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...tried to transform relations between the U.S. and the Muslim world through a dialogue outreach that he began with his Cairo speech last spring, but the realities of Iraq, Afghanistan and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have hampered that effort. The fact that the Nigerian man accused of the Detroit bomb plot was allegedly trained in Yemen has raised questions about whether Obama should initiate a new "war on terror" front there. But it's a complicated country that many analysts warn would be antagonized by a high-profile U.S. presence - just as Western troops in Afghanistan have spawned the Taliban...
...with us today." The Khost death toll is second only to the record for the number of CIA staffers killed in a single day. On April 18 1983, eight members of the Agency were killed when the US Embassy in Beirut was blown up by a Hizballah suicide bomb. A retired officer who was then in active service says the Agency "was in shock for about one day... and then...
...strikes Dec. 17 and 24, killing more than 60 militants. But al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), is a distinctly creative branch. In August a supposedly repentant member of AQAP drew close to Saudi Arabia's Deputy Interior Minister before detonating a bomb secreted in his anal cavity, according to Stratfor, a well-regarded private intelligence outfit based in Texas. Although the attacker died, his target was only slightly wounded. A Stratfor report issued five days later concluded, "The operation could have succeeded had it been better executed" - a judgment that sounds...
...myself." In November 2001, Muna was given a life sentence by an Israeli military court. The gunman, al-Qadi, had been killed in an explosion in Ramallah in April 2001. It was never established whether he had been targeted by the Israelis or was the victim of a bomb he may have been handling at the time...