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259 articles tagged "Bin Laden Terror"
DEBKAfile
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July 31, 2004, 10:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, the IMU, whose suicide bombers struck the US and Israeli embassies and the Uzbek prosecutor-general's office in Tashkent Friday, July 30, - killing three Uzbek guards and injuring 9 - is a multifaceted fundamentalist terror group affiliated to al Qaeda and sharing its philosophy. Friday, ...
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July 21, 2004, 4:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
The 9/11 commission has gained considerable attention by "discovering" that Iran had given free passage to five al Qaeda terrorists who took part in that attack. The Iranians shrugged off the accusation with the comment that the long Iranian-Afghan border is easily breached undetected by anyone who wants to sneak ...
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June 26, 2004, 9:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
The last days of June bring closer than ever before the danger of Iraqi Baathist guerrillas and al Qaeda letting loose with chemical and biological weapons which most authoritative sources believe they secretly possess. The menace is not limited to Iraq's borders. A spate of terrorist strikes in Ankara, Antalya, ...
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June 19, 2004, 5:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saudi security forces appeared to act expeditiously when Friday night, June 18, hours after the decapitated body of the American engineer Paul Johnson was found in Riyadh, they killed his purported murderer, Abdulaziz al-Muqrin in a shoot-out in the capital. Not surprisingly, Al Qaeda quickly denied the death of the ...
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June 17, 2004, 3:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US independent commission's interim account of the September 11 terror attacks in the United States is full of holes and inconsistencies, according to American and Israeli intelligence experts close to the war against al Qaeda. One of its least plausible claims is that Osama bin Laden had pressed to ...
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May 31, 2004, 2:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
Saudi security has thrown up checkpoints and a dragnet for three of the al Qaeda terrorists who escaped during the helicopter-borne Saudi commando attack early Sunday, May 30, that ended the terrorist group's shooting, hostage-taking spree. The Saudi oil company Aramco pledged to continue smooth supplies of crude to avert ...
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May 26, 2004, 1:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
US Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Direct Robert Mueller promise a news conference Wednesday afternoon, May 26, to elaborate on reports that al Qaeda terrorists are present in the United States preparing for a large-scale attack this summer. Americans will be asked to watch out for several suspected al ...
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May 5, 2004, 12:17 AM (GMT+02:00)
The teaming up of al Qaeda terrorists with Iraqi guerrillas on a Middle East rampage against American, British, Jordanian, Saudi, Syrian and Israeli targets last month exposes three dangerous developments: A. Iraq has turned into a hub that radiates terrorist violence far beyond its borders as demonstrated by the April ...
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May 4, 2004, 10:48 AM (GMT+02:00)
The world's largest oil producer was shaken Saturday, May 1, by the first terrorist strike against a joint US-Saudi oil venture, the co-owned Exxon-Mobil-SABIC oil refinery at the kingdom's main oil exporting outlet to the West at the Red Sea port of Yanbu 350 km northwest of Riyadh. At least ...
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April 28, 2004, 12:44 AM (GMT+02:00)
The partial reports filtering out of Damascus indicate that the large-scale terrorist attack carried out Tuesday night, April 27, in the al Maza diplomatic quarter of the Syrian capital - a simultaneous car bomb, machine gun, grenade, rocket assault on several targets that set UN offices on fire and singled ...
Al Qaeda Goes Regional: Basra, Riyadh Bomb Blasts Coordinated with Thwarted Chemical Strike in Amman
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April 21, 2004, 11:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
The horrifying homicide bomb blasts that hit four police facilities and two school buses in the British-controlled south Iraqi port of Basra and the Saudi General Security building in Riyadh on Wednesday, April 21 were part of a wider al Qaeda plot. debkafile's counter-terror sources reveal that for ...
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April 6, 2004, 10:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
On April 4, Serhane ben Abdelmajid Farkhet, 35, alias "The Tunisian", suspected ringleader of the Madrid train bombings, was one of the terrorists who blew themselves up Saturday night in the southwestern Madrid suburb of Leganes when Spanish police closed in on their hideout. Spanish interior minister Angel Acebes said ...
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April 2, 2004, 6:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
The building in the picture, the five-star Le Meridien Hotel, in the Shmeisani district of Amman, walking distance from the Hussein sports center and the Palace of Culture, was projected for reduction to charred rubble Friday, April 2 by a joint Hizballah-al Qaeda bomb team. This is revealed by
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March 31, 2004, 10:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
Nine Americans died in and around Fallujah 30 miles west of Baghdad in a particularly horrendous spasm of blood-letting Wednesday, March 31. Exactly one week after assuming responsibility for the most intractable town in Iraq in a troop rotation, the California-based 1st Marine Expeditionary Force suffered the loss of five ...
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March 20, 2004, 1:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
According to debkafile's exclusive counter-terror sources, the Madrid train bombings in which 201 Spanish commuters were murdered and 1,400 injured, were not the work of an al Qaeda offshoot or affiliate. Like the attacks in the United States, they were conceived, planned, orchestrated and directed by Osama bin ...
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March 17, 2004, 10:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
Even after more than three and-a-half years of escalating violence, the Ashdod Port double suicide attack Sunday, March 14, in which 10 port workers lost their lives, set up a landmark in the annals of Palestinian terror. For it could only have been carried out in one of three ways. ...
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March 13, 2004, 10:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
Officially, Spain's political parties cut short their election campaign three days before polling in deference to the anguish and shock of the most brutal terrorist attack since the 9/11 assaults on New York and Washington. Thursday, March 11, three crowded commuter trains were blown up in Madrid, killing 199, injuring ...
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March 7, 2004, 11:59 AM (GMT+02:00)
A major Palestinian attack averted in the nick of time in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, March 2, was designed as a link in the bloody terror chain connecting Karbala, Baghdad, Basra, Quetta and Israel's largest city. Not by chance, they all occurred on the same day, marking the onset of a ...
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March 3, 2004, 12:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Ashoura Massacre in Baghdad and Karbala made Tuesday, March 2, Iraq's bloodiest day since the fall of Saddam Hussein. The victims - 182 dead, 550 injured - were Iraqi Shiite Muslims. Three million had turned out for the first time in three decades to observe the Ashoura festival commemorating ...
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February 25, 2004, 3:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
According to DEBKA-Net-Weekly's counter-terrorism sources in Washington, al Qaeda's backbone and that of its partner, al-Zawahiri's Egyptian Islamic Jihad are intact and fully operational. The Egyptian half of al Qaeda in particular has led a charmed existence. Since America`s 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, only two senior Jihad operatives have ...
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