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Al Qaeda: Bin Laden
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The senior members of al Qaeda and the Taliban recovered quickly. In early 2002, they hid in the badlands along the Pakistani-Afghan border. fighters went underground, and the trail for the top three men (bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's top deputy) went cold almost immediately. For the next two years, al Qaeda focused on surviving—and, with the Taliban, on building a new base of operations around Quetta, in the Baluchistan region of Pakistan.
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Pakistani businessman Saifullah Paracha allegedly told al-Qaeda operatives that he knew where to obtain nuclear weapons that could be used against US troops. Paracha denied the allegations but admitted to meeting Osama Bin Ladin in 1999 to discuss business deals.
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Police said Al Qaeda was responsible for the suicide bombings. Such seemingly coordinated attacks are unprecedented in Afghanistan and reinforced fears that Osama bin Laden's terror network has teamed up with its old ally the Taliban, which claimed responsibility for the attacks.
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Iraq war critics can argue that al-Qaeda in Iraq is more a freelance franchise than a true subsidiary of bin Laden's core al-Qaeda. They can argue... that Iraq is still a hugely distracting sideshow to the main struggle pitting the United States and its allies against bin Laden's terrorist apparatus.
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Iran says it has arrested a number of Al-Qaeda members in recent months, including some senior figures in Osama Bin Laden’s organization. But it has declined to name who it has caught and says it will not hand them over to US officials for questioning.
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