Qaeda "leader" claims beheading of Sudan editor
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A man purporting to lead an African   branch of al Qaeda claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the   beheading of a Sudanese newspaper editor who was found dead   last week.
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A group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab  al-Zarqawi on Wednesday posted a videotape on the Internet  showing the apparent beheading of U.S. hostage Jack Hensley.
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CAIRO -- A videotape purporting to show the beheading of a Turkish truck driver kidnapped last month in Iraq surfaced yesterday on the website of an Al Qaeda-linked militant group.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The top Al Qaeda operative accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks either killed or took part in the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, Pakistan's president has alleged for the first time.
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An Islamist Web site which has posted unsubstantiated claims about hostages in the past said on Saturday that a group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had killed a British construction engineer it is holding.
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Iraqi police have wounded the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq and killed his top aide, a spokesman for the Iraqi Interior Ministry told CNN Thursday. The spokesman said Iraqi police have the body of the aide but he would not comment on if Abu Ayyub al-Masri was captured. The U.S. military has so far made no comment on the report. CNN has not independently confirmed the report.
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An Afghan journalist sentenced to death for distributing an article that allegedly violated Islam is actually being punished for reporting by his brother about abuses by northern warlords, a media group said Wednesday.
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The U.S. military said on Thursday the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq was still very much alive, denying reports by some Iraqi politicians that he had been tracked down and killed.
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A Sudanese newspaper editor who was  kidnapped by unknown armed men was found beheaded on Wednesday,  a day after he was reported snatched from outside his home in  the capital Khartoum, an Interior Ministry source said.
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Iraq's al Qaeda leader, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, has been killed, Al Arabiya television reported on Thursday.
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An Islamic militant group said it had beheaded a Turkish contractor and his Iraqi translator in Iraq for working with US forces there, Al Jazeera television reported on Monday.
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The U.S. military used bases inside Ethiopia last month to capture or kill top al Qaeda leaders in the Horn of Africa, The New York Times reported on its Web site on Thursday, citing U.S. officials.
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The leader of al Qaeda's wing in Iraq vowed militants would avenge a Sunni woman's alleged rape by members of Iraq's Shi'ite-dominated police, according to an audio tape posted on the Internet on Thursday.
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The headless body of a Sudanese editor whose paper angered Islamists last year is found.
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The leader of al Qaeda's wing in Iraq vowed militants would avenge a Sunni woman who said she had been raped by members of Iraq's Shi'ite-dominated police, according to an audio tape posted on the Internet on Thursday.
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CAIRO, Egypt &#151; A statement posted on the Internet along with a video of what appears to be a Turkish hostage being shot to death claims the masked man who fired the gun is leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.
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: Sudanese authorities accused an opposition party Saturday of plotting to abduct and kill more than three dozen senior government officials and blow up key sites in the capital, where the army was out in force.