A security official stands outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta after the embassy received a bomb threat on March 1, 2007. (Xinhua Photo) Photo Gallery >>>

A security official holds a phone outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta after the embassy received a bomb threat on March 1, 2007. (Xinhua Photo) Photo Gallery >>>

Al Qaida calls for attacks on U.S. oil sources

    BEIJING, Feb. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- The Saudi Arabian arm of Al Qaida has called for attacks on U.S. oil and natural gas sources across the world.

    The call appeared Wednesday in the Arabian Peninsula's e-magazine, Sawt al-Jihad (Voice of Holy War), used by religious militants.

Report: al Qaida chiefs to regain power

    WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Senior leaders of al Qaida operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once-battered worldwide terror network, The New York Times reported on Monday.

    The newspaper, citing U.S. intelligence and counter-terrorism officials, said there was mounting evidence that Osama bin Laden, the al Qaida leader, and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahri, had been steadily building an operations hub in the mountainous Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan.

Al-Qaida deputy mocks new U.S. strategy for Iraq[Bush's new Iraq strategy]

Ayman al-Zawahiri, chief aide to Osama bin Laden(File Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    BEIJING, Jan. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Al-Qaida's deputy leader in a video footage mocked U.S. President George W. Bush's plan to send 21,000 more troops to Iraq, vowing "insurgents will defeat them."

    The Washington-based site Institute said it had intercepted the video from Ayman al-Zawahri, where his messages are usually posted, but did not elaborate on how it received the video.

U.S. preparing for trials of top al Qaida detainees

    WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- The Bush administration has setup a secret war room in a Virginia suburb where it is assembling evidence to prosecute high-ranking detainees from al Qaida including the man accused of being the mastermind of the September2001 attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, The New York Times reported Friday.

    The effort to sift the classified files of the Pentagon, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central Intelligence Agency and other intelligence agencies amounts to the first concrete steps that the government has taken to press ahead with war crimes trials of high-level terror suspects under a plan announced by President George W. Bush in a speech last September, the report said.