Iraq's wave of bloodshed sharply escalated Monday with more than a dozen car bombings across the country, part of attacks that killed at least 95 people and brought echoes of past sectarian carnage and fears of a dangerous spillover from Syria's civil war next door.
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Jose Pimentel decided to become an Islamic extremist, taking online lessons from al-Qaida on how to make war on the West. On Nov. 19, he was arrested for allegedly plotting a string of terrorist attacks in New York. His weapon of choice was the terrorist’s friend, an improvised explosive device.
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When al-Qaida was just a startup terrorist enterprise, the Sudanese government offered the group safe harbor. But after a few years, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United States began to take notice of what was going on in that little incubator. They turned up the heat.By 1996, Osama bin Laden was looking to relocate. No longer feeling safe in Sudan, he moved al-Qaida headquarters to Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
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At the rate al-Qaida of Yemen is going, it wouldn’t be surprising to see the terror network signing up with a Madison Avenue advertising agency. One affiliate group posted four online scenes from a partially completed cartoon film recruiting children for jihadist warfare. The film shows young boys dressed in battle fatigues and participating in raids, killings and terror plots. Another affiliate published an online women’s magazine with makeup and chastity tips.
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Last week brought the unsurprising news that the Transportation Security Administration had terrorized yet another 6-year-old with a humiliating pat-down. Dog bites man, federal agent gropes child — we’re becoming all too accustomed to this sort of thing in post-9/11 America.
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WHAT: At least 57 al-Qaida-linked militants battled their way out of a Yemen prison, attacking guards and seizing their weapons before escaping through a 45-yard tunnel.HOW: Gangs of gunmen simultaneously opened fire from outside the prison to divert the guards. One guard was killed and others were wounded.
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The New York Times reported that senior officials within the Obama administration are pressing for an accelerated withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan. The “rationale” for that pressure is supposedly the success of America’s efforts against al-Qaida and the fact that “the counterterrorism campaign, which was favored by Vice President Joe Biden in 2009, has outperformed the more troop-intensive counterinsurgency campaign pushed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Gen.
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By:
Dale McFeatters
05/15/11 8:00 PM
Filling top jobs in Washington is never easy in good times. The disruption, the disclosure and the grueling vetting process dissuade many well-qualified people from putting their names forward.
In highly partisan times, it’s even worse. The opposition party will block a president’s choice, sometimes out of conviction, just as often out of simple orneriness.
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By:
Arthur I. Cyr
05/09/11 4:00 AM
U.S. special operations forces killed Osama bin Laden, but the struggle against international terrorism is far from over, and in the future bin Laden could become a highly emotional symbol of martyrdom, a catalyst to turn the populist turmoil sweeping the Middle East in dangerous fundamentalist directions.
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