Even almost two years after the world's most wanted terrorist was slain by American special forces, President Barack Obama's administration is refusing to release photos of Osama bin Laden's dead body, warning that this would risk "grave damage" to national security. Though media outlets worldwide had made a clamor for 52 photographs taken during 'Operation Geronimo', the Obama administration has stoutly resisted warning that the images could excite an angry,...
03:07 PM, Jan 11, 2013
The State Department made a "grievous mistake" in keeping the US mission in Benghazi open despite inadequate security and increasingly alarming threat assessments in the weeks before a deadly attack by militants, a Senate committee said on December 31. A report from the Senate Homeland Security Committee on the September 11 attacks on the US mission and a nearby CIA annex, in which the US ambassador to Libya and three...
11:50 AM, Jan 01, 2013
Deep inside caves, in remote desert bases, in the escarpments and cliff faces of northern Mali, Islamic fighters are burrowing into the earth, erecting a formidable set of defenses to protect what has essentially become Al Qaeda's new country. ...
09:01 AM, Jan 01, 2013
A suicide bomber killed three people in an attack on a US base in Afghanistan on December 26, the same base that is believed to be used by the CIA and which a suicide bomber attacked three years ago killing seven CIA employees. The Afghan Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in the eastern town of Khost, saying they had sent a suicide bomber driving a van packed with explosives...
03:55 PM, Dec 26, 2012
A top American counter-terrorism official has said that the core of al Qaeda has seriously degraded in South Asia. ...
11:39 AM, Dec 20, 2012
Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow could have made a testosterone-fueled shoot-'em-up Hollywood version of the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden. ...
11:33 AM, Dec 18, 2012
Al Qaeda still represents the most important threat the United States faces across the world, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said on Friday. ...
10:51 AM, Dec 14, 2012
Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the United Nations and a close confidante of President Barack Obama, withdrew her name from consideration as secretary of state on Thursday in the face of what promised to be a difficult Senate confirmation battle. ...
08:34 AM, Dec 14, 2012
Tribal sources from Pakistan's northwest said on Saturday a US drone attack had killed a senior al Qaeda commander in the latest blow to the militant Islamist group that has been targeted in many similar attacks. ...
12:28 PM, Dec 08, 2012
Washington: There has been no evidence that Pakistan leadership knew of the presence of Osama bin Laden inside their country, a top Pentagon commander has said citing post-raid analysis of the secret operation that killed the most wanted terrorist of the world. Navy Adm William McRaven, Commander of US Special Operations Command, said at the Hero's Summit in Washington that post-raid analysis of the raid indicates that the Pakistan leadership...
07:43 AM, Nov 16, 2012
New York: A radical Islamist cleric facing terrorism charges will be outfitted with new prosthetics after US authorities refused to allow him to wear metal hooks in place of his missing hands when he is outside of his jail cell, his lawyer said on Friday. The Egyptian-born preacher, Abu Hamza al-Masri, who is missing both hands and his right eye, appeared in Manhattan federal court for the third time since...
11:47 AM, Oct 27, 2012
New York: A Bangladeshi man was arrested in New York on Wednesday in a sting operation by US authorities for allegedly plotting to bomb the Federal Reserve bank. Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was arrested while he was trying to detonate what he believed to be a 1,000-pound bomb in front of the Fed building on Liberty Street. Nafis, 21, arrived in the US in January and was planning to...
09:14 AM, Oct 18, 2012
Cairo: Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said a film made in the United States mocking the Prophet Mohammed showed Washington was waging a "crusader Zionist war" against Muslims and he called for more protests outside American embassies. Like in other messages released by al Qaeda's Yemeni and North African branches last month, Zawahiri praised last month's assault on the US consulate in Benghazi that killed four diplomats but stopped short...
09:07 AM, Oct 14, 2012
Cairo: Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said a film made in the United States mocking the Prophet Mohammed showed Washington was waging a "crusader Zionist war" against Muslims and he called for more protests outside American embassies. Like in other messages released by al Qaeda's Yemeni and North African branches last month, Zawahiri praised last month's assault on the US consulate in Benghazi that killed four diplomats but stopped short...
01:17 AM, Oct 14, 2012
New York: British radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri on Tuesday pleaded not guilty in a court in New York to 11 terror charges, including plotting to set up a terrorist training camp on US soil and providing material support to al Qaeda. Egyptian-born 54-year-old one-eyed and hooked-hand cleric appeared in Manhattan federal court amid tight security for his arraignment before US District Judge Katherine Forrest, his second court appearance after...
09:46 AM, Oct 10, 2012
New York: Radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, who was flown in from the UK along with four other terror suspects, will remain in detention till his formal arraignment on October 9, a US court has ordered. Hamza, who had fought extradition to the US for years and made his initial appearance in a federal court in New York on Saturday, will be charged for plotting to take hostages and...
08:05 AM, Oct 07, 2012
London: Britain extradited Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to the United States on Friday to face terrorism charges after the one-eyed radical preacher finally failed in his eight-year battle to avoid deportation. The Egyptian-born Abu Hamza is accused by Washington of supporting al Qaeda, aiding a kidnapping in Yemen and plotting to open a training camp for militants in the United States. The 54-year-old cleric, jailed in Britain for inciting...
08:21 AM, Oct 06, 2012
London: Britain said it would extradite Islamist cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to the United States as soon as possible after the one-eyed radical preacher finally failed in his eight-year battle to avoid deportation. The Egyptian-born Abu Hamza is accused by Washington of supporting al Qaeda, aiding a kidnapping in Yemen and plotting to open a training camp for militants in the United States. The 54-year-old also achieved notoriety for praising...
01:34 AM, Oct 06, 2012
After a week of protests against the anti-Islam film, CNN-IBN asks - have Muslim protests become an over-reaction? ...
08:40 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Mogadishu: Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a member of the new Somali parliament, Xinhua reported. According to the state radio, Mustaf Haji Mohamed was murdered as he left a mosque in Mogadishu's Waberi district Saturday. The assassinated MP was newly elected to the 275-member parliament. The killers escaped after the attack, for which no one has claimed responsibility. However, al Qaeda-linked outfit al Shabaab has vowed to target members of...
10:24 AM, Sep 23, 2012
