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What's Your Reaction? NEW YORK — Former Vice President Dick Cheney says trying suspected Sept. 11 terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (HAH'-leed shayk moh-HAH'-med) in New York City will make him "as important or more important than Osama bin Laden."
Al Qaeda-linked militants in the Philippines have beheaded one of three Filipino factory workers they seized in the troubled south of the country last month, an official said Wednesday.
Sen. John Kerry declared Pakistan America's "core" challenge despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read more...
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- As the United States braces for a major escalation in the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, it is launching a new drive to kill or capture Osama bin Laden, declaring that he's the key to defeating al-Qaida.
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday toured the nerve centre of NATO command in Afghanistan, telling officers an imminent troop surge would turn around the eight-year war against the Taliban.
By HARLAN ULLMAN UPI Outside View Commentator WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Sixty-eight years and two days ago, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor awakened what Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto called a "sleeping giant." Nearly 60 years later, the attacks that turned civilian airliners into weapons made Sept. 11, 2001, a second day of infamy. Americans were shocked and outraged.
By United Press International WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The capture or death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is important in the fight against the militant organization, a U.S. military commander said.
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Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaida, has evaded capture by the United States for more than a decade. NBC's Robert Windrem reports on the latest intelligence on his whereabouts.
Washington -- Days after his boss said there was no new intelligence on the whereabouts of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan told Congress on Tuesday that killing or capturing bin Laden is critical to defeating the terrorist organization.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says trying suspected Sept. 11 terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City will make him "as important or more important than Osama bin Laden.''
The leader of U.S. forces in Afghanistan said Tuesday that President Obama's decision to increase troop levels and then draw them down in 18 months was not his call, but he supports the plan. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal also called the capture of Osama bin Laden key to toppling al Qaeda as lawmakers pressed him on whether he could follow enemies into Pakistan, a nation critics have said is home ...
Gates says bin Landen "has sought refuge in what is essentially ungoverned space."
Though largely contained, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb poses a unique threat to North Africa that requires international attention, a scholar says.
On Friday, the Obama administration cleared the way for more drone attacks from the skies of Pakistan. Yet that can't be the extent of the new strategy for dealing with the tribal areas of Pakistan, where many terrorists hide. No one favors invad...
Pakistani provincial minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti spends much of his time handing out envelopes containing checks. Some people suffering from shrapnel wounds limp to collect them.
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