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In 2007, Navy SEAL Mike Day was shot 27 times by four Al Qaeda gunmen and hit by grenade shrapnel, but he killed all four of the gunmen and walked out to the extraction helicopter. He recovered and is living with his wife and daughters.
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Lebron James was so hated back in 2012 that even a captured Al-Qaeda member wrote letters expressing his disgust at his decision to go to the Miami Heat. He told his lawyer that “LeBron James is a very bad man and should apologize to the city of Cleveland.”
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FBI agent John Patrick O'Neill warned of the looming threat of Al Qaeda and was convinced a major attack was in the works. Due to conflict of interests he was reassigned as head of security for the WTC and died on 9/11 less than a month on the job
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The Doors drummer John Densmore was sued by remaining bandmates b/c he wouldn’t let them sell the commercial rights to their songs to Cadillac, saying late singer Jim Morrison would have opposed it. During a 6-year court battle, he was called anti-American, communist and Al Qaeda supporter.
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MI6 replaced bomb making instructions with cupcake recipes on al-Qaeda websites
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In 2007 Navy SEAL Mike Day was shot 27 times by four Al Qaeda gunmen and hit by grenade shrapnel, but he killed all four of the gunmen and walked out to the extraction helicopter. He recovered and is living with his wife and daughters.
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Osama bin Laden left a will that he had written shortly after 9/11 in which he urged his children not to join al-Qaeda and not to continue the Jihad.
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British intelligence once executed "operation cupcake" to hack an online al-Qaeda magazine, replacing bomb making instructions with a recipe for cupcakes.
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Russell Crowe was once contacted by the FBI about Al Qaeda wanting to kidnap him to take "iconographic Americans out of the picture as a sort of cultural destabilisation plan." Russel Crowe isn't American though. He's originally from New Zealand.
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Al-Qaeda initially planned to fly hijacked jets into nuclear installations, rather than the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They had decided against the attack on nuclear power plants "for the moment" because of fears it could "get out of control".
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MI6 once hacked into an al-Qaeda and replaced their instructions for making bombs with a cupcake recipe
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Original targets of the September 11 attacks were nuclear power plants, but the targets were later altered by al-Qaeda, as it was feared that such an attack "might get out of hand"
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With the ruins of the World Trade Center still smoldering, Attorney General John Ashcroft told a congressional committee that a mosque in Brooklyn was funneling money to al Qaeda. It was the lead story in the New York Times. It turned out to be wrong.
An illiterate retired guard in his 70s saved many of Timbuktu’s priceless manuscripts during the 2012 Al Qaeda occupation of the city, by smuggling them out of the city at night in rice sacks, in a cart. Jihadists went on to burn whatever manuscripts were left. - source
February 2014, Al-Qaeda cut ties with ISIS, noting their brutality and disregard for civilian life as reasons why - source
The US military briefly investigated the Journal of Irreproducible Results, a comedic publication satirizing academia, after finding their joke article on how to build a nuclear bomb filed away at the abandoned Al Qaeda headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Al-qaeda initially considered targeting nuclear power plants on 9/11 but decided against it, fearing that such an attack "might get out of hand". - source
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The producer of the original Halloween horror movies was killed in an Al-Qaeda hotel suicide bomb attack.
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US State Department announced a reward of up to US$10 million for information leading to the capture or death of the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Only the leader of al-Qaeda merits a larger reward (US$25 million)
A 2010 Al-Qaeda hit-list included Salman Rushdie's name because he is said to have insulted Islam.
Al Qaeda and its direct affiliates have taken in at least $125 million in revenue from kidnappings since 2008, of which $66 million was paid just last year.
After the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, the U.S. fired missiles at a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan, suspecting that it was related to Al-Qaeda. The following medicine shortage led to tens of thousands of civilian deaths.
