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Al-Qaida's membership declining and leadership damaged, but threat remains
Counter-terrorism specialists face choices over where to base efforts to break group as it reaches 25th anniversaryAl-Qaida's leadership is a shattered remnant, reduced to begging funds and munitions...
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Pakistan's 'disappeared': families go to court for compensation
A lawyer representing families of the 'disappeared' says there are 450 habeas corpus petitions seeking release of detaineesEvery two weeks in recent months, a tired, middle-aged woman has made her way...
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Pakistan overturns Bin Laden doctor's jail sentence
Ruling offers hope to Shakil Afridi, who was convicted of treason after helping CIA agents hunting Osama bin LadenA Pakistani administrator has overturned a judgment sentencing a doctor who helped CIA...
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US analysed Osama bin Laden's DNA after death, secret documents show
Pentagon had previously said it could not find records of DNA tests in response to freedom of information requestSecret budget documents show that a US military laboratory in Afghanistan analysed DNA...
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Kenya's Westgate attack: the lessons are both local and global | Martin Plaut
The origins of the atrocity are in both Osama bin Laden's terror network and a growing radicalism among Kenyans and SomalisThe Kenyan security forces are picking through the rubble of the Westgate...
View ArticleUS capture Libyan al-Qaida leader Anas al-Liby, officials say
Al-Liby, on the FBI's most-wanted list with a $5m bounty on his head for 1998 embassy bombings, reportedly abducted in Tripoli
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Abu Anas al-Liby in US custody following 15-year manhunt
Islamist militiaman accused of masterminding 1998 embassy bombings detained 'peacefully' in custody, officials claimHe was one of the world's most wanted men with a £3m FBI bounty on his head. Now Abu...
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British fugitive Samantha Lewthwaite wrote 'love poem' for Osama bin Laden
Poem was found on laptop belonging to British terrorism suspect allegedly linked to Kenyan shopping centre attackThe British woman allegedly linked to the Kenyan shopping centre attack penned an ode to...
View ArticleCourt upholds 1998 embassy bombings conviction of ex-Guantánamo inmate
Lawyers for Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, Osama bin Laden's cook and bodyguard, said CIA detention violated right to speedy trial
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Richard Dawkins's honey and other high-profile airport confiscations
Dawkins tweeted 'Bin Laden has won' after his jar of honey was confiscated by airport security. Which other items of celebrity baggage have famously fallen foul of airport regulationsHe may have been...
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Sketching Guantánamo
Court artist's new book offers a rare and unique insight into the drama of the military hearings at US detention centreJanet Hamlin has been covering Guantánamo for seven years, making more than 25...
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Pakistani doctor who helped CIA find Bin Laden faces murder charge
Shakil Afridi faces allegations over operating on boy in 2006, who died after surgeryThe lawyer for a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama bin Laden says his client has been charged with...
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Dirty Wars – review | Peter Bradshaw
Jeremy Scahill's documentary about the shadowy world of the Joint Special Operations Command is an important storyJeremy Scahill is the national security correspondent for the Nation and his new film...
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A virtual Osama bin Laden, recruiting jihadis? It's not such a crazy notion |...
US intelligence's fear of supervillain avatars sounds outlandish – but there's a solid precedent for using video games as political weaponsSpies are paid to worry about unlikely scenarios, but the...
View ArticleClose Guantánamo prison, says first US commander on 12th anniversary
Major General Michael Lehnert says detention facility has become a liability in struggle against terroristsMartin Pengelly
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Bin Laden death images subject to purge, emails reveal
US military chief ordered his subordinates to destroy any photographs of Osama bin Laden's body or give them to the CIAEleven days after the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011, the US military's top...
View ArticleBin Laden's son-in-law to stand trial for conspiracy to kill Americans
Suleiman Abu Ghaith is the highest-ranking al-Qaida official to stand trial in the US following September 11 terror attacks
View ArticleTrial for Bin Laden's son-in-law begins in New York with jury selection
Suleiman Abu Ghaith charged with conspiring to kill Americans as part of his role as al-Qaida spokesman after 9/11
View ArticleOsama bin Laden son-in-law agreed to help terror campaign, court hears
New York prosecutors accuse Suleiman Abu Ghaith of acting as al-Qaida’s mouthpiece in propaganda videos and speechesJon Swaine
View ArticleBritish al-Qaida turncoat to testify in trial of Bin Laden's son-in-law
Saajid Badat, who was released early from prison in return for cooperation, to testify against Suleiman Abu Ghaith Jon Swaine
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