Battles broke out on Sunday night in Beirut, after a Sunni cleric was shot down by the army. Many fear the Syrian conflict could be spilling over into neighbouring Lebanon. Meanwhile, Egyptians go to the polls to choose a new president. Voters want their next leader to address basic issues, such as security, food, and jobs. Finally, our correspondent reports from southern Yemen, where al Qaeda has established a new base.
Marc Perelman meets Ali Soufan, former FBI special agent and expert on Yemen. They discuss the role of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Ali Soufan explains why he believes the Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda is probably the most dangerous of the whole group.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday that al Qaeda was likely behind a double car bombing in Damascus last week that killed 55 people, the deadliest attacks in Syria's capital since an anti-regime uprising began in March 2011.
Two apparent US drone attacks killed at least 10 suspected al-Qaeda militants in Yemen Saturday, while Yemeni government forces killed at least 15 others in a continued assault on insurgents in the southern part of the country.
The would-be suicide attacker in the foiled “underwear bomb” plot on May 7 was in fact an informant working for a foreign intelligence agency connected to the CIA, US officials revealed on Tuesday.
The CIA has reportedly foiled an ambitious al-Qaeda plot to attack a US-bound aircraft around the one-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death using an 'upgraded' version of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a plane in 2009.
Documents seized in the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden reveal his struggle to regain the trust of his followers and his preoccupation with mistakes made by al Qaeda and its allies. Selected documents were released by the US Army Thursday.
Marc Perelman speaks to Graham Allison. He is the author of an inside account of how Barack Obama took the decision to send US Special Forces into Pakistan to kill Osama Bin Laden, exactly one year ago. The piece was published in Time Magazine, and is drawn from hundreds of hours of interviews with top officials.
A year on from the death of Osama Bin Laden - has Obama gone too far in trying to gain political benefit from it? And does al Qaeda still pose a threat to the West?
On May 2nd 2011, al Qaeda's leader and charismatic founder was killed in a raid carried out by the US military. Osama Bin Laden had been hiding for 5 years just yards away from Pakistan's most prestigious military school. It was a victory over terrorism for President Obama, but an insult which is hard to forgive for the Pakistani army. An inquiry launched by the Pakistani government has yet to make its findings public.
