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A Tennessee man accused of killing a soldier outside a Little Rock, Ark., military recruiting station last year has asked a judge to change his plea to guilty, claiming for the first time that he is affiliated with a Yemen-based affiliate of Al Qaeda. In a letter to the judge presiding over his case, the accused killer, Abdulhakim Muhammad, calls himself a soldier in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and calls the shooting “a Jihadi Attack” in retribution for the killing of Muslims by American troops. “I wasn’t insane or post traumatic nor was I forced to do this...

Fugitive ex-aide to bin Laden cites 'corrupt practices of the regime' in tapeAn al-Qaida leader urged divided Yemenis to unite and fight the country's government, and called its president an "infidel agent" in an audio message released Thursday. The recording, purportedly of Naser Abdel Karim al-Wahishi — Yemen's most wanted fugitive and the leader of al-Qaida in Yemen and Saudi Arabia — called on northerners and southerners to put their differences aside and focus on battling the government. Impoverished Yemen, on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula, has re-emerged as a potential base for al-Qaida, though its government has cooperated...