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Jennifer Lynne Matthews, the station chief, 45, was tracking al-Qaeda before the September 11 attacks. [9] She joined the CIA in 1989 and was involved with the agency's Bin Laden Issue Station. [5]: 102 [44] A U.S. official said Matthews was "one of the US government's top experts on al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups."
6 December Invasion of U.S. Consulate in Jeddah: Five employees are killed as five Al-Qaeda militants attack outbuildings and the chancery building before Saudi forces retake the property. Four Saudi special forces were wounded, four hostages were killed and a further 10 wounded in the crossfire.
A museum panel showing international headlines on September 12. Most of the images on the headlines are images of United Airlines Flight 175 hitting the South Tower.. During the September 11 attacks of 2001, a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda, killed 2,977 people, injured over 6,000, and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and ...
It was the deadliest foreign attack on American soil since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and to this day remains the deadliest terrorist attack in human history. The attacks were conducted by al-Qaeda, acting in accord with the 1998 fatwa issued against the US and its allies by persons under the command of bin Laden ...
Al-Qaeda operative and one of the first U.S. citizens to be designated as an enemy combatant after the September 11 attacks; convicted in 2007 of terrorism conspiracy for traveling overseas to attend an Al-Qaeda training camp and for providing material support to terrorists. [45] [46] Eric Rudolph: 18282-058 Archived February 6, 2012, at the ...
Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, a high-ranking member of Al-Qaeda, issued a statement after the bombing, claiming that the attack was a response to the 2005 publication of the Muhammed Cartoons. [ 25 ] The Battle of Wanat occurred on July 13, 2008, when forces including Al-Qaeda and Taliban guerrillas attacked NATO troops near the village of Wanat in the ...
Al Qaeda and ISIS have actively encouraged unaffiliated individuals to strike a blow on behalf of the cause with the promise that the groups will celebrate the attacks after they occur.
June 27: In al-Anbar province a suicide bombing killed 3 US-soldiers and injured another 2, including 20 people and anti-al Qaeda Sheikhs. [51] al-Qaeda in Iraq later claimed responsibility. [52] June 29:A suicide car bomber killed seven policemen and wounded three in an attack on a patrol in northern Iraq's Salahuddin province. [53]