This is what CNN wrote on their website about what happened yesterday here in Mosul:Mosul clashes leave 12 deadClashes between police and insurgents in the northern city of Mosul left 12 Iraqis dead and 26 wounded, hospital and police sources said Wednesday.Rifle and rocket-propelled grenade fire as well as explosions were heard in the streets of the city…
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PAKISTAN PRESSURES AL QAEDA
KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug. 5 — An intense Pakistani military operation directed at suspected al Qaeda hideouts along the Afghan-Pakistan border has led to the seizure of a number of al Qaeda suspects and the discovery of a cache of computer information that contributed to last weekend’s decision to increase the terror alert in several U.S. cities, Pakistani…
PAKISTAN GOING AFTER AL QAEDA PLANNERS
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani security forces aim to close a net around more key planners in Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network in coming weeks and months, senior government officials said on Friday. The government was also considering handing to U.S. agents two captured suspects at the center of Pakistan’s recent breakthroughs against al Qaeda — Ahmed…
NEW N. KOREAN MISSILES SAID TO THREATEN U.S.
BERLIN (Reuters) – North Korea is deploying new land- and sea-based ballistic missiles that can carry nuclear warheads and may have sufficient range to hit the United States, according to the authoritative Jane’s Defense Weekly.In an article due to appear Wednesday, Jane’s said the two new systems appeared to be based on a decommissioned Soviet submarine-…
AL-ZARQAWI COURIER SEIZED WITH MESSAGE TO BIN LADEN
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Senior U.S. defense officials say a courier of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian leader of al-Qaida militants in Iraq, was arrested recently in Iraq bearing a message from al-Zarqawi to Osama bin Laden, Fox News reported Monday. According to the Fox report, Pentagon sources confirmed that the courier was intercepted with the messa…
SOURCE: TERROR ATTACK TO BE IN EARLY SEPTEMBER
WASHINGTON — More financial institutions than previously disclosed may be at risk of attack, and an al-Qaida operative has told British intelligence that the group’s target date is early September, intelligence sources said yesterday.The operative, described as “credible” by British intelligence, told his debriefers that the attack would take place “60 d…
CAPTURED QAEDA FIGURE LED WAY TO INFORMATION BEHIND WARNING
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 – The unannounced capture of a figure from Al Qaeda in Pakistan several weeks ago led the Central Intelligence Agency to the rich lode of information that prompted the terror alert on Sunday, according to senior American officials.The figure, Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, was described by a Pakistani intelligence official as a 25-year-old c…
TOP AL-QAEDA LEADER CAPTURED IN IRAQ: REPORT
Reports in Kuwait City on Friday said a man assumed to be Al-Qaeda number 3 Abu Musab Zarqawi has been captured in Iraq, Xinhua reports.Jordanian militant Zarqawi, whose Tawhid and Jihad groups have claimed responsibility for numerous attacks in Iraq, was captured during a joint operation by coalition forces and Iraqi police, the reports said on Friday.Th…
N.M. TERRORIST PLOT: SECURITY FOILED PLANS, FBI SAYS
A terrorist attack in New Mexico? It’s possible, an FBI spokesman says.A possible attack against New Mexico or California was planned for May, but intelligence suggests it was thwarted by increased security in both states, said FBI Special Agent William Elwell.Elwell, who is based in Albuquerque, said Thursday that he could not go into details. But he sai…
AL-QAIDA SUSPECT ARRESTED IN TEXAS
A South African woman picked up in Texas almost 10 days ago may turn out to be a key, high-level al-Qaida operative. Her name is Farida Goolam Mohamed Ahmed. She was stopped at McAllen Miller International Airport on July 19 headed to New York. Eddie Flores of the U.S. Border Patrol office in McAllen, Texas tells FederalNewsRadio.com that a review of her…