Al-Qaeda
Jun 3 2011, Debanjan Banerjee

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Rudolf, New York
The leader of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, was killed yesterday in Pakistan by U.S. special forces. Until his death, Osama bin Laden was the world’s most wanted...
made popular May 2 2011
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Usman Zafar, Islamabad
Al Qaeda founder and mastermind of the September 11th Attacks, Osama Bin Laden has been killed in a targeted US military operation in alliance with Pakistani...
made popular May 2 2011
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
U.S. intelligence on the Libyan rebel force marching toward Libya’s capital of Tripoli to oust dictator Col. Gadhafi reports that some rebel elements include the...
made popular Mar 30 2011
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Incognito, Atlanta
In an effort to appeal to all the lovelies (of the female persuasion) affiliated with Al-Qaeda, they have now created what amounts to a ‘Jihad Cosmo’. The...
made popular Mar 15 2011
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Imad, San'a
Washington (CNN) — The administration’s top counter terrorism adviser said Friday that the al Qaeda group based in Yemen poses a greater threat to Americans...
made popular Dec 20 2010
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Incognito, Atlanta
Some of us have drawn comfort from the thought that Osama Bin Laden and his terrorist apes have been camped out in mountainous caves, somewhere in Afghanistan, without...
made popular Oct 19 2010
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Eko, Jakarta
An Indonesian police officer who quit the force to become a terrorist said on Thursday he was affiliated to Al-Qaeda and had trained about 170 militants to wage jihad,...
made popular Sep 23 2010
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Nabeti, Paris
Al-Qaeda has warned Paris not to attempt to rescue five French nationals kidnapped by the jihadists in Niger, SITE monitoring group said Thursday, as France mobilised...
made popular Sep 23 2010
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Stacey, Liverpool
Al Qaeda’s North African wing, known as al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, said it is responsible for last week’s kidnapping of five French nationals in...
made popular Sep 22 2010
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Alain, Paris
“The terrorist threat is real and today our vigilance, therefore, is reinforced,” French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said today. In the recent past,...
made popular Sep 21 2010
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Patrick, Paris
Seven people connected to a French nuclear company in Niger were kidnapped early Thursday near the country’s uranium-rich mining zone. A French Foreign Ministry...
made popular Sep 17 2010
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Shazil, Islamabad
Al Qaeda’s number two Ayman al-Zawahri released an audio recording Wednesday accusing the Pakistani government of responding too slowly to severe flooding in the...
made popular Sep 15 2010
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Muzikansky, Jerusalem
An influential Israeli rabbi has said God should strike the Palestinians and their leader with a plague, calling for their death in a fiery sermon before Middle East...
made popular Aug 31 2010
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Alex, Portland
Is Osama bin Laden — figurehead of al-Qaida and the most wanted terror suspect in the world — secretly working for the U.S. government? Former Cuban...
made popular Aug 28 2010
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Erick, Los Angeles
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Friday his government had information al Qaeda-linked groups were planning a series of attacks across the country, state...
made popular Aug 28 2010
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Rob, Madrid
Two Spanish aid workers held by al Qaeda’s North African wing returned to Barcelona after being freed on Monday, ending a kidnapping that lasted nearly nine...
made popular Aug 24 2010
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Alex, Portland
A suspected al-Qaida operative who lived for more than 15 years in the U.S. has become chief of the terror network’s global operations, the FBI says, marking the...
made popular Aug 7 2010
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Incognito, Atlanta
Islamist extremists are particularly barbaric. Their use of extreme violence to gain control over others goes beyond the pale, but there are no words to describe the...
made popular Aug 5 2010
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Jack, Los Angeles
IT has long been conventional wisdom that the resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a prerequisite to peace and stability in the Middle East. Since Arabs...
made popular Aug 2 2010
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Kevin, Columbia
The Pakistan Taliban may be responsible for attacks that have killed more than 1,000 civilians this year. The US may be in the midst of providing the country with $7.5...
made popular Jul 31 2010
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Tiaan, Pretoria
A 78-year-old ailing French aid worker was executed “in cold blood” by al-Qaeda’s North African branch three months after his capture, in retaliation...
made popular Jul 27 2010
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Oscar, Oaxaca
The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Monday said immigration officials are working closely with Mexican authorities to investigate a series of stunning...
made popular Jul 26 2010
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Oscar, Oaxaca
A deadly car bomb last week in this violent border city may mark a turning point in Mexico’s bloody drug war as powerful smuggling cartels stage ever more bold...
made popular Jul 27 2010
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Responding to an emergency call of a policeman shot in downtown Juarez, an officer and a paramedic work frantically to save the man’s life - when in a flash, a...
made popular Jul 26 2010
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Dom, London
A suicide car bomber plowed into a convoy carrying employees of a British company in northern Iraq on Monday, killing four of them and wounding five Iraqi civilians,...
made popular Jul 20 2010
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Domonique, Washington
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought Monday to convince skeptical Pakistanis that American interest in their country extends beyond the fight against...
made popular Jul 19 2010
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Craig, Miami
About 20 gunmen simultaneously attacked the intelligence and security service headquarters in the southern town of Zinjibar on Wednesday, killing 3 police officers and...
made popular Jul 15 2010
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Steven, Liverpool
A Yemeni court specializing in terrorism cases on Wednesday sentenced to death two men identified as al Qaeda members and convicted of killing military and security...
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Roger, Oslo
Three suspected Al-Qaeda members were arrested Thursday morning in what Norwegian and US officials said was a terrorist plot linked to similar plans in New York and...
made popular Jul 8 2010
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Elliott, Manchester
Local officials say that Islamist insurgents, fighting a lingering conflict with Algeria’s security forces, are targeting the town’s small army of...
made popular Jun 25 2010
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Steven, Liverpool
The Ministry of Defence today confirmed the death of the 300th member of the British Armed Forces in Afghanistan, a milestone that drives home the human cost of a...
made popular Jun 21 2010
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Incognito, Atlanta
Certain governments are taking a much tougher stance on suspected al-Qaeda terrorists rather than foolishly thinking, like some, that jail time and rehabilitation will...
made popular May 26 2010
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Incognito, Atlanta
Apparently al-Qaeda in Yemen is looking for a few good women. Qualifications: Must be religious. Must want to travel. But most importantly, must want to kill. If...
made popular May 21 2010
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Incognito, Atlanta
It’s obvious that to some Muslims, Islam is not the religion of peace. Violence has become a way of life for these people and they won’t easily give it up....
made popular May 18 2010
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View Point, Shimla
When President Obama decided last year to narrow the scope of the nine-year war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, he and his aides settled on a formulation that sounded...
made popular May 10 2010
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Karim Khan, Peshawar
Asia Times exclusively covers the story of a retired Inteligfence officer Khalid Khawaja confessing to brokering deals between militants and army.
made popular Apr 26 2010
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Domonique, Washington
In coming years, President Obama will decide whether to deploy a new class of weapons capable of reaching any corner of the earth from the United States in under an...
made popular Apr 23 2010
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John, Kampala
If a new Daniel Ellsberg were to release a new pile of Pentagon Papers exposing the lies behind the Afghanistan War, or even the past few decades of misdeeds by our...
made popular Apr 19 2010
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Andrew, Tempe
A recent Congressional Research Service analysis [1] obtained by ProPublica looked at the number of civilian contractors killed in Afghanistan in recent months....
made popular Apr 15 2010