Posts tagged Al Qaeda

The family of the failed Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouq Abdulmuttalab, played a pivotal role in getting their son to start cooperating with federal authorities in sharing information about Al Qaeda, a senior administration official said Tuesday evening. Abdulmuttalab has been cooperating with authorities and... [+]

The women, who may have a “non Arab” appearance and be travelling on Western passports, have been prepared for their missions by the Yemeni group responsible for the operation to blow up an airliner over the United States on Christmas Day. Details of the bombers... [+]

The US and Britain have shut their Yemen embassies after threats from an al-Qaeda offshoot linked to an alleged failed US plane bomb plot. The UK Foreign Office told the BBC its embassy in the capital Sanaa was closed “for security reasons”, hours after the... [+]

US President Barack Obama has for the first time publicly accused an offshoot of al-Qaeda over the alleged Christmas Day bomb plot to blow up a US plane. He said it appeared Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula had armed and trained the accused, 23-year-old... [+]

Following al Qaeda’s statement taking responsibility for the Christmas Day attack on Northwest Flight 253, ABC News reports that two of the bomb plot’s masterminds were former Guantanamo Bay detainees, freed in November 2007 and sent back to their home nation of Saudi Arabia. Guantanamo... [+]

An al Qaeda magazine published a how-to article in Yemen outlining similar terror techniques that marked the attempted Christmas Day bombing. Howard Altman reveals the chilling details. Nearly two months before Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly smuggled a home-made incendiary device onto Northwest Flight 253 and... [+]