U.S. officials said Tuesday that Abu Yahya al-Libi, effectively the terror network's second-highest leader, was dead.

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Hadi added that unemployment and poverty are tools the terror network uses to recruit youngsters.

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The al Qaeda terror network attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, when it was harbored by Afghanistan's Taliban-led government.

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Ms Neighbour offers no grand prescriptions for dealing with terrorism, but her book is a compelling, readable and well-informed account of an Islamist terror network that has spread across South-East Asia.

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General John Abizaid, America's military chief in the region, said there was intelligence linking the attacks to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a fugitive extremist suspected of working for Osama bin Laden's terror network.

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"As alleged, Ahmed Abassi had an evil purpose for seeking to remain in the United States -- to commit acts of terror and develop a network of terrorists here, and to use this country as a base to support the efforts of terrorists internationally, " said Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

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In America, the channel's gung-ho news values, and its backing of the war on terror, has made it the most popular cable news network and the channel of choice at the Pentagon.

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Now retired, Coulson (whose book No Heroes: Inside the FBI's Secret Counter-Terror Force was co-authored by TIME's Elaine Shannon) made inquiries through his network of contacts.

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