Tag Archives: Al Qaeda

  • News globalsecurity

    Police: Mastermind of UK terror plot sentenced

    The architect of an al Qaeda-inspired terror plot in Birmingham, England, was sentenced Friday to at least 18 years in prison without the possibility of parole.

  • News Mali Violence

    Al Qaeda’s Abou Zeid killed by French, Chadian forces

    Abou Zeid, one of al Qaeda’s most influential figures in North Africa, has been killed.

  • News Four Americans were killed in the Benghazi terrorist attack, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, when armed terrorists stormed the compound on September 11, 2012.

    Source: Slain ambassador Stevens said he was on al Qaeda list

    Stevens specifically mentioned a rise in Islamic extremism and al Qaeda’s growing presence in Libya, the source said.

  • News Abu Yahya al-Libi

    al Qaeda leader killed in U.S. drone strike

    Abu Yahya al-Libi was second-in-command

  • News NEWS >> GENERIC >> Top Secret, Spying

    Yemen plot exposes new world of U.S. spying

    As details of the foiled al Qaeda plot to blow up a U.S.-bound airline became public, the world learned about the new reality of how U.S. intelligence works.

  • News airplane

    U.S. official upset over leak about double agent in al Qaeda bomb plot

    The double agent, who volunteered as a suicide bomber for the terrorist group, was actually working as an intelligence agent for Saudi Arabia.

  • News airplane

    Bomb plot shows new level of sophistication, lawmaker says

    Device was more sophisticated, with built-in fail safes, lawmaker says

  • News

    Officials say new airline bomb plot foiled

    U.S. and other intelligence agencies broke up a plot to bomb an airliner, U.S. counterrrorism officials said Monday.

  • News

    Man with VA ties pleads with President Obama in Al Qaeda hostage video

    Warren Weinstein, 70, makes the emotional plea to President Barack Obama in a video released on several Islamist websites Sunday.