Al Qaeda financier held in Yemen

September 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Director Leon Panetta has said that the agency's operation against Al-Qaeda and other extremist groups in Pakistan has been 'very successful'. Panetta said the CIA was establishing more bases in Afghanistan as the Taliban and Al-Qaeda were constantly expanding their network, and added that the influence of these outfits was also on the rise.

June 14th, 2009 Yemen arrests suspected al-Qaida financierSAN'A, Yemen — Yemeni security forces have arrested a Saudi man suspected of financing Al-Qaida cells in Yemen and Saudi Arabia, an Interior Ministry official said Sunday. The official said that authorities captured "the biggest and the most influential" money provider for al-Qaida in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

June 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Dozens of Al Qaeda fighters and a handful of the terrorist outfit's leaders are leaving their main haven in Pakistan's tribal areas for Somalia and Yemen, the New York Times reported Friday quoting American officials. In communications that are being watched carefully at the Pentagon, the White House and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the terrorist groups in all three locations are now communicating more frequently, and apparently trying to coordinate their actions, the Times quoted the unnamed officials as saying.

June 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Leon Panetta said Thursday that Osama bin Laden, head of Al Qaeda terrorist network, is still in Pakistan and his capture remains the CIA's priority. "I guess one of our hopes is that as Pakistani military moves in, combined with our operations, we may have a better chance to get at him," said Panetta at the Capitol Hill.

June 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A small handful of the terrorist group's leaders, are moving frequently between Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen, and according to officials in Washington, they are now communicating and trying to coordinate their actions with greater accuracy. The steady trickle of fighters from Pakistan could worsen the chaos in Somalia, where an Islamic militant group, the Shabab, has attracted hundreds of foreign jihadists in its quest to topple the weak moderate Islamist government in Mogadishu.

May 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Worried by the ever expanding links between the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, the United States has reiterated that Al-Qaeda has shifted its base and is now headquartered in Pakistan. Addressing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Chairman of the U.S.

May 14th, 2009 SANA'A - The leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has declared his group's support for the revolt by secessionist groups in southern Yemen. 'We in the Al Qaeda organisation support what you are doing to reject the oppression practiced on you and to resist the regime and defend yourselves,' Nasser al-Wahishi said in an audio file posted on Jihadist web sites Wednesday.

March 29th, 2009 SANA'A - Yemen Saturday extradited to Saudi Arabia five Saudi suspects wanted in their country over links to terrorist activities, security sources said. The sources said the suspects included Abdullah Abdul-Rahman al-Harbi, a leading Al Qaeda suspect who was arrested in southern Yemen March 14.

March 26th, 2009 SANAA - Six suspected Al Qaeda militants have been detained in Yemen on suspicion of plotting attacks against oil facilities in the country and tourists. Yemeni security forces have arrested the six suspects who have been held responsible for carrying out two recent attacks against South Koreans, a statement posted on the interior ministry's website said.

March 16th, 2009 SANA'A - Four South Korean tourists and a Yemeni tour guide were killed when a bomb went off near a historical site in southeast Yemen Sunday, police and medics said. Police officials told DPA that four other Koreans and three Yemenis were injured in the explosion that occurred on a mountain overlooking the historical city of Shibam in the Hadhramout province.

February 21st, 2009 SANAA - The leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Nasser al-Wahishi, called on Yemeni tribes Thursday to rebel against the government and to confront security forces pursuing Al Qaeda members in their areas. In an audiotape posted on Islamist web sites, al-Wahishi linked the clampdown on Jihadists in five desert provinces to the deployment of Western navy forces in the Gulf of Aden to fight piracy.

February 19th, 2009 SANAA - The leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Nasser al-Wahishi, called on Yemeni tribes Thursday to rebel against the government and to confront security forces pursuing Al Qaeda members in their areas. In an audiotape posted on Islamist web sites, al-Wahishi linked the clampdown on Jihadists in five desert provinces to the deployment of Western navy forces in the Gulf of Aden to fight piracy.

February 19th, 2009 SANAA - The leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Nasser al-Wahishi, called on Yemeni tribes Thursday to rebel against the government and to confront security forces pursuing Al Qaeda members in their areas. In an audiotape posted on Islamist web sites, al-Wahishi linked the clampdown on Jihadists in five desert provinces to the deployment of Western navy forces in the Gulf of Aden to fight piracy.

February 19th, 2009 SANAA - The leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Nasser al-Wahishi, called on Yemeni tribes Thursday to rebel against the government and to confront security forces pursuing Al Qaeda members in their areas. In an audiotape posted on Islamist web sites, al-Wahishi linked the clampdown on Jihadists in five desert provinces to the deployment of Western navy forces in the Gulf of Aden to fight piracy.

January 26th, 2009 SANA'A - Policemen at a barricade outside the US embassy in Sana'a opened fire at a car, but there were no casualties reported, an interior ministry official confirmed. 'Policemen fired warning shots Monday after a car passed the blockade outside the embassy,' said an official, who asked not to be named.