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...comprising the peacekeeping force known as UNIFIL have good cause for concern. Last month, six Spanish and Colombian UNIFIL soldiers were killed in a bomb ambush, the deadliest attack against the peacekeeping mission in its 29-year history. In a video message released this week, Al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri hailed the attack as "a response against those invading Crusader forces who were occupying a beloved part of the land of Islam". And, UNIFIL officials fear, given the worsening security situation in Lebanon, there could be more attacks on the way. "The major difficulty we are going...
...plot to blow up a London nightclub and a shopping mall with fertilizer bombs, was a computer-science student. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who planned 9/11 and other attacks, has a degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Osama bin Laden's top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is a doctor...
...traffic, but the Spanish authorities are less concerned these days about what leaves Ceuta than about what comes in - particularly to the impoverished hillside neighborhood of Príncipe Alfonso, whose unemployed and disaffected youth are a potentially fertile ground for jihadist recruiters. Last December, Al-Qaeda Number 2 Ayman Zawirhi appeared to recognize its potential, when he called for the "liberation" of the Spanish enclave...
...Lebanese believe that Damascus is stirring the current violence to force the Western-backed Lebanese government to abandon its support for the tribunal. UNIFIL officials have been concerned for months that the peacekeepers could become caught up in Lebanon's instability, with the chief threat coming from al-Qaeda. Ayman al-Zawahiri, deputy to Osama bin Laden, has twice referred to UNIFIL in recent months. In February, he described the peacekeepers as "international crusader forces" and urged his "brothers in Islam and Jihad in Lebanon" to attack them. Arrested militants of Fatah al-Islam, which includes jihadist veterans...
...into southern Israel during the past week, the Israelis were in no mood to go lightly on Hamas. On Monday, Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh declared in an interview that "no one" in Hamas's leadership was "immune from a strike." Hamas took the threat to heart. Spokesman Ayman Taha also urged militants to stop using cars and gathering in open places where they could be spotted by Israeli aircraft circling over the Gaza strip. "We must be on high alert and very careful," he declared...