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Senior Yemen al Qaeda leader threatens U.S. attacks - Feb 23, 2010 - 11:58:25 AM

A senior member of al Qaeda's Yemen wing who the Yemeni government said it killed has emerged on an internet forum, threatening to carry out attacks in the United States. "Today, you have attacked us in the middle of our household, so wait for what will befall you in the middle of yours ... We will blow up the earth from beneath your feet," Qasim al-Raymi, the wing's military commander, said in an article posted earlier this month on a website used by Islamist militants. Yemen said in January it had killed six regional militant leaders in air strikes, but al Qaeda later denied this, and other senior members Sanaa had said were dead, such as deputy leader Saeed al-Shehri, have since re-emerged on websites used by Islamist militants. For a copy of this video and our Analysis on it. Please feel free to contact us: contact(at)meobservatory.com

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Iran 'arrests leader of Sunni militants Jundullah' - Feb 23, 2010 - 11:45:47 AM

Iranian authorities have arrested the leader of the Sunni Muslim militant group Jundullah, according to reports on state television.
The Arabic language channel al-Alam said Abdolmalek Rigi had been held in eastern Iran, but gave no more details.
He is said to be behind a series of deadly bombings and killings in Sistan-Baluchistan province.
Last October 42 people, including six Revolutionary Guard commanders, were killed in a suicide bombing in Zahedan.

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Yemen arrests 80 separatists over southern unrest - Feb 23, 2010 - 11:39:53 AM

ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) - Yemen has arrested some 80 suspected separatists after army positions in south Yemen came under fire and shops owned by northerners were burnt, an official and southern residents said Monday.
The three-day sweeps followed a week of unrest in which separatists tried to block a road linking the southern province of Lahj to the main southern city of Aden, the official said. "These people were behind acts of s
trife and the burning of shops in the city of al-Houta in Lahj province," a government official told Reuters, adding the suspects would be charged.

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Al Qaeda video rails against Turkey - Feb 22, 2010 - 11:30:09 AM

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A man claiming to be Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's No. 2 man, blasts the Turkish government for its role in Afghanistan in a newly released video.
CNN cannot authenticate the message, but CNN analysts who listened to the recording say the voice is consistent with al-Zawahiri's intonation and accent.
In what would be al-Zawahiri's first audio message released to the world in 2010, the speaker accuses mostly Muslim Turkey of committing crimes against Islam and its adherents. Turkey is one of several countries that have committed troops to the coalition forces in Afghanistan.

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NYC terrorism suspect pleads guilty - Feb 22, 2010 - 11:23:27 AM

NEW YORK - A former Denver airport shuttle driver admitted Monday to a plot to bomb the New York City subways, saying he was recruited by al-Qaida in Pakistan for a "martyrdom plan" against the United States.
"I would sacrifice myself to bring attention to what the U.S. military was doing to civilians in Afghanistan," Najibullah Zazi, 25, told a federal judge in a Brooklyn courtroom.
The Afghan native pleaded guilty to conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and providing material support for a terrorist organization. He faces a life prison sentence without parole at a sentencing in June.