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Thu 03 Mar 2011Turmoil will help al-Qaeda 'regroup'
YEMEN:AL-QAEDA front man and radical preacher Anwar Al-Awlaki claimed the civil unrest sweeping across the Arab world would strengthen the terrorist network and open “great doors of opportunity” for Islamic fundamentalists.
Writing in the latest edition of the English language Inspire magazine, released yesterday by Yemen’s militant Islamic organisation, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Mr Awlaki said Islamists had been freed by the removal of anti-Islamic autocrats, referring to the fall of Tunisia’s Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali and former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.
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