by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 25, 2010 | Middle East
BEIRUT, (AP) – International investigators have questioned members of the militant Hezbollah group in connection with the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Lebanese security and judicial officials said Thursday. They said a team from...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 25, 2010 | Interviews, Middle East
Jeddah, Asharq Al-Awsat-Foreign nationals currently occupy leadership positions in Al Qaeda as well as financing, training, and recruitment in Saudi Arabia. This comes following the news that Saudi authorities have dismantled a 101 Al Qaeda elements operating in Saudi...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 25, 2010 | Middle East
DUBAI (AFP) – Osama bin Laden has warned that Al-Qaeda will kill Americans if the mastermind of the 2001 attacks on the United States, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, is executed, in a tape Al-Jazeera television aired Thursday. “The White House has declared its wish to...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 25, 2010 | Middle East
TEHRAN (AFP) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday accused Western countries of stirring up a “fuss” about the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme. “They are saying we are worried that Iran may be building a bomb,”...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 25, 2010 | Middle East
TRIPOLI, Libya, (AP) – Libya has released 214 Islamic militants, including senior members of a group accused of plotting to overthrow Moammar Gadhafi, after they renounced violence. The Libyan leader’s son Seif al-Islam Gadhafi said 34 members of the Libyan...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 25, 2010 | Middle East
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was returning home Thursday having failed to resolve a bitter dispute with Washington over the construction of new Jewish settlements. The Israeli leader was scheduled to leave the United States around 0400...