Showing posts with label Al-qaida. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Al-qaida. Show all posts
Wednesday 20 May 2015

CIA Declassifies Documents Retrieved From Osama Bin Laden Raid

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US intelligence officials have released a collection of documents they said were recovered during the 2011 raid on the compound in Pa...
Friday 1 May 2015

US Commander Laments Loss of Counterterrorism Presence in Yemen Amid Al-Qaida Gains

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WASHINGTON –   The top commander of U.S. special operations forces is expressing "very great concern" about losing a...
Tuesday 16 December 2014

Pakistani Doctor Linked With CIA Who Helped Track Osama Bin Laden Under Threat

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Dr. Shakil Afridi A Pakistani doctor, who was sentenced to 33 years in jail for helping CIA track down former al-Qaeda chief Osama bin ...
Wednesday 29 October 2014

Big Rethink For Counterterrorism

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Like politics, terrorism is local, which is why extremists use local grievances as initial motivators to recruit.
Thursday 16 October 2014

United States Offers $45m Bounty For Information On 8 Terrorist Leaders

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Washington – The United States has offered a reward of 45 million dollars for information on eight key leaders of the Al-Qaeda in the Arabi...
Thursday 31 July 2014

How Europe Inadvertently Bankrolls Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabab

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Al-Qaeda is increasingly funding terror operations thanks to at least $125 million in ransom paid since 2008, largely by European governmen...
Monday 7 July 2014

ECOWAS Step Up Cooperation To Tackle Terrorist Threat

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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) called on its members to step up their security co-operation in order to tackle terro...

Islamist Terror Threat to West Blown Out of Proportion - Former MI6 Chief

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The government and media have blown the Islamist terrorism threat out of proportion, giving extremists publicity which is counter-productive...

United States Bans UNCHARGED Mobiles or Laptops From US-bound flights over Bomb Fears - iPhones and Galaxies Top of the Hit List

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The US has declared that it will not allow mobile phones - especially iPhones and Samsung's Galaxy - onto US bound planes from some airp...
Thursday 3 July 2014

"Credible Threat" Prompt Tighter Security for Inbound Flights to The United States

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Security is being tightened at airports with direct flights into the US - including some in the UK - in response to US warnings of a "c...
Monday 30 June 2014

Dick Cheney Predicts Attack This Decade ‘Far Deadlier’ Than 9/11

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Former vice president Dick Cheney predicted Tuesday that the U.S. will face a catastrophic attack before the end of the decade that will be ...
Friday 27 June 2014

ISIS Militants Kidnap 150 Kurdish Students in Syria

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Al Qaeda-inspired extremists kidnapped at least 150 children as they went home after exams in northern Syria, Kurdish leaders told NBC News ...

UN Security Council Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee Adds Abubakar Mohammed Shekau, Ansaru To It's Sanctions List

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On 26 June 2014, the Security Council’s Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee approved the addition of Ansaru and Abubakar Mohammed Shekau to its lis...