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 Home ｜ Prevalent Issues ｜ Location ｜ Place ｜ Human & Environmental Interactions｜ Movement ｜ Region｜ Interview **__ North Africa __**  From BBC News Al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb, to give its full name in English, has its roots in the bitter Algerian civil war of the early 1990s, but has since evolved to take on a more modern Islamist agenda.
 * __Profile: Al-Qaeda in North Africa__**

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6545855.stm

From BBC News Abu Qatada is awaiting extradition to Jordan, where he faces life in jail North African militants have demanded the release of a prisoner held in the UK, and threatened to kill a British hostage if their demand is not met.
 * __Africa militants make UK threat__**

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**__Southwestern Asia__**  __**Iran Bombing Kills 5 Revolutionary Guard Leaders**__ by The Associated Press A suicide bomber killed five senior commanders of the powerful Revolutionary Guard and at least 37 others Sunday near the Pakistani border in the heartland of a potentially escalating Sunni insurgency.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113911309&ft=1&f=1004

__**Iran blames US and UK for suicide bomb attack**__ by Robert Tait THE IRANIAN Revolutionary Guards yesterday vowed to take revenge after blaming Britain and the US for a suicide bombing that killed six of its commanders and 37 others in one of the country’s most unstable provinces.

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by Roger Hardy It is still unclear who carried out Tuesday's attack in the diplomatic quarter of the Syrian capital Damascus.
 * __Analysis: Syria attack mystery__**

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 The Rumaila project aims to increase output at the field by 2m barrels a day Iraq's cabinet has ratified a deal with two foreign energy companies to develop the giant southern oilfield in Rumaila. 
 * __Iraq cabinet ratifies oil deals__**  From BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8312249.stm

From BBC News US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told the BBC that Russia now recognises the threat posed by Iran.
 * __Clinton: Russia sees Iran threat __**

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by Sangwoo Song & Jae Ook Lee

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