Posts Tagged ‘alQaida’
Norway ‘bomb plot’ underscores al-Qaida pitfalls (AP)
AP – When police arrested a suspected al-Qaida cell in Norway last month they turned up the makings of a bomb lab tucked away in a nondescript Oslo apartment building.
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AP Exclusive: New al-Qaida leader knows US well (AP)
AP – A suspected al-Qaida operative who lived for more than 15 years in the U.S. has become chief of the terror network’s global operations, the FBI says, marking the first time a leader so intimately familiar with American society has been placed in charge of planning attacks.
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France declares war against al-Qaida (AP)
AP – France has declared war on al-Qaida, and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network’s North African branch, after the terror network killed a French aid worker it took hostage in April.
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New al-Qaida threat: Somali group claims blasts (AP)
AP – East Africa saw the emergence of a new international terrorist group Monday, as Somalia’s most dangerous al-Qaida-linked militia claimed responsibility for the twin bombings in Uganda that killed 74 people during the World Cup.
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Officials: Al-Qaida plotted bombings in Europe, US (AP)
AP – Three suspected al-Qaida members were arrested Thursday for what Norwegian and U.S. officials said was a terrorist plot linked to similar plans to bomb New York’s subway and blow up a shopping mall in England.
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Officials: 3 arrested in Norway al-Qaida bomb plot (AP)
AP – Three suspected al-Qaida members were arrested Thursday morning in what Norwegian and U.S. officials said was a terrorist plot linked to similar plans in New York and England.
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CIA chief Panetta: US has driven back al-Qaida (AP)
AP – The U.S. has driven al-Qaida into hiding and undermined its leadership, but is struggling to oust its primary sympathizer, the Taliban, from Afghanistan, the nation’s spymaster said Sunday.
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