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Yemeni General Ali Salah (2R), deputy chief of staff for military operations, speaks to defence officials as he visits Yemen's restive Abyan province on March 6, 2012. The number of soldiers killed in a weekend assault by Al-Qaeda militants on an army camp in Yemen's restive Abyan province has risen to 185, a military official said following the discovery of more bodies.
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He will review the state of the threats we face, particularly as al-Qaida core has weakened but new dangers have emerged ... He will frame the future of our efforts against al-Qaida, its affiliates and adherents.
It’s the second war now that is of greater concern than even Assad, and that is who is going to control the country the day after Assad ... Sitting on our hands and not getting involved, it’s almost assured that al Qaeda or at least extremists with similar views are going to control the country. That’s what we are trying to prevent.
In your rush to get involved in Syria, you may be arming Islamic rebels who will be shooting Christians ... We’re actually arming the side of al Qaeda.More quotes »
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Officials say Benghazi suspects under surveillance
(AP) -- Five men are under round-the-clock U.S. surveillance in Libya, wanted for questioning in the attack last year on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. The White House believes there is enough proof for a military force to seize them as terro 3:16 AM Read more »
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Suspected US drone in Yemen kills 4 militants
(AP) -- A suspected U.S. drone strike killed four al-Qaida militants Saturday in a southern Yemeni province once overrun by the group, according to security officials.The officials said the attack took place around dawn in an area called Deyqa in Abyan p Read more »
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Bin Laden son-in-law wants to hire lawyer facing indictment
Osama bin Laden 's son-in-law said Wednesday that he wants to be defended on terrorism charges in federal court in Manhattan by an activist lawyer who is himself under criminal indictment.Sulaiman Abu Ghaith told U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan that he Read more »
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Wave of bombings kills at least 33 in Iraq
(AP) -- A car bomb exploded near a bus station in Baghdad's main Shiite district Wednesday, the deadliest in a series of explosions that killed at least 33 people nationwide, officials said.The bloodshed came amid growing tensions between the Shiite-led Read more »
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Murdock: Benghazi is biggest coverup since Watergate
"There is no video that justifies an attack on an embassy," President Barack Obama told the United Nations last Sept. 25.A fortnight after the deadly attack on America's mission in Benghazi, Libya , Obama surely knew that an al-Qaida -propelled assault, Read more »
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Other Views, May 22, 2013: An alarming assault on freedom
appears to have gone too far in trying to ferret out who leaked information on a secret CIA operation that foiled an al-Qaida bomb plot. According to The Associated Press, federal prosecutors secretly seized phone records not only from the reporters and editor 5 m ago from The World Read more »
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US may boost Syria rebels if Bashar al-Assad won't talk peace
weapons. Western countries have had to balance their opposition to Assad with their concern that arms for rebels would reach al Qaeda-allied Islamist fighters. The U.S.-Russian proposal for a peace conference has raised suspicion among Arab countries that 1:20 PM from NDTV Read more »
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Obama’s National Security Speech and Pakistan
the death of Osama bin Laden, Pakistan remains the base for the top three most wanted terrorists on the U.S. Most Wanted list: al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri, Taliban chief Mullah Omar and Lashkar e Tayyiba (LeT) boss Hafez Saeed. In fact, Omar and Saeed enjoy 12:52 PM from Brookings Institution Read more »
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Obama expected to address drone justification, achievements
benefits. Reports of civilians killed by drones have undermined claims of precise targeting, the officials said. The strikes also have become a part of al-Qaida propaganda, with convicted terrorists saying the reports provided motivation for their crimes, 11:35 AM from United Press International Read more »
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Iran and Congress rebuke Obama’s Syria policy
dead. Second, he accused his fellow senators of aiding “allies of al-Qaeda.” (“You will be funding today the allies of al-Qaeda. It’s an irony you cannot overcome.”) He even went so far as to assert that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s tenure had been good 11:09 AM from The Washington Post Read more »
