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  • Turkey al-Qaida Leader Said Killed in Iraq

    09/10/2004 7:25:39 PM PDT · by Nepalis · 14 replies · 905+ views
    Turkey al-Qaida Leader Said Killed in Iraq Fri Sep 10, 2:52 PM ET By JAMES C. HELICKE, Associated Press Writer ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish television broadcast on Friday a video from militants saying that the suspected leader of a Turkish al-Qaida cell blamed for suicide bombings in Istanbul was killed by U.S. airstrikes in Iraq (news - web sites). The video showed a body of a bearded man with a bloody face said to be that of Habib Akdas. A man, apparently a Turkish militant, was heard in the video saying Akdas was killed in a bombing raid this week...
  • Al-Qaeda 'sets Iraq deadline'

    07/19/2005 4:11:02 AM PDT · by Eurotwit · 67 replies · 2,003+ views
    AFP ^ | July 19, 2005 | AFP
    THE al-Qaeda terror network has warned European nations to pull their troops out of Iraq within a month or face more attacks such as the London bombings, according to an internet statement. "This message is the final warning to European states," the statement signed by Al-Qaeda group the Brigades Abu Hafs al-Masri, dated July 16, said. "We want to give you a one-month deadline to bring your soldiers out from the land of Mesopotamia (Iraq)." The authenticity of the statement could not be verified. Advertisement: After August 15, "there will be no more messages, just actions that will be engraved...
  • Shadowy group claims new attack

    07/22/2005 7:45:53 AM PDT · by MadIvan · 34 replies · 709+ views
    Reuters / Yahoo ^ | July 22, 2005 | Staff
    DUBAI (Reuters) - A group claiming links to al Qaeda said on Friday it was behind the latest attack on London, warning it would not halt its strikes until foreign forces quit Iraq, according to an Internet statement."Our attack in the heart of the infidel British capital is nothing but a message to all European governments that we will not rest until all the infidel troops leave Iraq," said the statement by the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades dated July 22. "This is a warning to all those who follow the policies of the president of infidel America," it added, referring...
  • Al-Qaida 'Group' Claims Responsibility For London Attacks

    07/22/2005 9:29:53 AM PDT · by areafiftyone · 9 replies · 368+ views
    A statement posted today on an Islamic website in the name of an al-Qaida-linked group claimed responsibility for latest blasts targeting London’s transport system. The group, Abu Hafs al Masri Brigade, also claimed responsibility for the July 7 bombings which killed 52 people and four suicide bombers. The statement’s authenticity could not be immediately verified. “Our strikes in the depths of the capital of the British infidels our only a message to other European governments that we will not relent and sit idle before the infidel soldiers will leave the land of the two rivers,” said the statement. The “two...
  • The al Qaeda-linked Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades issues fresh warning-(will attack all over Europe!)

    07/22/2005 2:28:47 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 45 replies · 3,339+ views
    DEBKA FILE.COM ^ | JULY 22, 2005 | Webmaster
    The group repeated its last warning, stated attacks on London and other European capitals will not cease until their troops are withdrawn from Iraq. Earlier the group which claimed the first round of London bombings on July 7, also answered for the attacks Thursday, July 21. In its first warning, the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades gave European states still in Iraq – Denmark, the Netherlands, Britain, Italy – until Aug. 15 to bring their soldiers out. Otherwise, said the statement, whose authenticity has not been verified, “there will be a bloody war in the service of God.” There will be...
  • Second Islamic group claims London bombs

    07/09/2005 10:21:17 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 9 replies · 483+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/9/05 | Salah Nasawi - AP
    CAIRO, Egypt - An Islamic Web site posted a statement purporting to be from an al-Qaida-linked group Saturday in which it claimed responsibility for the bombings that killed at least 49 people in London and promised more attacks in the city it described as the "capital of the infidels." The claim purportedly from the Abu Hafs al Masri Brigade was logged on an Islamic Web site where similar claims for responsibility have appeared in the past. The statement's authenticity could not be verified. Experts say the group has no proven history of attacks and said it had claimed responsibility for...
  • Terrorists threaten 'unbearable hell'

    11/05/2004 5:49:22 AM PST · by Ginifer · 189 replies · 8,661+ views
    A GROUP linked to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network threatened the United States with reprisals after the re-election of President George W. Bush, warning of "unbearable hell," in a website statement today. "The coming days will show you that the one you preferred will lead you to an unbearable hell," said the group calling itself the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades after the Al-Qaeda military chief killed in Afghanistan in October 2001. It was not possible to immediately verify the statement. The same group claimed responsibility for the train bombings in Madrid in March this year that killed 191 people in...
  • Italy: Deported cleric 'met bin Laden'

    11/30/2003 7:15:49 AM PST · by knighthawk · 2 replies · 295+ views
    The Sunday Times ^ | December 01 2003
    A SEBEGALESE Muslim cleric deported from Italy as a danger to state security was quoted today as telling a pan-Arab newspaper that he had met three times with Osama bin Laden, leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network. The cleric, Abdel Qadir Mamour, told the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat in an interview by telephone from Dakar, Senegal, that he had the meetings with bin Laden in Sudan from 1993 to 1996. Mamour said bin Laden had provided money to finance his trading in diamonds between Africa and Belgium, but did not say how much money was involved or if bin Laden was...
  • Abu Hafs al-Masri Martyrs' Brigades Warns Europe

    07/03/2004 4:32:21 AM PDT · by genefromjersey · 2 replies · 399+ views
    The Abu Hafs al-Masri Martyrs' Brigade resurfaced yesterday: reminding Europeans they had only until July 15th to remove their forces from military soil. The "friendly reminder" refers to an April 15th tape from Osama bin Laden,which offered a "truce"-the conditions of which required vacating Muslim lands. Is this group real...or just 2 idiots with a fax machine?Please click on the link for full article.
  • 'Qaeda-Linked' Group Renews Threat to Attack Europe

    07/02/2004 7:10:07 AM PDT · by Pikamax · 8 replies · 277+ views
    Reuters ^ | 07/02/04 | Ghaida Ghantous
    'Qaeda-Linked' Group Renews Threat to Attack Europe Fri Jul 2, 2004 09:31 AM ET By Ghaida Ghantous DUBAI (Reuters) - Muslim militants claiming links to al Qaeda vowed new attacks on Europe once a "truce" offered by Osama bin Laden expires in two weeks, newspapers said on Friday. Governments and analysts played down the threat, noting the group in question had made unfounded claims before; French President Jacques Chirac said he took any such report seriously but that little could be done to improve already tight security. "To the European people ... you only have a few more days to...
  • Analysts now doubt group's claim for Madrid bombing

    03/19/2004 8:08:26 AM PST · by truthandlife · 79 replies · 397+ views
    World Tribune ^ | 3-19-04
    LONDON – Western intelligence analysts doubt the credibility of a purported Al Qaida group that has threatened new attacks in Europe. Yigal Carmon, president of the Washington-based Middle East Media Research Institute and counter-terrorism adviser to three prime ministers, said the Abu Hafs statement does not represent Al Qaida. "The text of this statement includes linguistic usages and concepts that are incompatible with or alien to authentic Al Qaida writings by Osama Bin Laden, Dr. Ayman Al Zawahiri, and others," Carmon wrote in an analysis. The analysts said the Abu Hafs Al Masri Brigade appears to be a fictitiou organization...
  • Al Qaeda Announces Cease Fire in Europe

    03/18/2004 2:45:05 PM PST · by Adam36 · 22 replies · 132+ views
    Zaman ^ | 3,18,04
    This is the biggest joke. Next there gonna say, they'll have a ceasefire with America if Ralph Nader is elected. I wonder if there ceasefire with Spain will continue, when Spain goes after the terrorists behind the Train massacre. Thats if Spain goes after them.
  • Islamists Declare Spain Truce, Endorse Bush

    03/18/2004 1:03:20 PM PST · by FFIGHTER · 14 replies · 148+ views
    FOXNEWS.COM ^ | Thursday, March 18, 2004 | AP
    <p>CAIRO, Egypt — The Islamic militant group that claimed responsibility for last week's Madrid train bombings has warned that its next targets could be the United States, Japan, Italy, Britain or Australia, an Arabic newspaper reported Thursday.</p> <p>The London-based Al-Quds al-Arabi said on its Web site that it had received a statement from "The Brigade of Abu Hafs al-Masri (search) (Al Qaeda)" in which the group reiterated its responsibility for the March 11 attacks that killed more than 200 people and wounded more than 1,600.</p>
  • Al-Qaeda threat 'fairly credible'

    03/18/2004 12:17:13 PM PST · by Indy Pendance · 5 replies · 130+ views
    A LONDON-BASED Arabic newspaper described as "fairly credible" a statement it carried yesterday that was attributed to al-Qaeda and included threats of attacks similar to those in Madrid last week on "America's lackeys". Khaled Elshami, political editor of Al-Qods Al-Arabi newspaper, said the statement showed that al-Qaeda was "really trying to deliver a message, particularly to the British and the Americans". The statement singled out Australia, Britain, Italy, Japan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia with a warning that "brigades of death are at your gates". "To America's lackeys we say: a lackey of America has destroyed his future by allying himself...
  • Paper: Terror Group Names Possible Targets

    03/18/2004 3:58:02 AM PST · by kattracks · 10 replies · 144+ views
    AP | 3/18/04
    The Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt March 18 — The Islamic militant group that claimed responsibility for last week's Madrid train bombings has warned that its next targets could be the United States, Japan, Italy, Britain or Australia, an Arabic newspaper reported Thursday. The London-based Al-Quds al-Arabi said on its Web site that it had received a statement from "The Brigade of Abu Hafs al-Masri (al-Qaida)" in which the group reiterated its responsibility for the March 11 attacks that killed more than 200 people and wounded more than 1,600. "Our brigades are getting ready now for the coming strike," said the...
  • Islamic group names Western countries that could be next targets

    03/18/2004 5:53:46 AM PST · by conservativecorner · 27 replies · 150+ views
    USA Today ^ | March 18, 2004 | Unknown
    <p>CAIRO (AP) — The Islamic militant group that claimed responsibility for last week's Madrid train bombings has warned that its next targets could be the United States, Japan, Italy, Britain or Australia, an Arabic newspaper reported Thursday. The London-based Al-Quds al-Arabi said on its Web site that it had received a statement from "The Brigade of Abu Hafs al-Masri (al-Qaeda)" in which the group reiterated its responsibility for the March 11 attacks that killed more than 200 people and wounded more than 1,600.</p>
  • Islamic Group That Claimed Madrid Bombing Names...Next Targets

    03/18/2004 6:02:41 AM PST · by Kieri · 24 replies · 134+ views
    AP ^ | 03/18/04 | Nadia Abou El-Magd
    Report: Islamic Group That Claimed Madrid Bombings Names Western Countries That Could Be Next Targets By Nadia Abou El-Magd Associated Press Writer Published: Mar 18, 2004 CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - The Islamic militant group that claimed responsibility for last week's Madrid train bombings has warned that its next targets could be the United States, Japan, Italy, Britain or Australia, an Arabic newspaper reported Thursday. The London-based Al-Quds al-Arabi said on its Web site that it had received a statement from "The Brigade of Abu Hafs al-Masri (al-Qaida)" in which the group reiterated its responsibility for the March 11 attacks that...
  • PURPORTED AL QAEDA LETTER CALLS TRUCE IN SPAIN! (BLACKMAIL ALERT!)

    03/17/2004 12:18:02 PM PST · by areafiftyone · 190 replies · 356+ views
    CAIRO (Reuters) - A group claiming to have links with al Qaeda said Wednesday it was calling a truce in its Spanish operations to see if the new government would withdraw its troops from Iraq (news - web sites), a pan-Arab newspaper said. In a statement sent Wednesday to the Arabic language daily al-Hayat, the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, which claimed responsibility for the Madrid bombings that killed 201 people, also urged its European units to stop all operations. "Because of this decision, the leadership has decided to stop all operations within the Spanish territories... until we know the intentions...
  • Nine suspects in USS Cole bombing arrested

    03/16/2004 4:49:37 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 13 replies · 225+ views
    Sac Bee | 3/16/04 | Ahmed Al-Haz - AP
    <p>SAN`A, Yemen (AP) - Nine suspects in the 2000 bombing of the destroyer USS Cole have been arrested, the government said Tuesday, including eight who escaped from jail last year.</p> <p>Interior Minister Rashad al-Eleimi said authorities were closing in on two suspects still at large following their April jail break in the southern port city of Aden, a major embarrassment to the Yemeni government. The bombing in Aden killed 17 U.S. sailors and has been blamed on Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network.</p>
  • Terror Strike! Madrid-

    03/11/2004 1:38:57 PM PST · by backhoe · 107 replies · 1,961+ views
    various FR links | 03-11-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095637/posts Al-Qaeda Claims Responsibility3-11-04 | AP Purported Qaeda Letter Claims Spain Bombings-Paper Spain: Van, Detonators, Quran Tapes Found FROM HAARETZ AQ Casablanca bombings http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,89442,00.html AQ Jakarta Marriot hotel bombing (US Embassy had 20 rooms, but cancelled 4 hours prior after warning) http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3130835.stm NYC already beefing up security in the wake of Madrid bombings: http://www.ny1.com/ny/TopStories/SubTopic/index.html?topicintid=1&subtopicintid=1&contentintid=38028     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095619/posts Madrid Bombs Don't Match ETA Style - Europol Head (Update: AQ Claims Attack)Yahoo News/ Reuters ^ | March 11 , 2004 | Yahoo News/ Reuters     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095600/posts (BREAKING) ARABIC TAPE AND DETONATORS FOUND IN VAN IN MADRID - SPANISH MINISTERReuters ^ |...