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Tag Archives: al qaeda

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Chad to set up task force team to fight Boko Haram

April 30, 2012 no comments
Following the recent spate of deadly terrorist attacks in northern Nigeria, President Idriss Deby Itno of neighbouring Chad has proposed to set up a task force to aid in the fight against the radical...
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“Underwear bomber”, Abdulmutallab, transferred to supermax...

April 13, 2012 1 comment
Convicted Nigerian terrorist, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, called the “Underwear Bomber” was on Wednesday transferred to the Supermax prison in Colorado, also known as the “Alcatraz o...
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Boko Haram is getting arms looted from Libya

April 13, 2012 no comments
Boko Haram is gaining firepower through al-Qaeda connections, said to be furnishing the radical sect with arms looted from Libya. Recent reports say weapons looted in the northern African country, cu...
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JetBlue bomb ranting pilot tackled by his own passengers (Video)

March 28, 2012 no comments
The captain of a US airliner was tackled by his own passengers after he ran up and down a packed jet screaming about bombs and al Qaeda. The JetBlue plane, en route from New York’s JFK airport ...
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Nigerian authorities arrest Mauritanian, four others over kidnap of Ge...

March 27, 2012 no comments
Security sources confirmed on Tuesday that Nigerian authorities arrested five men, including a foreigner from Mauritania, who are believed to have ties to Al-Qaeda’s north African branch and are invo...
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Gunmen kidnap Lebanese businessman; al Qaeda claims kidnap of German e...

March 22, 2012 no comments
Police officials on Thursday confirmed that gunmen have kidnapped a Lebanese businessman in Edo state, the second abduction in one week. State police spokesman Etim Bassey confirmed that the kidnappi...
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France: Toulouse gunman killed after 32-hour seige

March 22, 2012 no comments
Mohamed Merah, the gunman suspected of killing seven people in southern France died today when he jumped out a window, following a 32-hour standoff, police officials said. Two policemen were injured ...
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

Nigerian “underwear bomber” directed by Al Qaeda leader Aw...

February 11, 2012 no comments
Al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki personally directed and approved the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner which a Nigerian man tried to carry out on Christmas Day in 2009, according to new details re...
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Qaeda Leader Sentenced to Life Imprisonment in Algeria

January 2, 2012 no comments
Algiers – An Algerian court sentenced one of the most radical leaders of Al-Qaeda’s north Africa branch in his absence Monday to life in prison for creating “an international terror...
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Underwear Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Demands a New Lawyer

December 21, 2011 no comments
Via Detroit Free Press – Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian student who pleaded guilty against the advice of his standby lawyer to attempting to blow up a Detroit-bound jetliner on Christm...
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Nigeria’s military says it has rescued several women and children believed to have been hostages of Boko Haram sect leader Imam Abubakar Shekau. Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade, spokesman of the Defence Ministry, said captives were rescued in the co... Nigeria’s military rescues women and children kidnappe...

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The grieving family of murdered British soldier, Lee Rigby, described on Friday how they tried frantically to reach him for 12 hours after they saw the body on television before they learned he was dead. Rigby, a machinegunner and Drummer who served ...

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