Al Qaida

General Petraeus: Al Qaida May Be Shifting Focus Back To Afghanistan From Iraq

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics


BAGHDAD — After intense U.S. assaults, al-Qaida may be considering shifting focus to its original home base in Afghanistan, where American casua...

Afghanistan Draws Foreign Al-Qaida Recruits

AP | KATHY GANNON | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics


PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Afghanistan has been drawing a fresh influx of jihadi fighters from Turkey, Central Asia, Chechnya and the Middle East, one...

Israel Arrests 6 In Alleged Al Qaida Plot Targeting Bush

AP | MATTI FRIEDMAN | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics


JERUSALEM — Israeli investigators have arrested six men suspected of trying to set up an al-Qaida-linked terror network, including one who wante...

Pakistan: US Not Allowed To Search For Bin Laden

AP | JOHN HEILPRIN and PETER JAMES SPIELMANN | Posted 07.13.2008 | Politics


NEW YORK — Pakistan's top diplomat said Saturday there are no U.S. or other foreign military personnel on the hunt for Osama bin Laden in his na...

Bin Laden Son, Hamza, Posts Terror Poem Calling For Destruction Of America: Report

Huffington Post | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics


Hamza bin Laden, Osama's 16-year-old son, has posted a violent, terror poem on an extremist website to mark the anniversary of the July 7 London bombi...

Al Qaida Targets US Oil Interests In North Africa: Report

Reuters | Posted 07.01.2008 | Home


Al Qaeda's growing north Africa network plans to attack U.S. interests seeking control of the region's energy riches, its Algerian-based leader said i...

Al Qaida's Online Voice Increasingly Powerful

Washington Post | Craig Whitlock | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics


Early this year, a religious radical calling himself Abu Hamza had a question for the deputy leader of al-Qaeda regarding the Egyptian secret police. ...

Obama: GOP Tactics The Reason bin Laden Is Still Free

AP | NEDRA PICKLER and BETH FOUHY | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — A defiant Barack Obama said Tuesday he would take no lectures from Republicans on which candidate would keep the U.S. safer, a shar...

New Al Qaida Message Released By Second In Command Ayman al-Zawahiri

ABC News | REHAB EL-BURI | Posted 06.05.2008 | Home


Reiterating the message in Osama bin Laden's last address, al Qaeda's number two man, Ayman Zawahri released an audio message Wednesday, calling for t...

Female Al-Qaida Demand To Be Acknowledged

KansasCity.com | Lauren Frayer | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home


Muslim extremist women are challenging al-Qaida's refusal to include - or at least acknowledge - women in its ranks, in an emotional debate that gives...

Huge Car Bomb Explodes Outside Danish Embassy In Pakistan

AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 06.02.2008 | Home


ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A car bomb exploded outside the Danish Embassy in Islamabad on Monday, killing six people and wounding dozens weeks after ...

African Al Qaida Cell A Growing Threat To US

CBS News | Posted 05.26.2008 | Politics


The new faces of terror are militants inside an emerging al Qaeda cell, which U.S. officials warn presents a clear and growing threat to America. Bas...

Boy Beheads Man In Al Qaida Video

Huffington Post via CBS News | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics


Al Qaida is training children as young as 12 years old to be the next generation of militants. While these training camps for young militants have be...

Bin Laden Issues New Audio Message

AP | OMAR SINAN | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics


CAIRO, Egypt — Osama bin Laden released a new message on Sunday accusing Arab leaders of sacrificing the Palestinians and calling on Muslim mili...

Every Convicted Plotter In USS Cole Bombing Escaped From Prison Or Freed By Yemeni Authorities

Washington Post | Craig Whitlock | Posted 05.04.2008 | Politics


Almost eight years after al-Qaeda nearly sank the USS Cole with an explosives-stuffed motorboat, killing 17 sailors, all the defendants convicted in t...

US missile strike kills reputed al-Qaida leader in Somalia

AP | MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN | Posted 05.01.2008 | Home


MOGADISHU, Somalia — U.S. missiles destroyed the house of the man identified by the U.S. military as the top al-Qaida commander in Somalia, kill...

Al Qaida Number 2: Iran Propagated 9/11 Conspiracy Theory

AP | MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 04.22.2008 | Home


CAIRO, Egypt — Osama bin Laden's chief deputy in an audiotape Tuesday accused Shiite Iran of trying to discredit the Sunni al-Qaida terror netwo...

Pakistan frees pro-Taliban leader, makes peace with group

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 04.21.2008 | Politics


PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan freed a pro-Taliban cleric and quickly signed an accord with his hard-line group Monday, the first major step by t...

GAO Slams Bush on Terrorism - Says Al Qaeda Attack Likely and We Have No Plan

Max Bergmann | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics


Max Bergmann

This GAO report, released today, may be the most damning condemnation of the Bush administration's counter-terrorism efforts.

GAO Report: US Lacks Terror Plan For Pakistan

Associated Press | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics


Terrorists are still operating freely in Pakistan along the country's Afghanistan border, despite the U.S. giving Pakistan more than $10.5 billion in ...

McCain's Gaffe in the Middle East: Much More Than "a Senior Moment"

Gerald McEntee | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics


Gerald McEntee

Leave it to conservative FOX News' Washington, D.C. managing editor Britt Hume to raise the specter of John McCain's age as an issue in the 2008 elect...

Bush's Legacy of Failure

Robert Scheer | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics


Robert Scheer

Once again there was our president, presiding over disasters in part of his making and on his watch, grinning with an aplomb that suggested a serious disconnect with existing reality.

McCain Gaffe: "Common Knowledge" That Iran Is Training Al-Qaida

Washington Post | Cameron W. Barr and Michael D. Shear | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics


*** UPDATES BELOW *** Sen. John McCain is taking this week to travel the Middle East (as well as stop of in London for a fundraiser). Today in Jorda...

Dick Cheney: Link Between Iraq And Al-Qaida "Pretty Clear"

Think Progress | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics


Before the Iraq war began, Dick Cheney was among the most prominent messengers of the false claim that Saddam Hussein had a relationship with al Qaeda...

Dozens Die In Iraq Bombings During Gates Visit

AP | Posted 02.11.2008 | Politics


Twin car bombs targeted a meeting of U.S.-allied Sunni tribal leaders Monday in Baghdad, killing at least 22 civilians and wounding 42, Iraqi official...


 

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