North Africa Feared as Staging Ground for Terror
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A brutal Algerian group with a long history of violence is suspected of organizing a new force for jihad in Tunisia.
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Iraqi unrest poses a threat to the outside world as Islamist groups gain experience and contacts, the CIA warns.
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CAIRO -- The new Al Qaeda video featuring an American calling for his countrymen to convert to Islam raised fears it signaled an imminent attack, but analysts in the region said yesterday it is more likely a bid to soften the terrorist group's image.
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MADRID -- Western intelligence and security officials say the threat of a terror attack by Islamic militants over the Christmas and New Year's holiday travel season is extremely high, with the greatest concern focusing on a possible plot targeting Europe.
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France is facing a "high and permanent" terrorist threat, the country's interior minister says.
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DELLYS, Algeria  - Al Qaeda's north Africa wing said it was behind two suicide attacks that killed at least 57 people in Algeria in the past two days, according to a statement posted on the Internet on Saturday.
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Intelligence-gathering by the front-line forces that need to know the most is proving difficult in a region increasingly gripped by fear.
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The risk of terror attacks in Europe is high and is increasing, France's leading anti-terrorism judge said, warning that a recent alliance between al-Qaida and a North African terrorist group poses a grave threat.
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An alleged plot to kidnap and behead a Muslim soldier points to a precedent for western Europe and a hardening among British extremists determined to adopt horrific tactics tested in Iraq, experts say.
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The European Union and Israel have alerted Morocco to the threat of imminent terrorist attacks and urged tighter security, a Moroccan newspaper reported Monday.
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The United States said it was to set up a new US regional command to oversee military activities in Africa in a move reflecting US fears that some African nations may be harboring suspected terror groups.
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Iraq could become a training ground for terrorists around the world, a US intelligence report warns.
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The U.S. military looked at this town and saw something more than empty wells, a crumbling pharmacy and sun-baked dirt &#151; it saw an opportunity to fight terrorism by rebuilding a clinic. The U.S. believes such help could stamp out radicalism in remote parts of Africa where America needs friends, and fast.
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Extremists in Algeria may be plotting to attack a commercial airliner carrying Western workers, the U.S. Embassy in the North African country said.
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Western intelligence and security officials say the threat of a terror attack by Islamic militants over the Christmas and New Year's holiday travel season is extremely high, with the greatest concern focusing on a possible plot targeting Europe.
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DUBAIâFilipinos working in the oil fields of Saudi Arabia are possibly at risk after the Saudi branch of the al-Qaeda network called on its fighters to attack foreign targets and oil sites in the worldâs top crude-exporÂ­ting nation, according to a
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