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Fifteen years ago, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak embarked on a grand project to cultivate farmland in the desert and create new towns. But massive projects like Toshka in southern Egypt have languished due to mismanagement, corruption and Mubarak's ouster.

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U.S. intelligence officials say Najibullah Zazi, the man arrested in September for allegedly plotting to blow up targets in New York, contacted one of Osama bin Laden's right-hand men.

The Taliban's top military commander has been captured in Karachi, Pakistan, during a joint CIA-Pakistani operation. One Pakistani officer says Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, described as the No. 2 behind Taliban founder Mullah Muhammad Omar, "was talking" to interrogators.

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Al-Qaida's arm in Yemen, known as AQAP, seems motivated beyond the usual al-Qaida grievances of U.S. soldiers in Muslim lands or America's foreign policy. For AQAP, it's more personal, analysts say, in part because many of its operatives are former Guantanamo detainees.

Moammar Gadhafi suppressed everyone who posed a potential threat, including Islamists. Today, Islamists are vying with secular groups for supremacy in post-Gadhafi Libya. Derna, outside Benghazi in eastern Libya, is one of the battlefields.

Called EcoAtm’s, the new machines pay cash for "e-waste" like outdated and broken cell phones.