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Terror suspect worked at British nuclear lab before CERN - report

DEBKAfile Special Report

October 14, 2009, 8:08 AM (GMT+02:00)

The Algerian-born nuclear physicist Dr. Adlene Hicheur, 32, arrested in France on suspicion of links with al Qaeda's North African wing, worked at the Rutherton Appleton Laboratory in Didcot four years ago, conducting nuclear physics research, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
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Al Qaeda homes in on Germany as its next European target

DEBKA-Net-Weekly Exclusive Report

October 1, 2009, 10:23 PM (GMT+02:00)

Berlin is on notice to pull German troops out of Afghanistan or face a nationwide Al Qaeda campaign, as the forthcoming DEBKA-Net-Weekly discloses exclusively. Five years ago, Osama bin Laden bent Spain to his will by blowing up Madrid trains. He plans to repeat his success against Germany - this time under a new generation of commanders.

Our latest issue out Friday revealed the hows and whens of the latest al Qaeda plot.

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US commando raid in Somalia kills top al Qaeda terrorist wanted for US embassy bombing

DEBKAfile Special Report

September 19, 2009, 2:18 PM (GMT+02:00)

Senior al Qaeda operative Saleh Ali Nabhan

Saleh Ali Nabhan was sought on suspicion of taking part in the 1998 attack on the US embassy in Kenya, in which 500 people were killed and, four years later, orchestrating the 2002 bombings of a Mombasa hotel which left 12 Kenyans and three Israelis dead.

A vehicle was targeted by US commandoes Monday, Sept. 14, in the southern Somali Barawe district and a dead body, believed to be that of Ali Nabhan, recovered.
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Al Qaeda's threat brings out extra Hamas security forces in Gaza City

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

September 9, 2009, 4:48 PM (GMT+02:00)

Hamas on guard AGAINST terror

The Salafi Jalalat organization set up by al Qaeda in the Gaza Strip has vowed to avenge what it called the massacre inflicted by Hamas on one of its cells, Jund Ansar Allah, when their partisans clashed in the southern town of Rafah on Aug. 14. At least 30 were reported dead on both sides and more than 150 injured.

Hamas intelligence was tipped off to a Jalalat plot to strike its government centers over this weekend, aiming to emulate the Baghdad outrage of Aug. 19.
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Armed clashes between Hamas and al Qaeda in Rafah leave 23 dead, 120 injured

DEBKAfile Special Report

August 21, 2009, 8:36 AM (GMT+02:00)

Abdullah al Latif Mussa - would-be al Qaeda Emir of Gaza

Six Hamas combatants including a senior commander and two al Qaeda cell leaders were among the 23 killed in gun battles between Hamas forces and hundreds of members of the al Qaeda offshoot Jund Ansar Allah in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah Friday Aug. 14. DEBKAfile's military sources report that Hamas special units fired mortars and heavy machine guns into the Ibn Thaymas mosque after the Jund leader, Abdullah al Latif Mussa, proclaimed the Gaza Strip an al Qaeda emirate.
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Al Qaeda Readies Dual-track Offensive in Iraq and Gaza

February 11, 2008, 2:11 PM (GMT+02:00)

Taliban style mini-vans adopted by Palestinian Fatah al-Islam in Gaza

Just in time for George W. Bush’s Middle East tour, al Qaeda’s new operational arm, Fatah al-Islam, has completed its redeployment on two warfronts Iraq and the Gaza Strip, orchestrated by its Palestinian chief Shaker al-Abessi from his new base in Iraq. Suicide attacks in Iraq are climbing again as a top US general cautions that American-Iraqi military successes are “tenuous.” Sunday, Jan. 6, two suicide bombers struck in separate parts of Baghdad, killing 13 people, six of them Iraqi police. In Gaza, Fatah al-Islam arrivals roar through Gaza’s streets in new mini-vans, brandishing their heavy machine guns and anti-tank weapons and displaying their “Musab Zarqawi” missiles.
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A Repackaged Bin Laden Plays Mind Games with Western Audience

September 8, 2007, 11:10 PM (GMT+02:00)

Al Qaeda’s leader, Osama bin Laden presented a brushed up new image in his first video speech in three years on September 8. His style had changed too as he bid to challenge President George W. Bush’s recent assertions that the West is engaged in a long ideological war with Islamist extremism. Certainly his neatly trimmed and fashionably darkened beard, his immaculate silken robes and sophisticated oratory were in sharp contrast to the harsh, out-of-the-desert, Koran-thumping Osama bin Laden, who inflamed Muslim masses seven years ago when he gloated over his mass murder of Americans. Has the repackaged bin Laden lost his Islamist charisma? DEBKAfile’s al Qaeda experts say that, while polishing his public persona for Western consumption, Osama bin Laden has also adopted a new style for his jihadist following, that of religious guide, supreme mentor, the great ideologue and imam, who leaves crude threats to others. Many Western pundits claimed that the new speech contained no threats. Our sources caution against falling into this error. They note that al Qaeda’s leader may have changed his marketing tactics, but not his spots: His diatribe starts with the words: “Praise to Allah and his law of retaliation – ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth and the killer is killed.'” Despite its lack of specific warnings, several security analysts said bin Laden's video could be a signal to his followers to launch new strikes.
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Abd al Hadi Engineered First al Qaeda attacks in Israel and Britain

April 28, 2007, 12:49 PM (GMT+02:00)

Omar Sharif, who disappeared after Mike's Place 2003 bombing

The CIA’s capture of one of Osama bin Laden’s most talented operations officers, Abd al Hadi al-Iraq, Abu Abdullah, 45, is a major American counter-terror coup which turns some hidden pages in al Qaeda’s arcane, bloodstained record. Al Hadi is now credited with plotting the first direct al Qaeda suicide attack inside Israel on direct orders from Osama bin Laden. Two British Muslims were sent to blow up the US embassy in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2003. Asif Muhammed Hanif and Omar Khan Sharif, who bombed Mike’s Place instead, were headhunted at the radical Finsbury Park mosque in London. So too was Richard Reid, the failed shoe bomber serving time in the United States for attempting to blow up an American Airlines plane bound for Miami from Paris in Dec. 2002. Past investigations established that Hanif, Sharif and Reid all spent time at Hamas training camps in the Gaza Strip before they embarked on their missions.
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Coalition Aims at Heading off Taliban Advance towards Kabul

June 20, 2006, 5:45 PM (GMT+02:00)

“Operation Mountain Thrust,” the biggest coalition offensive since the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, has taken US-led forces deep into the remote mountains of the south. Its primary purpose is to abort the revived Taliban’s drive to retake Kabul the capital, and the key city of Herat. Operation Mountain Thrust will go on through the summer and is not limited in time. US spokesmen noted that Sunday, June 18, was the first time coalition soldiers had ventured into the Bagham Valley north of Helmund. They landed by helicopter, surprising the Taliban, which had not expected them to reach so far into the remote mountains.
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Iraq’s Zarqawi Sets up Gaza Branch at Palestinian Base

December 19, 2005, 1:37 PM (GMT+02:00)

Since early December, a branch of Abu Musab al Zarqawi’s al Qaeda in Iraq has been running a forward base in Gaza City preparatory to in-depth attacks in Israel, according to DEBKAfile’s exclusive counter-terror sources. It joins the Al Qaeda-Palestine cell established some weeks ago in the Gaza Strip. A high-ranking Israeli army officer confided to us: “For years, we fought al Qaeda in unpublicized encounters in remote places far from our borders. Now we have to admit they are here, on our very threshold.” The officer went on to warn: “The conjunction of al Qaeda and Palestinian terrorist structures confronts Israel with a grave strategic threat.”
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