GUN raider Malcolm Cruddas today told how an al Qaeda terrorist attacked him in prison with boiling fat. The 33-year-old suffered first degree burns when oil was poured over his head in Durham's Frankland Prison by Omar Khyam. Now home after a seven-year sentence, the 33-year-old father-of-two, said: "All...
A 33-YEAR-old man charged with directing terrorism will today go on trial. Raingzieb Ahmed, 33, of Fallowfield, Manchester, is also accused of being a member of al Qaeda.
President Bush Has Kept Our Nation Safe In The Seven Years Following 9/11 WASHINGTON -- Tomorrow, in remembrance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President and Mrs. Bush will participate in a moment of silence at the White House and deliver remarks at the dedication of the Pentagon memorial. Following...
PAKISTAN' S army said it had routed Taliban militants in a stronghold near the Afghan border - but turned up no sign of Osama bin Laden or al Qaeda's number two Ayman al-Zawahri. Pakistani officials said troops had killed 560 Pakistani and foreign fighters.
ON the War on Terror, as with most issues, it can be difficult to understand Barack Obama's thinking if you listen only to his finely wrought speeches. But if you take the time to watch as Obama meanders toward a position, understanding him is easy. Case in point: the...
WASHINGTON -- Today in Iraq, responsibility for security in Anbar Province was transferred to Iraqi civilian authorities. Iraqi forces will now take the lead in security operations in Anbar, with American troops moving into an overwatch role. Not long ago, Anbar was one of the most dangerous provinces in Iraq....
BAQUBA, Iraq AFP — Counter-offensives by the security forces over the past year have largely rid Iraq of foreign fighters recruited by insurgent groups such as Al-Qaeda, a top police commander said on Monday. "Arab fighters have left Iraq and we are done with them," interior ministry spokesman Major...
DHULUIYAH, Iraq AFP — Last month Al-Qaeda fighters Abdul Rahman Mohammed and Ahmed Ali laid down their arms after nearly four years of fighting US soldiers in Iraq. The two young men and hundreds like them from Al-Qaeda and other insurgent groups in largely Sunni Arab Salaheddin province surrendered...
RAMADI, Iraq AFP — Iraqi forces on Monday took control of the Sunni Anbar province, once the most explosive battlefield in Iraq, from the US military, symbolising the growing security gains in the war-torn country. The transfer ceremony at the governate building in the provincial capital of Ramadi marked...
SANAA AFP — Yemeni authorities have arrested a leader of the Islamist Jihad movement in the south of the country after a five-year search, a security official said on Saturday. The arrest came after an exchange of fire between police and supporters of Khaled Abdel Nabi, who had taken...
THREE men were appearing in court today charged over an alleged plot to assassinate the Prime Minister. The trio were arrested at Manchester Airport and in Accrington, Lancashire, on August 14 and are due to appear before Westminster Magistrates' Court in central London. Ishaq Kanmi, 22, of Cromwell...
SANAA AFP — Yemeni authorities have arrested 30 suspected Al-Qaeda members in the past two weeks in a crackdown on the jihadist network in the eastern province of Hadramaut, an official told AFP Sunday. The official, who asked not to be named, said "a series of security operations" have...
BAGHDAD AFP — The US military said on Sunday it has captured an Al-Qaeda militant who allegedly planned the abduction of American journalist Jill Carroll in January 2006. Salim Abdallah Ashur al-Shujayri, also known as Abu Uthman, was captured during an operation on August 11, the military said in...
BAGHDAD AFP — A suicide bomber killed at least 21 people and wounded 32 when he attacked a dinner banquet attended by police and members of an anti-Qaeda Awakening group near Baghdad Sunday, a security official said. The bomber blew up his explosives-laden vest as police and members of...
SAMARRA, Iraq AFP — For some Iraqis voting is a way to avenge the killing of their loved ones, others hope the ballot will enact change, bring justice and maybe even reverse their fortunes. Nearly 100,000 voters in central Iraq's Samarra -- a city with a violent past and...
JERUSALEM AFP — An Arab-Israeli was charged on Friday with trying to contact Al-Qaeda in a bid to set up a local cell of the global extremist network, police said. The indictment alleges that Khaled Abu Raqiq, 24, a Bedouin from the southern town of Tel Sheva, used the...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan AFP — Missiles fired from Afghanistan hit a militant hideout in Pakistan's tribal belt Wednesday, killing at least eight people including some foreign extremists, security officials said. The strike in the South Waziristan region was the first since key US ally Pervez Musharraf resigned as president on...
Only days after suffering a significant setback in their lawsuit against Saudi Arabia, lawyers at Cozen O'Connor and other plaintiffs' lawyers have opened a new front in their battle to hold terrorism financiers accountable for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. In court papers filed in federal district court in Manhattan,...
ISSERS, Algeria AFP — A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside a police school in Algeria on Tuesday, killing 43 people and raising fears of an Al-Qaeda-linked campaign in north Africa. Witnesses told AFP the attacker drove a car packed with explosives at the main entrance to the...
SANAA AFP — Yemeni security forces have arrested five suspected Al-Qaeda militants in the eastern province of Hadramawt, where they have stepped up their hunt for the gunmen, a security official said on Tuesday. The five were nabbed late on Monday near the town of Sayun, where a policeman...
