CIA analysts see an al-Qaeda offshoot in Yemen rather than the core group itself, now based in Pakistan, as the most urgent threat to U.S. security according to a report in the Washington Post. The article states that as a result of the report, senior Obama administration officials are calling for an escalation of U.S. This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted source... 

An Al-Qaeda group is urging soldiers to assist  in overthrowing  the Saudi monarchy and to also kill Christians and government officials in Saudi Arabia, according to a recording, purportedly made by the groups leader. Read More This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted source This story comes to us via Homeland Security  Read More →

A senior U.S. law enforcement official has told CNN that U.S. intelligence believes the principal author of the new online al Qaeda magazine is an American citizen who left for Yemen in October 2009. The magazine — called “Inspire” — appeared last week. Running to nearly 70 pages online, it included articles on bomb-making and This story comes to us via Homeland Security –  Read More →

A Virginia man whose travels to Yemen landed him on the U.S. no-fly list and left him stuck in the Middle East for months will be allowed to return to the U.S. Twenty-six-year-old Yahya Wehelie (weh-HEEL-ee) of Burke has been stuck in Egypt for more than two months but is now expected to arrive in This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted source for homeland security... 

U.S. officials boast that al-Qaida has never been weaker, its upper ranks decimated because of the stepped-up drone attacks in Pakistan and special operations raids in Afghanistan. At the same time, they warn, in seeming contradiction: An even greater number of well-trained terrorists are setting their sights on the United States. Across the remote tribal This story comes to us  Read More →

Four suspected Al Qaeda gunmen blasted their way into the intelligence headquarters of Yemen’s second largest city Saturday and freed several detainees in the group’s most spectacular operation since a U.S.-backed government crackdown began late last year. The attack on the heavily protected security complex killed 11 and further bolstered U.S. concerns that Yemen’s weak This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National... 

Two new intelligence memos obtained by Fox News point to increasing alarm over radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki’s recent call to kill American civilians. Awlaki is the American-born cleric residing in Yemen who has been tied to the Fort Hood shooting last fall, the Christmas Day jet bombing attempt and the attempted Times Square car bombing This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s... 

A U.S. citizen charged with conspiring to provide support to al-Qaeda and creating his “own mini-terror cell” was ordered held without bail after he pleaded not guilty in federal court in New York. Wesam El-Hanafi, 35, poses a danger to the community and is a flight risk, U.S. Magistrate Judge Debra Freeman in Manhattan said today This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert  Read More →

The United States is hunting for American-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Sunday. The radical cleric is calling for the killing of American civilians in a new video released Sunday by Yemen-based Al Qaeda offshoot, Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula. The White House spokesman told CBS' “Face the Nation” that This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert.... 

Tonight a Fox News investigative special goes deep inside the mysterious and deadly world of American born terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki. Fox News, correspondents Catherine Herridge and Greg Palkot follow Awlaki’s twisted and destructive trail from suburban communities in the U.S. to his hideout in Yemen. New evidence emerging in the details about the Times Square bomber, the This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror... 

When the name of the suspected Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad was revealed, one of the first things reporters did to find more information and a picture was go to Facebook. Sure enough, Faisal Shahzad had an account. Nigerian terror suspect Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab, who is charged with trying to blow up a U.S.-bound flight last This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s... 

Newsweek’s Declassified blog reports an intelligence analysis prepared by an interagency “fusion center” in California says that recent on-line postings by Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen and Saudi Arabia are “actively promoting” attacks against targets inside the U.S. The “official use only” bulletin, produced by the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center, a partnership of federal, This story... 

ABC News reports accused Times Square Bomber Faisal Shahzad linked up with the Pakistani Taliban through the internet, ABC News has been told by law enforcement and intelligence sources close to the investigation. Once the Taliban identified him as more valuable in the U.S. than in Pakistan, they trained him to return to execute This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s trusted... 

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... 

New videos produced by al Qaeda in Yemen show the accused underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and others in his training class firing weapons at a desert camp whose targets included the Jewish star, the British Union Jack and the letters “UN.” The videos, to be broadcast Monday on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, appear This story comes to us via Homeland Security – National Terror Alert. National Terror Alert is America’s...