The Algerian-based group al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb made the kidnapping claim in an audio tape given to the Al Jazeera television network.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

The audio recording,posted on the on an Islamic website, includes a undated photograph of the al-Qaeda leader.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

But as he was arriving in Riyadh with high hopes of launching an invigorated dialogue, a new audio tape attributed to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was aired on al-Jazeera television.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

The latest audio recording, attributed to Bin Laden, again attempts to justify al-Qaeda's September 11,2001, terror attack on the United States as being part of the group's quest for the liberation of Palestine.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

In an audio tape released last week, the spiritual leader of radical Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, himself from Somaliland, ridiculed the breakaway region's continued attempt at democracy and independent statehood, saying that despite its nearly two-decade quest the region remains isolated and politically divided.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07