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Report: al-Qaeda threatens more attacks in Saudi
Qasim al-Raymi
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has issued a video warning threatening to attack targets inside Saudi Arabia and demanding the release of its members in Saudi jails, the daily al- Hayat reported Wednesday.
Qassem al-Reemy, a leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, warned that the organisation intends to carry out terrorist attacks on Saudi targets, but there were no further details...
Still-defiant Times Square bomber gets life sentence
Faisal Shahzad
The Pakistani immigrant who tried to detonate a car bomb on a busy Saturday night in Times Square accepted a life sentence with a smirk Tuesday and warned that Americans can expect more bloodshed at the hands of Muslims.
“Brace yourselves, because the war with Muslims has just begun,” Faisal Shahzad, 31, told a federal judge. “Consider me the first droplet of the blood...
Terror Suspect Was White House Guest and Recipient of $500k in Taxpayer Funds
Last Friday FBI agents raided the homes of far left activists in Chicago and Minneapolis who are linked to the Marxist FARC terrorists and Islamic radicals as part of a terrorism investigation.
The home of radical Hatem Abudayyeh in Chicago was raided in the terror sweep.
Radical Hatem Abudayyeh protested against Israel in Chicago in January 2009. (Daylife)
Hatem Abudayyeh is the executive director...
France on high alert as officials warn of possible terrorist attacks
A French soldier patrols at the Eiffel Tower in Paris. President Nicolas Sarkozy's government has gone out of its way in recent days to warn repeatedly that terrorists may be planning a new attack in France.
When an unclaimed package was spotted in a busy Paris subway station Monday, police immediately diverted trains, ordered thousands of frustrated travelers into the street and dispatched a bomb...
Bomb threat clears Eiffel Tower
Tourists were asked to leave the Eiffel Tower on Tuesday after a bomb threat.
The Eiffel Tower and the surrounding Champs de Mars park were briefly evacuated on Tuesday because of a bomb alert, the fourth in the Paris region in as many weeks, but a search turned up nothing, police said.
The decision to evacuate came after the fire service received a call from a public telephone saying there was a suspect...
Pirates seize cargo ship off Somalia's coast
Pirates seize cargo ship off Somalia’s coast with 12 Ukrainians onboard.
The European Union’s anti-piracy force says Somali pirates have hijacked a cargo ship carrying steel bars and wires off the coast of Somalia.
The force said in a statement that the MV Lugela sent a distress call to its Greek operator Saturday when pirates attacked it about 900 nautical miles east of the Somali pirate...
At least 42 injured in suicide bombing in North Caucasus
A suicide bomber has blown himself up in the republic of Dagestan, injuring at least 42 people, including several police officers, according to media reports Saturday.
The bomber broke through a police cordon in the capital, Makhachkala, where security officers were battling militia fighters.
At least two Islamist rebels were killed in that incident.
On Friday at least five suspected Islamist terrorists,...
Shootings kill nine in Russia's North Caucasus
Unidentified assailants gunned down a school principal in her home in Russia’s troubled Dagestan province on Friday, while separate shoot-outs killed eight people across the North Caucasus.
An Islamist insurgency is raging in the mainly Muslim North Caucasus region, where rebels angry about poverty and fuelled by the ideology of global jihad want to carve out an independent state governed by...
Somalia: Two Radio Stations Taken Over by Militants
Somalia's Al-Shabaab militia.
Al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam extremists on Sunday, 19 September 2010, forcibly looted two independent radio stations, HornAfrik and Global Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), in Mogadishu.
The two Radio stations are an independent radio and televisions based in the capital.
Some of HornAfrik staff says armed militia from the Al-Shabaab broke into the premises of the radio...
FBI Says It Supplied Fake Bomb in Chicago Plot
Sept. 20: The Chicago sports bar where a man was arrested for allegedly placing a backback he thought contained a bomb.
A man arrested for allegedly placing a backpack he thought contained a bomb near Chicago’s Wrigley Field got the fake explosive from an FBI undercover agent, authorities say — a tactic that has been used in other U.S. terrorism cases in recent years.
Sami Samir Hassoun,...
Suicide bomber attacks Somali's presidential palace
A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of the presidential palace in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday, wounding two soldiers in the latest attack on the Somali capital by al Qaeda-linked rebels, police said.
The bomber, armed with an automatic rifle, tried to jump onto an armored vehicle in a convoy of African Union peacekeepers driving into the palace grounds, police spokesman Osman...
Eight rebels killed during North Caucasus anti-terrorism sweep
Security operation in Russia's North Caucasus.
Russian secret service agents and members of the special police unit OMON killed eight Islamist rebels during an anti-terrorism operation in the conflict-ridden North Caucasus republic of Dagestan, the Interfax news agency reported Sunday.
A woman was among the dead, Interfax quoted authorities in the capital Makhachkala as saying.
They said the bandits...
Attacks in southern Russia kill 2 police, wound 5
Relatives mourn Gusalov Alan, 42, killed in a suicide car attack.
Several attacks in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus region have left two police officers dead and another five wounded, officials said Saturday.
The ministry’s branch in the Caspian Sea province of Dagestan says one officer was gunned down late Friday on the outskirts of the regional capital, Makhachkala.
Another policeman...
Gunmen fire on plane carrying aid workers in Congo
In this Oct. 6, 2009 file photo, a Rwandan Hutu rebel gropes a local woman as he passes her on a crowded mountain path near the village of Kimua in eastern Congo.
Medical agency: Gunmen fire on plane with international aid workers landing in east Congo.
Gunmen in eastern Congo fired Wednesday on a private plane carrying international aid workers who escaped into the forest and were later rescued, aid...
President Morales Warns Drug Cartels Better Equipped Than Bolivian Army
President Evo Morales confirmed Tuesday that drug traffickers have more technology and modern equipment than Bolivia’s police and armed forces, and he asked for help from the international community to address that deficiency.
“By now, I have taken note that … drug trafficking has more technology than the national police, more modern equipment than the armed forces,” he said in a speech...