Otherwise, " he says, "all I can tell you is that I am not al-Qaida.
Whether or not al-Qaeda was behind the latest attack, that happy complacency must now have ended.
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Yet virtually all coalition combat operations in Afghanistan these days are conducted against the homegrown insurgency, not al Qaeda's foreign fighters.
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The competitor is not al-Hurra, an American government channel beamed from Washington that has struggled, and largely failed, to convince Arabs that it is objective.
It is an insult to those who died to tell the American people that the organization posing the greatest threat to their liberty is not al Qaeda but the FBI.
Rather than worrying about menus or customer acquisition or hiring good people, the restaurant owner must spend days of her time filling out forms and getting finger-printed by the FBI (to make sure she is not Al Capone).
The policemen and officials from Al-Masry club facilitated the attack when they did not search Al-Masry fans or confiscate the fireworks, knives and other weapons that they were carrying, according to the statement.
And it is not only al-Qaida that will feel disconcerted by the south's secession.
Not on Al-Manar, which is the Hezbollah station, but on other stations the debate is quite open.
The big question is whether or not Bashar al-Assad listens to his wife on matters of the state.
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In the cache of nearly 3, 000 e-mails obtained by CNN, it does not appear al-Assad reciprocates her advances.
And he did not mention the need to deny jihadis everywhere, not just al Qaeda, the euphoria of victory.
Russia and Iran will probably not abandon al-Assad until they are part of the deal-making process about Syria's future government.
The U.S. military has said the Shiite militias in Sadr City are Iranian-backed cells who have not obeyed al-Sadr's freeze of Mehdi army military activities.
One of the most powerful tools we have to keep the American people safe is not providing al Qaeda and jihadists recruiting tools for fledgling terrorists.
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Its willingness to show "martyrdom" videos and footage of attacks against US troops has not endeared Al Jazeera to some on the US right, who have labelled the network as anti-American propaganda.
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The military committee, the country's highest security authority, has said the government will not allow al Qaeda to expand and will use an iron fist against the militants in the country's southern provinces.
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Not just the CIA but the American people as a whole have an interest in working and pushing governments to not allow al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations to take up safe have in their country.
But with the president's luck there will be no need to spin the blame, because it probably won't happen not until Al Gore or John McCain (enjoy that thought while you can) has unpacked his bags.
What the agreement that we have reached is with the people, with the tribal elders, who have signed an agreement saying that they will not allow al-Qaida or Taliban operating on our side or across the border.
" She cautioned the new administration in Washington, "Even if people around the world like us better...you are not going to persuade Al Qaeda not to attack you because we are better liked in the Arab world.
If by "stay the course, " they mean we will not permit al Qaeda to turn Iraq into what Afghanistan was under the Taliban a safe haven for terrorism and a launching pad for attacks on America they are right, as well.
And remember, we had an interlude for a long time between the invasion of Afghanistan and the arrival of this President in office where the focus -- the principal focus in the national security sense of the administration was on Iraq, and not on Afghanistan and not on al Qaeda central.
"If, on the other hand, our criteria is a messy, sloppy status quo but there's not huge outbreaks of violence, there's still corruption, but the country is struggling along, but it's not a threat to its neighbors and it's not an al-Qaida base, that seems to me an achievable goal within a measurable timeframe, " Obama said.
Yet Bigelow insisted her movie does not suggest the al-Qaeda leader would not have been located without so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques".
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This perception is reinforced by the fact that Annan's plan does not call for al-Assad to step down -- a detail that is not missed by the Assad regime propaganda machine.
But if Hillary Clinton decides to run and she's not challenged by Al Gore or somebody with significant name recognition and money, Hillary Clinton will not only win the nomination - and I challenge Joe - she can flip a couple of those red states.
So the aviation industry has taken those steps over the years expressly because al Qaeda -- and when I'm talking about al Qaeda I'm not just talking about al Qaeda in the FATA area in Afghanistan.
The question I had more broadly was do you think that -- or is President Obama concerned that having taken out such a visible symbol of al Qaeda, whether or not it truly degrades al Qaeda as a network, that it will be more and more difficult for him to make the case to the American people that this effort is worth 100, 000 troops, 80, 000 troops?
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