Ten people, including an Indian, were killed when a car bomb exploded outside the US embassy in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. Six of those killed were Yemeni guards, while four, including the Indian, were civilians. Some mdeia reports put the death toll at 16.
Osama bin Laden has been sidelined by his followers and has no longer any control over the Al Qaeda terror network, according to intelligence officials in Britain and the US.
Retired Lieutenant General J F R Jacob has said that if it is true that he needs medical care, then Pakistan is the place where he is getting it.
Saad bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda leader's third-oldest son, is believed to have been killed by Hellfire missiles fired from a US Predator drone 'sometime this year', National Public Radio reported, quoting unnamed officials.
Responding to questions on Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan quoting a European Union disinformation lab report to accuse India of subversive activities through fake media organisations and similar allegations by Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said that as a responsible democracy, India does not practice disinformation campaigns.
'India has no hesitation in condemning terrorism anywhere in the world including in Karachi'
In a revelation, the Newsweek magazine claims in its upcoming issue that the recent suicide attacks in Pakistan following the storming of Lal Masjid by the army to flush out militants were ordered by Zawahiri.
The troops who finally took control of the mosque discovered letters from al-Zawahari, The Sunday Times said, quoting senior intelligence officials.
A secret plan by the United States -- to launch a mission by Special Operations forces into Pakistani tribal areas to capture or kill top Al Qaeda leaders -- has been held up for more than six months and there was mounting frustration in Pentagon over the continued delay, a media report said.Intelligence reports for more than a year had been streaming in about Osama bin Laden's network rebuilding in the Pakistani tribal areas.
Local residents claim the accused, while 'preaching different version of Islam', were asking youths to follow the path of Bin Laden and wage war against America.
'Terror is a legitimate threat. It is a threat that comes from Al-Qaeda and those organisations that have morphed off of Al-Qaeda, but there are other interests we have beyond merely -- for example, the situation in the Middle East is not a global war on terror. But it matters to us mightily whether or not we end up with an accommodation between the Israelis and the Palestinians,' he said.
The US has been mounting pressure on Pakistan to act against terror.
Akhtar, who is linked to Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and was head of the outlawed Harkatul Jihad al-Islami, fought along with the mujahideen during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. He also trained Jehadi fighters who were sent to Jammu and Kashmir during the 1990s.
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.
'Washington is confident the Saudi-born militant will be killed or captured within a year,' says The Guardian.
Terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden bankrolled the bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta in retaliation for Australia sending troops to Iraq, an alleged terrorist reportedly told the police in Canberra
'Young Osama was shocked by the government's use of massive military force against the rebels, and by the subsequent damage to the shrine,' says Yaroslav Trofimov, author of The Siege of Mecca.
Yet another surgical strike? India's Osama bin Laden moment? A fresh demonetisation exercise? What could it possibly be?
'If he looked at it purely as an Islamic bomb, he would not have sold the nuclear secrets to North Korea. Khan was fighting the West, through North Korea, Iran and Libya,'\nsays Gordon Corera.
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is probably somewhere in the area of Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said.
If we do not get out of our denial mode and act firmly against the extremist and anti-national elements, a 9/11 is waiting to happen in our homeland.
There is no reason to believe that anyone in the highest ranks of the Pakistan government knew about the location of Osama bin Laden, the White House has said.
Mahatma Gandhi would never have agreed with the "idea that there is some connection between Islam and violence" and would have stood up to the Taliban and Osama bin Laden if he were alive today, his grandson has said.
He also told interrogators that Abu Omar al Baghdadi, who is identified as the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, is a fictional role created by al Masri and that an actor is used for audio recordings of speeches posted on the Internet.
In the website, the boy dubbed the 'Crown Prince of Terror', called for an acceleration in the destruction of America, Britain, France and Denmark, the latter singled out for the publishing by its largest selling broadsheet of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.Hamza Bin Ladan, 16, the youngest of the Saudi-born warlord's 18 sons, is claimed to be the author of a poem featured on an extremist website to mark the third anniversary of the July 7 London bombings.
A radical Muslim cleric described as Osama bin Laden's right hand man in Europe has been released by a local court in London, but has to wear a 'electronic tag'.
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'A major internal upheaval cannot be ruled out.'
The ISI's new terror matrix comprises three major terrorist groups, at least half-a-dozen big and small front organisations with extremist ideology, spanning three countries.
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