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Iraqi intelligence documents, confiscated by U.S. forces and obtained by CNSNews.com , show numerous efforts by Saddam Hussein's regime to work with some of the world's most notorious terror organizations, including al Qaeda, to target Americans. They demonstrate that Saddam's government possessed mustard gas and anthrax, both considered weapons of mass destruction, in the summer of 2000, during the period in which United Nations weapons inspectors were not present in Iraq. And the papers show that Iraq trained dozens of terrorists inside its borders. One of the Iraqi memos contains an order from Saddam for his intelligence service to support...

Osama bin Laden's top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has been captured in Pakistan, according to a report quoted by Israel Radio today. The Jerusalem Post says Pakistani forces operating against al Qaida strongholds in the country report capturing the Egyptian national, who was formerly the head of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which operated in the past against the Cairo regime. Earlier today, Lt.-Gen. David Barno, commander of the coalition forces in Afghanistan, told Reuters bin Laden and other senior al-Qaida leaders are most likely hiding in Pakistan and that they have been assisting Taliban remnants in efforts to disrupt the Oct....

BREAKING NEWS Close associate of Osama bin Laden, Khaled al-Harbi, surrenders to Saudi security officials in Tehran, Saudi official says. Details soon.

WASHINGTON — Al-Qaida planned two more terrorist attacks against the United States, one of them using a radioactive "dirty bomb," in addition to the Sept. 11 airplane strikes, according to a radical Islamist who in the past has had access to Osama bin Laden and other top al-Qaida leaders. The man said al-Qaida members are still trying to carry out a "dirty bomb" attack in the United States, but he said they've had trouble smuggling radiological material to their target, which he did not specify. A "dirty bomb" is not a nuclear weapon but uses conventional explosives to contaminate a...

Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, posed as a businessman selling leather goods during trips to New Zealand to raise support for the Al Qaeda terror network, according to media reports. Dr Al-Zawahiri, currently the subject of a manhunt in Pakistan, claimed to have visited New Zealand twice between 1992 and 1996, investigating the country as a safe haven, local media reported. The claims were made public by bin Laden's biographer Hamid Mir in interviews with newspapers in New Zealand and Australia's ABC Enough Rope television, but police said they had no record of the visits. "He came to New...

Car chase alerted Pakistan to 'high-value target' By Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad Published: March 22 2004 4:00 | Last Updated: March 22 2004 4:00 An unexpected car chase in a remote mountainous region last week is believed to have alerted Pakistani soldiers to the possible presence of al-Qaeda's second-in-command. Away from the scant government briefings, intelligence and security officials have pieced together for the Financial Times the events that led them to believe Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's most senior leader after Osama bin Laden, is hiding in an area bordering Afghanistan. As Pakistani army helicopters pounded the positions of the suspected...

WASHINGTON - The Pakistani military was pounding a mud-walled fortress last night where a "very senior" Al Qaeda leader - possibly Osama Bin Laden's No. 2 - was holding out against a Pakistani siege. American intelligence officials were cautious about who might be inside the mountain stronghold, but Pakistani sources said they believe it was Bin Laden's top general, Dr. Ayman Al-Zawahiri, and he may be wounded. Al-Zawahiri, nearly always at Bin Laden's side during his taunting videotapes, helped create Al Qaeda and was considered the brains behind its operations. His capture or death would be a major blow to...

Soldiers of Pakistan para-military force watch road leading to neighboring Afghanistan (news - web sites) to nab fleeing Taliban and al-Qaida terrorists near Wana in Pakistan's tribal area of South Waziristan on Sunday, March 7, 2004. Pakistan on Monday denied capturing a son of al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri during a raid last month in the border region neighboring Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ahsanullah Wazir) Pakistani Paramilitary troops arrange missiles voluntarily handed over by the tribesmen during a disarmament campaign near the Afghan border, February 25, 2004. Pakistani troops launched a fresh offensive on Tuesday against Al Qaeda and Taliban militants...

Last March, a band of horsemen journeyed through the province of Paktika, in Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border. Predator drones were circling the skies and American troops were sweeping through the mountains. The war had begun six months earlier, and by now the fighting had narrowed down to the ragged eastern edge of the country. Regional warlords had been bought off, the borders supposedly sealed. For twelve days, American and coalition forces had been bombing the nearby Shah-e-Kot Valley and systematically destroying the cave complexes in the Al Qaeda stronghold. And yet the horsemen were riding unhindered toward Pakistan. They...

A NEWSWEEK article by investigative reporters Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball about the memo linking Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein dismisses a recent WEEKLY STANDARD report as "hype" and concludes, the "tangled tale of the memo suggests that the case of whether there has been Iraqi-al Qaeda complicity is far from closed." While it's refreshing to see the establishment media pick up the story, the Newsweek article is less than authoritative. The authors write: "The Pentagon memo pointedly omits any reference to the interrogations of a host of other high-level al Qaeda and Iraqi detainees--including such notables as Khalid...

The Memo and the Link Between Saddam and OsamaBy Lowell PonteFrontPageMagazine.com | November 17, 2003 "OSAMA BIN LADEN AND SADDAM HUSSEIN had an operational relationship from the early 1990s to 2003,” reports the November 24 issue of The Weekly Standard, “that involved training in explosives and weapons of mass destruction, logistical support for terrorist attacks, al Qaeda training camps and safe haven in Iraq, and Iraqi financial support for al Qaeda – perhaps even for Mohamed Atta – according to a top secret U.S. Government memorandum….” This 16-page memo, dated last October 27, was sent from Undersecretary of Defense...

<p>October 3, 2003 -- STILL smarting from the blows it has received in the past two years, the Islamist terror movement is debating a new strategy. Conducted in Islamist circles in Pakistan, the Middle East and Europe, and echoed in numerous Web sites and newssheets, the debate centers on a key question: Which should be our priority target - the United States and its Western allies, or the fragile Muslim states where we could come to power in a reasonable time frame? Some argue that the 9/11 attack against the United States was "premature." They insist that the Islamist movement should have first seized power in several Muslim countries and dotted itself with nuclear weapons before taking on America, which is regarded as "the last champion of unbelief in the world."</p>

Senior investigators and analysts in the U.S. government have concluded that Iraq acted as a state sponsor of terrorism against Americans and logistically supported the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States - confirming news reports that until now have emerged only in bits and pieces. A senior government official responsible for investigating terrorism tells Insight that while Saddam Hussein may not have had details of the Sept. 11 attacks in advance, he "gave assistance for whatever al-Qaeda came up with." That assistance, confirmed independently, came in a variety of ways, including financial support spun out through a complex...

Forty-three Islamists are to go on trial in an Egyptian military court for an alleged plot to attack the US and Israeli embassies in Cairo, a lawyer said on Thursday. Muntasser al-Zayat, who represents Islamist defendants, said military prosecutors had decided to put on trial the suspects, whose arrests were announced in early January, in a month's time after the end of questioning. The government daily Al-Ahram has said the suspects rounded up in the Delta north of Cairo were members of the armed Egyptian group Al-Jihad, which is led by the Ayman al-Zawahiri, who is regarded as Osama bin...

Ayman al-Zawahiri, considered Osama bin Laden's top aide, has been killed in Afghanistan, Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency reported yesterday, citing informed sources. In a report from Islamabad, the agency cited sources as saying that al-Zawahiri was not killed in fighting but in a special operation carried out by unidentified individuals. It did not give any date. On September 11, a London-based Islamist said al-Zawahiri had recently married two widows of a comrade killed in the US-led campaign in Afghanistan. An Afghan military chief said in December 2001 that Zawahiri had been injured and possibly killed in an air attack near...

A person in charge for Al-Qaïda reaffirms that Ben Laden is in good health DUBAI, 9 juil (AFP) - satellite television Arab Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC) diffused in the night of Tuesday to Wednesday a sound recording presented like that of a high person in charge for Al-Qaïda, which affirms that Oussama Ben Laden and mollah Omar "is in good health". "I want to reassure impassioned jihad (...) sheik Oussama Ben Laden, mollah Omar (head supreme of the talibans, note) and all the symbols of the jihad, whose Ayman Al-Zawahiri and sheik Soulaiman Abou Ghaïth, are in good...