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...resale in Morocco are not an entirely legal 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...
...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 of the Iraq insurgency and is suspected of ties to Syrian military intelligence, have reportedly confessed to planning attacks against UNIFIL...
Even if cutting off Gaza brings down Hamas, the alternative could prove to be a whole lot worse. If Hamas fails, hard-line jihadist factions, including al-Qaeda, which are flourishing amid Gaza's poverty and misery, may fill the gap. "If Hamas can break the back of these big, powerful clans, then they can bring a measure of order to Gaza," says Nicholas Pelham, an International Crisis Group senior analyst in Jerusalem...
...section of the globe; it heralded a world where rising powers aren't the major threat at all. The real danger, they argue, is from states that are too dysfunctional to educate their people, provide public health or control their territory--and thus export a swarm of pathologies, from jihadist terrorism to loose nukes to bird flu. It's no surprise that Edwards and Obama want to boost foreign aid. They believe the poor world threatens the U.S. more than the rich...
...According to a statement issued by the Saudi Ministry of Interior on Friday, Saudi security forces broke up more than seven jihadist cells that had been engaged in an array of activities against the authorities. The statement did not identify al-Qaeda by name, but described the suspects in typical official codewords for the organization, such as "deviant group" and those who had "adopted the takfiri thought [judging Muslims as infidels] toward Arab and Islamic peoples, governments and leaders...