Does al Qaeda still have a hierarchy?
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Editor&#39;s Note: An audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden was posted Arabic Web sites Thursday. The voice on the tapes refers December 6 attack on the US Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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Pakistan appears no closer to crippling al Qaeda or snaring its leader, despite scores of militant arrests in recent months which highlighted
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WASHINGTON -- Pakistan's military has been so effective in pressuring Al Qaeda leaders hiding in the tribal region of western Pakistan that Osama bin Laden and his top deputies no longer are able to direct terrorist operations, a senior American commander said yesterday.
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Pakistan appears no closer to  crippling al Qaeda or snaring its leader, despite scores of  militant arrests in recent months which highlighted its active  role in the war on terror, officials and experts say.
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Pakistan has accused a radical group and a Taliban leader. Did they act on their own, on al Qaeda's orders or with elements of the government?
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RAMADI, Iraq  - The head of a tribal council in Iraq's western province of Anbar said on Sunday that tribesmen had killed 55 al Qaeda fighters in a battle on Saturday, but the U.S. military could not confirm the figures.
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When U.S. authorities got their hands on terrorist Mohammed Mansour Jabarah in May 2002, he agreed to inform on some of the most influential al-Qaeda leaders. So instead of being sent to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, or a high-security CIA detention facility, Jabarah was housed with relatively lax security...
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The creation of an Islamic caliphate, or empire, has long formed part of al Qaeda's world view, and it is a vision that seems to have unsettled Washington.
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Elements of al Qaeda remain in Pakistan, a senior U.S. defense official said Thursday, adding that unless more was done to stop the flow of recruits into militant groups the war on terror would never be won.
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Al Qaeda's new leader called on Muslims   to unify ranks with the mujahideen in Iraq, according to an   audio tape aired by Al Jazeera television on Thursday.
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The CIA had some low-level spies  inside al Qaeda in the three years before the Sept. 11 attacks,  but none who could provide advance information about the  group's movements, according to testimony released on Wednesday  from a closed-door intelligence briefing in 2002.
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PARIS -- Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks forced the West to take a collective crash course on Islamic terrorism, the myths endure: The militants are impoverished and uneducated. Lifelong religious fervor drives them to embrace jihad. Al Qaeda aggressively recruits and brainwashes the men.
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WASHINGTON -- The Al Qaeda terror network, responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, has reestablished a safe haven in Pakistan, retained its top leadership, and trained new operatives in Iraq -- and now poses a "heightened threat" of another massive attack on the United States, according to the summary of a joint American intelligence assessment.
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BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Three years after the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings, the military does not have a fix on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and his top deputy, but they are believed to still be issuing the orders for al-Qaida attacks, a top American commander told The Associated Press on Saturday...
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Al Qaeda will be replaced by  increasingly decentralized Muslim militants over the next 15  years who will feed on globalization to find recruits and stage  attacks, a new U.S. intelligence report said on Thursday.
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overthrew the Taliban militia in late 2001 for refusing to handover al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. coalitions with main rivals, characterised as regional strongmen who rely on ethnic loyalties and private militias.
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One of the most senior intelligence officers in the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit said Monday that fewer experienced officers are assigned to defeating the al Qaeda leader and his followers now than there were on Sept. 11, 2001.