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Foiled al-Qaeda plot likely to lead to new airport security regulations
The disruption of a plot by al-Qaida in the Arabian peninsula to attack a US-based jet using what is being billed as an “improved” underwear bomb is likely to lead to increased security at American airports, the chief White House adviser on terrorism has indicated. John Brennan, the deputy homeland…
U.S. drone air strike kills al-Qaida terrorist wanted for USS Cole bombing
Fahd al-Quso was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2004 over his role in the bombing, but escaped from prison a year later An al-Qaida terrorist on the run over the bombing in 2000 of the USS Cole warship has been killed by an American drone in Yemen. US…
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