Results tagged “Al Qaeda”

Yisrael HaYom  -- At the the height of the Iraq War, the US Intelligence agencies got hold of a secret letter dated July 9, 2005, written by Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was then deputy head of al-Qaeda to the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The letter which was...

The US and its allies are planning to ratchet up severe sanctions against Iran, in light of the decision of the leadership of the Islamic Republic to rebuff Western diplomatic offers and to go ahead with domestic enrichment of its low-enriched uranium to the 20 per cent level. This new...

This week, Osama bin Laden took down from the shelves an old argument from his radical Islamic library, namely that Israel is the reason why al-Qaeda is presently trying to attack the US. In an audiotape broadcast on al-Jazeera on January 24, bin Laden took credit for the attempted airline...

In the West there is a growing trend to view Hamas as separate from al-Qaeda in order to open a political dialogue with Hamas, but is this view correct? In its annual survey of terrorist threats to Israel during 2009, the Israel Security Agency noted the spread and buildup...