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al-Qaeda stories: 474 news summaries

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(Newser) - During the Valerie Plame scandal, the left acted as if there was no greater sin than disclosing the name of a CIA operative. But there is no such outrage at current initiatives that could potentially disclose the names of several agency officers, writes Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal.... More »

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CIA • Department of Justice • terrorism • Valerie Plame • al-Qaeda • Eric Holder

(Newser) - We knew the US outsourced a lot of its work in Iraq to Blackwater, but this takes the cake: The CIA hired the infamous military contractor in 2004 to help it figure out how to track down and kill al-Qaeda operatives, reports the New York Times. The move to hire... More »

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CIA • Blackwater • Erik Prince • al-Qaeda • Leon Panetta • Xe Services

(Newser) - Hamas launched a raid on an al-Qaeda splinter group's mosque stronghold today, leaving at least 22 dead, including the group’s leader, and around 120 people injured, Reuters reports. The extremist Jund Ansar Allah, or Warriors of God, had provoked Hamas by declaring the establishment of an Islamic “emirate”... More »

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Gaza • Hamas • Islamic extremism • al-Qaeda

Top Militant Denies Taliban Shootout

Pakistan insists dead leader's aide killed in power struggle

Aug 9, 09 3:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Days after Pakistan's Taliban leader reportedly died in a US airstrike, conflicting stories are emerging about a power struggle in the militant group, the New York Times reports. Waliur Rehman, a commander who had wanted to lead the Taliban, denies killing a young aide to the former leader in a... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • infighting • Baitullah Mehsud • al-Qaeda

(Newser) - US and Pakistani officials say they're all but certain they killed Baitullah Mehsud, yet one of his fellow Taliban commanders says that's just a bunch of "ridiculous" propaganda. Mehsud, he insists to the BBC, is alive and will stay underground for a few days before issuing a public statement.... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • CIA • Pakistan • terrorist • Baitullah Mehsud • al-Qaeda

(Newser) - Potentially big news out of Pakistan: A US drone may have killed Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud, reports Reuters. "There is reason to believe that reports of his death may be true, but it can't be confirmed at this time," said an anonymous US official. Mehsud is an... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • terrorist • drones • Baitullah Mehsud • al-Qaeda

How a Queens Kid Became an al-Qaeda Fighter

'Impressionable' punk fan radicalized himself in search for structure

Jul 25, 09 3:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Just before he left to become an al-Qaeda fighter 2 years ago, Long Island native Bryant Neal Vinas left a box of mementos. Inside were all-American keepsakes like Yankee caps, alongside dog tags and a copy of Inside the Jihad, a book by a spy who infiltrated al-Qaeda. That... More »

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Pakistan • Long Island • al-Qaeda • Islamic terrorism • Bryant Neal Vinas

New Yorker Was 'Ready to Deliver Suicide Bomb'

His terrorist handler told him he needed more religious instruction

Jul 24, 09 1:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Queens man who pleaded guilty to aiding al-Qaeda was ready and willing to deliver a suicide bomb for the terrorist organization, he revealed to investigators. His handlers told 26-year-old Bryant Neal Vinas, however, that he needed more "religious" training before he could carry out such a mission, he... More »

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Afghanistan • Pakistan • crime • murder • conspiracy • al-Qaeda • Islamic terrorism • Bryant Neal Vinas • terrorist attacks

US Missile
Kills Son of
Bin Laden

Officials think drone strike hit him
in Pakistan

Jul 22, 09 6:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US is pretty sure that an American missile killed Osama bin Laden's son in Pakistan, reports NPR. Spy agencies are "80 to 85%" certain that a missile from a US drone killed Saad bin Laden, thought to be in his late 20s, sometime in the last year. Saad... More »

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Pakistan • missile • Osama bin Laden • drones • al-Qaeda • Saad bin Laden

Inside the CIA Torturers' Heads

Post: Higher-ups pushed interrogators for harsher methods than they wanted

Jul 19, 09 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - The FBI was already getting information out of a suspected terrorist in a series of relatively friendly interrogations in 2002 when the CIA stepped in, a former US official tells the Washington Post. Agency contract psychologists escalated the techniques to sleep deprivation, extreme cold, and waterboarding, which the FBI interrogators... More »

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CIA • torture • FBI • sleep deprivation • waterboarding • terror suspects • al-Qaeda • psychologist • enhanced interrogation techniques

(Newser) - Indonesian officials are fairly certain the wanted terrorist who masterminded the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings is also responsible for yesterday's attacks in Jakarta, the BBC reports. There are “strong indications” that Noordin Mohamed Top—a financier for al Qaeda-linked terror group Jemaah Islamiah who is thought to have... More »

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Indonesia • bombing • Jakarta • Bali • al-Qaeda • terrorist attack • Jemayah Islamiya • Noordin Top • mastermind

(Newser) - Al Qaeda is weak militarily and “has been rejected by a great majority of Muslims,” Steve Coll writes in the New Yorker, but the terrorist organization and its affiliates can still create a “shock” like today's bombings in Jakarta. Despite the group's apparent inability to pull off... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • Dick Cheney • terrorism • US foreign policy • bombing • Osama bin Laden • Jakarta • al-Qaeda • terrorist attack • Obama administration • patience

(Newser) - Not only was the CIA's “targeted killing” program an “open secret,” but there's also “less to it than meets the eye,” Robert Baer writes for Time. The former intelligence officer notes that the Washington Post broke the story in 2001, and a New York Times... More »

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Congress • Dick Cheney • CIA • George Tenet • assassination • Robert Baer • al-Qaeda • Leon Panetta • targeted killing

OPINION

CIA Assassin Squads:
Who Is It OK to Kill?

Cheney's secret killers likely to wind up on wrong side of history

Jul 15, 09 9:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - It’s hard to imagine many Americans would object to their country assassinating Osama bin Laden, and Walter Shapiro of Politics Daily is no different. So why are he, and others, so queasy about the CIA hit squads that, we learned Monday, have been hunting terrorist leaders since 9/11? Because... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • Dick Cheney • CIA • assassination • al-Qaeda • paramilitary

(AP) - Al-Qaeda's No. 2 leader warns the Pakistani people in a new audio message that the US poses a grave danger for Pakistan's future, and asks if they could help financially. "It is the individual duty of every Muslim in Pakistan to join the mujahedeen, or at the very least,... More »

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terrorism • Pakistan • As Sahab • al-Qaeda • audiotape • Ayman al-Zawahiri • Islamist website

(Newser) - The CIA program kept secret from lawmakers and canceled by Leon Panetta last month sought to establish paramilitary units to take out al-Qaeda leaders, former intelligence officials tell the Los Angeles Times. The officials say that while the program was never made operational, CIA chiefs continued to work on plans... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • Dick Cheney • CIA • assassination • al-Qaeda • Leon Panetta • paramilitary

(Newser) - The secret CIA plan sparking fury among lawmakers this weekend may have been designed to kill or capture al-Qaeda operatives, the Wall Street Journal reports. Former intelligence officials say that a 2001 legal pronouncement by President Bush led to an operation that was later axed by spy chief Leon Panetta.... More »

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Dick Cheney • CIA • al-Qaeda • Leon Panetta

(Newser) - Prison officials refused to let an al-Qaeda terrorist serving 30 years in Supermax, a prison in Colorado, read Barack Obama's books, the Daily Telegraph reports. Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, an American citizen convicted of conspiring to, among other things, assassinate then–President George W. Bush, was told that the books... More »

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Barack Obama • prison • terrorist • al-Qaeda • Dreams From My Father • prisoner • Supermax • President Obama

(Newser) - So what's this secret program behind the latest feud between CIA and Congress? It's apparently an "on-again, off-again" effort created after 9/11 to collect intelligence about suspected terrorists, the Washington Post reports. It doesn't involve interrogation, but beyond that, details are murky. CIA chief Leon Panetta learned of it... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • War on Terror • CIA • Senate Intelligence Committee • al-Qaeda • Leon Panetta

Saddam Feared Iran, Would
Have Asked Bush for Help

Also said he never met 'zealot' bin Laden

Jun 24, 09 7:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Saddam Hussein feared Iran more than the US and once considered cutting a deal with George W. Bush, the Daily News reports. In newly declassified interrogations from 2004, Saddam said that if Iran threatened to attack, he "would have sought a security agreement with the US," says the... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Saddam Hussein • FBI • Osama bin Laden • al-Qaeda

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