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Karzai Says bin Laden Not in Afghanistan -Full Story- President Hamid Karzai has insisted that Osama bin Laden is not in his country, in the latest installment in a row with the leader of Pakistan who says the Al-Qaeda chief is in Afghanistan.Other militant leaders including Islamist warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar were also not in the country, Karzai told reporters in a briefing about his visit to the United States that was overshadowed by the spat.'I can assure you they are not in Afghanistan,' Karzai said yesterday after being asked for his reaction to comments by Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf...

Saudi Arabia Al-Qaida Cell Acknowledges Deaths of Three Members, Says Battle Was to Defend Leader's Wife By Sarah El Deeb/Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A message purportedly from an al-Qaida cell in Saudi Arabia surfaced Monday with the acknowledgment that three of its militants were killed in a shootout last week with security forces. In the statement, which was found on Islamic Web sites, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula gave its own account of the July 20 raid on a house in Riyadh, describing it as battle to defend the wife and family of their leader. The house was...

A secret report to the United Nations by French investigator Jean-Charles Brisard names seven prominent Saudi financiers of terror; the number matches the seven Saudis mentioned in a 11/26/02 Washington Post article, though it's not known if all the names are the same. The Saudis mentioned by Brisard are: Khalid bin Mahfouz; Yassin al-Qadi; Saleh Abdullah Kamel; Abdullah Suleiman al-Rajhi; Adel Abdul Jalil Batterjee; Mohammed Hussein al-Amoudi; and Wa'el Hamza Julaidan (who has had his assets frozen by the US [State Department, 9/6/02]). Brisard says al-Qaeda has received between $300 million and $500 million over the last 10 years from...

Advisor to the Serb member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency Slobodan Radulj said on Friday that the Mujaheddin's offer to the local Serbs in Bocinj near Maglaj, in the Bosnia-Herzegovina Federation, that they had to accept Islam as their religion if they wanted to live there in peace and safety - represented an evident proof that this Ozren village had been turned into a camp for an ideological training of Islamic terrorists. "The ideological training is aimed for those who have accepted to sacrifice their lives for Islam," Radulj told the Republika Srpska media, and added that a number of Islamic,...

'Al-Nidaa, a website affiliated with Al-Qa'ida, recently published a series of articles about the war in Iraq. The eleventh[1] part of the series dealt with the dangers facing Sunni Islamists in the region. The article names a few such dangers, and refers to the emerging threat of the Shi'a to Sunni Islamists as "greater than the threat posed by the Jews and the Christians." The following is a summary of the main points of the article: "The Crusaders Threat": This danger will be manifested primarily in the expected missionary activities in Iraq, in addition to the military activities that aim...

ITALIAN police have arrested a Moroccan accused of links to a top al-Qaeda operative seized in Pakistan by the FBI last year, prosecutors in Milan said late today. Milan magistrate Guido Salvini said Mohamed Daki, 38, with an address in the northern city of Reggio Emilia, was arrested on Sunday. According to the charge sheet, Daki had contacts with Ramzi Binalshibh, an alleged lieutenant of Osama bin Laden credited with planning the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Binalshibh was arrested in Pakistan on the anniversary of the attacks and brought to the United States to stand trial....