Qaeda

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Qaeda

  1. Clipping of al-Qaeda.
    • 2004, Evan Thomas, Eleanor Clift, Jonathan Darman, Kevin Peraino, Peter Goldman, Election 2004: How Bush Won and What You Can Expect in the Future, PublicAffairs, →ISBN, page 177:
      The tape of the Qaeda leader, creepily invoking polemical filmmaker Michael Moore, was played in the war room at Kerry headquarters in Washington.
    • 2004, Stephen E. Atkins, “Al-Qaeda”, in Encyclopedia of Modern Worldwide Extremists and Extremist Groups, Westport, Conn., London: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 259:
      Nineteen members of the Qaeda network seized control of four commercial airliners and used them as suicide missiles against selected targets.
    • 2022 August 1, David E. Sanger, The New York Times:
      The killing of the top Qaeda leader offers lessons on 20 years of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.