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Libya Rebels Raise Concern About Islamic Extremism
By not in system - AOL NewsAJDABIYA, Libya - Abdel-Moneim Mokhtar was ambushed and killed by Moammar Gadhafi's troops last week on a dusty road in eastern Libya - the end of a journey that saw him fight as a jihadi in Afghanistan and then return home where he died alongside NATO-backed rebels trying to oust the longtime authoritarian leader. In describing Mokhtar's death on Friday, Gadhafi's government said he was a member of al-Qaida - part of an ongoing attempt to link the rebels to Osama bin Laden's group. Four years ago, al-Qaida said it had allied itself with the Libyan Islamic Fighters Group - of which Mokhtar ...
Unsealed NY Indictment Reveals Case Against 5 Men
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- The details of the criminal charges against the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four other defendants became moot for a civilian jury when they were finally made public Monday, just as Attorney General Eric Holder was announcing the men will be prosecuted at a military tribunal instead of in a courthouse just blocks from the World Trade Center site. U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy signed an order dismissing the indictment against Khalid Sheik Mohammed as he unsealed the Dec. 14, 2009 document, signed by U.S. attorneys Preet Bharara for the Southern District ...
Six Decades Later, FBI's Ten Most Wanted List Still Tough to Crack
By Allan Lengel - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- In the film "Take the Money and Run," Woody Allen played a bumbling, publicity-starved petty criminal named Virgil Starkwell. "You know he never made the Ten Most Wanted list," Starkwell's wife, Louise, lamented in the 1969 comedy. "It's very unfair voting. It's who you know." As Allen's fictitious character learned, getting on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list is no easy feat. Just being a vicious criminal or a menace to society isn't always enough. For one, there has to be an opening. And then there's the selection process: A committee at FBI headquarters reviews ...
For al-Qaida, Detroit Was Just the Cheapest Flight
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- When an admitted al-Qaida operative planned his itinerary for a Christmas 2009 airline bombing, he considered launching the strike in the skies above Houston or Chicago, The Associated Press has learned. But tickets were too expensive, so he refocused the mission on a cheaper destination: Detroit. The decision is among new details emerging about one of the most sensational terrorism plots to unfold since President Barack Obama took office. It shows that al-Qaida's Yemen branch does not share Osama bin Laden's desire to attack symbolic targets, preferring instead to strike at ...
Yemeni President Says US and Israel Behind Unrest
By not in system - AOL NewsSANAA, Yemen -- Yemen's embattled president on Tuesday accused the U.S., his closest ally, of instigating the mounting protests against him, but the gambit failed to slow the momentum for his ouster. Hundreds of thousands rallied in cities across Yemen against the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in the largest of the protests of the past month, including one addressed by an influential firebrand cleric, a former ally of Saleh, whom the U.S. has linked to al-Qaida. "Go on until you achieve your demands," Sheik Abdul-Majid al-Zindani told tens of thousands of demonstrators in the ...
US, Allies Pressure Gadhafi to Halt Libya Violence
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Obama administration threw its weight Thursday behind a European effort to expel Libya from the U.N.'s top human rights body and said it was readying a larger sanctions package against Moammar Gadhafi's regime that it will take up with allies in the coming days. President Barack Obama consulted with the leaders of Britain, France and Italy, while officials said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton would help coordinate the larger international strategy to stop the violence in Libya at a meeting of foreign policy chiefs next week in Switzerland. As an initial punishment ...
Gadhafi Forces Strike Back at Libya Uprising
By not in system - AOL NewsBENGHAZI, Libya -- Foreign mercenaries and Libyan militiamen loyal to Moammar Gadhafi tried to roll back the uprising against his rule that has advanced closer to his stronghold in Tripoli, attacking two nearby cities in battles that killed at least 15 people. But rebels made new gains, seizing a military air base, as Gadhafi blamed Osama bin Laden for the upheaval. The worse bloodshed was in Zawiya, 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of the capital Tripoli. An army unit loyal to Gadhafi opened fire with automatic weapons on a mosque where residents - some armed with hunting rifles for protection ...
Gadhafi Blames al-Qaida, Compares Himself to Queen Elizabeth
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsLibya's embattled Col. Moammar Gadhafi compared himself to Queen Elizabeth today while blaming the violent uprising in his country on Osama bin Laden and what he said were drugged-up and armed Libyan teenagers. "Bin Laden ... this is the enemy who is manipulating people," Gadhafi said. "Do not be swayed by bin Laden." Gadhafi was expected to appear on state television today but instead spoke via telephone for 20 minutes in an often bizarre, disjointed monologue while the in-studio anchor was forced to stare at the camera without interrupting. The dictator's speech came after reports that ...
Guantanamo Detainee Gets Life Sentence in Embassy Plot
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- The first, and possibly the last, Guantanamo detainee to have a U.S. civilian trial was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for his role in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, a case that nearly unraveled when the defendant was convicted on just one of more than 280 counts. Ahmed Ghailani, who served as Osama bin Laden's cook and bodyguard after the bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, sought leniency, claiming he was tortured at a secret CIA detention site after his arrest in Pakistan seven years ago. But U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan imposed the maximum sentence, saying ...
Ex-Spy and Taliban Mentor Dies in Captivity in Pakistan
By not in system - AOL NewsISLAMABAD -- A former Pakistani spy who helped the Taliban rise to power in Afghanistan has died in militant captivity 10 months after he was seized in northwest Pakistan, a top official said Monday. Sultan Amir Tarar, who as an American ally against Soviet rule in Afghanistan in the 1980s trained at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, died of a heart attack while in custody, said Tariq Hayat, the most senior government representative in the tribal regions. Tarar was kidnapped along with a British TV journalist who was released in September and another former spy, Khalid Khawaja, who was executed by ...
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