Al-Qaida ops show leadership in control
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When Islamic radicals killed 52 people in London two years ago, it took nearly a month for Osama bin Laden's top deputy to blame Britain itself for the carnage.
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The clandestine U.S. commandos whose job is to capture or kill Osama bin Laden have not received a credible lead in more than two years. Nothing from the vast U.S. intelligence world -- no tips from informants, no snippets from electronic intercepts, no points on any satellite image -- has led them...
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Mullah Omar and other Taliban  leaders are directing insurgency operations in Afghanistan from  the Pakistani city of Quetta, while al Qaeda leader Osama bin  Laden is operating from Pakistan's tribal areas, a senior U.S.  administration official said on Friday.
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The U.S. military claimed an advantage in the fight against al-Qaida in Iraq on Thursday, saying raids since the death of its leader have forced many of its foreign fighters out into the open to be captured or killed.
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The attempted attacks in London and Glasgow bore the hallmarks of an al-Qaida operation, but they lacked a key ingredient: professional execution.
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BAGRAM, Afghanistan - The trail has gone cold in the hunt for mastermind Osama bin Laden three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, a top American commander said yesterday, but the al-Qaida chief and his No.
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BAGHDAD -- Terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi&#39;s network has reportedly declared itself a part of al-Qaida. A statement posted on an Islamic Web site praises Osama bin Laden as &#39;&#39;the chief of all fighters
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The U.S. military, which just days ago completed its latest troop buildup in Iraq, has launched a large offensive operation in several al-Qaida strongholds around Baghdad, the top U.S. commander said Saturday.
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Osama bin Laden's latest message, his first directed specifically at Saudis in years, has been widely seen as an attempt to show he is still a player in his homeland despite a security clampdown that has sharply limited al-Qaida's field for terrorist operations in the conservative kingdom.
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Osama bin Laden&#39;s aide, Ayman al-Zawahri, said Thursday in a videotape broadcast by al-Jazeera TV that mujahedeen (holy fighters) have taken control of much of Afghanistan and driven US forces into the &quot;trenches&quot;.
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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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An aide of the head of al-Qaida in Iraq was arrested last week, and U.S. and Iraqi forces killed or captured more than 600 suspected members of the terrorist group in September, the top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq said Wednesday.
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BAGHDAD -- Al-Qaida's deputy leader sought to bolster the terror network's main arm in Iraq in a new video released Thursday, calling on Muslims to rally behind it at a time when the group is on the defensive, faced with U.S. offensives and splits with other insurgent groups.
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BAGHDAD - US forces captured two senior figures in al-Qaida&#39;s branch in Iraq, the US military said Saturday. Marines said they captured two men who led cells in Anbar province for Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi&#39;s Al-Qaida in Iraq network.
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BAGRAM, Afghanistan - Three years after the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings, the military does not have a fix on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and his top deputy, but they are believed to still be issuing the orders for al-Qaida attacks, a top American commander told The Associated Press on Saturday...
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When Algeria's Islamic militants dubbed themselves Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa this year, it was more than just a name change: Fresh recruits also have been deployed in suicide bombings, a new tactic in the 15-year insurgency.
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Experts say the terrorist network has rebuilt in Pakistan with inexperienced leaders and murky goals.