<img class="gwt-Image" src="/photo/36354536.cms" /> Dubai-based carrier <keyword id="148215" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Flydubai">flydubai</keyword>, which commenced its operations in June 2009, said it would be open to investing in an ‘efficient Indian airline’. 

	In a move to consolidate and expand its position, flydubai has recently added 10 new weekly frequencies in India. 
 The airline added four new flights to Delhi and three weekly flights each to <keyword id="30469" type="CITY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Kochi">Kochi</keyword> and <keyword id="6357416" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Thiruvananthapuram">Thiruvananthapuram</keyword> this month. It currently connects six airports including smaller towns like <keyword id="5065" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Ahmedabad">Ahmedabad</keyword>, Hyderabad and <keyword id="6355192" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Lucknow">Lucknow</keyword>. 

	Currently, the low-cost carrier does not have the mandate to expand inorganically. But if a good opportunity is offered to the company, it can go back to seek approval of its shareholder.
 “We do not have any mandate to go outside right now. But we have dialogue with <keyword id="1446" type="CITY" weightage="40" keywordseo="indian-airlines">Indian airlines</keyword> all the time. If we find a good opportunity, we will consider it. We will then go and seek approval from the shareholders,” said <keyword id="2317007" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="40" keywordseo="flydubai-chief-executive-officer">flydubai chief executive officer</keyword> <keyword id="164648" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Ghaith-Al-Ghaith">Ghaith Al Ghaith</keyword>. 

	A large number of global airlines have shown interest in the Indian carriers after the government allowed foreign airlines to pick up to 49% stake in Indian carriers in September 2012.
 

	flydubai currently uses 3,000 seats per week to India out of the 5,000 allotment.
 The airline has grown operations to have a fleet of 37 <keyword id="6385716" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Aircraft">aircraft</keyword> over the last five years. 
	(Image: flydubai official website)

flydubai Keen To Invest In An Efficient Indian Airline

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5db5eefcdee01967ef4729d3-1280/2019-10-27t101350z816343423rc1f61d5a1d0rtrmadp3mideast-crisis-baghdadi.jpg" border="0" alt="Former Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi speaks in a video released in April 2019," data-mce-source="Reuters" data-mce-caption="Former Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi speaks in a video released in April 2019," />ReutersFormer Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi speaks in a video released in April 2019,</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that US Special Forces killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder and leader of the Islamic State, during a raid in the Idlib province of Syria on Saturday. </li><li>The self-declared caliph of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Al-Baghdadi, 48, was instrumental in building ISIS into one of the most potent terrorist groups in history.</li><li>Al-Baghdadi joined the fight against the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and was radicalized during his detention by US forces at Camp Bucca in Iraq in 2004. </li><li>He first served as a religious adviser to al-Qaeda terrorist cells in Iraq and later rose to become the top leader in 2010 of what was then the Islamic State of Iraq. </li><li>Al-Baghdadi personally promoted and participated in the systematic rape of women who ISIS considered non-believers. He held an American woman, Kayla Mueller, captive as a sex slave before she was killed.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/">Read more stories like this on Business Insider.</a></li></ul>President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that US Special Forces killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder and leader of the Islamic State, during a raid in the Idlib province of Syria on Saturday. "Last night, the United States brought the world's number one terrorist to justice," Trump announced at a nationally-televised Sunday morning press conference. "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead."The self-declared caliph of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Al-Baghdadi, 48, was instrumental in building the Islamic State into one of the most potent terrorist groups in history that, at its height, controlled a territory the size of Great Britain. The secretive jihadist was born as Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri in a village in central Iraq to a Sunni Muslim family and was educated in the city of Samarra. His family claimed to descend from the Prophet Muhammad's tribe, which made it possible for al-Baghdadi to later become the leader of the Islamic caliphate. <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5db5c810dee0195444520204-1280/ap19300491027467 1.jpg" border="0" alt="Kids sit by their damaged home in the village of Barisha, in Idlib province, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, after an operation by the U.S. military which targeted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi." style="color: #000000;" data-mce-source="Ghaith Alsayed/AP Images" data-mce-caption="Kids sit by their damaged home in the village of Barisha, in Idlib province, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, after an operation by the U.S. military which targeted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi." />Ghaith Alsayed/AP ImagesKids sit by their damaged home in the village of Barisha, in Idlib province, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, after an operation by the U.S. military which targeted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.</div></div></div>He took to a conservative interpretation of Islam early in his life and received an undergraduate degree from the Shariah College of University of Baghdad in 1996. Three years later, he earned a master's degree in Koranic recitation from the Saddam University for Islamic Studies. He interrupted his doctorate work to join the fight against American forces after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Al-Baghdadi, whose nom de guerre was then "Abu Dua," was arrested at the home of his parents-in-law near Falluja in January 2004. His brother-in-law, who'd been fighting the American invasion of Iraq, was the target of the raid. Al-Baghdadi was ultimately detained at Camp Bucca, which housed tens of thousands of Iraqis in communal tents, for 11 months. "He was a street thug when we picked him up in 2004," an anonymous Pentagon official <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/11/world/middleeast/us-actions-in-iraq-fueled-rise-of-a-rebel.html?module=inline">told The New York Times in 2014</a>. "It's hard to imagine we could have had a crystal ball then that would tell us he'd become head of ISIS."Experts say <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/11/world/middleeast/us-actions-in-iraq-fueled-rise-of-a-rebel.html?module=inline">Al-Baghdadi's</a> stay at the detention center <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/11/world/middleeast/us-actions-in-iraq-fueled-rise-of-a-rebel.html?module=inline">helped facilitate his radicalization</a> and served as a planning headquarters for ISIS. He was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/world/middleeast/al-baghdadi-dead.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage">chosen as a leader by fellow prisoners in the camp</a>, making alliances with other Sunni prisoners and former Iraqi Baathists. It was there that al-Baghdadi met and became a follower of Jordanian jihadist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who would go on to lead al-Qaeda in Iraq. "We could never have all got together like this in Baghdad, or anywhere else," Abu Ahmed, a jihadist imprisoned with al-Baghdadi at Camp Bucca, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/11/-sp-isis-the-inside-story">told The Guardian in 2014</a>. "It would have been impossibly dangerous. Here, we were not only safe, but we were only a few hundred meters away from the entire Al Qaeda leadership."More broadly, many argue that the US invasion and occupation of Iraq in the early 2000s motivated and fueled al-Baghdadi's rise. "He is Iraqi to the core, and his extremist ideology was sharpened and refined in the crucible of the American occupation," Tim Arango and Eric Schmitt of The Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/11/world/middleeast/us-actions-in-iraq-fueled-rise-of-a-rebel.html?module=inline">wrote of al-Baghdadi in 2014</a>. "The American invasion presented Mr. Baghdadi and his allies with a ready-made enemy and recruiting draw. And the American ouster of Saddam Hussein, whose brutal dictatorship had kept a lid on extremist Islamist movements, gave Mr. Baghdadi the freedom for his radical views to flourish." The US military released him in December 2004.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5db56bb4dee01943c266ba92-1500/2019-10-27t100246z1lynxmpef9q0bhrtroptp4mideast-crisis-baghdadi.jpg" border="0" alt="FILE PHOTO: A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has made what would be his first public appearance at a mosque in the centre of Iraq's second city, Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet on July 5, 2014, in this still image taken from video. Social Media Website via Reuters TV/File Photo " data-mce-source="Reuters" data-mce-caption="FILE PHOTO: Still image taken from video of a man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi making what would be his first public appearance at a mosque in Mosul" />ReutersStill image taken from video of a man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi making what would be his first public appearance at a mosque in Mosul</div></div></div>For years, very little was known about al-Baghdadi. He served as a religious adviser to al-Qaeda terrorist cells in Iraq. As US forces dealt significant blows to al-Qaeda's leadership, the spiritual instructor rose to become the top leader in 2010 of what was then the Islamic State of Iraq. The Arab Spring, which began in late 2010, and the civil war in Syria, which began in early 2011, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-islamic-states-terrorist-in-chief-dies-at-48/2019/10/27/0d004abc-663d-11e7-8eb5-cbccc2e7bfbf_story.html">provided his weakened group</a> with new motivation, fighters, and weapons. His fighters eventually captured the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa.By the early summer of 2014, Islamic State forces shocked the world by seizing control of one-third of Iraq, including the country's second-largest city, Mosul, and half of Syria. In his only filmed public address, al-Baghdadi declared the founding of the caliphate in a speech in a Mosul mosque in 2014, telling his followers, "Know that today you are the defenders of the religion and the guards of the land of Islam."There were multiple reports that al-Baghdadi was killed or injured in various attacks over the last few years, but all of them proved false.The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, ultimately recruited tens of thousands of fighters from 100 countries, according to The Times. It carried out or inspired <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/25/world/map-isis-attacks-around-the-world.html">terrorist attacks</a> that have killed thousands <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/17/world/mapping-isis-attacks-around-the-world/index.html">in countries around the world</a> and became perhaps best known for its extraordinarily brutal, gruesome murder and torture of its prisoners, including Americans.Those attacks included <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sri-lanka-bombing-attacks-photos-churches-hotels-2019-4/?r=nordic">suicide bombings</a> at a Sri Lankan church on Easter Sunday this year, the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/casualties-reported-after-truck-plows-into-berlin-holiday-market-2016-12">massacre at a German Christmas market</a> in 2016, and the 2015 <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/shooting-san-bernardino-california-2015-12">mass shooting in San Bernadino, California</a>. The group used the internet to build networks of support around the world, enforced extreme religious rules inspired by Islamic theocracies in the Middle Ages, and brutally targeted religious minorities, including the Yazidis. Al-Baghdadi personally promoted and participated in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/world/middleeast/isis-enshrines-a-theology-of-rape.html">the systematic rape of women</a> who ISIS considered non-believers, including <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/15/world/middleeast/isis-held-us-aid-worker-as-sex-slave-before-death.html?module=inline">an American ISIS captive, Kayla Mueller</a>, who al-Baghdadi kept as one of several of his sex slaves. ISIS reported Mueller was killed in a Jordanian airstrike in 2015. While the Islamic State has lost control of virtually all of its territory, there remain widespread fears that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/us/politics/isis-iraq-syria.html">the group will re-emerge</a> or morph into a new terrorist movement, and that <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2015-02-18/isis-not-terrorist-group">its ideas will not die</a> along with its leaders. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pepe-frog-meme-hate-symbol-hope-hong-kong-protesters-2019-10">Extremists turned a frog meme into a hate symbol, but Hong Kong protesters revived it as an emblem of hope</a></h3> <div> <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/A6EN9Vxm-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script> </div> </div>

How Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi rose from a radical religious scholar to the brutal leader of the most powerful terrorist group in the world

A video has been released that appears to&#xa0;show the moment a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/russian-passenger-jet-crashes-on-landing-2016-3">Boeing 737 passenger jet crashed</a>&#xa0;at an airport in Russia, killing all 62 people on board, as reported by the <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/russia-plane-crash-video-shows-moment-flydubai-jet-crashes-killing-all-62-board-1550453">International Business Times</a>.The surveillance footage, released by local&#xa0;news network&#xa0;Russia-24, shows a large object descending from the sky and exploding upon impact. A white flash can then be seen through a forest.<div><iframe src="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tv/embed/17746" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div>The&#xa0;plane, FlyDubai flight FZ981, was traveling from Dubai and scheduled to land at the Rostov-on-Don airport at 6:40 P.M. EST. The plane crashed at 8:50 P.M. EST, according to a statement from FlyDubai posted on Facebook.&#xa0;While the FlyDubai CEO Ghaith Al Ghaith said it was too early for speculation at a press conference, officials cited by various media outlets blame the weather - up to 60 mile per hour winds and&#xa0;rain causing low visibility. Russia's&#xa0;Ministry of Emergency Situations said investigations have&#xa0;ruled out terrorism as a cause, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/18/europe/russia-plane-crash/">CNN reports</a>.Citing a Russian news agency, the <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/flydubai-flight-fz981-crash-no-distress-call-pilot-ceo-says-too-early-determine-cause-2339543">IBTimes</a> is reporting that workers at the crash scene found both of the plane's data records and one of two voice recorders, but&#xa0;the pilot did not issue a distress call, according to Ghaith.&#xa0;&#xa0;

Video reportedly shows the moment the passenger jet carrying 62 people crashed in Russia

Good morning! Welcome back to <a href="http://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/10-things-in-politics">10 Things in Politics</a>, your weekday look at the biggest stories in DC and beyond. <a href="http://newsletter.businessinsider.com/join/10-things-in-politics">Sign up here to receive this newsletter</a>.Send tips to <a href="mailto:bgriffiths@insider.com">bgriffiths@insider.com</a> or tweet me at <a href="https://twitter.com/BrentGriffiths">@BrentGriffiths</a>.Here's what we're talking about:<ul><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/unemployment-biden-labor-shortage-job-seeking-policy-2021-5">Biden moved to cut down on unemployment benefits</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-says-some-republicans-trying-to-silence-liz-cheney-2021-5">The most powerful Republican woman in the Senate says Liz Cheney is being canceled</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pets-in-bidens-cabinet-dogs-cats-major-champ-2021-5#remington-winchester-peppa-and-salty-interior-secretary-deb-haalands-dogs-1">You know Champ and Major. These are the Biden administration's other paw-licy advisors.</a></li></ul>One thing to look out for today: Dr. Anthony Fauci and other top federal health officials are set to testify before the Senate at 10 a.m. ET. (Yes, this almost guarantees another round of Republican Sen. Rand Paul <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rand-paul-accuses-fauci-of-theater-wearing-masks-for-show-2021-3">teeing off on Fauci</a>.)<hr />1. MORE JOBS-REPORT FALLOUT: President Joe Biden said Americans receiving unemployment benefits must either take a job that is "suitable" or lose the support. He largely rejected Republicans' and business groups' arguments that too generous benefits had hurt job growth, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/unemployment-biden-labor-shortage-job-seeking-policy-2021-5">but the move signals he is listening to GOP criticism on the issue</a>. April's disappointing jobs report has only added more pressure.<ul><li>What it means: Experts say Biden is trying to return to the job-seeking guidelines that were in place before the pandemic. <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/unemployment-biden-labor-shortage-job-seeking-policy-2021-5-1030411225">Thirty-nine states have already started, or are planning to, reimpose them</a>.</li></ul>Republican governors are going even further: Several states are moving to cut expanded unemployment insurance entirely. South Carolina, Montana, and Arkansas are ending their participation in federal assistance programs for the unemployed in late June. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/states-ending-unemployment-expansion-impact-thousands-workers-republicans-labor-shortage-2021-5">At least 276,000 workers could be affected</a>.<div type="image" title="People wait on line to file for unemployment in Fayetteville, Arkansas, April 6, 2020." height="988" width="1317" msid="82546778" hostid="261"></div>There are some broader shifts at play too: Democratic economists have argued that companies should pay workers more if they want people to return more quickly. Some employers are doing just that, including Costco and Chipotle. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-raising-wages-workers-pandemic-hiring-chipotle-costco-target-walmart-2021-5#chipotle-7">Chipotle said on Monday that its pay increase would result in an average of $15 for new hourly workers</a>.<ul><li>Others say worker shortages will hurt consumers too: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-franchisees-blame-labor-shortage-on-unemployment-benefits-2021-5">"A Big Mac will get more expensive," a group of independent McDonald's franchisees warned</a>. They said increased spending on salary and benefits to try to entice workers would only lead to higher menu prices.</li></ul>The pandemic brought about larger trends as well: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/07/jobs-report-labor-shortage-analysis/">Some workers want to switch jobs or careers after having to deal with pandemic conditions for the past year</a>, The Washington Post reports. Others are waiting to return until they are fully vaccinated or their child's school fully reopens.<ul><li>Key stat: The childcare struggle is best magnified by women who have exited the workforce <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/essay/why-has-covid-19-been-especially-harmful-for-working-women/">at a far higher rate than men</a> during the pandemic. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/07/jobs-report-labor-shortage-analysis/">All of April's job gains went to men, per The Post</a>.</li></ul><hr />2. Israeli-Palestinian clashes at their worst in years: <a href="https://www.insider.com/20-palestinians-including-9-kids-killed-israeli-airstrikes-gaza-2021-5">Israeli airstrikes killed nine children and 11 others in Gaza on Monday</a>, Palestinian officials said. The airstrikes came after Hamas fired seven rockets at Jerusalem - <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/jerusalem-alaqsa-templemount-haramalsharif/2021/05/10/17f29614-b161-11eb-bc96-fdf55de43bef_story.html">the first time the city had been targeted since 2014</a> - and more rockets at southern Israel, per The Washington Post.<ul><li>The White House is under increasing pressure to do more: "<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/10/joe-biden-israeli-palestinian-conflict-486628">Even if you ignore this issue, it will not ignore you</a>," Ghaith Al-Omari, a former Palestinian negotiator, told Politico. Foreign-policy watchers say the Biden administration's efforts to focus elsewhere in the world are becoming unsustainable as violence spreads.</li></ul><hr />3. Feds OK vaccine for teens: The Food and Drug Administration expanded the authorization for Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, making it the first shot OK'd by the US for 12- to 15-year-olds. Canada is the only other country to have authorized a COVID-19 vaccine for younger teenagers. The US has seen the daily rate of people getting their first dose plummet since early April. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine-authorized-for-12-15-age-group-2021-5">Expanding eligibility to include the younger age group could give the immunization campaign a boost</a>.<hr />4. Former Carlyle Group CEO Glenn Youngkin won Virginia's GOP gubernatorial nomination: Youngkin, a political newcomer, defeated his fellow businessman Pete Snyder in the sixth and final round of a ranked-choice tabulation that took most of the day, Politico reports. Youngkin loaned himself $5.5 million through the end of March. Democrats will pick their nominee in a primary next month. Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe has the inside track. <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/10/youngkin-virginia-gop-nomination-governor-486854">More on what will be one of the most closely watched elections this year</a>.<hr />5. The most powerful Republican woman in the Senate says Liz Cheney is being canceled: "<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-senator-says-some-republicans-trying-to-silence-liz-cheney-2021-5">Cancel culture is cancel culture, no matter how you look at it</a>," Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, the only woman in the Senate GOP leadership, told reporters of Cheney's impending ouster. Ernst said she supported former President Donald Trump but added that "there are those that are trying to silence others in the party."<ul><li>Cheney is almost certain to lose her post Wednesday: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told House Republicans to expect a vote removing Cheney from her role as the party's No. 3 later this week. McCarthy suggested Cheney had distracted the party by "relitigating the past." Despite those plans, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gop-leader-kevin-mccarthy-announces-vote-to-oust-liz-cheney-for-trump-criticism-2021-5">McCarthy said Republicans "embrace free thought and debate."</a></li></ul><hr />6. Biden is spending a huge amount of time at church so far: The nation's second Catholic president has been in a pew at least 15 times since his January 20 inauguration. But the church is a source of both comfort and controversy for Biden, whose long-standing support for abortion rights is renewing criticism about whether he should be allowed to receive communion. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-catholic-faith-church-comfort-controversy-communion-abortion-pope-francis-2021-5">The US Conference of Catholic Bishops is expected to debate the issue at its meeting next month</a>.<hr /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pets-in-bidens-cabinet-dogs-cats-major-champ-2021-5#remington-winchester-peppa-and-salty-interior-secretary-deb-haalands-dogs-1"><div type="image" title="Dogs in the Biden Cabinet." height="1000" width="2000" msid="82546780" hostid="261"></div></a>7. You know their hoomans. Meet the other Team Biden pooches: Champ and Major aren't the only good boys in Washington. Insider contacted all 23 members of Biden's Cabinet to find out more about their furry (or feathered, or scaled) friends. Biden's Cabinet members are the proud owners of at least 10 dogs, Insider found. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pets-in-bidens-cabinet-dogs-cats-major-champ-2021-5#remington-winchester-peppa-and-salty-interior-secretary-deb-haalands-dogs-1">No one fessed up to being a cat owner</a>.<hr />8. Global COVID-19 cases are falling, but inequality is apparent: Wealthier nations with access to ample vaccines are beginning to flip the script on the coronavirus pandemic, but India and some Southeast Asian countries without sufficient supplies are struggling with massive spikes, The New York Times reports. The World Health Organization's chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu, says <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/05/10/world/covid-19-coronavirus/cases-are-falling-globally-but-the-virus-is-surging-in-some-countries-that-had-kept-it-under-control">the world is in danger as long as cases remain at "an unacceptably high plateau."</a><hr />9. Protests and calls to postpone or cancel the Olympics intensify: A recent poll found 70% of people in Japan thought the 2020 Summer Olympics, which were originally scheduled for last year, should be either postponed yet again because of the pandemic or canceled entirely. The country continues to see spikes in new cases and less than 1% of its population has been vaccinated. <a href="https://www.insider.com/japan-protests-against-olympic-games-as-covid-spreads-no-vaccines-2021-5">Tokyo remains under a state of emergency</a>.<hr />10. J. Lo and Ben Affleck were spotted together in Montana, which is set to gain a new House seat: Just like Affleck's and Lopez's reported romance, the Big Sky state will also be the subject of close scrutiny by the media in the coming months. Montana is one of seven states that will gain one or more US House seats as a result of the 2020 census. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jlo-ben-affleck-montana-gaining-seat-redistricting-census-politics-angle-2021-5">Just as all politics are local, all celebrity reunions can be connected in some way to politics</a>.<hr />Today's trivia question: Dogs have had their days at the White House. But this president relied on the Secret Service to get his cat back after it went missing during a snowstorm. Who was it? Email your guess and a suggested question to me at <a href="mailto:bgriffiths@insider.com">bgriffiths@insider.com</a>.<ul><li>Yesterday's answer: A Western Union telegraph sent the simple message of "D-O-N-E" at 12:47 p.m. on May 10, 1869, from Promontory Summit, Utah, <a href="https://www.nps.gov/gosp/learn/historyculture/four-special-spikes.htm">to mark the completion of the transcontinental railroad</a>.</li></ul>

10 Things in Politics: Biden cracks down on jobless benefits

<div class="image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image"><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/51388418ecad04ce4d000004-523-392/bin-laden-son-in-law.jpeg?maxX=400" border="0" alt="bin laden son-in-law" width="400" /></div>AL-JAZEERA/AFP</div><keyword id="41240" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Osama-bin-Laden">Osama bin Laden</keyword>'s son-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was seized by <keyword id="44293" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="CIA">CIA</keyword> agents and taken to the United States, Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/us-official-bin-laden-spokesman-caught-jordan-18674864">confirmed to the Associated Press today</a>.
Abu Ghaith, the former spokesman of the Al-Qaeda network, was seized last month at a luxury hotel in Ankara after a tip-off from CIA and was held there by the police despite a US request for his extradition.
Turkish authorities deported Abu Ghaith to Jordan on March 1 to be sent back to Kuwait but he was seized by CIA agents in Jordan and taken to the United States, according to the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet.
King called it a "very significant victory" in the war on terror.
"Definitely, one by one, we are getting the top echelons of al-Qaeda," King said. "I give the (Obama) administration credit for this: it's steady and it's unrelenting and it's very successful."
Abu Ghaith's deportation coincided with a visit by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to Ankara as part of a regional tour, it added.
The Turkish foreign ministry declined to comment on the report while the US embassy in Ankara told <keyword id="68053" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="AFP">AFP</keyword>: "We're aware of the reports."
Ankara considers Abu Ghaith a "stateless" person as he was stripped of his Kuwaiti nationality after appearing in videos defending the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and threatening further violence.
The United States wanted him extradited over his alleged connection to the attacks.
He appeared in a propaganda video in the aftermath of 9/11, standing beside bin Laden, who was killed in May 2011 in Pakistan in a covert U.S. operation.
Abu Ghaith was detained in Turkey after he allegedly entered the country illegally from Iran.
He was freed by an Ankara court because he did not commit any crime on Turkish soil and local media claimed Turkey had hesitated to extradite him to the United States fearing it could become a target of Al-Qaeda.
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CIA Seizes Bin Laden's Son-In-Law In Jordan And Takes Him To America

<div class="image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image"><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5139e07969bedd2e49000001-620-465/bin-laden-1.jpg?maxX=400" border="0" alt="bin laden Sulaiman Abu Ghaith" width="400" /></div>Al Jazeera/screenshotSulaiman Abu Ghaith, left, with <keyword id="41240" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Osama-bin-Laden">Osama bin Laden</keyword> in 2001</div>Osama bin Laden's recently captured son-in-law may have valuable intelligence from the extensive time he spent in Iranian prison, <a href="http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/07/17227424-exclusive-iran-was-holding-bin-laden-son-in-law-abu-ghaith-us-officials-say?lite">U.S. officials told NBC News</a>.
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/cia-seizes-bin-laden-son-in-law-in-turkey-report-2013-3">CIA agents seized Sulaiman Abu Ghaith</a> in Jordan last week —he was originally detained at a luxury hotel in Turkey's capital after <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/08/world/meast/bin-laden-relative-captured/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29">entering the country illegally from Iran</a> — and took him to New York City, where he faces a <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/08/us-usa-militant-idUSBRE9260ZS20130308?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29">charge of conspiracy to kill Americans</a>.
The former Al-Qaeda spokesman spent much of the last decade in Iranian prison after Osama bin Laden sent him — along with hundreds of associates and family members — to the Islamic Republic when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in late 2001. 
Bin Laden hoped that after the group bribed their way in, Iranian officals would view them as "an enemy of my enemy," one senior U.S. official told NBC News.
Instead, Iranian authorities captured the group and put Abu Ghaith in what one former U.S. official described as "the blackest of black boxes," where he became a type of "bargaining chip" with both the U.S. and al-Qaeda cells in Iran.
Consequently officials told NBC News that Abu Ghaith is unlikely to have any operational information, and his intelligence value is derived mostly from in his captivity in Iran and whether he was released or escaped.
However, U.S. officials <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/osama-bin-ladens-son-law-nyc-court/story?id=18682087">told Brain Ross of ABC News</a> that Abu Ghaith has already given up "key intelligence" about al Qaeda's status, personnel, and finances since his capture in Turkey.
"It is huge," Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said. "This is a man who is in the inner circle of bin Laden's al Qaeda operations and now we have him alive and he's talking."
The FBI's George Venizelos told ABC that Abu Ghaith held a "key position in al Qaeda, comparable to the consigliere in a mob family or propaganda minister in a totalitarian regime."

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