Al qaeda News

London - Monday, the Old Bailey trial of the two men accused of killing soldier Lee Rigby on the streets of Woolwich, continued with testimony by one of the accused. The defence case for Adebolajo began in the morning.

At least 52 people have been killed in a suicide bombing attack Thursday at a hospital in the Defense Ministry compound in the capital city of Sanaa, Yemen.

In a disturbing report released this week by the Henry Jackson Society, a direct line is drawn between the instability of the Assad regime in Syria and the ability of the Al Qaeda terrorist network to acquire biological weapons.

Tripoli - Following the United States’ capture of alleged Al-Qaeda operative Abu Anas al Libi in a surprise Tripoli raid, Libya is seeking his handover, saying that he be tried on Libyan soil.

Tripoli - United States operatives have reportedly captured a leading al-Qaeda militant in Libya and imprisoned him on a Navy vessel, prompting Tripoli to demand an explanation for the "kidnapping of a Libyan citizen."

Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem has said Turkey, along with Qatar and Saudi Arabia, constitute an obstacle to peace given their support for the Syrian opposition.

Many thousand of the ragtag Syrian opposition fighters have broken ranks with the western-back wing of the opposition and have made a call for the formation of an Islamist front.

Ayman al-ZawahrI, the leader of al-Qaeda, recently issued guidelines on how to conduct jihad or holy war. The report on the guidelines comes from SITE monitoring service yesterday (Sept. 16).

Sydney - The West may not like Assad, but there’s not much to like about the rebels, either. The Syrian rebels, like so many other Middle Eastern armed groups, are in full jihadi mode. Law has collapsed. Brutality is the working method of government.

Sanaa - After shutting down diplomatic missions across the Middle East, the US asked its citizens in Yemen Tuesday to leave immediately. Reportedly, the US government has already airlifted some of its personnel.