Capturing or killing al Qaeda terror leader Osama bin Laden remains the primary goal in Afghanistan, according to U.S. General David Petraeus. Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Petraeus said Osama bin Laden “remains an iconic figure and I think capturing or killing is still a very, very important task for all of those who This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is... 

Debkafile reports Osama bin Laden’ hiding place was pinned down for the first time Monday, June 7, by the Kuwaiti Al-Siyassa Monday, June 7, as the mountainous town of Savzevar in the northeastern Iranian province of Khorasan, 220 km west of Mashhad. He is said to have lived there under Tehran’s protection for the last This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s... 

Osama bin Laden gets up each morning in his dark, damp cave in northern Pakistan, gripped by fear, listening carefully for the telltale sound of a drone that is searching for him. His isolation is almost complete. Only a few trusted associates know where he is, and they visit rarely — bringing food and news, This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted source for... 

Al-Qaida leader Osama Bin-Laden tried to obtain nuclear weapons, according to his former bodyguard, Nasser al-Bahri. “He dreamed of getting nuclear weapons, and I’m sure that had he got hold of them, he would not have hesitated to use them,” al-Bahri told Al-Quds al-Arabi on Wednesday morning. Al-Bahri, who is currently residing in Yemen, revealed to the This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror... 

Interesting story on Fox News. al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, or someone posing as him, was using the social-networking site as a platform to show videos and speeches to Islamic militants, until Facebook shut him down, that is. His address was given as “the mountains of the world.” On Thursday, a security expert urged Facebook’s U.S. This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert... 

The UK’s Telegraph reports Osama bin Laden tried and failed to set up a satellite TV link-up on the day of the September 11 attacks from his Afghan hideout to watch the strikes as they happened, according to his former bodyguard. Nasser al Bahri, 37, who now preaches against the fanaticism of the Islamist network, said This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted... 

Newsweek’s Declassified Blog says a new FBI terrorism case provides a rare nugget of intelligence about Osama bin Laden: the Al Qaeda leader is alive, well, and personally “giving the orders” for the terror group’s operations, according to comments made by an alleged American Al Qaeda operative on a secret bureau recording. The bureau’s case against This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National... 

Recently, U.S. UAVs made three attacks in one day in Pakistan’s tribal territories. The Hellfire missiles were hitting targets in North Waziristan, where Taliban and al Qaeda forces are taking shelter with Pushtun tribes that are, at best, neutral in the war between the Pakistani government and the Pakistani Taliban. One of the dead terrorists This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is... 

CNN reports an intercepted message indicates some members of al Qaeda are looking to the group’s founder for more visible leadership, a U.S. intelligence official told CNN Wednesday after CIA director Leon Panetta talked about the message in a newspaper interview. Osama bin Laden is “rarely seen, rarely heard,” the official said, and that is “troubling” This story comes  Read More →

Osama bin Laden will never be captured alive, Attorney General Eric Holder told lawmakers on Tuesday. “The possibility of capturing him alive is infinitesimal,” Holder said. “He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so that he is not captured by us. We know that. … The possibility simply This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s... 

Western leaders are often at odds over how to take on the threat of Islamic terrorism. Al Qaeda, on the other hand, appears totally focused on its mission. The terrorist group is obsessed with destroying the United States. And according to one former colleague of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, they don&’t care how many This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror  Read More →

According to a report in the UK’s Daily Express, nuclear weapons carried aboard Royal Navy warships are high on Al Qaeda’s hit list. The report states, followers of Osama Bin Laden are being urged to track the Ark Royal, Illustrious and Invincible in what is being called the “battle of the masts”. A message from the Al This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s... 

Are the U.S. and Pakistan one step closer to hunting down Osama bin Laden? The recent capture of Taliban military commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, as he was leaving a seminary in the Pakistani seaport of Karachi, may give investigators several leads in tracking down the fugitive al-Qaeda chief. U.S. special representative Richard Holbrooke, in Islamabad This story comes to us  Read More →

The threat from al Qaeda certainly appears to be increasing and the man once charged with overseeing the CIA’s hunt of Osama bin Laden said Sunday that the threat posed by al Qaeda is greater now than at the time of the September 11, 2001. “We’ve killed some of the al Qaeda leaders and every dead This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted source for homeland... 

Al Jazeera is reporting on it’s website that Iranian authorities are holding several family members of Osama bin Laden, according to Abdul Rahman bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader’s second son. In an interview published on Al Jazeera Arabic’s website on Monday, Abdul Rahman bin Laden said that Eman, his sister, one of his stepmothers and five This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror...