After six years, two wars, and dozens of senior al Qaeda figures arrested, Osama bin Laden and his chief associate Ayman al-Zawahiri remain at large. In this week’s List, FP runs down some of the other most dangerous senior al Qaeda leaders who are still on the loose.
Abu Ayyub al-Masri
Possible whereabouts: Iraq. Last October and [...]

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The Iranian atom has been engaging Israel’s defense and strategic
establishment for nearly 15 years but only during the past year in the wake of the Israel Defense Forces’ failure to deal with either Hezbollah, the decrease in Palestinian suicide terror or Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s threats of destruction that the threat has begun to sink [...]

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Israel targeted weapons intended for delivery to Hezbollah inside Syria a week ago, the CNN television network reported Tuesday.
Senior correspondent Christian Amanpour, citing Middle Eastern and Washington sources, said aircraft and ground forces, which directed the planes to their target, took part in the operation.
The attack left “a big hole in the desert,” the report [...]

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Russia’s military yesterday announced that it had successfully tested a lethal new air-delivered bomb, which it described as the world’s most powerful non-nuclear weapon.
In what appears to be the Kremlin’s latest display of military might, officials said Moscow had developed a new thermobaric bomb to add to its already potent nuclear arsenal.
Russia’s state-run Channel One [...]

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Networks offer breakthroughs in affordable emergency radio.
Apparently, they never heard of Family Radio Service in the town of Jericho.
Family Radio Service is a very low power, short-range UHF citizens band in the 460 MHz band that some civil-defense activists believe offers great promise in worst-case communications disaster scenarios.
The hand-held two-way radios sell for as little [...]

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WASHINGTON DC, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ — Today on the anniversary of the September 11th terror attacks, a massive federation to combat radical Islam has been officially declared. The Anti-Jihad Federation, as it is being called, is coming to be the name known for any and every organization involved in confronting the threat from Islamic Jihadists. [...]

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What do Iranians and Arabs say about 9/11?
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CH-18 Hornets were scrambled to intercept several Tupolev-95 Bear bombers flying over the arctic a bit too close to Canadian airspace Friday, Lt.-Gen. Angus Watt told The Chronicle Herald. “It’s not exactly a new challenge; it’s an old challenge that has returned,” Watt said.
The area buzzed by the bombers is located inside what the Canadian [...]

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Britain’s ruling Labour party has instituted many multicultural policies that allow radical Islamic institutions to flourish in the U.K. According to FSM Contributing Editor Adrian Morgan, this has resulted in a rapid loss of the country’s identity. Is it too late to turn the tide?
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Two months later, Iran and Venezuela pledged $350 million to build a seaport near Monkey Point on Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast. (Tehran has also been cultivating an alliance with oil-rich Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez.) And last Wednesday, the Nicaraguan foreign minister returned from Tehran, where he met with the foreign ministers of Syria, Cuba and Iran. [...]

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On the Lebanese side of the border, though, the single most significant military development since the end of the 2006 war has been Hizbullah’s construction of a defensive line north of the Litani River, first reported last February by Nicholas Blanford in The Christian Science Monitor.
As soon as the war with Israel ended, wealthy Hizbullah [...]

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“There seems to be a consensus here that the Israelis were testing Syrian air defense systems,” Andrew Tabler, Damascus-based editor of Syria Today, told TIME.
Whatever their purpose, the overflights appear to have dashed hopes of cooling Israeli-Syrian tensions. Having absorbed the lessons of Israel’s failure to crush Hizballah during last summer’s month-long war, Syria has [...]

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But are we really so powerless when it comes to dealing with Russia–particularly given our other preoccupations? Russia’s strength is actually deceptive. The ex-KGB cronies who now run Russia, including the large oil and gas conglomerates, seem better at seizing assets than at knowing how to use them. While the government is accruing enormous reserves [...]

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