Al-Qaida's new African alliance watched
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U.S. counterterrorism officials are paying renewed attention to an increasingly dangerous incubator for extremism: a swath of northern and sub-Saharan West Africa, from the Atlantic coast of Morocco and Mauritania to the harsh deserts of Chad.
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Ayman al- Zawahiri, second in command of al-Qaida, said last night that the US faced defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a videotape broadcast by the Arab satellite television station al-Jazeera, he said: &quot;The
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Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader said in a new videotape aired Saturday that an Egyptian militant group has joined the terror network.
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Islamist faction's fighters launch new attacks.
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Military chiefs from the United States and nine African countries have met in Senegal to seek ways to strengthen the battle against terrorism.
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PARIS -- In a video released last month on the Internet, al-Qaeda's deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, declared that he had "great news." Al-Qaeda, he reported, had joined forces with an obscure Algerian underground network and would work in tandem with the group to "crush the pillars of the.........
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Terrorist groups are still operating in the Horn of Africa, but a 2-year-old U.S. task force has built cooperation in the region's anti-terror operations and prevented militants from staging attacks, the unit's commander told The Associated Press.
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A fundamentalist Muslim who the U.S. suspects of collaborating with al-Qaida terrorists was named Saturday as the new leader of an Islamic militia that has seized control of Somalia&#039;s capital.
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CAIRO, Egypt - An Islamic militant Web site announced Monday that Osama bin Laden's second-in-command would soon release a new message addressing the conflict between Muslims and infidels.  The Internet advertisement banner for Egyptian-born Ayman al-Zawahri, al-Qaida's No.
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KIGALI/NAIROBI  - The veil that cloaks the head of  Zafran Mukanwali is a modest symbol of a potentially dramatic  shift in religious affiliation in Africa.
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An al-Qaida spokesman this week called for unity among Islamic militants worldwide in a new recorded message, according to a U.S. intelligence official.
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Once home to Osama bin Laden, Sudan is an invaluable ally in the US-led war on terror but the cooperation may be allowing Khartoum to resist pressure to end the bloodshed in Darfur, experts say.
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Al-Qaida&#039;s No. 2 leader paid tribute to the slain Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a video Friday, extolling him as &quot;the prince of martyrs&quot; despite the rocky relationship that the terrorist leader in Iraq had with the al-Qaida command.
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Al-Qaida is stepping up its efforts to sneak terror operatives into the United States and has acquired most of the capabilities it needs to strike here, according to a new U.S. intelligence assessment, The Associated Press has learned.
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Despite increased pressure by the U.S. against al-Qaeda, the groups ranks are growing, and new leaders are taking charge
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ - A previously unknown Islamic group claiming loyalty to a leader of al-Qaida took responsibility on Wednesday for the armed kidnapping Tuesday of two Italian aid workers.
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Al-Qaida's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri issued a new videotape Saturday along with a man identified as an American member of the terror network, inviting Americans to convert to Islam.