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Fahad al-Ruwaily, Senior Al Qaeda Leader Surrenders: Saudi Arabia

AP | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia says a senior al-Qaida leader has returned to the country voluntarily and turned himself in. The Interior M...

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Ali al-Marri, Accused al-Qaida Sleeper Agent, Pleads Not Guilty In Illinois Court

AP | DAVID MERCER | Posted 04.23.2009 | Chicago

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PEORIA, Ill. — A man locked up for seven years after being accused of plotting terrorist attacks in the U.S. as an al-Qaida sleeper agent pleade...

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Ali al-Marri, Alleged 'Enemy Combatant,' Faces Trial In Illinois

AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 04.21.2009 | Chicago

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PEORIA, Ill. — Ali al-Marri followed his older brother to central Illinois in the mid-1980s to pursue a business education unavailable in his na...

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Osama Bin Laden Rallies Somali Militants In Web Message

AP | ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 04.19.2009 | World

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Osama bin Laden urged Somalis on Thursday to overthrow their new president, issuing a statement that clearly outlines al-Qaida'...

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Robert Gates: Hunt For Osama Bin Laden Could Take Another Decade

Reuters | David Morgan | Posted 04.18.2009 | World

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How long might it really take to find al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden? U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggests the FBI's 17-year hunt for convict...

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Pakistan Drone Strike Kills At Least 12

Al Jazeera | Posted 04.12.2009 | World

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At least 12 people in Pakistan, including suspected al-Qaeda fighters, have been killed in a missile attack thought to have been carried out by an unm...

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Will Afghanistan Become President Obama's War?

Eric Margolis | Posted 03.28.2009 | World

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In a stunning historic irony, while U.S. troops and CIA teams were turning over ever rock in Afghanistan looking for Osama bin Laden, the gravest national security threat was on Wall Street.

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Freeing Up Resources... for More War

Norman Solomon | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

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Those who are fond of talking and writing about Obama's admirable progressive values will, sooner or later, need to come to terms with the particulars of his actual policies.

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Dr Fadl, Al Qaeda Founder, Launches Ideological Revolt Against Bin Laden

The Telegraph | David Blair | Posted 03.23.2009 | World

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Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, who goes by the nom de guerre Dr Fadl, helped bin Laden create al-Qaeda and then led an Islamist insurgency in Egypt in the 199...

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Biden: Bush Gave Al Qaeda "A Powerful Recruiting Tool"

New York Times | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics

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Visiting the Central Intelligence Agency to swear in Leon E. Panetta as the agency's 19th director, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said the Bush a...

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Piotr Stanczak, Polish Engineer, Beheaded In Pakistan

AP | VANESSA GERA and RYAN LUCAS | Posted 03.12.2009 | World

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WARSAW, Poland — Poland promised Monday to issue international arrest warrants for Taliban militants after the apparent beheading of a Polish en...

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Cheney Sets the Trap

Rick Horowitz | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

You'd think that the at-long-last-former Vice President of the US might take his eight years of power and his 13 points of public approval and slink off to one of those undisclosed locations he liked so much.

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Ayman al-Zawahri, Al-Qaida Number 2, Criticizes Obama For Not Mentioning Gaza In Inauguration Speech

AP | MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 03.06.2009 | World

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CAIRO — Al-Qaida's No. 2 criticized President Barack Obama for not mentioning Gaza in his inauguration speech, and urged Muslims around the worl...

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American UN Official, John Solecki, Kidnapped By Gunmen In Pakistan

AP | ABDUL SATTAR | Posted 03.05.2009 | World

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QUETTA, Pakistan — Gunmen seized an American U.N. worker as he rode to work, shooting and killing his driver, U.N. and Pakistani authorities sai...

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A Silk Road to Obama's Success

Sunil Adam | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

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The Obama administration seems oblivious of the only option it has to solve the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan without broadening the crisis -- involving China in the conflict resolution strategy.

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Al-Qaeda A Threat To Upcoming Iraqi Elections

AFP | By Arthur MacMillan | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

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Al-Qaeda remains a threat to this weekend's election in Iraq, a senior army commander warned on Tuesday, as the United States said it expected its tro...

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Obama Presents New Challenge For Al Qaida

Washington Post | Joby Warrick | Posted 02.24.2009 | World

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With Obama, al-Qaeda faces an entirely new challenge, experts say: a U.S. president who campaigned to end the Iraq war and to close the military priso...

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Two Released Guantanamo Detainees Appear In Al Qaida Video: Report

AFP | Posted 02.24.2009 | World

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Two men released from the US "war on terror" prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have appeared in a video posted on a jihadist website, the SITE monitoring...

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Richard Holbrooke Is The Wrong Man For The Job: Scott Ritter

CommonDreams.org | Posted 02.24.2009 | World

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It was early in October 2001, and I had been invited to New York City on behalf of The History Channel for a show in which I was to discuss the situat...

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Top Marine: Time For His Troops To Leave Iraq, Enter Afghanistan

AP | PAMELA HESS | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — Iraq is stable enough to allow the roughly 22,000 U.S. Marines there to withdraw, the service's top general said Friday. "The time...

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Suspected US Missile Strikes Hit Pakistan

GroundReport | Posted 02.23.2009 | World

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Originally published on GroundReport.com, the citizen journalism platform that covers world news from the ground. By Abudlhadi Hairan PESHAWAR-- At...

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Foreign Affairs And The Bush Administration: A Catastrophe At Every Turn

Antiwar.com | By Doug Bandow | Posted 02.16.2009 | World

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President George W. Bush has been using his last weeks in office making the case that he was not a disaster as president. There's not much else for hi...

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Bin Laden's Message in the Era of Obama

Tim Roemer | Posted 02.15.2009 | World

The release of yet another tape from Osama Bin Laden Wednesday serves as a reminder of the many leftover issues Barack Obama will inherit from the Bush administration.

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Obama's Extra Afghan Troops Will Be Used To Buy Time

Washingtonpost.com | By Karen DeYoung | Posted 02.14.2009 | World

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President-elect Barack Obama intends to sign off on Pentagon plans to send up to 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, but the incoming administrati...

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