Among some British Muslims, Osama bin Laden was a hero and his killing by the US forces, a bitter blow. ...
09:57 AM, May 02, 2012
Documents that include detailed accounts of the planning for some of al Qaeda's biggest attacks and ideas for future operations were recovered in Germany recently. ...
08:19 AM, May 02, 2012
US President Barack Obama spoke to US troops in Kabul and also assured them that by the end of this year they would all be home. ...
08:06 AM, May 02, 2012
New Delhi: It has been a year since the US Navy SEALS stormed into a secret compound in the garrison town of Abbottabad in Pakistan and killed the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden. US President Barack Obama marked the anniversary of the al Qaeda chief's death with a surprise visit to Afghanistan, signing a strategic pact with Kabul on Wednesday and delivering an election-year message to Americans that...
07:32 AM, May 02, 2012
Lahore: Residents of Bilal town in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad where Osama Bin Laden was killed last year have asked the government to build a "statue of peace" or a beautiful monument at the site of his compound to remind the world that there is no place for such a terrorist mastermind. Ahead of the first anniversary of the death of the al Qaeda chief on May 2,...
07:14 AM, May 02, 2012
Washington: Hundreds of internal al Qaeda documents embedded inside a pornographic movie on a memory disk have revealed plots of carrying out attacks in Europe similar to the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. Terrorist training manuals in PDF format in German, English and Arabic were among the documents found, according to intelligence sources cited by CNN, which said it had obtained details of the documents. The German newspaper Die Zeit was...
09:54 AM, May 01, 2012
Washington: Some of the documents recovered from the Abbottabad hide out of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden will be released by the US later this week, a top Obama advisor has said. John Brennan, Assistant to the US President for Homeland Security and Counter terrorism, told audience at a Washington-based think tank on Monday that some of the documents seized in 2011 by US Special forces which killed Osama bin...
08:37 AM, May 01, 2012
Washington: Some of the documents US Navy commandos had seized from al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan will be released this week, a top Obama administration official said on Monday. "In documents we seized,he (Osama) confessed to 'disaster after disaster'. He even urged his leaders to flee the tribal regions, and go to places, 'away from aircraft photography and bombardment'," Deputy National Security Adviser to President Barack...
12:51 AM, May 01, 2012
Washington: The US does not plan to release images related to the covert raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan fearing that this might incite emotions, a top counter terrorism official has said ahead of the first death anniversary of the al Qaeda chief. "There's no need to release the photos and video because there's no doubt whatsoever that bin Laden is dead," Deputy National Security Adviser to US...
02:01 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Washington: Ayman al-Zawahiri, the new head of terror outfit al-Qaeda remains at large in Pakistan's tribal area, a top US counter-terrorism official has said as Washington vowed to hunt him down. Labelling the Egyptian cleric as now the number one target of the US, John Brennan, the US Deputy National Security Advisor told CNN: "We believe he (Zawahiri) is in that region of the world, as well as other al-Qaeda...
01:26 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Washington: The US does not plan to release images related to the covert raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan fearing that this might incite emotions, a top counter terrorism official said on Sunday ahead of the first death anniversary of the al Qaeda chief. "There's no need to release the photos and video because there's no doubt whatsoever that Bin Laden is dead," Deputy National Security Adviser to...
10:19 PM, Apr 29, 2012
Washington: Stung by lingering suspicions that it was complicit in sheltering Osama bin Laden, Pakistan's spy agency has claimed credit for helping US intelligence agencies locate the high-walled hideout of the terror mastermind. "The lead and the information actually came from US," a senior official of the Inter-Services Intelligence told Washington Post, in what the paper said was a push for recognition ahead of the anniversary of the stealth raid...
03:25 AM, Apr 29, 2012
Washington: Stung by lingering suspicions that it was complicit in sheltering Osama bin Laden, Pakistan's spy agency has claimed credit for helping US intelligence agencies locate the high-walled hideout of the terror mastermind. "The lead and the information actually came from US," a senior official of the Inter-Services Intelligence told Washington Post, in what the paper said was a push for recognition ahead of the anniversary of the stealth raid...
04:57 PM, Apr 28, 2012
Washington: Al Qaeda's core organization is likely incapable of carrying out another mass-casualty attack on the scale of September 11, 2001, US intelligence and counterterrorism officials said on Friday. US government experts also believe that the likelihood of an attack using chemical, biological, atomic or radiological weapons over the next year was not high, said Robert Cardillo, deputy director of US National Intelligence. Cardillo and other US officials, who spoke...
03:52 AM, Apr 28, 2012
Suhasini Haidar: Hello and welcome to World View with me Suhasini Haider. Next week marks the first anniversary of a defining moment for the world - the capture and killing of Osama Bin Laden, and we're asking today: Is Al-Qaeda now finished or has it simply mutated? We have in fact two journalists with us on the show, they've both authored some of the most renowned books on the subject. ...
11:43 PM, Apr 27, 2012
Islamabad: Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden had planned to mount indiscriminate attacks on the Pakistani soil before his killing in a covert US raid in Abbottabad, the documents seized by the Americans from the slain terrorist's compound in the Pakistani garrison city have suggested. The CIA shared intelligence about possible al Qaeda attacks inside Pakistan when officials of the two countries met to explore the way forward in resetting...
01:06 PM, Apr 27, 2012
Washington: There is no credible terrorist threat to the US by al Qaeda or its affiliated outfits on the eve of the first death anniversary of Osama bin Laden, even as these groups continue to plan attacks against America to revenge his death, the White House said on Thursday. "At this time we have no credible information that terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda, are plotting attacks in the US to...
11:31 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Washington: There is no credible terrorist threat to the US by al Qaeda or its affiliated outfits on the eve of the first death anniversary of Osama bin Laden, even as these groups continue to plan attacks against America to revenge his death, the White House said on Thursday. "At this time we have no credible information that terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda, are plotting attacks in the US to...
12:48 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Oslo: Norwegian killer Anders Breivik has told a court in Oslo that he picked up strategies from the Al Qaeda and said it could serve as inspiration to European far-right militants. Breivik said he had been closely following Al Qaeda since 2006 and studied each of their actions. "(Al Qaeda is) the most successful revolutionary movement in the world," he said. The 33-year-old said he had read more than 600...
09:45 AM, Apr 21, 2012
Baghdad: More than 20 bombs hit cities and towns across Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 36 and wounding almost 150, police and hospital sources said, raising fears of sectarian strife in a country whose authorities are keen to show they can now maintain security. In Baghdad, three car bombs, two roadside bombs and one suicide car bomb hit mainly Shi'ite areas, killing 15 people and wounding 61, the sources...
03:22 AM, Apr 20, 2012
