In this picture released exclusively to Reuters on January 17, 2009, Taliban militants are seen with their weapons in an undisclosed location in Afghanistan January 16, 2009. Alienated young British Muslims who were drawn to al Qaeda extremism, have found an unexpected answer to their alienation in the story of Muslim soldiers who fought and died alongside British soldiers in World War Two. Reuters Pictures 5 months ago

In this picture released exclusively to Reuters on January 17, 2009, Taliban militants are seen with their weapons in an undisclosed location in Afghanistan January 16, 2009. Alienated young British Muslims who were drawn to al Qaeda extremism, have found an unexpected answer to their alienation in the story of Muslim soldiers who fought and died alongside British soldiers in World War Two.

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  2. Relatives and villagers carry the coffin of slain regional al-Qaida commander Noordin Top for a burial at a cemetery in Pontian, southern Malaysia, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. Tearful relatives of slain regional al-Qaida commander Noordin Top buried him in a traditional Muslim funeral at his boyhood village Friday, two weeks after Indonesian security forces killed him in a shootout.
  3. J. Michael Dowling, lawyer for suspected al-Qaida terrorist Najibullah Zazi, gestures during a press briefing after his client's appearance in Brooklyn Federal Court, New York, Tuesday Sept. 29, 2009.
  4. In this courtroom sketch of suspected al-Qaida terrorist Najibullah Zazi is shown as he appears in Brooklyn Federal Court, New York, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009.
  5. J. Michael Dowling, lawyer for suspected al-Qaida terrorist Najibullah Zazi, speaks during a a press briefing after his client's appearance in Brooklyn Federal Court, New York, Tuesday Sept. 29, 2009.
  6. Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden addresses a news conference in Afghanistan in this May 26, 1998 file photo. Bin Laden urged European nations in an new audio tape aired on September 25, 2009 to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan.
  7. Al-Qaida's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, speaks during a new 106-minute long video released Tuesday Sept. 22, 2009 predicting President Barack Obama's downfall at the hands of the Muslim world."America has come in a new, hypocritical face. Smiling at us, but stabbing us with the same dagger that Bush used," said Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri in the message.
  8. American-born al Qaeda militant Adam Gadahn appears in a still image from a video released September 22, 2009 by al-Qaeda's as-Sahab entitled, "The West ... and the Dark Tunnel" in this handout image provided by IntelCenter.
  9. Al Qaeda's number two Ayman al-Zawahri appears in a still image from a video released September 22, 2009 by al-Qaeda's as-Sahab entitled, "The West ... and the Dark Tunnel" in this handout image provided by IntelCenter.
  10. A frame grab taken from a suspected al Qaeda video published on the internet September 20, 2009 and released by the U.S. group IntelCenter, shows a militant identified as Bekkay Harrach alias Abu Talha giving a statement entitled, "O Allah, I Love You" in German. Militant Islamist group al Qaeda threatened Germany with attacks for the second time this weekend in an online video criticising the country for its deployment of troops in Afghanistan, authorities said on Sunday. The interior ministry identified al Qaeda's messenger in the latest video as Harrach, a German-Moroccan who also appeared in a separate clip on Friday warning Germany faced a "rude awakening" if it did not end its "war" in Afghanistan.
  11. A frame grab taken from a suspected al Qaeda video published on the internet September 18, 2009, shows an unidentified militant speaking in German. Germany has boosted security at airports and train stations because of a heightened risk of attack linked to a federal election on September 27the German Interior Ministry said on Friday. According to security officials a suspected new al Qaeda video had played a role in raising the alert. German television channel ARD said the video featured a militant threatening the country for its presence in Afghanistan as part of a NATO force. According to ARD, the militant warned Germans that if they voted to "extend the war" they would seal their own fate and suffer a nasty shock after the election.
  12. Relatives of jailed suspected members of Al-Qaeda-inspired group Fatah al-Islam leave the Rumieh prison, northeast of Beirut, after visiting them on September 16, 2009. Nearly 160 Islamist inmates went on hunger strike on September 16 at Lebanon's largest prison Rumieh, demanding better conditions, a high-ranking security official told.
  13. Pakistan's army soldiers and rescue workers search bodies in the rubble at site of bomb explosion in Multan, Pakistan on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009. A bomb exploded near an intelligence office in central Pakistan on Tuesday, authorities said, damaging the building and killing people amid a surge of extremist violence that has prompted the U.S. to offer additional aid in the country's battle against the Taliban and al-Qaida.
  14. Filipino men inspect the remains of a structure inside municipal compound in the volatile island of Jolo, southern Philippines on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009. Suspected al-Qaida-linked militants set off a powerful homemade bomb Saturday outside a police station and an adjoining building used for a U.S.-funded peace-building project in the southern Philippines, killing a janitor and wounding eight other people, police said.
  15. In this photo taken Wednesday, July. 1, 2009, shows Lt. Col. Ahmed Subhi Al-Fahal, front left, chief of anti- terrorism and riot forces parade in Tikrit, Iraq. Al-Fahal was killed Thursday by a suicide bomber carrying an explosive belt in central Tikrit and his killing considers a victory day to Al-Qaida.
  16. A vehicle drives past the spot where a kidnap of three Spanish aid workers took place, along the road between Nouahibou and Nouakchott December 3, 2009. Three Spanish aid workers were kidnapped in Mauritania on Sunday, officials said of an attack that will heighten security fears in the West African desert republic where al Qaeda-linked gunmen operate. The three were abducted as they travelled in a convoy through the Saharan state, a Spanish Foreign Ministry spokesman in Madrid said. Mauritanian security sources said the attack took place on the road between the capital Nouakchott and the coastal trading city of Nouadhibou.

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