Spain arrests American al-Qaida suspect

Spanish police have arrested a U.S. citizen of Algerian origin who is suspected of financing al-Qaida's North African affiliate, the Interior Ministry said 

Wednesday.Mohamed Omar Debhi, 43, was arrested Tuesday in the town of Esplugues de Llobregat, a Barcelona suburb. His arrest is not connected to terrorism alerts this week in France and Britain and is just a coincidence, a ministry official said on condition of anonymity in line with ministry rules.

Debhi is suspected of laundering money and sending some of it to an associate in Algeria, Toufik Mizi, to be passed on to cells of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, a ministry statement said.

Mizi is wanted in Spain after eluding a police raid in 2008.The ministry said Debhi used bank transfers or human couriers to send Mizi amounts in excess of euro60,000 ($80,000), although it did not specify how much was sent altogether.

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Osama bin Laden evidence

Prosecutors wish to give Osama bin Laden an extreme leading light role in the terrorism trial of the first Guantanamo Bay prisoner to be tried in civilian courts, a test case in the debate over whether suspects shoveled up in the war against terrorism can be prosecuted like everyone else.

Jury selection is scheduled to start over Wednesday in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, described by federal authorities as a bomb maker, document forger and former bin laden aide. He's accused with conspiring to kill Americans in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. The attacks slayed 224 people, including a dozen Americans, and were widely viewed as a precursor to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

The trial will be closely watched by those debating the possibility of civilian trials of high-profile Guantanamo detainees arrested all around the world. Some were subjected to cruel interrogations at secret CIA-run camps where the assembly of trial evidence yielded to an immediate need to unearth terrorism threats.

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Norway terror plot targeted Danish paper

Three terror suspects who were arrested in an alleged al-Qaida plot in Norway were likely planning an attack against a Danish newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, Norwegian and Danish police said Tuesday.

The intelligence branch of Denmark's police, PET, said the suspects were believed to be planning an attack either against the Jyllands-Posten newspaper directly or against people in Denmark linked to the 12 drawings that sparked outrage in Muslim countries in 2006.

The men were arrested July 8 in what U.S. and Norwegian officials believe was a plot linked to the same Pakistan-based al-Qaida planners behind thwarted schemes to blow up New York's subway and a British shopping mall.

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Man charged with terrorism offences over suspected dissident Irish Republican Army weapons

Police in Northern Ireland say a man has been charged with terrorism offences after police uncovered a suspected dissident Irish Republican Army weapons cache. Officers said Sunday that the 54-year-old man was arrested Friday in the town of Newry, near the Irish border.

He will appear in court Monday charged with six offences, including preparation of terrorist acts. The charges follow a decision by domestic security agency MI5 to raise the threat level of attacks by dissident Irish terrorists.

Home Secretary Theresa May says the level has been ra

ised from "moderate" to "substantial," the middle rung on a five-point threat scale. Dissidents have mounted about 30 attacks in Northern Ireland this year, and have threatened to target the British mainland.

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23 Tajik soldiers killed in 'terrorist attack'

Suspected Islamist terrorists ambushed a military truck in eastern Tajikistan on Sunday, killing at least 23 soldiers, a defence ministry spokesman said."

Twenty-three defence ministry troops are dead and another 10 were wounded in a terrorist attack committed in the afternoon in the east of Tajikistan," said Faridun Makhmadaliyev.

"The attack was committed by two groups of Islamist terrorists," he told AFP.The attack occurred on Sunday afternoon 150 miles east of the capital Dushanbe, in the moutainous and inaccessible Racht valley, where the soldiers were to rejoin a security post.

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Some US residents willing to join terror cells

Congress has been informed that a new national security threat is emerging from home-grown terrorists. Obama administration officials have told Congress that efforts by terrorists to recruit US residents have been working and "domestic radicalisation" had become more obvious.

The director of the National Counterterrorism Centre, Michael Leiter, said the threat posed by terrorism had been made more serious and complex because of home-grown extremists.

He said at least 63 US citizens had been charged or convicted of terrorist acts or related crimes since 2009, with groups affiliated with al-Qaeda now actively targeting Americans or Westerners who remain undetected in their own communities.

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Five suspected Islamist terrorists arrested over assassination plot

Police have arrested five suspected Islamist terrorists, working as street cleaners in London, over an alleged plan assassinate the Pope. The men were arrested during raids at 5.45am at a rubbish depot in central London based on an intelligence tip off received overnight.

The suspects, aged 26, 27, 36, 40 and 50 were arrested by officers from Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorism Command on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.They are said to be from a variety of nationalities including a number of Algerian origin.
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Roadside bomb kills 9 aboard minibus traveling in southeast Turkey

A roadside bomb attack killed nine people traveling on a minibus Thursday, authorities said, in the latest violence to shake Turkey's turbulent southeast, where Kurdish guerrillas have been fighting for autonomy for decades.

Turkish troops launched an operation to hunt those believed to be behind the attack, which also injured four people, including a 15-month-old baby, near the village of Gecitli in the rugged Hakkari province bordering Iran and Iraq, Hakkari Gov.
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RCMP lay additional charge against Ottawa terror suspect

An Ottawa Hospital employee charged in August with plotting to bomb Ottawa now faces a new charge of making or possessing explosives to help a terrorist group. It’s the first allegation that Misbahuddin Ahmed, 26, had any direct contact with any explosive material.

Ahmed, a diagnostic imaging (X-ray) technologist at the Civic campus, sat through a day-long bail hearing Wednesday, which will resume today before Justice of the Peace Louisette Girault. There is a ban on publishing any of the evidence presented, which is routine in bail hearings.
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New charges brought against NY men in terror case

New terrorism charges have been brought in New York City against two U.S. citizens accused of trying to aid al-Qaida.Charges including providing material support to al-Qaida and violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act were in a superseding indictment announced Tuesday against Wesam El-Hanafi (WAH'-suhm el-HAN'-awf-ee) and Sabirhan Hasanoff.

El-Hanafi was born and lives in Brooklyn. Hasanoff lives in Brooklyn and is a citizen of the U.S. and Australia.
They're accused of aiding al-Qaida since 2008 with money and computer skills.Prosecutors say El-Hanafi went to Yemen and helped teach al-Qaida how to communicate on the Internet without being detected. A conviction could support a prison sentence of up to 70 years. Both men have pleaded not guilty. El-Hanafi's lawyers say there's nothing new in the indictment.

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Real IRA threatens to attack British bankers

The dissident republican terrorist group labelled bankers as "criminals" and as the "next door neighbours of the politicians". In an interview with The Guardian the Real IRA said: "We have a track record of attacking high-profile economic targets and financial institutions such as the City of London. The role of bankers and the institutions they serve in financing Britain's colonial and capitalist system has not gone unnoticed."

In a series of written answers the group tried to tap into public hostility towards financiers since the economic downturn. They added: "Let's not forget that the bankers are the next-door neighbours of the politicians. Most people can see the picture: the bankers grease the politicians' palms, the politicians bail out the bankers with public funds, the bankers pay themselves fat bonuses and loan the money back to the public with interest.
It's essentially a crime spree that benefits a social elite at the expense of many millions of victims." However, security experts have doubted whether the group, which has only 100 activists, has the resources to carry out its threats.

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Apparent suicide by cyanide prompts safety fears

A Northeastern University lab tech’s suspected suicide by cyanide - 30 miles away from campus - is raising public safety fears over easy access to deadly chemicals days after the ninth anniversary of 9/11.

The 30-year-old NU lab tech - identified by the school as Emily Staupe - was found dead early yesterday morning in her Milford bedroom along with what initial tests show was a plastic bag filled with crystallized cyanide, according to Milford and state police.
Neil Livingstone, a Washington, D.C., terrorism expert, said Staupe’s apparent method of suicide shines a light on the problem of lax security at universities across the country.

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Afghan gov't says NATO attack killed election workers

The Afghan government Monday disputed NATO findings that a top insurgent was killed in an airstrike this month, maintaining that the victims were civilians working for a candidate in next weekend's parliament elections. NATO said in a statement Sunday that the Sept. 2 attack killed Mohammad Amin, a member of the al-Qaida-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and the insurgents' deputy "shadow governor" of northern Takhar province.

NATO said it could not rule out the possibility that civilians were killed or wounded. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is allied with the Taliban and its fighters are believed involved in attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Afghan authorities said 10 civilians were killed and seven were wounded in the airstrike, including the candidate Abdul Wahid Khorasani."We are very confident that the targeted individual was in the vehicle struck by the air weapons team and was killed. The question remains why an election official or candidate was travelling with a known terrorist," said Italian Brig. Gen. Luigi Scollo, head of the NATO investigating team.

Suspect loses deportation appeal

A suspected terrorist with links to the failed July 21 bombings in London will be deported to Ethiopia in the interests of national security, a court has ruled.

Home Secretary Theresa May said the test case was a success for the UK's policy of "deportations with assurances", which sees individuals who could not ordinarily be deported due to the risk of human rights violations, being returned with diplomatic agreement that they will not face danger.
The 32-year-old man, named only as XX, attended a terrorist training camp in the UK, visited Somalia for extremist purposes and was closely associated with those involved in the attempted London bombings on July 21, 2005, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission heard. Mr Justice Mitting dismissed his appeal against deportation.

Former terror minister backs July 7 inquiry

Mr McNulty, who for three years served as Labour's security and counter-terrorism minister, indicated that the long-awaited inquest into the Muslim extremist bombings may not resolve all the concerns of those affected, and also admitted that his party's response had been "naive". "If people were still unsatisfied when the coroner has finished then perhaps we should think about an inquiry," Mr McNulty told."I am very pleased that the coroner has already widened the brief of the
inquest as much as she possibly can."His views differ significantly from Labour's official stance while in power, when ministers consistently refused to sanction an independent inquiry into the atrocities which claimed 52 innocent lives.

4 al-Qaida prisoners escape US custody in Iraq

Four prisoners with links to al-Qaida being guarded by American troops escaped from a maximum-security prison in Baghdad and are still at large, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Thursday.

The breakout from Karkh Prison, formerly called Camp Cropper, is an embarrassment for the U.S. military, which has handed over control of all of the detention facilities it used to run to the Iraqi government. But at the request of the Iraqis, the U.S. has retained custody over some of the most dangerous prisoners,
including those with ties to terrorist groups or Saddam Hussein's former regime.U.S. troops found two detainees attempting to escape from the compound on Wednesday evening, the military said in a statement. When they conducted a sweep of the whole facility, they discovered that four other detainees were missing.

Deal discussed in Detroit plane attack

Lawyers for a Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a plane near Detroit on Christmas said Thursday that they've talked to prosecutors about resolving the case with a deal.

The disclosure was made in a court filing seeking a new deadline to challenge evidence against Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is accused of trying to set off a bomb hidden in his underwear aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit last year with nearly 300 people aboard.The deadline to file motions is Friday.
Abdulmutallab is due in federal court Monday for a pretrial hearing. In the court filing, defense lawyers said they've met with prosecutors on "multiple occasions, by phone and in person, to explore options for resolution of this case." They said prosecutors are opposed to extending Friday's motion deadline.

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3 killed in suicide attack on Russian base

A suicide car–bomber killed three soldiers and wounded 32 others in an attack on a military base in Russia's violence–plagued republic of Dagestan on Sunday, officials said.The attack took place about 1 a.m. (2100 GMT Saturday) at the base in the city of Buinaksk, said Vyacheslav Gasanov, a spokesman for the republic's Interior Ministry.

The driver of the explosives–laden small Zhiguli automobile smashed through a gate of the base and headed for an area where soldiers are quartered in tents, Gasanov said.But soldiers opened fire on him before he reached the center of the base. Gasanov said, the driver rammed the car into a military truck where it exploded.
After the blast, a roadside bomb hit a car taking investigators to the scene, but there were no injuries reported in that explosion. Dagestan's president, Magomedsalam Magomedov, visited the scene of the attack and the wounded soldiers in the hospitals where they're being treated.

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US terror training in Yemen reflects wider program

U.S. special operations forces are expanding their training of the Yemeni military as the Obama administration broadens its program to counter terrorism in countries reluctant to harbor a visible American military presence.

That balancing act has become an administration trademark, funneling millions of dollars in aid and low-profile military trainers to countries like Pakistan and Yemen in order to take on a more diverse, independent and scattered al-Qaida network.The scope and amount of the military training in Yemen has grown slowly, reflecting the Pentagon's intention to tackle the terror threat while still being sensitive to fears that a larger American footprint in Yemen could help fuel the insurgency.
Over the past year, the number of elite U.S. trainers moving in and out of Yemen has doubled, from 25 to about 50 now. The numbers fluctuate depending on the training schedule, but U.S. forces are now providing a more complex level of instruction that combines tactical ground and air operations.

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Burning Quran Endangers Troops

The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warned an American church's threat to burn copies of the Muslim holy book could endanger U.S. troops in the country and Americans worldwide.

Meanwhile, NATO reported the death of an American service member in an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday. The comments from Gen.

David Petraeus followed a protest Monday by hundreds of Afghans over the plans by Gainesville, Florida-based Dove World Outreach Center - a small, evangelical Christian church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy - to burn copies of the
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Colombia orders arrest of reporter in rebel case

A Colombian court has ordered the arrest of a well-known journalist based in Venezuela on charges he conspired with leftist rebels. Prosecutors accuse William Parra of crimes including financing terrorist activities and sedition.

Parra was press secretary for then-Colombian President Ernesto Samper in the 1990s and has recently worked with Telesur, the regional TV network backed by Venezuela's leftist government. Prosecutors say they have e-mails Parra exchanged with Raul Reyes, a rebel commander killed in 2008. They say that in one, Reyes asks Parra to buy missiles in the Middle East.

Parra issued a communique Tuesday declaring his innocence. There appears to be no evidence Parra ever tried to buy missiles.

Philippines asks court to outlaw Abu Sayyaf

The Justice Department recently lodged its petition against the Al-Qaeda-linked group with a trial court in southern Basilan province — the Abu Sayyaf's birthplace — in the first known government attempt to ban a rebel group under a 2007 anti-terrorism law.

Abu Sayyaf members currently cannot be arrested unless they commit a crime. The petition cited 20 major bombings and atrocities allegedly committed by the Abu Sayyaf, including a 2004 attack that ignited an inferno on a ferry that killed 116 people, and the kidnappings of dozens of mostly European tourists and three Americans in early 2000.

If approved, the measure would criminalize membership in the Abu Sayyaf and allow authorities to freeze financial assets of militants more rapidly and limit their travel. It would serve as a new legal weapon against the group, which has survived years of US-backed offensives, state prosecutor Nestor Lazaro said.
"This will help cripple the group," Lazaro told The Associated Press. The 210 names to be added to the blacklist are identified so far out of an estimated 400-strong membership.

The militants are determined to pursue jihad, or holy war, "in any shape or form ... without regard to violation of laws or even sacrificing innocent lives," according to the 22-page petition, which cited the Abu Sayyaf's charter.

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Pakistan's survival threatened by terror and flooding, says president

A suicide bomber rammed a pickup truck laden with explosives into a police station in the north-west of the country killing 19 people. Among them were four children.It brings the total of people who have been killed in a wave of terrorist attacks since Wednesday to 109 amid signs the Pakistan Taliban is trying to capitalise on the disarray caused by the floods.

President Zardari acknowledged the dire threat in a statement released to coincide with Defence of Pakistan Day."On September 6 this year the nation is confronted with an existential threat from fanatics, zealots and extremists on the one hand and from the
material devastation caused by the history's worst floods on the other," he said."While the former is testing our will to survive and live in accordance with our values and ideology, the latter is testing our ability, resourcefulness and resilience to rise like a phoenix from the ashes of a natural disaster."

Iraqi troops in the spotlight as Baghdad bombers kill 12

Iraqi security forces were under the spotlight Monday after a coordinated suicide attack on an army complex killed 12 people, with US troops among those who fired back in a bid to repel the operation.

American involvement in the response to Sunday’s attack was the first reported such engagement for US forces in Baghdad since they declared an official end to combat operations in Iraq five days ago.
The morning attack targeted Rusafa military command headquarters, which only three weeks ago was hit by a massive suicide bombing that killed dozens of young men preparing to sign up. Accounts varied between witnesses and US and Iraqi security forces, but the capital’s security command said five suicide bombers had approached the compound in a minibus.

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Five killed, scores hurt in Dagestan suicide bombing

A suicide bomber rammed a Russian military base Sunday, killing five people and wounding dozens more in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan, law enforcement sources said. 

The explosives-packed car targeted a firing range used by the motor rifle brigade at Dalny near the city of Buynaksk, 40 kilometres (30 miles) west of the local capital Makhachkala, said the sources, who requested anonymity.

"Five people are dead," a law enforcement source told AFP. "Three of them died on the spot and another two in hospital." At least another 35 people were injured in the blast and two of them were in a critical condition, he added. Russia’s defence ministry put the death toll from the blast at three and said 33 people were wounded.

THREE suicide bombers targeted a Shiite mourning procession in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore

It was the first major attack in Pakistan since devastating floods engulfed a fifth of the volatile country over the past month in the nation's worst-ever disaster.

The string of blasts ripped through the crowd at the moment of the breaking of fast in the ongoing holy month of Ramadan, and led to an outpouring of fury as mourners tried to torch a nearby police station.
Police fired tear gas shells to force back the surging crowd.Lahore, a city of eight million near Pakistan's border with India, has been increasingly subject to Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked attacks in a nationwide bombing campaign that has killed more than 3300 people in three years.

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Uganda court charges 2 over deadly twin bombings

A Ugandan court has charged two additional suspects in connection with the July bomb blasts that killed 76 people. The charges Thursday bring the total number of suspects to 34. The two men were charged with 89 offenses which include 3 terrorism charges, 76 charges of murder and 10 attempted murder charges.

The suspects include nationals of Kenya, Somalia and Uganda. It was not immediately clear where the two new suspects are from.
The al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the July 11 bombings in two locations in Uganda's capital during the World Cup final.

US Adds Pakistani Taliban To Terrorism Blacklist

The Obama administration on Wednesday added the Pakistani Taliban to its international terrorism blacklist, targeting the group blamed for the failed car bombing in New York's Times Square and its leaders with financial and travel sanctions.

The group, known as the Tehrik-e-Taliban or TTP, threatens U.S. national security, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in a notice published in the Federal Register. She designated the group a "foreign terrorist organization" under U.S. law.
Clinton named the group and its top leaders, Hakimullah Mehsud and Wali Ur Rehman, "specially designated global terrorists," a classification that imposes additional State and Treasury department sanctions.

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Dutch prosecutors say Yemenis arrested in terror probe have been freed on lack of evidence

Two Yemeni men arrested on arrival from the United States on suspicion they may have been conducting a dry run for an airline terror attack were released without charge after investigations turned up no evidence to link them to a terror plot, Dutch prosecutors said.

The national prosecutor's office said in a statement on its website Wednesday that because of the lack of evidence "there is no reason to hold the men any longer." Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al-Soofi and Hezam al-Murisi were arrested by airport police Monday in Amsterdam on a United Airlines flight from Chicago following a request from U.S. law enforcement officials.
The whereabouts of the two men following their release was not immediately known. Their lawyers could not immediately be reached for comment.