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AL-QAEDA IN LIBYA: A PROFILEA Report Prepared by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress under an Interagency Agreement with the Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office’s Irregular Warfare Support Program August 2012

Referring to the Russian news agency Novosti, the website Elaph.com underscores the fact that the military commander of Al-Qaïda in Afghanistan, Mustapha Abou Al-Yazid, has revealed the ambitions of his organisation for the possession of nuclear weapons. These ambitions have fed the war against the pakistani regime. Abou Al-Yazid has stressed that the pakistani nuclear arsenal will not fall in the hands of the americans, but will be used by the moudjahidin against them. He emphasized that the islamic fighters were as close as 120km from one of the main nuclear bases before the pakistani army started its counter offensive...

WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden remains Public Enemy No. 1 but recent developments raise questions about the ability of U.S. forces to track down the elusive terrorist and the resources dedicated to the hunt more than three years after the Sept. 11 attacks. Fresh reminders of the unsuccessful search come as intelligence officials indicated this week that bin Laden has been in contact with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the top al-Qaida figure in Iraq, enlisting his help in planning attacks inside the United States. In a rare mention of his name Thursday, President Bush said bin Laden hopes to attack again...

MONACO - Osama bin Laden is unable to order operations from his hideout near the rugged Pakistani-Afghan border and spends all his time trying to evade capture, one of Europe’s top anti-terrorism officials said Friday.