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U.S. President Barack Obama addresses intelligence personnel at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia to thank them for their service in relation to the Osama bin Laden operation on May 20, 2011. UPI/Martin H. Simon/POOL
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Belgium has extradited to the United States a Tunisian to face federal charges of working with al-Qaida in a bomb plot in Europe in 2001, U.S. officials said.
Abdul Rasoul Sayyaf, a former Islamic commander who brought al-Qaida leaders to Afghanistan, has registered to run for president, officials said.
For some security analysts, the recent bloodbath in Nairobi's premier shopping mall, in the heart of the Kenyan capital, underlines how terrorists are targeting major cities across Asia and Africa, just as an earlier generation wreaked havoc in Europe's major cities in the 1960s and 70s.
UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013.
A federal prosecutor urged a U.S. appeals court to reverse a decision dismissing conspiracy charges against an Osama bin Laden aide.
The four-day seizure of an upscale shopping Mall in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, in which dozens of people were killed by a platoon of diehard jihadists of the Somalia-based al-Shabaab group is a fearsome indication of how Islamist terrorism is swelling across Africa.
The weekend seizure of a Nairobi, Kenya, shopping mall by Somalia-based jihadists linked to al-Qaida, slaughtering dozens of people, underlines how, two years after the Americans assassinated Osama bin Laden, jihadists are widening their offensive across Africa as well as the Arab world.
A deputy U.S. marshal said Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, Suleiman Abu Ghaith, was given the royal treatment on a flight while being interviewed by the FBI.
UPI Almanac for Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaida, called on followers to keep up their battle on U.S. soil and goad the United States into spending more on security.
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