He told the South African Broadcasting Corporation that al-Shabab and other terror groups must be stopped.

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There are unconfirmed reports that al-Shabab had offered the kidnappers as much as half-a-million dollars for the pair.

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saying the president knows that al-Qaida terrorists remain committed to carrying out a deadly attack on U.S.soil.

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There are credible reports that al-Qaida has operatives in various parts of Somalia teaching al-Shabab fighters techniques to carry out suicide and roadside bombings.

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Peter Harling, an Iraq specialist at the International Crisis Group in Damascus, countered that al-Qaida has shown a remarkable ability to replace its leaders.

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Islamic Courts Union spokesman Abdurahim Isse Adow told reporters in Mogadishu Friday that al-Shabab has created a hit-list of prominent government members and their supporters.

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Analysts believe that al-Shabab is coming increasingly under the control of al-Qaida-linked foreign operatives.

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Rashid Abdi says the bombing has convinced many ordinary Somalis that al-Shabab is increasingly being controlled by foreign fighters, who have no regard for Somali lives.

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Earlier this week,a group representing Mogadishu's dominant Hawiye clan said that al-Shabab militants had sent death threats to clan elders for participating in peace and reconciliation efforts with Somalia's interim government.

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Counterterrorism analyst Brian Fishman of the New America Foundation says the Times Square plot is an indication that al-Qaida is either not willing or not able to deploy seasoned, well-trained operatives.

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On Thursday, a Kuwaiti newspaper,al-Qabas, said unnamed Kuwaiti security sources confirmed that al-Qaida has regrouped in the region in recent months, thanks largely to the deteriorating security in Somalia and Yemen.

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Reports that al-Qaida-trained operatives may be poised to attack American commercial and passenger vessels in the Arabian Sea are being widely circulated in Arab-speaking Gulf states, including Kuwait,Bahrain,Qatar, and United Arab Emirates.

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"We do know that al-Qaida has nuclear ambitions,"

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"I don't think it is surprising that al-Qaida would want to shift attention away from the president's historic efforts, and continued efforts, to reach out and have an open dialogue with the Muslim world,"

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Former CIA counterterrorism chief Robert Grenier says the failed Times Square bombing may indicate that al-Qaida and its allies have abandoned more grandiose plans for the United States and are emphasizing smaller but still deadly operations.

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"There are indications that al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is targeting our embassy and targeting our personnel and we are not going to take any chances with the lives of our diplomats and others who are at that embassy,".

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He says finding that out will be crucial. "Whether this was an act of terrorism conducted by al-Qaida central or that of a lone wolf acting independently, we will have to wait and see for the investigation and what comes out of that, but we do know that al-Qaida and their affiliates have a crazed obsession in targeting the aviation industry,"

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A Yemeni deputy prime minister said Thursday that the twenty-three year old Nigerian met last year in Yemen with Anwar al-Awlaki.

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That was the movie about former vice president Al Gore and his efforts to fight climate change.

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I think it's still possible for us to stamp out al- Qaida, to make sure that extremism is not expanding but rather is contracting.

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The official also warned against foreign military intervention in Yemen,saying that could strengthen al-Qaida.

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This week,there were reports that he had contact with al-Qaida leadership.

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A family friend, political activist the Reverend Al Sharpton, says they want to ensure that the pop star is properly honored.

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Brennan said the truth is that the United States is at war with al-Qaida and its violent, extremist allies.

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"We discovered documents that underscored their interest when we overran some of these al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan in late 2001.

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Al Franken spoke to reporters on Tuesday, saying that Norm Coleman had telephoned him to congratulate him on the victory.

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according to Al Baghdadia TV. One demonstrator complained that the Iraqi government was "not doing enough to protect its citizens."

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