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 Suicide Bomb Kills 50 in Iraq 

Blast at Shia mosque occurs hours after PM's warning

Jun 20, 09 10:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - At least 50 people were killed in Iraq today when a truck bomb detonated near a crowd of worshipers leaving a Shiite mosque near Kirkuk, Reuters reports. The bombing occurred only hours after Nouri al-Maliki warned the country that terrorist violence may increase as the planned June 30 withdrawal of... More »

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Iraq • terrorism • sectarian violence • Shiite • Nouri al-Maliki • US military • suicide bombing • troop withdrawal • al-Qaeda

 Hamas 'Foiled Carter 
 Assassination Plot' 

Source tells Haaretz militants targeted former prez

Jun 16, 09 2:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hamas, the Palestinian group that rules the Gaza Strip, foiled an attempt by al-Qaeda-linked militants to assassinate Jimmy Carter, a source tells Haaretz. Hoping to kill the former president as his vehicle left Gaza, militants placed a pair of bombs at a border crossing. Witnesses say that they saw Hamas... More »

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Jimmy Carter • Gaza • Hamas • bomb • assassination attempt • border crossing • al-Qaeda • Gaza blockade

 9 Missing 
 Foreigners 
 Found Dead 
 in Yemen 

Hospital workers had been picnicking; al-Qaeda blamed

Jun 15, 09 9:27 AM CDT
(AP) - Nine missing foreigners, including three children, have been found dead in Yemen today, their bodies mutilated, a security official said. The foreigners, including seven Germans, a Briton, and a South Korean, disappeared Friday while on a picnic in the turbulent northern Saada region. Shepherds roaming the area found some remains... More »

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South Korea • kidnapping • murder • British • Yemen • German • militant • al-Qaeda

Economic
Crisis Hits
Al Qaeda, Too

Terrorist activities
must wait as fundraising falters

Jun 12, 09 2:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Al Qaeda operations are struggling due to a lack of capital brought on in part by the global economic downturn, the New York Post reports. “In Afghanistan, we have a severe supply deficit,” the group said in a plea for donations. “Mujahideen sit and wait and... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • terrorism • donation • global economy • al-Qaeda • mujahedeen • economic downturn • economic crisis

Al-Qaeda Militants Leaving Pakistan for Yemen, Somalia

Dozens have left, US officials say

Jun 12, 09 7:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Al-Qaeda fighters from Pakistan have started leaving isolated tribal areas and moving far afield to Somalia and Yemen, the New York Times reports. Some US officials point to stepped up drone attacks against militants in Pakistan for the development, which involves relatively small numbers so far. But the growth of... More »

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Somalia • War on Terror • Barack Obama • Pakistan • Joint Chiefs of Staff • Pashtun • Yemen • militant • al-Qaeda

(Newser) - The youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay has been freed to his native Chad, Reuters reports. Mohammed El Gharani was seized in Pakistan in 2001 at 14, and accused variously of being an al-Qaeda operative, messenger, and combatant. Five months ago a judge found the evidence against him insufficient. “That... More »

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Afghanistan • Chad • Pakistan • US military • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • al-Qaeda • Reprieve • Mohammed El Gharani

 Bin Laden in Pakistan: CIA Head 

Finding leader remains 'major priority,' he says

Jun 11, 09 1:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Osama bin Laden is still in Pakistan and his arrest remains a top priority for the US, CIA Director Leon Panetta said today, adding that joint operations with Pakistani forces could finally net al-Qaeda’s top leader. The CIA has Pakistani informants that keep it abreast of terrorist targets there,... More »

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Somalia • Pakistan • Yemen • Osama bin Laden • al-Qaeda • Pakistan military • Leon Panetta • CIA director

CIA Calls on Court to Keep Interrogation Files Secret

Panetta warns that releasing records would benefit al-Qaeda

Jun 9, 09 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The head of the CIA urged a federal judge yesterday to keep records of harsh interrogations of al-Qaeda suspects under wraps, CNN reports. The ACLU is suing to make the files, which describe the content of destroyed CIA tapes, public. But Leon Panetta warned that doing so would have "... More »

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CIA • American Civil Liberties Union • CIA videotapes • harsh interrogation • interrogation tapes • al-Qaeda • Leon Panetta

 Bin Laden Short on 
 Hiding Spots: Officials 

Pakistan offensive, troops in Afghanistan, drone attacks cut space

Jun 5, 09 9:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Osama bin Laden has fewer and fewer places to hide these days, officials tell NPR. And “the administration smells blood,” says a former counterterror official who cites three reasons for the shrinking space: Pakistan’s Swat Valley offensive against the Taliban, "along with US activities from the... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • US military • counterterrorism • Osama bin Laden • al-Qaeda • Pakistan military • Obama administration

(Newser) - US counterterrorism officials are worried that al-Qaeda may mount a biological attack from Mexico and could even seek to collaborate with domestic terrorists, the Washington Times reports. The fears are bolstered by a February video from Kuwait al-Qaeda recruiter Abdullah al-Nafisi. In the video, Nafisi boasted that anthrax “... More »

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Mexico • Hezbollah • homeland security • Mexican border • anthrax • al-Qaeda • terrorist attack • bioterrorism • Abdullah al-Nafisi

 New Osama Tape Blasts Obama 


Jun 3, 09 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new tape believed to be a recording of Osama bin Laden attacking President Obama for his actions in Pakistan surfaced today, CBS reports. In the audio message, which aired on al-Jazeera, bin Laden says that by encouraging Pakistan’s raids in the Swat valley, Obama has forced a million... More »

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Barack Obama • terrorism • Pakistan • Osama bin Laden • al-Qaeda • Obama administration • President Obama

(Newser) - A British hostage held in Mali has been killed by his al-Qaeda captors, the terror group announced on a website. Prime Minister Gordon Brown condemned the murder as an "appalling and barbaric act of terrorism," reports the BBC. Edwin Dyer was kidnapped in Niger in January with a... More »

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murder • tourists • al-Qaeda • hostage • Mali

Al-Qaeda Denounces Obama

Deputy warns Muslims of 'polished words' before Cairo speech

Jun 2, 09 7:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Al-Qaeda isn't waiting for President Obama to address the Muslim world to criticize him. In a new video, the group's No. 2 leader called Obama a "criminal" on the eve of his visit to the Mideast and said his "bloody images" cannot be concealed by "theatrical visits... More »

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Egypt • Muslim • terrorist • Osama bin Laden • al-Qaeda • Ayman al-Zawahiri • President Obama

(Newser) - Recent US and Pakistani efforts have rattled al-Qaeda, intelligence officials tell the Washington Post, with unmanned drones having killed about half of the US’ 20 “high-value” al-Qaeda targets since last fall. Combined with Pakistan’s offensive against its Taliban allies in the Swat region, the terror group’s position... More »

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Barack Obama • Pakistan • David Petraeus • drones • al-Qaeda • President Obama

(Newser) - Gunmen raised political tensions in Iran today by shooting up a campaign office in Zahedan, the town where a mosque bombing left 23 dead yesterday, the Los Angeles Times reports. Tehran officials accused Washington of supporting the gunmen, who injured up to three people in the office of President Mahmoud... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Sunni militants • bombing • attack • al-Qaeda • gunmen

OPINION

Cheney Didn't Even Torture for Right Reasons

VP wanted to link Iraq and al-Qaeda, not stop next attack: Powell aide

May 15, 09 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - The interrogation methods Dick Cheney so highly touts were put in place in 2002 not to prevent another terror attack, a former aide to Colin Powell writes in the Washington Note, but to dig up an Iraq-al-Qaeda connection to justify going to war. And it was Cheney himself, “frightened”... More »

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Iraq • national security • Dick Cheney • torture • Abu Ghraib • Colin Powell • waterboarding • al-Qaeda • President Obama • Lawrence Wilkerson

After 2 Mistrials, 5 Convicted in Sears Tower Attack Plot

One of the Liberty City Six was acquitted

May 12, 09 2:25 PM CDT
(AP) - Five men were convicted today of plotting to join forces with al-Qaeda to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices in hopes of igniting an anti-government insurrection. A jury in Miami acquitted one member of the so-called "Liberty City Six." Ringleader Narseal Batiste was the only... More »

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terrorism • FBI • terror plots • guilty • Sears Tower • al-Qaeda • Liberty City 7 • criminal trial

(Newser) - Al-Qaeda has set its sights on the increasingly unstable Pakistan, American and Pakistani intelligence officials tell the New York Times. “They smell blood, and they are intoxicated by the idea of a jihadist takeover in Pakistan,” said a former CIA analyst. The group no longer operates... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • Swat • al-Qaeda • intelligence agencies • Buner

US Worries Grow Over Weakened Pakistan's Nukes

But Pakistani officials call concerns 'overblown rhetoric'

May 4, 09 8:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - The growing insurgency in Pakistan has heightened US worries about the security of the country’s nuclear arsenal, the New York Times reports. Some fear militants could steal weapons in transport or get access to nuclear facilities. President Obama says he’s “confident” that the stock is “secure,... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • nuclear weapons • Pakistan militants • nuclear arsenal • al-Qaeda • insurgency • President Obama

Al-Qaeda Agent Pleads Guilty
to Supporting Terrorism

Al-Marri entered US
the day before 9/11

Apr 30, 09 6:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - An al-Qaeda sleeper agent who entered the country the day before the 9/11 attacks pleaded guilty to supporting terrorism in federal court today and faces 15 years in prison, the Peoria Journal Star reports. The government says Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, who had been designated an "enemy combatant" and... More »

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War on Terror • enemy combatants • terror suspects • al-Qaeda • Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri

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