Vicky Nanjappa assesses the global threat named Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been creating Kasabs around the world with his inflamatory speeches
In a shift from its long-held policy, the Obama administration has admitted for the first time that four American nationals have been killed in the Central Intelligence Agency's drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen since 2009. While the killing of American-born Al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen was well known, the names of three others were disclosed by Attorney General Eric Holder in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy.
United States spy agency Central Investigation Agency has been operating a secret drone-base from Saudi Arabia for the last two years to conduct lethal strikes against the Yemen-based terror outfit -- Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Al Qaeda's English online mouthpiece Inspire has returned proclaiming that it is "still publishing America's worst nightmare" despite the killing of its two top editors in a United States drone strike.
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 Central Intelligence Agency managed to kill one of its most wanted terrorists in the world -- Al Qaeda leader Anwar al Awlaki -- in a drone strike attack in September 2011 after hatching a fake marriage plot with a Croatian woman. Al Awlaki was linked with 2009's Fort Hood shooting and the foiled airplane underwear bomb that happened later in the same year.
"We confirm to the jihadi Ummah that is uprising against oppression, the martyrdom of the mujahid heroic sheikh Abu Abdul Rahman Anwar bin Nasser al-Awlaki," the US-based monitoring group SITE Intelligence quoted an Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula statement issued on jihadist websites as saying.
The death Anwar al-Awlaki, leader of Al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula, is not only a major blow to the terrorist outfit, but also marks another significant milestone in the effort to defeat the organization and its affiliates, United States President Barack Obama said on Friday.
Anwar al-Awlaki, the public face of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, has been killed, the Yemeni defence ministry announced on Friday, signalling another major setback to the terror network after the death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
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.
The New York police has said it is on "alert" after the killing of al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki in a US drone strike, amid possibility of attacks to avenge his death.
US-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki may rely on sermons to recruit jihadis, but his Yemen-based understudy, 24-year-old New York-raised Samir Khan, uses sarcasm and idiomatic English.
Motivational speeches are key to the making of a jihadi. Even the 26/11 murderers were repeatedly asked to read and listen to speeches by Anwar al-Awlaki, who has written on the 44 different ways of supporting jihad.
A radical American Imam, on Yemen's most wanted militants' list, has praised Fort Hood military base shooter Maj Nidal Hassan as a "hero" and a "man of conscience," terming American Muslims who condemned his actions as hypocrites.
Two Indian brothers are among four men who have been indicted by a US federal court on charges of providing material support to slain Al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki, prosecutors said.
The purported video of Yemen's Al-Qaeda branch claiming responsibility for last week's attack at a French satirical newspaper is authentic, the United States has said.
"He was one of the oldest militant and wanted for several terror-related crimes," police told PTI.
A US army psychiatrist, accused of the shooting rampage at a military base nearly four years ago, on Tuesday admitted to the attack that killed 13 people, calling himself a 'mujahideen' in a short and unrepentant opening statement at his trial.
While confirming that the voice in the slideshow was that of Moosa, senior police officials did not rule out the possibility that the banned IS terror group was trying to create a base in the Valley.
Bangladesh on Monday banned an Islamist militant outfit that is believed to be behind the gruesome hacking deaths of three secular bloggers.
'The Ishrat encounter was neither genuine, nor fake. I believe it was a 'controlled killing,' says Shekhar Gupta.
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