Tag: al-CIAda
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canadian cleared of terrorism charges
from press tv: A Canadian man of Pakistani origin who was arrested in Afghanistan for allegedly having connections with al-Qaeda has been released. Suhail Qureshi, 24, was allowed to return to Canada a month ago, after Afghan authorities found no evidence linking him to al-Qaeda or the Taliban, Afghan officials confirmed on Monday. “The intelligence,…
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alleged 3/11 mastermind acquitted
from ap: Three lead defendants in the 2004 Madrid train bombings were found guilty of mass murder and other charges Wednesday but four other top suspects were convicted on lesser charges and an accused ringleader was completely acquitted… Much of the evidence against the men was circumstantial. Bouchar, for instance, had been seen on one…
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purported bin laden tape tells insurgents to unite
from voa: An audio recording purportedly from Al-Qaida terrorist network leader Osama bin Laden calls on insurgents in Iraq to unite. The Arabic television channel Al-Jazeera Monday broadcast what it said was a new recording from the fugitive terrorist leader. The authenticity of the recording could not be immediately confirmed… Bin Laden and his deputy,…
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news on the march
american labs mishandle deadly germsfrom ap: American laboratories handling the world’s deadliest germs & toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing steadily as more labs across the country are approved to do the work. american lockdown: law enforcementout of control & beyond the palefrom carolyn…
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homegrown terrorists or dupes?
from sun-sentinel: The charges were stunning: Seven men accused of trying to join forces with al-Qaida to blow up the FBI headquarters in Miami Beach and the Sears Tower in Chicago. On closer examination, however, the accusations fizzled. Even government officials described the groups’ plans as “more aspirational than operational.” Now, more than a year…
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september clearinghouse
ron paul – the internet sensation video: kevin barrett questions amy goodman on building 7 international narcotics agenda behind myanmar instability cheney to address top secret conservative policy group gun bill rewrites law to disarm more americans defense stocks hit new highs pentagon seeks $190bn war funds security company death squads timeline mukasey poised to…
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nbc: US may have let bin laden slip away again
from raw story: A US spy plane picked up some “tantalizing” clues last month indicating where terror leader Osama bin Laden or his deputy might be hiding, but intelligence officials were unable to move quickly enough to capture or kill the al Qaeda mastermind, NBC News reported Thursday. “The sighting came in the rugged mountain…
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bin laden tape to declare war on musharraf
from ap: Osama bin Laden will release a new message soon declaring war on Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, al-Qaida announced Thursday. The announcement of the upcoming message came as al-Qaida released a new video in which bin Laden’s deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, boasted that the United States was being defeated in Afghanistan, Iraq and other…
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osama plans new video for 9/11
from ap: Osama bin Laden plans a new video to be released in the coming days ahead of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in what would be the first new images of the terror mastermind in nearly three years, al-Qaida’s media arm announced Thursday. The al-Qaida leader has not appeared in new…
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retired general: al qaeda ‘attack is coming’
from raw story: NBC News asked military analyst General Barry McCaffrey about recent statements by intelligence officials that another al Qaeda attack is on its way. McCaffrey said the warnings should be considered credible, even if Osama bin Laden probably “has gone to ground.” He suggested at the same time that it would be a…
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cia didn’t do enough to stop 9/11
from new york times: Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the C.I.A. director, just released a public summary of the agency’s internal post-mortem on its performance before the Sept. 11 attacks. In a news release paired with the document, the C.I.A. chief explained that he preferred to keep the document secret, urging “that we keep our focus…
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azzam the operative has a new video
from ap: An American member of al-Qaida threatened foreign diplomats and embassies across the Islamic world in a new video Sunday, saying they would targeted as “spy dens.” The 1 hour, 17 minute video also featured a computer-animated recreation of a March 2006 suicide attack that killed U.S. diplomat David Foy in Karachi, Pakistan, and…
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july clearinghouse
ron paul’s quixotic campaign confuses career pols gonzales’s truthfulness long disputed california city to transform red light cameras into spy cameras US agrees to $30bn defence aid deal with israel flying robots of destruction support our robots k-what? unbuilt maui tv station lands questionable call letters US army eyes truck-mounted laser captured & killed al-qaeda…
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brutal US & Sunni alliance ‘ugly, but effective’
from raw story: CNN on Thursday showed graphic footage of a pro-US Sunni militiaman beating and threatening to kill a suspected al-Qaeda member and of another al-Qaeda member being executed by a militia group. “In Anbar Province,” President Bush recently boasted, “Sunni tribes that were once fighting alongside al-Qaeda against our coalition are now fighting…
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chertoff has ‘a gut feeling’ about more terror
from abc: Senior U.S. intelligence officials tell ABC News new intelligence suggests a small al Qaeda cell is on its way to the United States, or may already be here. The White House has convened an urgent multi-agency meeting for Thursday afternoon to deal with the new threat. Top intelligence and law enforcement officials have…