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Police in Nigeria say 11 people have been killed in bomb attacks that are suspected to be the work of a radical Islamic group.

Multiple bombs went off Tuesday at a police station and a church in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the scene of frequent violence in recent months.

Borno state police say the radical sect Boko Haram likely was behind the attacks. They say three of the group's members were among those killed.

On Monday, gunmen killed a prominent Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ibrahim Birkuti, in a town southwest of Maiduguri. Police blame Boko Haram for that attack as well.

Britain's defense minister says his agency's computer systems fended off more than a thousand cyber attacks in the past year.

Al-Qaida's second in command has issued a message eulogizing the terrorist group's leader, Osama bin Laden, who was killed in a U.S. raid in Pakistan last month.

In a 28-minute video posted Thursday on militant websites, Ayman al-Zawahri said bin Laden terrified the United States while alive and would continue to do so in death.

He also criticized U.S. forces for burying bin Laden at sea and urged the Pakistani people to rise up against their leaders, calling them "traitors."

Pakistani officials say a pair of U.S. missile strikes has killed at least 20 suspected militants in Pakistan's tribal region of North Waziristan.

Intelligence officials say the missiles were fired from drones within minutes of each other Wednesday, with two of them hitting a vehicle and the other two a nearby compound. The strike took place in the village of Zoynarai in the Shawal area in the mountainous region close to the border with Afghanistan.

Commandos from 1st Company, 5th Commando Kandak, partnered with U.S. Special Operations Forces, successfully recovered explosives and materials used to make an improvised explosive device in Tsamows Kol Village, Qal’eh ye Zal district, June 7.

The combined forces conducted a clearing operation to remove IED materials from the area. Commandos became aware of the materials after receiving reports from local villagers.

A combined Afghan and coalition security force captured a key facilitator for the Kunduz attack network and two of his associates during a nighttime security operation in Archi District, Kunduz province, yesterday.

The facilitator moved suicide bombers and explosive materials for the network. This network consists of multiple Taliban and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan insurgents who are directly involved in explosive device and suicide bomb attacks against Afghan government officials and Afghan National Security Forces.

Spring will no longer be a favorite time of year for Southern Helmand insurgents because of counterinsurgency operations like the recent narcotics interdiction conducted by Afghan National Security Forces, with the support of Marines, soldiers and sailors of Regimental Combat Team 1, Task Force Leatherneck.

Operation Harvest Moon recently concluded, after six weeks of operations that extended coalition presence and attacked the heart of the region’s drug trade, an important source of revenue for insurgents.

A couple of years ago, Afghan Uniformed Policeman Shakh Muhammad was on a drug clearing mission when one of his best friends stepped on an improvised explosive device and lost his life.

Now, Muhammad is learning how to counter IEDs during the Afghan Uniformed Police Basic Course at Joint Sustainment Academy Southwest, here.

“That was a sad day,” said Muhammad, reflecting on his friend’s death. He hopes his training at the C-IED range on Camp Bastion will help him learn how to locate and destroy IEDs to prevent others from dying in the blasts.