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nal Airport on Wednesday, July 22, after allegedly being in communication with two undercover FBI agents, one of whom she believed to be a member of al Qaeda. According to the criminal complaint filed in court, Jones agreed to send money to purchase scopes for rifles that would be used to kill American so
that Iran "soon plans to use it for live-fire drills." While "Iranian state media and officials have yet to acknowledge bringing the replica out to the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world's oil passes," its "appearance there suggests Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard is preparing an encore of a si
triggered a campaign of violence from the majority Sunnis that includes a growing Islamist element and takes in Muslim Brotherhood, Salafi and even al-Qaeda- affiliated factions. Despite President Obama's "reset" policy, Russia continues to support [4] Bashar al-Assad's brutal regime. But in a rare admis
They went behind my back, goddammit. CJCS: Yes, sir. POTUS: Why the hell should I lift a finger to help them? CJCS: Because if the Iranians close the Strait of Hormuz, we will see oil above $200 a barrel. POTUS [after a pause]: Just a moment. [Whispers] How am I doing in Florida? David Axelrod [also whispering]
owed. Yemen's protests were galvanised by the drama in Cairo's Tahrir Square but they also involved tribalism, elite rivalry and a small but alarming al-Qaida presence against a background of resource depletion and fear of state HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018086 --- PAGE BREAK --- 3 failure. Sectarian tensions wer
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018086 →taboo in Islam against the taking of one’s own life. He also introduced the propaganda ploy of the martyrdom video, which would become a signature of Al Qaeda. Bin Laden needed Zawahiri, not least because of his physical ailments. Although bin Laden did not have kidney disease, as was widely thought, he was
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018094 →The New Yorker Zawahiri at the Helm Lawrence Wright June 16, 2011 -- Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon, has come into his inheritance—A1] Qaeda—at a time when the organization is at its nadir. Osama bin Laden, its charismatic founder, is dead, and after some internal debate his No. 2 man, Zaw
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018094 →ly, but they cannot be ruled out at some levels of conflict and in some scenarios, such as those that posit a need to open and secure passage through the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf. In general, the more expansive a war’s goals as a plan escalates from strike to campaign to broad offensive, the greater the force
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018107 →Entities connected to both al-Qaeda and the Strait of Hormuz

Barack Obama
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United States
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George W. Bush
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Bill Clinton
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Donald Trump
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Lebanon
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Tehran
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Bashar al-Assad
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Yemen
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Department of Justice
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Vladimir Putin
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Joe Biden
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Hillary Clinton
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Prince Andrew
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Damascus
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Virginia Giuffre
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Marc Rich
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Tunisia
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