U.S. still lacks understanding of al Qaeda: report
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Five years after the September 11   attacks, the Bush administration still does not fully   understand the threat from al Qaeda, a congressional report   released on Wednesday said.
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Most al Qaeda fighters in Iraq are from Saudi Arabia and Libya and many are university-aged students, said a study released on Wednesday by researchers at the U.S. Army's West Point military academy.
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THE al-Qaeda terror network spent less than $US50,000 ($71,000) on each of its main attacks except the September 11 suicide hijackings, a UN report says.
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The Bush administration isn't satisfied with the quality of information it's getting about terrorist groups operating in Pakistan's volatile tribal area, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON -- US intelligence analysts have concluded that Al Qaeda has rebuilt its operating capability to a level not seen since just before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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The U.S. intelligence community has failed to provide policymakers with  a clear understanding of the Iraq insurgency, the role of militias or the level of violence in that country, according to the Iraq Study Group.
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Intelligence reports find that al Qaeda may be using the region to launch more sophisticated terror attacks.
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While the Islamic country says the terrorist leader is not within its borders, Americans feel thwarted. By James Risen and David Rohde.
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According to a new U.S. Department of  Homeland Security report, inadequate financing and training  have left many department officers in Saudi Arabia ill-prepared  to enforce a program intended to stop Saudi Arabia terror  suspects from receiving U.S. visas, the New York Times reported  on Friday.
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The U.S. government is unable to  confirm a French newspaper report that al Qaeda leader Osama  bin Laden is believed to have died last month in Pakistan, the  U.S. State Department said on Saturday.
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The U.S. military on Friday cast doubt on a report from the Iraqi government that al Qaeda in Iraq chief Abu Ayyub al-Masri was wounded in clashes with police.
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The United States faces an increased threat of attack from al Qaeda, which will likely try to use battle-hardened associates in Iraq to strike inside the United States, an intelligence report warned on Thursday.
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the Afghan-Pakistan border for the al Qaeda chief blamed in the September 11 attacks on America. country from Islamic militant groups that disapprove of his close ties with Washington.
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Islamic extremists, including the Al-Qaeda network, remain a potent US security threat, the director of the CIA told US a Senate panel, as he outlined potential dangers to US interests around the globe.
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The U.S. government still has not  determined where al Qaeda gets its funds or how much money it  is raising, the vice chairman of the federal panel that probed  the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said on Monday.
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Al Qaeda is increasing its efforts to get operatives into the United States for an attack and has nearly all the resources it needs to carry out such a mission, a draft of a new U.S. government intelligence analysis says, according to two government officials familiar with it.
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Al Qaeda had a planâand it is working. Osama bin Ladenâs survival may be the Bush administrationâs biggest political failing.