Pakistan lost opportunity to find Al Qaeda: Clinton < ');" class="size11 blue"> RateVisiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said it was 'hard to believe' no one in Pakistan's government knew the whereabouts of Al Qaeda leaders who have been using its territory since 2002, the Online news agency reported.Nobody in the Pakistani government knows where the leaders of the Al Qaeda terrorists...
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Al-Qaeda is using Somalia to train, regroup and plan further attacks, the Somali prime minister said Wednesday, warning it was also beginning to threaten regional stability."Somalia has now clearly become a haven for the pariah that is Al-Qaeda," Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke said in a speech in London."We cannot be certain of the precise size of their presence in our country but Al-Qaeda are here, they...
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton moved Friday to temper an outburst accusing Pakistan of not making enough effort to capture Al-Qaeda leaders."It's in Pakistan's best interest as well as our own that we try to capture and kill the leaders of Al-Qaeda because we believe this would be a very severe blow to terrorists everywhere," she told a group of women journalists.Late Thursday, Clinton told senior...
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al-Qaeda sleeper agent has been jailed in the US for plotting to provide material support for terrorism.Ali al-Marri was held two months after the 9/11 attacks. He admitted having regular contact with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind.Al-Marri, a dual Saudi-Qatari national, pleaded guilty in May, having spent about six years in US custody.Jailing him for eight years, the judge said he...
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Saudi authorities have discovered large quantities of weapons in the capital Riyadh belonging to an al-Qaeda network, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Sunday.The official Saudi Press Agency quoted Major General Mansour al-Turki as saying the discovery included 281 assault rifles and 51 ammunition boxes.Al-Turki said police learned about the cache after investigating a group of al-Qaeda suspects...
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Suspected al-Qaeda militants in north Yemen have killed five security force members, three of them senior officers.The security men were ambushed as they travelled back from a post on the border with Saudi Arabia.A local official said the attack was carried out by "elements linked to al-Qaeda" who are "active in the area", the Reuters news agency reported.Al-Qaeda said in January 2009 that its Yemeni...
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The Taliban and the Al Qaeda have distanced themselves from the deadly market blast in Peshawar that claimed 105 lives, saying they don't explode bombs in such areas, reported a Pakistani paper Thursday.The News quoted an Al Qaeda statement as saying the group was not involved in the killing of innocent people. Most of those killed in the blast were women and children.According to Al Qaeda sources...
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Visitors to Germany advised to "consider security procedures at hotels, restaurants-- U.S. officials extended a travel alert in Germany and urged Americans to remain wary after terrorist organization al Qaeda posted messages in recent months threatening attacks in the country.The alert issued Thursday will remain in effect until February 10. It replaces one issued in September that expired Wednesday,...
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SANAA: Al-Qaeda gunmen have seized a Japanese engineer from his tribal kidnappers in Yemen, a tribal source who has been seeking to negotiate his release said on Saturday.“The hostage was seized by elements of Al-Qaeda, who took him to an unknown destination in the Maarib region,” east of the capital, Sanaa, one of two tribal mediators said on condition of anonymity.The man, identified by Japanese...
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Al Qaeda group claimed responsibility on Thursday for the killing of seven Yemeni security officials in an ambush near the Saudi border this week.The attack on Tuesday was on the same day Yemeni rebels killed a Saudi security officer in a cross-border raid, underlining the growing security threat from Yemen to U.S. ally Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter.The attack on the Yemeni officers...
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