Toulouse: The suspect in an radical Islam-linked killing spree in southern France has stopped communicating with authorities and may have committed suicide, the interior minister said on Thursday, as a standoff between the gunman and hundreds of police entered a second day. Claude Gueant said suspect Mohamed Merah, holed up in an apartment in the southern city of Toulouse, has not contacted negotiators since Wednesday night. "We hope that he...
03:51 PM, Mar 22, 2012
Washington: The United States on Wednesday said that it is willing to discuss with Pakistan the outcome of the parliamentary review of the ties between the two countries as it wants to enhance its cooperation with Islamabad. "This is a critical issue for us. We are obviously willing to discuss with our Pakistani partners the outcome of the parliamentary review at the end of the day, and we'll see where...
04:35 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Toulouse: French police played a waiting game on Wednesday night with a besieged gunman suspected of shooting dead seven people in the name of al Qaeda, seeking to capture alive a militant who had boasted of bringing France to its knees. The 24-year-old Muslim shooter, identified as Mohamed Merah, has been bottled up by France's elite RAID commandos since 3 am (0200 GMT) inside a five-storey building in a suburb...
03:44 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Islamabad: A Pakistan court on Saturday remanded family members of Osama bin Laden, including his widows, to judicial custody for nine days. The al Qaeda chief's youngest widow, Yemeni national Amal Abdulfattah, and her five children were among those remanded to judicial custody. Abdulfattah was with bin Laden in a compound in Abbottabad where he was killed by US special forces in May last year. Abdulfattah's brother, Zakarya Ahmad Abdulfattah,...
11:39 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Washington: In his final days, al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was planning assassination attempts against US President Barack Obama and another attack on the American soil, according to a media report on Saturday. "Tapping away at his computer in the study of the suburban compound in Abbottabad... Laden wrote memos urging his followers to continue to try to attack the US, suggesting, for instance, they mount assassination attempts against...
10:50 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Dubai: Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on Pakistanis to revolt against their government and military in a video posted on the Internet on Friday, US monitors said. In a 10-minute speech uploaded to jihadist forums, Zawahiri argued that the Pakistani authorities only represented US interests, according to a statement from SITE Intelligence Group. Zawahiri, shown standing in front of a green curtain, urged Pakistanis to follow the example of...
04:51 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Washington: In his final days, al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was planning assassination attempts against US President Barack Obama and another attack on the American soil, according to a media report. "Tapping away at his computer in the study of the suburban compound in Abbottabad...Laden wrote memos urging his followers to continue to try to attack the US, suggesting, for instance, they mount assassination attempts against President Obama and...
07:37 AM, Mar 17, 2012
Dera Ismail Khan: The Pakistan Taliban will attack government, police and military officials if three of the late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden's widows are not released from Pakistani custody, a spokesman for the militant group said on Friday. Pakistan's government has charged bin Laden's three widows with illegally entering and staying in the country, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Thursday. "If the family of Osama bin Laden...
04:33 AM, Mar 10, 2012
London: In a new twist to Osama bin Laden saga, emails leaked from an intelligence analysis firm say the body of the al Qaeda leader was actually sent to the US for cremation than buried in sea. According to the emails, bin Laden was shot and killed during the famous Navy SEAL Team Six raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan and was transported back to the US and cremated....
07:28 AM, Mar 08, 2012
London: In a new twist to Osama bin Laden saga, emails leaked from an intelligence analysis firm say the body of the al Qaeda leader was actually sent to the US for cremation than buried in sea. According to the emails, bin Laden was shot and killed during the famous Navy SEAL Team Six raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan and was transported back to the US and cremated....
08:10 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani authorities have allowed family members of slain al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, including his widows and children, to leave the country, a media report said on Tuesday. A Yemeni brother-in-law of bin Laden has arrived in Pakistan to take away his two Yemeni widows, the mass circulation Urdu language Jang newspaper quoted official sources as saying. Bin Laden was killed by US special forces in an early...
11:40 AM, Mar 06, 2012
London: Slain al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden kept two copies of the Bible where he wrote secret clues to future terror attacks to be conducted across the globe, according to Pakistani intelligence officials. The two copies of the Bible were found hidden at the house in Pakistan's Abbottabad city, close to Islamabad, where the world's most-wanted terrorist was killed by US Navy Seals in May last year, The Sun...
11:20 AM, Mar 01, 2012
Baghdad: Simultaneous early morning attacks on mostly Shi'ite targets across Iraq killed at least 60 people and wounded dozens on Thursday in one of the bloodiest days of violence since US troops pulled out in mid-December. The attacks that appeared to pitch al Qaeda-linked Sunni Muslim insurgents against Shi'ites raised fears of a return to the widespread sectarian carnage that tore Iraq apart and cost thousands of lives in 2006...
01:20 AM, Feb 24, 2012
Washington: A 29-year-old Moroccan man who believed he was working with al Qaeda was arrested on Friday near the US Capitol as he was planning to detonate what he thought was a suicide vest that undercover operatives gave him, officials said. Amine El Khalifi of Alexandria, Va, was taken into custody with a gun that didn't work and inert explosives, according to a counterterrorism official. He arrived near the Capitol...
01:45 PM, Feb 18, 2012
Islamabad: Former president Pervez Musharraf knew that Osama bin Laden was hiding in the garrison town of Abbottabad and the Pakistani intelligence itself had made the safe house that sheltered him, a former ISI chief has alleged, according to a media report. Former CIA official Bruce Riedel quoted ex-ISI chief Gen (retired) Ziauddin Khwaja alias Ziauddin Butt, as saying that Musharraf "knew bin Laden was in Abbottabad". In an article...
02:26 AM, Feb 16, 2012
London: Slain al qaeda chief Osama bin Laden reportedly told his children to live peacefully in the West where they would get good education, his brother-in-law has revealed. Zakaria al-Sadah, whose sister was Osama's fifth wife, said the al qaeda chief did not want his children and grandchildren to follow the same path of terrorism like him, the Daily Mail reported. "He told his own children and grandchildren, go to...
10:35 AM, Feb 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry on Thursday sought a report from the Maharashtra Police on the claim that an arrested accused of the 13/7 Mumbai blasts case had met former al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2001. "We have taken serious note of the claim. We have sought a report from Maharashtra as we want to know details of the case," a Home Ministry official said....
07:19 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Islamabad: Al Qaeda's chief in Pakistan, who once fought in Jammu and Kashmir, was among four terrorists killed in a US drone attack in Pakistan's restive North Waziristan tribal region on Thursday. Badar Mansoor, a former commander of the banned Harkat-ul-Mujahideen militant group that was active in Kashmir, was killed with three others when a spy plane fired two missiles at a compound in Miranshah, the main town of North...
04:25 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Former IPL chief Lalit Modi has lashed out at the BCCI for its running of the lucrative Twenty20 league. ...
10:10 PM, Feb 07, 2012
Chicago: A Pakistani-American, charged with sending money to the now-believed-to-be-dead al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri, has pleaded guilty before a court here for providing money for terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir. Raja Lahrasib Khan, a Chicago taxi driver and native of Pakistan who became a naturalised US citizen in 1988, pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organisation, resolving charges that...
05:11 PM, Feb 07, 2012
