It may have been the work of Younis al Mauretani, a senior al Qaeda operative until his capture by Pakistani police in 2011.
It turned out that Mehrban's nickel expert, Mohammed A. Al-Bayati, is a former University of California, Davis researcher with barely any background in nickel.
During Arab League meetings in recent months, al-Sharaa was mentioned as a successor to al-Assad under a transition plan similar to the one in Yemen, where the president left office and the vice president took over.
"From the birth of the Lebanese state, Tripoli has resisted being a part of Lebanon, " said Ahmad al QasQas, a media representative for the Lebanese chapter of Hizb al-Tahrir, a pan-Arab Islamist party with aspirations for one nation spanning the region under the rule of an emir.
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Earlier this week, reports from the area said a senior al-Qaeda leader - Sheikh Fate al-Masri - had been killed in a drone attack in North Waziristan.
It has a whitewashed al fresco restaurant that specializes in Mediterranean fare, a night-lit swimming pool surrounded with beanbags, 23 air-conditioned beachfront bungalows with Balinese-style outdoor bathrooms and a two-bedroom villa with plunge pool set on a hill.
U.S.-led forces also captured a prominent al-Sadr aide, according to American military officials and a spokesman in the cleric's office.
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The U.S. moved its consulate in Istanbul to a safer location on top of a hill from a busy and cramped downtown district after a 2003 al-Qaeda attack on the U.K. consulate a few blocks away.
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But, essentially, they are either in agreement with the legal principle (like a scholar at al Azhar, a Salafist or a Muslim Brother) or have a general but acute awareness of the law's existence.
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While Mr. Brennan in his speech last month offered a list of al Qaeda affiliates that pose a danger, U.S. officials have never publicly listed which terrorist groups are considered associated forces of al Qaeda that can be targeted by the military.
Al-Maliki also has promised a major offensive targeting al Qaeda in Iraq, a predominantly Sunni group, in the northern city of Mosul.
While it would be a formidable task to check every study Wagenaar et al. subsumed in their meta-analysis, a quick check to find out whether they included a study with a known systematic bias reveals the study included Chesson et al., a study by the Centers for Disease Control which claimed that increased beer taxes could reduce the rate of gonorrhea.
Hasan al-Sneid, a spokesman for al-Maliki's State of Law Coalition, also confirmed that negotiations are continuing.
Yemeni officials said one of those killed was a senior al-Qaeda operative, Saleh Mohammed al-Ameri.
Lo que pueden hacer es ayudar a la gente a adaptarse al cambio.
But Holmes suggested there's a chance al-Maliki and Iraq will survive this crisis.
Current will be replaced by a new Al Jazeera America news channel based in New York, doubling its US-based staff.
Switzerland said it had paid no ransom for her release by gunmen in a region with a strong al-Qaeda presence.
The US says it is continuing to bomb a suspected al-Qaeda compound in the Khost region, near the border with Pakistan.
America might have lost a big al-Qaeda figure and potentially important intelligence.
The agent, reported as bearing the codename Joseph, is claimed to have been closely connected to a senior al-Qaeda commander in Iraq.
It perhaps sought revenge for the soldiers' part in the arrest, earlier in the week, of a senior al-Qaeda man in Pakistan.
American-led coalition troops killed a senior al Qaeda in Iraq leader east of Samarra in northern Iraq on Tuesday, the U.S. military said.
The Qatar-owned broadcaster plans to replace Current with a new Al Jazeera America news channel based in New York, doubling its US-based staff.
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But earlier in the year Western diplomats said a major alert had been triggered by the arrival in Indonesia of a suspected al-Qaeda cell.
According to American officials, the Moroccan authorities have also arrested a Saudi national called Abu Zubair, who they believe is a key al-Qaeda recruiter.
Back from helping the Dominican Republic win the World Baseball Classic, Reyes is eager to help his new team contend in a tough AL East.
Additionally, American officials could have identified AbdulMutallab as a possible al Qaeda operative, the summary states, and kept him from boarding Northwest Airlines Flight 253.
Retrocedieron hasta la camioneta y empujaron a Alex al asiento trasero.
There's a reason Al Jazeera English, which will supply 40% of the content to the new channel, has barely gotten a foothold in the United States.
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