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Yemen holds NJ man after al-Qaida sweep, shootout (AP)

This 2002 photo provided by Roman Castro shows Sharif Mobley, 26, at a barbecue in   Buena, N.J. The FBI confirmed Thursday, March 11, 2010 that the agency is looking into the case of 26-year-old son, Sharif Mobley, who grew up in Buena and is an alleged al-Qaida member raised in New Jersey who is accused of trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen. (AP Photo/Roman Castro) NO SALESAP – He was raised in New Jersey, where he was on the high school wrestling team and earned a black belt in karate. Nearly a decade later, Sharif Mobley is under arrest in Yemen, suspected of being an al-Qaida member and accused of killing a guard in an attempt to break out of a hospital.


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FBI eye Al Qaeda-linked N.J. man after hospital shooting in Yemen

The FBI is investigating the case of an alleged al-Qaida raised in New Jersey who is accused of trying to shoot his way out of a hospital in Yemen.

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AMERICAN JIHADI ALERT Terror pros say Yemen Qaeda to send Yank recruits

Counterterror chiefs fear Al Qaeda in Yemen may soon be sending American jihadis recruited by a radical cleric to attack the U.S., the Daily News has learned.

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Yemen says airstrike kills al-Qaida military chief (AP)

Graphic locates Yatama in Jouf province, Yemen where Yemeni warplanes conducted an airstrike against al-Qaida forcesAP – Yemeni warplanes struck outside a desert village near the border with Saudi Arabia on Friday, killing six al-Qaida operatives, including the group’s top military leader in the country, security officials said.


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Obama: ‘No intention’ to send troops to Yemen (AP)

President Barack Obama speaks about the economy, Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP – President Barack Obama says he has no intention of sending American troops to Yemen or Somalia.


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Military leader says no plans for troops in Yemen (AP)

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff speaks about a variety of topics facing the United States including national security to attendees at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I. on Friday, Jan. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Robert E. Klein)AP – The nation’s top military leader said Friday the United States has no plans to send troops into Yemen, and that country has made it clear it does not want U.S. ground forces there.


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Yemen says Nigerian may have met radical cleric (AP)

An anti-terrorist unit from the Central Security Forces of the Ministry of Interior trains in the Sarif area on the eastern outskirts of the capital San'a, in Yemen Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010. Yemeni security forces arrested three suspected al-Qaida militants from a cell that the U.S. has said was linked to a plot against the American or other embassies, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday. (AP Photo)AP – The Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet on Christmas may have met with a radical American-Yemeni cleric linked to al-Qaida and the alleged Fort Hood shooter to prepare for the failed attack, Yemen’s deputy prime minister said Thursday.


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