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VIDEO: Drone footage shows migrants' arrival September 23, 2015
Matthew Price looks at one of the Greek hotspots for migrants entering Europe.
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VIDEO: The Olympian who never gave up September 23, 2015
In 1992, 400m medal hopeful Derek Redmond pulled up injured in the semi-final of the Barcelona Olympics, but still finished the race.
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VIDEO: Football legend Pele at 75 September 23, 2015
Football legend Pele is 75 this year. He talked to the BBC about what inspires him and what he makes of football today.
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VIDEO: Pope Francis lands to cheers in US September 22, 2015
President Obama and his Family have greeted Pope Francis upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
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VIDEO: Lesbos struggles as 4,000 arrive daily September 22, 2015
The Greek island of Lesbos is still struggling to keep up with the steady flow of migrants and refugees.
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VIDEO: How much does making a drug cost? September 22, 2015
As Turing Pharmaceuticals raises the price of an Aids treatment, Daraprim, BBC News looks at how the pharmaceutical industry tries to balance the pursuit of profit with a patient's need to access medication.
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VIDEO: Refugee crisis: Food and phone charging September 22, 2015
The BBC's Mark Lowen reports from a sports stadium on the Turkey-Greece border where agencies are providing shelter and food to refugees trying to reach Europe.
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VIDEO: On the ground at refugee hotspots September 22, 2015
EU ministers have approved a controversial plan to relocate 120,000 refugees and migrants across the EU using compulsory quotas.
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VIDEO: A guide to strange initiation ceremonies September 22, 2015
Initiation ceremonies are in the news, here are some of the stranger ones from around the world.
– YUSEF AL-AYERI
* Yusef Al-Ayeri or Yusuf Bin Saleh Al-Ayeri, alias “Swift Sword”, was a Saudi member of Al Qaeda, a former bodyguard of Osama Bin Laden and involved in coordinating the assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud, on 09/09/2001. Yusef Al-Ayeri headed Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, up to mid 2003. He directly ordered Abdel Karim Mejjati.
Yusef Al-Ayeri was behind a Web site, al-Nida, one of Al Qaeda websites used to transmit codes and manuals to its activists all over the world.
In 02/2003, some radical militants were arrested in Bahrain (see – BAHRAIN Cell). A joint US-Saudi raid of an apartment in Saudi Arabia owned by one of them, probably Muhammed Saleh Ali Muhammad, revealed the designs for a bomb called al-Mubtakkar. This bomb is made of two widely available chemicals, sodium cyanide and hydrogen, which combine to create hydrogen cyanide. When turned to gas, it is lethal, and counterterrorism experts are highly alarmed at this technical breakthrough.
According to a CIA informant, Yusef Al-Ayeri visited Al Qaeda number two leader Ayman Al Zawahiri in 01/2003. He told al-Zawahiri of an already advanced plot in the USA. Operatives loosely linked to Al Qaeda had traveled to the US in the fall of 2002 and thoroughly cased locations in New York City. They would place the Mubtakkar bomb in subway cars and remotely activate them but Al Zawahiri called off the attacks.
Yusef Al-Ayeri was also the anonymous author of two extraordinary pieces of writing. The first was ‘The Future of Iraq – the Arabian Peninsula after the Fall of Baghdad’, written as the United States prepared its attack in 2002. In the book Yusef Al-Ayeri said that an American invasion of Iraq would be the best possible outcome for al Qaeda, stoking extremism throughout the Persian Gulf and South Asia, and achieving precisely the radicalizing quagmire that Osama Bin Laden had hoped would occur in Afghanistan.
A second book, Crusaders’ War, outlined a tactical model for fighting the American forces in Iraq, including “assassination and poisoning the enemy’s food and drink,” remotely triggered explosives, suicide bombings and lightning strike ambushes”.
Yusef Al-Ayeri was replaced as the head of Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia by Khaled Ali Haj and as a top ideologue of Al Qaeda by Attiya Allah .
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