Washington: A purported new issue of an English-language al Qaeda magazine, linked to the Boston terrorist attacks, has been posted on the web but its contents were hacked. The "Inspire" magazine, produced by al Qaeda's Yemeni affiliate - al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which regularly includes how-to instructions for followers to carry out terrorist attacks in the West - has received significant scrutiny in recent weeks.
Investigators believe that Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev accessed the magazine, and the material had instructions on bomb-making, a law enforcement official told CNN. According to analysts, the explosive devices the Boston bombers built had striking similarities to a bomb recipe in the first issue of the magazine, "How to build a bomb in your Mom's kitchen", that has been downloaded by militants in multiple Islamist terrorist plots.
The purported new issue of the magazine was located by Flashpoint Partners, an American outfit that tracks jihadist websites. Josh Lefkowitz, a senior partner at Flashpoint, said they detected the new posting Tuesday evening on the administrator account of the top-tier, password-protected forum Al Fidaa, a website regularly used to disseminate propaganda from al Qaeda and its affiliates.
All the links led to the same corrupted PDF file, and within minutes, the posting had been deleted from the web forum completely. The purported new issue titled, "How did it come to this?" was dated "Spring 2013" and contained no mention of the Boston attack on its cover page....
05:42 PM, May 17, 2013
Mumbai: Lodged in an egg-shaped high-security 'Anda' cell, Sanjay Dutt is feeling "suffocated" in its confines, which are generally used to house terror suspects and hardcore criminals, and the actor pleaded a TADA court on Friday to shift him to another cell as he is not a terrorist. Rizwan Merchant, counsel for Dutt, made an oral plea before the court here to shift the filmstar from 'Anda' cell in Arthur...
05:18 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday welcomed the release of Liyaqat Shah on bail and expressed hope that the National Investigation Agency will complete its probe soon. "I welcome his release on bail and now I hope that the NIA completes its investigation as soon as possible," Omar told PTI. Omar's comment came after a Special Court granted bail to Liyaqat as NIA investigation "confirmed"...
04:01 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: Suspected Hizbul terrorist Liaqat Shah, who was arrested by the Delhi Police for allegedly conspiring to carry out terror attacks in the national capital, was on Friday granted bail by a special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in New Delhi. District Judge IS Mehta enlarged Liaqat on bail on a personal bond of Rs 20,000 with a surety of the like amount. The court imposed several conditions on...
11:32 AM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: The NIA on Wednesday conceded that it didn't have evidence to connect suspected Hizbul militant Liyaqat Shah to the weapons found on him. The NIA made the statement during its concluding remarks in the case at a Delhi court. The agency, however, opposed the bail plea of Shah, who was arrested for allegedly conspiring to carry out terror attacks in the national capital. The NIA opposed his plea...
05:21 PM, May 15, 2013
Srinagar: The Indian Army has launched a massive offensive along the Line of Control in Handwara and Kupwara after reports that six terrorists having been sighted in the area. The Army has intensified patrolling over the past few days. Helicopter patrolling is on and security personnel are on alert along the border. In fact, a major tragedy was averted on Sunday when the Army detected and destroyed an improvised explosive...
10:57 AM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: Suspected Hizbul militant Liaqat Shah on Monday approached a special NIA court in the capital seeking bail in a case of alleged conspiracy to carry out terror attacks in Delhi, claiming that no concrete evidence had been found against him during probe. Forty five-year-old Shah, who was arrested by the special cell of Delhi Police on March 20, moved the bail application during an in-chamber hearing before District...
06:21 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: National Investigation Agency (NIA) has discovered that the Jammu and Kashmir Police was not consulted before Hizbul terrorist Liaqat Shah was arrested by the Delhi Police from Nepal border, sources said on Wednesday. Liaqat was travelling with family as per the surrender policy and the J&K police was aware of his application to surrender. Investigation is still on about the source of the AK 56 rifles and grenades...
05:47 PM, May 01, 2013
Srinagar: A terrorist organization Hizbul Mujahideen has warned the women in Jammu and Kashmir to keep away from latest fashion. The terror group has pasted posters in Kashmir Valley's Sopore warning women and girls of dire consequences if they do not follow the diktat. The posters warn the women and girls against wearing tight and fashionable cloths. Hizbul Mujahideen has also warned people to stop informing or working for security...
02:12 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Mumbai: There may be embarrassment for the Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad in the 7/11 train serial blasts trial. The phone records of four alleged bombers have shown that they were not at the blast site when the bombs were planted. The ATS had arrested five alleged bomb planters in connection with the case and had claimed that they along with seven wanted Pakistani men had planted bombs at the Churchgate station...
01:18 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Srinagar: In a major strike, terrorists on Friday killed four policemen in Sopore area of Baramulla district in North Kashmir. Terrorists opened indiscriminate fire on a police team near Haigam, 65 kms from Srinagar, on Sopore-Kupwara road on Friday evening, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, Abdul Gani Mir told PTI. "Four cops - a head constable, constable and two Special Police Officers (SPOs) - were martyred in the attack," Mir...
07:09 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notices to the Centre and Jammu and Kashmir government on a plea challenging the surrender and rehabilitation policy for terrorists in the state. A bench headed by Justice RM Lodha sought response from the two governments on a petition filed by J&K Panthers Party which alleged persons with Pakistani passports are being illegally allowed to enter Indian territory from Nepal by using...
06:20 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Kabul: A helicopter owned by an Afghan company has made an emergency landing in a Taliban-controlled area of eastern Afghanistan, and the terrorists took all nine people who were aboard hostage. A district administrator in the area says the helicopter landed on Sunday afternoon in strong winds and rain in a village of Logar province, southeast of Kabul and about 30 kilometres from the Pakistan border. Hamidullah Hamid said on...
11:30 AM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday "strongly" recommended to the government to allow close relatives of Khalistani terrorist Devender Pal Singh Bhullar, who is on the death row, to meet him. Bhullar, whose plea for commutation of death sentence to life imprisonment for his involvement in the 1993 bomb blast outside Youth Congress office in New Delhi was rejected by the Supreme Court, is presently under treatment...
06:22 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Boston: US President Barack Obama admitted on Tuesday that the twin bombings in Boston were an "act of terror" and that the country's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating the incident. Obama, who had refrained from using the word "terror" in his earlier address after the blasts, said the "Americans will not be terrorised" and that justice will be done. In the biggest attacks on the US soil since...
09:21 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Boston: FBI and Homeland Security agents carried out searches at a high-rise apartment building in Boston seeking clues to unravel the plot behind the twin blasts, suspected to have been carried out by home-grown terrorists, which killed three people and injured over 150 during the Boston Marathon. Early on Tuesday, investigators descended on a high-rise apartment building in Revere and conducted a search, for nearly nine hours, related to the...
06:32 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) recorded the statements of two wives of suspected Hizbul militant Liaqat Shah and family members of his associate Ashraf Mir in Jammu and Kashmir. A team of NIA officials recorded the statement of his wives in Kupwara while the family members of Mir were contacted in Bandipore, both areas in North Kashmir, sources said. They said the NIA also talked to and recorded the...
10:09 PM, Apr 13, 2013
New Delhi: The bail hearing of alleged Hizbul Mujahideen operative Liaqat Shah has been adjourned to April 25. Earlier a court in New Delhi had asked the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to present Shah before the agency's court in Patiala House. The court declined to hear the bail plea saying the NIA court has jurisdiction in the case. Shah was arrested from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh on the March 20....
04:38 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Islamabad: A policeman was killed and another seriously injured when suspected terrorists attacked a team of polio vaccinators in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, police officials said. Two policemen protecting the vaccinators were injured in the shooting in Mardan town of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. One of the policemen died while being taken to hospital, Deputy Inspector General of Police Zafar Khan told reporters. The other policeman, who sustained serious injuries, was rushed...
11:50 AM, Apr 11, 2013
Dibrugarh: Two United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) cadres were killed in an encounter in Assam's Dibrugarh district after the police and army conducted raids in Bordoloni looking for the extremists. However, two terrorists have escaped the encounter. Security forces on the spot have seized TWO HK-37 rifles and grenades. The terrorists fired at the security forces, which is when the forces retaliated. In the retaliatory action, two ULFA members...
09:36 AM, Apr 09, 2013
