AL QAEDA

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Ha sido secuestrado un avión de pasajeros que viajaba de Mauritania a Las Palmas. El aparato, un 737 de la compañía Air Mauritanie. El avión ha aterrizado en el aeropuerto de Las Palmas.

El secuestrador pedia volar a Francia, pero el piloto se lo negó por no tener combustible.

Es un marroquí, ya ha sido detenido y los 87 pasajeros liberados.

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Golpe a la ejecutiva de Al-Qaeda en Iraq:

El líder de Al Qaeda en Irak, el egipcio Abu Hamza al Mohayer @ Abu Ayyub al Masri, habría sido herido por las fuerzas de seguridad iraquíes en un enfrentamiento ocurrido al norte de Bagdad. Además, el principal colaborador de Al Mohayer (Abu Abdula al Majamiai) habría muerto en el incidente, según los medios, que no han dado más detalles sobre el asunto.

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Creo que deberíamos crear en este mismo apartado de Terrorismo Internacional, un tema dedicado a el Sahel y el Terrorismo Internacional, y centralizar ahí todas las informaciones debido a que no solo Al-Qaeda opera en la zona, y además ampliar el punto de vista (como hemos hecho) sobre nuestra participación en la zona.

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The Al-Qaeda Manual:

http://www.cityfmradio.com/ficheros/253 ... art1_1.pdf
http://www.cityfmradio.com/ficheros/253 ... Manual.pdf
http://www.cityfmradio.com/ficheros/253 ... ][1].0.pdf
http://www.cityfmradio.com/ficheros/253 ... anual4.pdf

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¿Es posible una ampliación de las acciones de EEUU sobre el norte y sur de Waziristán, teniendo en cuenta que allí Al-Qaeda cada vez es más fuerte?

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El Congreso americano podría quitar la ayuda que da a Pakistán si estos no intensifican la lucha contra Al-Qaeda, según NWT:

Vice President Dick Cheney made an unannounced trip to Pakistan on Monday to deliver what officials in Washington described as an unusually tough message to Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, warning him that the newly Democratic Congress could cut aid to his country unless his forces become far more aggressive in hunting down operatives with Al Qaeda.

Mr. Cheney’s trip was shrouded in secrecy, and he was on the ground for only a few hours, sharing a private lunch with the Pakistani leader at his palace. Notably, Mr. Cheney traveled with the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Steve Kappes, an indication that the conversation with the Pakistani president likely included discussion of American intelligence agency contentions that Al Qaeda camps have been reconstituted along the border of Afghanistan.

The decision to send Mr. Cheney secretly to Pakistan came after the White House concluded that General Musharraf is failing to live up to commitments he made to Mr. Bush during a visit here in September. General Musharraf insisted then, both in private and public, that a peace deal he struck with tribal leaders in one of the country’s most lawless border areas would not diminish the hunt for the leaders of Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Now, American intelligence officials have concluded that the terrorist infrastructure is being rebuilt, and that while Pakistan has attacked some camps, its overall effort has flagged.

“He’s made a number of assurances over the past few months, but the bottom line is that what they are doing now is not working,” one senior administration official who deals often with South Asian issues said late last week. “The message we’re sending to him now is that the only thing that matters is results.”

Reuters reported from Islamabad that a Pakistani official, whom it did not name, told reporters that in his few hours on the ground Mr. Cheney had pressed for more action. “He asked President Musharaff that Pakistan should do more,” the official told Reuters, giving no specifics.

The vice president’s office asked news organizations that knew of Mr. Cheney’s upcoming trip, and the small number of reporters traveling with him, to withhold any mention of his travels until after he had left the country. That request went far beyond the usual precautions as American officials travel into and out of Pakistan. President Bush’s visit there last year was announced in advance, and a recent trip by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was announced after he had landed in the country.

It was unclear if the request reflected Mr. Cheney’s well-known penchant for secrecy — he said nothing in public during his visit — or an increasing unease by the Secret Service about how freely Al Qaeda and Taliban operatives are moving in Pakistan. There have long been doubts about the loyalties of some members of Mr. Musharaff’s intelligence service, and assassination attempts against him have been linked to Al Qaeda.

Democrats, who took control of Congress last month, have urged the White House to put greater pressure on Pakistan because of statements from American commanders that units based in Pakistan that are linked to the Taliban, Afghanistan’s ousted rulers, are increasing their attacks into Afghanistan.

For the time being, officials say, the White House has ruled out unilateral strikes against the training camps that American spy satellites are monitoring in North Waziristan, in Pakistan’s tribal areas on the border. The fear is that such strikes would result in what one administration official referred to as a “shock to the stability” of General Musharraf’s government.

General Musharraf, a savvy survivor in the brutal world of Pakistani politics, knows that the administration is hesitant to push him too far. If his government collapses, it is not clear who would succeed him or who would gain control over Pakistan’s arsenal of nuclear weapons.

But the spread of Al Qaeda in the tribal areas threatens to undermine a central element of Mr. Bush’s argument that he is succeeding in the administration’s effort to curb terrorism. The bomb plot disrupted in Britain last summer, involving plans to hijack airplanes, has been linked by British and American intelligence agencies to camps in the Pakistan-Afghan border areas.

General Musharraf has told American officials that Pakistani military operations in the tribal areas in recent years so alienated local residents that they no longer provide the central government with quality intelligence about the movements of senior Islamic militants.

Congressional Democrats have threatened to review military assistance and other aid to Pakistan unless they see evidence of aggressive attacks on Al Qaeda. The House last month passed a measure linking future military aid to White House certification that Pakistan “is making all possible efforts to prevent the Taliban from operating in areas under its sovereign control.”

Pakistan is now the fifth-largest recipient of American aid. Mr. Bush has proposed $785 million in aid to Pakistan in his new budget, including $300 million in military aid to help Pakistan combat Islamic radicalism in the country.

The rumblings from Congress give Mr. Bush and his top advisers a way of conveying the seriousness of the problem, officials said, without appearing to issue a direct threat to the proud Pakistani leader themselves.

“We think the Pakistani aid is at risk in Congress,” said the senior official, who declined to speak on the record because the subject involved intelligence matters.

The administration has sent a series of emissaries to see the Pakistani leader in recent weeks, including the new secretary of defense, Robert M. Gates. Mr. Gates was charged with prompting more action in a region in which American forces operate with great constraints, if they are allowed in at all.

“This is not the type of relationship where we can order action,” said an administration official involved in discussions over Pakistan policy. “We can strongly encourage.”

Relations between General Musharraf and Mr. Bush have always been tense, as the Pakistani leader veers between his need for American support and protection and his awareness that many Pakistani people — and the intelligence service — have strong sympathies for Al Qaeda and the resurgent Taliban. Officials involved with the issue describe the current moment between the leaders as especially fraught.

Mr. Bush was deeply skeptical of the deal General Musharraf struck with the tribal leaders last year, fearing that it would limit the government’s powers to intercede in what Mr. Bush has called the “wild west” of Waziristan, administration officials said at the time.

During his visit to Washington last fall, General Musharraf said the agreement he signed with tribal leaders, giving them greater sovereignty in the region, had “three bottom lines.” He said one was “no Al Qaeda activities in our tribal agencies or across the border in Afghanistan.” The second was “no Taliban activity” in the same areas. And the third was “no Talibanization,” which he described as “obscurantist thoughts or way of life.”

American intelligence officials have made an assessment that senior Qaeda leaders in Pakistan have re-established significant control over their global network and are training operatives in some of the camps for strikes on Western targets.

One American official familiar with intelligence reports about Pakistan said intelligence agencies had established “clear linkages” between the Qaeda camps and the plot to blow up trans-Atlantic flights that was thwarted last August. American analysts said the recent trials of terrorism suspects in Britain showed that some defendants had been trained in Pakistan.

American officials say one reason General Musharraf agreed to pull government troops back to their barracks in North Waziristan and allow tribal leaders greater control over security was to give him time to rebuild his intelligence network in the border region gradually.

Todo tiene que ver con la reconstrucción de Al-Qaeda en la frontera pakistaní. Sus FAS realizan algunas misiones contra esas infraestructuras pero no son las suficientes

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Hoy es el 50 cumpleaños de Bin Laden, y esperemos que sea el último.

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Internet, en el punto de mira de Al Qaeda

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internet ... unet_7/Tes

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Austria refuerza las medidas de seguridad por amenazas islamistas

El Gobierno austríaco ha decidido reforzar las medidas de seguridad para sus militares estacionados en Afganistán, tras las amenazas terroristas aparecidas el pasado fin de semana en internet.

Tras una reunión urgente, el portavoz del Ministerio del Interior, Rudolf Gollia, dijo hoy que 'se realizan investigaciones en todas las direcciones', pero aún no queda claro quiénes son los autores del mensaje.

Un supuesto grupo islamista llamado 'Voz del Califato' había exigido en un mensaje dirigido a Alemania y Austria la retirada de tropas de estos dos países en Afganistán.

Austria tiene estacionados sólo cuatro oficiales de mando, empleados en tareas administrativas en Afganistán, cuya estancia allí está prevista que termine a finales de año.

Según informó un portavoz del Ministerio de Defensa, Austria ha enviado en dos ocasiones anteriores soldados a Afganistán, en 2002 y en 2005, cuando colaboraron durante tres meses para organizar elecciones en la provincia de Kunduz.

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Al Qaida lanza una amenaza terrorista contra Alemania

Dubai.- El grupo terrorista Al Qaida amenazó con cometer atentados en Alemania y Austria si esos países no retiran sus tropas de Afganistán, según un comunicado emitido en la Voz del Califato, un canal de televisión en Internet que administra la agrupación desde 2005.

"La participación de Alemania en la guerra de Estados Unidos contra el islam y los musulmanes" tendrá por única consecuencia "ponerla en peligro", declaró el grupo terrorista, indicó AFP.

"¿Cuál es el interés de Alemania de enviar a 2.750 hombres (a Afganistán) para combatir al lado del presidente (George W.) Bush y su banda", pregunta un individuo con el rostro enmascarado en el video.

El comunicado amenaza también a Austria si no retira sus tropas de Afganistán.

"Austria fue y es todavía uno de los países más seguros del mundo. Pero ese puede cambiar. No destruyan la seguridad de un país por cinco soldados en Afganistán", afirmó la fuente.

Un portavoz del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Alemania, en la que una célula de trabajo especial comenzó a operar, afirmó que el video era objeto de "estudio por parte de especialistas del gobierno".

El vocero agregó que Berlín trabajará por liberar a dos rehenes secuestrados en Irak.