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- New Saudi tack on Al Qaeda
  Posted by Jeff from Christian Science Monitor
  What happened, analysts say, is that the Saudis came to view Al Qaeda as a legitimate threat as average Saudis – who had been somewhat supportive of Al Qaeda when its attacks seemed targeted at driving the US out of Afghanistan or Iraq or focused on foreigners in the kingdom – grew disgusted with bloodshed on their own soil.
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- France knew al-Qaida planned hijack
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  “You have to remember that a plane hijack (in January 2001) did not have the same significance as it did after Sept. 11. At the time, it implied forcing a plane to land at an airport and undertaking negotiations,” said Pierre-Antoine Lorenzi.
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- Explosions rock Algerian capital
  Posted by Jeff from BBC News
  Is American focus in Iraq distracting from the war on Al Qaida worldwide? The official APS agency, quoting the Algerian authorities, said at least 12 people were killed and 118 injured in the attack on the government building and 11 people were killed and 44 injured in the second attack, on a police station in the eastern district of Bab Ezzouar.
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- How Doug Feith Manufactured Links Between Iraq and Al Qaida
  Posted by Jeff from Talking Points Memo
  Finally, a declassified version of the briefing slides (pdf) used by Feith's shop to illustrate the "mature, symbiotic relationship" between Iraq and Al Qaeda has been made publicly available, courtesy of Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI). The briefing was given to senior White House officials in the prelude to the Iraq War.
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- Al Qaeda Chiefs Are Seen to Regain Power
  Posted by Jon from New York Times
  American officials said there was mounting evidence that Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, had been steadily building an operations hub in the mountainous Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan. Until recently, the Bush administration had described Mr. bin Laden and Mr. Zawahri as detached from their followers and cut off...
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- NBC: U.S. strike targets al-Qaida in Somalia
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  The operatives are believed to be responsible for the 1998 bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, which left 241 people dead, as well as 2002 attacks on Israeli tourists in Kenya and the attempted downing of an Israeli aircraft the same day.
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- Revisiting Bush's Withdrawal of Troops from Saudi Arabia
  Posted by Jeff from Idealog.US
  I thought this story deserves revisiting on the 5th anniversary of Sep 11: Withdrawal of "infidel" American forces from Saudi Arabia has been one of the demands of Osama bin Laden, although a senior US military official said that this was "irrelevant". Behind the dry talk of rearranging America's military "footprint" in the Gulf, the great imponderables were bin Laden and Muslim radicals' complaints about the presence of "infidels" in the birthplace of Islam. That presence was cited as one of the main justifications for the September 11 attacks.
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Ugh.

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