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    May 9, 2012 |Story| CNN

  1. Al Qaeda Airliner Bomb Plot Foiled by Saudi Secret Agent

    WASHINGTON -- The agent who penetrated al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and returned from Yemen with the group's new "airline bomb" was always under Saudi control and was not a double-agent, two sources briefed by Saudi counterterrorism officials have told CNN.
    CNN
    WASHINGTON -- The agent who penetrated al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and returned from Yemen with the group's new "airline bomb" was always under Saudi control and was not a double-agent, two sources briefed by Saudi counterterrorism officials have...

    Tags: Saudi Arabia, National Security, CNN (tv network), Emergency Incidents, Police Investigations

    2. May 1, 2012 |Story| KTLA-LTV

  2. Feds Warn of Terrorists with Body Bombs on U.S. Flights

    LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Steps were being taken to guard against a new threat of "body bombs" planted inside passengers aboard flights heading to the United States from overseas, a government official with knowledge of the threat said Tuesday.
    CNN/KTLA News
    LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Steps were being taken to guard against a new threat of "body bombs" planted inside passengers aboard flights heading to the United States from overseas, a government official with knowledge of the threat said Tuesday. Authorities...

    Tags: Suicide, FBI, Saudi Arabia, ABC (tv network), Death of Osama bin Laden (2011)

    3. Apr 3, 2012 |Story| KTLA-LTV

  3. Key Al Qaeda Websites Go Dark

    WASHINGTON, DC -- Key al Qaeda online forums have fallen silent in the past two weeks, leaving terrorism experts to wonder the cause and whether a key communications mode of the terror group and its affiliates has been purposely undermined.
    KTLA News
    WASHINGTON, DC -- Key al Qaeda online forums have fallen silent in the past two weeks, leaving terrorism experts to wonder the cause and whether a key communications mode of the terror group and its affiliates has been purposely undermined. The sites,...

    Tags: Religious Conflicts, The Washington Post, Conservation, Spain, Government

    4. May 17, 2011 |Story| KTLA-LTV

  4. Al Qaeda Names Interim Leader in Wake of bin Laden's Death

    CAIRO, Egypt -- An Egyptian who was once a Special Forces officer has been appointed "caretaker" leader of al Qaeda in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death, according to a source with detailed knowledge of the group's inner workings.
    CNN
    CAIRO, Egypt -- An Egyptian who was once a Special Forces officer has been appointed "caretaker" leader of al Qaeda in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death, according to a source with detailed knowledge of the group's inner workings. Al Qaeda's interim...

    Tags: Mohammed Omar, Saudi Arabia, National Security, Osama bin Laden, Taliban

    5. Nov 1, 2010 |Story| KTLA-LTV

  5. U.S. Issues Mail Advisory, Hunts For Bombmaker Ibrahim al-Asiri

    WASHINGTON -- U.S. counterterrorism officials warned local law enforcement and emergency personnel to be on the watch for mail with unusual characteristics that could mean dangerous substances are hidden inside.
    KTLA News
    WASHINGTON -- U.S. counterterrorism officials warned local law enforcement and emergency personnel to be on the watch for mail with unusual characteristics that could mean dangerous substances are hidden inside. The FBI and Homeland Security Department...

    Tags: Science and Technology, Judaism, Air and Space Accidents, Government, Germany

    6. Jan 24, 2010 |Story| KTLA-LTV

  6. Bin Laden Claims Responsibility for Christmas Airliner Plot

    CAIRO -- Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the failed attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas in a new audio message released Sunday threatening more attacks on the United States.
    CAIRO -- Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the failed attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas in a new audio message released Sunday threatening more attacks on the United States. The United States said there was no indication to...

    Tags: Air and Space Accidents, National Security, Osama bin Laden, CNN (tv network), Washington (U.S. state)

    7. Jan 3, 2010 |Story| KTLA-LTV

  7. U.S. and U.K. Close Yemen Embassies Over al-Qaida Threats

    SAN'A, Yemen - Western embassies in Yemen locked up Sunday after fresh threats from al-Qaida, and the White House expressed alarm at the terror group's expanded reach in the poor Arab nation where an offshoot apparently ordered the Christmas Day plot against a U.S. airliner.
    Associated Press
    SAN'A, Yemen - Western embassies in Yemen locked up Sunday after fresh threats from al-Qaida, and the White House expressed alarm at the terror group's expanded reach in the poor Arab nation where an offshoot apparently ordered the Christmas Day plot...

    Tags: Government, Air and Space Accidents, National Security, Corporate Crime, Osama bin Laden

    8. May 22, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Angry vets demand end to backlog of disability claims

    SAN FRANCISCO — Horatius A. Carney spent seven weeks in a military hospital after injuring his knee while in the segregated Army Air Forces. He first filed a disability claim in 1947. He is still waiting for a response.
    SAN FRANCISCO — Horatius A. Carney spent seven weeks in a military hospital after injuring his knee while in the segregated Army Air Forces. He first filed a disability claim in 1947. He is still waiting for a response. Lisa Scott, an Army...

    Tags: Stress, Saudi Arabia, Los Angeles Times, Barbara Lee, Injuries and Wounds

    9. May 20, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Mission creep in Yemen

    As the United States finally begins to wind down its military presence in Afghanistan, is the Obama administration poised to replicate that intervention in Yemen? The administration insists it has no such plans, but it has been evident for months that it regards the Yemen-based group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula as the most dangerous incubator of terrorist plots directed at America. And it is acting on that conviction.
    As the United States finally begins to wind down its military presence in Afghanistan, is the Obama administration poised to replicate that intervention in Yemen? The administration insists it has no such plans, but it has been evident for months that...

    Tags: Government, Yemen, Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Central Intelligence Agency

    10. May 19, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  10. T M Fred Texas is first Arabian horse winner at Preakness

    The jockey had raced an Arabian horse only once before and had never met the trainer before.
    The jockey had raced an Arabian horse only once before and had never met the trainer before. The trainer, a former jockey himself, has never actually mounted an Arabian. The owner is an 18-year-old Shiek who, according to the trainer, knows very...

    Tags: Equestrian, United Arab Emirates, The Jockey Club Incorporated, Pimlico, Pimlico Race Course

    11. May 16, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  11. U.S. escalates clandestine war in Yemen

    World Now
    In an escalation of America’s clandestine war in Yemen, a small contingent of U.S. troops is providing targeting data for Yemeni airstrikes as government forces battle to dislodge Al Qaeda militants and other insurgents in the country’s...
    12. May 7, 2012 |Story| Hartford Courant

  12. Official: Attempt to blow up U.S.-bound plane thwarted

    [Updated at 6:09 p.m. ET] A U.S. official told CNN the plot was disrupted "well before it was ever a threat to the United States.” The official added that al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was the group responsible for the plot. "We believe AQAP...

    Tags: Saudi Arabia, Security Measures, Government, National Security, Justice System

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