Saudi intelligence chief discusses 26/11 with NSA

September 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram met with top US officials Wednesday to deepen counter-terrorism cooperation between the countries after the Mumbai attacks last year.

August 13th, 2009 Sudan President dismisses powerful spy chiefKHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan's official news agency says the president has dismissed the country's powerful head of national security and intelligence. Thursday's SUNA report says Salah Ghosh has been appointed an adviser to President Omar al-Bashir, a less prominent position.

June 13th, 2009 3 Gitmo detainees sent home to Saudi ArabiaWASHINGTON — U.S. officials say three Guantanamo Bay detainees have been sent home to Saudi Arabia.

May 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - After the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, Pakistan moved 75 percent of its air force to the Line of Control (LoC) between India and Pakistan, a top commander of the Indian Air Force (IAF) said here Sunday. "Pakistan had mobilised 75 percent of its air force against us after 26/11.

May 1st, 2009 RIYADH - An eight-year-old Saudi girl got divorced from her 50-year-old husband after the marriage drew severe criticism, the girl's lawyer said Thursday. Abdullah al-Jeteily said that the court in Onayza city approved the divorce decree after several officials in the region talked with the husband.

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 27th, 2009 RIYADH - A senior Al Qaeda leader has voluntarily returned home in Saudi Arabia and surrendered himself to the authorities, a media report said. Fahad al-Ruwaily was on the list of Saudi Arabia's 85 most wanted militants living abroad, Geo TV reported quoting the interior ministry as saying.

March 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Terrorism, unrest in neighbouring Pakistan and cooperation in security topped the agenda at a meeting between visiting United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief Leon Panetta and Home Minister P. Chidambaram here Thursday.

March 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief Leon Panetta met Home Minister P Chidambaram and discussed the security situation in South Asia. According to sources, issues like impact of the global economic crisis on the internal security of the countries and growing militancy in the subcontinent were discussed during the meeting.

February 10th, 2009 LYON - The international police organisation Interpol said it had issued an unprecedented global alert for 85 terrorists suspected of planning attacks against Saudi Arabia from abroad. The 83 Saudis and two Yemenis are wanted by Saudi Arabia on terrorism-related charges, including links to Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Afghanistan, Interpol said Tuesday in a statement issued in Lyon, where its headquarters are located.

February 2nd, 2009 RIYADH - The Saudi government has published a list of 85 men worldwide it says adhere to 'deviant' ideologies, common Saudi terminology for Al Qaeda, the official SPA news agency reported. Saudi security forces urged the men to turn themselves in to Saudi embassies abroad and 'return to reason and wisdom', adding that they could be reunited with their families, depending on the charges against them.

January 15th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband Friday met his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi after his arrival here. 'The focus of the discussions was on the investigations regarding the Mumbai attacks (of 26/11) and Pakistan's response to the Indian statements,' said an official.

January 12th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Saudi intelligence chief Prince Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz arrived in Pakistan Tuesday to 'discuss Pakistan-India tension', a media report said. Geo TV citing diplomatic sources said that he would meet President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and other top ranking officials.

January 12th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Saudi intelligence chief Prince Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz arrived here Tuesday for talks on the situation in the region in the wake of the Mumbai terror carnage and on Pakistan' political situation, a senior official said. The official said that Muqrin, who is considered to be a powerful man in the Saudi kingdom and is a close confidant of King Abdullah, will be meeting President Asif Ali Zardari to discuss the situation after the Mumbai attacks.

January 8th, 2009 NAIROBI - Somali pirates said Friday that they had freed a Saudi-owned supertanker after receiving $3 million in ransom, agencies reported. The supertanker Sirius Star, owned by the shipping arm of oil giant Saudi Aramco, was seized off the east African coast in November last year.