Homeland Security News

U.S. and Yemeni authorities obtained a recording of a seven-hour Internet meeting between more than 20 al Qaeda leaders from around the globe from a captured al Qaeda courier, Eli Lake and Josh Rogin of the Daily Beast report.

In early August, after learning of the digital meeting — dubbed 'a meeting of the Legion of Doom' by one intelligence official — the U.S. closed embassies in 22 countries.

Lake and Rogin report that authorities intercepted communications of an al Qaeda courier who was then captured carrying "a treasure trove of information" by Yemen’s National Security Bureau with help from the CIA.

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A Lebanese and two Palestinians suspected of planning a massive car bombing have been arrested, just days after a deadly attack on Hezbollah's southern Beirut bastion, the General Security agency said.

The men were accused of "setting up a terrorist group and conducting activities that affect security on Lebanese territory," according to a statement late Monday.

"They were preparing to stage an attack using an Audi car containing 250 kg (550 pounds) of explosives."

The car was seized in the Naameh area of southern Beirut two days after a car bomb killed 27 people in a bastion of Shiite militant party Hezbollah, a close ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

On Friday, the government said the army identified a network of people suspected of trying to carry out several car bomb attacks in southern Beirut.

Read more: Al-Arabiya