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LONDON [MENL] -- Al Qaida operatives have been relocating to the southern Sahara Desert in Algeria and have prepared secret bases near the border with Mali. Western intelligence sources said the Al Qaida effort was detected in early 2003 and has been aided by the Salafist Brigade for Combat and Call. They said the Salafist leadership has provided Al Qaida with hideouts and logistics in the mountain region. "The area is ideal for Al Qaida training and command functions," an intelligence source said. "The area is isolated and is located along the border with Mali, where there is no trace...

AS FORENSIC experts pick their way through the ruins of the two bomb sites in Istanbul seeking clues, the question on everyone’s lips is - where will al-Qaeda strike next? Despite waging "war on terror" for more than two years, the United States and British governments have clearly not been able to penetrate the higher reaches of Osama bin Laden’s movement with informers or agents, making it very difficult for them to gain positive intelligence on its future strategy or targets. According to intelligence sources, the regular security and travel warnings issued by London and Washington are predominately based in...

The United States has deployed 20,000 troops along the Syrian border after Syria failed to stop militants from crossing into Iraq. As late as October, U.S. officials said hundreds of Islamic insurgents were crossing into Iraqi from Syria. They said Syrian authorities had failed to respond to U.S. appeals to stop the flow of insurgents. U.S. military officials said the U.S. troop presence was bolstered beginning in September and has resulted in a significant drop in infiltration from Syria. The U.S. troops are based in the Iraqi province of Anbar, Middle East Newsline reported. Maj. Gen. Charles Swannack, commander of...

UNITED STATES: Additional threat warnings and indicators have surfaced in the past 72 hours in regard to a potential threat of terrorist attack(s) against/within the United States (CONUS). ERRI counter-terrorism analysts said that several recent threat statements, issued by radical guerilla organizations claiming to be associated with Al-Qaeda, would seem to indicate that terror operatives desire to undertake improvised explosive devices (IED) attacks of various kinds against U.S. interests overseas. Similar attacks are also possible within the near term within the contiguous United States -- particularly in Washington, DC. Additionally, other threat indicators show an interest by terrorists in using...

The terrorist network wants to look as if it's behind every attack so it can keep Washington off balance. WASHINGTON - Al Qaeda foot soldiers seem to be everywhere. They are now claiming responsibility for the Saturday bombing in Saudi Arabia. They say they are flocking into Iraq to fight the US "occupation." They claim they were behind the massive power failure in the northeast quadrant of the US this past summer. Some may even have penetrated Camp Delta at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which houses Taliban and Al Qaeda prisoners. Are they really capable of pulling off all these deeds?...

DUBAI (Reuters) - A purported statement by Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s al Qaeda network denied it was behind last Sunday's deadly bombing in Saudi Arabia and warned it would carry out a new attack on a major U.S. city within two years. The statement, carried on Islamist Web site al-Mojahedun (holy fighters), also said that the militant group was behind all attacks against U.S. troops in Iraq (news - web sites). It was not possible to independently verify the authenticity of the statement, which used the Islamic calendar and had the language and style that is very...

Andrew Krystal is reporting on Batchelor and Alexander. He has said his sources in the Intelligence community report that will be an integrated Al Queda attack on NY, Wash. D.C., and possibly canada. He also says that Al Queda might be stronger today than on 9/11.

The Al-Qaeda terror network claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed 17 people in Riyadh and warned the next targets would be in the Gulf, the United States and Iraq, a Saudi weekly said. "Al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the bomb attacks on al-Muhaya in Riyadh this past Saturday and said in an e-mail message received by one of our correspondents in Dubai that the next strikes will be in the Gulf, America and Iraq," said Al-Majalla, which is published from London each Friday. The message was sent by Qaeda operative Abu Mohammed al-Ablaj, who is in regular contact...

LONDON : Al-Qaeda terrorists using the cover of anti-war protests are a real threat to the safety of US President George W. Bush during his state visit to London next week, Britain's most senior policemen have warned. "We are not so concerned about some anti-war protester throwing rotten fruit at the president. Our worry now is the more dangerous elements who may be here," said a senior Scotland Yard source quoted in The Times newspaper Wednesday. The report came the day after anti-war demonstrators accused the government of blocking their right to protest in central London against Bush's visit from...

An urgent news from the jihad rule in Yemen, the Al-Asad messages coded... XXX and a XXX declared that they received messages from Al Qaeda Network in Yemen that points to the messages of the fighting Sheikh Osama bin Ladin who transmitted last week were coded messages with directions for the execution of three greatest operations during the holy month of Ramadan ... Allah is the greatest Allah is the greatest Allah is the greatest (( I swear by the great Allah who raised the sky without an intention that America and the west world will not dream of its...

BACKGROUNDER: Compiled by Bill Gertz Intelligence points to early November attack by Al Qaida U.S. intelligence officials said Al Qaida terrorists might be planning a major attack in early November. Preparations for the attack were said to have been completed by the end of October. But the attack was put off until early November, the sources said. A key indicator was the recent taped message from Osama bin Laden, which U.S. officials said is often a prelude to Al Qaida attacks. A statement published last week in the London Arabic newspaper, Al Majallah, bolstered intelligence of the impending attack. The...

ISLAMABAD: The joint efforts by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) to hunt 21 Al Qaeda men have failed. Intelligence reports based on communication interceptions and financial transactions suggest that Osama bin Laden and his key men, including Ayman Al Zawahiri, are regrouping. Reports say that Al Qaeda is now eyeing civilian targets in the US and Pakistan which may be attacked in the coming months, Daily Times has learnt from credible intelligence sources in Islamabad. Sources say that both countries have agreed to re-work their strategy on a case-to-case basis. More operations will...

With the onset the Muslim holy season of Ramadan 1424 (2003), we are becoming increasingly concerned and somewhat alarmed at the raw data and intelligence findings we are obtaining from obscure and often hidden Islamic Jihad web sites and communications intercepted in chat rooms used by fundamentalists. Analysts at the Northeast Intelligence Network have noticed a continuing rise in the "pitch and intensity" of calls for Jihad, Fatwas, Clarifications and other religious "rulings" that certainly suggest that plans for a series of attacks are currently in progress. These attacks appear to fall into two major categories: threats to US and...

TEL AVIV — Syria has ordered Hizbullah to launch a major attack along the Israeli border, according to communications intercepts. Israeli intelligence sources said they have monitored evidence of communications between Syria and Hizbullah that suggests the Iranian-backed Shi'ite movement has been directed to carry out a strike on Israeli positions along the border with Lebanon. The sources said the Hizbullah targets could be either civilian or military. The Syrian directive was meant to respond to Israeli air attacks on Syria over the last month. In October, Israel F-16 multi-role fighters struck the Ein Saheb insurgency training camp near Damascus...

PHOENIX (AP) — The FBI alerted law enforcement agencies last month that an al-Qaeda terrorist now in detention had talked of masterminding a plot to set a series of devastating forest fires around the western United States. Rose Davis, a spokeswoman for the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, told The Associated Press that officials there took note of the warning but didn't see a need to act further on it...

The Fagana of our uncle the sheikh Yasin Bnbaa from the heavy bullet is this issue where he confirmed that the coming December (2003) will witness great events on the Arab and international level . The first prophecy and on our great sheikh compact that an Arab leader to a powerful state will meet his end before the end of this December and his country will witness a state from the chaos and the political tension that for it its reflections on the economic situation will be internally and on the Arab and international level in the region, as for...

'Trip From Al-Qaida Hell': Security concerns will limit President Bush's travels during brief visit to Philippines on Saturday... Developing...

Some of the al-Qaida operatives whose activities led to a U.S. security warning last month have been captured, while others remain at large, U.S. counterterrorism authorities say. "We have received a lot of good information from these detainees over the past several weeks and corroborated the fact there were active plans, ongoing, to conduct another attack in the United States," said William H. Parrish, a top intelligence official with the Homeland Security Department, during a recent interview with The Associated Press. "This attack as they indicated was probably going to be multiple attacks, simultaneous," he said...

Syrian-backed terrorists have vowed to escalate attacks on Israel from Lebanon, describing last Sunday's raid near Damascus as the "first round in a new Middle East war". Senior leaders of the Lebanese-based Hizbollah group warned that the raid, on an alleged Palestinian training camp, would inflame a border that had been relatively quiet for 30 years. Syrian president Bashar Assad said that the raid was an Israeli attempt to provoke war "It is wrong to bear an attack without a response. This changes the region," said Mohammad Raad, the deputy leader of Hizbollah...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A senior European cardinal said on Thursday Pope John Paul was nearing death -- the latest top churchman to ring alarm bells about the state of the 83-year old pontiff's health. Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn made his comments on the same day the pope's private secretary was trying to play down concerns about the pope's evident frailty. Pope John Paul, who suffers from Parkinson's Disease and can no longer walk without help, has appeared weaker than normal in recent public appearances and has struggled to speak at times. "The whole world is experiencing a pope who...