Washington: US senators scandalized by Pakistan's jailing of a doctor for helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden voted on Thursday to cut aid to Islamabad by $33 million -- one million for each year in the doctor's sentence. "It's arbitrary, but the hope is that Pakistan will realize we are serious," said Senator Richard Durbin after the unanimous 30-0 vote by the Senate Appropriations Committee. "It's outrageous that they...
02:02 AM, May 25, 2012
Tampa: The State Department has launched a different sort of raid against al Qaeda, engaging in a cat and mouse game to replace anti-American al Qaeda ads on Yemeni tribal websites. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Wednesday that experts based at the State Department swapped al Qaeda ads on Yemeni websites bragging about killing Americans with ones showing the deadly impact of al Qaeda tactics on Yemenis...
10:54 AM, May 24, 2012
Sanaa: A suicide bomber in army uniform killed more than 90 soldiers in the heart of the Yemeni capital on Monday and an al Qaeda affiliate threatened more strikes if a US-backed campaign against militants in the front-line state did not stop. The attack, which also wounded more than 200 people, underscored the threat Yemen faces in its fight to dislodge Islamist militants entrenched in the south and threatening vital...
01:39 AM, May 22, 2012
London: Troops of Britain's Special Air Service (SAS) will stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014 to conduct counter-terrorism operations against the remnants of Al Qaeda after British soldiers leave, a media report said. Sources told the Daily Mail said members of the elite regiment will remain in Helmand province to help Afghan forces weed out the militants. Officials said a "great majority" of British forces would come home but the SAS...
05:58 PM, May 20, 2012
London: No effort was spared by the US military before its Navy Seals raided al Qaeda's former chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last May, shows a detailed scale model of his Abbottabad city-located compound. Every tree and bush was mapped out identical to those surrounding his home and even the rubbish bins were included, The Sun reported Thursday. The model was built months ahead of the operation by the...
11:17 PM, May 17, 2012
London: A Saudi bombmaker believed behind several failed but ingenious attempted attacks on the West is the most likely creator of an improved "underwear bomb" discovered in a plot foiled by US and allied authorities, security experts and officials say. Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, who once provided the bomb for a suicide mission by his younger brother, a fellow militant, is described by security officials as one of the most dangerous...
03:20 AM, May 09, 2012
Washington: The revelation that militants sought to attack an airliner with an improved "underwear bomb" in a plot foiled by US and allied authorities shows their determination to build bombs that can pass through airport security, US officials said. The Obama administration said on Monday that authorities in the Middle East recently seized an underwear bomb which they believe al Qaeda's Yemen-based affiliate had intended to give to a suicide...
08:30 AM, May 08, 2012
Islamabad: The Taliban killed 14 security personnel and beheaded all but one of them before displaying the heads of two soldiers on wooden poles in the lawless North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan, security officials said on Monday. Nine soldiers were beheaded on Sunday when militants overran a security picket in Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan Agency. The Taliban had been firing at the picket for the past...
03:24 AM, May 08, 2012
Kolkata: Al-Qaeda's new chief Ayman al-Zawahiri is in Pakistan, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Kolkata on Monday. Egyptian cleric al-Zawahri, took over the organisation after Osama bin Laden's killing on May 2 last year by US Navy SEALs in Pakistan's Abbottabad town. Clinton said: "We want to disable Al Qaeda. We believe Zawahiri is in Pakistan." Speaking at an interaction, she said, "You have to go over...
11:23 AM, May 07, 2012
Cyrus Broacha also talks about Rekha's Rajya Sabha nomination and Osama bin Laden's killing. ...
01:40 PM, May 06, 2012
Washington: Osama bin Laden had planned to kill US President Barack Obama and General David Petraeus, who then was the top US commander in Afghanistan, and had issued instructions to Illyas Kashmiri to set up two units to target planes carrying them. According to the documents seized from the Abbottabad safe-house of bin Laden, where he was killed by US forces about a year ago, the then al-Qaeda leader wanted...
12:44 AM, May 04, 2012
Some of the documents seized from the Abbottabad safe-house of al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden were released by the Combating Terrorism Center (CTS) on Thursday. Osama was killed by the US forces a year ago in Pakistan. The earliest letter is dated September 2006 and the latest April 2011. Following are the English translations of 17 letters made available by the Combating Terrorism Center: ...
09:02 PM, May 03, 2012
Washington: Osama bin Laden had planned to kill US President Barack Obama and General David Petraeus, who then was the top US commander in Afghanistan, and had issued instructions to Illyas Kashmiri to set up two units to target planes carrying them. According to the documents seized from the Abbottabad safe-house of bin Laden, where he was killed by US forces about a year ago, the then al-Qaeda leader wanted...
08:20 PM, May 03, 2012
Washington: Osama bin Laden seemed frustrated with the local jihadi groups that caused sufferings on the Muslims and urged them to abort such attacks and instead focus on the US, documents seized by US forces from his Abbottabad safe house in Pakistan a year ago reveal. "He (bin Laden) is at pain advising them to abort domestic attacks that cause Muslim civilian casualties and focus on the United States, 'our...
07:50 PM, May 03, 2012
Washington: Al Qaeda's English online mouthpiece 'Inspire' has returned proclaiming that it is "still publishing America's worst nightmare" despite the killing of its two top editors in a US drone strike. Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen has produced another issue of the magazine, despite the killing in September of two of top editors, Americans Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan. The ninth edition of 'Inspire', which appeared online on Wednesday, mixes...
06:15 PM, May 03, 2012
Washington: Slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who all his life boasted that he would go down fighting and would ask his bodyguards to shoot him if ever he came near Americans, offered no resistance when US commandos cornered him in his Abbottabad hideout a year ago, claims a new book. "For all his bluster that he would go down fighting and his bodyguards would shoot him if he were...
02:45 PM, May 03, 2012
Washington: Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, who all his life boasted that he would go down fighting and would ask his bodyguards to shoot him if ever he came near Americans, offered no resistance when US commandos cornered him in his Abbottabad hideout a year ago, claims a new book. "For all his bluster that he would go down fighting and his bodyguards would shoot him if he were...
02:05 PM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan's refusal to act against anti-US militant groups mirrors its position on the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, ranging from outright denial, to obfuscation and silence. Slowly but surely it appears that Pakistan is obliterating all evidence of Osama bin Laden's presence in that country. The Abbottabad compound where the al Qaeda chief and his family lived for many years has been demolished. The doctor who confirmed Osama's presence in...
09:56 PM, May 02, 2012
It has been a year since former al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed by the US troops in Pakistan. ...
08:56 PM, May 02, 2012
Al Qaeda is still very much active in Pakistan and in fact, has taken on a new shape in the country, said senior journalist and author of 'Frontline Pakistan', Zahid Hussain. ...
10:02 AM, May 02, 2012
