Mauritania probes 'al-Qaeda link'
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Men suspected of killing French tourists in Mauritania belong to an al-Qaeda-linked group, prosecutors say.
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AMSTERDAM - Police are reportedly investigating a possible connection between the man suspected of killing Dutch filmmaker and columnist Theo van Gogh and the terror network al-Qaeda.
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An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane on an internal flight from the capital Nouakchott to the northern port of Nouadhibou was hijacked on Thursday to Western Sahara, Mauritanian police said.
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A Yemeni Islamist told a court on Saturday that he and other militants behind the bombing of a French supertanker had close ties to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
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Al-Qaeda is intensifying its efforts to put operatives into the US, a US intelligence report says.
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The three men suspected of killing four French tourists are linked to a North African affiliate of Al Qaeda.
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A key al-Qaida operative who was arrested last month is giving valuable insight about Osama bin Laden's terror network, officials have told The Associated Press, but investigators are still trying to learn whether the so-called "tiny Tanzanian" was on the rise or losing influence when he was nabbed.
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European Union member states are keeping an eye on al-Qaeda and others potentially violent groups.
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Mauritania's security chief denies that an attack on his home was linked to last week's alleged coup plot.
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ALEG, Mauritania  - By a sand-swept road in southern Mauritania a monument to four French tourists shot dead by suspected Islamic militants lies smashed into concrete shards.
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Yemeni authorities have arrested dozens of people with suspected links to al Qaeda since Monday's suicide bombing that killed seven Spanish tourists and two Yemenis, security sources said on Wednesday.
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Guinea-Bissau police say they hold five al-Qaeda members over the killing of French tourists in Mauritania.
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MADRID: Spanish police suspect that one of four Moroccans arrested in the Canary Islands is a leader of a Moroccan Islamist group that is believed to have ties to Al-Qaeda, two daily newspapers said on Sunday.
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Dutch authorities are investigating a radical Muslim group they suspect is linked to the man accused of killing a filmmaker critical of Islam and to last year&#39;s Casablanca bombings.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Pakistani intelligence agents arrested a Libyan on suspicion of having links to Al Qaeda after raiding a home on the outskirts of this northwestern city yesterday, security officials said.
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LAS PALMAS, Spain  - Passengers overpowered a suspected armed hijacker who had commandeered a Mauritanian plane on Thursday when he was knocked off his feet during a hard landing, a source close to the Mauritanian presidency said.
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SANAA, Yemen -- A Yemeni court has convicted 15 al Qaeda-linked militants on terror charges, news agencies report. The charges include the 2002 bombing of French oil tanker Limburg and a plot to kill the US ambassador to Yemen.