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  • Yemen says key al-Qaeda chief Said al-Shihri killed

    09/10/2012 8:32:05 AM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 5 replies
    BBC ^ | September 10, 2012
    Said al-Shihri, described as the second-in-command of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), has been killed in an operation in southern Yemen, government officials say. Al-Shihri was reportedly killed with six others in the Hadramawt area.
  • Al-Qaida branch confirms its No. 2 killed in Yemen

    07/17/2013 4:56:06 AM PDT · by nuconvert · 42 replies
    The Yemen-based branch of al-Qaida confirmed on Wednesday that the group's No. 2 figure, a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, was killed in a U.S. drone strike.
  • Report: Top al Qaeda leader killed

    01/23/2013 12:35:31 PM PST · by TexasCajun · 18 replies
    CNN ^ | Wed January 23, 2013 | Hakim Almasmari
    <p>Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- The deputy leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and one of the most wanted men in Saudi Arabia has been killed, a prominent jihadist announced Tuesday, though officials in the group's home base of Yemen said they had no evidence of his death.</p>
  • U.S. Uncovers Plans for More Attacks

    10/12/2003 12:40:38 PM PDT · by Mossad1967 · 21 replies · 236+ views
    AP ^ | 10/12/2003
    Some of the al-Qaida operatives whose activities led to a U.S. security warning last month have been captured, while others remain at large, U.S. counterterrorism authorities say. "We have received a lot of good information from these detainees over the past several weeks and corroborated the fact there were active plans, ongoing, to conduct another attack in the United States," said William H. Parrish, a top intelligence official with the Homeland Security Department, during a recent interview with The Associated Press. "This attack as they indicated was probably going to be multiple attacks, simultaneous," he said...
  • Telegraph - Al-Qaeda plot to bring down plane over UK

    08/23/2003 9:00:10 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 22 replies · 317+ views
    The Sunday Telegraph (UK) ^ | August 24, 2003
    The FBI has uncovered intelligence that al-Qa'eda terrorists are plotting to hijack an aircraft in Britain over the next two months and fly it into an important building. British Airways and other leading airlines operating in and out of Britain have been put on alert after the warning was passed to the security services. The most likely targets are aircraft taking off from Heathrow and Gatwick airports. The FBI and the American department for homeland security circulated a warning to American and British airlines on July 30, saying that terrorists working in teams of five were likely to try...