A fanatic who planned an Iraq-style kidnap and beheading of a British soldier plucked from a Birmingham street was jailed for life yesterday. Parviz Khan, 37, pleaded guilty to the plan, that was disrupted in January last year and which UK counter-terrorism officials believe was backed by al-Qaida. The aim was to convulse Britain’s armed…
Omar bin Laden, son of the infamous al-Qaeda leader Osama bin-Laden, has said that he wishes to meet with Pope Benedict XVI and visit the Vatican. Omar, who considers himself an ambassador for peace, has been quoted in recent interviews that a truce between the West and al-Qaeda is possible. On a program called ‘Nothing…
Yemen’s president Ali Abdullah Saleh, will ask Madrid to release an Al-Jazeera journalist jailed for seven years for collaborating with Al-Qaeda. A Spanish court imprisoned al-Jazeera reporter Tayssir Alluni in 2005 after being found guilty of acting as a financial courier to Al-Qaeda while in Afghanistan. Alluni, who is a Spanish national of Syrian origin,…
An Islamist terror cell dismantled in January in Barcelona has chosen the city’s subway system as a target for a series of suicide bombings in order to maximize the carnage and loss of life, according to the testimony from a protected witness. If we attack the metro (subway), the emergency services cannot get there one…
A BBC documentary shown last night came under attack from one of India’s largest Islamic groups for linking their movement to Osama bin Laden and “extremist” Muslim groups around the world. Randeep Ramesh reports.
