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Terror threats 'scare us'
OTTAWA
- The RCMP is investigating seven suspected terrorist
plots so disturbing they "keep me awake at night," the
senior Mountie for national security disclosed
yesterday. (Ottawa Citizen) PREVIOUS:
CSIS keeping tabs on
protesters
Protests 'to get more
violent'
Extremist activity
associated with 2010 A
changed perspective
Italian probe alleges arms
sale bid
PERUGIA -
The Libyan officer tried to cloak the
purpose of his call to the Italian arms dealer. "A
friend," he said, wanted to buy 1 million "pieces" and
50 million items of "food." But when that phone call
was placed in 2006, Italian police were listening. They
knew the meaning. Libya was shopping for guns - lots of
them. (AP)
Man pleads guilty to charge
PHOENIX - A BC man charged with plotting to blow up the
Trans-Alaskan oil pipeline on New Year's Day 2000
pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge. Alfred Reumayr,
58, of New Westminster pleaded guilty to aiding and
abetting terrorism transcending national boundaries at
the US District Court in Santa Fe, N.M. (Vancouver
Province)
Russian arms dealer arrested
BANGKOK - One of the world's most notorious arms
dealers,
Viktor Bout,
was arrested in a hotel here Thursday in connection with
the procurement of weapons for the Colombian FARC
rebels, the Thai police said. (AP) PREVIOUS:
International arms
dealers Merchant
of death
Thailand
a 'haven for criminals'
Jury
convicts
GLASGOW -
Mohammed Atif
Siddique, a British-born Muslim student from Alva,
Clackmannanshire, was convicted of possessing and
distributing a range of terrorist material through
websites and providing instructional material about guns
and explosives over the internet. (Guardian UK)
PREVIOUS:
Terror trial jury sees footage of 'execution'
Court told videos 'easy
to find'
Terror jury sees bomb-threat video
Armed police arrest
Scottish terror suspect
The War on Terror's professional witness
Stolen cars linked to terror attacks
overseas
With one car stolen every three minutes in Canada, the
cost for all Canadians who pay insurance premiums is
more than a billion dollars. But the insurance industry
accuses the Canada Border Services Agency of not doing
everything in its power to stop it. (CTV)
PREVIOUS:
US auto theft database
is left to languish
US car
theft rings probed for ties to Iraq bombings
Google Earth maps out Darfur atrocities
WASHINGTON - If you Google the
word
Darfur,
you will find about 13 million references to the
atrocities in the western Darfur region of Sudan -- what
the United States has said is this century's first
genocide. As of today, when the 200 million users of
Google Earth log onto the site, they will be able to
view the horrific details of what's happening in Darfur
for themselves. (CNN) Video:
Google earth Darfur
Detainee confesses to USS Cole bombing
WASHINGTON - Waleed Mohammed bin Attash, long suspected
of plotting the bombing of the
USS Cole,
confessed to planning the attack during a hearing at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a Pentagon transcript
released Monday. (AP) PREVIOUS:
Sudan sued over USS Cole
attack
USS Cole
families take Sudan to court
Ottawa man's name comes up in US terror
trial
OTTAWA -Documents seized in an RCMP national security
raid at the home of Ottawa engineer
Abdullah Almalki
have surfaced in a terrorism-related court case in the
United States. (CanWest) PREVIOUS:
Al Qaeda in Minneapolis:
The Investigation
Al Qaeda
in Minneapolis: The mission
Suicide bomb tactics backfire
KANDAHAR - The Taliban suicide bombing campaign in
Afghanistan has largely failed, killing far more
innocent bystanders than Canadian and other coalition
troops, says a new study. (National Post)
MORE:
How to be a jihadi: Taliban's training manual
Jihad 101 for would-be terrorists
In the new al-Qaida, offices and training camps are a
thing of the past. All a would-be recruit needs is an
Internet connection. Al-Qaida's virtual university will
take care of the rest. (Spiegel) RELATED:
Liquid explosive
training manuals easily attainable on Jihadi forums
Digitizing Terror: High-res executions
and bloody DVDs
How-to guide for tracking terrorists on-line
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Secret spy days are over
As a
consequence of the fight against global Islamic
terrorism, an increasing number of open-court criminal
prosecutions in Canada, the US and Europe have, at their
genesis, information collected by shadowy secret agents
rather than police officers. (Ottawa Citizen)
PREVIOUS:
New spy game
M.I.C.E.
PERSEREC
Bombing possibly tied to NY Anarchist
groups
NEW
YORK - Investigators believe the bicyclist who bombed
the Times Square military recruiting station is a local
man with ties to chaos-crazed anarchy groups, a
high-ranking law-enforcement source said yesterday. (NY
Post) PREVIOUS:
Canadian link being
probed
Times Square blast
Explosion at Times
Square recruiting center Military
apparent target
Al Qaeda master mind 'admits' plotting
9/11'
The alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks has
confessed to his role in those and other al-Qa'eda
attacks, according to an edited transcript of a hearing
at Guantanamo Bay released by the Pentagon late last
night. (Telegraph UK)
MORE:
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
Key
9/11 figured 'beheaded Pearl'
The 'confesssion' in full
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Spy suspect accused of leaking Canuck
info
WASHINGTON - Hassan Abugihaad, 31, also known as Paul
Hall, is accused of leaking the location of ships and
the best ways to attack them, including HMCS Winnipeg, a
multi-role patrol frigate. (CP) PREVIOUS:
Ex-Sailor Accused Of
Supporting Terrorism
Documents
Hassan Abujihaad transmitted to terrorists
Colombia political scandal widens
BOGOTÁ
- Colombian prosecutors have ordered the arrest of the
father of an ex-minister following an inquiry into links
between politicians and right-wing militias. Alvaro
Araujo Noguera, a prominent former politician, is
charged with helping to kidnap a political rival.
(BBC) PREVIOUS:
2006-2007 Colombian para-political
scandal
Army blamed for hundreds of murders
MANILA - Philippine soldiers have murdered hundreds of
left-wing activists since 2001 and their commanding
officers should be held responsible, the head of a
government inquiry has said. (Reuters) MORE:
Some politicos gave
money to rebels: military
Communist rebels raid
Philippine gold rush area
New
People's Army
Man sentenced for plotting to blow up NYC
subway
NEW YORK - A Pakistani immigrant was sentenced to 30
years in prison Monday for hatching an unsuccessful plot
to blow up a busy Manhattan subway station as revenge
for wartime abuses of Iraqis. (AP) PREVIOUS:
Anatomy of a foiled plot
Reasons they haven't hit us again
Camp Jihad
Canada's spy agency warns of dirty bomb
OTTAWA
- Canada's spy agency says it is "quite surprising" that
terrorists have not detonated a crude radioactive bomb,
given the availability of materials and ease with which
they could be made into a weapon. A copy of the October
study was obtained by The Canadian Press under the
Access to Information Act. (CP) PREVIOUS:
CSIS
publications
Hunt on in Britain for more Rwanda
genocide suspects
LONDON - The hunt for more Rwandan war crime suspects
sheltering in Britain will continue in the wake of last
week’s dramatic arrest of four Rwandans accused of
playing leading roles in the genocide. (Sunday Times)
PREVIOUS:
Rwandans face
extradition charges
Rwandan
Genocide
Wanted
Jordan's king sees possibility of three
civil wars in Mideast
WASHINGTON -
Abdullah II of Jordan
said Sunday the
problems in the Middle East go beyond the war in Iraq
and that much of the region soon could become engulfed
in violence unless the central issues are addressed
quickly. (AP)
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Iraq
Lebanon
Hezbollah Shi'a Islam
Palestinian people Hamas
Sunni Islam
Fatah
Iraqi resistance fighters adapting new
tactics
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