http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/aq/ en-us Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:30:16 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086362/posts (CNN) -- In a video marking the seventh anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, al Qaeda's top leader in Afghanistan vows more "large-scale" attacks against the United States and its allies. Mullah Omar, chief of the Taliban, is shown in this undated headshot photo. In another segment, the personal adviser to Taliban leader Mullah Omar says al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is alive and well. Al Qaeda leaders featured on the video promise more violence against their enemies... Also on the video is a reading from the will of Saeed al Ghamdi, one of the 19 hijackers involved... CNN.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086362/posts#comment Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:30:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055003/posts Al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri is rumored to have been killed in a July 28 U.S. airstrike in Pakistan Stratfor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2055003/posts#comment Fri, 1 Aug 2008 18:23:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047517/posts Al Qaeda continues to grow its network and expand its capabilities in northwestern Pakistan, US military and intelligence officials told The Long War Journal. The peace agreements have given the Taliban and al Qaeda time and space to re-establish their networks, which pose a threat not only to Pakistan, but the West as well. The Long War Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047517/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:26:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031412/posts Editor's Note: In this exclusive report, CNN's Michael Ware examines the largest collection of al Qaeda in Iraq documents ever to fall into civilian hands, discovering surprises about how the insurgents operate and clues about their strength today.Getty Image> An Iraqi army officer shows a fake ID taken off an al Qaeda suspect in Mosul in May.BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- With Christmas 2005 approaching, the princes of al Qaeda's western command were gathering. They'd been summoned for something special: to plot a three-month campaign of coordinated suicide, rocket and infantry attacks on American bases, checkpoints and Iraqi army positions. In... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031412/posts#comment Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:32:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931806/posts JOHN GIBSON, CO-HOST: It is the big outrage. Fifteen hundred terrorists are on the loose after Saudi Arabia sets them free. The United States just gave the kingdom big props for taking part in today's high-stakes summit to broker a peace between neighboring Israelis and Palestinians but the same country that is attempting to make the world a better place has just made the world a more dangerous place. JAIME COLBY, GUEST CO-HOST: The homeland of Osama bin Laden and 16 of the 9/11 hijackers reportedly releasing more than a thousand terrorists and you will not believe the reason why.... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931806/posts#comment Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:27:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920540/posts ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Faced with increasing violence and unrest, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency Saturday, government sources told CNN. President Pervez Musharraf has faced a flurry of criticism from opponents in Pakistan. Musharraf issued an order proclaiming the emergency and suspending the nation's constitution, according to a statement read on state television, and declaring martial law. Musharraf is scheduled to address the nation at 1800 GMT (2 p.m. ET) Saturday. The Supreme Court declared the state of emergency illegal, claiming Musharraf had no power to suspend the constitution, Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry told CNN. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1920540/posts#comment Sat, 3 Nov 2007 18:18:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910432/posts "More disturbing were the unit's lurid killings of Christian prisoners of war. A vivid example was provided by a German woman who married an Islamist radical who turned out to be part of the al-Qa'ida network in Europe--bin Laden stayed at their house when the couple was living in Saudi Arabia. "In 1994, her husband took the family to Bosnia to assist el-Mujahid operations. She found herself the only Western European woman in the village, where she lived in veiled existence under the rule of shar'ia, as was the custom wherever the mujahidin went. She observed the massacre of two... Banner of Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910432/posts#comment Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:39:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1895616/posts VIENNA, Austria: Two men and a woman with suspected contacts to al-Qaida were arrested Wednesday in connection with an online video threat against Austria and Germany in March, officials said. iht.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1895616/posts#comment Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:49:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866755/posts For two decades until his capture in 1994, Carlos the Jackal murdered, bombed and kidnapped his way to infamy, retaining the title of world’s most dangerous terrorist before Osama Bin Laden stole his crown. But speaking from the Clair-vaux prison in northeast France last week he berated terrorist cells said to have targeted Britain, criticising them for plotting to kill ordinary people. In his first telephone interview with a newspaper, the Venezue-lan-born Vladimir Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, 57, said he was saddened by any loss of life in London, where he lived as a young man. He also attacked what he... The Sunday Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866755/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:48:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866624/posts DEBKAfile Exclusive: Pakistani forces backed by US special units are closing in on al Qaeda’s No. 2 Ayman Zawahiri and possibly also Osama bin Laden Our counter-terror sources report exclusively that a frantic effort by al Qaeda and Taliban to head off the pursuit set afoot the bloody battle in Islamabad’s Red Mosque, the attempts to shoot down President Pervez Musharraf’s plane and the suicide attacks on Pakistani military convoys, which cost 68 lives Saturday and Sunday, July 14-15. Until the middle of last week, Zuwahiri sheltered with the local Pashtun tribes in Bannu, a town in the northwest Pakistan... http://www.debka.org/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866624/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:40:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866515/posts PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Militants in northwest Pakistan disavowed a peace pact with the government and launched two days of suicide attacks and bombings that killed at least 70 people, dramatically escalating the violence in the al-Qaida infiltrated region. The attacks Sunday and Saturday followed strident calls by extremists to avenge the government's bloody storming of Islamabad's Red Mosque and a declaration of jihad, or holy war, by at least one pro-Taliban cleric. Termination of the peace treaty, the hopeful handiwork of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, puts even greater pressure on the military leader as he struggles with both Islamic... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866515/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:47:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1862377/posts U.S. Aborted Raid on Qaeda Chiefs in Pakistan in ’05 By MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON, July 7 — A secret military operation in early 2005 to capture senior members of Al Qaeda in Pakistan’s tribal areas was aborted at the last minute after top Bush administration officials decided it was too risky and could jeopardize relations with Pakistan, according to intelligence and military officials. The target was a meeting of Al Qaeda’s leaders that intelligence officials thought included Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama bin Laden’s top deputy and the man believed to run the terrorist group’s operations. But the mission was called off... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1862377/posts#comment Sat, 7 Jul 2007 23:39:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827307/posts In his new book, Mr. Tenet states that shortly after the September 11 attacks, Mr. Bush briefed Mr. Putin about a Pakistani nongovernmental group, Umma Tameer-e-Nau. The group, whose members included extremist nuclear scientists, was helping the Taliban and al Qaeda develop nuclear arms. The president "asked Putin point blank if Russia could account for all of its [nuclear] material," he states in his book, "At the Center of the Storm." "Choosing his words carefully, the Russian president said he was confident he could account for everything -- under his watch," Mr. Tenet stated, noting that the deliberately ambiguous response... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827307/posts#comment Wed, 2 May 2007 18:37:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1826227/posts In a 2004 article,researcher/attorney Ross Getman voiced a belief the original anthrax plotters had been captured,killed, or otherwise neutralized; and that this explains why there was no subsequent attack. The article came to light during a review of George Tenet's new book; and, with Ross' permission, I have republished it on my site as a Guest Post. Getman's research -whether he is right or wrong -has been exhaustive. The Inside Straight http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1826227/posts#comment Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:59:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1826081/posts How Pakistan settled an al-Qaeda score By Syed Saleem Shahzad KARACHI - Internal squabbling between the Taliban and al-Qaeda and exploited by Pakistan forced many al-Qaeda leaders to move from the tribal areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan to Iraq in search of new headquarters from which to operate. Senior al-Qaeda member Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi, 46, was one of these men - and he paid dearly for the move after being fingered by Pakistan. On Friday, the Pentagon announced that Hadi had been arrested late last year and handed over to the US Central Pakistan's priorities were crystal-clear: it did not... Asia Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1826081/posts#comment Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:44:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1721930/posts Britain now No 1 al-Qaida target - anti-terror chiefs Officials say group sees July 7 attacks as 'just the beginning' of UK campaign Rosie Cowan and Richard Norton-Taylor Thursday October 19, 2006 Britain has become the main target for a resurgent al-Qaida, which has successfully regrouped and now presents a greater threat than ever before, according to counter-terrorist officials. They have revised their views about the strength of the network abroad, and the methods terrorists are able to use in the UK. The Guardian (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1721930/posts#comment Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:58:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701463/posts Iraqi Official Testifies to Links Between Saddam and Al Qaeda BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun September 14, 2006 WASHINGTON — A deputy prime minister of Iraq yesterday offered a sharp contradiction of the conventional wisdom here that Saddam Hussein's Iraq and Al Qaeda had no connection before the 2003 war, flatly contradicting a recent report from the Senate's intelligence committee. In a speech in which he challenged the belief of war critics that Iraqis' lives are now worse than under Saddam Hussein, Barham Salih said, "The alliance between the Baathists and jihadists which sustains Al Qaeda... The New York Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701463/posts#comment Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:25:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1697948/posts Sarajevo, 8 Sept. (AKI) - Bosnia's wartime president, the late Alija Izetbegovic received money from a Saudi businessman, Yassin al-Kadi - who has been designated by the United States, the United Nations, and the European Union as a financier of al-Qaeda - Sarajevo weekly Slobodna Bosna (Free Bosnia) has reported, quoting local and foreign sources. Izetbegovic, a Muslim, who died in 2003, received 195,000 dollars in 1996 from al-Kadi, Slobodna Bosna alleges. Al-Kadi's bank accounts were frozen in 2001 by the United States authorities for money laundering and financing al-Qaeda. The weekly said that Bosnian authorities obtained the information on... Adnki http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1697948/posts#comment Fri, 8 Sep 2006 18:36:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1697574/posts A new video is slated to be released by al Qaeda's propaganda wing, as-Sahab media. The animated gif promotional banner for the video that has been posted on the radical Ekhlaas Forum and is awaiting a link. You will note that both Ayman al-Zawahiri and Adam Gadahn are advertised as appearing in this video. It appears to promote the 90-minute video that was leaked to al-Jazeera on Thursday, of which only 3 minutes were broadcast.http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/aq/060907_aljazeera.wmvSegments of the video included in al-Jazeera's package include pre-9/11 footage of Usama bin Laden, Mohammed Atef, combat training exercises in Afghanistan and the martyr videos... Global Crisis Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1697574/posts#comment Fri, 8 Sep 2006 04:28:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684363/posts WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2006 – Afghan and coalition forces killed an al Qaeda member and detained 13 other suspected terrorists today during an early-morning operation in Afghanistan’s Khowst province, U.S. military officials reported. The operation’s aim was to capture a known al Qaeda facilitator considered a significant threat to Afghan and coalition forces. Intelligence linked the targeted terrorist to weapons and explosive smuggling, officials said. The assault force first requested a peaceful surrender of people within the suspect’s hideout. Most inside immediately surrendered. During a routine search of the compound’s buildings, a man disguised as a woman resisted capture and... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1684363/posts#comment Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:11:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1670725/posts Just a simple question for the Freepers out there. Can we win the war on terror as long as Iran and Syria remain untouched? As long as the Mullahs in Tehran and their friends in Damascus continue to arm, fund, support and train both the terrorists in Iraq and Lebanon as well as provide safe haven for terrorist leaders from Al Qaeda to Hamas, can we really make any meaningful progress in the war on terror? Why, 5 years after 9/11, has the US and its allies not laid so much as a finger on either of the two linchpins... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1670725/posts#comment Sun, 23 Jul 2006 04:15:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635855/posts PARIS (AFP) - A group calling itself Al-Qaeda in Palestine said it carried out a bombing against the Palestinian intelligence chief and threatened more attacks in a statement posted on the Internet. "We declare our full responsibility for this operation," the group said in the statement, whose authenticity could not be independently verified. "Your mujahedeen brothers managed to place a bomb in the special lift used by the apostate Tareq Abu Rajab ... but were hasty in detonating the device which should have been triggered once the lift door was closed." Abu Rajab, overall head of the Palestinian intelligence services,... AFP via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635855/posts#comment Sun, 21 May 2006 14:59:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606839/posts NEWMARKET -- Two local taxi drivers, one with alleged terrorist links and the other facing outstanding charges in the U.S., were nabbed two weeks ago outside a modest townhome here, neighbours and co-workers say. But the secrecy and mystery surrounding the arrests of alleged al-Qaida captain Raja Ghulam Mustafa and his brother-in-law Syed Maqsood Aly continued last night when Syed's wife tried to distance herself from both men. Meanwhile, the Toronto Sun learned last night that Mustafa entered Canada about 18 months ago using the fake name of Raja Ghulam Murtaza and obtained refugee status. When first approached by the... Toronto Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606839/posts#comment Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:56:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606585/posts Sorry it has been five months since my last update, but then, we have been busy. Let me give you the bottom-line up front (BLUF), and then catch you up on things. Feel free to forward this to whomever, since we still can’t seem to get the press to tell folks what is going on. This is how the fight is going from my foxhole, and it is much more than the bombings, US casualties, and rumors of civil war the press seems to be focused on. The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606585/posts#comment Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:37:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595386/posts THE HAGUE, Netherlands - A Dutch toxicologist confirmed Monday that he found traces of a non-prescribed drug in a blood sample taken from former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic earlier this year. Donald Uges said he was asked to examine the sample after Milosevic's blood pressure failed to respond to medication given by doctors at the U.N. detention center...Uges said he found traces of rifampicin, a drug that could have reduced the effectiveness of his other medications...[snip] ...Tomanovic said Milosevic was "seriously concerned" he was being poisoned...He cited a Jan. 12 Dutch medical report which showed traces of medication used against... Yahoo/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595386/posts#comment Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:40:41 GMT