How To Use Al-qaeda In A Sentence
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Pakistan, with its “Islamic” nuclear bomb, Taliban - and al-Qaeda-infested northwestern borderlands, dysfunctional cities, and territorially based ethnic groups for whom Islam could never provide adequate glue, is commonly referred to as the most dangerous country in the world, a nuclear Yugoslavia-in-the-making.
Pakistan’s Fatal Shore
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With the help of these so-called "cleanskins," who are difficult for Western security services to detect, al-Qaeda's opportunistic, pragmatic leadership has embraced urban warfare of the sort pioneered by terrorists decades ago: low-intensity, IRA-style operations in densely populated areas, using both conventional military weapons (such as assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades) and standard terrorist weapons (such as improvised explosive devices).
Al-Qaeda's new strategy: Less apocalypse, more street fighting
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The way this administration reasons, hummus is “related to al-Qaeda”.
Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Baby Steps To Authoritarianism
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But on a single day recently al-Qaeda was able to launch 42 attacks across the country.
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But in the years since, the Taliban has reasserted itself and al-Qaeda has managed to operate from havens in neighboring Pakistan.al-Qaeda affiliates have emerged in Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, and elsewhere.
Panetta: U.S. within reach of defeating al-Qaeda
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Moreover, on at least one occasion the Bush administration refused to do what Pakistan would not: In 2005 Donald Rumsfeld nixed a proposed attack on a meeting of al-Qaeda leaders in the tribal region—a group thought to include Ayman al-Zawahiri—in part because the operation, which would have involved more than a hundred Special Forces and CIA personnel, could have destabilized Musharraf.
The Longest War
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Ibrahim al-Shammari told Al Jazeera on Thursday that the Islamic Army in Iraq had decided to disunite from al-Qaeda in Iraq after its members were threatened.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Iraqi group 'splits' from al-Qaeda
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Gingrich's attempt to hold Muslims collectively accountable for the actions of a relative handful of extremists doesn't simply reinforce al-Qaeda's narrative that America is at war with Islam as a whole; it skirts dangerously close to accepting the terrorist-friendly premise that "innocents" as we generally understand the term don't actually exist.
News & Politics
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Ali Soufan, left, one of the few Arabic-speaking agents at the FBI before 9/11, was able to solicit a great deal of uncoerced information from al-Qaeda insiders.
The Longest War
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That was part of what I believe was a grand bargain, struck between the Bush administration and the mullahs of Iran, that freed up US troops to crush Al-Qaeda.
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POTUS was "projecting a lot of strength," say the KNP team, using a staccato rhythm and an emphatic finger point to underscore lines like his warning to al-Qaeda that "we will not relent, we will not waver, and we will defeat you.
State of the political body language: Did Obama, Ryan, Bachmann have the moves to impress at SOTU?
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They realized that the 9/11 attacks might not be the stunning victory that al-Qaeda and many in the West took them to be at the time, and might in fact more resemble a kamikaze operation that would decimate their ranks.
The Longest War
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And again, that is afield from the narrow point you were making, that Democrats are not sympathetic to al-Qaeda.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
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Bush called him "one of brave tribal shaves sheiks who helped lead the reb revolt against our al-Qaeda" in that province.
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Obama said he hopes the talks and the upcoming new U.S. plan for the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaeda would "invigorate" NATO participation in the U. S.-led operation, now in its 8th year.
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He was also a member of the same terrorist cell as Hamza al-Qo'aiti, who was killed with several other al-Qaeda operatives in Tarim, Hadramout in August of last year.
Yemen Observer
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They live in their own world, where tax cuts increase revenue, where Saddam was a major supporter of al-Qaeda, where dividend cuts go mostly to the middle class, where an experienced career diplomat is a raving left-winger, etc.
Economic Arguments, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Bush justified the Afghan invasion and overthrow of the Taliban on the vague claim that it 'harbored' Al-Qaeda -- but the Afghans themselves were not involved in 9/11.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Michael Munk: Warfare, corruption breed terrorism
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By August 2006, after a meeting in Homs, Syria, he had joined al-Qaeda in Iraq, a homegrown Sunni movement that U.S. officials say is led by foreigners and that embraced a radical strain of Islam.
Matthew Yglesias » The Success of the Surge
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A secret US document, marked as releasable to the Government of Pakistan, has linked former Inter-Services Intelligence chief Lt-Gen (retd) Hamid Gul to the Taliban and al-Qaeda networks.
Letter incriminates gul
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Administration officials often referred to Southeast Asia as the next major franchise location for al-Qaeda, with the Philippines in particular slated to become the "next Afghanistan.
John Feffer: In Search of Terrorist Enemies in Africa
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Along with Saif al-Islam, he persuaded Gaddafi to abandon his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, and opted to share intelligence information with the U.S. on al-Qaeda operatives in Libya.
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The other, "XC" is a 23-year-old Pakistani student who is said to be the "co-ordinator" behind a plot in Manchester last Easter that was "directed by al-Qaeda based overseas.
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Saudi Arabia is the source of most Al-Qaeda fighters, funding and instigator of Islamic agitation all over the world, but it is also a major source of oil, and its royal cleptocracy owns large chunks of major American corporations.
WN.com - Business News
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But Mr Hicks, who made a plea bargain and admitted helping al-Qaeda, will serve only nine months and in his native Australia.
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None of this bonanza of timely intelligence was acquired using coercive measures, but all of it was especially valuable as Abu Jandal was the first al-Qaeda insider to explain the inner workings of the group during the period after bin Laden had moved his men to Afghanistan in 1996.
The Longest War
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Al-Qaeda, especially in these surgy times, is evidently everywhere in Iraq; millions and millions.
Matthew Yglesias » Occupation is Hard
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However, the real history is that al-Qaeda had no real foothold in Iraq until the U.S. invasion in 2003 – and that al-Qaeda's leadership saw its post-U. S.-invasion efforts there as a way to divert American forces so the terror group could rebuild its operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Printing: Can US Make Sound Decisions?
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In what he admitted was his first operational role for al-Qaeda, KSM was responsible for casing airport security on a flight from Manila to Seoul, while Yousef took a flight from Hong Kong to Taipei.33 KSM took concentrated nitromethane, an inexpensive liquid explosive readily available in the Philippines, and poured out the contents of fourteen contact lens solution bottles, taking care not to break the plastic security seals.
Seeds of Terror
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Over the past two months, the spy service has nearly doubled the pace of its drone campaign, killing dozens of militants in territory controlled by the Haqqani network and thought to be a haven for al-Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden.
U.S. military campaign to topple resilient Taliban hasn't succeeded
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The program — whereby insurgents got money and the ability to call themselves security auxiliaries in exchange for bandwagoning against al-Qaeda — is widely credited with reducing violence in Iraq, and now the Iraqi government is in charge of maintaining it.
No Jobs, Buddy | ATTACKERMAN
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Not wishing to be unduly controversial, but given what is happening in other parts of the world, maybe we should just save x-ty billion pounds and fast forward ten or twenty years and re-habilitate al-Qaeda into a political party and put them and their cohorts in charge in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Well Done to Everyone in Northern Ireland
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At the time of the al-Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington, he was a struggling ex-convict with
Heroes or Villains?
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The House legislation and the upcoming Senate bill contain points of accountability which are in the form of reporting requirements for Bush and the prospect that he could 'waive' the withdrawal provisions for a limited time and mission in the name of national security or a threat from al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Rallying Around Our Democratic Leadership On Iraq
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Black handled the episode with admirable sangfroid, deciding to consider the attempt an exercise to see how al-Qaeda was running its operations.
The Longest War
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Welcoming the Af-Pak policy unveiled on Tuesday, minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor said the pressure maintained by the US on Taliban and al-Qaeda there is in the interest of India as it keeps such elements on the "backfoot".
Daily News & Analysis
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At the very least, you never know if some Al-Qaeda operative is going to pick the moment you get scanned to detonate a terrorist photobomb.
Daniel Cubias: The TSA Protests: Hypocrisy in Action?
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In the end the multiple waterboardings of Abu Zubaydah provided no specific leads on any plots, although clearly his role as an al-Qaeda logistician did give him insights into the organization and its personnel.
The Longest War
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Bergen quotes Muhammad Musa, "a laconic, massively built commander" who led 600 Afghan soldiers to the Tora Bora front lines, on the fanatical braveness of al-Qaeda's fighters.
Peter Bergen's "The Longest War"
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Then in a televised speech Thursday, Maliki, who had begun the week welcoming the protest, urged people to stay away, saying the event seemed "suspicious" and was likely to be infiltrated by al-Qaeda or perhaps loyalists of Sadaam Hussein's Baath Party or "terrorists" seeking to co-opt it for their own purposes.
Anxiety and hope ahead of Iraq 'Day of Rage' protest
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However, the real history is that al-Qaeda had no real foothold in Iraq until the U.S. invasion in 2003 †"and that al-Qaeda's leadership saw its post-U. S.-invasion efforts there as a way to divert American forces so the terror group could rebuild its operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Can US Make Sound Decisions?
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Matthews had been one of the CIA's top experts on al-Qaeda and a veteran targeteer in the agency's air war against terrorist groups.
CIA honors 12 officers, contractors killed in action
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In his presentation document to al-Qaeda, Barot said that the americium from around ten thousand smoke detectors would be needed to make the bomb effective and that once the device was detonated the subsequent radioactive cloud “has the potential to affect around 500 people.”
The Longest War
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The hard question, and the next great foreign-policy debate, is what if Afghanistan is no different than Iraq: a hopeless war that inflames and destabilizes the Muslim world rather than cuts to the heart of the legitimate U.S. struggle against al-Qaeda.
The Last Shall Be The First Tonight | ATTACKERMAN
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Is it possible, drawing on the experience of the past year, to identify the key components of a winning strategy against al-Qaeda?
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The spiritual leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen born in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Thiessen: Al-Qaeda's American-bred leadership
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Zein al-Abideen Mohamed Hussein, generally known as Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian al-Qaeda logistician in his early thirties, was believed to be the highest-ranking member of the terror group to be taken alive in the first months after 9/11.
The Longest War
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You are who you appoint, and in appointing the highly regarded Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal to replace Army Gen. David McKiernan, Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates have signaled a ruthless desire both for victory and to kill or capture key al-Qaeda figures.
Be Like Bush
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After listing what it describes as recent "notable successes" against al-Qaeda, particularly its Afghan Taliban allies, the committee gives its thanks and congratulations to "the administration as a whole and in particular the men and women of the U.S. military.
Military expands intelligence role
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General Michael Maples, head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, the plotters received direction from al-Qaeda in Pakistan.
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The former was present with Washington's decision to defenestrate the Taliban regime after it hosted al-Qaeda.
Doug Bandow: Germany's Lesson for America: Wars of Necessity, not Choice
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I think a drone strike might be allowable if we were taking out a nuke that al-Qaeda might transport, w/collateral damage to (say) a U.S. citizen in league with them; but really, one nuke is not an existential threat.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Harold Koh’s Defense of Drones Also the Defense of Targeting a US Citizen?
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The point is that al-Qaeda does not gain succor just from what Cullison calls "Arab resentment against the United States"; it also profits from the West's agonizing over the legally — not to say morally — dubious methods used to combat international terrorism, some of which clearly have a certain popular appeal, particularly in the United States.
Letters to the Editor
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They cite the killing and capturing of hundreds of al-Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan and the elimination of the country as a base of operations for attacks against the West.
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There are 160 German naval personnel in Mombasa monitoring the Horn of Africa, presumably for al-Qaeda skiffs and pirate ships.
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an al-Qaeda sleeper cell may have used Arizona as its base
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There is also sporadic news of high ranking al-Qaeda officials travelling in Iran, seeming to be causally connected to terror attacks in Iraq.
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Still, there needs to be some stress put on the idea. al-Qaeda has always had a limiting pseudo-theological underpinning its agenda that precludes large-scale Muslim bandwagoning.
Is al-Qaeda Already Contained? Or Is It Terrorism’s Mark Halperin? | ATTACKERMAN
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If Saudi methods call to mind the deprogramming of brainwashed cult members, that’s no coincidence — Saudi government officials speak of al-Qaeda as a cult, and they believe that deprogramming is exactly what is called for.
Get Out of Jihad Free
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Says al-Qaeda will deny them “justice” — again, a term resonant among Muslims.
Roll Out! | ATTACKERMAN
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He called the tumultuous period since those attacks '' 19 months that changed the world, '' and said Mr. Hussein's defeat was a defeat for al-Qaeda and other terrorists as well ....
Greg Mitchell: On 6th Anniversary of 'Mission Accomplished' -- How the Media Blew It
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A member of the militant Egyptian group al-Jihad, bin Laden's former chief of security, and before that one of his bodyguards, al-Adel is believed by intelligence officials to have assumed the role of al-Qaeda's military commander — making him No. 3 in the organization.
Pharaohs-in-Waiting
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The false claims advanced by the Bush administration that Saddam was building up a serious WMD program and that his regime had given training in “poisons and deadly gases” to al-Qaeda associates in Iraq were the apogee of this hysteria, as they helped to embroil the United States in the disastrous Iraq War.
The Longest War
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The NIE now confirms what was reported last week: the al-Qaeda we failed to finish off in Afghanistan and Pakistan has 'regenerated' and remains intent on attacking us at home," said Biden.
Bob Geiger: Bond Continues Misleading Constituents About Iraq
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Seeds of Terror
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If you George Soros Al-Qaeda loving loons were in charge I would fear frore my nation and party.
Think Progress » Anti-Muslim Congressman Has ‘No Intention Of Apologizing’
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At the height of its power, Al-Qaeda in Iraq, like its parent organization, was a highly bureaucratized group.
The Longest War
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First of all, while the new strategy document specifically cites al-Qaeda as the biggest threat to the United States, it no longer uses the term "Islamic fundamentalism" for the same reason the Bush Administration stopped using it, because it is counter-productive to a policy that relies on the assistance of Muslims to be effective.
Reza Aslan: Obama's "Weak", "Politically Correct" Counterterrorism Plan Will Make Americans Safer
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The two al-Qaeda members in Abu Sayyaf camps on Sept 12, 2001 were identified as Faisal al-Domlab a.k.a.
Seeds of Terror
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“Very early after nine-eleven, U.S. intelligence agencies launched a series of operations that enabled them to locate and target key individuals in groups such as al-Qaeda in Iraq, the Sunni insurgency, and renegade Shia militias, or so-called special groups,” Wade said.
Bodily Harm
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Of course, all the players are talking about combat troops only, a future offensive against al-Qaeda in Iraq, and in these circumstances the war could re-escalate after de-escalating, or a fall 2007 "incident" could inflame the crisis again.
Tom Hayden: Escalation or Not? Bush Accepts Baker
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In a statement to 26september. net Saturday he clarified that the Joint Meeting parties JMP want to go into alliance with extremist forces of the al-Qaeda, advocates of secession and rebels through what they term conference of national consultation in order to impede the parliamentary elections.
Armies of Liberation
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As the word wedding was believed to be code for an impending al-Qaeda attack, this raised the Lackawanna investigation to a matter that President Bush was now being regularly briefed on.
The Longest War
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Bin Laden later gloated that every dollar al-Qaeda invested in the operation cost the U.S. economy $1 million dollars: a leveraged investment of $500,000 by al-Qaeda in its “Holy Tuesday” operation ultimately cost the American economy $500 billion.
The Longest War
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Barot wrote a letter to the leaders of al-Qaeda proposing that he would mine the small amount of radioactive material known as americium that can be found in ordinary smoke detectors and use it to build a radiological device.
The Longest War
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Another man, Mohammed Haydar Zammar, an al-Qaeda recruiter in Hamburg, is in Syrian custody and is providing information to U.S. agents.
USATODAY.com - Al-Qaeda records solve many 9/11 puzzles, but others linger
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A local intelligence official said some of those killed were "foreigners," a term locally used for al-Qaeda fighters of Arab and Central Asian origin.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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Because of their small numbers - a few hundred - and their remoteness in sparsely inhabited fringes of the Sahara, the far-flung combatants were long regarded as a less potent threat than the main al-Qaeda units inside Algeria, and far less worrisome than Pakistan - and Afghanistan-based militants more directly tied to bin Laden.
'Emir of the south' Abu Zeid poised to take over al-Qaeda in NW Africa
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He faced severe pressure even before Tunisia's turmoil, with tribal unrest in the north, separatism in the south and al-Qaeda in the east and elsewhere.
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All these years after that awful day our leaders are still trying to figure out how to stop the terror at its source - those Al-Qaeda sponsored training centers which pockmark the landscape in faraway places like Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Diane Dimond: The Terror Threat Still Exists
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It has to be recognized that going after al-Qaeda in Pakistan, whether by us directly or through Pakistani proxies, is itself inflamatory.
The Last Shall Be The First Tonight | ATTACKERMAN
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Tobias Grey on How to Win a Cosmic War by Reza Aslan: Aslan's new book -- his second, after the bestselling No god but God, about the origins and evolution of Islam -- provides more than just historical precedent; it also offers a very persuasive argument for the best way to counter jihadism and its many splinter groups, such as al-Qaeda.
Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers
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- Oct 6, 2002: Almost exactly two years after the USS Cole attack, a small boat filled with explosives blows a hole in the 500,000 tonne French supertanker 'Limburg' as it prepares to dock at a Yemeni port. al-Qaeda claims responsibility.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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The term foreigner is locally used for al-Qaeda-linked militants of Arab and Central Asian origin.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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A number of U.S. citizens hold prominent roles in Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, including the American-born cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi, a leading ideologist and operational planner.
Investigators link package explosives to al-Qaeda bomb-maker in Yemen
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He described how current offshoots like al-Awlaki's al-Qaedaof the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen are cooperating with militants in Somalia, describing what he called an "invisible bridge" between the two.
Special ops chief warns of al-Qaeda 2.0
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Burning with the conviction that they have God on their side, members of al-Qaeda are generally not deterrable in the conventional sense, and their very relative weakness makes them far more willing to take on the United States than conventional state antagonists, who have good reason to fear American retaliation.
The Longest War
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And when the Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that the Geneva Conventions, which broadly prohibit all mistreatment of wartime detainees, applied to al-Qaeda, the OLC lawyers wrote still another secret opinion recommending that President Bush issue an executive order that would "authoritatively" establish that the CIA's tactics did not violate the laws of war — simply because the president said so.
The Torture Memos: The Case Against the Lawyers
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This is one of the best ways that the world undermined al-Qaeda: Showing Muslims that the terrorist group doesn't care about the people they purportedly fight for.
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The cartoon drawn by Barry Blitt shows the couple standing in the White House's Oval Office with an American flag burning in the fireplace under a portrait of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
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And al-Qaeda also realized that in jihadi chat rooms it could find precisely what it most needed to maintain its ranks of recruits and suicide bombers: impressionable young Muslim men (and some women), many of them second-generation immigrants living in the United States and Europe.
Jihad 2.0
