TERRORISM

A look into the life of the new head of Al Qaeda and FBI's most wanted man.

Osama bin Laden's long-time lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahri has taken over as the new Al Qaeda chief after the killing of the group's founder and leader, Osama Bin Laden, an Islamist website reported on Thursday.

According to an Al Qaeda-affiliated website, Egypt-born Ayman al-Zawahri has succeeded Osama bin laden as head of the terror network. Al-Zawahri, who will turn 60 next week, had been bin Laden's second in command before the latter was killed in a US Commando operation in Pakistan, last month. Zawahri had declared, earlier this month, the organizations decision to go ahead with the campaign against the United States and its allies, in response to bin Laden's death.

Al-Qaeda has declared Ayman al- Zawahiri as its new leader after the killing of Osama bin Laden in a U.S. raid in Pakistan Last month.

Fazle-ur-Rahman Khalil, a paramilitary leader and bin-Laden associate, is living in Islamabad

U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton visited Tanzania to honor the victims of the embassy bombings from 1998, a day after the alleged mastermind of those attacks was reportedly killed in Somalia.

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Africa's most wanted al Qaeda operative and the mastermind behind the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, which killed 240 people, was killed during a shootout in Somalia.

Pakistan-born Chicago businessman Tahawwur Rana was found guilty on Thursday by a U.S. jury of supporting an Islamic militant group blamed for the 2008 attack in Mumbai that killed 166 people.

Contrary to State Department policy, economic aid may not prevent Pakistanis from turning to militant radicalism.

Osama bin Laden's longtime lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahri, warned Americans not to gloat about the killing of the al Qaeda leader and vowed he would carry on bin Laden's work, according to a YouTube recording posted on Wednesday.

Bin Laden's second-in-command, Egyptian-born Ayman al-Zawahri. delivered a video eulogy for Osama Bin Laden, posted on YouTube today.

The claim that senior al Qaeda leader Ilyas Kashmiri was killed in a recent missile strike was disagreed by both U.S. and Pakistani authorities.

Regarded as one of the most dangerous militants in the world, Ilyas Kashmiri, a senior al Qaeda operative,was killed by a U.S. drone aircraft missile strike in Pakistan, an intelligence official and local media said on Saturday.

Around 27 police and paramilitary soldiers and up to 40 insurgents were killed in clashes after armed militants entered Pakistan and attacked a police checkpoint.

Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence denied the allegations against them that its operatives were behind the abduction and killing of the journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad.

Two native Iraqis and alleged former insurgents were arrested and indicted in Kentucky on federal terrorism charges.

A bomb detonated near a court building in northwestern Pakistan has killed five people and wounded eleven others, local police officials said.

A big explosion rocked the city of Peshawar city of Pakistan and gravely damaged a police station on Wednesday early morning, wounding several people and causing widespread damage stated the police.

At a trial, David Coleman Headley, the Chicago based Pakistani American who is accused of providing a front surveillance work in India in the 2008 Mumbai attacks has testified the involvement of at least one Pakistani Inter-Services intelligence directorate and a navy frogman, reported Reuters on Monday.

The Pakistan military finally regained control of the Naval air force after a 16-hour gunbattle with as few as six Taliban gunmen who attached the PNS Mehran base in Karachi late on Sunday.

An Ohio husband and wife have pleaded guilty to charges they helped finance a Mideast terrorist group, Fox News reported Monday.