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BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Al Qaeda Factor’

By Joshua Sinai - Special to The Washington Times

World Scene

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Man pleads guilty over online ‘South Park’ threat

By MATTHEW BARAKAT - Associated Press

Taliban graffiti shows Taliban fighters in a convoy decorating a wall in the Musa Qala district center and the current Battalion Command Headquarters for the U.S. Marine 3rd Battalion 2nd Marines based out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., Monday, July 25, 2011 in Helmand province, Afghanistan. The district center, once a large opium market under Taliban control also served as sleeping quarters for opium addicts. The graffiti, from that period, depicts Taliban fighters shooting down Russian, American or coalition planes, blowing up their tanks and taking their prisoners. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

General: ‘Use drones to kill’ the Taliban in Pakistan

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

HOLMES: Preventing the rise of safe havens for terrorists

By Kim R. Holmes

** FILE ** Jayashri Srikantiah, staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California, holds up copies of records showing passengers checked on no-fly lists from San Francisco International Airport, as plaintiffs Jan Adams, right, and Rebecca Gordon, center, look on during a news conference in San Francisco, in this April 22, 2003, file photo. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

U.S. No-Fly list doubles in 1 year

By Eileen Sullivan - Associated Press

Mohammed Chowdhury is one of four British men who pleaded guilty on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, to involvement in an al-Qaeda-inspired plot to spread terror and cause economic damage by bombing the London Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/West Midlands Police)

4 Britons admit London Stock Exchange bomb plot

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat (Associated Press)

Feinstein veils criticism of Obama over drone strikes

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Briefly: Middle East

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

U.S. airstrikes kill 4 al Qaeda militants in Yemen

By Ahmed Al-Haj - Associated Press

Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak appears in an Oslo court on Monday, Jan. 30, 2012, where he was sentenced to 3½ years in prison after being found guilty on terror charges. (AP Photo/Scanpix, Berit Roald)

2 convicted in al Qaeda terror plot in Norway

By Bjoern H. Amland - Associated Press

John Kiriakou (Associated Press)

Ex-CIA officials assail ID of agents

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Nigeria Islamist militant sect drawing increased scrutiny

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

American Scene

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

This undated photo taken at an unknown location and released by the Danish Refugee Council on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, shows American Jessica Buchanan from the Danish Refugee Council's de-mining unit. (AP Photo/Danish Refugee Council)

U.S. military raid in Somalia frees American, Dane

By Abdi Guled and Katharine Houreld and Kimberly Dozier - Associated Press

World Briefs

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A displaced Somali woman walks past an armored vehicle of an African Union peacekeeping force that was transporting journalists in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Officials: U.S. drone strike kills Somali insurgent

By Abdi Guled and Katharine Houreld - Associated Press

Analysts: Radical Uzbek group recruiting in Europe

By Josie Le Blond - Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** Military personnel inspect each occupied cell on a two-minute cycle at the Camp 5 maximum-security facility at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in October 2007. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

U.S.: Al Qaeda magazine got into Guantanamo cell

By Richard Lardner - Associated Press

Protesters demand the prosecution of Yemeni President Ali Abdulla Saleh, who has been igniting unrest for a year. (Associated Press)

Al Qaeda militants spread grip in Yemen

By Ahmed al-Haj - Associated Press