In a video released by the new head of the jihadist group Al-QAEDA, Osama Bin Laden has been described as tender and kind. Entitled as Days with the Imam: Part One, the video lasts about 30 minutes and has also been posted on jihadist websites.
Federal prosecutors in New York have charged a Moroccan man with conspiring to provide weapons and other help to al-Qaeda. He was held with two other men in Germany, as being an conspirator of an alleged bomb attack being instructed upon it by the Al Qaeda. The man named Abedeladim el-Kebir, and aged 30, was detained in April by the German authorities. He faces charges in the United States of helping to supply Islamist militants with explosives, and also of possessing a destructive device.
Widow of al Qaeda leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri sentenced in Iraq
After being convicted of involvement in terrorism, the widow of an al Qaeda in Iraq leader has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
According to a senior security official, dozens of suspected al Qaeda militants escaped from a jail in the Yemen city of Mukalla. According to sources, 63 members of al Qaeda managed to break out of Almakla prison, out of which 3 were killed, 2 were arrested and a prison guard was killed.