Washington: Al-Qaeda is trying to seek nuclear secrets from Pakistan and it remains as dangerous as ever, Special US Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke said Wednesday.
"Al-Qaeda is still there in the region, ever dangerous and publicly asking people to attack the US and publicly asking nuclear engineers to give them nuclear secrets from Pakistan," Holbrooke said at a reception hosted by the Congressional Caucus on Afghanistan at the Capitol Hill.
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Indonesia: police claim to have killed terrorist Noordin Top
17 Sep 2009
Police in Indonesia claim to have killed the fugitive terrorist mastermind Noordin Mohammad Top during a raid in Java. Elite counter-terrorist police stormed a house in on the island killing four people after a nine-hour siege.
They said later that among the dead was Top, the leader of a splinter group of Jemaah Islamiyah, a group allied to al-Qaeda that was behind the major bombings in Bali and a string of later attacks including the blasts in the capital, Jakarta, in July.
Poice have claimed before to have killed Top before, only for himto re-emerge and organise new attacks. Anti-terrorist police have redoubled their efforts to capture Top since they mistakenly thought he was killed in a raid that ended a 17-hour siege last month. Malaysian-born Top, 41, leads a group called Al-Qaeda in the Malay Archipelago, and has long been at the top of the Indonesia's wanted list. A veteran Islamist and the most notorious terrorist in south-east Asia, he is the group's recruiter, strategist and financier.
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"Al-Qaeda is trying to seek nuclear secrets from Pakistan and it remains as dangerous as ever, Special US Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke said Wednesday."
Thanks much Oorang.