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Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, right, chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawwa and founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, addresses a news conference with anti-American cleric Sami ul Haq in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Wednesday, April 4, 2012. Saeed, one of Pakistan's most notorious extremists mocked the United States during a defiant media conference close to the country's military headquarters, a day after the U.S. slapped a $10 million bounty on him. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistani militant leader thumbs nose at US bounty

Munir Ahmed, Sebastian Abbot The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 10:35am

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan — One of Pakistan’s most notorious extremists taunted the United States during a defiant news conference close to the country’s military headquarters Wednesday, a day after the U.S. slapped a $10 million bounty on him.

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Relatives react by the coffin of Mohamed Merah during his funeral ceremony near Toulouse, southern France, Thursday, March 29, 2012. Mohamed Merah is blamed for a series of deadly shootings which have shocked France and upended the country's presidential race. Merah, who claimed allegiance to al-Qaida, died in a hail of gunfire one week ago after a dramatic 32-hour-long standoff with law enforcement. Algerian authorities said they didn't want to take Mohamed Merah's remains, as his Algerian-born father had wanted. (AP Photo/Marthial Roland)

France detains 19 suspected Islamist extremists

Cecile Brisson, Thomas Adamson The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 30, 2012 - 9:42am

PARIS -- French police detained 19 people Friday as they launched a crackdown on suspected Islamist extremists in cities around the country, President Nicolas Sarkozy said, promising more raids to come.

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Anders Behring Breivik, a right-wing extremist who confessed to a bombing and mass shooting that killed 77 people on July 22, 2011, arrives for a detention hearing at a court in Oslo, Norway, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. About 100 survivors and relatives of the victims of the July 22 massacre attended the hearing in Oslo's district court - expected to decide to keep Breivik in jail until his trial begins in April. (AP Photo/Lise Aserud, Scanpix Norway)

Norway mass killer demands medal at court hearing

Bjoern H. Amland The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 6, 2012 - 10:43am

OSLO, Norway -- The right-wing extremist who has admitted killing 77 people in the worst peacetime massacre that Norway has ever seen told a court Monday that he deserved a medal of honor for the bloodshed and demanded to be set free.

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(VAHID SALEMI/The Associated Press) Iranian cleric lawmakers talk in an open session of the parliament in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011. Iran’s parliament has approved a bill to reduce Tehran’s diplomatic relations with London and withdraw the country’s ambassador to Britain.

Iranian students storm British Embassy in Tehran

Nasser Karimi The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 10:28am

TEHRAN, Iran — Hard-line Iranian students stormed the British diplomatic compounds in Tehran on Tuesday, bringing down the Union Jack flag and throwing documents from windows in scenes reminiscent of the anger against Western powers after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

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New White House strategy to hit violent extremism

Eileen Sullivan The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 6:36am

WASHINGTON (AP) — Local communities around the country are best suited to take on the challenge of combatting the kind of violent extremism that inspires people to kill, the Obama administration concludes in a new national plan to fight the threat of al-Qaida and other violent radicals at home.

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People gathered near the bus targeted by gunmen in Quetta, Pakistan on Wednesday, June 22, 2011. Gunmen riding motorcycles opened fire on a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims in Quetta, killing four people and wounding seven others, said senior police officer Hamid Shakeel. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Pakistan army targets officers with extremist ties

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 11:39am

ISLAMABAD -- The Pakistan army is questioning four more officers about suspected links with a banned extremist group that has called for the military to oust the country's government, the army spokesman said Wednesday.

A day earlier, the army said it detained a senior officer working at army headquarters, Brig. Ali Khan, for suspected links with the group, Hizb-ut-Tahrir. The four army majors who are being questioned have not been detained, said army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas.

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