'What America could figure out is that this finally was an American with an American passport operating in Pakistan who had access to Al Qaeda. Now the prime objective of that time was the capture of bin Laden. This is three years before Abbottabad, the only thing that the US intelligence agencies were thinking about was how do they decapitate him, how do they cut the head off of Al Qaeda and here was this tantalising, untrustworthy, difficult, hard to control, psychopathic individual, who was American,' Adrian Levy, co-author of the book The Siege: The Attack on the Taj, tells Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt.
Al Qaeda's top spiritual leader Anwar al-Awlaki's killing in a drone strike in Yemen could provide motivation for anti-American attacks globally by those seeking to avenge his death, the State Department has said, issuing a worldwide travel alert for its citizens.
The ISI was taking no chances and wanted no repeat of Pulwama; it wanted to make it clear at a political level it was not involved with the revenge attack being planned, but was only giving India a friendly tip-off. A stunning excerpt from Ambassador Ajay Bisaria's Anger Management: The Troubled Diplomatic Relationship between India and Pakistan.
The United States has issued a worldwide travel alert to its citizens including in South Asia where it said terrorist outfits like al-Qaeda, the Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) might harm them.
A 56-year old British cleric has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in US after being convicted of 11 terror-related charges, including providing material support to Al Qaeda and conspiring to establish a terrorist training camp in the US.
A report authored by Amrit Singh, daughter of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, says that over 50 countries assisted the US in its war against Al Qaeda including by hosting CIA prisons on their territories and detaining, interrogating and "torturing" terror suspects.
The use of unmanned aircrafts in the fight against terrorism is "legal, ethical and wise", the White House has said, defending the decision of the Obama administration to use drones as a key tool against Al Qaeda terrorists. "We have acknowledged that sometimes we use remotely piloted aircraft to conduct targeted strikes against specific Al Qaeda terrorists in order to prevent attacks on the United States and to save American lives," White House Press Secy Jay Carney said.
As far as India is concerned, the danger is the potential of the IS to create mischief rather than its actual capability as of now, says Rajiv Kumar
The Taliban government in Afghanistan is not going anywhere. That being the case, why is the hesitation to establish formal diplomatic relations with the Taliban? asks Lieutenant General Prakash Katoch (Retd).
The resolution, drafted by France and Tunisia, 'demands a general and immediate cessation of hostilities in all situations on its agenda and supports the efforts undertaken by the Secretary-General and his Special Representatives and Special Envoys'.
Questions about slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's ties with the Pakistan establishment remain unanswered in the documents made public by the United States, in which references are made to "trusted Pakistani brothers" without any elaboration. The West Point report notes that "there are no explicit references to any institutional Pakistani support for Al Qaeda and its operatives," but media reports said that if any such references were there, those would be classified.
The United States has said that drone strikes are "legal and ethical" tools against Al Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan, dismissing Islamabad's concerns over the attacks.
Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden had planned to mount indiscriminate attacks on the Pakistani soil before his death in a covert United Stated raid in Abbottabad, the documents seized by the Americans from the slain terrorist's compound in the Pakistani garrison city have suggested. The Central Intelligence Agency shared intelligence about possible Al Qaeda attacks inside Pakistan when officials of the two countries met to explore the way forward in resetting bilateral ties.
A Bangladeshi man with alleged links to Al Qaeda was arrested in New York after an undercover operation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation foiled his plot to detonate a 1,000-pound bomb and blow up the city's Federal Reserve Building. Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, faces charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to Al Qaeda.
Nearly two years after the killing of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, the United Nations Security Council has deleted his name from its sanctions list. The powerful 15-member council will continue a freeze on bin Laden's assets to prevent them from being used by others for terror activities.
Pakistan will have to decide on the issue of conducting a joint operation with the United States against Taliban and the Al Qaeda leaders like Mullah Omar and Ayman al-Zawahiri if they are found in the country, AmericanAmbassador Cameron Munter said on Monday.
The United States Defence Department announced Tuesday that the military commission has charged Majid Shoukat Khan, a Pakistani national, for joining hands with the Al Qaeda 'to commit murder and attempted murder' and providing material support for terrorism, and spying.
'This is a message to the whole world about those responsible for climate change and its repercussions -- whether intentionally or unintentionally -- and about the action we must take,' the Al Qaeda chief said.
America is safer today from the 9/11 type of attacks because of the persistent actions taken by the United States against terrorists in the Af-Pak region in the last four years, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said, while warning that al-Qaeda still remains a threat.
Rauf Azhar, born in 1974 in Pakistan, had been sanctioned by the United States in December 2010.
A Bangladeshi-origin British Airways software engineer was on Friday jailed for 30 years for plotting to blow up a plane in association with American born Al Qaeda terror leader Anwar al-Awlaki.
A "perturbed" Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has flayed Interior Minister Rehman Malik for his claims of uncovering an al-Qaeda plot to kidnap Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and blamed the statement for his penchant to remain in headlines.
Pakistan had submitted the names of Angara Appaji and Gobinda Patnaik for designation under the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council.
Pakistan has contacted governments of Saudi Arabia and Yemen for the repatriation of slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's three wives and their children, according to media reports.
United States authorities have arrested a suspected follower of al Qaeda and charged him with plotting an attack on the Pentagon with an explosive laden remote controlled aircraft.
In a new audio recording, Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has threatened to capture and kill Americans if Washington decides to execute the alleged 9/11 masterminds Khalid al Sheikh Mohammed or any other Al Qaeda suspects.
The unsolved mystery about the June 3, 2011 killing of Al Qaeda linked Pakistani jehadi leader and the chief of the pro-Kashmir Harkatul Jehadul Islami, Commander Ilyas Kashmiri, in a United States drone attack in South Waziristan Agency, has been deepened further amid Pakistani media reports that he was spotted in North Waziristan recently, reports Amir Mir
Al Qaeda terrorist Ilyas Kashmiri's role in India would largely depend on how Pakistan's ISI plans to use him, say Intelligence Bureau sources. Vicky Nanjappa reports.
'Pakistan and the jihadis's capacities have been diminished because of increasing dominance of our security forces.'
Muraleedharan said that terrorist groups such as Al-Shabaab have put in place elaborate revenue collection networks, to support their terrorist activities.
Amid accusations by Pakistan that America deliberately sabotaged peace talks by killing Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud, the Unites States on Sunday said the militant group has a "symbiotic relationship" with the Al Qaeda and provided "safe haven" to terrorists.
The United States on Thursday stepped up its campaign targeting Al Qaeda and Taliban militants in Pakistan's restive northwestern tribal region as missiles from CIA-operated drones killed eights suspected insurgents.
Nine years after their mysterious disappearance following the toppling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the US still believes the two top Al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri are in hiding in northwestern Pakistan.
Nearly three-fifths of the people of Pakistan believe that India poses a greater threat to their country than those from the Taliban and Al Qaeda, a latest survey results released on Wednesday said.
Pakistan Army on Friday said it has arrested nearly 100 terrorists and foiled an imminent jailbreak attempt to free top Al Qaeda leader Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, sentenced to death for the murder of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl in 2002.
Dr Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani surgeon who helped the US Central Intelligence Agency find Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for 'treason'.
World's most wanted terrorists Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri may be hiding close to each other in houses in northwest Pakistan, protected by some members of ISI, a media report has said.
Months before the 9/11 attacks, former US President George Bush had received multiple briefings by intelligence agencies warning of an "imminent" attack on US soil by Al Qaeda but he did not take prompt action that could have prevented the tragedy, an op-ed in the 'New York Times' said.
The Al Qaeda planned terrorist attacks on symbolic dates on the calendar, including major holidays and the tenth anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks next September 11, it has emerged.
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