when a parked white Mercedes exploded and killed him. "Al Masri" was quickly identified by Lebanese intelligence as Ahmed ...
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December 30, 2004, 5:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
The night in Riyadh was torn Wednesday, December 29, by three huge explosions - not just the two officially confirmed. They were followed by long bursts of gunfire in northern and eastern Riyadh. debkafile's exclusive counter-terror sources reveal that the three car bomb blasts were part of an ...
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December 14, 2004, 10:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
At the beginning of December, Washington warned Jerusalem and Cairo of a planned major al Qaeda attack in one of their cities - possibly even with chemical weapons. In addition, the Americans and the British warned Israel and Egypt to beware of large-scale maritime strikes in the Mediterranean, Gulf of ...
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November 15, 2004, 12:00 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Netherlands authorities still resort to a dozen roundabout locutions to avoid admitting that their country has been invaded by hidden al Qaeda cells. That word is still taboo in liberal Holland, even after the country was shocked out of its complacency by the ritual murder on November 2 of ...
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October 31, 2004, 2:08 AM (GMT+02:00)
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Osama bin Laden's videotaped warning to the American people aired by al Jazeera Arabic TV Friday, October 29, was as lethal as any terrorist attack. "Despite entering the fourth year after Sept. 11, Bush is still deceiving you and hiding the truth. Therefore, the ... 
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October 27, 2004, 10:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
From DEBKA-Net-Weekly 178 of Oct. 22, 2004
This week, al Qaeda published what passes in jihadist circles for encyclopedias - not one but two. The first is the single-handed handiwork of Abu Musab al Zarqawi, better known for staging mass murders by suicide bombers and hostage beheadings in Iraq. He ... 
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October 18, 2004, 9:57 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's al Qaeda experts stress that the fundamentalist group`s ideologues of terror, utterly impervious to Western "infidel" opinion and sensitivities, have been immersed in a cold-blooded doctrinal debate on the integration of decapitation in their "jihad." The upshot of this debate was a judgment handed down Thursday, October ...
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October 12, 2004, 12:27 AM (GMT+02:00)
Egyptian investigators have only just begun peeling off the layers of an extremely complex and sensitive search for the hands behind the bomb blasts that hit three holiday resorts in Sinai last Thursday, October 7. The peninsula is popular with Israelis, a quarter of a million of whom frequent its ...
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October 9, 2004, 3:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
A state of emergency was declared in Cairo Saturday, October 9, two days after al Qaeda suicide car bombers killed at least 33 tourists, most of them Israelis, in three Sinai resorts and demolished the Taba Hilton. Roadblocks were thrown up on the Egyptian capital's thoroughfares and access to the ...
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October 9, 2004, 9:08 AM (GMT+02:00)
Friday, October 8, on the morning after a terrorist bombing rampage at three idyllic Sinai desert resorts - with two dozen known dead and scores still missing - the first clues have been found to the identities of the hands behind the massacre and their targets. debkafile's intelligence ...
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September 21, 2004, 5:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
The only five Iraqi women held by the Americans are a long way from being inconsequential. They include two senior scientists attached to Saddam Hussein's biological weapons program: Dr. Rihab Taha, a microbiologist known as Dr. Germ, and Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, head of his anthrax project and member of ...
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September 15, 2004, 8:51 AM (GMT+02:00)
According to debkafile's Iraq and intelligence sources, the violence surged after Washington and the interim Iraqi government spent two fruitless months deep in an earnest effort to end the insurgency by engaging the Sunni-Baath leaders on two tracks. A third was added this month. The first two were ...
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September 13, 2004, 3:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
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On September 10, DEBKA-Net-Weekly reported: The terrorists who ravaged the school and community of Beslan came from a direction startling enough to jolt Russian president Vladimir Putin into taking a hard look at the Islamic terror now rampant outside Chechnya - in at least ... 
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September 4, 2004, 6:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
The first cracks are marring the once rock-smooth relations of unity and obedience binding the fundamentalist terror network's various operational branches to the directives handed down by the top leaders. This fragmentation of al Qaeda into ungovernable entities allied with outside forces, embedded in civilian populations and targeting other civilians, ...
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August 30, 2004, 10:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
According to a top secret Canadian government report, the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York, had a sequel two months later. On November 13, 2001, American Airlines flight 587 crashed over Queens, New York, shortly after takeoff from JFK killing all 265 people aboard. A captured al-Qaeda operative, Mohammed Mansour ...
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August 25, 2004, 2:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
Updated 27 August:
Forty-eight hours after two Russian Tupolev airliners took off from Moscow airport minutes apart and crashed, killing all 89 people aboard, al Qaeda has finally come forward with a claim of responsibility, published by the Islamic Minbar website associated with the Islamist organization. The statement, signed by the ... 
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August 7, 2004, 3:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
Many thousands of copies of a professionally produced CD-rom are being circulated in Iraq and Kuwait on behalf of al Qaeda's man in Iraq, the Jordanian terror master Abu Musab Zarqawi. Iraqi interim prime minister Iyad Allawi is singled out as prime target. The 45-minute disk appears to be aimed ...
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August 2, 2004, 5:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's counter-terror experts are skeptical about the sourcing of the intelligence which prompted the terror alert - declared Sunday at five financial bastions in New York, Washington and New Jersey - to Pakistan's two newest al Qaeda captives, the Tanzanian Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, caught on July 25, and ...
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August 2, 2004, 12:21 AM (GMT+02:00)
The coordinated car bombing attacks in Baghdad and the northern town of Mosul, quickly condemned by the Vatican, precisely targeted five of the mainstream Christian minorities' places of worship - Armenian, Catholic and Chaldean. At least 15 were killed and many more injured in explosions that rocked the two Iraqi ...
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