The FBI published fresh digitally age progressed photographs of terrorist Osama bin Laden to try to track down the al-Qaida leader, the Guardian reports.
In a first age progressed mugshot, he is portrayed in western clothes with wavy grey and black hair and a trimmed beard; a second shows the terrorist leader in his traditional outfit, with a white turban and a flowing, but greyer, beard.
Forensic artists used digital enhancement to modify bin Laden’s features in …

Islamic extremists warned last night that banning their group Islam4UK could lead to terror attacks in Britain, the Daily Star reports.
Members of Islam4UK said there would be 7/7-style outrages if they’re stopped from venting their frustrations.
“We saw what happened in London with 7/7 after al-Muhajiroun was banned and the same thing could happen again,” exiled hate preacher Omar Bakri Muhammad, founder of the group’s predecessor al- Muhajiroun, warned. “The Muslim youth will feel they …

US President Barack Obama made a significant discovery yesterday when he finally noticed that the US is at war against terrorists, especially al-Qaida, who haven’t, despite Obama’s wishful thinking, stopped plotting devastating terrorist attacks against the United States and the rest of the Free World.
“We are at war, we are at war against al-Qaida,” Obama said yesterday. “We will do whatever it takes to defeat them.”

A policeman was seriously injured after a bomb exploded under his car in Northern Ireland, Sky News reports.
The officer had just driven off when the blast happened in County Antrim.
He was taken to hospital and army bomb disposal experts were called to the scene.
There was no immediate confirmation of the officer’s condition, but it was understood he was badly hurt.
The device exploded in Milltown Road in Randalstown.

British troops in southern Iraq were scrambled to the Iranian border after the abduction of five British hostages in May 2007, in a failed attempt to stop them being taken into Iran, the Guardian reports.
The troops were sent to the border area north of Basra to intercept the kidnappers after receiving intelligence that they were heading to the frontier from Baghdad, but failed to find them. It is unclear whether the British unit arrived too …

Israel Defence Forces bombed terrorist targets in Gaza yesterday, including near Gaza City, in the strongest retaliation against mortar and rocket attacks on Israel since the end of Operation Cast Lead a year ago, Arutz 7 reports.
At least two terrorists were killed, and three tunnels and a weapons factory were successfully targeted. Hamas officials said four other terrorists are missing.
One of the tunnels was in central Gaza and was intended to be used for infiltration …

Yemeni security forces captured three al-Qaida members including a leader believed to be behind threats that forced foreign embassies in Sana’a to close, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Mohammed al-Hanq escaped arrest on Monday during a raid by counter-terrorist forces in Arhab, 25 miles north of Sanaa, in which two of his relatives were killed and three other people wounded. However, he was arrested today, along with two others who were wounded in the attack, at a …

A suicide terrorist blew up an explosives-laden car at a police station in Russia’s troubled region of Dagestan, killing at least six policemen and wounding 16.
The terrorist detonated the car bomb at the police staten gate in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan. The police had prevented him from driving through the gate into the compound and those killed were guards at the gate.
Police estimate that 110 to 440 pounds of TNT was packed in the …

US President Barack Obama said yesterday that intelligence had enough information to uncover the terrorist plot to bomb a Northwest Airlines flight, but failed to piece it all together before the suspect boarded a plane for Detroit armed with explosives, Fox News reports.
Obama said the suspect’s name should have been added to the no-fly list based on information available about him, adding that the Government will quickly make changes to ensure future attempts are thwarted.
“The …

MI5 gave the United States information about the Detroit plane bomber long before his attempted attack, the Daily Mail reports.
The name of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was included in a dossier of people believed to have made attempts to deal with known extremists that was shared with American intelligence in 2008, a spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown said. Abdulmultallab was listed as having tried to contact radical Islamists while studying in London but was not …

Israeli police foiled a potentially gruesome terrorist attack in the heart of Jerusalem’s Old City yesterday when they arrested three Hebron Arabs with knives that were to be used to stab to death an Israeli policeman or soldier, Arutz 7 reports.
They were caught near Jaffa Gate, the most popular and crowded thoroughfare for tourists and visitors to the Old City. Police were suspicious of their vehicle and discovered their plans while questioning the terrorists.
The foiled …

The British and American embassies in Yemen were shut down yesterday as terror group al-Qaida threatened an attack in response to Western promises of a renewed counter-terrorism effort in the country, The Times reports.
Spain also closed its embassy in the face of what a senior US official said was a direct threat from al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the group behind the Christmas Day airline bomb attempt.
The US Government later informed airlines of a severe …

Former US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus is absolutely certain that British kidnap victim Peter Moore was held secretly in Iran for part of his 31-month kidnap ordeal, The Times reports.
General Petraeus’s claim that the British IT consultant was held captive in Iran is likely to intensify the bitter diplomatic relationship between London and Tehran.
Moore was set free yesterday after the United States handed over an Iraqi insurgent suspected of planning the deaths of …

Terrorist group Taliban claimed responsibility for two separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan today that killed eight American CIA employees, five Canadians and an Afghan in a surge of violence in the war-battered country.
The explosion at the Forward Operating Base Chapman base in Khost province on yesterday killed eight American civilians and one Afghan, the worst loss of life for the US in the country since October, Fox News reports.
Separately, four Canadian soldiers and a journalist …

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney said today that President Barack Obama’s reaction to the botched terrorist attack on Christmas Day is proof that he “is trying to pretend we are not at war”, CNN reports.
Cheney hit Obama for what he described as the president’s “low-key” response to the events last week and criticised the administration’s broader approach to national security.
“He seems to think if he gives terrorists the rights of Americans, lets them lawyer …

Peter Moore, a Briton kidnapped with four others in Iraq in 2007, has been released, after Baghdad secured an agreement for his freedom with the kidnappers, the Daily Telegraph reports.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said that Iraq’s Government played the lead role in Moore’s release and that Britain made no “substantive concessions” to the kidnappers. Miliband was also forced to appeal for the return of the body of the fourth of four bodyguards who were …