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Double agent underwear bomber ‘is British national’
An undercover agent who foiled an al-Qaeda plot to blow up a airliner with an underwear bomb is a British national, according to US reports.
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Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula: who are they?
Channel 4 News looks at the al-Qaeda group in the Arabian Peninsula linked to explosives found on two cargo planes, and Public Enemy No 1 for the UK intelligence services, Anwar al-Awlaki.
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US foils new ‘underwear’ bomb threat
America foils a plot by al-Qaeda in Yemen to detonate an upgraded version of the failed 2009 “underwear bomb”, according to US officials.
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9/11 ‘mastermind’ tried in Guantanamo court
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others who say they planned the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington appear in a military court charged with murdering 2,976 people.
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The gulf between western and jihadi thinking
The publication online of documents seized at Osama bin Laden’s house underlines the gulf between western and jihadi thinking.
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Can fragmented al-Qaeda capitalise on instability?
The question now is will al-Qaeda, with its new North African leadership, be able to capitalise on the politcal instability which follows revolution?
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Afghan explosion hours after Obama visit
A car bomb explodes outside a compound housing Westerners in Kabul hours after US President Barack Obama visits the Afghan capital.
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Bin Laden killing turns into US election row
A year after US special forces shot dead the world’s most wanted terrorist, bin Laden’s death has sparked a furious political row. A risky tactic by President Obama – now could it backfire?
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'The world has become small since 9/11'
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum recalls a conversation with the man at the centre of Libyan rendition claims on how close the CIA and MI6 became with Libyan intelligence.
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Sun-kissed French beach is actually… South Africa
An advertising campaign inviting tourists to “come and play” in France has backfired after it emerged the posters featured “little bit cheeky” images of South Africa and the US.
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Why has Britain been unable to deport Abu Qatada?
As France swiftly expels two radical Islamists, Channel 4 News looks at why the British government is finding it so difficult to remove radical cleric Abu Qatada.
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Campaigner-in-chief: Obama’s new docu-mercial
It’s the unofficial kick-off of Obama’s re-election campaign: a slick, 17 minute documentary about his presidency, narrated by Tom Hanks. The aim? To make it an online sensation.
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The tragedy of war in Afghanistan
With the deaths of six British soldiers in Afghanistan the number of UK troops killed since the conflict began has passed 400. Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson assesses a decade at war.
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Why are British troops fighting in Afghanistan?
With the announcement that six British soldiers are missing, believed killed, in Afghanistan, we examine the explanations and justifications for the country’s continued presence in the country.
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Theresa May to visit Jordan to push for Qatada removal
Home Secretary Theresa May is to travel to Jordan to try and negotiate a way for the government to deport controversial Muslim cleric Abu Qatada.