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The USS Cole plotter's unbelievable story
The ACLU's quest to free a terrorist who admitted his responsibility for the USS Cole bombing.
Banned Pakistani terror group re-emerges under new name
Jamaat-ud Dawa, the banned front for the Lashkar-e-Taiba, renamed itself the Movement for the Safeguarding of the First Center of Prayer and held a protest in Lahore.
Shabaab and rival Islamist group clash in central Somalia
Somali Islamist groups vie for power as Ethiopian forces begin their withdrawal from the country.
Terrorism's twelve step program
Pentagon official says 9/11 suspect was tortured
In an audiotape released by As Sahab, al Qaeda's propaganda arm, Osama bin Laden calls for continuing jihad to "restore Jerusalem and Palestine." He cautioned against blaming the plight of the Palestinians on Arab leaders and scholars because "the ummah is capable of defeating the Zionist entity" by organizing as mujahedeen.
Somali militants issue biography of American jihadist
Pentagon: 61 ex-Guantanamo inmates return to terrorism
Slain Qaeda commander remembered by teammates
Taliban assault military base in Mohmand
The Taliban attacked a Frontier Corps base in battalion strength; 40 Taliban fighters and 15 Frontier Corps troops reported killed; more than 25 troops reported missing. Four soldiers were mutilated in Bajaur.
In a message released on the Internet, al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Omar al Baghdadi vowed to support the Palestinians in Gaza. "We in Iraq shall not abandon our (Arab) people in Gaza ... And we shall step up our operations against the American occupiers," he said.
On the trail of Pakistan's Taliban
Terrorist Penpals
A new program by Amnesty International advocates "Solidarity with Guantanamo Detainees."
Al Qaeda's operations chief in Pakistan killed in New Year's strike
Veteran al Qaeda leaders Osama al Kini and Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan were killed in the attack. The operatives were behind several major suicide attacks in Pakistan over the past two years.
All the news that fits
The story of Muhammad Saad Iqbal, a former Guantanamo detainee, is far more complicated than The New York Times lets on.
MI5's spymaster Jonathan Evans comes out of the shadows
Detainees in Afghanistan seeking right for release
Pakistan-based Al Qaeda may strike on UK: Director MI5
Al Qaeda sniffs opportunity in Gaza
Ayman al Zawahiri vowed revenge for the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza on a newly released 10-minute audiotape. "We will never stop until we avenge the death of all who are killed, injured, widowed and orphaned in Palestine and throughout the Islamic world," he said. He also blamed President-elect Obama and Egyptian President Mubarak for the Israeli operation.
