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Secretary Clinton claims U.S. credit for hacking Al-Qaeda’s Yemeni websites
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said US experts scored a cyberwarfare coup by hacking into websites run by Al-Qaeda’s Yemeni branch and changing the message to undermine their propaganda. In a speech in Tampa, Florida late Wednesday, Clinton said the success was staged by the State Department’s new Center for…
Obama says very concerned by al Qaeda in Yemen
CHICAGO — US President Barack Obama said Monday the United States was very worried about the threat posed by an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen after the group massacred almost 100 soldiers in a huge suicide blast. Obama pledged to work with the Yemeni government to crack down on Al-Qaeda in…
Intel leaks like al Qaeda plot endanger lives: FBI chief
WASHINGTON — The FBI has launched a probe into leaks about a plot to blow up a US airliner, the agency’s chief Robert Mueller said Wednesday, warning such tip-offs endanger lives and may harm ties with allies. Mueller told US lawmakers he was hoping for any fallout from the leaks…
Reports: Bomber in al-Qaeda plot a secret CIA double agent
The man ordered by Al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen to blow up a US-bound airliner was a double agent who infiltrated the group and volunteered for the suicide attack, with Saudi intelligence likely playing a key role, US media reported. American officials leaked out details of the extraordinary intelligence coup two days after the White House announced a plot…
American kidnapped in Pakistan appears in Qaeda video
Elderly US development worker Warren Weinstein has appeared in an Al-Qaeda video for the first time since he was kidnapped inPakistan just days before he meant to return home last August. The two minute, 40 second video was posted on jihadist forums by Al-Qaeda’s media arm as-Sahab on Sunday, according to the US monitoring service SITE. There is no…
Letters reveal anxious bin Laden, divided Al-Qaeda
The United States released letters Thursday from Osama bin Laden’s compound that revealed a divided Al-Qaeda and an anxious leader worried about his network’s image among Muslims, even as he yearned to strike again at US targets. A year after bin Laden was killed by US Navy SEALs at his Pakistani hideout, the White House…
Bin Laden worried about ‘unnecessary’ Muslim deaths
Osama bin Laden was deeply worried about “unnecessary” Muslim casualties from Al-Qaeda attacks and called on his deputies to spare civilian lives to shore up his network’s image, according to letters from his compound published Thursday. A year after bin Laden was killed by US Navy SEALs at his Pakistani…
Al-Qaeda clashes with Yemen military kill 34
Clashes between Al-Qaeda militants and the army in Yemen’s restive south killed 34 people, mostly jihadists, as soldiers advanced on the city of Zinjibar, the defence ministry said on Friday. “Eighteen Al-Qaeda militants were killed and dozens wounded while the rest fled” the clashes on the outskirts of the extremists’…
New York bomb plotter describes Al Qaeda plan
NEW YORK — The convicted bomb-maker in a 2009 plot to cause carnage in New York described Monday how he and an Al-Qaeda handler in Pakistan considered everything from the subway to movie theaters as targets. “We started the conversation on such targets as Walmart, the New York Stock Exchange,…
Hedges: NDAA is ‘chilling’ the practice of journalism
Speaking about his lawsuit against the U.S. government over its claim that it may indefinitely imprison anyone it believes to be involved in terrorism, journalist Chris Hedges warned that the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is already having a “chilling” effect on the serious practice of journalism. That’s because…
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