Yemen fights al Qaida as Saleh tilts with US
Yemeni security forces clash with al Qaida fighters in Sana a leaving two dead as President Ali Abdullah Saleh presses an alliance with Washington to combat the terror network. Observers warn his rule risks collapse amid crises and tribal resistance while the United States backs Yemen’s counterterror efforts with aid and strikes.
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U.S
al-Qaida
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Iraq
Afghanistan
Yemen
Jordanian doctor died in CIA base bombing as double agent
Reports identify Humam Khalil Abu Musal al Balawi, a 36 year old Jordanian doctor recruited by Jordanian intelligence, as the suicide bomber at Camp Chapman in Khost, who allegedly offered urgent information to locate Ayman al Zawahri. Seven CIA personnel and one Jordanian intelligence officer killed. NBC News cited. officials spoke anonymously.
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NBC
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U S suspects in Pakistan defend their jihad plans
Five Americans detained in Pakistan told a court they planned to cross into Afghanistan to wage jihad against Western forces but denied links to al Qaida. They said they would help Muslims in trouble, focusing only on Afghanistan, and claimed jihad is not extremism.
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Afghanistan
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U.S
Ramy Zamzam
Associated Press
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Howard University
Washington, D.C
Matiullah Shahani
Britain says it shared data on Abdulmutallab with U S authorities
Britain disclosed that intelligence on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was passed to the United States after the Detroit flight bomb attempt. Officials said he was not singled out as a specific risk, though he appeared in a dossier of contacts with known extremists and later radicalized abroad.
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