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Al-Qaeda 'underpants' bomber was working for CIA
2 weeks ago

THE al-Qaeda operative tasked with carrying a high-tech new "underpants" bomb onto a US-bound jet was in fact an agent working for the CIA and Arab intelligence agencies, it has emerged. The agent penetrated al-Qaeda's deadly affiliate Yemen and tracked
Secret Osama bin Laden files reveal al Qaeda membership
3 weeks ago

A FULL list of al-Qaeda members first discovered in Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan has been published, disclosing the various fates of the terrorist movement's followers. The list, dated August 7 2002, carries a total of 170 names with bin Laden
Al-Qaeda underwear bombmaker escaped three intelligence operations
2 weeks ago

AL-Qaeda's leading bomb-maker escaped an operation by at least three Western intelligence agencies in which an undercover agent volunteered to be a suicide bomber using a device in his underpants. The efforts of the CIA, MI6 and Saudi intelligence were a
Osama bin Laden 'considered changing name of al-Qaeda before death'
3 weeks ago

OSAMA bin Laden bemoaned "disaster after disaster" inflicted by the US onslaught on al-Qaeda before his death a year ago and even mulled changing his terror group's name, a top US official said. President Barack Obama's top counter-terrorism aide John Br
The face of the master bomber behind new al Qaeda underwear attack foiled by CIA
2 weeks ago

THE CIA has disrupted an al-Qaeda plot to bring down a US-bound airline using a new underwear bomb around the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death. Terrorists in Yemen reportedly planned to use a device similar to the one that failed to explode on a pl
Dozens killed by suicide bomber in military uniform in Yemen
6 days ago

A suicide bomber dressed in military uniform blew himself up in the middle of a battalion of soldiers in the Yemen capital Sana'a on Monday, killing at least 96 people and wounding dozens of others, according to an official. The military official said th
Sabahi calls for recount in Egyptian presidential race, citing 'violations'
10 hours ago

the third runner-up in Egypt's presidential race called yesterday for a partial vote recount, citing violations, his spokesman said.Early results show that Hamdeen Sabahi came in third by a margin of some 700,000 votes, leaving him out of next month's ru
British spy cracked al-Qaeda underpants bomb plot
2 weeks ago

AN UNDERCOVER agent who foiled an al-Qaeda plot to blow up an airliner with an underwear bomb is a British national, it is reported.UK intelligence was said to have been "heavily involved" in recruiting the spy who infiltrated a terror group in Yemen, in