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• President Barack Obama sees terror threat reduced to pre-9/11 level

  thinking, but President Barack Obama has all but declared an end to the global war on terror. Obama is not claiming final victory over extremists who still seek to kill Americans and other Westerners. Instead, he is steering the United States away from what 5/25/13 Read more »

• 3 al-Qaida members, 2 soldiers dead in Yemen clash

  near Radda, the province capital, which the militants briefly occupied last year but were driven out by government forces. Al-Qaida overran much of the south in 2011, taking advantage of the turmoil caused by a popular uprising. The army supported by U.S.   Read more »

• Obama: Drone strikes effective, legal; but not perfect

  region out of a covert base in Saudi Arabia , and the military flying its unmanned aerial vehicles from Djibouti .In Pakistan alone, up to 3,336 people have been killed by the unmanned aircraft since 2003, according to the New America Foundation which maintains   Read more »

• Officials say Benghazi suspects under surveillance

  men could get spooked and hide, but so far, not even the FBI's release of surveillance video stills has done that.U.S. officials say the FBI has proof that the five men were either at the scene of the first attack or somehow involved because of intercepts   Read more »

• Bin Laden son-in-law wants to hire lawyer facing indictment

  the country," he said.The tax charges were filed more than a year ago, he said, characterizing them as part of a government agenda against him. He said they would not impede his representation of Abu Ghaith, whose trial Kaplan has scheduled for January.   Read more »

Around the web

• Pak could plunge into ‘deeper chaos’ following US go-slow on drone strikes: Report - Indiatalkies.com

  on Islamist militancy. Now, drone strikes are dwindling, the war in Afghanistan is drawing to a close and the battle against Al-Qaeda is receding. Pakistani leaders who have long demanded an American exit from their region may get their wish, but a broader 48 m ago from India Talkies Read more »

• Turkistan Islamic Party touts suicide bombings in Afghanistan

  (2010); Ahmet Turki (2010); Ammar Kurdi (2010); and Zaza Dadullah (2012). The group's leaders also hold senior positions in al Qaeda. Abdul Haq al Turkistani, the slain former leader of the Turkistan Islamic Party, was a member of al Qaeda's Shura Majlis, 5/25/13 from The Long War Journal Read more »

• In Boko Haram Offensive, Nigerian Forces on Familiar Ground

  go to borders, cordon the areas, arrest everybody." While the military appears poised to beat back the insurgency, political analyst and former University of Nigeria researcher Nkwachukwu Orji says Boko Haram has a history of appearing to succumb to defeat 5/25/13 from GlobalSecurity.org Read more »

• ‘The House That Rob Built’: Special Forces Combat Outpost Pirelli, part 1

  March, it was an al-Qaeda safe haven and the most violent province in Iraq. “The surge was on in Baghdad, pushing a lot of al-Qaeda up into Diyala,” Major Jones explained. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, “was killed in Diyala [in a targeted 5/25/13 from The Daily Caller Read more »

• Obama’s new drone policy has cause for concern

  also came down to a determination that the CIA was simply better than the Defense Department at locating and killing al-Qaeda operatives with armed drones, according to current and former U.S. officials involved in the deliberations. Even now, as the president 5/25/13 from The Washington Post Read more »