Posts Tagged ‘alQaida’
Yemen: US strike kills local al-Qaida media chief (AP)
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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With al-Awlaki dead, al-Qaida lacks Western voice (AP)
AP – 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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Obama hails killing of US-born al-Qaida cleric (AP)
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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Obama praises killing of al-Qaida cleric al-Awlaki (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama declared the killing of a fiery American-born cleric in Yemen a “major blow” to al-Qaida’s most active 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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Al-Awlaki: From voice for jihad to al-Qaida figure (AP)
AP – The heavy black beard spoke of Islamic piety, the fashionable wire-rim glasses of Western style.
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US strike kills American al-Qaida cleric in Yemen (AP)
AP – In a significant new blow to al-Qaida, U.S. airstrikes in the mountains of Yemen on Friday killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American militant cleric who became a prominent figure in the terror network’s most dangerous branch, using his fluent English and Internet savvy to draw recruits for attacks in the United States.
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Prominent US-born al-Qaida cleric killed in Yemen (AP)
AP – Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born Islamic militant cleric who became a prominent figure in al-Qaida’s most active branch, using his fluent English and Internet savvy to draw recruits to carry out attacks in the United States, was killed Friday in the mountains of Yemen, American and Yemeni officials said.
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