Al-Qaeda's No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri, in a video statement, threatened a new attack against the United States.

Al-Qaeda released two new audio tapes this week, one by Osama bin Laden and one from Ayman al-Zawahiri.

A U.S. strike in Pakistan aimed at al-Qaeda's number two, Ayman al-Zawahri, killed at least four or five foreign terrorists. It is not clear whether Zawahiri was amongst the dead, though reports indicate that al-Qaeda's master bomb maker and chemical weapons expert, Midhat Mursi, might have been killed in the strike.

A bomb exploded in a market in Indonesia filled with Christians buying pork for New Year's celebrations. At least eight people were killed.

Italy announced the arrest of three Algerians believed to be members of an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist organization who were allegedly planning attacks against ships, stadiums, or railway stations in the United States.

Germany paroled Hezbollah terrorist Mohammed Ali Hamadi after 19 years in prison. Hamadi had been convicted for the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847 and murder of U.S. naval diver Robert Dean Stethem.

Another anti-Syrian Lebanese politician was assassinated in a car bombing. Gebran Tueni was killed on the same day that U.N. investigators released their latest report tying Syria to the death of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Pakistani officials announced that five terrorists were killed in an explosion in North Waziristan, one of whom was apparently Hamza Rabia, al-Qaeda's #3

More than 370 clan members and relatives of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi publicly disowned the terrorist leader, prompting an angry response from al-Qaeda in Iraq.

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