Last Minute News Topics » alQaida http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com The latest news Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:38:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 US says al-Qaida magazine got into Guantanamo cell (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-says-al-qaida-magazine-got-into-guantanamo-cell-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-says-al-qaida-magazine-got-into-guantanamo-cell-ap#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:59:20 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-says-al-qaida-magazine-got-into-guantanamo-cell-ap FILE - This Oct. 12, 2000, file image, provided by the U.S. Navy, shows damage sustained on the USS Cole after a terrorist bomb exploded during a refueling operation in the port of Aden, Yemen, killing 17 sailors. A copy of a magazine published by an arm of al-Qaida made its way to a terror suspect at the Guantanamo Bay prison, leading to an inspection of cells and a contentious new policy requiring special review teams to examine correspondence between prisoners and attorneys, U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, File)AP – A copy of a magazine published by an arm of al-Qaida made its way to a terror suspect at the Guantanamo Bay prison, leading to an inspection of cells and a contentious new policy requiring special review teams to examine correspondence between prisoners and attorneys, U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-says-al-qaida-magazine-got-into-guantanamo-cell-ap/feed 0 From US private school student to al-Qaida agent (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/from-us-private-school-student-to-al-qaida-agent-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/from-us-private-school-student-to-al-qaida-agent-ap#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:39:07 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/from-us-private-school-student-to-al-qaida-agent-ap In this Nov. 18, 2011 photo, the dead body of Moeed Abdul Salam who killed himself with a grenade during a paramilitary raid on his apartment, is taken away in an ambulance in Karachi, Pakistan. Salam, 37, father of four kids, rejected his relatives' moderate faith and comfortable life, choosing instead a path that led him to work for al-Qaida. His odyssey ended late last year in a middle-of-the-night explosion in Pakistan. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)AP – Moeed Abdul Salam didn’t descend into radical Islam for lack of other options. He grew up in a well-off Texas household, attended a pricey boarding school and graduated from one of the state’s most respected universities.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/from-us-private-school-student-to-al-qaida-agent-ap/feed 0 Al-Qaida in Iraq says it was behind Baghdad blasts (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/al-qaida-in-iraq-says-it-was-behind-baghdad-blasts-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/al-qaida-in-iraq-says-it-was-behind-baghdad-blasts-ap#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 07:15:09 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/al-qaida-in-iraq-says-it-was-behind-baghdad-blasts-ap FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2011 file photo, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announces a new new home financing package for Illinois veterans in military families at a news conference in Chicago. As younger military veterans stream back into Illinois from Iraq and Afghanistan, Illinois faces a challenge as it tries to make them more of a priority in a time of desperately tight budgets. The state has been increasing the amount it spends on veterans services in recent years. But the bulk of that money is spent on older veterans while many younger soldiers and National Guard troops are returning to a difficult economy looking for help with jobs and training. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green,File)AP – An al-Qaida front group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the wave of attacks that rocked Baghdad last Thursday and killed 69 people.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/al-qaida-in-iraq-says-it-was-behind-baghdad-blasts-ap/feed 0 Candy, cash — al-Qaida implants itself in Africa (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/candy-cash-%c2%97-al-qaida-implants-itself-in-africa-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/candy-cash-%c2%97-al-qaida-implants-itself-in-africa-ap#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2011 05:06:42 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/candy-cash-%c2%97-al-qaida-implants-itself-in-africa-ap FILE - In this May 17, 2010 file photo, a nomad from the Tuareg tribe of the Sahara Desert brings his herd for vaccination to a team of U.S. Special Forces in the Sahara Desert handing out aid near the town of Gao in northeastern Mali. With almost no resistance, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, is implanting itself in Africa's soft tissue, choosing as its host Mali, one of the poorest nations on earth. Although AQIM's leaders are Algerian, it recruits people from Mali, including 60 to 80 Tuareg fighters, the olive-skinned nomads who live in the Sahara desert, according to a security expert who spoke anonymously because of the sensitivity of the matter. (AP Photo/Alfred de Montesquiou, File)AP – The first time the members of al-Qaida emerged from the forest, they politely said hello. Then the men carrying automatic weapons asked the frightened villagers if they could please take water from the well.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/candy-cash-%c2%97-al-qaida-implants-itself-in-africa-ap/feed 0 ‘al-Qaida sympathizer’ accused of NYC bomb plots (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/al-qaida-sympathizer-accused-of-nyc-bomb-plots-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/al-qaida-sympathizer-accused-of-nyc-bomb-plots-ap#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 04:52:03 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/al-qaida-sympathizer-accused-of-nyc-bomb-plots-ap Jose Pimentel is arraigned at Manhattan criminal court, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011, in New York. Pimentel, an 'al-Qaida sympathizer' accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as U.S. troops returning home, was charged with criminal possession of explosive devices with the intent to use in a terrorist manner. (AP Photo/Jefferson Siegel, Pool)AP – An “al-Qaida sympathizer” accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as U.S. troops returning home has been arrested on numerous terrorism-related charges.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/al-qaida-sympathizer-accused-of-nyc-bomb-plots-ap/feed 0 NYC mayor: al-Qaida sympathizer arrested (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/nyc-mayor-al-qaida-sympathizer-arrested-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/nyc-mayor-al-qaida-sympathizer-arrested-ap#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:24:06 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/nyc-mayor-al-qaida-sympathizer-arrested-ap AP – An “al-Qaida sympathizer” who plotted to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as U.S. troops returning home has been arrested on numerous terrorism-related charges, city officials said Sunday.

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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/nyc-mayor-al-qaida-sympathizer-arrested-ap/feed 0 US strike kills 9 al-Qaida militants in Yemen (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-strike-kills-9-al-qaida-militants-in-yemen-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-strike-kills-9-al-qaida-militants-in-yemen-ap#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:16:56 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-strike-kills-9-al-qaida-militants-in-yemen-ap Anti-government protestors carry a wounded defected army soldier from the site of clashes with security forces, in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011. Medical officials in Yemen say security forces have fired on protesters in the capital Sanaa, killing several and wounding dozens.(AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)AP – The United States has raised the tempo in its war against al-Qaida in Yemen, killing nine of the terror group’s militants in the second, high-profile airstrike in as many weeks. The dead in the late Friday night strike included the son of Anwar al-Awlaki, the prominent American-Yemeni militant killed in a Sept. 30 strike.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/us-strike-kills-9-al-qaida-militants-in-yemen-ap/feed 0 Yemen: US strike kills local al-Qaida media chief (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/yemen-us-strike-kills-local-al-qaida-media-chief-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/yemen-us-strike-kills-local-al-qaida-media-chief-ap#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:44:09 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/yemen-us-strike-kills-local-al-qaida-media-chief-ap Defected army soldiers stand in line as they guard a street where protestors demonstrated to demand the resignation of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Oct. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)AP – An American drone strike in southern Yemen has killed seven al-Qaida-linked militants, including the media chief for the group’s Yemeni branch and the son of a prominent U.S.-born cleric slain in a similar attack last month, government officials and tribal elders said Saturday.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/yemen-us-strike-kills-local-al-qaida-media-chief-ap/feed 0 With al-Awlaki dead, al-Qaida lacks Western voice (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/with-al-awlaki-dead-al-qaida-lacks-western-voice-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/with-al-awlaki-dead-al-qaida-lacks-western-voice-ap#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:38:15 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/with-al-awlaki-dead-al-qaida-lacks-western-voice-ap FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2010 file image taken from video and released by SITE Intelligence Group on Monday, Anwar al-Awlaki speaks in a video message posted on radical websites. A senior U.S. counterterrorism official says U.S. intelligence indicates that U.S.-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed in Yemen. (AP Photo/SITE Intelligence Group, File) NO SALESAP – The killings of U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and another American al-Qaida propagandist in a U.S. airstrike Friday wipe out the decisive factor that made the terrorist group’s Yemen branch the most dangerous threat to the United States: its reach into the West.


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]]> http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/with-al-awlaki-dead-al-qaida-lacks-western-voice-ap/feed 0 Obama hails killing of US-born al-Qaida cleric (AP) http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/obama-hails-killing-of-us-born-al-qaida-cleric-ap http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/obama-hails-killing-of-us-born-al-qaida-cleric-ap#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:56:21 +0000 admin http://www.lastminutenewstopics.com/news/obama-hails-killing-of-us-born-al-qaida-cleric-ap President Barack Obama speaks on the killing of US-born Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, Friday, Sept. 30, 2011, during a 'Change of Office' ceremony at Ft. Myer in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP – President Barack Obama declared the killing of a fiery American-born cleric in Yemen a “major blow” to al-Qaida’s most dangerous affiliate, and vowed a vigorous U.S. campaign to prevent the terror network and its partners from finding a haven anywhere in the world.


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