Islamabad: A federal minister in Pakistan on Saturday announced a bounty of $ 100,000 on the head of the maker of an 'anti-Islam' film that has sparked violent protests, shocking many people with his announcement. Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, who heads the Railway Ministry, said the reward would be given to the person who kills the filmmaker. He contended there was no other way to protest and instil fear among blasphemers...
07:17 PM, Sep 22, 2012
Miami: President Barack Obama said on Thursday that extremists used an anti-Islam video as an excuse to assault US interests overseas, including an attack on the US Consulate in Libya that killed the US ambassador and three other Americans. The president's comments came as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton faced questions from members of the House and Senate about the September 11 attack on the consulate in Benghazi in...
10:20 AM, Sep 21, 2012
Washington: US citizens should avoid travel to Pakistan, the State Department said on Thursday, in a fresh warning that follows numerous protests, demonstrations and rallies in Pakistan that US officials said are likely to continue. Officials upgraded their ongoing caution about the travel risks in Pakistan, explicitly advising Americans to put off any non-essential travel to the country. They also "strongly urged" those who are already there to avoid protests...
11:38 PM, Sep 20, 2012
Washington: The al Qaeda's affiliate in North Africa Tuesday urged Muslims in the region to kill US government representatives and called the death of ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens a "gift", CNN reported. "We encourage all Muslims to continue to demonstrate and escalate their protests... and to kill their ambassadors and representatives or to expel them to cleanse our land from their wickedness," said a statement from the Al Qaeda...
11:21 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Cairo: Al-Qaeda's branch in North Africa is calling for attacks on US diplomats and an escalation of protests against an anti-Islam video that triggered a wave of demonstrations in Muslim countries. In a statement released on Tuesday, Al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb praised the killing of Christopher Stevens, the US ambassador to Libya, in an attack on the US consulate in Benghazi on September 11. The group...
04:26 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Cairo: Al Qaeda's most active branch in the Middle East has called for more attacks on US embassies to "set the fires blazing," seeking to co-opt outrage over an anti-Muslim film even as the wave of protests that swept 20 countries this week eased. Senior Muslim religious authorities issued their strongest pleas yet against resorting to violence, trying to defuse Muslim anger over the film a day after new attacks...
07:55 AM, Sep 16, 2012
Dubai: The Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda urged Muslims on Saturday to step up protests and kill US diplomats in Muslim countries over a film denigrating the Prophet Mohammad which it said was another chapter in the "crusader wars" against Islam. Fury about the film, produced in California, swept across the Middle East after Friday prayers, with protesters attacking US embassies. On Tuesday - September11 - an attack on the...
12:15 AM, Sep 16, 2012
Cairo: Al Qaeda's leader claims in a video posted on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks that his warriors "defeated America in Iraq". Ayman Al-Zawahri's message was posted on militant websites late Tuesday, to coincide with the anniversary. The 57-minute video, titled "Truth has Come and Falsehood has Perished", included remarks by Adam Gadahn, a spokesman for Osama bin Laden and old footage of bin Laden and other...
11:52 AM, Sep 13, 2012
Cairo: Al Qaeda's leader Ayman al-Zawahiri confirmed in a video recording the death of Abu Yahya al-Libi, a veteran militant said to have been a leader of the group's operations, and who had survived previous US attacks. The US government said in June that a drone strike in Pakistan had killed Libi, dealing the biggest in a series of blows to the militant group since the raid that killed Osama...
11:09 AM, Sep 11, 2012
Sanaa: An airstrike killed al Qaeda's number 2 leader in Yemen along with five others traveling with him in one car on Tuesday, senior Yemeni Defense Ministry officials reported. If confirmed, Saeed al-Shihri's death would be a major blow to the militant group. They said the attack killed al-Shihri, a Saudi national, as the al Qaeda in Yemen deputy left a house in the southern Hadramawt province with his five...
09:12 AM, Sep 11, 2012
New York: Health concerns for emergency workers and a feud over financing that has stopped construction of the $1 billion Ground Zero museum, marks the eleventh year of September 11, 2001, attacks, on Tuesday. While notable progress on redevelopment of the World Trade Center has been made since early disputes over financial, design and security issues, the project remains hobbled by political battles and billions of dollars in cost overruns....
07:52 AM, Sep 11, 2012
Sanaa: An airstrike killed al Qaeda's No 2 leader in Yemen along with six others traveling with him in one car on Monday, US and Yemeni officials said, a major breakthrough for US-backed efforts to cripple the group in the impoverished Arab nation. Saeed al-Shihri, a Saudi national who fought in Afghanistan and spent six years in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, was killed by a missile after...
01:53 AM, Sep 11, 2012
Bangalore/New Delhi: Investigators probing the terror module busted in Karnataka have claimed that the arrested youths were inspired by the contents of an online magazine which glorifies activities of al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Sources in a joint team of central security agencies comprising officials of Intelligence Bureau and RAW conducting the probe claimed on Sunday that during questioning of the arrested people it has emerged they had been apparently indoctrinated...
01:14 AM, Sep 03, 2012
Washington: The dead body of Osama bin Laden was identified by a young girl who was in the room where he was killed after his wives refused to name the elusive al Qaeda chief, a new book by an ex-US Navy Seal has claimed. Matt Bissonnette, 36, in his tell-all account of the operation titled 'No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden', has...
05:33 AM, Sep 01, 2012
Washington: The author who has ruffled feathers of many in the Pentagon and CIA by writing a tell-all insider account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan has been identified as a 36-year-old former Navy SEAL from Alaska. The book, 'No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden', is set to hit shelves on September 11, later this year. It is...
09:30 AM, Aug 25, 2012
London: US President Barack Obama put off three times operations to kill world's most dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden before finally going ahead with the mission at the insistence of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a new book has claimed. Citing unnamed sources within the joint operations command, Rich Miniter, a former 'Wall Street Journal' and 'Washington Times' reporter, claims that three 'kill' missions were called off by Obama in...
11:18 AM, Aug 22, 2012
Calicut: A week after managing to escape from militant's captivity in Philippines, it was an emotional reunion for Kerala's Biju K. Biju was abducted in the Philippines by a militant group with alleged links to the al Qaeda. Fourteen months in captivity in an unknown land Biju K met his worst nightmares in the Philippines after being abducted by militants. But all that is in the past now as he...
08:38 AM, Aug 20, 2012
Biju Kolara Veetil from Calicut was abducted in the Philippines, while visiting his in-laws. In July 2012, he miraculously escaped and is now is now safe in police custody, and is in touch with Indian officials, MEA spokesman Syed Akbaruddin tweeted. Veetil also hopes to head back home soon. ...
10:11 PM, Aug 11, 2012
New Delhi: An Indian escaped from the captivity of an al Qaeda linked terror group after being held captive in the southern Philippines for nearly 14 months. Biju Kolara Veetil from Calicut was abducted in the Philippines, while visiting his in-laws. In July 2012, he miraculously escaped and is now is now safe in police custody, and is in touch with Indian officials, MEA spokesman Syed Akbaruddin tweeted. Veetil also...
06:54 AM, Aug 11, 2012
Islamabad: US has cautioned its citizens in Pakistan to be careful during the upcoming Independence Day and Eid-ul-Fitr festival, saying al-Qaeda elements and militants could take advantage of the celebrations to carry out attacks. A message posted on the website of the US Embassy in Islamabad said, "Terrorists may wish to take advantage of the upcoming Pakistan Independence Day celebrations (August 13 and 14) and Eid-ul-Fitr (approximately August 19, 20...
05:07 PM, Aug 10, 2012
