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We believe that terrorism is a very important issue in our daily modern life , that we should keep an eye on , therefore we will dedicate this page for news about terrorism in the GCC , as GCC countries are very venerable and terrorism acts could have devastating effects in these peaceful countries....

We hope of looking at one day were there  are no terrorist and peace and tranquility exist, this could only happen with the help of all the people around the Globe.

Syria Baath party is similar to Saddam Husain Baath party, it is a nest of terrorism and must be eliminated by an international force. The current regime coldly perpetrated the massacre of around 20,000 Syrian opponents in the city of Hama in 1982.

  • July , 16, 2007: It is reported that 45 per cent of foreign militants fighting US and Iraqi troops came from Saudi Arabia. Almost half of the 135 foreigners in US detention facilities in Iraq are Saudis, and that 50 per cent of them are suicide bombers. About 45% of all foreign militants targeting U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians and security forces are from Saudi Arabia; 15% are from Syria and Lebanon; and 10% are from North Africa, according to official U.S. military. It is reported that fighters from Saudi Arabia have carried out more suicide bombings in Iraq than those any other nationality.

     

  • Jan.11, 2006: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaida's leader in Iraq, has said in an audio tape put on the internet that rockets had been fired at Israel from Lebanon last month "on the instructions" of Osama bin Laden. This statement is misleading, since Osama Bin Laden and his Qaida group , ever since their existence , and for over 10 years , never attacked Israel interest. In this statement Bin Laden wants to mislead people in the Middle East by presenting him as anti Israeli as he wants to free the holy land and fight with Palestinians against the Israeli. Osama Bin Laden is actually an agent for MOSSAD , and with this statement he want to rally up some support , which clearly indicate that he has no support for anyone in the Arab world , except for some crazy and fanatic terrorist like Zarqawi.

     

  • March 26, 2005: It has been learnt from the interrogation committee that is questioning Sabawi Ibrahim, the half-brother of Saddam Hussein, that he confessed to killing 607 Kuwaiti prisoners of war and assassinating four Iraqi foreign ministers, in addition to financing terror acts from the Syrian territories prior to his arrest. It is known that Sabawi was arrested while attempting to enter Iraq from Syria using a forged document. He occupied a number of positions during the Saddam regime, including the directorship of anti-spying while his brother worked as director of intelligence. He headed the intelligence department towards the latter part of the 1980s and during Kuwait's invasion. He headed the general security department in mid-90s. Al-Nahda said Sabawi confessed to poisoning former foreign minister Shathel Taqa in 1974, as well as former foreign ministers Abdlekareem Al-Shaykhali, Nasser Al-Hani and Murtadha Al-Hadeethi during the 1970s. The paper said, Sabawi told the committee that, with the help of others, he killed 150 persons in the intelligence prison in Koradat-Maryam area in one day, during the interrogations following the failed coup attempt in 1979.

  • March 20, 2005: Terrorism has hit the peaceful country of Qatar. A car blast occurred at a theatre opposite the Doha English Speaking school in the Khalifa district, a few kilometers from the city centre. The blast killed one British and injured 12 others. It is believed Al Qaeda was behind the attack.

 

  • March 17, 2005: A suspected member of Osama bin Laden’s militant Islamic Al Qaeda network has been arrested at Manila airport on arrival in the Philippines from Saudi Arabia.

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  • Feb.23, 2005: A former Virginia high school valedictorian who had been detained in Saudi Arabia as a suspected terrorist was charged Tuesday with conspiring to assassinate President Bush and with supporting the al-Qaida terrorist network. Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 23, a U.S. citizen, made an initial appearance Tuesday in U.S. District Court but did not enter a plea. Abu Ali was born in Houston and moved to Falls Church, Va., where he was valedictorian of his high school class. Federal prosecutors say Abu Ali joined an al-Qaida cell in Saudi Arabia in 2001.

     

  • Feb.23, 2005: Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and a former senior commander under Saddam Hussein top a new list of most-wanted members of insurgent groups opposing the U.S.-backed government in Iraq. The No. 2 individual on the list, in terms of reward, is Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, who was vice chairman of Saddam’s Revolutionary Command Council. He is now believed to lead groups called the New Regional Command and the New Baath Party and provide financial support for the insurgency. The reward for al-Douri is $10 million.

    Feb.17,2005: The size or Iraqi terrorist insurgent is estimated at:

    Total: 13,000 to 17,000
    Baathists: 12,000 to 15,000 (5,000 "committed")
    Non-Iraqi nationals: 500
    Zarqawi backers: 1,000

     

  • June 3, 2004: Violence erupted again Wednesday in Saudi Arabia, where two Americans were fired on in the capital and police killed two men who were suspected of ties to an attack last weekend that left 22 people dead.

  • Jan.10, 2004: A Saudi national has been indicted for allegedly distributing funds to terrorist groups and for seeking to recruit potential terror operatives, US federal prosecutors said. Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, 34, was arrested in the north-western state of Idaho on February 26, 2003 for visa violations and has been in US custody since. An Idaho grand jury charged him "with providing material support to terrorism," US Attorney Tom Moss said in a statement. The indictment claims, among other charges, that Al-Hussayen helped support terrorist networks through his involvement with the Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA) in Detroit in Michigan . IANA is being investigated by federal authorities. Internet postings by Al-Hussayen included instructions on how to train at a "terrorist camp" and he appealed to Muslims in the US military to identify potential American targets in the Middle East , the indictment said.

  • Dec.26, 2003: U.S. investigators are searching for a small number of people who failed to show up at the Paris airport to board flights to Los Angeles that fell under close scrutiny in a possible terrorist plot, a U.S. official said Friday. One of those people was receiving pilot training, but was not yet certified, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Investigators remain interested in talking with those people to ease concerns some passengers aboard those flights might have intended to use them to launch terror attacks against the United States , the official said.

  • Dec.24, 2003: Air France canceled three of the flights at the request of U.S. officials, while three other flights were canceled by other carriers. A senior Homeland Security official stated that Secretary Tom Ridge and other top officials from various agencies were consulting with their French counterparts. A senior U.S. official noted that the United States had uncovered "plausible" intelligence that several flights originating in Paris would be the targets of terrorists, including the three Air France flights that were canceled.

  • Dec.22, 2003: The U.S. Navy has intercepted a small vessel loaded with drugs in the Persian Gulf and seized 12 crew members, four of whom have "clear ties" to the al Qaeda terrorist group, Pentagon officials said Friday. The boarding took place Monday just inside the Strait of Hormuz by a team from the USS Decatur, a guided missile destroyer on patrol in the Persian Gulf . Found on board the 40-foot dhow, officials said, were 54 bags of hashish weighing 70 pounds each. The drugs would have a street value of between $8 million and $10 million, officials said.
  • Dec.6, 2003: A Web site considered al Qaeda's has posted new threats against the West, promising to bring "destruction" to Americans and other Westerners if they don't learn the "lesson" of recent al Qaeda attacks, including the attacks on an Israeli-owned hotel and charter plane in Kenya last Thursday.
     
  • Dec. 3, 2003: U.S. Embassies on Tuesday warned of possible terror attacks against two hotels in Kenya and a housing compound for Westerners in Saudi Arabia. Two banks were evacuated in the Kenyan capital because of a bomb threat.
  • Nov.27, 2003: Popular satellite news stations Al Jazeerah and Al Arabiya on Wednesday dismissed allegations by US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that the networks were cooperating with Iraqi militants in taping attacks on coalition troops. In a Pentagon news conference on Tuesday, Mr. Rumsfeld and his top military adviser, General Richard Myers, said they had evidence the two networks were invited by insurgents to witness and videotape attacks on American troops as part of psychological warfare used by remnants of the Baathist government. Recently Al jazeera has sacked its general manager for cooperating & conspiring with Saddam Regime.

     

  • November 16, 2003: Germany's supreme court said Thursday it has approved the extradition of two Yemenis to the United States, where they are wanted on charges of supporting al Qaeda.
  • August 10, 2003: An audiotape purportedly from top al-Qaeda official Ayman al-Zawahri warned the United States that it would pay a high price if it harmed any of the detainees at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
  • Aug. 4, 2003: An audiotape purportedly from top al-Qaeda official Ayman al-Zawahri warned the United States on Sunday it would pay a high price if it harmed any of the detainees at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
  • August 1, 2003: Terrorists operating in teams of five may be plotting suicide missions to hijack commercial airliners on the East Coast, Europe or Australia this summer possibly using “common items carried by travelers, such as cameras, modified as weapons,” according to an urgent memo sent last weekend to all U.S. airlines and airport security managers.
  • June 25, 2003: An exiled Iranian opposition group being investigated by French anti-terrorism officials planned to assassinate former members suspected of betraying the movement, according to a report by France’s counterintelligence agency.

May 31,2003: A federal judge blamed Iran for the 1983 terrorist bombing that killed 241 US Marines in Beirut and said Tehran would have to pay damages to survivors and relatives. US District Judge Royce C. Lamberth said Friday the suicide truck bombing was carried out by the terrorist group Hezbollah with the approval and funding of senior Iranian officials.

May 31,2003: Saudi authorities detained six people over three days as part of the Kingdom's campaign to crack down on suspected militants following the Riyadh bombings, Saudi papers reported Saturday.

May 25, 2003:A new book by an FBI consultant on international terrorism says Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network purchased 20 suitcase nuclear weapons from former KGB agents in 1998 for $30 million.

The book, "Al Qaeda: Brotherhood of Terror," by Paul L. Williams, also says this deal was one of at least three in the last decade in which al-Qaida purchased small nuclear weapons or weapons-grade nuclear uranium.

May 25,2003: The Bush administration, alarmed by intelligence suggesting that al Qaeda operatives in Iran had a role in the May 12 suicide bombings in Saudi Arabia, has suspended once-promising contacts with Iran and appears ready to embrace an aggressive policy of trying to destabilize the Iranian government.

May 13,2003: Less than a week after al-Qaida warned of an imminent strike, and hours before Secretary of State Colin Powell was to arrive in the Saudi capital, U.S. and Saudi officials said Tuesday that at least one person was killed and 60 other people were injured here in four bomb attacks against Western interests, three of them in residential compounds housing Americans and other Westerners. A U.S. diplomat said 40 Americans were hurt, and that there were unconfirmed reports of “a couple of American deaths.”

April 30,2003: Pakistan says it has arrested six suspected al Qaeda members, including a man believed to have planned the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen that killed 17 U.S. sailors. The arrest of Whalid ba Attash is described by U.S. officials as "very significant."

April 30,2003: The United States again has branded seven countries — Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Syria and Sudan — as sponsors of terrorism. The annual report by the State Department also says that international terrorist attacks, including anti-U.S. attacks, declined sharply in 2002. 

April 16, 2003:Abu Abbas, convicted in the October 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro, was captured by U.S. forces in Iraq, U.S. officials told

March 21, 2003: US authorities are looking for a Saudi national, who is a suspected terrorist and his name was given by the arrested terrorist of AL Qaeda , Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.

March 13, 2003: The Al-Qaeda network has set up squads of female suicide bombers who take orders from Osama Bin Laden and will target the United States.

Feb.23,2003:A Moroccan court jailed three Saudi members of Al-Qaeda for 10 years on Friday. They were accused of plotting to attack US and British warships in the Straits of Gibraltar last year.

Feb.20,2003: German court sentences Mounir al Motassadeq to 15 years after convicting him of being an accessory to the 9/11 terror attacks in U.S.

Feb. 11,2003: Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden returned to the forefront of the world’s fears of terrorism Tuesday, calling on Muslims to carry out suicide attacks against Americans and defeat U.S. invaders in Iraq in an audio taped message that U.S. officials and other analysts said appeared to be authentic.

Dec.24,2002: The United Arab Emirates has confirmed its arrest and transfer to U.S. custody of an alleged top al-Qaeda operative, saying the man had been plotting attacks in the Gulf state.

Nov.17,2002:Kuwait authorities with the help of the American & French Intelligence un veiled a Al Qaeda Terrorist cell that operate in Kuwait , Saudia Arabia & Yemen. A Kuwaiti man has confessed that he was linked to a top figure of Al Qaeda and he was in charge of collection of funds and transfer to elements in Saudia Arabia. According to the investigation a large Hotel , in Yemen , were to be bombed by AL Qaeda. The Hotel has many American and Foreign residents. Two other men including an ex army officer was arrested. Kuwait Authorities immediately informed the American government about the eminent attack in Yemen. Other sleeping cells might exist in GCC and other countries including USA and Europe. 

Oct.26,2002: The FBI issued a warning to state and local law enforcement in USA about a possible attack soon against transportation systems, particularly railroads. Officials said the warning, based on information obtained from al Qaeda prisoners, suggested terrorists may try to take out bridges, key sections of tracks or train engines in an effort to cause derailments and widespread damage.

October,19.2002: The United States will send an envoy to Europe in a bid to freeze the accounts of some Saudi bankers and businessmen who allegedly finance the Al-Qaeda terrorist network


Oct. 14,2002
Al-Jazeera broadcasts what it says is a statement by Osama bin Laden hailing the attacks on U.S. Marines in Kuwait and the French supertanker off Yemen. Al Jazeera says that the typed statement bore bin Laden's signature.

Oct. 12,2002
Nearly 200 people, including two Americans, are killed in a pair of bombings in a nightclub district of the Indonesian island of Bali. Suspicion falls on al-Qaeda and its Indonesian affiliate, Jemaah Islamiyah.

Oct. 9,2002
A U.S. serviceman in a Humvee fires on another vehicle in Kuwait after seeing someone point a gun. The vehicles separate; no U.S. personnel are killed.

Oct. 8,2002
Two gunmen in a pickup truck attack a Marine unit on training maneuvers on Failaka, an island 10 miles east of Kuwait City. Lance Cpl. Antonio J. Sledd, 20, of Hillsborough, Fla., is shot dead. The gunmen drive to a second location and attack again before being killed by Marines. U.S. officials say they are suspected of ties to al-Qaeda.

Oct. 6,2002
Al-Jazeera receives and broadcasts an audio tape of bin Laden speaking. It is not known when the tape was made.

Oct. 6,2002
A small boat crashes into a French oil tanker off the coast of Yemen and explodes, killing one crewman. Later in the week, U.S. officials say they believe al-Qaeda is linked to the attack.

Sept. 11,2002
Pakistani and U.S. intelligence officers raid apartments in Karachi, capturing at least 10 people and killing two in a shootout. Sept. 11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh is captured and turned over to U.S. custody.

Sept. 11,2002
A plot to bomb one or more U.S. embassies in southeast Asia is foiled. U.S. embassies in Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia and Vietnam close. Hambali, a leader in Jemaah Islamiyah, a regional affiliate of al-Qaida, is believed to been a leader of this plot.

Sept. 9-12,2002
Arab satellite television station Al-Jazeera airs parts of a videotape including a voiceover statement from a man the CIA identifies as bin Laden, but it is unclear when it was made.

Sept. 5, 2002
German authorities arrest a Turkish man and his wife on suspicion of plotting to bomb U.S. military bases in Germany. No connections to al-Qaida are uncovered, but the man is believed to have been inspired by Osama bin Laden.

March 16, 2001
Three Chechens hijack a Russian airliner
leaving Istanbul and divert it to Saudi Arabia. Saudi forces storm plane, killing one hijacker and two hostages.

Jan. 9, 1996
Chechen militants seize 3,000 hostages at
hospital in southern Russian town of Kizlyar. Rebels release most, then head for Chechnya with about 100 hostages. Rebels are stopped in village and attacked by Russian troops. At least 78 die in weeklong fight.

June 14, 1995
Chechen gunmen take 2,000 hostages at hospital
in southern Russian town of Budyonnovsk, near Chechnya. After failed attempts at force, Russia negotiates the hostages' release in exchange for gunmen's escape. More than 100 die.