But al Qaeda and its allies are a real danger to the United States, and these foes cannot be neutralized by military might alone. |
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Earlier today, Tom Ridge renewed his warning that al Qaeda plans a large-scale attack to disrupt the democratic process. |
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Last summer a suspected Al Qaeda terrorist cell was arrested in North Africa. |
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I refer Noel to the writings of Jessica Stern of Harvard, in particular her articles on al Qaeda and on Pakistan. |
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Al Qaeda tried to infiltrate one privatized military field kitchen, in Afghanistan. |
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The State Department tonight renewed its warning about the possibility of more al Qaeda attacks three years after the September 11 attack. |
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Federal officials say he spoke with al Qaeda about exploding a radioactive dirty bomb somewhere in the United States. |
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Syria has no links to al Qaeda, no weapons of mass destruction that could possibly harm the United States, no nukes or even a nuclear program. |
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Three Algerian al Qaeda members were present during the assault on the consulate. |
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Although it is the official al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, al Nusra is aligned with major Islamist rebel militias in the country. |
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The only other global al Qaeda faction that I've seen moving in that direction is AQ central in AfPak. |
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Baghdadi and his supporters have attempted, and failed, to woo al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on multiple occasions. |
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An easing of tensions between al Qaeda and ISIS presents dangers for America in its military campaign in the Levant. |
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The AUMF from 2001 is a declaration of war against al Qaeda and its associated forces. |
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Aznar jumped to conclusions, quickly blaming Basque separatist organization ETA for the al Qaeda attack. |
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The argument is boilerplate Al Qaeda, but many people in developing countries, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, find it persuasive. |
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The group so extreme it got booted from al Qaeda controls huge swaths of territory. |
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Al Qaeda and Zawahiri know they have been bypassed in the streets of Cairo, Suez and Alexandria. |
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The mix of al Qaeda in the Maghreb, Ansar al Dine, and the Tuareg rebels is combustible. |
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Essentially, America is competing with al Qaeda for the support of those rebel groups. |
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Have done more damage to American competitiveness than al Qaeda ever could. |
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But among the most effective fighters are those affiliated with the Nusra Front, a component of al Qaeda. |
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Other U.S. officials tell The Daily Beast that the group is composed of senior al Qaeda planners focused on attacking the West. |
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The American al Qaeda plotter Anwar al-Awlaki was the most prolific advocate of the lone-attack tactic. |
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Al Qaeda groups and Shiite Iran have entered into accommodations, too, at various times. |
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He said it did not matter that today ISIS and al Qaeda were, by their own admission, two distinct entities. |
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The al Qaeda prisoners we held at CIA facilities helped us understand the adversary. |
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The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year. |
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Two witnesses outside the Charlie Hebdo office building quoted the Kouachi brothers claiming they were members of al Qaeda. |
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There is a particular focus in the magazine on attacking the United States, which al Qaeda calls a top target. |
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One bystander said he was told to tell the media that they were from al Qaeda in Yemen, or al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. |
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The United States had toppled the Taliban and cornered al Qaeda with record speed and an unprecedentedly small number of troops. |
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On the road running north from Kandahar to Kabul, US special forces were last night mounting roadblocks, hunting for senior Taliban leaders and fighters from Al Qaeda. |
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Al Qaeda has been regrouping in next-door Yemen, where security is poor and operational activity is much easier for the group. |
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France has five hostages held by al Qaeda in Niger and two held in Afghanistan probably by the Taliban. |
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It also illustrates the perils of penetrating al Qaeda networks in Afghanistan and Pakistan. |
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On the Syrian battlefield, the lines between the Brotherhood and Jabhat al-Nusra, an offshoot of al Qaeda, often are blurred. |
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The American reported back to al Qaeda in Pakistan, meeting now in Waziristan with Kashmiri, his new handler. |
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Two al Qaeda franchises are both competing and collaborating today in the violence that is wracking Syria and Iraq. |
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Baghdadi is unlikely to comply, and Zawahiri has long been unable to enforce his writ on the Iraqi branch of al Qaeda. |
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Another Yazidi from Sebaya was killed by al Qaeda for working with the U.S. when he went to Mosul to apply for a passport. |
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So was Nasir al Wuhayshi, the yemeni firebrand who runs al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. |
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The intended target, an al Qaeda chief named abd al-Raouf al-Dahab, was not in the vehicle. |
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The regions where it is strong have served as a refuge for al Qaeda, which is the main American target. |
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The regeneration of al Qaeda in Iraq and its expansion into Syria is a warning to American decision makers. |
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However, al Qaeda is not like the Gambino crime family where if you eliminate the various capos and lieutenants of the organization it eventually goes out of business. |
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The communists, like Al Qaeda, started with a utopian dream of righting wrongs and empowering the powerless. |
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Riyadh still wants to work with Washington on Iran, al Qaeda, Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, and other issues. |
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Al Qaeda operatives seem to have an endless Rolodex of Pakistani establishment figures who are ready to help them. |
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It hardly seems credible that he is a secret collaborator of Al Qaeda. |
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Now, traditionally, we believe that there's been a high concentration of suspected al Qaeda operatives in the northwest of Pakistan in the tribal areas. |
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An important way to ensure the defeat of al Qaeda is through applying pressure for change in the existing regimes' behaviors concurrent with supportive interaction with them. |
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Restive al Anbar province, the decreed center of a new al Qaeda state, was lost. |
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Earlier this year, al Qaeda split with ISIS definitively in a public repudiation of the group. |
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Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al Qaeda, specifically called on French Muslims to defy the ban. |
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The plan to degrade al Qaeda enough so that U.S. forces can leave is already lagging behind schedule. |
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The stronghold in Mali was to be the centerpiece of a larger Qaeda emirate across the Sahel from Mauretania to Nigeria. |
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Although the Al Qaeda chief was said to require dialysis for kidney disorders, no dialysis machines were found at the house. |
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One salient example was Ilyas Kashmiri, one of the highest-ranking al Qaeda commanders. |
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During the PowerPoint presentation, Sakka and Sayers were asked about rumors that some of the fighters are members of al Qaeda. |
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The Veep has been ridiculed by many, but to be so dissed by al Qaeda is cold. |
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The vast majority became religious after they joined al Qaeda, getting religion from comrades and self-study. |
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The Yemeni troops attacking Al Qaeda bases in eastern Yemen are Muslims. |
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Jamal tried to visit the al Qaeda master in Pakistan, he writes, but had to send an emissary instead. |
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Abu Zubaydah, the first senior al Qaeda operative arrested in Pakistan, was picked up in 2002 in the city of faisalabad. |
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His goal of defeating Al Qaeda and preventing its return to Afghanistan is farfetched. |
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But Brennan in that briefing said the al Qaeda leader died in a firefight, a claim the White House later retracted. |
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Twice in the last two years, the Saudis foiled al Qaeda plots to attack American cities. |
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Of these, the Ft. Hood shootings in 2009 were linked to al Qaeda but others generally were not. |
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Last week, al Qaeda issued a statement from his hideout in Pakistan that urged Egyptians to fight the army coup. |
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After all, al Qaeda and ISIS have sporadically fought with one another, and the Saddam regime is long gone. |
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A disturbed soldier, and not al Qaeda, seemed the most likely explanation for a spree killing on a military base. |
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The al Qaeda ideologue was on his way to Khost province, hoping to rally al Qaeda and Taliban fighters there. |
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Is it too much to say that this al Qaeda breakaway widely known as ISIS or ISIL is really just a collection of serial killers? |
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Yet the ostensibly non-violent versions of Islamism are patronized as antidotes to Al Qaeda and violent extremism. |
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Lackawanna Cell September 2002 Six Yemeni-Americans are accused of conspiring to help al Qaeda and plead guilty. |
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Al Qaeda has been focused like a laser beam on Pakistan for the last decade. |
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If the claims are indeed true this time, expect al Qaeda to laud its martyrs publicly. |
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The coalition airstrike was targeting a base used by al Nusrah, the local al Qaeda affiliate. |
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So they came to see us as occupiers, supported al Qaeda as liberators, and fought against us. |
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Al Qaeda camps are well established in the south and east of the country, according to Libyan and U.S. intelligence sources. |
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It was one courier in particular that proved the linchpin in Sunday night's operation that killed the al Qaeda leader. |
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He is said to have received a warning from the overall al Qaeda organization to temper his videos. |
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The Benghazi attack might signal an al Qaeda shift from high-end global plots to low-end local attacks. |
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True, not all of these threats can be explained by the machinations of a global organization known as al Qaeda. |
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It was no secret that the core of al Qaeda retreated to tora Bora in the previous weeks. |
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In early 2001 the Afghan Taliban, encouraged by al Qaeda, blew to bits the towering Buddhas of Bamiyan. |
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Some mid-level Al Qaeda commanders reportedly have been killed by drone attacks there. |
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The responsibility of fighting al Qaeda would be left mostly to the Afghan and Pakistani militaries. |
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It no longer looks at whether a detainee is affiliated with al Qaeda. |
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Wright was more successful at penetrating the thought processes of Al Qaeda than he is at seriously grasping whatever Scientology has to offer. |
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Saudi al Qaeda cadres remain in the kingdom and next door in Yemen. |
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So far al Qaeda has been a bit player in the 2011 Arab revolt. |
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Then al Qaeda created its own strike force to target the informants. |
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Abib is a rising star in Al Qaeda and North is under orders to assassinate him in international waters. |
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But the AUMF does not even mention al Qaeda, let alone its affiliates. |
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Al Qaeda is a parasite that feeds on social instability and turmoil. |
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A month later, Lucas North boards a ship in Tangier to find Somalian Al Qaeda agent Abib. |
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Al Qaeda and its Iraqi offspring ISIS compete for recruits and territory. |
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Canadian forces are fighting alongside US and British troops hunting al Qaeda and Taliban remnants. |
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Meanwhile, Lucas North boards a ship in Tangiers to find Somalian Al Qaeda agent Abib and soon gets more than he bargained for. |
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Zawahiri lauds the success of al Qaeda in Syria and Iraq in contrast. |
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Can someone aged seven or 11 become a member of al Qaeda and the Taliban? |
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But will 9,800 troops be enough to keep a resurgent al Qaeda out? |
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The head of al Qaeda was hiding but he was not incommunicado. |
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Their favored milieu, embassy cocktail parties, was useful in recruiting Soviet diplomats but is definitely not where members of al Qaeda congregate. |
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Saudi Arabia promised on Wednesday to provide Yemen all that it needs for help in fighting al Qaeda, reported pan-Arab daily AL QUDS AL ARABI online on Thursday. |
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Al-Asiri is one of a number of Saudis who have fled to Yemen after the Saudi authorities launched a severe internal crackdown against al Qaeda and its followers. |
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The mere mention of Al Qaeda sets Western governments salivating like Pavlov's dogs, and the issue of reconquering northern Mali suddenly got onto the international agenda. |
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That is the central point only if we accept that failure to militarize our society will enable Al Qaeda to subjugate us with their occasional anonymous blast. |
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