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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 5 months ago
A senior Uzbek Al-Qaeda-linked militant leader has been injured in Pakistan's tribal region, a military spokesman said on Tuesday. The private Geo TV channel quoted Director General of the Inter Services Public Relations Major General Athar...
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News Source: News 24
| 5 months ago
Pakistan braced for militant reprisals on Monday as the army conducted softening-up operations ahead of an assault on the stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, one of al-Qaeda's main allies. Military experts see the showdown in...
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News Source: Star Tribune
| 5 months ago
Police in Islamabad recently foiled plots to kidnap diplomats and carry out bombings in the Pakistani capital, the interior minister said Monday. Rehman Malik made clear that security in Islamabad, already tightened, must be improved even more,...
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News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 5 months ago
Pakistan announced late Sunday it would fight warlord Baitullah Mehsud in Waziristan in a gamble that will see the Pakistani troops confront the fountainhead of Taliban and al-Qaida extremism. The move signals Islamabad is serious about fighting...
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News Source: Times of Oman
| 5 months ago
Nine foreigners, including women and children, have been kidnapped in a volatile moutainous area of northern Yemen, an official said yesterday amid conflicting reports over their fate. Seven Germans, a British engineer and a South Korean woman...
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News Source: The Daily Star
| 5 months ago
The world has probably begun to move beyond the "Al-Qaeda wave" that led all terrorist acts over the past decade...A new wave of more serious violence, "armed insurgencies," has been initiated by the military wings of extremist organizations...
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News Source: BBC
| 5 months ago
He has been named as Hassan Hussein Bin Alwan, a Saudi Arabian national. Reports say he was detained two days ago in Marib province, east of the capital, Sanaa, and is facing charges of forming an armed group. Yemen has been combating Islamic...
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News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 5 months ago
A Yemen Interior Ministry official says the biggest and most important financier for the al-Qaida terror network in Yemen and Saudi Arabia has been arrested in the impoverished Arabian peninsula nation. Hassan Hussein Bin Alwan, a Saudi national, was...
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News Source: Sky News
| 5 months ago
UK, Sunday June 14, 2009 The Foreign Office is looking into reports that a Briton is among nine people kidnapped in north Yemen. Westerners have been targeted by Islamists and rebels The British engineer, along with seven Germans and a South Korean,...
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News Source: NewKerala
| 5 months ago
It said in a statement posted on its website that the suspect, identified as Hassan Hussein bin Alwan, was "the financier of the operations carried out by members of Al Qaeda in Yemen and Saudi Arabia". It further described him as "one of the most...