AFP - Al-Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri slammed US President Barack Obama's Middle East policy, saying it is designed to humiliate Muslims, in an Internet audio message posted on Monday. Full Article at France 24

By Americans are now learning what citizens of Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and other foreign countries have long known: that some of our own can and will go to great lengths to kill their fellow citizens. Full Article at Wall Street Journal

The raid was part of a growing bombing campaign by the US against al-Qaeda and Taliban figures in tribal areas of Pakistan and came amid CBS reports that the man killed was the al-Qaeda number three, Abu Yahya al-Libi. Full Article at Herald Sun

The al-Qaida extremist killed Tuesday by a U.S. drone strike in northern Pakistan was the group's director of external operations, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official told NBC News on Friday. Full Article at MSNBC

Fox news reported that neither Al-Qaeda chief Osama-bin-Laden or Qaedas second man in command Ayman al-Zawahiri were among those killed in the attack. Pakistani officials, however, have denied any such missile strike in the region. Full Article at New Kerala

NEW YORK (CBS) ― CBS News has confirmed a Hellfire missile was fired from an unmanned Predator drone and likely killed a top al Qaeda official in Pakistan. Full Article at WCCO

U.S. officials did not identify who was killed. The only confirmation available is that the high-ranking Al-Qaeda leader is not the one the U.S. has pursued since 9/11: Osama bin Laden. It was also not his top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri. Full Article at Huliq.com

A high-ranking Al Qaeda figure reportedly was killed Thursday in a U.S. drone aircraft attack in north Pakistan. Full Article at FOX News

(CBS) CBS News has confirmed a Hellfire missile was fired from an unmanned Predator drone and likely killed a top al Qaeda official in Pakistan. Full Article at CBS News

“We don't know for a fact where Osama bin Laden is. If we did, we'd go and get him." – Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Dec. 6. Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaida, has evaded capture by the United States for more than a decade. Full Article at MSNBC

Yes, Saddam Hussein’s regime was a supporter and active participant in radical Islamic terrorism. Full Article at Pajamas Media

• A daily summary of global reports on security issues . Are US Predator drones coming for Mullah Omar, the elusive, one-eyed leader of the Taliban? Full Article at CSMonitor.com Daily Update

It will be a long and unnecessary war. President Barack Obama is sending 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan to prove that the US can impose its will on the country and crush by military means what is still a relatively small-scale insurrection. Full Article at The Independent

Osama bin Laden, left, with his top lieutenant Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, in one of al-Qaida's own propaganda videos. Photograph: AP Every six months the same question is asked: where is Osama bin Laden? Full Article at Guardian Unlimited

The Prime Minister of Pakistan today slapped down a suggestion from Gordon Brown that his country should do more to hunt down Osama bin Laden, insisting on a visit to Downing Street that the al-Qaeda head was not even on Pakistani territory. Full Article at Times Online

From now on, the headlines about Afghanistan will be slugged "Obama's War," and perhaps that is fair enough given the president's many endorsements of what he has called a war of necessity. Full Article at Real Clear Politics

(MENAFN - Arab News) The Foreign Office of Pakistan expressed its surprise on Monday over the latest British demand that Pakistan should hunt Al-Qaeda leaders, including Osama Bin Laden's second in command, Ayman Al-Zawahiri. Full Article at Middle East North Africa Financial Network

Tuesday, December 01, 2009 British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has urged Pakistan to step up its action against Al Qaeda and hunt down its leader, Osama bin Laden, and his deputy, Ayman Al Zawahiri. Earlier, Ms Clinton had made a similar exhortation. Full Article at The News

Capturing or killing Osama bin Laden will not end al-Qaida's terrorist campaign. Full Article at Comment Is Free