A collection of stories tagged 'al qaida' from NPR. http://www.reverbiage.com/ Copyright 2006 Reverbiage.com. Reverbiage is not affiliated with NPR nor its member stations. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:18:23 EST Several suspected al-Qaida in Iraq insurgents staged a daring jailbreak Friday, killing more than a dozen police officers and prisoners in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, authorities said. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/61239 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98722259&ft=1&f=1001 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:08:00 EST The United States has repatriated three Guantanamo prisoners to Bosnia. They are three of the five detainees that a federal judge had ordered the government to release. He said the government had only an unreliable tip that the men were planning to engage in terrorism with al-Qaida and he urged the Justice Department not to appeal his ruling. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/60731 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98348249&ft=1&f=1001 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:00:00 EST A radical Islamic group from Pakistan has emerged as the prime suspect in last week's deadly attacks in Mumbai, India. The group known as Lashkar-e-Taiba was thought to have mainly local ambitions, but it shares the jihadi philosophy of al-Qaida. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/60041 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97776680&ft=1&f=1001 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:56:00 EST The Bush administration has decided to allow Salim Ahmed Hamdan, convicted of aiding al-Qaida, to serve out the remainder of his sentence in his native Yemen. Tried before a military commission at Guantanamo Bay in August, Hamdan was sentenced to five and a half years, but with time served, had only four months to go. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/59629 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97481386&ft=1&f=1001 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:00:00 EST The Bush administration is expected to send Osama bin Laden's driver home to Yemen. In August, Salim Hamdan was convicted of helping al-Qaida. He will complete his sentence next month with credit for time served. Hamdan is held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and there was speculation that the U.S. would try to keep him there indefinitely. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/59588 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97439605&ft=1&f=1001 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:00:00 EST President-elect Barack Obama has promised to turn America's attention from the war in Iraq to what he calls the real war on terror: the fight against al-Qaida in Afghanistan. But the new administration may find its options are limited. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/59179 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97094358&ft=1&f=1012 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:00:00 EST Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the CIA has updated its official assessment of the al-Qaida terrorist network. Agency director Michael Hayden says al-Qaida remains the most present danger to the U.S. Hayden spoke Thursday in the midst of the presidential transition, the first during wartime in 40 years. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/59048 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96993725&ft=1&f=1001 Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:54:00 EST Nearly a thousand Saudi men are set to stand trial on charges of belonging to al-Qaida. The men are accused of involvement in a string of terrorist attacks in the kingdom earlier this decade. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/59019 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96970086&ft=1&f=1001 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:00:00 EST Indonesia has gotten bad press for bombings by al-Qaida-linked militants and attacks on Christian churches. But the country is more tolerant than these acts suggest, and that tolerance seems to be growing. One sign: A preacher who waited 16 years has finally opened a Christian megachurch in Jakarta. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/57613 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95847081&ft=1&f=1001 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:01:00 EDT A draft report from U.S. intelligence agencies says Afghanistan faces a "downward spiral" as Taliban fighters threaten stability in the region. They're conducting more sophisticated attacks, increasingly encroaching on government and working more closely with al-Qaida, it says. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/57138 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95565414&ft=1&f=1001 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:07:00 EDT Al-Qaida increasingly has resorted to using women as suicide bombers in Iraq. So the country's police force hopes to combat that threat by recruiting its first female members. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/56446 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95038746&ft=1&f=1001 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:01:00 EDT The attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen earlier this month killed 17, including one American. The bombing by al-Qaida in Yemen marks a resurgence of militant violence in the nation, which has complex ties to Islamist militancy. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/56491 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95102921&ft=1&f=1001 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:32:00 EDT A huge truck bomb destroyed the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistan capital, Islamabad, killing more than 50 people in a terrorist attack that has shaken the country's new administration. Among the dead are at least one American, a German and the Czech ambassador to Pakistan, reports NPR's Phillip Reeves, who says investigators suspect al-Qaida and the Pakistani Taliban in the blast. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/56118 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94862564&ft=1&f=1001 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:32:00 EDT An attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen on Wednesday killed 16 people. A group linked to al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the well-coordinated assault on the compound. One American was killed. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/56003 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94768995&ft=1&f=1001 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:17:00 EDT NPR has learned that the raid by helicopter-borne U.S. Special Operations forces in Pakistan last week was not an isolated incident but part of a three-phase plan, approved by President Bush, to strike at Osama bin Laden and top al-Qaida leadership. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/55705 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94578078&ft=1&f=1001 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:58:00 EDT NPR has learned that the Bush administration is pushing for increased military action along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The plan is part of an effort to kill or capture Osama bin Laden and other top al-Qaida leaders before Election Day on Nov. 4. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/55706 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94575902&ft=1&f=1001 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:36:00 EDT After strong pressure from the U.S. military, the Iraqi government has agreed to employ the so-called Awakening Councils. These are largely Sunni paramilitary groups who turned against al-Qaida and allied themselves with U.S. forces. But the Awakening membership mistrusts the Iraqi government. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/55647 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94545639&ft=1&f=1001 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:54:00 EDT U.S. military officials are apparently stepping up covert military operations against Taliban and al-Qaida targets inside Pakistan's tribal provinces. The U.S. and NATO coalition forces in neighboring Afghanistan say terrorists are operating with relative impunity from Pakistani soil and are launching more sophisticated and deadly attacks in Afghanistan. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/55476 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94415406&ft=1&f=1001 Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:00:00 EDT Pakistan's outgoing President Pervez Musharraf was a close U.S. ally in the fight against al-Qaida. But critics say the Bush administration relied on him too much, and that he didn't do enough to rein in the Taliban. With Musharraf out, Pakistan is expected to concentrate on preventing extremism inside Pakistan rather than across the border. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/54416 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93728793&ft=1&f=1001 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:45:00 EDT As radical Islamist groups across Northern Africa are tempered by government crackdowns, the situation in Algeria is very different. A group known as al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb is a key player. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/54184 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93583141&ft=1&f=1001 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT Aafia Siddiqui has been on the FBI's Most Wanted list since 2003. They say she had links to al-Qaida, but she didn't resurface until her arrest in Afghanistan last month. Now she faces attempted murder charges in the U.S., and NPR has learned more charges are on the way. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/54182 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93571773&ft=1&f=1070 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:06:00 EDT U.S.-trained neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui is being held without bail in New York. She has been charge with trying to kill Americans in Afghanistan and is accused of being a member of al-Qaida. What's the evidence? http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/54162 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93564866&ft=1&f=1001 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:00:00 EDT Fears that a North African wing of al-Qaida was emerging in the wake of 2003 attacks in Casablanca have largely failed to materialize, and countries such as Morocco have contained or subdued their Islamist threats. But some say the fight on terror has eroded civil rights and set back democracy efforts. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/54130 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93542011&ft=1&f=1001 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:16:00 EDT The Guantanamo trial of Osama bin Laden's drivers ended last week in a startling defeat for the prosecution. Salim Hamdan was acquitted of conspiring with al-Qaida to attack the United States. One of the jury members says the prosecution failed to convince the jury that Hamdan was a hardened al-Qaida warrior. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/54022 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93490163&ft=1&f=1070 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:32:00 EDT Salim Hamdan was convicted of providing material support for terrorism but found not guilty of conspiracy by a panel of six military officers at Guantanamo Bay. http://www.reverbiage.com/launch/53816 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93344253&ft=1&f=1001 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:38:00 EDT