Al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri is said to have ordered terrorist attack

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri ordered the head of the terrorist group’s Yemen affiliate to carry out an attack, according to intercepted communications that have led to the closure of U.S. embassies and a global travel alert, said a person briefed on the case.

In one communication, Zawahiri, who succeeded Osama bin Laden, gave “clear orders” to Nasir al-Wuhayshi, the founder of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, to undertake an attack, the source said. McClatchy newspapers first reported the exchange on Sunday.

Zawahri vows Al Qaeda to free Aafia, Guantanamo inmates

DUBAI: Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri said the group would spare no effort to free Aafia Siddiqui as well as the hunger striking inmates at Guantanamo Bay, according to an audio recording posted on the Internet on Wednesday.

“The (hunger) strike by our brothers at Guantanamo unmasks the true ugly face of (the United States of) America,” Zawahri said in an audio recording posted on an Islamist website and whose authenticity could not be verified.

Abbottabad Commission terms OBL operation a collective failure

ISLAMABAD: Terming it a collective failure of authorities as a whole, the Abbottabad Commission Report says no Pakistani institution or individual alone was responsible for the operation, which killed former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil.

According to a copy of the report --acquired by Geo News-- the US Navy SEALs were provided with strategic ground support/intelligence for the operation to capture world’s most wanted man.The report accuses authorities of complacency, collective failure and negligence that allowed Osama bin Laden to live undetected in the country for more than nine years and his subsequent killing by the US troops in a covert operation in Pakistan.

Leaked report: How Bin Laden once escaped unnoticed in Swat

ISLAMABAD: Maryam, the wife of a Pakistani al Qaeda operative, Ibrahim, has made a shocking revelation about how the global terror network chief, Osama bin Laden, once narrowly escaped unnoticed by police in Swat district.

She said that the tall Arab [Bin Laden] and his family were once stopped by a policeman in a bazaar in Swat. “They [including Bin Laden] were stopped for speeding by a policeman,” the Abbottabad Commission report quoted Maryam as saying. The report was leaked to Arab television channel Al Jazeera.
But Ibrahim very quickly settled the matter and they drove away unnoticed, she added.