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Militants in Yemen threatened Monday to strike the US Embassy for a second time.
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Two Saudis formerly jailed at the US prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, have joined Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch, and authorities
here worry that two other ex-Guantánamo inmates may have strayed back to militancy because they have recently disappeared
from their homes.
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The revelations illustrate the difficulties faced both by President Obama, who has pledged to shutter the facility for terror
suspects, and the Saudi government, which is trying to reform its own radical jihadis, many of whom were imprisoned at Guantánamo
before being released back to the kingdom.
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Al Qaeda in Yemen started to publish its magazine again and posted a video online declaring the Saudi and Yemeni
Al Qaeda groups had united, according to Jihadica.com, a website that analyzes extremist activity on the Internet.
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