http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/almasri/ en-us Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:50:55 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339523/posts BULLETIN -- NEW YORK POLICE AND FBI RAID HOMES IN QUEENS IN TERRORISM INVESTIGATION.6 minutes ago from BNO Headquarters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339523/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:50:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2363547/posts Note: The following text is a quote: Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York SECURITY COUNCIL AL-QAIDA AND TALIBAN SANCTIONS COMMITTEE ADDS NAME OF ONE INDIVIDUAL TO CONSOLIDATED LIST On 27 May 2009, the Security Council Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee approved the addition of the entry specified below to its Consolidated List of individuals and entities subject to the assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo set out in paragraph 1 of Security Council resolution 1822 (2008) adopted under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations. C. Individuals associated with Al-Qaida QI.H.269.09.... UN.org - News - Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2363547/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:17:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2344571/posts My Op-ed in The Australian By Leah Farrall, Australia I have an op-ed piece out in today’s edition of The Australian called “Detentions come back to bite” It’s about Guantanamo blowback now having very real strategic consequences: the formation of a new strategy to kidnap civilians in Afghanistan in order to secure the release of prisoners taken by America. Sally Neighbour has a front page piece derived from my op-ed here “Afghan foreigner kidnap order by al Qaeda leader Mustafa Hamid”. I haven’t seen the broadsheet yet, so I’m not sure if the photos I provided of Hamid are on... ALL THINGS COUNTERTERRORISM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2344571/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 06:28:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2334359/posts If the wave of terror attacks against Britain can be linked to one man, then intelligence sources say that man is Abu Ubaida Al Masri. He was the 'Holy Warrior', the veteran Muhajideen fighter chosen by Al Qaeda to bring unprecedented death and destruction. With the end of the airline bomb trial, we can reveal his extraordinary role in orchestrating at least four separate plots uncovered against the UK. DailymailUK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2334359/posts#comment Tue, 8 Sep 2009 04:17:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234973/posts Oussama Abdullah Kassir, 43, who was extradited from the Czech Republic on terrorism charges in 2007, faces multiple charges including supporting al-Qaeda by attempting to set up the camp in rural Oregon from 1999 to early 2000 and later setting up websites on explosives and poisons. (REUTERS) via YNET NEWS.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234973/posts#comment Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:55:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166143/posts Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/hp1360.htm January 16, 2009 hp-1360 Treasury Targets Al Qaida Operatives in Iran Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Department of the Treasury today designated four al Qaida associates under Executive Order 13224, which targets terrorists and those providing support to terrorists or acts of terrorism. "It is important that Iran give a public accounting of how it is meeting its international obligations to constrain al Qaida," said Stuart Levey, Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. "Global efforts to financially isolate al Qaida have made it difficult for the core leadership to raise funds... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166143/posts#comment Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:41:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136445/posts A fugitive British militant linked to an alleged UK plot to use liquid bombs to blow up transatlantic airliners has been killed in Pakistan, reports say. Pakistani media said Rashid Rauf, born in Birmingham, was killed in a US air strike in North Waziristan, a haven for militants and the Taleban. Mr Rauf, on the run after escaping from a Pakistani jail, was alleged to have helped the group planning the attacks. Three men were convicted in the UK in September of conspiracy to murder. News of the liquid bomb plot paralysed global air travel, prompting authorities to implement stringent... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136445/posts#comment Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:53:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122227/posts Expanding Afghan War Awaits New President An expanded U.S. military involvement awaits a new U.S. president in Afghanistan where the unfinished business of September 11 has flared over the past three years into a major insurgency. A raft of assessments and reviews now underway in Washington point to a fundamental rethinking of the Afghan war. But whoever is elected Tuesday will face choices on the size of the military buildup, how to strengthen the central government, how far to go in dealing with insurgent sanctuaries across the border, how to help stabilize Pakistan, and whether and how to reconcile... Previous Thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122227/posts#comment Sun, 2 Nov 2008 02:30:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121535/posts ISLAMABAD (AFP) — An Egyptian Al-Qaeda operative described by the United States as the terror network's propaganda chief was killed in a missile strike in Pakistan, security officials said Saturday. Abu Jihad al-Masri was among several rebels killed when two missiles fired by a suspected US spy drone hit a truck in the North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan on Friday night, they said. The United States has offered a one-million-dollar bounty for the death or capture of al-Masri, who has appeared in an anti-Western video introduced by Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's number two. "The strike was aimed at... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121535/posts#comment Sat, 1 Nov 2008 10:30:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060590/posts PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Senior Al Qaeda commander Abu Saeed al-Masri was killed in recent clashes with Pakistani forces near the Afghan border, a security official said on Tuesday. "He was believed to be among the top leadership of al Qaeda," the senior security official said on condition of anonymity. Al-Masri, which means "the Egyptian," was the most senior al Qaeda operative to have been killed in Pakistan's tribal belt since the death of his compatriot, Abu Khabab al-Masri, an Qaeda chemical and biological weapons expert, last month. Television channels identified the dead man as Mustafa Abu al-Yazid and said... Reuters on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060590/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:44:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060397/posts BREAKING NEWS — Senior Al Qaeda commander Abu Saeed al-Masri has been killed in recent clashes with Pakistani forces in a Pakistani region near the Afghan border, a security official told Reuters on Tuesday. "He was believed to be among the top leadership of Al Qaeda," the senior security official told the news agency on condition of anonymity. Al-Masri, which means Egyptian, was the senior most Al Qaeda operative http://www.foxnews.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060397/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:10:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060365/posts SENIOR AL QAEDA COMMANDER ABU SAEED AL-MASRI KILLED IN PAKISTAN - SECURITY OFFICIAL reuters (excerpt) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060365/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:37:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056439/posts KABUL, Afghanistan -- In a blow to al Qaeda in Pakistan, the terrorist group confirmed Sunday that one of its top weapons researchers, Abu Khabab al-Masri, was killed, apparently in a U.S. missile strike. Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056439/posts#comment Mon, 4 Aug 2008 21:26:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055945/posts By ANNA JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer Sun Aug 3, 4:15 PM ET CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida confirmed Sunday the death of a top commander accused of training the suicide bombers who killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole eight years ago. Abu Khabab al-Masri, who had a $5 million bounty on his head from the United States, is believed to have been killed in an airstrike apparently launched by the U.S. in Pakistan last week. Click here for news story http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055945/posts#comment Sun, 3 Aug 2008 23:32:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055705/posts Al-Qaeda has confirmed the death of a chemical and biological weapons expert whose killing in a suspected US strike was reported by Pakistan, an Islamist militant website said on Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT Abu Khabab al-Masri was among a group of "heroes" who joined "the caravans of martyrs," said a statement signed by Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, Al-Qaeda's general commander in Afghanistan. Yahoo News - AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055705/posts#comment Sun, 3 Aug 2008 13:35:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054186/posts BAGHDAD - The leader of the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq and several of his top lieutenants have recently left Iraq for Afghanistan, according to group leaders and Iraqi intelligence officials, a possible further sign of what Iraqi and U.S. officials call growing disarray and weakness in the organization. U.S. officials say there are indications that al-Qaeda is diverting new recruits from going to Iraq, where its fighters have suffered dramatic setbacks, to going to Afghanistan and Pakistan, where they appear to be making gains. Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054186/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:34:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040058/posts Al-Qaeda Draws New Recruits Via Internet Al-Qaeda is using the Internet to recruit vulnerable young people to its terrorist network, according to a programme aired on Saudi Arabian TV late on Tuesday. Umm Osama, the founder of al-Qaeda's first women-only website, al-Khansa, joined several others on the programme to discuss how they renounced jihadist ideology. Among those who sought a response to this question was an imam from the Medina mosque, Saleh Ibn Awad al-Mudamsi, and the father of a young al-Qaeda suspect held in an Iraqi prison. Read More Qaeda Targets U.S. Oil Interests in North Africa U.S.... Previous Thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040058/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 02:02:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965193/posts Kabul, 4 Feb. (AKI) - United States intelligence sources are reportedly claiming al-Qaeda nuclear weapons expert Abu Khabab al-Misri was the real target of last week's CIA airstrike in northern Pakistan which is said to have killed one of the terror network's key leaders, Abu Laith al-Libi. Al-Misri is reportedly able to make so-called 'dirty bombs' that contain radioactive waste mixed with explosives. US intelligence services reportedly believe that al-Qaeda has since 1997 been seeking to acquire 'dirty bombs' and other weapons of mass destruction. AKI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965193/posts#comment Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:01:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052978/posts Officials: Al Qaeda's Mad Scientist Killed One of al Qaeda's top chemical and biological weapons experts was killed in an air strike by a CIA pilotless drone in a remote Pakistani border region, senior Pakistani intelligence officials told CBS News Tuesday morning. Intelligence officials investigating the Sunday night missile attack confirmed that Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar, also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri was one of six men killed and his remains had been positively identified. "We now have a positive ID on the body. I can confirm to you that Al-Masri has been killed," CBS news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052978/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:09:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052790/posts <p>Al-Qaeda's top expert on chemical and biological weapons is believed to have been killed Monday in a suspected US missile strike in Pakistan's lawless tribal areas, security officials said.</p> <p>Egyptian militant Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar, also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri, had a five-million-dollar bounty on his head and allegedly trained hundreds of extremists at camps in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region.</p> AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052790/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:11:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052753/posts WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suspected U.S. missile strike on a Pakistani madrasa near the Afghan border killed six people on Monday, possibly including an al Qaeda chemical and biological weapons expert, Pakistani security officials said. A senior Pakistani security official said Abu Khabab al-Masri, an Egyptian chemist regarded as one of al Qaeda's top bomb makers, could have been the target. Monday's pre-dawn attack blitzed a house close to a madrasa used by militants near Azam Warsak village, about 20 km (12 miles) west of Wana, the main town of the South Waziristan tribal region, a known hotbed of... ReutersUK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052753/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:02:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015419/posts US slashes reward for al-Qaida Iraq leader By MATTHEW LEE and PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Writer 24 minutes ago WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has slashed its reward for the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq from $5 million to $100,000 because it feels he's lost effectiveness and is no longer worth such a steep price, officials said Tuesday. Over the course of the last year, the government first reduced the bounty for Abu Ayyub al-Masri from $5 million to $1 million and then removed him entirely from the State Department's Rewards for Justice Program, which pays tipsters for information leading... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015419/posts#comment Tue, 13 May 2008 19:55:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015026/posts The U.S. government has quietly withdrawn a $5 million reward it was offering for the killing or capture of Abu Ayyub al-Masri, named by Pentagon officials as the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq. US News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015026/posts#comment Tue, 13 May 2008 00:30:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013488/posts BAGHDAD, May 9 (Reuters) - A man seized by Iraqi forces in the northern city of Mosul is not Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, a senior U.S. military official said on Friday. "He has not been detained," the official told Reuters, without giving further details. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013488/posts#comment Fri, 9 May 2008 09:23:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013251/posts BAGHDAD — The leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, was arrested in the northern city of Mosul, the Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday. Mohammed al-Askari said the arrest of al-Masri, also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, was confirmed to him by the Iraqi commander of the province. There was no immediate confirmation or comment from U.S. forces. News of the arrest was also reported by Iraqi state television. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013251/posts#comment Thu, 8 May 2008 21:33:29 GMT