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Top News // 1 decade ago

Key Taliban aide said captured in Swat

A key aide to the chief of the Taliban in Pakistan's Swat region has been arrested, military officials said Monday.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Blasts injure police in northern Iraq

Five policemen and four civilians were wounded in separate incidents in northern Iraq Friday.

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U.S.: Bin Laden wanted Iraq attack base

Newly declassified U.S. intelligence shows al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden wanted to set up bases in Iraq to launch attacks on the United States in 2005.

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Bombed school used for al-Qaida training

Pakistani officials said a religious school destroyed in an air raid was used to train al-Qaida suicide bombers.

Defense News // 1 decade ago

Al-Qaida behind aerial bomb plot

A Pakistani intelligence source said that the mastermind behind last week's airline bomb plot was a third-tier al-Qaida member.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Thwarted plot to kill Bush reported

Before he was captured last spring, Osama bin Laden's top operational commander planned to assassinate U.S. President George Bush, it was reported Friday. The New York Daily News said Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf also was a target in the plot.

Defense News // 1 decade ago

Major al-Qaida leader killed in Pakistan

Pakistan officially confirmed Saturday that it had hunted down and killed a top al-Qaida commander this week.

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Pakistan arrests al-Qaida suspect, kills 1

A shoot-out with Pakistani forces resulted in one al-Qaida suspect being killed and another arrested, the country's information minister said Thursday.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Pakistan hands over Libbi to U.S.

Pakistan has turned over to U.S. authorities a key al-Qaida suspect, Abu Faraj al-Libbi, a Pakistani official has confirmed. Foreign Ministry spokesman Jalil Abbas Jilani confirmed a statement by President Pervez Musharraf that Libbi had been deported, th

Entertainment News // 1 decade ago

Insurgency 'on last legs', CheneyDUPE

The insurgency in Iraq is "in the last throws," Vice President Dick Cheney has predicted.

Abu Faraj al-Libi (أبو الفرج الليبي) (also transliterated al-Libbi ) is an assumed name or nom de guerre of a Libyan alleged to be a senior member of the al-Qaeda terror organization. His real name is thought to be Mustafa al-'Uzayti. He was arrested by Pakistan's ISI on May 2, 2005, in Mardan (30 miles north of Peshawar). Finding al-Libi was a joint effort of the CIA's Special Activities Division and Pakistan's Special Forces. He is now in American military custody in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, having previously been held at some secret location.

According to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence he served as the third in command of Al Qaeda, from the 2003 capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to his own capture in 2005.

In approximately 2000, he was living in the Karte Parwan district of Kabul, Afghanistan.

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