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Similar doubts exist about the official story in the Pakistan bombing case. French counterterrorism officials have been privately airing their skepticism about jihadist responsibility for the 2002 attack for months. In June, word leaked to the press that the investigating magistrates handling the case had all but abandoned the idea that al-Qaeda was behind the bombing. Lawyers representing families of the attack's French victims told reporters they'd received a briefing by Trévidic and fellow judge Yves Jannier in which they were told that Pakistani officials may have organized the strike. This new theory hinges...
...Rahman al-Najdi, who was born in Saudi Arabia, and a Californian convert to Islam, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, who is on the FBI's most-wanted-terrorists list. But intelligence officials don't appear to know the current whereabouts of the al-Qaeda-led commando. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey in Pakistan...
...Sources at the Interior Ministry say they can't rule out the possibility that jihadist groups could be plotting an attack in the run-up to the election on September 27, or on election day itself, with the aim of pushing for a withdrawal of German troops from Afghanistan. Until now, Germany has been spared a major terrorist attack. But there is an ongoing and very real threat. German authorities say they have foiled at least six major terrorist plots since 2000. "Al-Qaeda has its eyes set on Germany," Guido Steinberg, an analyst at the German Institute for International...
...pictures of a Jihadist's journey...
...pictures of a jihadist's journey...