al-Qaedain a sentence
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Since 9-11, al-Qaeda has been more an inspiration for anti-American terrorists than a provider of direct support.
al-Qaeda = multinational militant Sunni Islamic extremist network that planned the 9-11 terrorist attacks
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The Americans claimed that al-Qaeda militants who had fled from Afghanistan during the US bombing were using the areas as a safe haven, taking advantage of our Pashtun hospitality.
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al-Qaeda = terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States; planned the 9-11 terrorist attacks
- and of course, on 9111 , when we were attacked by unknown forces that turned out to be al-Qaeda.† (source)
- They're saying now the journalists were probably Al-Qaeda men.† (source)
- Nobody appeared to know exactly what had happened, though I overheard "North Korea" blaring from the radio of a parked cab, and "Iran" and "al-Qaeda" muttered by a number of passersby.† (source)
- There was also al-Qaeda in Iraq, a mostly foreign group that saw the war as an opportunity to kill Americans.† (source)
- The Taliban and al-Qaeda had been very clever about leading American soldiers into traps.† (source)
- Alan might be sold to al-Qaeda, ransomed, transported across borders.† (source)
- Even Ayman alZawahiri, al-Qaeda's second-in-command, rebuked him.† (source)
- The Americans said it was the al-Qaeda training camp which had featured in the group's videos and that the hill was riddled with tunnels and gun emplacements. (source)
- Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, had been living in Kandahar when the attack on the World Trade Center happened, and the Americans had sent thousands of troops to Afghanistan to catch him and overthrow the Taliban regime which had protected him. (source)
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- The Americans say they gave Pakistan billions of dollars to help their campaign against al-Qaeda, but we didn't see a single cent. Musharraf built a mansion by Rawal Lake in Islamabad and bought an apartment in London. (source)
- The head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Sheikh Abdullah al-Janabi—had his headquarters in the city.† (source)
- Others were loyal to al-Qaeda in Iraq or Sadr or some of the other whackadoos out there.† (source)
- Security has been tightening because of Kabul's support of Bush's war in Iraq and expected reprisals from al-Qaeda.† (source)
- He might have said something, some offering of impotent outrage, if this had been the work of the Taliban, or al-Qaeda, or some megalomaniacal Mujahideen commander.† (source)
- We picked up a pretty wide variety of suspects—financiers for al-Qaeda, bomb-makers, insurgents, foreign insurgents—one time we picked up a truckload of them.† (source)
- That's why the Taliban and al-Qaeda favored pressure plates and other triggers that were belowground."† (source)
- An American air strike ended Zarqawi's life in June 2006, and by the end of the decade al-Qaeda in Iraq had been decimated.† (source)
- And yet all the while the son of a Saudi construction billionaire was building an organization known as al-Qaeda, or the Base.† (source)
- He joined the secular resistance and, later, al-Qaeda in Iraq, where he met and befriended Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.† (source)
- In short, Carter had done the dirty work necessary to prevent another al-Qaeda spectacular on the American homeland.† (source)
- Jabhat al-Nusra, an al-Qaeda affiliate, controlled the territory along the border, but a two-hour car ride to the northeast was ISIS and the caliphate.† (source)
- And in March 2003, with the American invasion of Iraq looming, he slipped into Baghdad and formed the resistance cells that would eventually come to be known as al-Qaeda in Iraq.† (source)
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