article_snippet: As a result of this pressure, al Qaeda's officials were seriously considering relocating elements of an organization that understood it had severe problems resulting from the CIA drone program that was killing many of the group's leaders in Pakistan's tribal regions bordering Afghanistan to other countries such as Afghanistan or Iran.
article_snippet: In a report on "external operations," an al Qaeda's official explained that a plot to attack the U.S. Embassy in Russia had fizzled and that despite sending al Qaeda's members to the UK to hit "several targets" these operations had also come to nothing.
article_snippet: al Qaeda's officials considered moving to Nuristan, a remote mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan, or to other parts of Pakistan such as Sindh or Balochistan and even to Iran, which had been a key sanctuary for a number of al Qaeda's leaders after the fall of the Taliban in late 2001.
article_snippet: al Qaeda's mulled opening an office in Iran, but "al Qaeda's backed off this idea due to financial costs and other considerations.
article_snippet: You became part of al Qaeda's battle when you sided with the Americans.
article_snippet: If you were to leave us and us affairs alone, us would leave you alone.
article_snippet: Apostasy is a grave crime in Islam and punishable by death in the eyes of members of al Qaeda's.
article_snippet: Bradley Manning to WikiLeaks in 2010 be translated so that al Qaeda could better understand "the enemy's policies in the region.