A US congressional paper says the recent arrest of eleven men in Virginia, allegedly connected with the Lashkar, raises the prospects of a new terrorist threat in the US.
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.
"What they are doing is that they're putting lives on the line and resources into the fight. So they're fighting it. We have made it clear that we will support them as they request," he said.
Major Adil Qudoos is believed to be the uncle of Ahmed Qudoos, who was arrested along with Sheikh Mohammed, a top Al Qaeda operative.
Zawahiri served three years as a surgeon in the Egyptian Army, but his journey from an eye surgeon to becoming a most wanted global terrorist started after he met Laden in 1986, and joined Laden as his personal advisor and physician.
the report said India's counterterrorism efforts were 'hampered by its outdated and overburdened law enforcement and legal systems.'
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations, the media wing of the army, the terrorists attacked the security post in Dera Ismail Khan's Daraban area bordering the South Waziristan tribal district in the early morning hours.
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.
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'.
He said radical terror groups were enemies of Islam and urged clerics to 'cleanse' their religion of the taint of terrorism.
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 United States judge here has ordered terror group al-Qaeda, Taliban and Iran to pay nearly $6 billion to relatives of the victims and survivors of the September 11 attacks.
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.
A deadly alliance is in the making in Pakistan. The Inter-State Intelligence, in fear of losing power over terror activities in and outside Pakistan, has brought the Al Qaeda, the Lashkar-e-Tayiba and the gang formed by India's most wanted gangster Dawood Ibrahim under its control to conduct deadly operations outside Pakistan.
Aziz, 55, survived the blast, while his driver and seven others, including the bomber, were killed and over 30 others were injured.
There is only one perpetrator, Hamas. It is a terrorist organisation. It is obscene to argue that until the Palestinian question is solved, anybody has the right to use terrorism as an instrument of policy, argues Shekhar Gupta.
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.
The US President said that justice has been delivered.
In a new audiotape Al Qaeda also criticised Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's visit to India.
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.
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.
Ahmed Javed Khwaja is the second Pakistani doctor to be arrested on suspicion of having links with the banned outfit.
Following al-Zawahiri's death, supporters of al-Qaeda, or its affiliated terrorist organisations, may seek to attack US facilities, personnel, or citizens
China opposed to "double standards" on counter-terrorism operations.
The agency said it has found several digital devices containing large volumes of incriminating data during the searches.
'You are dealing with a small gang of semi-literate terrorists. These are guys flying kites.' 'There is huge difference between flying kites and actually having a deliverable, executable, plan.'
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.
Rauf Azhar, born in 1974 in Pakistan, had been sanctioned by the United States in December 2010.
According to The Sunday Times, Prince Charles met with the Al Qaeda founder's half-brother Bakr in London and allegedly agreed to accept GBP 1 million.
Member-States must ensure that measures taken to counter terrorism comply with their obligations under international law, a spokesperson for the UN secretary general has said, asserting that the global body had "no information" about the whereabouts of Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri killed by a US drone strike in Kabul.
Six terrorists were killed by authorities after they targetted the popular seaside town of Grand-Bassam, a weekend retreat for residents of Abidjan, about 25 miles (40km) away.
Beijing blocked the proposal that had been moved by the US and co-designated by India to blacklist Mir under the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee of the UN Security Council as a global terrorist and subject him to assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo.
United States President Barack Obama has visited headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency to congratulate the top spy outfit for its role in killing of the Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Eight people, including madrasa teachers, were taken into custody for allegedly being associated with the same terror group, also known as Ansarul Bangla Team, in the past two days in the district.
Pakistan has formally lodged a protest with the US over its joint statement with India against the country's involvement in cross-border terrorism.
Death came calling for the 71- year-old terrorist from the sky on Sunday morning in Kabul.
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.
