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Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
Suspected al-Qaeda militants unleash a wave of terror across 12 cities, killing at least 60 people in attacks on buildings including a primary school. Photo: AP The Sun-Herald revealed last week that Australia had been named as a specific target for...
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La Prensa
| 1 year ago
Aided by cable-TV talking heads, Americans are spending too much time speculating over whether presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would have given the order to get bin Laden, and also issuing paeans to President Obama's courage.
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Pakistan 's Prime Minister has again denied that his government was aware that former al-Qaeda chieftain Osama bin Laden had been living in the country prior to his assassination by U.S. commando forces in a town near Islamabad last May. Share This...
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Mail and Guardian
| 1 year ago
US analysts believe that Osama Bin Laden wrote: 'You may find it suitable to target Americans in South Africa, because it is located outside the Islamic Maghreb.' (Naseer Ahmed,Reuters) Newly released documents seized during the operation in which...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
And one of the places that they clearly are located is Yemen," Panetta told reporters at a Pentagon news conference yesterday. "The United States' both military and intelligence communities have gone after al Qaeda, and we continue to go after Qaeda,"...
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The Sun UK
| 1 year ago
Stories The man chosen to carry out the al-Qaeda bombing was of Middle Eastern heritage with UK-Saudi nationality and secretly working for British intelligence. He scuppered the scheme by handing over his explosive device a high-tech version of the...
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The independent
| 1 year ago
An undercover agent who foiled an al-Qa'ida plot to blow up a airliner with an underwear bomb is a British national, it was reported tonight. UK intelligence were said to have been "heavily involved" in recruiting the spy who infiltrated a terror...
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War In Context
| 1 year ago
Treasury claim of Iran-al-Qaeda secret deal' is discredited by News Sources on May 10, 2012 Gareth Porter reports : The U.S. Treasury Department's claim of a secret deal between Iran and Al-Qaeda, which had become a key argument by right-wing...
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The Berkeley Voice
| 1 year ago
I find it appalling that anyone even considers sending "suspicious activities" reports to some central agency...I have taken many pictures of the Oakland Federal Building for a number of perfectly valid and innocent reasons. I hate to think that...
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HNN
| 1 year ago
Julian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of "Jimmy Carter" (Times Books) and of the new book "Governing America" (Princeton University Press). Princeton, New Jersey (CNN) -- Just as Mitt...
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Mustang Daily
| 1 year ago
May 10, 2012 Andrew Bloom Some of us vividly remember the first murmurs of agitation, one year ago, that rippled across the Internet faster than we were used to this was no mere announcement of a music festival lineup or a paltry celebrity's passing.
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has rejected claims his country sheltered Osama bin Laden or knew he was living there. Gilani, speaking about the one-year anniversary of the al-Qaida founder's death in a U.S. commando raid in Abbottabad,...
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Canadian Free Press
| 1 year ago
Fugitive Canadian is alleged to have instructed al-Qaeda Occasional' Canadian passport getting el-Shukrijumah around the world If Osama bin Laden had allegedly not been snuffed one year ago, would he be flying all over the world conducting al Qaeda...
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The Bellingham Herald
| 1 year ago
He's not going to let Republicans turn one of the crowning achievements of his first term into a negative. The Obama team apparently learned from the experience of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry in 2004, when White House operative...
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The Hindu
| 1 year ago
Insisting that Pakistan had no role in providing shelter to Osama bin Laden, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has attributed presence of the slain al Qaeda leader in his country to universal intelligence failure. Mr. Gilani, who is on a five-day...
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The Bellingham Herald
| 1 year ago
On the heels of President Barack Obama's surprise visit to Afghanistan last week, in which he pledged to "finish the job we started" and "end this war responsibly," the American public's support for the 11-year conflict has reached a new low,...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Gilani said the reason Bin Laden was able to live undetected for so long inside Pakistan was down to a universal 'intelligence failure'. He also hinted that he didn't know whether Ayman al-Zawahiri, who inherited the al-Qaida leadership from Bin...
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Japan Times
| 1 year ago
It has just been revealed by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point Military Academy in the United States that I am on a very short list of journalists (eight in Western countries and seven others in India, Pakistan and Arab countries) to whom...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Law enforcement officials have begun a leak investigation into how information about the Yemen bomb plot operation went public, according to NBC News . Share This Story United States authorities, with the help of an insider, recently thwarted a bomb...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Saturday Night Live nixes skit mocking Obama on bin Laden Updated Saturday Night Live apparently developed a skit mocking President Obama for excessive celebration of Osama bin Laden's death, but it did not air. According to a script obtained by the...
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Zee News
| 1 year ago
How underwear bombmaker became US' worst nightmare Washington: Running a clandestine bomb factory in remote area in Yemen, a nondescript Saudi has emerged as the most potent threat to the US, making three bids in past three years to spread mayhem in...
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The Sun UK
| 1 year ago
BE terrorist caught in a foiled underwear bomb plot was a CIA double agent, reports claimed last night. The person sent by Yemen-based al-Qaeda to blow up a US-bound plane had infiltrated the group, left the country with the device and delivered it...
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Embassy
| 1 year ago
It has just been revealed by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point Military Academy in the United States that I am on a very short list of journalists (eight in Western countries, and seven others in India, Pakistan, and Arab countries) to...
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Asia Times Online
| 1 year ago
Quso has been described as a top al-Qaeda leader in Yemen, being head of its "external operations". It should be made clear that while Quso was far from the most important leader among Yemen's jihadis who are alleged to be led by Nasir al-Wuhayshi,...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 1 year ago
Armed US air marshals travelled on flights from Britain to America last week amid fears of attacks using "underpants" bombs following the discovery of a new sophisticated device in the Middle East. American counter-terrorism officials sent the...
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
Since the terror attacks on the morning of September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda has put different types of plans into action in numerous Jihad plots. While none of the plots have been successful, they have brought change to airport screenings and other...
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Teaneck Suburbanite
| 1 year ago
Osama bin Laden a year ago generated worldwide publicity combined with impromptu street celebrations. While that was an understandable exception, the United States' war on terror usually occurs with much less fanfare. Some may not notice, but the...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
Yemen He has dispatched his own brother to death, hiding a bomb on him before he crossed into Saudi Arabia to target the kingdom's chief counterterrorism official. He has tried to attack the United States three times in the past three years, building...
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Canadian Free Press
| 1 year ago
Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner one year after the killing of Osama bin Laden, according to a statement released on Monday. What surprised many counterterrorism experts was the sophistication of the upgrade of the so-...
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
8 May 2012 U.S. and Yemeni officials say the supposed would-be bomber at the heart of an al-Qaeda airliner plot was actually an informant working for the CIA. New terror alert: The feds say Al-Qaeda planned to strike on the first anniversary of Osama...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
Following a recent al-Qaeda issued video in which terrorists are instructed about how easy it is to obtain guns in America, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is asking his citizens to complain to Congress about lax legislation. American officials...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
FoxNews.com The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee suggested Tuesday that the Obama administration may have misled the public in keeping the lid on the latest Al Qaeda-affiliate bomb plot, and called for a review into the way the...
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NY1
| 1 year ago
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security say there are no plans to change security procedures at airports here in the city or beyond amid news federal intelligence officials foiled a new al-Qaeda underwear bomb plot...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
Video Video Video On Monday, security officials fingered Mr. al-Asiri or possibly one of his protege, as there are conflicting reports over whether the bomb-maker was killed in the fall over an alleged plot to bomb a western-bound airliner. The bomb...
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DAWN
| 1 year ago
Militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan on Tuesday distributed pamphlets pledging holy war to mark the first anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, albeit a week late. Masked militants armed with assault rifles handed out copies of the...
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
8 May 2012 Armed air marshals were on all flights between Gatwick Airport and the U.S. last week as American intelligence agencies worked to thwart an underpants bomb plot, it has been claimed. U.S. media is reporting that marshals were sent over to...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
A suspected member of Al-Qaeda was killed when a bomb he was trying to plant at a checkpoint run by a local militia in Yemen's restive Abyan province exploded, a tribal source said on Tuesday...In a bid to keep out the jihadists, locals have formed...
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Pak Tribune
| 1 year ago
President Barack Obama, marking the 10th anniversary of the US military campaign in Afghanistan, said on Thursday that al Qaeda was on the ropes but "enormous challenges" remain to rebuild the country. "In delivering justice to Osama bin Laden and...
