A senior US official has told lawmakers that they now consider cyber attacks as among the top threats to the national security, even though their is remote chance of any such major attack against the critical infrastructure systems during the next two years. ...
11:50 AM, Mar 13, 2013
President Barack Obama on February 14 promised to be more forthcoming with the American public on his administration's campaign of lethal drone strikes amid criticism over the targeting of suspected US terrorism suspects abroad. Obama, under pressure from the left and right to allow greater scrutiny of the secret decision-making process for killing Americans overseas, vowed to work with Congress to craft a "mechanism" to be more open about how...
10:53 AM, Feb 15, 2013
CIA Director-designate John Brennan strongly defended anti-terror attacks by unmanned drones on February 7 under close questioning at a protest-disrupted confirmation hearing. On a second controversial topic, he said that after reading a classified intelligence report on harsh interrogation techniques, he does not know if waterboarding has yielded useful information. ...
12:05 PM, Feb 08, 2013
President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, two potentially controversial picks for his second-term national security team. ...
07:40 PM, Jan 07, 2013
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: Ayman Al Zawahiri, who took over leadership of al-Qaeda after the death of Osama bin Laden last year, remains in the Af-Pak region, a top US counter-terrorism official said on Sunday. "We believe he (Zawahiri) is in that region of the world, as well as other al-Qaeda leaders that continue to borough into areas of...the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. That's why we're working very closely with our...
10:26 PM, Apr 29, 2012
Washington: Slain al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was looking to use the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks as another opportunity to strike the US, a top White House counter-terrorism official has said. "We know from the material recovered from the bin Laden compound that he was looking at the 10th anniversary of 9/11 as an opportunity to strike yet again at the US homeland," Deputy National Security...
11:55 AM, Sep 08, 2011
New Delhi: The US is unapologetic about what it claims was a unilateral strike on Pakistani soil. The CIA chief said they feared bin Laden would be tipped off if Pakistani officials knew about the raid beforehand. The White House agreed. Chief counter terrorism advisor to US John Brennan said, "We made a decision early on not to share it with any foreign government, including Pakistan because we wanted to ...
07:27 PM, May 04, 2011
US President Barack Obama's counter terrorism advisor John Brennan has confirmed that Pakistan was informed after the operation. ...
07:04 PM, May 03, 2011
US homeland security office head said it was solely in "war with Al Qaeda." ...
05:14 PM, Aug 07, 2009
