Ex-Guantanamo prisoner leading militant group
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Islamabad, Pakistan -- A former Guantanamo prisoner thought to have forged ties with al-Qaida since his release is leading a militant band whose members have strapped explosives on two Chinese engineers they kidnapped in a lawless region near the
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A key witness in the trial of  Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir told a court on Tuesday that  the aging firebrand preacher was head of Jemaah Islamiah, a  militant group seen as the Southeast Asian arm of al Qaeda.
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Security stepped up after arrests over alleged plot to break out of jail a disciple of Osama bin Laden
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JERUSALEM - A terrorist commander serving five life sentences will run from his jail cell in elections to succeed Yasser Arafat â-nd has a good chance of winning, his comrades said yesterday.
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Militant Islamic leader Metin Kaplan, the self-described &#39;Caliph of Cologne&#39;, in Cologne, Germany, in this June 1, 2004 file photo.
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Fugitive al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden once invited Indonesian preacher Abu Bakar Bashir to live in Afghanistan, a young militant jailed over the bombing of a Jakarta hotel told the cleric's terrorism trial on Thursday.
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A leading human rights group in  Afghanistan said on Saturday it suspected a renegade commander  was behind the beheading and skinning of fighters loyal to  Ismail Khan, governor of the western province of Herat.
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The U.S. command announced on Wednesday the arrest of an al-Qaida leader it said served as the link between the organization's command in Iraq and Osama bin Laden's inner circle, enabling it to wield considerable influence over the Iraqi group.
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Pakistan arrested a former Taliban defense minister regarded as a top figure in the Afghan insurgency, a Pakistani intelligence official said Friday. Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, considered a key associate of fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, is the most senior leader from the hard-line militia to be arrested since U.S.-led troops ousted it from power in 2001.
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WASHINGTON -- Most of the alleged Al Qaeda and Taliban inmates at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are likely to be freed or sent to their home countries for further investigation because many pose little threat and are not providing much valuable intelligence, the facility's deputy commander has said.
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Most of the prisoners being held at the  U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay are expected to be  released or extradited, the deputy commander of the unit that  runs the base was quoted on Tuesday as saying.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Dec. 29 -- The man named by Pakistani officials as the chief organizer of Benazir Bhutto's assassination is a widely feared tribal commander at the vanguard of efforts by extremist groups to draw Pakistan deeper into their insurgent campaign.
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Militant Somali Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, in hiding since a war drove his sharia courts movement out of south Somalia at the end of 2006, appeared on Thursday at an opposition conference in Eritrea.
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A Taliban commander killed in southern Afghanistan last week had rejoined the hardline militia after his release from Guantanamo Bay earlier this year, according to an Afghan provincial governor.
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Commanders are arming groups that have promised to fight militants who have been their allies in the past.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - An American on trial for allegedly torturing Afghan terror suspects in a private jail claimed Saturday in his first interview from custody that he was hot on the heels of Osama bin Laden and other militant leaders when he was arrested on July 5.    Jonathan Idema told The Associated Press he had official sanction from Afghans and Americans to hunt down terrorists and said he has been prevented from showing the evidence in court...
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A group led by Jordanian Islamist extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden&#39;s terror network al-Qaida in a statement posted on the Internet on Sunday.