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DoD keeps up the pressure

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is pledging to keep up the pressure on al-Qaida. At his formal swearing-in ceremony, the former CIA director said that if the U.S...

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July 27, 2011 4:54 pm

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is pledging to keep up the pressure on al-Qaida. At his formal swearing-in ceremony, the former CIA director said that if the U.S. remains committed to that fight, and it ultimately will succeed in denying safe havens for the organization. In the meantime, authorities in Oslo are digging into whether al-Qaida’s ideology played any role in the deadly blast and shooting rampage last week.