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Suicide car bombing at Yemen Defence Ministry kills 18, wounds dozens
A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car Thursday at Yemen's Defence Ministry, killing 18 soldiers and wounding at least 40 in an attack underlining the persistent threat to the stability and security of the impoverished Arab nation, military and hospital officials said.
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Beheadings And Spies Help Al Qaeda Gain Ground In Syria
Armed with machine guns, black-clad al Qaeda fighters drove their pick-ups calmly into the northern Syrian town and took over its imposing agriculture ministry building. They beheaded a sniper from a rival rebel unit, displayed his head in the main square and put roadblocks on major routes.
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Al-Qaida massacres 52 at Yemen hospital
In an act of brutality unparalleled even in war-torn Yemen, an armed group blasted its way into a defence ministry compound in the capital Sana’a yesterday before killing 52 doctors, nurses and other staff of the hospital on its site.
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Media more stressful for some than witnessing Boston bombs
Those who experience a terrorist attack firsthand are prone to suffer from acute stress. That much is obvious. But does living that experience repeatedly through the media’s coverage of the event cause even more stress?
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Inside the Saudi 9/11 coverup
After the 9/11 attacks, the public was told al Qaeda acted alone, with no state sponsors. But the White House never let it see an entire section of Congress’ investigative report on 9/11 dealing with “specific sources of foreign support” for the 19 hijackers, 15 of whom were Saudi nationals. It was kept secret and remains so today.
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How Bin Laden Escaped in 2001—The lessons of Tora Bora
In 2001, a small U.S. special operations force had won extraordinary victories in Afghanistan and closed in on Bin Laden before high-level blunders allowed him to escape into Pakistan.
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The fall of the house of Tsarnaev
A five-month Globe investigation offers new details and insights into the two young men accused in the greatest act of terrorism in Boston history and the deeply dysfunctional family that produced them.
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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood declared 'terrorist group'
The military-backed interim Egyptian government has declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group after blaming it for a deadly attack on a police HQ earlier this week. The group, whose candidate Mohammed Morsi won the presidential poll last year before being deposed by the military, had already been outlawed.
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'Military-Style' Raid on California Power Station Spooks U.S.
When U.S. officials warn about "attacks" on electric power facilities these days, the first thing that comes to mind is probably a computer hacker trying to shut the lights off in a city with malware. But a more traditional attack on a power station in California has U.S. officials puzzled and worried about the physical security of the the electrical grid--from attackers who come in with guns blazing.
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Suicide bomber kills 14 at Russian train station
Russia's Interior Ministry says at least 10 people died and three others were wounded.
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Indian Mujahideen wanted to nuke Surat, Yasin Bhatkal tells cops
The prospect of terror organisations getting their hands on a nuclear device has long concerned both security agencies and thriller writers. Now, it seems Indian Mujahideen India chief Ahmad Zarar Siddibappa alias Yasin Bhatkal too was thinking along similar lines. Bhatkal recently told interrogators that he was planning to explode a nuclear bomb in Surat, according to sources.
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Egypt Detains Journalists It Says Aired ‘False News’
Egyptian authorities detained a team of journalists working for the Al Jazeera English news channel on Sunday, including an Australian journalist and the channel’s Cairo bureau chief, on charges that included meeting with members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group that the Egyptian government classified last week as a terrorist organization.
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$0.60 for cake: Al-Qaida records every expense
In more than 100 receipts left in a building occupied by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb in Timbuktu earlier this year, the extremists assiduously tracked their cash flow, recording purchases as small as a single light bulb. The often tiny amounts are carefully written out in pencil and colored pen on scraps of paper and Post-it notes: The equivalent of $1.80 for a bar of soap; $8 for a packet of macaroni; $14 for a tube of super glue.
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Russia gets two Putin New Year speeches after "glitch"
Russians on Tuesday heard two different versions of President Vladimir Putin's New Year's address after a "technical glitch" meant some inhabitants of the Far East watched a pre-recorded broadcast that made no mention of the Volgograd suicide attacks.
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Palestinian Ambassador Dies in Mystery Explosion at Apartment
The Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic was killed in an explosion at his residence in Prague Wednesday. Jamal al-Jamal, 56, was seriously injured in the blast and rushed to a hospital where he later died, the Associated Press reports. The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said the blast happened when al-Jamal was moving an old office safe box. A 52-year-old woman was also reported hospitalized after suffering shock due to the blast.
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Al-Qaeda in Iraq dictates men's clothing choices
Rifaat Hussein, a resident of al-Jura village in al-Tharthar sub-district, south of Samarra, sported a grey shirt which he said he had been forced to leave stored inside a chest for a year. "I could not wear it because of threats by al-Qaeda gunmen who were in control of the village," the 22-year-old told Mawtani, standing confidently with his colleagues.
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Russia's deadly black widow cult that threatens Olympians
THEY are young, female, and in love - and they are the doomed followers of a man known as Russia's Osama bin Laden. They are the "black widows" of Russia's extremist terrorist group and are selected for death almost from the moment they join up. Lured by the promise of a key role in a coming Russian holy war led by a charismatic madman with bin Laden-style aims, the women - some still in their teens - enjoy a brief, passionate relationships with Russian men who are also terror recruits.
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Al-Qaida Raises Flag, Claims Control Over Iraqi City of Fallujah
Black-clad al-Qaida militants in Iraq appeared to seize control of the embattled western city of Fallujah on Friday, raising their flag over government buildings and declaring an independent Islamic state. Witnesses said the Sunni militants, members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, cut power lines in the city late in the day and ordered residents not to use backup generators.
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Head of terrorist group behind 2010 Japanese tanker bombing ID'd
DNA tests confirmed that a man in government custody is the alleged leader of an al-Qaida-linked group that has conducted attacks across the Middle East — including a 2010 bombing of a Japanese oil tanker in the Persian Gulf — before shifting its focus to Syria’s civil war, Lebanese authorities said Friday.
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Meet the 10-year-old suicide bomber
Afghan authorities have detained a 10-year-old girl for attempting to carry out a suicide attack wearing a vest packed with explosives. The girl appeared yesterday at press conference in Lashkar Gah, the capital of the southern province of Helmand, where she told how her brother had forced her to wear the vest and ordered her to detonate herself at a police checkpoint.
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