Search results for ‘osama’
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‘Underpants bomber’ sentenced to life
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who attempted to blow up a US airliner on Christmas day in 2009 with a device concealed in his underwear, has been given a life sentence.
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Abu Qatada supporters post hate sermons
As Abu Qatada is released from jail, British followers of the radical cleric post online sermons calling Britons “enemies of Allah” and lauding the preacher in the same breath as Osama bin Laden.
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Al Qaeda backs Syrian opposition
Al Qaeda urges the Syrian opposition not to rely on the West or the Arab League for help toppling President Bashar al-Assad.
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Government seeks Jordan’s help over Qatada extradition
The government seeks assurances from Jordan as it steps up its efforts to deport Islamist cleric Abu Qatada, who has been described as “Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe”.
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Leaked military report shows ‘US frustrated with Pakistan’
The leaked report of Afghan detainees’ interrogation statements says more about US disenchantment with Pakistan than about its spy agency’s supposed grip on the Taliban, analysts tell Channel 4 News.
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US forces free hostages in Somalia
Two aid workers, who have been held hostage in Somalia for three months, are freed by US special forces in an early morning operation.
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Obama calls for fairer US in State of Union address
US President Barack Obama uses the State of the Union address to focus on economic inequity, calling for tax reform to a system that allows the wealthy to pay a lower rate than middle-class Americans.
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Radical cleric Qatada wins deportation appeal
Abu Qatada, described as “Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe”, is granted the right to stay in the UK because he risks facing an unfair trial in Jordan.
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2011 – The year of living dangerously
From the Arab Spring to the eurozone crisis, Channel 4 News casts an expert eye on the events that changed the world this year.
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Man accused of planning bomb attacks in New York
An “al-Qaeda sympathiser” accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City, as well as US troops returning home, is arrested on terrorism-related charges.
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The eurozone debt crisis that keeps repeating itself?
We track the repeat “crunch talks” which punctuate the eurozone debt crisis, as a global finance expert tells Channel 4 News Europe’s leaders are wrestling with an “ungovernable system”.
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The values of due process
Alex Thomson blogs on the endgame of Colonel Gaddafi
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Al-Qaeda chief Awlaki ‘killed in Yemen’
As a US drone strike in Yemen kills cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a leading al-Qaeda figure, Channel 4 News assesses his influence on terror attacks in the UK and abroad.
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‘Pakistan missing out on donations due to bad brand’
Aid agencies say Pakistan’s perceived links to terrorist groups is undermining their ability to raise funds internationally to tackle a second successive year of devastating floods.
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Pakistan’s al-Qaeda chief ‘killed’
Abu Hafs al Shahri, believed to be al-Qaeda’s chief of operations in Pakistan, has reportedly been killed in a drone attack in Waziristan.
