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WikiLeaks: 9/11 Mastermind Says He Killed Daniel Pearl Against al-Qaida Warnings

A senior al-Qaida military commander instructed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed not to kill Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and said that Pearl should "be returned back to one of the previous groups who held him, or freed." But Mohammed, the supposed mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks, says he killed Pearl...

NATO: Key al-Qaida Figure Killed in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan - A NATO airstrike earlier this month killed a key al-Qaida operative in Afghanistan - a regional commander in charge of suicide bombings and cash flow, the international military coalition said Tuesday. NATO identified the man killed in the April 13 airstrike in Dangam district of eastern Kunar...

US Warns Citizens Against Travel to Yemen

WASHINGTON -- The State Department on Sunday advised Americans not to travel to Yemen and said U.S. citizens currently in the country should consider leaving. The travel warning also said the department has authorized family members of U.S. Embassy staff and non-essential personnel to leave the country. The advisory...

US Intelligence Chief: Al-Qaida Likely to Grow Stronger in Yemen, Somalia

The nation's head intelligence official says terrorism is the top national security threat facing the U.S. homeland, and job No. 1 for the intelligence community. In remarks to a House committee Thursday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said al-Qaida's core in Pakistan and its offshoots continue to be...

Mideast Unrest Complicates Fight Against Terrorism

WASHINGTON -- The unrest engulfing Arab streets and threatening authoritarian governments in the Mideast is complicating U.S. counterterrorism efforts, scrambling the volatile battleground against al-Qaida in Yemen and raising concerns about the durability of Egypt's stance against militants. U.S. counterterrorism...

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Al Qaeda In Yemen: FRONTLINE Travels Into Terrorist Strongholds

Yemen has taken center stage in the war against Al Qaeda, with President Barack Obama recently describing the country as a hub for foreign terrorists.

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Osama Bin Laden Documents Show Tension With Iran

Al Qaeda and Iran shared an "antagonistic" relationship that was "not one of alliance, but of indirect and unpleasant negotiations" over the freeing of fighters and Osama bin Laden's family members, an analysis of 17 newly released documents seized from the terrorist leader's compound says. "

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The Business of al Qaeda

When Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden at his Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound on May 2, the ensuing coverage focused on how the death of al Qaeda's leader might undercut terrorism worldwide.

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James Denselow: Will the Myth of Bin Laden Be More Potent Than the Man?

Osama Bin Laden once said that he worshiped death, while his enemies worshiped life.

Background on al qaeda

al-Qaeda ( ; ', , translation: "The Base" and alternatively spelled al-Qaida and sometimes al-Qa'ida) is a global militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in Peshawar (Pakistan) at some point between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad and a strict interpretation of sharia law.

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