The nerve centre of Qaeda lies in Pak: Pentagon!

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 Press Trust Of India / ibnlive.in.com / Posted on Aug 30, 2011 at 12:24am IST.

Washington: Al Qaeda's "nerve center" lies in Pakistan even though the recent killings of Osama bin Laden in May and now its number two Atiyah abd al-Rahman has dealt the global terror group severe blow, a senior US official said on Monday.

"Al-Qaeda in Pakistan clearly remains a nerve center of the organisation, remains dangerous. They have suffered significant losses in recent years," Pentagon spokesman, George Little told during an off-camera news conference in Washington.

Al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula also remains a considerable concern, Little said in response to a question.

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Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader killed in Pakistan: US officials!

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Associated Press / ndtv.com / Updated: August 27, 2011 23:04 IST.

Washington:  Al Qaeda's second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, delivering another big blow to a terrorist group that the U.S. believes to be on the verge of defeat, a senior Obama administration official said Saturday.

The Libyan national who was the network's former operational leader rose to Al Qaeda's No. 2 spot after the U.S. killed Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during a raid on his Pakistan compound in May.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said last month that Al Qaeda's defeat was within reach if the U.S. could mount a string of successful attacks on the group's weakened leadership.

"Now is the moment, following what happened with bin Laden, to put maximum pressure on them," Panetta said, "because I do believe that if we continue this effort we can really cripple Al Qaeda as a major threat."

Al-Rahman was killed Aug. 22 in the lawless Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan, according to the official said, who insisted on anonymity to discuss intelligence issues.

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GHOST OF OSAMA, VENGEANCE: Qaeda vows 100 attacks in Iraq!

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IANS / ibnlive.in.com / Posted on Aug 21, 2011 at 10:38am IST.

Baghdad: An Al Qaeda-linked group has vowed to launch 100 attacks in Iraq to avenge the death of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, a media report said.

The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) - the terror outfit's front in the country - said Saturday the attacks would begin from the middle of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Xinhua reported.

Bin Laden was killed in May in a US special forces operation in Pakistan's Abbottabad city.

The Islamic State of Iraq said in a statement posted on an Islamic website that its attacks would vary from suicide bombings, roadside bombs, sniper shots and silenced weapons attacks in all cities, rural areas and provinces.

"We have started this stage with an invasion called Revenge for Sheikh Osama Bin Laden and senior leaders," the statement said.

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AL QAEDA CHIEF: Zawahiri’s First 100 Days!

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Bruce Riedel, thedailybeast.com / Aug 15, 2011 11:42 PM EDT.

Ayman al-Zawahiri in a video released by the media arm of al Qaeda in 2008., Anonymous.

In the 100-plus days since Osama bin Laden’s death, his successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has been a busy man. He has issued a series of audio messages reshaping al Qaeda’s message to adapt to the Arab revolutions and consolidated his grip on al Qaeda’s numerous franchises. If he is under pressure, he is not showing it.

In a message released this weekend, Zawahiri againmourns the loss of his predecessor and promises that al Qaeda will “pursue America, which killed the imam of the mujahedeen and threw his body into the sea.” Noting that America’s longtime friends in the Arab world, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, have been toppled from power and Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been driven out of the country, Zawahiri says America’s position in the Arab world is “staggering” and will soon collapse completely. He urges supporters of al Qaeda to engage in a vigorous debate about the best strategies and tactics to defeat America.

This is the latest in a dozen messages released so far this year by al Qaeda’s As Sahab (In the Clouds) media forum and featuring the Egyptian terror leader. Already he has more than tripled his production of messages from his pace in 2010, when he put out only four. Two of those were extremely short; all these have been lengthy. Zawahiri’s operational tempo as a propagandist for global jihad has accelerated even further since bin Laden’s demise.

And his message has sharpened. At the start of 2011, he and al Qaeda seemed taken by surprise by the Arab revolutions and confused about what to say. The revolutions in Tunis and Cairo did not fit well with al Qaeda’s ideology—they were popular movements calling not for jihad but for a peaceful transfer of power. Twitter, not terror, seemed to be the agent of change in Tahrir Square.

Now Zawahiri and al Qaeda have adapted. They have jumped enthusiastically on the revolutionary bandwagon, and the revolutions have become much more violent, as the regimes in Libya, Syria, Bahrain, and Yemen have used brutal repression to stay in power. Al Qaeda’s message that jihad and violence are the only path to changing the Islamic world looks more timely when Arab autocrats resort to violence to hold onto their palaces. Zawahiri urges his listeners to use the new opportunities in the instability racking the Middle East to build safe havens, attack America and Israel, and exploit the downfall of the old police states that repressed al Qaeda for years.

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Intel inputs suggest al-Qaeda plans to target India: Govt!

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August 10, 2011 / PTI, New Delhi / DC.

The Centre today said intelligence inputs have suggested that al-Qaeda and one of its dreaded terrorists Ilyas Kashmiri were planning to target India.

"There are some intelligence inputs, though not specifically, regarding plan to target India by al-Qaeda and Ilyas Kashmiri, an al-Qaeda-HUJI operative and his group," Minister of State for Home Jitendra Singh informed Rajya Sabha.

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INTERNATIONAL TERROR:Former CIA Counter-Terror Chief: Al Qaeda Will Go Cyber!!

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By LEE FERRAN, http://abcnews.go.com / Aug. 4, 2011.

In this photo released by the International Iran Photo Agency, Iranian technicians work at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. The Stuxnet worm reportedly attacked and physically damaged the Iranian nuclear facility in 2010. (Ebrahim Norouzi/IIPA/AP Photo).

The former head of the Central Intelligence Agency's Counter Terrorism Center said today that a battered al Qaeda will likely focus more on a new front in their global jihad against the West: cyberspace.

Cofer Black, who spent nearly 30 years with the CIA and was head of the CTC during the Sept. 11 terror attacks, said al Qaeda -- now near "strategic defeat" according to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta -- would likely fall back into "small and agile" tactics, including online attacks.

"They will enter the cyber world because it's comparatively remote, comparatively safer than strapping on a bomb," Black said during his keynote speech at the Black Hat Technical Security Conference in Las Vegas today. The Black Hat conference is an annual convention that attracts thousands of the world's top cyber security experts and hackers alike.

Just last month the British Home Office said in a report that al Qaeda has called on its supports to wage "cyber jihad." The first known terror cyber attack, it says, was an email spamming attack in 2010 that, while relatively primitive, managed to infect the emails of thousands of U.S. and international corporations.

In a speech on July 14, Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III said it was "clear" terror groups were "intent on acquiring, refining, and expanding their cyber capabilities."

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INTERNATIONAL TERROR: Al Qaeda threat to Kerala temples, Jayalalithaa?!

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July 27, 2011 / IANS, Guruvayoor (Kerala) / DC.

A letter posted from Chennai to this pilgrim town on Wednesday warned of a bomb attack by the Al Qaeda on two of Kerala's most popular temples - the Guruvayoor and Sree Padmanabha Swamy shrines, police said.

It claimed to be from the Al Qaeda and also mentioned that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalaalitha would be assassinated in the coming days.

The letter was in English and was addressed to the Guruvayoor Circle Inspector here.

As soon as the letter arrived, police officials rushed to the famed Sree Krishna Temple near here along with a bomb squad and made a detailed inspection in the temple compound and also in the temple town.

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END OF THE ROAD: U.S. officials believe al-Qaeda on brink of collapse!

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Video: The hunt for Osama bin Laden: For almost a decade, U.S. intelligence officials were stymied by Osama bin Laden. That is until CIA analysts at Langley changed their focus to the al-Qaeda leader's secret courier network.

Largely because of bin Laden’s death, “we can even see the end of al-Qaeda as the global, borderless, united jihad,” said another U.S. official, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity. “What that doesn’t mean is an end to terrorists and people targeting the United States.”

Officials also point to the cumulative effect of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan. Missiles fired by the unmanned aircraft have killed at least 1,200 militants since 2004, including 224 this year, according to figures compiled by the New America Foundation. Many of the strikes have been aimed at al-Qaeda allies also accused of attacking American targets; those allies include the Haqqani network and the Pakistani Taliban.

Beyond bin Laden, “we have eliminated a number of generations of leaders,” said the senior U.S. counterterrorism official. “They have not had a successful operation in a long time. You at some point have to ask yourself, ‘What else do we have to do?’”

Ayman al-Zawahiri, who succeeded bin Laden as leader of al-Qaeda, is among a handful of “high-value targets” left in Pakistan, U.S. officials said. Zawahiri is seen as a divisive figure who may struggle to prevent al-Qaeda from splintering into smaller, more regionally focused nodes.

AQAP, as the Yemen-based group is known, has emerged as the most dangerous of those affiliates. The group is responsible for recent plots, including the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner in 2009 and the attempt to mail parcels packed with explosives to U.S. addresses last year.

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INTERNATIONAL TERROR: Al-Qaeda was planning to kill Obama: report!

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• July 16, 2011 
• PTI 
• Washington / DC.

File photo - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden - AP photo.


Osama bin Laden was plotting to kill US President Barack Obama and Gen David Petraeus, Commander of US forces in Afghanistan, a media report today said, citing information obtained from the material seized from Abbottabad-compound of the slain al-Qaeda leader.

"Documents recovered from Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan show that al-Qaeda spoke of attacking President Barack Obama and Gen David Petraeus," CNN said quoting sources familiar with the materials recovered from the compound.

It said the documents refer to an attack that would destroy the aircraft carrying Obama and Petraeus in the Af-Pak region.

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INTERNATIONAL TERROR: Al Qaeda plotting internet jihad!

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• July 13, 2011 
• IANS 
• London / DC.

File photo - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden - Agencies.

Al Qaeda is plotting a jihad on the internet against Britain and the West, and has launched teams to target key computer systems, officials said.

Terrorists have even tried to invade Facebook in their "campaign of electronic warfare", The Sun reported.

The Google Earth and Street View applications are being used by the terrorists to plan out atrocities, it said.

Security officials in Britain say cyber terrorism will become an ever growing threat.

A 123-page counter-terror report said a special unit - called the Tariq bin Ziyad Brigades for Electronic Jihad - attacked computers last year.

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YEMEN CRISIS: 40 militants killed in airstrikes, clashes!

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• July 6, 2011 
• AP 
• SANAA / DC.

Yemeni women take part in a demonstration in Sanaa calling for the departure of all figures in the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been hospitalised in Riyadh for nearly a month for wounds sustained in an explosion at the presidential palace - AFP.

At least 40 militants linked to al Qaida have been killed in two days of airstrikes and clashes with government forces, Yemen's state news agency said on Wednesday.

The report by the SABA news agency said the government attacks began after militants tried to storm a military camp in the southern province of Abyan, where Islamist fighters have seized control of several towns.

The militant takeovers are part of widening chaos in Yemen since protests broke out in February calling for the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is being treated in Saudi Arabia for wounds sustained in an attack on his palace last month. The SABA report added that two government soldiers were killed and 20 others injured in the Abyan fighting.

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YEMEN CRISIS: 'Qaeda' ambush kills 10 Yemeni soldiers!

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July 7, 2011 

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Suspected Al-Qaeda militants killed 10 soldiers when they ambushed them on a road in southern Yemen, where the jihadist network has a stronghold, a military official said on Thursday.

The gunmen opened fire on the vehicle in which the soldiers were travelling on Wednesday north of the city of Loder, in Abyan province, killing them all, the official told AFP.

Only the driver survived, although he was wounded, a medical official said.

A witness said he saw three armed men shoot at the soliders, adding they prevented people from carrying away the soldiers' bodies, only allowing them to take the driver to hospital in Loder.

An official at the hospital confirmed the wounded driver was admitted to the facility, which also later received the bodies of 10 soldiers after the attackers left the scene of the shooting.

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