Examples of using Al-qa'ida in English and their translations into Finnish
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Al-Qa'ida is eager to put down roots in the region.
The American-led forces are still present in the country, combating the last remaining pockets of al-Qa'ida fighters.
The Taliban and al-Qa'ida have turned to drug revenues to pay for their insurgency and terror.
US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, is proclaiming that Iraq is giving refuge to al-Qa'ida terrorists.
He said yesterday that al-Qa'ida had not only survived the six-year onslaught, but possessed momentum.
The direct result of his policies has created the best possible recruiting ground al-Qa'ida could ever have asked for.
Although much reduced in size, al-Qa'ida is still an external threat from hiding places in the regions bordering Afghanistan.
The USA, along with its allies, most notably the UK,launched a successful attack to displace al-Qa'ida from its stronghold.
There have been significant regroupings of Taliban and al-Qa'ida forces bent on murdering international aid workers in the provinces, which will set back progress.
In Afghanistan, the military occupation has generated exponential growth in the production of opium,which is funding the al-Qa'ida network.
As has been pointed out by other speakers, the only American al-Qa'ida member so far captured is to be tried in a court in Virginia with full legal representation!
Others still have argued that there maybe some links between Iraq and terrorist organisations with global links such as Al-Qa'ida.
To listen to some of those with a professional hatred of the United States, one would imagine that, in their view,the Taliban and al-Qa'ida are a species of freedom fighter who wish to help poor and oppressed peoples.
The fact that al-Qa'ida cells still exist in at least 40 countries, according to the UN report that I mentioned earlier, also reminds us that terrorist networks are drawing their resources from the troubled waters of the international financial market.
At a time of heightened international terrorism,is it a good idea to have freedom of movement from countries with known al-Qa'ida presences?
Do we want this risk to be taken in a world where accidents in the nuclear chain cannot be excluded,where al-Qa'ida and other terrorists lie in wait, where proliferation is revealed in the Iran crisis?
Being unclear helps no one andI simply do not understand why some in this House do not want the use of the term"fundamental Islamist organisations" to describe al-Qa'ida and their ilk.
The recent campaign in Waziristan shows Islamabad's intent to prosecute a war against al-Qa'ida strongholds in tribal areas, historically no-go areas for the government of President Musharraf, who has now pressured tribal leaders to hunt down Islamist militants.
Refugees coming to the West who are terrorist sympathisers orhave been active with the Taliban or al-Qa'ida must be sent back to face the music.
Be it the IRA fire-bombing a packedhotel outside Belfast and incinerating a dozen innocent people, al-Qa'ida attacking the twin towers, or Chechen extremists in Beslan butchering innocent children, the strategy is the same- maximum impact through maximum carnage in the hope of extracting maximum political concession.
While other types of terrorism continue to pose a serious threat to EU citizens,the Union's response to radicalisation and recruitment focuses on the terrorism perpetrated by Al-Qa'ida and extremists inspired by Al-Qa'ida.
Across the troubled landscape of Afghanistan and Pakistan, we are working together to disrupt,dismantle and defeat al-Qa'ida and the Taliban fighters and to train an Afghan army and police force so that their government can eventually protect its own people and not be a threat to its neighbours.
It is certainly the case that, if we want to see the authority of the Transitional Authority run right across thewhole of the country, then it is imperative that we do not undermine that authority by reinventing the warlords as part of the continuing campaign against al-Qa'ida and the Taliban.
Pakistan is also not fully cooperating with ISAF, allowing it to enter the tribal areas of the north-west frontier region where al-Qa'ida is currently regrouping to threaten Afghanistan's government and civil society.
Mr President, a year has now passed since the tragic 9/11 events which triggered the war against Afghanistan, now mercifully in a mopping-up phaseto search out and destroy remnants of the odious Taliban regime and their al-Qa'ida terrorist allies.
We still have the problem of considerable sympathy for Islamic terrorism in neighbouring Iran, where some al-Qa'ida fighters have allegedly taken refuge, but almost certainly many are sheltering in Pakistan, where president Musharraf walks a tightrope between cooperating with the West and yet not fully cracking down on his home-grown Jihadi Islamic terrorist groups despite pledging to do so.
It must be pointed out, however, that the military operations carried out by the United States or the West in Afghanistan, like the random detention of alleged Islamic extremists in Guantanamo orthe compilation of ever-expanding lists of suspect organisations, have not enabled us to stamp out the al-Qa'ida criminal network.
Nevertheless, I welcome President Musharraf 's change of heart in backing the United States in their war on terrorism which toppled the Taliban regime and destroyed the al-Qa'ida network in Afghanistan, even though this regime was largely a creation of Pakistan 's interservice intelligence agency; in particular, his speech of 13 January promising reforms of the madrassas, or religious schools, which fomented so much hatred of the west and bred an atmosphere conducive to the massacre of Christians peacefully at worship last year.
Following the horrendous attack on 11 September, the pretext for the savage attack on Afghanistan, which resulted in unimaginable destruction, countless thousands of victims and mass slaughter, was the fight against terrorism, based on the arbitrary,unproven claim that the US agent bin Laden, al-Qa'ida and the USA-supported Taliban, were to blame.
This new, specific undertaking by the Union will also be an- albeit posthumous- tribute to the appeal made by Commander Massoud, who, on 5 April 2001 here in Strasbourg, called upon Europe for help, although Europe,I am sad to say, was insensitive at that time to the afflictions of a country oppressed by Taliban fundamentalism and which al-Qa'ida had made the cradle of international terrorism.