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259 articles tagged "Bin Laden Terror"
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January 8, 2004, 5:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran announced prematurely this week that it had renewed full diplomatic relations with Egypt. It added, as a sweetener, that a street in Tehran had been renamed Intifada street from Khaled Islambuli street, after the Egyptian who assassinated Anwar Sadat in 1981. Egypt denied that ties had yet been resumed, ...
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January 6, 2004, 12:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
They got a harsh response from Prince Nayef, the interior minister who leads the war against al-Qaeda. "The weak can't challenge the mighty. We are not a regime that wants people to be satisfied with us. We are here in Saudi Arabia in order to rule," he declared last weekend ...
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December 31, 2003, 12:03 AM (GMT+02:00)
The banner headline spread across the front page of Il Giornale, the respected Milan daily reads: "Al Qaeda: We will destroy New York within 35 days. Threat on the Internet. Countdown begins." The threat was contained in a video clip featured on a web site associated with the fundamentalist terror ...
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December 28, 2003, 7:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
Al Qaeda's determined assassination attempts on Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf on December 14 and again on the 25th bring to mind an ominous sequence that preceded the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on New York and Washington. Two days earlier, on September 9, al Qaeda assassins murdered Ahmad Shah ...
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December 22, 2003, 4:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
America's abrupt elevation of its nationwide terror alert from yellow to orange Sunday, December 21, was not just as a precautionary layer of security for the holiday season. Nor was it prompted merely by increased chatter over al Qaeda-linked websites. US Homeland Minister Tom Ridge spoke of "substantially increased intelligence" ...
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November 29, 2003, 3:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
Turkey: Police brought a suspect in his twenties, caught Tuesday, November 25, when he tried to cross the border into Iran on a fake passport, to the wrecked Beit Israel synagogue for a reconstruction of the suicide bombings of two Istanbul synagogues on November 15. The manacled man was described ...
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November 25, 2003, 11:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
Just 24 hours after its countdown threat to the United States (reported below), al Qaeda has compiled a detailed kidnappers manual for snatching American troops, diplomats and civilian personnel working with US forces - or any Americans at all - in Muslim countries. The manual, a copy of which has ...
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November 22, 2003, 1:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
When informed of the Istanbul synagogue bombings last Saturday, November 15, Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in an off-the-cup reaction, hit the nail on the head. They are trying to destabilize Turkey, he said, there and then cutting short his trip to Cyprus. Within hours he had reached the ...
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November 19, 2003, 10:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Jordanian gunman who cut down a group of Ecuadorian pilgrims with automatic gunfire at the border crossing from Jordan to Israel north of Eilat on Wednesday, November 19, did much more than shatter the calm of a border terminal normally bustling with goods, tourist and business traffic between the ...
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November 16, 2003, 12:07 AM (GMT+02:00)
European Commission President, Romano Prodi hurried Saturday November 11 to condemn the terrorist car bombings at two Istanbul synagogues, Neve Shalom and Beit Israel, even before the final tally of the dead. The Italian official made the gracious gesture of visiting the central Milan synagogue and bringing the condolences of ...
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November 15, 2003, 3:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
A confidential report by a UN panel of experts finds that the only thing holding al Qaeda back from using chemical and biological weapons is its lack of technical know-how. But the decision has already been taken to use them in forthcoming attacks. Because of the lack of this technical ...
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November 11, 2003, 12:45 AM (GMT+02:00)
The suicide bombing attack Saturday night November 9 that devastated Riyadh's Muhaya compound and killed scores was the work of an al Qaeda Lebanese team, according to our intelligence and counter-terror sources. With this strike, Osama bin Laden's Lebanese arm made its debut on the stage of international terror.
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November 10, 2003, 12:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Though similar in operational method to the May 12 triple suicide attack in Riyadh, al Qaeda's suicide assault on the Muhaya housing complex in the Saudi capital Saturday night November 9 exposed two new features. Osama bin Laden's terrorists have taken a threatening step closer to one of their premier ...
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September 8, 2003, 8:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran consistently denies ever having sheltered or hidden Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant and operations ace, Dr Ayman al-Zuwahiri, in the group of al Qaeda leaders present in the country. This assertion is wide of the truth. The Islamic Republic did in fact hide the bespectacled Egyptian medical doctor for ...
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August 26, 2003, 6:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
This week, Al Qaeda came out and claimed responsibility for the huge truck bombing at UN Baghdad headquarters on August 19, in which 23 including senior UN representative in Iraq Sergio Vieira de Mello lost their lives and some 150 were injured. The al Qaeda message appearing on an Arabic ...
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August 16, 2003, 1:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
mg class="picture" src="/dynmedia/pictures/Flightter.jpg" align="left" border="0">Al Qaeda had fixed on last week to launch its most devastating simultaneous mega-terror offensive since September 11, 2001, in several countries of the Red Sea, Persian Gulf and East Africa. However, sweeping, timely counter-action blunted its impetus. Revealing this, debkafile's exclusive counter-terror sources ...
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August 9, 2003, 10:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
mg class="picture" src="/dynmedia/pictures/JRwreck.jpg" align="right" border="0">The fingerprints of Ansar al-Islam, the Iraqi fundamentalist terror group linked to Al Qaeda, prompted Washington to place the FBI at the head of the investigation into the Jordanian embassy bombing in Baghdad Thursday, August 7, in which 19 people lost their lives and over 60 ...
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July 28, 2003, 11:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
mg class="picture" src="/dynmedia/pictures/Fazul.jpg" align="right" border="0">Al Qaeda is again setting its sights on Kenya. The United States has just finished building a spanking new embassy complex in Nairobi with the last word in counter-terror devices, a model for every American legation in the world. It replaces the building al Qaeda blasted ...
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July 22, 2003, 9:30 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israel has more cause for concern from the presence of senior al Qaeda operatives in Iran than from the prospect of Iran shooting a Shehab-3 medium-range missile any time soon, despite the handover ceremony Iran's bellicose spiritual leader Ali Khamenei staged with Iran's Revolutionary Guards on July 20. According to ...
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July 19, 2003, 4:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Since the May 12 al Qaeda triple attacks on Riyadh compounds housing Westerners, Tehran has been leaking teasers about the presence of high-profile Islamic terrorists purportedly in the custody of Iranian authorities. None of these terrorist leaders have ever been shown in public. Each leak raises temperatures in Washington, Riyadh ...
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