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Army teams going to Africa as terror threat grows

A U.S. Army brigade will begin sending small teams into as many as 35 African nations early next year, part of an intensifying Pentagon effort to train countries to battle extremists and give the U.S. a ready and trained force to dispatch to Africa if crises requiring the U.S. military emerge.

Tags: Army , AFRICOM , Carter Ham , DoD , al-Qaida ,

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Al-Qaida leader's death a blow to East Africa groups

J.J. Green, WTOP national security correspondent

Tags: Faisal Muhammad , J.J. Green , al-Qaida , Fazul Mohammed , Fazul Abdullah Mohammed

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