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Alleged former henchman of Bin Laden’s brother-in-law nabbed in Mindanao

(Eagle News)–A Jordanian tagged as a former henchman of  Osama Bin Laden’s brother-in-law has been arrested in Mindanao, the Bureau of Immigration said. According to Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente, 51-year-old Mahmoud Afif Abdeljalil  was nabbed last July 4 by joint operatives of the BI, military and police in Zamboanga City. The operation was conducted following a surveillance of the Jordanian, who, together with an Algerian, had been flagged down  at a military checkpoint in Zamboanga […]

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Judgement day for brother of French Jewish school shooter

by Pierre ROCHICCIOLI and Clare BYRNE Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) – A French court will rule on Thursday whether the older brother of a jihadist who shot dead seven people, including three French soldiers and three Jewish children, in 2012 was complicit in the killings. The trial of Abdelkader Merah, brother of Mohamed Merah, is the first arising out of a wave of violence by mostly homegrown radical Islamists that has claimed the lives of more […]

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US puts bin Laden’s son on terror blacklist

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States added Hamza bin Laden, son and heir of the late global jihadist leader Osama bin Laden, to its terrorist blacklist on Thursday. Hamza, who is in his mid-twenties, has become active as an Al-Qaeda propagandist since his father’s death at the hands of US special forces in 2011. According to letters found in the Navy SEAL raid on Osama’s hideout in Pakistan, Hamza wrote to the Saudi-born […]

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U.S. honors 9/11 victims 15 years after attacks

  (REUTERS)  Americans commemorated the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on Sunday with the recital of the names of the dead, tolling church bells and a tribute in lights at the site where New York City’s massive twin towers collapsed. The names of the 2,983 victims were read slowly by relatives as classical music played during a ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial plaza in lower Manhattan with pauses for six moments of […]

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Bin Laden’s son threatens revenge for father’s assassination – monitor

  (Reuters) The son of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has threatened revenge against the United States for assassinating his father, according to an audio message posted online. Hamza bin Laden promised to continue the global militant group’s fight against the United States and its allies in the 21-minute speech entitled “We Are All Osama,” according to the SITE Intelligence Group. “We will continue striking you and targeting you in your country and […]

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