Al Qaida
France arrests 2 men in terrorist plot
November 04, 2010French authorities are questioning two men suspected of plotting a serious terror attack in France. The incident comes after a series of heightened warnings including one by al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. In an interview on French television Thursday...
France warned of new terror threat
October 19, 2010Saudi Arabia has warned France that Europe is at threat of an al-Qaida attack. A French official says his country in particular, is the target of an imminent attack. French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said France had received information from the...
Failed British terror attacks tied to Iraq
December 14, 2007Sources familiar with the British investigation into failed terrorist attacks in London and Scotland said the plots have been linked to al-Qaida in Mesopotamia. The sources, senior officials from three countries who have been briefed on the investigation...
Ex-CIA agent says 'waterboarding' worked
December 11, 2007A former CIA interrogator said making an al-Qaida detainee think he was drowning worked in 2002, but he now regards "waterboarding" as torture. In an interview with ABC News, retired agent John Kiriakou told of the capture of Abu Zubaydah...
Report: Al-Qaida stages raid in Algeria
December 10, 2007Reports emerged from Algeria Monday that al-Qaida militants in the country attacked a military bus last week, but gave up and fled. A security source who asked not to be identified told Med Basin Newsline about 12 men carried out the 15-minute attack...
Al-Qaida 'Rolodex' found in Iraq raid
November 23, 2007A September raid near the Syrian border uncovered what U.S. military officials term "an al-Qaida Rolodex" of hundreds of foreign fighters in Iraq. A senior U.S. military official in Baghdad has confirmed to CNN that the raid netted documents...
Army: al-Qaida disrupted in northern Iraq
November 18, 2007Five Iraqis were reported slain in Mosul and an Iraqi army commander survived an assassination attempt Sunday on his convoy in Kirkuk. The five Iraqis, including a captain, were shot and their bodies dumped in separate locations in Mosul, the Kuwait...
Report: Hezbollah probing al-Qaida actions
November 15, 2007The militant Hezbollah group in Lebanon is investigating activities of al-Qaida cells in the country, Beirut's As-Safir newspaper said Thursday. The report said Hezbollah security officials suspect al-Qaida made a failed assassination attempt last...
Mass grave found northwest of Baghdad
November 06, 2007Iraqi and U.S. troops on an anti al-Qaida mission northwest of Baghdad found a grave containing at least 22 corpses, the military said Tuesday. The find was made in the Lake Tharthar region, which straddles Anbar and Salaheddin provinces, CNN reported...
EU terror chief warns of al-Qaida threat
November 06, 2007Al-Qaida is due to attack member states of the European Union, the union's new counter-terrorism chief told the European Parliament. Gilles de Kerchove told the body in Brussels Monday he has studied intelligence from various countries since being...