Al Qaida
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Musharraf Denies He Knew Osama Bin Laden Was Living In Pakistan
World | Jan 08, 2012, 09:01 AM ISTJerusalem, Jan 8 : Pakistan's former President General Pervez Musharraf has denied having knowledge about the al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden living in his country during his tenure. In his first ever interview to an
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Protesters Reject Yemen President's Power Transfer
World | Nov 25, 2011, 08:31 AM ISTSanaa, Yemen, Nov 25: A U.S.-backed deal for Yemen's authoritarian president to step down fell far short of the demands of protesters who fought regime supporters on the streets of Sanaa Thursday in clashes that
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Zawahiri Set Up Osama, Says New Book
World | Nov 09, 2011, 01:02 PM ISTWashington, Nov 9: Eager to become the leader of al-Qaida , the then number two Aymen Zawahiri set up Osama bin Laden by repeatedly sending a human courier to his hiding place in Abbottabad who
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US Man Goes To Trial On Terror Charges
World | Oct 23, 2011, 07:57 AM ISTBoston, Oct 23: Prosecutors portray Tarek Mehanna as a terrorist in the making, a man who tried to help al-Qaida by promoting violent jihad online and traveling to Yemen to seek training in a terrorist
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NY Judge : Al-Qaida Owes $9.3 Billion For 9/11 Harm
World | Oct 15, 2011, 07:36 AM ISTNew York, Oct 15: A judge in New York has recommended al-Qaida be assessed $9.3 billion for the damage done to properties and businesses in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.Federal Magistrate Judge Frank Maas in
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US, Pak Spies Rebuild Ties, Says Director Of National Intelligence
World | Oct 08, 2011, 02:16 PM ISTWashington, Oct 8 : In what could mark a pivot in US-Pakistani relations, Pakistani forces have arrested a handful of al-Qaida suspects at the CIA's request, and allowed the US access to the detainees, US
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Yemen's Al-Qaida Remains Threat After Drone Strike
World | Oct 02, 2011, 11:30 AM ISTSanaa, Yemen, Oct 2 : Al-Qaida's branch remains a powerful threat in this deeply unstable nation, even after a U.S. drone strike that eliminated three of its key figures. Its military leadership remains intact and
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Al-Awlaki : From Voice For Jihad To Al-Qaida Figure
World | Sep 30, 2011, 05:44 PM ISTSanaa, Yemen, Sept 30: The heavy black beard spoke of Islamic piety, the fashionable wire-rim glasses of Western style.Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born, a gifted Muslim preacher and savvy Internet operator, became a powerful al-Qaida tool for
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Al Qaeda On Path To Defeat, Says Obama
World | Sep 09, 2011, 07:00 PM ISTWashington, Sep 9: Ahead of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 attacks by al-Qaeda, President Barack Obama today said the US has delivered justice to Osama bin Laden, who was killed in a covert American raid
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US: Can't Snap Ties With Pak Despite Its Links With LeT
World | Aug 17, 2011, 11:19 AM ISTWashington, August 17: The US on Tuesday acknowledged that its ally Pakistan keeps ties with anti-India terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba, but said Washington had "no choice" but to maintain its relations with Islamabad if it has
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Al-Qaida Plans Cartoon Recruiting Film For Kids
World | Jul 21, 2011, 12:13 PM ISTLondon, July 21: An al-Qaida affiliate says it plans to roll out what some have called a Disney-like animated cartoon aimed at recruiting children to the terror network.Scenes from the proposed short film show young
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Harkatul Chief Runs Seven Militant Camps In POK
World | Jun 16, 2011, 02:36 PM ISTIslamabad, Jun 16 : On the outskirts of the Pakistani capital lives a militant considered so powerful that Osama bin Laden consulted with him before issuing a fatwa to attack American interests.Fazlur Rahman Khalil heads
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Al-Zawahri Is The New Al-Qaida Chief
World | Jun 16, 2011, 02:23 PM ISTCairo, Jun 16 : Al-Qaida's longtime No. 2 leader, a doctor from a prominent Egyptian family who worked with Osama bin Laden for decades, has succeeded the slain terrorist as head of the global network,
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Laden's Widows Blame Yemeni Wife For Betrayal: Report
World | May 24, 2011, 11:47 AM ISTIslamabad, May 23: The three widows of Osama bin Laden are turning on each other in custody, with two older Saudi women blaming a much younger Yemeni wife for leading US intelligence to their hideout,
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Osama's AK47, Pistol Lay On The Shelf When He Was Shot
World | May 18, 2011, 02:11 PM ISTWashington, May 18: The American soldiers who killed Osama bin Laden found his two guns only after he was dead, as they were photographing his body, according to a detailed new account of the al-Qaida
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How ISI Cheated The US After 9/11
World | May 12, 2011, 07:17 PM ISTIslamabad, May 12: The twin towers in New York were still smoldering in September 2001 when Pakistan spy chief Gen Mahmood Ahmed went to Afghanistan with the task of urging the Taliban to hand over
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Pataudi's First Cousin Tipped As Next ISI Chief
World | May 10, 2011, 11:26 AM ISTNew Delhi, May 10 : Cricketing legend Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi's first cousing Major General Isfandyar Ali Pataudi is being tipped as the next chief of Pakistan's ISI spy agency, reports Times of India.Maj Gen
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Pak Owner Of Bin Laden Mansion Aided Him
World | May 04, 2011, 07:16 PM ISTAbbottabad, May 4: A doctor who sold a piece of the land where Osama bin Laden's final hideout was built said the buyer, a Pakistani who apparently sheltered the al-Qaida chief, was a ”modest, humble”
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Al-Qaida Remains Dangerous, Says CIA Chief
World | May 03, 2011, 09:09 AM ISTWashington, May 3: Osama bin Laden is dead, but al-Qaida still is dangerous, CIA Director Leon E. Panetta said on Monday in a letter to the agency's employees.“Today, we have rid the world of the
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Tribe Of Yemen President Clashes With Army, 3 Dead
World | Apr 05, 2011, 09:15 PM ISTSanaa (Yemen), Apr 5: Tribesmen loyal to Yemen's embattled president on Tuesday clashed with a group of soldiers whose commander has sided with the opposition, and the fighting in a suburb of the capital Sanaa