An apparent al Qaida Twitter account which asked followers for PR ideas has been suspended after social networkers bombarded it with mocking tweets.

THE Boston Marathon bombing was not another 9/11. Not close.

One year after the Abbottabad raid, al Qaeda’s mastermind is still loose. Bin Laden’s death has only made the search harder, reports Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau, and Daniel Klaidman

AL-QAIDA militants swept into the Yemeni town of Rada overnight and overran it within hours, marking a significant advance by the extremists towards the capital, officials said yesterday.

Al-Qaida’s second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, US and Pakistani officials said today.

The killing of Osama bin Laden may weaken al-Qaida’s influence on the Afghan Taliban, the US military commander in Afghanistan has said.

The wealth of information pulled from Osama bin Laden's compound has reinforced the strong role he played in planning and directing attacks by al-Qaida and its affiliates in Yemen and Somalia, senior US officials have said.

THERE is no evidence the security services could have prevented the 2005 London bombings, a coroner found while warning that changes were necessary to help prevent further such atrocities.

THE US State Department has put American embassies on alert and warned of the heightened possibility of anti-American violence after the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden by American forces in Pakistan.

Secret documents about detainees at Guantanamo Bay reveal new information about some of the men the US believes to be terrorists, according to reports about the files.

Al-Qaida’s third in command is believed to be have been killed by a US Predator drone strike, a US official said today.

A SUICIDE bomber who killed eight people at a CIA base in Afghanistan was an al-Qaida triple agent who duped Western intelligence services for months before turning on his handlers, jihadist websites boasted yesterday.

Alleged terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed called the September 11 attack a “noble victory” and branded President Barack Obama a liar in a letter released by the US military’s war crimes court.

Al-Qaida's deputy leader has criticised President Barack Obama's upcoming speech to the Islamic world in Cairo, saying it will not change the "bloody messages" the US military is sending Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A freed Guantanamo Bay terror detainee has re-emerged as an al-Qaida commander in Yemen, the US said today.

Al-Qaida’s number two lashed out at US president-elect Barack Obama in a new audio recording, blaming him for doing nothing to stop Israel’s offensive in Gaza, according to an intelligence monitoring centre.

A TOP Arab al-Qaida operative was among six militants killed overnight in a suspected US missile strike in north-west Pakistan, a senior security official said yesterday.

PAKISTANI forces bombed dozens of houses in a tribal region near the Afghan border yesterday, officials and witnesses said, amid reports that days of clashes have killed at least 100 insurgents and nine paramilitary troops.

Al-Qaida’s chief ideologue and strategist, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has published a 212-page book on militant Islamic websites slamming his former radical colleagues in Egyptian prisons for disavowing armed struggle and turning their backs against violence.

A missile from a US Predator drone struck a suspected terrorist safehouse in Pakistan and killed a top al-Qaida commander believed responsible for a bomb attack during a visit last year by Vice President Dick Cheney to Afghanistan, a US official said yesterday.

Afghan insurgent leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar claimed in a rare interview with Pakistani television broadcast today that his fighters helped al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden escape intense US bombardment and a hunt in eastern Afghan mountains five years ago.

Al-Qaida number two Ayman al-Zawahiri called for attacks against France in a video and designated an Algerian insurgency movement as the terrorist organisation’s armed wing in the European country, a terror expert said today.

Iraqi police say a key al-Qaida suspect has been arrested.

Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza could still face execution in the US where he is wanted on terrorism charges, his lawyers said today.

IN August 2001, Mary Robinson made a dramatic gesture of solidarity with victims of anti-Semitism.

Swiss authorities involved in the global hunt for terror money have established that both Osama bin Laden and suspected al-Qaida No 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri had links to Swiss bank accounts.

Two key suspects in the Istanbul suicide bombings, in which 61 people died, took instructions from Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man, newspapers reported today.

Saddam Hussein has joined terror chief Osama bin Laden at the top of the list of America’s most wanted men, US officials said today.

The alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, could also turn out to be the man who murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, a Pakistani intelligence official has said.

THE White House yesterday praised Pakistan for the capture of alleged September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, calling the arrest of such a “big fish” a major blow to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network.

IT is reported Osama bin Laden warned of a mission that would “result in killing Americans and getting rid of them” four years ago.

Just weeks before terrorists bombed the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Osama bin Laden declared war on the West.

American intelligence officials have translated a 100-page document they describe as Osama bin Laden’s top deputy’s ‘‘last will’’, it emerged today.

Al-Qaida fighters holding out in the terror gang’s final Afghan stronghold are facing an ultimatum to surrender or be annihilated.

American president George Bush today braced the American people for US military action outside Afghanistan.

The US Department of Defence has claimed that Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden’s deputy may

Hundreds of anti-Taliban troops have been battling with Osama bin Laden's fighters near mountain hideouts.

The CIA intercepted a message from an al-Qaida member boasting of plans to carry out a "Hiroshima" on America, it was revealed today.

President Bush today widened his financial assault on terrorism, naming an additional 39 individuals and organizations to have their assets frozen.

The CIA believes September 11 hijacking ringleader Mohamed Atta met Osama bin Laden’s top commander in 1999, it has emerged.

The CIA believes the September 11 hijacking ringleader Mohamed Atta met Osama bin Laden’s top commander in 1999, it emerged today.