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The problem is enhanced when taking into account the fact that the worst of the Islamic terrorist groups, not to mention al Qaeda cells, are propelling themselves into governmental leadership roles. For instance, it appears that the Muslim Brotherhood...
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So what happens when Netanyahu calls President Obama and says, “Mr. President, I am calling to inform you I have ordered our Air Force to take out three key nuclear targets in Iran”? Obama knows that the United States will be drawn automatically into...
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(MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images) SANAA, Yemen - Gunmen attacked two polling stations and killed one soldier in Yemen's restive south Monday, one day before the country is to go to the polls to rubber stamp its vice president as the new head of state.
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Offer someone three wishes and within ten minutes you’ve got someone with a sausage for a nose. Flying carpets are great until you get sucked into a jet engine and cause a crash. In worst-case scenarios, magic actually becomes a weapon of mass destruction.
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But prospects for a transition towards stable representative government remain uncertain at best given Saleh's vow to return home to lead his party anew, a split in the military, al Qaeda militants entrenched in the south, a Houthi Shi'ite Muslim...
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"There are preventive security measures to confront any contingency ... to confront any group that may attack people," Qahtan told a news conference. "Abyan still has many districts under the control of al Qaeda, there are security failures ... and an...
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Bin Zuair, 62, a media professor who has called for political reform, has been jailed three times since 1995, most recently in 2007 on accusations related to security and terrorism. The late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden once called for his release...
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The UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office warned last month that terrorists could be in the final stages of planning attacks on official buildings and tourist sites in Kenya. Britons are thought to make up about 50 of the estimated 200 foreigners...
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Somalia hasn't had a functioning central government since the 1990s. Al-Shabaab, an al-Qaida affiliate, controls parts of the country. Somali authorities are implementing steps needed to end the interim administration's tenure by August. London is the...
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A former army general, Hadi is the only candidate standing to replace Ali Abdullah Saleh, guaranteeing that he'll take the helm of a chaotic nation facing multiple challenges: a collapsing economy, a growing threat from al Qaeda, rising secessionist...
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This echoes testimony Thursday before the US Senate Armed Services Committee by US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. He said that recent bombings in Damascus and Aleppo had all the earmarks of an al Qaeda-like attack. So we believe that...
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In fact, some of the known leaders of Islamic terrorists came from wealthy backgrounds. When Mutallab, pleaded guilty to attempting to blow up a commercial plane as a would-be suicide mission for al-Qaeda, his family quickly called on the US government...
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Still, many Yemenis who originally opposed the deal that will bring Hadi to power now support the move merely because it will officially end Saleh's 33-year rule. Security has collapsed across Yemen during the uprising, with security forces regularly...
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Are they from the military or the civilians? Are they with the regime or the opposition? New Delhi: Syria has been witnessing protests against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad for about a year. The Syrian government labels the violence as...
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Yemeni participation in the election and the government’s ability to provide security tomorrow will also likely serve as a bellwether of the challenges that lay ahead for the nation, one central to the ongoing fight against Al Qaeda. “This election on...
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Kathryn Bigelow’s impending Black Ops thriller. Bigelow is reuniting with Oscar-winning screenwriter Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker) on this new project, which has incited lots of buzz – both negative and positive – seeing how it partially deals with the...
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(AP) – Yemen's branch of al-Qaeda has confirmed the death of a senior leader, who officials say died in a bloody family feud. A statement posted on a militant website by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on Monday said that government agents "motivated...
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“The Pakistani nation will not allow the resumption of supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan. If the rulers side with US aggression, the nation will rise against them,” he warned. Banners denounced US drone strikes targeting Taliban and Al-Qaeda in...
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