Under the name Irhabi 007 -- combining the James Bond reference with the Arabic for terrorist -- he worked with al Qaeda leaders in Iraq and came up with a way to convert often gruesome videos into a form that could be put onto the Web.
The White House has outrightly refused to negotiate with Al Qaeda for the release of its citizen, who was kidnapped by the terrorist outfit in Pakistan last year.
the report said India's counterterrorism efforts were 'hampered by its outdated and overburdened law enforcement and legal systems.'
Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is warning that the situation on the sub-continent has turned "grave" as it appears that open warfare is about to break out between Pakistan and the United States, The European Union Times reports.
The United States of America sought Pakistan's help in 1998 to prevent Osama bin Laden from launching an Al Qaeda attack against it, with then President Bill Clinton asking Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to personally use his influence to prevail over the Taliban in averting the imminent strike.
A 32-year-old man chargesheeted in the deadly terror attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) convoy in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district five years ago has died of a heart attack in the Government Medical College Hospital in Jammu, officials said.
"He (Zawahiri) and his organisation still threaten us. As we did both seek to capture and kill and succeed in killing bin Laden, we certainly do or will do the same thing with Zawahiri," Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, told media persons at a Pentagon news conference.
He said radical terror groups were enemies of Islam and urged clerics to 'cleanse' their religion of the taint of terrorism.
The 40-year-old blogger was attacked by four suspected Al Qaeda linked Islamists at their apartment
In 2009, Al Qaeda's core in Pakistan remained the most formidable terrorist organisation targeting the US homeland and it has proven to be an adaptable and resilient terrorist group, the annual Country Reports on Terrorism released by the US Department of State of Thursday has said.
The first issue in engaging with Pakistan is the cessation of terrorism, India's envoy at the United Nations said, underlining that India has been a long-standing victim of cross-border and global terrorism and has zero tolerance towards the scourge.
Aziz, 55, survived the blast, while his driver and seven others, including the bomber, were killed and over 30 others were injured.
Zawahiri, who is shown wearing a black turban and white robe and speaking against a white background, said the video was to mark the fourth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
A top al-Qaeda operative, captured by US special forces in a secretive mission in Libya this month, pleaded not guilty to a charge of his involvement in the 1998 bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, in a New York court.
The head of Syria's main opposition group abroad Hadi al-Bahra Syrian said that Damascus is now "without Bashar al-Assad" according to Reuters.
There is no threat from either Al Qaeda or ISIS of a magnitude which the country cannot deal with, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval said on Tuesday but asserted that security agencies were keeping a "very close watch".
In a new audiotape Al Qaeda also criticised Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's visit to India.
Ahmed Javed Khwaja is the second Pakistani doctor to be arrested on suspicion of having links with the banned outfit.
The United States has increased security at all its major airports and railway stations, and has taken a number of measures, that include temporary closure of its 22 diplomatic missions, following a "very specific" Al Qaeda threat emanating from the Arabian Peninsula.
Jamaat-ud-Dawah, the frontal organisation of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, which is blamed for the Mumbai attacks, has written to the United Nations claiming that it was not associated with the Al-Qaeda and Taliban and that the Security Council's sanctions on it were 'unjustified'.
US President-elect Barack Obama has said Al Qaeda and its leader Osama bin Laden, the most wanted terrorists of the world, are the number one threat to the United States of America.
Security has been increased in and around the ancient Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati in view of the Al-Qaeda threatening to spread its network to Assam.
The Associated Press, in a story widely reproduced in the US media, cites top US military commanders as saying that Pakistan's tribal areas are the new Ground Zero in the battle against global terrorism -- even more so than Iraq.
Reiterating the government's resolve that terrorists cannot be allowed to commit acts of terror from its soil, Musharraf said those harbouring terrorists would face stern action. He said the people of Pakistan are moderate and they reject extremism.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair braved an assassination threat from al-Qaeda and went ahead with the plans to attend the Queen's 2002 Golden Jubilee celebrations.
The White House has convened a top-priority meeting on Thursday to deal with new intelligence that suggests a group of Al Qaeda operatives is en route to the United States, or likely already in place.
Voicing America's resolve to wipe out "apocalyptic cult" like ISIS and Al-Qaeda, President Barack Obama today said safe havens for terrorists will not be tolerated and called on Muslims worldwide to reject those who "distort Islam, to preach intolerance, and promote violence."
Ayman al-Zawahiri, who has been appointed the Al Qaeda chief following the killing of Osama bin Laden, is probably hiding in Pakistan and can be nabbed by the Inter Services Intelligence if it "really wants" to do so, a top United States Senator has said.
The hijackers had demanded release of Azhar Masood in order to release the passengers of the plane.
The court is likely to hear argument on quantum of sentence on February 14 and the convicts face a maximum punishment of life imprisonment.
Modi regretted that the international response to terrorism was weak and said more cooperation was needed to fight the menace.
Once identified, these individuals are drawn into private groups where they are exposed to manipulative content, including fabricated videos depicting atrocities allegedly committed by security forces, the officials said.
In light of the intelligence input, the White House has convened an urgent multi-agency meeting on Wednesday to consider steps needed to minimize the threat and harden the security for government buildings.
India stressed that it is even more extraordinary for a country with a history of rigged elections to talk about political choices, that too in a democracy.
Aswat tried to set up Al Qaeda camp in US: FBI
United States President Joe Biden, while commemorating the 23rd anniversary of 9/11 terror attacks at a fire station, donned a red hat that read 'TRUMP 2024', a gesture the White House has termed a show of bipartisan unity.
A secular blogger in Bangladesh has been hacked to death in north-eastern Bangladesh in the third such deadly attack since the start of the year, police say.
Laden tried to defend the roughly 3,000-person terror assaults against the United States in a long letter dated 2002.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog said the instructions originated from an Al Qaeda design for chemical weapons dating back to 2003.
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