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Posted: 5/22/2013 5:21:45 PM EST
FILE - In this May 15, 2013, file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder gestures while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. Four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Holder said that in conducting U.S. counterterrorism operations against al-Qaida and its associated forces, the government has targeted and killed one American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki. Al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric, was killed in a drone strike in September 2011 in Yemen. The administration released the information the day before President Barack Obama is scheduled to make a major speech on national security. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Posted: 5/15/2013 4:56:02 PM EST
FILE - IN this Oct. 23,2012 file photo, former CIA officer John Kiriakou leaves U.S. District Courthouse in Alexandria, Va. Government information leaks and collisions with the media date back decades and decades. Think back to the Pentagon Papers. Kiriakou was arrested in 2012 and charged with leaking classified details about terror operations. Kiriakou, who was involved in the capture of al-Qaida terrorist Abu Zubaydah, was sentenced earlier this year to more than two years in prison for leaking a covert officer's identity to a freelance writer. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
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Posted: 5/15/2013 6:53:52 AM EST
FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 17, 2012 file photo, Tunisian Salafi Muslims stage a protest outside the El Fateh mosque in Tunis, surrounded by police, in support of a hardline Muslim, known as Abu Yadh. Tunisia is taking a harder line on preaching by ultraconservative Muslim groups, a crackdown that has sparked demonstrations by rock-throwing protesters and ominous warnings of terrorist attacks to come. As it struggles to hunt down al-Qaida linked terrorists in its frontiers, the government has also been trying to rein in salafis emboldened by the fall of the country's repressive dictatorship two years ago. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi, File)
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Posted: 5/15/2013 6:53:52 AM EST
FILE - In this Thursday, April 19, 2012 file photo, a Salafi Muslim kisses a flag reading "Only one god and Mohammed is his Prophet" outside the courthouse in Tunis, Tunisia. Tunisia is taking a harder line on preaching by ultraconservative Muslim groups, a crackdown that has sparked demonstrations by rock-throwing protesters and ominous warnings of terrorist attacks to come. As it struggles to hunt down al-Qaida linked terrorists in its frontiers, the government has also been trying to rein in salafis emboldened by the fall of the country's repressive dictatorship two years ago. (AP Photo/Amine Landoulsi, File)
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Posted: 5/6/2013 11:48:30 AM EST
FILE - In this May 3, 2011 file photo, local residents gather outside a house where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The military judge has ordered an apparently unprecedented closed hearing Wednesday, May 8, 2013 to help her decide how much of Manning's trial will be closed to protect national security. A prosecutor said at a Feb. 26 pretrial hearing that more than half of the government’s 141 anticipated witnesses would testify about classified information. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, File)
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Posted: 4/24/2013 11:43:38 AM EST
Chiheb Esseghaier, one of two suspects accused of plotting with al-Qaida in Iran to derail a train in Canada, arrives at Buttonville Airport just north of Toronto, on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Canadian investigators say Raed Jaser, 35, and his suspected accomplice Esseghaier, 30, received "directions and guidance" from members of al-Qaida in Iran. In a brief court appearance in Montreal Tuesday, Esseghaier declined to be represented by a court-appointed lawyer. He made a brief statement in French in which he called the allegations against him unfair. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)
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Posted: 4/24/2013 11:43:38 AM EST
Mohammed Jaser, father of Raed Jaser, leaves court in Toronto on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Raed Jaser is accused with another man of plotting to derail a train in Canada with support from al-Qaida elements in Iran. Raed Jaser had a brief court appearance and was told to appear in court again next month. (AP Photo/ THE CANADIAN PRESS,Frank Gunn)
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Posted: 4/24/2013 11:43:38 AM EST
John Norris, the lawyer for Raed Jaser, one of the two men accused of plotting a terror attack on a Canadian rail target, leaves court in Toronto on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Jaser, 35, was charged in Toronto Tuesday in an alleged al-Qaida supported terror plot to attack a Via passenger train. His suspected accomplice Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, was charged in Montreal. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young)
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Posted: 4/24/2013 11:43:38 AM EST
Family members of Raed Jaser, including father Mohammed Jaser, left, leave court in Toronto on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Jaser, accused with another of plotting to derail a train in Canada with support from al-Qaida elements in Iran, made a brief court appearance and was told to appear in court again next month. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)
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Posted: 4/24/2013 11:43:38 AM EST
Family members of Raed Jaser, including father Mohammed Jaser, center, leave court in Toronto on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Raed Jaser, accused with another of plotting to derail a train in Canada with support from al-Qaida elements in Iran, made a brief court appearance and was told to appear in court again next month. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Frank Gunn)
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Posted: 4/24/2013 10:53:18 AM EST
In this courtroom sketch, Chiheb Esseghaier appears in court in Montreal on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Esseghaier, 30, and Raed Jaser, 35, were arrested and charged Monday in what the RCMP said was the first known al-Qaida terror plot in Canada. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, MHP)
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Posted: 4/24/2013 10:53:18 AM EST
Chiheb Esseghaier, one of two suspects accused of plotting with al-Qaida in Iran to derail a train in Canada, arrives at Buttonville Airport just north of Toronto, on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Canadian investigators say Raed Jaser, 35, and his suspected accomplice Esseghaier, 30, received "directions and guidance" from members of al-Qaida in Iran. In a brief court appearance in Montreal Tuesday, Esseghaier declined to be represented by a court-appointed lawyer. He made a brief statement in French in which he called the allegations against him unfair. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young)
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Posted: 4/23/2013 9:03:22 PM EST
Chiheb Esseghaier, one of two men accused of plotting a terror attack on rail target, is led off a plane by an Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer at Buttonville Airport just north of Toronto on Tuesday April 23, 2013. Canadian investigators say Raed Jaser, 35, and his suspected accomplice Esseghaier, 30, received "directions and guidance" from members of al-Qaida in Iran. In a brief court appearance in Montreal Tuesday, Esseghaier declined to be represented by a court-appointed lawyer. He made a brief statement in French in which he called the allegations against him unfair. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young)
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Posted: 4/23/2013 6:03:41 PM EST
A man walks his dog past a mosque where Chiheb Esseghaier, one of the two accused in an alleged plot to bomb a Via passenger train, used to attend Tuesday, April 23, 2013 in Montreal. Canadian investigators say Raed Jaser, 35, and his suspected accomplice Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, received "directions and guidance" from members of al-Qaida in Iran. Iran said it had nothing to do with the plot, and groups such as al-Qaida do not share Iran's ideology. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Ryan Remiorz)
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Posted: 4/23/2013 6:03:41 PM EST
In this courtroom sketch, Raed Jaser appears in court in Toronto on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Jaser, 35, and Chehib Esseghaier, 30, were arrested and charged Monday in what the RCMP said was the first known al-Qaida terror plot in Canada. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, John Mantha)
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Posted: 4/23/2013 12:53:26 PM EST
Security officials check a man at a courthouse in Montreal on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Reed Jaser, one of two men accused of plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train with support from al-Qaida elements in Iran, made a brief court appearance Tuesday but did not enter a plea. Canadian investigators say Jaser, 35, and his suspected accomplice Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, received “directions and guidance” from members of al-Qaida. The case prompted an immediate response from Iran, which denied any involvement and said groups such as al-Qaida do not share Iran’s ideology. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Ryan Remiorz)
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Posted: 4/23/2013 12:53:26 PM EST
Security officials check a man at a courthouse in Montreal on Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Reed Jaser, one of two men accused of plotting a terrorist attack against a Canadian passenger train with support from al-Qaida elements in Iran, made a brief court appearance Tuesday but did not enter a plea. Canadian investigators say Jaser, 35, and his suspected accomplice Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, received “directions and guidance” from members of al-Qaida. The case prompted an immediate response from Iran, which denied any involvement and said groups such as al-Qaida do not share Iran’s ideology. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Ryan Remiorz)
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Posted: 4/23/2013 6:08:25 AM EST
FILE - This Jan. 31, 2013 file photo shows people carrying the coffin of Yann Desjeux, in Bayonne, France. Yann Desjeux, a French citizen, was one of those killed in the hostage rescue operation at a remote gas plant seized by Islamist militants in Algeria, earlier in the month. Al-Qaida's North African arm is trying something new to stay relevant: Twitter. Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, is trying to move the battleground elsewhere, seeking to tap into social grievances and champion mainstream causes such as unemployment, all in bid to reverse decline and win new followers, appealing to widespread concerns, such as the repression and a sense of injustice that galvanized the Arab Spring revolts. (AP Photo/Bob Edme, File)
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Posted: 4/23/2013 6:08:25 AM EST
FILE - This April 11, 2007 file photo shows rescuers and firemen searching through rubble after a bomb exploded near the prime minister's office in Algiers. Al-Qaida's North African arm is trying something new to stay relevant: Twitter. Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, is trying to move the battleground elsewhere, seeking to tap into social grievances and champion mainstream causes such as unemployment, all in bid to reverse decline and win new followers, appealing to widespread concerns, such as the repression and a sense of injustice that galvanized the Arab Spring revolts. (AP Photo/Ouahab Hebbat, File)
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Posted: 4/23/2013 6:08:25 AM EST
FILE - This Feb. 21, 2013 file photo shows Malian soldiers, working with French forces, battling radical Islamic rebels in Gao, Mali. Al-Qaida's North African arm is trying something new to stay relevant: Twitter. Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, is trying to move the battleground elsewhere, seeking to tap into social grievances and champion mainstream causes such as unemployment, all in bid to reverse decline and win new followers, appealing to widespread concerns, such as the repression and a sense of injustice that galvanized the Arab Spring revolts. (AP Photo, File)
