Topic: Al Qaeda

NYC police arrest "lone wolf" in bomb plot

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police arrested a 27-year-old man they called a "lone wolf" militant on charges of plotting to build bombs to kill American soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.Jose Pimentel, a follower of late Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, ...

NYC police say arrest 'lone wolf' in bomb plot

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police arrested a 27-year-old man they called a "lone wolf" militant on charges of plotting to build bombs to kill American soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.Jose Pimentel, a follower of late Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, ...

NYC police say arrest "lone wolf" in bomb plot

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police arrested a 27-year-old man they called a "lone wolf" militant on charges of plotting to build bombs to kill American soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.Jose Pimentel, who police say was a follower of late ...

New York police arrest man trying to build bomb

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York officials said on Sunday police had arrested a man trying to build a pipe bomb with instructions from an al Qaeda magazine which he planned to use against U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.The suspect ...

New York arrests man trying to build bomb: reports

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police arrested a man for trying to build a pipe bomb with instructions from an al Qaeda magazine that he planned to use against U.S. military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, media reported on Sunday.New ...

New York to announce details of bomb plot

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will give details on Sunday about the arrest of a man believed to be planning to build and detonate a bomb, the New York Times and CNN reported.The case was "terror related" but ...

US lawmakers eye rules for terrorism prisoners

A divided US Senate pressed ahead Friday with a sweeping military spending bill that has drawn a White House veto threat over new rules requiring suspected terrorists to be kept in military custody.The battle over the $662 billion Defense Authorization legislation centers ...
A Malian man faces up to 15 years in jail after pleading guilty to trafficking cocaine to fund the activities of Al-Qaeda and FARC guerrilla fighters in Colombia, US prosecutors said on Tuesday.Oumar Issa, who was arrested in Ghana in December 2009 ...

Qaeda's Zawahiri praises bin Laden's loyalty, morals

DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda has released a video message in which the group's leader, Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, heaps praise on his predecessor Osama bin Laden for his "superior morals" and loyalty to his comrades.In the half-hour tape titled "Days with the ...

US man convicted in plot to help Al-Qaeda branch

A Texas man who had been in contact with the late US-born Al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi was found guilty Monday of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, officials said.A judge delivered the verdict against Barry Walter Bujol, a ...