Al Qaeda
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Iran denies link with Canadian train terror plot
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Iran is denying any link with two suspects charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train.
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The threat of miscalculation
CommentShaffer interview April 9, 2013
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AP discovers document outlining Al Qaeda strategy
CommentLeighton interview February 14, 2013
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Does U.S. drone policy violate the 4th Amendment?
CommentMacgregor interview February 5, 2013
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Algeria hostage crisis: Algerian forces looking for 5 missing foreigners
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Algerian forces are scouring the Sahara desert for five foreigners missing since Islamist militants attacked a remote natural gas plant, an official said Tuesday.
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Algerian hostage crisis: Americans still hostage in Algeria, State Dept says
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Frederick Buttaccio, a Texas resident, has been identified as the first American citizen killed in the ongoing hostage standoff at a natural gas complex in eastern Algeria, the Associated Press says.
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Algerian hostage crisis: 12 hostages have died in the siege
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Algeria's state news agency says 12 hostages have been killed since the start of the operation to free workers kidnapped by Islamic militants at a natural gas plant in the Sahara.
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American hostages held by militants in Algeria
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An Al-Qaida-linked militant group claims it is holding seven Americans among 41 foreign hostages it has taken after occupying a natural gas complex deep in Algeria's southern desert near the Libyan border.
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Conflict in Syria "certainly not winding down"
CommentGreen interview January 2, 2013
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Terror plot arrests: Four Calif. men charged in alleged terror plot, FBI says
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Four Southern California men, including one suspect who served in the U.S. Air Force, have been charged with plotting to kill Americans and destroy U.S. targets overseas by joining al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan, federal officials said Monday.
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Yemen: Al-Qaida official killed in airstrike
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Yemeni officials say an airstrike has killed al-Qaida's No. 2 leader in Yemen along with five others traveling with him in one car.
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Al-Qaida senior leader killed in Pakistan drone stike
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A U.S. official says a drone strike in Pakistan's northwest tribal region has killed al-Qaida's second-in-command.
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American al-Qaida militant had 'privileged' childhood in Alabama
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An American who serves as a commander with a Somali militant group says in a new autobiography that he had a "privileged" childhood in Alabama before he joined the al-Qaida linked militants.
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Bin Laden anniversary bomb plot stopped by CIA
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U.S. officials say the plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009.
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Egyptian arrested in terror network case
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An Egyptian with the same name as a long-sought senior al-Qaida leader was arrested Wednesday in Cairo, but he denied any link to the terrorist network and said it was a case of mistaken identity. Two U.S. officials agreed.
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U.S. terror no-fly list doubled last year
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The size of the U.S. government's secret list of suspected terrorists who are banned from flying to or within the U.S. has more than doubled in the past year.
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Americans join al-Shabab terrorists in Somalia, House committee investigation finds
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More than 40 Americans have traveled to war-torn Somalia to join a terrorist group connected with al-Qaida, an investigation by House committee staff found.
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Terrorists looking to attack U.S. utility facilities, report warns
CommentA government report warns that extremists may be looking to gain inside access to utility companies for a potential attack on the U.S., ABC World News reports.
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