Al Qaida

Pakistan Christian Attacks Planned In Advance: Rights Group

AP | ASIF SHAHZAD | Posted 09.03.2009 | World


ISLAMABAD — An independent Pakistani human rights commission said Tuesday that rioting that killed eight Christians last week was not spontaneou...

Al Qaeda Offers Obama Conditional Truce If Troops Leave Muslim World

AP | MAAMOUN YOUSSEF | Posted 09.03.2009 | World


CAIRO — Osama bin-Laden's deputy said in a video message released Monday that the al-Qaida leader's offers of a truce with the U.S. and Europe r...

Suspected Jakarta Bombing Message Claims Attacks Targeted American Businessmen

AP | ANTHONY DEUTSCH | Posted 08.29.2009 | World


JAKARTA, Indonesia — Police were investigating the origin of an Internet message claiming responsibility for twin hotel bombings in Indonesia's ...

UK's Prime Minister Gordon Brown Agrees with Admiral Mike Mullen on "Redrawing Afghan Battle Space"

Rani Singh | Posted 08.24.2009 | World


Rani Singh

The Huffington Post asked the British Prime Minister for clarification on his stance on Afghanistan.

Roy Sekoff Discusses Dick Cheney Ordering CIA To Keep Congress In The Dark About Hit Squad Program (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics


Huff TV

HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff joined Ed Schultz on his eponymous MSNBC show to discuss the revelation that Dick Cheney ordered the CIA to keep secret fro...

China Protests: Al Qaeda Vows Retaliation For Crackdown On Uighurs

Huffington Post | Posted 08.14.2009 | World


UPDATE: ABC News reports that Rebiya Kadeer, the head of the World Uighur Congress who lives in Fairfax, Virginia and was recently blamed by the Chin...

Al-Qaida Trial Verdicts Delivered In Saudi Arabia

AP | DONNA ABU-NASR | Posted 08.08.2009 | World


RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi criminal court has convicted and sentenced an al-Qaida militant to death and given more than 300 others jail term...

France Burqa Stance Elicits Al Qaeda Threat

Huffington Post | Posted 08.01.2009 | World


Following an imbroglio in France in late June when President Nicolas Sarkozy declared the burqa to be unwelcome and against French values, al Qaeda is...

Christopher Leggett Death: Al Qaida Says It Killed American In Mauritania For Proselytizing

AP | AHMED MOHAMED | Posted 07.26.2009 | World


NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — Al-Qaida's North African branch has claimed responsibility for the killing of an American aid worker shot dead this wee...

Algeria Al-Qaeda-Linked Militants Kill 21 Police

AP | ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU | Posted 07.19.2009 | World


ALGIERS, Algeria — Al-Qaida-linked militants ambushed a convoy of Algerian police escorting Chinese construction workers near a highway building...

Adam Gadahn, American Al Qaeda Spokesman, Discusses Jewish Heritage

AP | MAAMOUN YOUSSEF | Posted 07.16.2009 | World


CAIRO — Al-Qaida's American spokesman said in a message released over the weekend that his grandfather was Jewish and encouraged him to visit Is...

Hassan Hussein Bin Alwan, Al Qaeda's Biggest Financier In Saudi Arabia, Arrested In Yemen.

AP | AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 07.15.2009 | Home


SAN'A, Yemen — Yemeni security forces have arrested a Saudi man suspected of financing Al-Qaida cells in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, an Interior Min...

Pakistan Taliban Leader Allied With Al Qaida Faces Challenge From New Islamic Militia Leader

McClatchy | Saeed Shah | Posted 07.14.2009 | World


A new Islamic militia leader has emerged in Pakistan to openly challenge al Qaida-affiliated warlord Baitullah Mehsud for the first time from within h...

Afghanistan Al-Qaeda Low On Funds

AP | Posted 07.13.2009 | World


CAIRO — Al-Qaida's top commander in Afghanistan urged Turkish Muslims in a new audio message to send money to militants fighting coalition troop...

Some Al Qaeda Fighters Moving To Yemen and Somalia

New York Times | ERIC SCHMITT and DAVID E. SANGER | Posted 07.12.2009 | World


WASHINGTON American officials say they are seeing the first evidence that dozens of fighters with Al Qaeda, and a small handful of the terrorist group...

President Obama's Speech: Classic Lesson in Counterinsurgency

Sean Gilfillan | Posted 07.05.2009 | World


Sean Gilfillan

If you don't think that President Obama's speech today was a classic lesson in counterinsurgency, then you are not looking at the big picture.

Hafiz Saeed A 'Humanitarian': Pakistan UN Ambassador

UN Dispatch | Posted 07.05.2009 | World


I just sat down with the Pakistani Ambassador the United Nations, Abdullah Hussain Haroon. I asked Amb. Haroon to respond to Obama's Cairo speech and...

Edwin Dyer: British Hostage Killed By Al Qaeda In Mali: Gordon Brown

AP | DAVID STRINGER | Posted 07.04.2009 | World


LONDON — Al-Qaida terrorists have killed a Briton taken hostage in Mali, the British prime minister said Wednesday. The fate of a Swiss hostage ...

Pakistan Drone Attacks Guided By Planted 'Chips'

Wired | Posted 07.02.2009 | World


It sounds like a tinfoil hat nightmare, come to life: tiny electronic homing beacons, guiding CIA killer drones to their targets. But local residents ...

Al Qaida Interrogation Cookies: All It Took To Soften Abu Jindal

Editor & Publisher | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics


Fascinating piece coming in tomorrow's TIME magazine. Reporter Bobby Ghosh writes, "The most successful interrogation of an al-Qaeda operative by U.S....

Iraqi Al Qaeda Group Leader Still In Custody: Iraqi FM

AP | PAUL SCHEMM | Posted 06.13.2009 | World


BAGHDAD — Iraq's defense minister on Wednesday insisted that the head of an al-Qaida front group was indeed in custody, refuting a potentially e...

Al Qaeda Suspects 'Plotted Attack On Britain' From Jail

Telegraph | Posted 06.12.2009 | World


Italian police have arrested two alleged al-Qaeda terrorists suspected of planning attacks on Britain and France from inside prison....

Petraeus: al-Qaida not operating in Afghanistan (VIDEO)

AP | Posted 06.10.2009 | World


(AP) WASHINGTON — The chief of the U.S. Central Command says al-Qaida no longer is operating in Afghanistan. But Gen. David Petraeus (peh-TRAY'-...

Al-Qaida Used Hotmail, Public Phones In Planning

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 06.01.2009 | World


WASHINGTON — In the days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, alleged al-Qaida operations mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed intended to use...

Osama Bin Laden Believed Dead By Pak Intel: Zardari

AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 05.28.2009 | World


ISLAMABAD — Pakistan's president said Monday his intelligence agencies believe Osama bin Laden may be dead, but he added there is no proof. Othe...