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Monday, January 30, 2012
”Lone Wolves” more common and dangerous than organized supremacists according to some experts.
Gunmen kill two in Nigeria’s restive north.
Nigerian troops kill 12 Boko Haram sect members in Maiduguri.
U.S. airstrike on al Qaeda convoy kills 15 militants in Yemen.
Thirty Taliban militants surrender in Afghanistan’s Herat province.
Suicide blast outside Peshawar, Pakistan kills suspected militant leader of Ansar ul-Islam.
Boko Haram vows to keep fighting as gunmen attack another police station in Kano on Sunday.
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