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Murders of Yemeni Officers and Soldiers Highlight Volatility
By Haley Sweetland Edwards - AOL NewsSANAA, Yemen -- Suspected al-Qaida gunmen killed six Yemeni officers and soldiers in three separate attacks today, highlighting Yemen's volatility amid weeks of massive anti-government protests and a "total breakdown" of dialogue between key opposition figures and the country's embattled president. The alleged al-Qaida attacks came the same day the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa advised all Americans to consider hopping the next jet out of Yemen due to terrorist threats and mounting civil unrest. Muhammed Muheisen, AP Anti-government protesters call for the resignation of Yemeni President ...
Somalia's al-Shabab Now Exporting Terror
By Nick Wadhams - AOL NewsNAIROBI (July 12) -- By staging a deadly double bombing in Uganda, the Somali extremist group al-Shabab has proved in emphatic and bloody fashion that it can wreak havoc far beyond its country's frayed borders, raising the stakes in the American-led fight against terrorism in the Horn of Africa. The hardline Islamist group, which emerged just a few years ago, now controls much of Somalia, where it has introduced a particularly harsh brand of Shariah law. Al-Shabab professes allegiance to al-Qaida, but its links to the group are not clear. It had long threatened to attack countries, such as ...
Al-Qaida-Linked Group: We're Behind Uganda Blasts
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(July 12) -- An al-Qaida aligned group claimed responsibility today for three explosions in the capital of neighboring Uganda, which tore through crowds watching soccer's World Cup final, killing at least 74 people and wounding about 71. One American aid worker was among the dead and six others were injured. The radical Islamist movement al-Shabab, which has implemented sharia law across large swathes of Somalia, said today the attacks were revenge for the presence of Ugandan soldiers in the Somali capital. "We are not afraid to say that we are behind the Uganda attack," al-Shabab spokesman ...
Bombers Target World Cup Fans in Uganda
By not in system - AOL NewsKAMPALA, Uganda (July 12) -- Explosions tore through crowds watching the World Cup final at a rugby club and an Ethiopian restaurant, killing at least 64 people. Police feared an al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group was behind the attacks, as Uganda's president declared Monday "we shall get them wherever they are." The blasts came two days after a commander with the Somali group, al-Shabab, called for militants to attack sites in Uganda and Burundi, two nations that contribute troops to the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia. A California-based aid group said one of its American ...
Norway Arrests 3 Suspects in al-Qaida Conspiracy
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(July 8) -- Police in Norway today arrested three men on suspicion of having links to an international al-Qaida conspiracy that was plotting attacks in the U.S., Britain and Norway. The men had been under surveillance for over a year, Der Spiegel said. Two were arrested in Oslo; the other was arrested after being detained on a visit to Germany. Norwegian authorities suspect the trio of plotting a major attack similar to the planned strike against the New York City subway that was foiled last year. The suspects represent "one node" in a larger terrorist network that includes operatives in ...
Bin Laden Lashes Out at US on Climate Change
By Terence Neilan - AOL News(Jan. 29) -- Osama bin Laden has lashed out at the U.S. and all industrial nations for causing climate change, saying ending global dependence on the American dollar would be the way to solve the problem. In a brief audiotape aired on Al Jazeera television, bin Laden blamed the West for causing hunger and other disasters across the globe, and said the danger of climate change was "not an ideological luxury but a reality." "We should refrain from dealing in the U.S. dollar and should try to get rid of this currency as soon as possible," as well as boycott American goods, he added, saying ...
Senate Hears Testimony on Growth of al-Qaeda in Yemen
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyU.S. officials have been eyeing the deepening presence of al-Qaeda in Yemen for some time. But a new report, as well as the failed attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas, have driven concerns to the forefront. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday heard testimony about the presence of al-Qaeda in Yemen amid unease about the organization's growing entrenchment there. "Over the past year, as many as three dozen American ex-convicts have traveled to Yemen upon release from prison. They reportedly went to study Arabic, but several have since disappeared, raising concerns ...
Video Shows CIA Bomber Describing 'Revenge' Attack
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Jan. 9) -- Video aired on Arab and Pakistani TV stations early Saturday is believed to show the double agent who blew up CIA agents in Afghanistan last month, describing his attack and pledging allegiance to a Taliban leader. The posthumous footage also shows a bearded man in military garb, identified as suicide bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, holding a gun in his lap and describing how he would attack U.S. and Jordanian intelligence agents. He speaks clearly in English. "The Jordanian and the American intelligence services offered me millions of dollars to work with them and to ...
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Obama Faults Intelligence System, and Himself
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Jan. 7) -- Declaring that "ultimately the buck stops with me," President Barack Obama delivered a strong indictment of the intelligence and security apparatus for failing to thwart the Christmas Day bomb plot and outlined a series of steps to ensure that the near-catastrophe will not be repeated. In a strongly worded statement that rejected recent partisanship at home and bluntly asserted "a war against al-Qaida," Obama defiantly warned Islamic extremists that Americans would not "succumb to a siege mentality" in the face of their threats. The president described "a systemic ...
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