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About Al-Qaeda
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Al-Qaeda, alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida, (Arabic: القاعدة; al-qāʿidah; translation: The Base) is an international Sunni Islamist movement founded in 1988. Full Article
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Siti Rahma, wife of slain regional al-Qaida commander Noordin Top, in a black veil, is seen in Pontian, southern Malaysia, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A frame grab taken from a suspected al Qaeda video published on the internet September 18, 2009, shows an unidentified militant speaking in German.
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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.
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South Korean protester burns a portrait of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden during a rally against terrorism a day before the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in front of the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009.
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Mohammad Ahmed, the son of detained al-Qaida suspect Aafia Siddiqui take part in a demonstration arranged by Human Rights Network demanding to release of Siddiqui, who was detained in Afghanistan on last year, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2009.
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Police escort suspected al-Qaida linked militant Hajer Sailani, center, at a police headquarters in Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines on Tuesday Sept. 1, 2009.
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Police escort suspected al-Qaida linked militant Hajer Sailani, second from right, at a police headquarters in Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines on Tuesday Sept. 1, 2009.
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A suspected al Qaeda militant who calls himself Mohammed Hassan al-Shemari speaks after he was arrested in Diyala by Iraqi forces in Baghdad August 30, 2009, in this video grab.
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A man whom Al Qaeda identified as Abdullah al-Asiri, a wanted suspect who entered Saudi Arabia from Yemen, is seen in this undated photo released by the "Qaeda Jihad Organisation in the Arab Peninsula" group August 30, 2009.
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Graphic shows poll results of Pakistanis' views on al Qaida, the Taliban and the U.S.
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A heavily armed hard-line Somali Islamist insurgent, from the al Qaeda-inspired militant group al Shabaab, keeps watch along a street in Mogadishu, August 6, 2009.
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Yemeni al-Qaeda militant Saeed Sankar, who was sentenced to death by a Yemeni court for attacks that killed nine Spanish and Belgian tourists over the past two years, shouts slogans as he is escorted from a state security court in Sanaa in this July 13, 2009 file photo.
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Deputy leader of al Qaeda in Yemen, Said al-Shihri, a Saudi national identified as Guantanamo prisoner number 372, speaks in a video posted on Islamist websites in this January 24, 2009 file photo.
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Alleged al-Qaida militant Saeed Sankar, right, and others seen inside a court cage, react as the verdict is given at a state security court in San'a, Yemen Monday, July 13, 2009.
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Yemeni al-Qaeda militant Musid al-Nahdi (L) looks on from behind bars at the courtroom of a state security court in Sanaa July 13, 2009.
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Yemeni al-Qaeda militants listen to a verdict from behind bars at the courtroom of a state security court in Sanaa July 13, 2009. A Yemeni court sentenced six men to death on Tuesday for attacks that killed nine Spanish and Belgian tourists over the past two years.
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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.
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It is in our strategic interests, in our national security interest to make sure that al-Qaida and its extremist allies cannot operate effectively in those areas ... We are going to dismantle and degrade their capabilities and ultimately dismantle and destroy their networks.
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I have no doubt in my mind that if Taliban and Al Qaeda group of people succeed in Afghanistan that would have catastrophic results for the security and stability not only of Pakistan but also for the security and stability of whole South Asia.
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There is no doubt in my mind that if the Taliban and the al-Qaida group of people succeed in Afghanistan, that will have a catastrophic result
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An American visiting Qom is like a member of Al-Qaeda visiting the White House
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White House officials familiar with deliberations said that while some elements of the Taliban were inclined to harbor al Qaeda, which operated freely in Afghanistan through 2001, other members were focused on Afghanistan's internal politics and much less likely to support the international terror group...
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There is no doubt in my mind that if the Talibans and the Al Qaeda [ Images ] group of people succeed in Afghanistan, that would have catastrophic results for the security and stability not only of Pakistan, but for the security and stability of whole of South Asia.
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Al-Qaida has tried to divide Yemen for a long time and that is what this war is doing.
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We know al-Qaeda is looking to spread its activities in areas it believes state security is inadequate and weak, and the population is poor
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scrambling to establish a link between Iraq and al-Qaida
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You're not comparing Imperial Japan to al Qaeda?
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funded by the quasi-governmental US Institute of Peace and designed by the University of Maryland’s Programme on International Policy Attitudes ... found that a strong majority of Pakistanis consider the US military presence in Asia and neighboring Afghanistan a much more critical threat to their countr...
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our stated strategy of securing Afghanistan to prevent al-Qaeda resurgence or regrouping would require us to additionally invade and occupy western Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, etc.
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That's where they try and keep the closest contact. Although al Qaeda in the Maghreb and al-Shabaab (in Somalia) may be more active, it's the Yemeni (al Qaeda) people who are the closest
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I don't know for sure but if you look at the relationship between al Qaeda in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area and any group outside, the closest is with (al Qaeda) people in Yemen.
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Tobacco smuggling has developed into a popular, and highly profitable, means of generating revenue for criminal and terrorist organizations ... Hezbollah, al Qaeda and Hamas have all generated significant revenue from the sale of counterfeit cigarettes. That money is often raised right here in the Unite...
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Those who attacked America on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which Al Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans.
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US politicians and military men seem reluctant to acknowledge the underground Baath Party as a source of some of Iraq's continued violence, choosing instead to attribute virtually all major violence to 'al-Qaeda,' by which they appear to mean the Islamic State of Iraq or similar Salafi organizations not...
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Among the ranks of Taliban, there are also informers whose information on the presence of strangers (militants of Arab and Central Asian origin) could lead to drone attacks. Al-Qaida's figures were frequently targeted in drone attacks during last two years and they have strictly confined their movement ...
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Al-Qaida has a very strong ideological and spiritual influence on Taliban, although they do no allow them in their ranks. Taliban derive a lot of inspiration from them and they consider Osama bin Laden as their leader
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In Afghanistan the Taliban and al-Qaida have the strategic momentum after years of American neglect and they are winning the war.
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If the Taliban regains power,’ he said, ‘they don’t want Al Qaeda hanging around.’
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We ought not to add troops to Afghanistan, I even question staying there, unless it is indispensable to our fight against al-Qaeda
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I think the Obama administration is trying to straddle this debate between whether we should approach al-Qaida as a problem of massive-scale criminality or as a problem of war
SOURCE: Military Times
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