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Ads by Google      Terror Tuesday: Impact on South Asia -- Al Qaeda-Profile The Al Qaeda sees the United States as providing support to the various ‘heretic’ regimes of the world, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Israel and the United Nations. Al Qaeda has forged alliances with like-minded fundamentalist groups such as Egypt's Al Jihad, Iran's Hezbollah, Sudan's National Islamic Front, as also terrorist outfits in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Somalia. Another rallying aspect for the Al Qaeda network is the ‘liberation’ of Islam's three holiest places -- Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia as also Jerusalem. http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/usa/Al_Queda.htm   (1133 words)      Al-Qaeda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic sentiments are often expressed, and many Al Qaida members have openly stated their desire to destroy the state of Israel. According to statements broadcast by al-Qaeda on the Internet and on satellite TV channels, the ultimate goal of al-Qaeda is to re-establish the Caliphate across the Islamic world, by working with allied Islamic extremist groups to overthrow secular or Western-supported regimes. Speaking in 2001 he said: "The name 'al Qaeda' was established a long time ago by mere chance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda   (6037 words)      Andrew C. McCarthy on 9/11 Commission & Iraq & al Qaeda on National Review Online Al-Fadl told agents that when al Qaeda was headquartered in the Sudan in the early-to-mid-1990s, he understood an agreement to have been struck under which the jihadists would put aside their antipathy for Saddam and explore ways of working together with Iraq, particularly regarding weapons production. I would point out, moreover, that al Qaeda is a full-time terrorist organization — it does not have the same pretensions as, say, Sinn Fein or Hamas, to be a part-time political party. Al Qaeda's time is fully devoted to conducting terrorist attacks and planning terrorist attacks. http://www.nationalreview.com/mccarthy/mccarthy200406170840.asp   (2610 words)      Al Qaida - SourceWatch "Al Queda itself does not exist, except in the fevered imaginations of neo-cons and Likudniks, some of whom, I suspect, also know it is a myth, but find it extremely useful as a bogeyman to spook the public and the politicians to acquiesce in otherwise unacceptable policy initiatives at home and abroad. Yet al Qaeda is more lethal as an ideology than as an organization. Faye Bowers, “Terrorists turn up the dial in global PR war (http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1124/p02s01-wogi.html): Al Qaeda is using the Internet and video outlets with growing speed, volume, and sophistication, Christian Science Monitor, November 24, 2004. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Al_Qaeda   (1283 words)      Terrorism - In the Spotlight: Al Qaeda (The Base) This left bin Laden (who had previously split from Azzam over differences as to how MAK/al Qaeda should evolve and was suspected by some to have been behind his murder) firmly in charge of al Qaeda which he then proceeded to reshape into his own vision. Other recent reports suggest al Qaeda is even attempting to move back to its former strongholds across the Afghan border. According to the CIA, since the Sept. 11, 2002 attacks over 3,000 al Qaeda militants have been arrested, with more than one-third of the group's top leaders killed or captured. http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/alqaeda-pr.cfm   (1412 words)      Al Qaeda seeks tie to local gangs - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - September 28, 2004 Authorities said al Qaeda terrorists hope to take advantage of a lack of detention space within the Department of Homeland Security that has forced immigration officials to release non-Mexican illegal aliens back into the United States, rather than return them to their home countries. Although they are actively involved in alien, drug and weapons smuggling, Mara Salvatrucha members in America also have been tied to numerous killings, robberies, burglaries, carjackings, extortions, rapes and aggravated assaults — including at least seven killings in Virginia and a machete attack on a 16-year-old in Alexandria that severely mutilated his hands. U.S. authorities said al Qaeda operatives have been in Tegucigalpa planning attacks against British, Spanish and U.S. embassies. http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040928-123346-3928r.htm   (729 words)      Al Qaeda's Fantasy Ideology - Policy Review, No. 114 This is why the mere fact that there is no “realistic” hope of al Qaeda destroying the United States — and indeed the West as a whole — is not of the slightest consequence. The issue facing the U.S. was not whether to accept or to reject al Qaeda’s political demands, which were nebulous in the extreme. As the purpose of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia was to prove to the Italians themselves that they were conquerors, so the purpose of 9-11 was not to create terror in the minds of the American people but to prove to the Arabs that Islamic purity, as interpreted by radical Islam, could triumph. http://www.policyreview.org/AUG02/harris.html   (7058 words)      U.S. says Iran harbors al Qaeda 'associate' - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics That link was a key element in the U.S. case that Saddam Hussein's Iraq was tied to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, a stance repeated yesterday by President Bush in response to a New York Times report that said two al Qaeda captives had said the group did not cooperate with Saddam. Defense and intelligence officials said the senior al Qaeda members the secretary has mentioned include at least two hiding in Iran &; including Sayf al-Adl, who is believed to be the official in charge of al Qaeda's military operations and has been linked to the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa. Another intelligence official said al-Zarqawi might be among the al Qaeda members that the government of Iran said it had detained, although other officials doubted this. http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030610-125659-6237r.htm   (1050 words)      Iraq War Helped Boost Al Qaeda Prevented from attacking Western countries, Al Qaeda- linked groups are turning their attention on "soft" targets in countries where they have some popular support, and where security is weak, such as Saudi Arabia and Morocco. U.S. officials partly tried to justify the Iraq war by insisting there were links between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's ousted regime — an assertion most experts continue to believe is unsubstantiated. Stevenson believes Al Qaeda-linked groups will further focus future operations in the Persian Gulf region because of the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0520-02.htm   (828 words)      FrontPage magazine.com :: Symposium: Diagnosing Al Qaeda by Jamie Glazov Beyond any doubt, al Qaeda and radical Islam are among the most serious threats to U.S. national security that we face today. Similarly, the prospect of al Qaeda forming a robust and dangerous partnership with Iraq is no longer a threat. It remains to be seen whether any of the other key al Qaeda operatives can match his planning, money, and contacts. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9416   (7352 words)      Al Qaeda (Harpers.org) The CIA, using a Predator drone, assassinated an Al Qaeda leader and several of his companions in Yemen; it turned out that one of the men was an American citizen. Al Qaeda's Abu Hafs Brigades took credit for the recent blackout and said that it was a gift to the Iraqi people. Counterterrorism officials said that all the recent Al Qaeda attacks were a sign that the organization has been weakened. http://www.harpers.org/AlQaeda.html   (3494 words)      Al Qaeda Links The often sited claims of links between Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and Osama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda were not only ideologically absurd but the global intelligence community believed the claims were ridiculous as well. - Two of the highest-ranking leaders of Al Qaeda in American custody have told the C.I.A. in separate interrogations that the terrorist organization did not work jointly with the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein, according to several intelligence officials. Keep in mind that when the Bush/PNAC bunch make claims about Al Qaeda links to Iraq based on the fact that some Al Qaeda have received training in Iraq, it is the same thing as the hundreds if not thousands of Al Qaeda members that received training in the US! http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/al_qaeda_links.html   (3135 words)      Profile of Abu Musab Zarqawi Hoffman says Zarqawi's relationship with al Qaeda is "like a businessman with a good idea coming to a venture capitalist." U.S. intelligence reports have also tied Zarqawi to al Tawhid ("Unity of God"), a shadowy group of global reach whose goals align with al Qaeda's and that reportedly has plotted attacks in Jordan and Germany. Zarqawi heads Jund al-Shams, an Islamic extremist group and al Qaeda affiliate which operated primarily in Syria and Jordan, but is now believed to have moved to the Ansar al-Islam enclave in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq where he helped establish a new poison and explosive training camp. In mid-2001 he visited Kandahar and was given $35,000 by al Qaeda along with a promise of more if he organized attacks against Israel, according to a 2003 U.S. Treasury report, which cited summaries of interrogations of al Qaeda leaders. http://www.emergency.com/2004/abu_Musab_Zarqawi.htm   (5260 words)      'Chilling' Al Qaeda Memo Obtained - CBS News As outlined by Zawahiri in the letter, al Qaeda's battle plan calls for driving the Americans out of Iraq, establishing an Islamic regime in as much of the country as possible and then extending the holy war to other Arab countries, including Egypt, Lebanon and Syria. In the letter, Zawahiri complains to Zarqawi that some of his violent tactics are hurting public support for al Qaeda's cause, particularly the videotaped beheadings of hostages. Where al Qaeda operates, who's been caught, how they're financed and a timeline of attacks on Americans. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/06/eveningnews/main924484.shtml   (459 words)      Case Closed The report claimed that Saddam insisted the relationship with al Qaeda be kept secret. Some of it is new information obtained in custodial interviews with high-level al Qaeda terrorists and Iraqi officials, and some of it is more than a decade old. According to reporting in the memo, bin Laden sent "emissaries to Jordan in 1990 to meet with Iraqi government officials." At some unspecified point in 1991, according to a CIA analysis, "Iraq sought Sudan's assistance to establish links to al Qaeda." The outreach went in both directions. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/378fmxyz.asp   (642 words)      frontline: hunting bin laden: who is bin laden?: al qaeda PBS In his interview with FRONTLINE, Saudi dissident Saad Al-Fagih challenges the U.S. government's characterization of Al Qaeda. The US government issued an indictment in November 1998 alleging that Osama bin Laden heads an international terrorist network called "Al Qaeda," an Arabic word meaning "the base." The government's allegations from this and subsequent indictments concerning Al Qaeda include the following: * The named defendants, plus other members of Al Qaeda, "conspired, confederated and agreed to kill nationals of the United States." In furtherance of this conspiracy, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/alqaeda.html   (534 words)      Al Qaeda's profile: slimmer but menacing csmonitor.com Yet the US has leaned on Muslim allies to fight Al Qaeda, especially in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, home to 15 of the 9/11 hijackers and the "epicenter" of Al Qaeda funding, according to a US Treasury Department official in June. New insights have led government officials to say Al Qaeda is as dangerous, or more so, than it was before 9/11. He's always said that Al Qaeda can't wage this global jihad by itself. http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0909/p03s01-usfp.html   (1593 words)      CNN.com - Al Qaeda No. 2: Bush must admit defeat in Iraq - Jan 6, 2006 In mid-October, U.S. officials released a letter they said was written by al-Zawahiri to the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in July about seeking support for Iraqi insurgents ahead of a U.S. withdrawal. Al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian doctor with a $25 million reward on his head, released five audio and video statements last year, including several claiming responsibility for the July attacks on London's transit system. Al-Jazeera said the video, which is about a minute long, was made in December. http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/01/06/alqaeda.video   (675 words)      Al Qaeda may be rebuilding csmonitor.com There is also evidence that Al Qaeda's remaining leadership believes the war in Iraq will produce a new stream of recruits disenchanted with American actions, perhaps allowing Al Qaeda to create a new front of international jihad. The detentions of key operatives are setbacks, but 70,000 men have passed through Al Qaeda's training camps or fought with Arab freedom fighters in Afghanistan. But some intelligence sources and experts outside government believe that Al Qaeda has been quiet by choice, not because its plans have been disrupted. http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0505/p01s01-wosc.html   (851 words)      Terror Watch: Mounting Evidence on Iran - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com The Al Qaeda operatives are believed to be in some sort of government custody, most likely house arrest. But investigators say there is mounting evidence about Al Qaeda-Iranian relationships that appear to have been overlooked by a Bush administration that was far more focused on finding connections between bin Laden’s organization and the government of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. But the Iranian government has repeatedly rebuffed U.S. entreaties to turn over the Al Qaeda leaders, and some U.S. intelligence officials believe they may be still supervising terror operations—especially in Saudi Arabia—through the use of couriers. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5479438/site/newsweek   (1515 words)      Saddam's al Qaeda Connection The CIA has confirmed, in interviews with detainees and informants it finds highly credible, that al Qaeda's Number 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, met with Iraqi intelligence in Baghdad in 1992 and 1998. For months before the war in Iraq, the Bush administration claimed to know of ties between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's Iraq. In interviews conducted over the past six weeks with uniformed officers on the ground in Iraq, intelligence officials, and senior security strategists, several things became clear. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/033jgqyi.asp   (627 words)      Winds of Change.NET: al Qaeda Attacks: A Flash Presentation For example, the murders of journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan and USAID executive Lawrence Foley in Jordan were excluded, as have smaller impact suicide attacks and beheadings by al Qaeda in Iraq and elsewhere. Excerpt: This presentation is striking, considering all the attacks which were left out-- The purpose of the presentation is to graphically demonstrate al Qaeda’s ability to conduct mass casualty assaults on a global scale. This is how the America CIA actualy paid to establish the Al Qaeda organization. http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/007162.php   (7543 words)      Al Qaeda's Pre-Election Plot - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com High-level Qaeda operatives had been traveling from around the world to the outlaw wilds along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, apparently to meet and plan, NEWSWEEK has learned. In mid-July, the Pakistanis, working with the CIA, had arrested a Qaeda operative named Mohammed Neem Noor Khan and "flipped" him—turned him into an undercover agent who could lead investigators right into the Qaeda network. The reports are mixed." Certainly, at least a few Qaeda operatives have entered America at some point since 9/11. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5636197/site/newsweek   (991 words)      al-Qaeda or al-CIA-duh! When people across the US find out that Al Qaeda is not linked to Saddam but is in fact a creation of the CIA and that the terrorist warnings are fabricated, the legitimacy of the Bush Administration will tumble like a deck of cards. Expose the "dubious links." Because when the truth trickles down, the leaders' war plans will not have a shred of legitimacy in the eyes of millions of Americans who believe that Al Qaeda is "A Threat to America" and that their president is committed to their security. While integrating the anti-war movement, they remain convinced that Al Qaeda is "a threat to America" and global security. http://www.oilempire.us/qaeda.html   (9581 words)      Al-Qaida He appeared in a video broadcast on the Arab TV network Al Jazeera claiming responsibility for the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York. Tactics include assassination, bombing, hijacking, kidnapping, suicide attacks, et al. In 1998, several al-Qaeda leaders issued a declaration calling on Muslims to kill Americans—including civilians—as well as “those who are allied with them from among the helpers of Satan.” http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/al-qaida.htm   (1518 words)      Al Qaeda Disconnect There were contacts between Al Qaeda and Iraq, but it appears that a relationship never blossomed. The day before the 9/11 commission released these reports, a reporter asked Bush to provide "the best evidence" for claiming that Saddam was in league with Al Qaeda. But, the commission concludes, "Iraq apparently never responded." Regarding possible Iraqi involvement in the 9/11 plot, the commission states, "We have no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States." http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040705/corn   (959 words)      al-Qa'ida (The Base) / World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders / Usama bin Laden "Today the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a letter between two senior al Qa'ida leaders, Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, that was obtained during counterterrorism operations in Iraq. Indictment of ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI for conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism, December 11, 2001 This lengthy document provides a comprehensive view of al Qa'ida's strategy in Iraq and globally." http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/ladin.htm   (1335 words)      TIME.com: Al-Qaeda Seeks Canadian Operatives -- Page 1 U.S. officials believe al- Ghamdi has knowledge of conspiracies now being hatched all over the world, and that he could reveal previously unidentified sleeper cells in the U.S. and Canada. After his return to Saudi Arabia, officials say, al-Dandani had worked under senior Qaeda commanders Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Walid Ba 'Attash, both Saudis, who had planned the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. U.S. officials believe some may have even been plotting attacks on the American mainland. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,463428,00.html   (851 words)      Al Qaeda Without Al Qaeda In fact, since September 11, 2001, the police have been more successful at finding these terrorists, than the terrorists have been in finding the many bits of al Qaeda out there. In addition, the Soviets helped Arab nations, like Syria and Iraq, establish terrorist training camps, and provided advice on how to support terrorism without getting caught by the victims. The support activities included a forged document operation that had a store front outlet, in plain sight. http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/2004101822.asp   (1002 words)      Guardian Unlimited Special reports We bombed Madrid, says al-Qaeda tape The speaker was identified as Abu Dujan al Afghani. Acebes said he was not known to police in Spain, and they were checking the tape's veracity. The Interior Minister Angel Acebes said police had recovered a videotape. http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,2763,1169144,00.html   (925 words)      FrontPage magazine.com :: Al-Qaeda's Armies by Jamie Glazov My first question to al-Shamari was whether he, as an agent of Saddam's secret police, had been involved in the operations of Ansar al Islam, the small al-Qaeda affiliate group that had been active on the Iranian border leading up to the Al-Shamari stated that his division of the Mukhabarat provided weapons to Ansar, "mostly mortar rounds." Al-Shamari added that the Mukhabarat also helped finance Ansar al Islam "every month or two months," providing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Al-Shamari also told me about ties between Saddam's regime and the broader al-Qaeda network. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17241   (1871 words)      Al-Qaida Iraqi General: Syria Gave Al Qaida Saddam's WMDs Bo Dietl: 'Hundreds' of Al Qaida Fled to Iraq After 9/11 Rice: New Iraq Gov't Bad News for Al Qaida http://www.newsmax.com/hottopics/Al-Qaeda.shtml   (2070 words)      CNN.com - U.N.: Al Qaeda sanctions failing - Dec. 2, 2003 As a result the terror network blamed for the September 11 attacks on the United States is continuing to grow, with Iraq in particular becoming a "fertile ground", the report said. The report, released Monday, was compiled by a special Security Council committee established to monitor international sanctions against al Qaeda. He said that only 84 out of a 191 member states had submitted their most recent reports on time. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/12/02/un.alqaeda   (480 words)      Al Qaeda's Growing Sanctuary (washingtonpost.com) Despite Wald's warnings and other reporting on al Qaeda's regional activities and ties to the diamond trade, the intelligence community (particularly the CIA) has dismissed the reporting as inaccurate or irrelevant. This entails recognizing and confronting the national security threat posed by armed groups, operating beyond state control, that are now the de facto rulers of growing swaths of sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America. The ties of former Liberian president Charles Taylor to al Qaeda have been corroborated by the FBI and the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone, which is charged with investigating crimes against humanity in that nation's brutal civil war. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48221-2004Jul13.html   (818 words)      Inside Al Qaeda; Global Network of Terror; Rohan Gunaratna Hence Al Qaeda rank and file draw on nearly three decades of terrorist expertise. "Excellent....Gunaratna has taken a great deal of information from around the world--marshalling together police and intelligence sources, his own interviews with al Qaeda associates and the group's own documents--to create a comprehensive examination of the terrorist network." Inside Al Qaeda examines the leadership, ideology, structure, strategies, and tactics of the most violent politico-religious organization the world has ever seen. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023112/0231126921.HTM   (757 words)      Bin Laden Ties The Secret Saudi Flight on 9-13 Could be the Key to the Bush-Saudi-Al Qaeda Connection US Contractor in Iraq Helped Fund Al Qaeda - Judicial Watch, the public interest group that fights government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) has invoked privacy right protections on behalf of al Qaeda terror leader Osama bin Laden. http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/bin_laden_ties.html   (1625 words)      frontline: al qaeda's new front PBS An analysis by a former CIA operative of Al Qaeda's post-9/11 changes - and their implications introduction + watch online + faqs + al qaeda today + mapping the threat + special reports Al Qaeda terrorist cells are uncovered in the U.K. Germany Italy and Spain. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/front   (205 words)      Glen Jenvey - Freelance intelligence against Terrorism Continuing to gain the confidence of Abu Hamza, Albert then told him that he wanted to recruit people in England to join the Kashmiri terrorists and the al Qaeda but he could do a much more effective job if he could use some old al Qaeda training videos. It didn't take Albert long to see that Abu Hamza and his associates appeared to have a general hatred of all white non-Moslem people in general. -- British government allowed the al Qaeda to set up a base literally right under their noses! http://www.glen-jenvey.com   (2324 words)      terrorismfiles.org : al-Qa'ida (Al-Qaeda) • Majlis al Shura: The consultation council that considers and approves majors policies and actions. No laws outside the Koran would exist in Kalifah so as not to disrupt the total observance of Islam. http://terrorismfiles.org/organisations/al_qaida.html   (462 words)      Al-Qaeda's Intellectual Legacy: New Radical Islamic Thinking Justifying the Genocide of Infidels - Jonathan D. Halevi Occupying Europe and defeating Christianity will become possible, according to al- Qaradawi, with the spread of Islam inside Europe until it becomes strong enough to take over the whole continent. One of the signs of Islamic victory will be the conquest of the Italian capital, Rome, by the Muslims. http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp508.htm   (4954 words)      Al Qaeda's Bio Weapons - CBS News Where al Qaeda operates, who's been caught, how they're financed and a timeline of attacks on Americans. The discovery of al Qaeda's work came only after the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan removed the Taliban from power, the report says. Al Qaeda was studying nuclear weapons and contacted Pakistani scientists to discuss nuclear weapons, it notes. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/31/terror/main684449.shtml   (651 words)      Al-Qaeda - The American government now claims that two-thirds of the top leaders of al-Qaeda in 2001 are currently in custody (including Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah, Saif al Islam el Masry, and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri) or dead (including Mohammed Atef). Copyright 1992-2006 Al Jazeera Publishing, Dubai, United Arab Emirates As a result of this invasion, the al-Qaeda training camps were destroyed, and much of the existing operating structure of al-Qaeda was disrupted. http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=10207   (1983 words)      CBC News: Al-Qaeda flourishing on internet, intelligence officials warn They post everything from video clips of sermons by radical imams to bomb-making manuals, intelligence officials say. Last year, al-Qaeda operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi even managed to publish 23 issues of a sophisticated 40-page online magazine called Al Battah. http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/03/08/terrorist-internet050308.html   (375 words)      ABC News: U.S. Strike Killed Al Qaeda Bomb Maker The U.S. government has posted a $5 million reward this year for the capture of the alleged al Qaeda bomb maker. Pakistani officials also said that Khalid Habib, the al Qaeda operations chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Abdul Rehman al Magrabi, a senior operations commander for al Qaeda, were killed in the Damadola attack. So the fact that we took him out is significant," said former FBI agent Jack Cloonan, an ABC News consultant, who was the senior agent on the FBI's al Qaeda squad. http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1517986   (483 words)      Amazon.co.uk: Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam: Books I've just finished reading this excellent book by Jason Burke who unlike many journalists who claimed to be experts on the subject matter, actually did his homework and approached the topic with an amazing inquisitive way. If al Qaeda existed in this form Burke gives the impression this would have been in the mid to late 90's (when maybe the potential seriousness of the issue of radical Islam wasn't understood enough in the west) when Afghanistan was home to Bin Laden and other 'al Qaeda leaders' and their terrorist training camps. Al Qaeda fact or myth, April 13, 2005 http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141019123   (988 words)      CNS - Al-Qaida Profile The group seeks to overthrow Western-influenced governments and to replace them with Islamic regimes under the rule of Shariah, or Islamic law. Designated Successors: One possible successor is Ayman Al Zawahiri, a physician and leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. U.S. prosecutors have also stated that al-Qaida members received training in bomb-making from Hizballah (Hezbollah), an Iranian-backed Shi'i Islamic group, although such cooperation is very unlikely, due to the extreme anti-Shi'i ideology propagated by Osama bin Laden and his supporters.[6] http://cns.miis.edu/research/wtc01/alqaida.htm   (979 words)      Winds of Change.NET: Special Analysis: Al-Qaeda's African Arm Excerpt: The murders of the Egyptian and Algerian diplomats in Iraq reinforces the fact that al Qaeda’s war is not only against the United States, but also against Muslim governments. Afghanistand Iraq get's all the publicity but there is a lot that is happening in Africa that is quite important in the war on terror. As discussed in al Qaeda's Diplomatic Mission, one goal of the... http://windsofchange.net/archives/004795.php   (2533 words)      New America Foundation : event -430- "Al Qaeda 2.0: Transnational Terrorism After 9/11 Conference will air live ... Militant Islam: On the Wane or on the Rise? Al Qaeda 2.0: The Current State of Al-Qaeda as an Organization The Real Twin Towers: Al Qaeda and its Influence on Pakistan and Saudi Arabia http://www.newamerica.net/index.cfm?pg=event&EveID=430   (112 words)      Fake Al Qaeda Head of Egyptian Islamic Jihad Ayman al Zawahiri, fought for the CIA in Bosnia Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman fought for the CIA in Afghanistan His brother Ayman al-Zawahiri fought for the CIA in Kosovo http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fakealqaeda.html   (1035 words)      TIME.com: 9/11 Commission Finds Ties Between al-Qaeda and Iran -- Page 1 The report does not, however, offer evidence that Iran was aware of the plans for the 9/11 attacks. The Iran-al Qaeda contacts were discovered and presented to the Commissioners near the end of the bipartisan panel's more than year-long investigation into the sources and origins of the 9/11 attacks. Much of the new information about Iran came from al-Qaeda detainees interrogated by the U.S. government, including captured Yemeni al-Qaeda operative Waleed Mohammed bin Attash, who organized the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole, and from as many as 100 separate electronic intelligence intercepts culled by analysts at the NSA. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,664967,00.html   (721 words)

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