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Topic: Al-Qaida (page 6)

Pakistani police officer and rescue worker examine the site of a bomb blast in a bus stand in Matani near Peshawar, Pakistan Sunday, June 5, 2011. The bomb explosion killed several people in the latest violence to hit the country since the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The attack also followed reports that another top al-Qaida operative, Ilyas Kashmiri, had been killed in a recent American missile strike along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) (AP)

FILE - This April 1998 file photo shows exiled al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden's personal files revealed a brazen idea to hijack oil tankers and blow them up at sea last summer, creating explosions he hoped would rattle the world's economy and send oil prices skyrocketing, the U.S. said Friday, May 20, 2011. (AP File Photo) (AP)

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FILE- In this April 1998 file photo, exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden is seen in this April 1998 picture in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden's Yemeni wife once dismissed the terror leader's offer to return to the safety of her home, saying she wanted to stay and be "martyred" alongside her husband, her family says. In interviews with The Associated Press, Amal al-Sada's relatives paint a portrait of an ambitious, resolute and conservative young woman told friends and family she hoped to "go down in history" after her marriage to the world's most wanted man. (AP Photo, File) (AP)

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Vice President Joe Biden walks from the White House to the Blair House in Washington, Thursday, May 5, 2011, for a meeting with congressional Republicans and Democrats in hopes of striking a deal on deficit reduction. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

FILE- In this April 1998 file photo, exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden is seen in this April 1998 picture in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden's Yemeni wife once dismissed the terror leader's offer to return to the safety of her home, saying she wanted to stay and be "martyred" alongside her husband, her family says. In interviews with The Associated Press, Amal al-Sada's relatives paint a portrait of an ambitious, resolute and conservative young woman told friends and family she hoped to "go down in history" after her marriage to the world's most wanted man. (AP Photo, File) (AP)

In this undated image from video seized from the walled compound of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and released Saturday, May 7, 2011, by the U.S. Department of Defense a man, who the American government identified as Osama bin Laden, watches himself on television. U.S. intelligence would not confirm Saturday that the video of bin Laden in the makeshift office was filmed at the Pakistani compound, but they have said they believe he has been holed up in the compound for as long as six years. This and other videos released Saturday show him watching television and rehearsing for terrorist videos. (AP Photo/Department of Defense) (AP)

Kimberly Dozier

Natasha Lennard

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Osama bin Laden, in a screenshot from one of the videos released by the Pentagon on Saturday.

This June 15, 2005 satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe shows the compound, center, in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden lived. Bin Laden, the face of global terrorism and mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was tracked down and shot to death at the compound by an elite team of U.S. forces on Monday, May 2, 2011, ending an unrelenting manhunt that spanned a frustrating decade. (AP Photo/DigitalGlobe) (AP)

Lolita C. Baldor, Kimberly Dozier

FILE -This undated file photo, shows Osama bin Laden. Americans are expected to get a glimpse of Osama bin Laden's daily life with the disclosure of home videos showing him strolling around his secret compound, along with propaganda tapes that have never been made public (AP Photo/File) (AP)

Lolita C. Baldor, Kimberly Dozier

Pakistani family members leave the area after viewing the walled compound of a house, seen in background, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on Thursday, May 5, 2011. The residents of Abbottabad, Pakistan, seem to be confused and suspicious about the killing of Osama bin Laden by a U.S. military force, which took place in their midst before dawn on Monday. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) (AP)

Further revelations from Abottabad and beyond

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Pakistani police officers stand guard at the main gate of a house where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, May 4, 2011. The residents of Abbottabad, Pakistan, were still confused and suspicious on Wednesday about the killing of Osama bin Laden, which took place in their midst before dawn on Monday. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) (AP)

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Jon Stewart on Wednesday night's "Daily Show"

President Barack Obama greets guests in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 2, 2011, following a ceremony where he awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously to U.S. Army Private First Class Anthony T. KahoÍohanohano and U.S. Army Private First Class Henry Svehla for conspicuous gallantry during the Korean War. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (Associated Press)

People in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad celebrate Osama bin Laden's killing May 2, 2011.

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Pakistan army soldiers and police officers patrol past house, background, where it is believed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden lived in Abbottabad, Pakistan on Monday, May 2, 2011. Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of people, was slain in his hideout in Pakistan early Monday in a firefight with U.S. forces, ending a manhunt that spanned a frustrating decade. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) (AP)

FILE - In this Dec. 24, 1998, file photo, Muslim militant and Al Quida leader Osama Bin Laden speaks to a selected group of reporters in mountains of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. A person familiar with developments said Sunday, May 1, 2011 that bin Laden is dead and the U.S. has the body. (AP Photo/Rahimullah Yousafzai, File) (AP)

Is al-Qaida still relevant?

Peter Finocchiaro

Asif Ali Zardari and George W. Bush shake hands in New York City in 2008

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Bin Laden's death: New details emerge

Natasha Lennard

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Gaza's Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh leaves a mosque after Friday prayers in Gaza City, Friday, April 29, 2011. Officials from the rival Fatah and Hamas movements said Wednesday, they have reached an initial agreement on ending a four-year-old rift that has left them divided between rival governments in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) (AP)

Muslim world's mixed response to bin Laden's death

Natasha Lennard

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Lee Keath, Hamza Hendawi

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