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MSNBC
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A landmark study last August by the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies described the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area as a de facto al-Qaeda haven in which terrorist leaders were reorganizing for attacks against the West. But Hayden said counterterrorism succe..
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BBC News
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US bombers and fighter jets have dropped 40,000lb (18,144kg) of bombs on suspected al-Qaeda targets on the edge of Baghdad in a 10-minute air strike.
The attack on the Arab Jabour district, said to be a safe haven for al-Qaeda in Iraq, was part of the..
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BBC News
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French police are questioning five men suspected of links to al-Qaeda's branch in Algeria, reports from France say.
They are part of a group of eight held in France earlier this week, reports quoting police officials say. Three other men have since bee..
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USA Today
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The U.S. military has launched a new "Most Wanted" campaign offering rewards of up to $200,000 for information leading to the capture of a dozen Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders.
Posters and billboards are being put up around eastern Afghanistan with the n..
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BBC News
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A new video tape purportedly made by al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has urged the American people to embrace Islam in order to stop the war in Iraq.
Unnamed US officials said they believed the speaker, who makes no overt threats against the US, was in..
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BBC News
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At least 22 people have been killed and five abducted in an attack by suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq militants north-east of Baghdad, Iraqi police said.
The militants fired mortars and rocket-propelled grenades at houses and a Sunni mosque in the town of K..
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Washington Post
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Al-Qaeda has reestablished its central organization, training infrastructure and lines of global communication over the past two years, putting the United States in a "heightened threat environment" despite expanded worldwide counterterrorism efforts, acc..
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Al Jazeera
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The leader of an al-Qaeda umbrella group in Iraq, who was thought to have beeen killed by US forces, has threatened to wage war against Iran unless it stops supporting Shias in Iraq within two months.
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, head of the Islamic State in..
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BBC News
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Britain will not yield despite a sustained threat from people associated with al-Qaeda, Gordon Brown has said after three terror attacks in the UK.
The prime minister was speaking after a burning car driven into Glasgow Airport on Saturday was linked t..
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BBC News
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Seven children were killed in a US-led coalition air strike against a suspected al-Qaeda hideout in eastern Afghanistan, the coalition has said.
A statement said that a number of militants were also killed in the raid in Paktika province near Pakistan...
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Al Jazeera
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The statement, which was not posted on websites usually used by al-Qaeda, said Sarkozy was "thirsty for the blood of Muslim children, women and old people and eager to carry out the mission set by his masters in the Black [US White] House".
It said th..
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Washington Post
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Captured Iraqi documents and intelligence interrogations of Saddam Hussein and two former aides "all confirmed" that Hussein's regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaeda before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, according to a declassified Defense Departme..
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USA Today
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Two top al-Qaeda operatives smuggled explosive ingredients onto flights from Manila and Hong Kong in 1994 as part of a test run for a failed plot to blow up 12 U.S.-bound airliners, according to a confidential document obtained by The Associated Press...
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Washington Post
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Last week, the CIA sent an urgent report to President Bush's National Security Council: Iranian authorities had arrested two al-Qaeda operatives traveling through Iran on their way from Pakistan to Iraq. The suspects were caught along a well-worn, if litt..
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BBC News
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The head of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has said al-Qaeda is essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and on the defensive elsewhere.
Michael Hayden's remarks, which correspondents describe as strikingly upbeat, come less than a year..
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BBC News
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The United States military in Iraq says a man detained in the northern city of Mosul is not in fact the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
An earlier statement from the Iraqi defence ministry said that al-Masri had been captured.
But an American military s..
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BBC News
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Fourteen people have been arrested in Belgium after authorities foiled a plot to free an al-Qaeda member arrested in September 2001, officials say.
The suspects, detained in police raids, were described as Islamic militants.
They were seeking to fre..
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USA Today
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Two nearly simultaneous car bombs targeted a local police chief and a prominent Sunni sheik working with U.S. forces against al-Qaeda in Iraq in a northern city on Tuesday, killing at least 18 people, authorities said.
Meanwhile, three parked car bombs..
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USA Today
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The U.S. military says it has captured at least six al-Qaeda media centers in Iraq and arrested 20 suspected propaganda leaders since June.
The seizures of the centers underscore the importance al-Qaeda has placed on media, primarily the Internet, as a..
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USA Today
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Osama bin Laden will release a new message soon declaring war on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, al-Qaeda announced Thursday.
The announcement of the upcoming message came as al-Qaeda released a new video in which bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zaw..
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