Authorities have also blamed the terror group and its sympathizers for the grenade and gun attacks in Kenya.
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The organisation had been designated a terror group by the US since 1997.
As security minister, he was among key officials who oversaw the incursion of Kenyan forces into neighboring Somalia to battle the terror group, Al-Shabaab.
In recent years, Somali and African Union troops, who have received funding from the U.S. government, have won many battles against the terror group, pushing it back to a handful of strongholds.
France, though not an American ally on Iraq, has also been rattled by apparent threats from a previously unknown terror group to attack the country because of its ban on Muslim headscarves.
If a Jacksonian president were in charge of US foreign policy, he or she would understand that supporting elections that are likely to bring a terror group like Hamas or Hezbollah to power is not an American interest.
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Feith and two Pentagon offices that reported to him at an early stage in the war on terror, the Counterterrorism Evaluation Group and the Office of Special Plans.
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In December, the U.S. State Department moved to blacklist the rebel group as a foreign terror organization linked to al Qaeda in Iraq.
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Athletes always face the terror of being excommunicated from the group.
The group promised to do its utmost to root out terrorism by following the money trail of terror and aggressively pursuing the terrorists in the courts because, as the group says on its website, "no one is above the law".
The group has even opened its own front in the war on terror.
Deputy reception manager Helen James said a large group from Europe, due to arrive two days after the terror attacks, had cancelled.
The White House has been closed to public tours since the September 11 terror attacks -- except for school, youth, military and veterans group tours arranged by a member of Congress.
French officials immediately pointed the finger at the Nigerian group Boko Haram, which has waged a three-year terror campaign against Christians in northern Nigeria as well as attacking police stations and more moderate Muslims in authority.
The FBI also identified a British-based group, Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, as a U.S. terror threat.
There has been no terror attack on mainland France since 1995, when a series of bombings was claimed by a group calling itself the Armed Islamic Group general command.
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