Al-Qaeda
Tunisian Interior Minister Ali Larayedh speaks with journalists during a press conference on February 13, 2012 in Tunis. Twelve Tunisians were arrested after deadly clashes occurred in the southeast region of Sfax on February 1 and 2, following an investigation which showed that they were linked with 'groups close to al-Qaeda' in Libya the Minister of the Interior said today.
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The governor is in the hands of AQIM (al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb), who have already contacted his parents
Taliban are people who want -- their main goal is to keep foreigners off their land. It's the al-Qaida -- you can't mix the two. The al-Qaida want to come here to kill us. The Taliban just says we don't want foreigners. We need to understand that or we can't resolve this problem in the Middle East.
I haven’t seen any evidence of Al Qaeda being responsible for any of the events that have happened in the Middle East against these embattled regimesMore quotes »
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Somalia's al-Shabab joins al-Qaida, leader says
that will please the believers and disturb the disbelievers, which is the joining of the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement in Somalia to Qaedat al-Jihad, to support the jihadi unity against the Zio-Crusader campaign and their assistants amongst the treacherous Read more »
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American man kidnapped in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia -- Gunmen kidnapped an American man in the northern Somali town of Galkayo Saturday, officials said, the same day an airstrike killed a senior insurgent leader with ties to al-Qaida in another part of the country. Read more »
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Al-Qaida takes full control of Yemeni town
SAN'A, Yemen -- A band of al-Qaida militants took full control yesterday of a town 100 miles south of the capital, San'a, overrunning army positions, storming the local prison and freeing at least 150 inmates. Read more »
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King questions Obama on sharing info for Osama bin Laden film
has questioned how much information was shared about the U.S. special operations mission in Pakistan that killed the al-Qaida leader in May. King on Thursday released a December letter from the Pentagon saying that the inspector general's office covering intelligence Read more »
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Taliban strike deal with Qatar on office there
within a few minutes went off in central Kandahar's Marad Circle, killing five civilians and three police officers, provincial spokesman Faisal Ahmad said.Ahmad said one explosion killed a child at the intersection, drawing police to investigate. Then, another Read more »
Around the web
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Syria rejects UN rights chief claims
government. The Syrian envoy also accused the UN human rights Chief of ignoring strong documents proving the involvement of al-Qaeda in his country unrest. ''Al-Qaeda has said on its website that five of its members were killed in the Syrian cities of Homs 7:13 PM from Press TV Read more »
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Did the U.S. use an earthquake to send intelligence operatives into Pakistan?
review in 2009 that ‘Pakistan's Army and ISI are covertly SPONSORING four militant groups - Haqqani‘s HQN, Mullah Omar‘s QST, Al Qaeda and LeT - and will not abandon them for any amount of US money‘, as diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show. Ambassador 6:50 PM from Foreign Policy Read more »
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Lawyer: Life in prison unfair for underwear bomber
he pleaded guilty to trying to destroy an Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight on Christmas 2009. He said he was acting on behalf of al-Qaida. Two of the crimes carry a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Abdulmutallab "fully accepted responsibility for his actions 6:31 PM from San Diego Union-Tribune Read more »
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Underwear bomber challenges life sentence
his mentor and getting involved in jihad, the government wrote. Once in Yemen, Abdulmutallab visited mosques and asked locals if they knew how he could meet Awlaki, records show. Eventually, he met someone with a connection: the individual took Abdulmutallabs 5:55 PM from Detroit Free Press Read more »
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Iraq's Democracy Transforms the Middle East
to become the training ground for a new era of international conflict, and jihadists are already signing up. This weekend, Al Qaeda’s ideological leadership and, more troublingly, the more mainstream Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, called for jihadists 5:52 PM from Real Clear World Read more »
