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President Joe Biden’s unlimited resettlement of Afghans has brought “dozens of suspected bomb-makers and terrorists” to the United States, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says. As Breitbart News reported, a Department of Defense Inspector General report reveals that Biden’s agencies failed to properly vet Afghans arriving in the U.S. As of November 2021, the report states 50 Afghans already in the U.S. have been flagged for “significant security concerns.” Most of the unvetted Afghans flagged for possible terrorism ties, the report states, have since disappeared into the nation’s interior. In one instance, the report noted that only three of 31 Afghans...

SNIPPET: "Algiers, 11 Feb. (AKI) - Al-Qaeda has launched a new campaign to recruit university students, scientists and IT specialists in Algeria. "We appeal to undergraduates, chemists, doctors and IT specialists to join our ranks," the terror network said in a statement published on jihadist websites on Thursday. "Remember the massacres that take place every day in Palestine, in Cechyna, Iraq and Afghanistan," said the statement signed by 'Abu Muslim al-Jazairi'. Al-Qaeda is seeking new bomb-makers and medics who can help treat fighters wounded in clashes with Algerian security forces, according to daily El-Nahar. Currently, 80 pecent of young people...

WASHINGTON, July 19, 2007 – American and Afghan security forces broke up a bomb-making network and detained six terrorism suspects during separate operations July 17, officials reported. Afghan soldiers and police disrupted an improvised explosive device-fabrication operation during a raid in the Bak district of Khowst province July 17. Members of a newly established Afghan National Police unit based in Khowst province and a battalion from 1st Brigade, 203rd Afghan Army Corps, planned and executed the raid after receiving credible information of a suspected IED facility. The police found incriminating documents, small arms, bomb-making material, and a large amount of...

HAWIJA, Iraq, Jan. 12, 2007 — Improvised explosive devices are a primary threat to soldiers in the Kirkuk Province. To combat the threat, soldiers in Hawija are augmenting their ground fight with air assets. Those assets are proving invaluable. "The hair on the back of my neck stood up when the guys wouldn’t even look at the helicopter. I knew they were hiding something," 2nd Lt. J. Brent Martin Recently, soldiers of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, captured four Anti-Iraqi Forces and confiscated weapons during an air reconnaissance mission near Hawija, Iraq. According to...

Apr. 7, 2006 23:09 | Updated Apr. 9, 2006 0:30 Six Palestinian terrorists killed in latest IAF air strike By YAAKOV KATZ A Palestinian policeman inspects a damaged car after it was hit by an Israeli missile in Gaza City Saturday April 8, 2006. Photo: AP An IAF aircraft fired missiles at a Fatah training camp near Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip late Saturday evening after spotting suspicious activity. Six Palestinians were killed in the strike. Weekend missile strikes killed a total of 14 Palestinians, including a seven-year-old boy. Security forces will go on high alert Sunday morning out...

SAN'A, Yemen (AP) — An explosion ripped through a residential building in the capital San'a Friday, killing two bombmakers, police said. The Ministry of Interior said in a statement the homemade bomb went off prematurely, killing one person instantly and seriously wounding another, who later died on the way to a hospital. One of the victims was identified by police as Mohammed Abdel Khaleq al-Boreihi. The identity of the other and the motive for the bombing were not immediately clear. Police said three people, including one who shared the rented apartment with the victims, were arrested and were being interrogated....