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Toledo |
United States |
Terror Trial Begins In Ohio -- Jury selection began Tuesday in the trial of three men charged with plotting to recruit and train terrorists to attack U.S. and allied troops overseas. Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman El-Hindi and Wassim I. Mazloum are accused of conspiring to kill or maim people outside the United States, including military personnel in Iraq. They have all pleaded not guilty. |
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Flying Imams |
United States |
Flying Imams Want Well In Excess Of $100,000 Each For Hurt Feelings -- Ahmed Shqeirat: Plaintiff Shqeirat has suffered intangible losses including pain, suffering, loss of liberty, loss of enjoyment of life, emotional distress, humiliation, and the like. Because the damages are intangible, it is difficult to itemize the dollar amount of each element of the alleged damages. Plaintiff estimates the dollar amount of his damages to be well in excess of $100,000. [So that's well in excess $100,000 in intangible damages. We haven't gotten to the tangible damages yet.] Mr. Shqeirat's tangible damages include expenses incurred as a result of the inconvenience of traveling on airlines other than US Airways. [It should be noted that Mr. Shqeirat, or any of the other imams, are permitted to fly on US Airways, so the inconvenience is purely manufactured.] |
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Las Vegas Ricin |
United States |
Toxin Mystery At Las Vegas Motel Deepens -- As police tried to piece together how a rare, deadly poison ended up in a motel for transients, the 57-year-old man who could hold the key lay unconscious in a hospital. Adding to the mystery, police said firearms and an "anarchist type textbook" were found in the same room where the ricin was discovered two days later. |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
Judge Says USF Student Evidence Can Be Used -- A federal judge says controversial evidence against two USF students accused of having explosives can be used in their trial. Defense lawyers had challenged the use of evidence seized in a search of Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed and Youssef Samir Megahed's car because of statements made over the radio by the deputies who stopped them in South Carolina. The men used terms like "terrorist" and Taliban" to describe the students, and lawyers argued that showed bias, and that the deputies didn't have probable cause to search the car. Despite those arguments, a judge says the search was legal, and the evidence gathered - including pipe bombs and a computer - can be used. |
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Trans-Atlantic |
United Kingdom |
FBI Says Airline Plotters Had No Links To U.S. Support Networks -- American intelligence officials said Wednesday that the men accused of trying to blow up several airliners bound for the U.S. had no obvious links to support networks in the United States but warned the greatest threat may be lurking within the U.S.
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Goose Creek |
United States |
Tampa Explosion & The Strange Case Of Farid Karakra -- According to the information offered by the law enforcement source interviewed this weekend, there appears to be substantiation of rumors that there was “some connection” between the deceased KARAKRA and the two USF students. The possible connection reportedly stems from “a social network” at the Al-Aqsa Coffee House, where many patrons celebrated the acquittal of USF professor Sami al Arian in December 2005. |
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Philippines |
Philippines |
Officials Uncover Al Qaeda Plot To Assassinate Philippines President -- Security officials on Thursday reported uncovering plots to kill President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and bomb foreign embassies, just as opposition leaders were calling for more protests urging the unpopular Philippines leader to resign. Brig. Gen. Romeo Prestoza, head of the Presidential Security Group, said the Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group and its allies were behind the planned attacks. |
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Melbourne |
Australia |
Muslim 12 Deny Terror Charges In Australia -- Twelve Muslim men accused of preparing to launch attacks in Australia pleaded not guilty to a string of terrorism-related charges amid tight security in the Supreme Court here Wednesday. Their alleged leader, cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika, 47, had suggested during taped telephone calls that a bombing where the maximum loss of life could be inflicted, such as at a football ground, could be suitable. Benbrika taught the group that it was "permissible to kill women, children and the aged" in the cause of violent jihad or holy war. |
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Cartoonist |
Denmark |
3 Arrests In Cartoonist Plot -- Danish authorities on Tuesday arrested three people suspected of plotting a cartoonist's assassination for his depiction of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban that enraged Muslims two years ago. Three of Denmark's largest newspapers said they would reprint the cartoon on Wednesday to show they would not be intimidated by fanatics. It was one of 12 Muhammad cartoons published in 2005 and then again in 2006 that led to protests in Muslim countries. Investigators said they foiled the plot in its early stages in a pre- dawn raid in the western Denmark city of Aarhus. The police intelligence agency, PET, said two Tunisians and a Danish citizen of Moroccan origin were arrested. |
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Barcelona |
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Spain, France At Odds Over Terror Probe -- The bombings would have been horrific and chillingly similar to the last one that Islamic terrorists inflicted on Spain: multiple backpack explosives detonated by suicide attackers on Barcelona's tourist-choked subway, just weeks before a general election. But the alleged plot by nine Pakistanis and an Indian national never took place, and now the way it was thwarted is causing a controversy — with France reportedly angry over the outing of one of its secret agents. |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
Prosecutor: Students Had Explosives -- A federal prosecutor disputes defense claims that two Egyptian college students arrested near a South Carolina Navy weapons station were carrying harmless fireworks and not dangerous explosives. An attorney for Youssef Samir Megahed filed a motion last week asking a judge to reconsider granting bail. He cited an FBI report that characterized the items found in the trunk of the car as a pyrotechnic mixture that burned but didn't explode when tested. But federal prosecutor Jay Hoffer, in a motion filed Monday opposing bond for Megahed, said defense attorney Adam Allen "mischaracterized" the FBI report in describing the items in the trunk as harmless. |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
CAIR, FBI looking into Tampa gas station explosion -- Yesterday afternoon I posted this story because it raised questions: a Muslim is involved in a fatal post-midnight explosion in a gas station, and the FBI is investigating -- I wrote that it was "one to watch." And now the plot thickens: CAIR's Ahmed Bedier is on the case, and there may even be a connection to the jihadists whom he notoriously dismissed as "naive kids." |
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London Underground |
United Kingdom |
Five Men Jailed For Aiding July 21 Bombers -- A judge denounced the "woefully inadequate" sentencing powers in terrorism cases as he jailed the five men who helped the July 21 would-be suicide bombers for a total of 56 years. |
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Barcelona |
United Kingdom |
Suicide Bomb Suspects Held At Gatwick After Tip-Off -- Six Pakistani men were held under anti-terrorism laws 10 days ago after they flew in from Barcelona. The arrests were prompted by a tip-off from the Spanish intelligence services after the discovery of a suspected Al-Qaeda terror cell in the city. The cell is alleged to have planned to detonate suicide bombs on the Barcelona Metro. The Spanish warned a similar attack was being planned here. |
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Jose Padilla |
United States |
No Way, Jose -- The latest chapter in the continuing saga of terrorist Jose Padilla—who hoped, perhaps expected, that if the gods smiled upon him he would have been acquitted—has ended with a federal judge in Florida sentencing him to 17 years in prison. |
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Urgent Manhunt Across Europe For Terror Plotters -- ABC News has learned that the manhunt that began in Spain for suspected terror cell members has now extended to France and other European Union countries. The attorney general in Spain said today that there are three cell members they are urgently searching for and that the missing members could be suicidal terrorists with a mission to attack somewhere outside of Spain. |
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Barcelona |
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Jihadists Arrested With Bombmaking Materials In Barcelona Mosque -- Ten men arrested in Barcelona on Saturday on suspicion of planning a suicide attack on the city’s public transportation system had intended to carry out the bombing last weekend, a Spanish judge said Wednesday in court documents ordering the men to remain in jail. The detainees, most of them Pakistanis, were part of an “organized group” that was planning to attack Jan. 18 through Jan. 20.
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Jose Padilla |
United States |
17 Years For "Dirty Bomb" Suspect -- Jose Padilla, an American once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced Tuesday to a relatively lenient 17-year prison term on unrelated terror support charges. |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
CAIR Backs Off Support For Terror Suspects -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations has backed off on its defense of two Muslim college students caught driving near a sensitive U.S. Navy base with explosives and a how-to video on bomb making.
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Ft. Dix Six |
United States |
New Charges Added In Fort Dix Attack Plot Case -- Five foreign-born Muslims face new charges, including attempted murder, in a case where they stand accused of planning an attack on the U.S. military training base Fort Dix last year.
In a federal indictment handed up Tuesday in U.S. District Court, a grand jury said there was evidence that the men, three ethnic Albanians from the former Yugoslavia, a Jordanian and a Turk, tried to kill uniformed members of the military. |
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Jose Padilla |
United States |
Padilla Acted With Terrorist Aim, U.S. Judge Says -- Al Qaeda conspirator Jose Padilla deserves to serve at least 30 years in prison because he intended to influence foreign government actions, a U.S. judge ruled on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke said the one-time "dirty bomb" suspect met the criteria for sentencing under a "terrorism enhancement" provision that stiffens the penalty if a crime was committed with the intent to retaliate against, coerce or intimidate a government. |
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Kill The Queen |
Kenya |
Al-Qaida Terrorists Planned To Kill The Queen -- A plot by al-Qaida operatives to kill the Queen during a state visit to Uganda less than two months ago was foiled by security services. The terrorists had planned to hide inside two broadcast vans owned by the Ugandan Broadcasting Corporation and then set off bombs during the Queen's visit to Kampala last November. |
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Eiffel Tower |
France |
Terror Plot To Blow Up Eiffel Tower Uncovered -- A plot by Islamic terrorists to blow up the Eiffel Tower has been uncovered. A scrambled short-wave radio conversation exposing the planned attack on the world's most visited monument was picked up by Portuguese air traffic controllers and passed on to French spy chiefs. |
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Flying Imams |
United States |
US Airways, Airport Seek Trial In Flying Imams' Suit -- US Airways and Minneapolis airport officials are demanding a jury trial in a civil rights lawsuit filed by a group of Muslim imams who were removed from a flight for suspicious behavior. The airline and Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC), which oversees Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, are also claiming immunity for their employees named in the suit, citing a "John Doe" law passed by Congress last year that, among other things, protects people acting in an official capacity to prevent terrorist attacks. |
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Jose Padilla |
United States |
Padilla versus Yoo -- José Padilla, who this past August was convicted of terrorism conspiracy, and John Yoo, one of, if not the, legal architect of the U.S. response to 9/11—have become near-household names in the fights over U.S. detention policies in the so-called "Global War on Terror." Today, that fight took on a much more personal character, as Padilla (and his mother) sued John Yoo, and only John Yoo, in a suit brought in the Northern District of California. A copy of the complaint can be accessed here. |
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Ft. Dix Six |
United States |
Men accused of U.S. army base attack plot denied bail -- A U.S. federal judge on Thursday denied bail to five Muslim men accused of plotting an armed attack on New Jersey's Fort Dix army base. |
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Ramstein |
Belgium |
Belgian Forces Arrest 14 Extremists in Plot to Free Jailed Terror Suspect -- Belgian police Friday arrested 14 Muslim extremists suspected of planning to free an Al Qaeda sympathizer imprisoned for planning a terrorist attack on U.S. air base personnel, officials said. |
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German Trains |
Lebanon |
Cologne Suitcase Bombers Get Long Sentences -- A court in Beirut has sentenced one of the two Lebanese men who planted suitcase bombs on German trains last year to 12 years in jail. The other one was sentenced in absentia to life in prison. The crudely-made bombs didn't go off but prosecutors argued they could have killed many people. |
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Trans-Atlantic |
Pakistan |
Rashid Rauf Escaped With His Uncle -- Rashid Rauf, the Briton suspected of a plane bombing plot who escaped from custody in Islamabad, got away after police let his uncle drive him back to jail following a court appearance, a security official said on Monday. Mohammad Rafiq, had convinced the two police escorts to make the drive back to jail in Rafiq’s more comfortable van -- instead of in a police vehicle. The official said that on the way to jail in Rawalpindi, Rauf asked for permission to stop at a fast-food restaurant, where the uncle bought a meal for all of them. Then Rauf asked to visit a mosque for prayers, which was also allowed. While the prayer service was going on Rauf and his uncle disappeared. |
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Trans-Atlantic |
Pakistan |
Airline Mega-Plot Suspect Escapes Jail -- Rashid Rauf, believed to be the mastermind of the London Airline Plot of 2006, has escaped from his Pakistani jailers following a court appearance in Islamabad on Sunday. A massive manhunt is alleged to be underway to find the young terrorist. "Two police officers who were accompanying [Rashid Rauf] at the time of his disappearance have been arrested and are being interrogated." |
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JIS Protocol |
United States |
A Terror Plot You Haven't Heard Of -- The plot was hatched in prison and apparently within 60 days of launching. Two defendants who were charged have now pleaded guilty. As the defendants entered their pleas, prosecutors made public several documents detailing the group's operations. One handwritten paper, titled "Modes of Attack," includes a list of National Guard facilities, Army recruiting centers and something referred to as the "camp site of Zion." |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
USF Student's Arrest Linked To Explosives Case -- Two days before he was to graduate, a University of South Florida student was arrested Thursday on a weapons charge in connection with a case against two other students accused of transporting explosives. Karim Moussaoui, 28, went to a shooting range with the two other students, Youssef Megahed and Ahmed Mohamed, on July 11, according to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court. Moussaoui told the FBI he took pictures and didn't fire any weapons, the complaint states. |
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JIS Protocol |
United States |
2 Plead Guilty In Southern Calif. Terror Plot -- Two men accused of plotting behind prison walls to launch attacks on military sites, synagogues and other targets in 2005 pleaded guilty Friday to conspiring to levy war against the United States. |
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Picadilly-Glasgow |
United Kingdom |
British Link Glasgow Airport Plot to Al Qaeda Iraq -- Investigators examining the bungled terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow six months ago believe the plotters had a link to Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, which would make the attacks the first that the group has been involved in outside of the Middle East, according to senior officials from three countries who have been briefed on the inquiry. |
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Picadilly-Glasgow |
United Kingdom |
British Link Glasgow Airport Plot to Al Qaeda Iraq -- Investigators examining the bungled terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow six months ago believe the plotters had a link to Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, which would make the attacks the first that the group has been involved in outside of the Middle East, according to senior officials from three countries who have been briefed on the inquiry. |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
Another USF Student Arrested on Federal Charge -- A friend of the two Egyptian students facing federal explosives charges has been arrested. Federal prosecutors say 28-year-old Karim Moussaoui from Morocco went to a shooting range in Tampa last summer with the two University of South students who were later arrested in South Carolina and charged with transporting explosive devices. |
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Sears Tower |
United States |
Mistrial in Sears Tower Bomb Plot Trial -- One of seven Miami men accused of plotting to join forces with al-Qaida to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower was acquitted Thursday, and a mistrial was declared for the six others after the federal jury deadlocked. |
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Ft. Dix Six |
United States |
Fort Dix Attack Plot Suspects Promoting Terror in Jail -- Federal authorities say one of the men accused of planning an attack on soldiers at the Fort Dix army base gave another inmate in a federal detention center an Al Qaeda recruitment video and another wrote a note referring to the fight "we weren't able to finish." |
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Jose Padilla |
United States |
Jihad Noted in Wiretaps: Jurors Hear Conversations of 2 in Charity Fraud Case -- The jury in the case of three officers of a defunct Muslim charity listened yesterday to wiretaps in U.S. District Court in which two of the defendants spoke to two men who subsequently were convicted with Jose Padilla on terrorism conspiracy charges. |
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Nuclear Weapons |
Slovakia |
Gang Arrested Trying To Sell Enriched Uranium -- A gang arrested by Slovakian police was trafficking uranium so enriched that it could have been used by terrorists in a dirty bomb, it emerged today. Two Hungarians and a Ukrainian man were arrested as they tried to sell the uranium last night. The consignment had been tracked by police after it came to their attention inside the former Soviet Union.
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Slovack Dirty Bomb |
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Slovak Police: Seized Uranium Enriched Enough to Make "Dirty Bomb" -- Two Hungarians and a Ukrainian arrested in an attempted sale of uranium were peddling material believed to be from the former Soviet Union, and it was enriched enough to be used in a radiological "dirty bomb," police said Thursday. The three, who were arrested Wednesday in eastern Slovakia and Hungary, were trying to sell about a pound of uranium in powder form.
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Ft. Huachuca |
United States |
Islamists Target Arizona Base -- Fort Huachuca, the nation's largest intelligence-training center, changed security measures in May after being warned that Islamist terrorists, with the aid of Mexican drug cartels, were planning an attack on the facility.
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Ft. Huachuca |
United States |
U.S. Intel Center Wary of Terrorist Attack -- Fort Huachuca, the nation’s largest intelligence training center, changed security measures in May after being warned that Islamist terrorists, with the aid of Mexican drug cartels, were planning an attack on the facility. |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
Goose Creek Two Update -- More details have emerged in the case of the Goose Creek Two defendants. Once again, we’ve come a long, long way from “two innocent boys just driving to the beach with fireworks and getting lost looking for cheap gas.” Federal prosecutors disclosed more info about the YouTube bomb-making videos on Ahmed Mohamed’s laptop. |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
'Martyrdom' Detonator Video Details Revealed In Case -- A prosecution court filing provides new details of a videotape the government says was made by a University of South Florida student and posted to the Web site YouTube. The video, authorities allege, was made by Ahmed Mohamed, 26, who was arrested in South Carolina on Aug. 4 along with Youssef Megahed and accused of transporting explosives. The prosecution says Mohamed acknowledged making the video in which he demonstrated how to use a remote-controlled toy to detonate a bomb.
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Ft. Huachuca |
United States |
Tucson TV Station Broadcasts Arizona Fort Huachuca Terror Threat Report -- KOLD News 13 Tucson is currently running a special report focused on a urgent FBI report outlining a possible terrorist threat in southern Arizona. It speaks specifically to Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista.
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Dry Runs |
United States |
Pilot, Crew, TSA: Four Passengers Targeted Bathroom, Tampered with Mirror -- On 24 October 2007, crewmembers aboard a Reagan-Washington National to Milwaukee General Mitchell International Airport flight reported to a Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO) flying in non-mission status that they noticed suspicious behavior by four passengers. (TSA Suspicious Incident #177) |
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Sears Tower |
United States |
U.S. Rests Case in Terrorism Trial -- Federal prosecutors rested Thursday in the trial of seven men accused of plotting to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices in several cities in hopes of sparking an armed insurrection against the U.S. government. |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
Judge Denies Megahed Bail Request -- Doing the jihad case monitoring the national MSM won’t do, here’s the latest on the Goose Creek Two. On Friday, Judge Steven D. Merryday denied Goose Creek jihadi suspect Youssef Megahed’s bid for bail. He called him a flight risk and said he posed a danger to the community. |
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Ft. Dix Six |
United States |
Lawyer: Fort Dix Suspect to Plead Guilty -- The defendant facing the least serious charges of six men in the Fort Dix terror plot case is expected to plead guilty Wednesday, according to a lawyer in the case. |
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Dry Runs |
United States |
Frontier Airlines Confirms Incident on Flight 623 -- Frontier Airlines spokesman Joe Hodas has confirmed the incident on Flight 623 which occurred Sunday, October 7, on a Denver-to-Detroit flight. The security incident involved an Arab man who locked himself in the first class lavatory (adjacent to the cockpit) and refused to come out despite orders to do so from flight crew. The FBI met the flight — along with more than a dozen law enforcement officers. |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
The Goose Creek Two -- Megahed reportedly researched high-powered rifles; brother accused of sending coded messages |
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Ramstein |
Germany |
1,200 Pounds of TNT -- If successful, the Oberschledorn bombings would easily have surpassed those of Madrid and London in terms of death and destruction. The plot was uncovered due to close cooperation between U.S. and German security forces. However, the discussion on how to deal with radical Muslims in Germany continues. |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
The Goose Creek Two, Egypt, and National Security -- The mystery of the Goose Creek Two continues to unravel. From the very beginning, the case smelled. Remember: “Fireworks?” Just fireworks. Just two innocent boys on a drive to the beach. Who just happened to be driving on an isolated road that leads to a naval station…which houses a military brig where enemy combatants are being held. Ho-hum. |
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Goose Creek |
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Our Friends the Egyptians -- University of South Florida student Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, arrested with pipe bombs near a North Carolina Navy base, is going to have his defense paid for by Egypt. |
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Liberty City Seven |
United States |
Prosecutors Say Liberty City 7 Sought to Topple U.S. Government -- Narseal Batiste and six followers intended to destroy Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI buildings to ignite a chaotic guerrilla war that would overthrow the U.S. government and pave the way for an Islamic regime, federal prosecutors said Tuesday as trial opened for the seven men. |
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Ramstein |
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U. S. Airbase Bomb Plotter On Run in U. K. -- A KEY suspect in the alleged plot to mount an attack in Germany on the scale of 9/11 is on the run in Britain, German security officials disclosed yesterday. |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
Documents Point to S.C. Terror Plot -- Explosives materials in car. |
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Ramstein |
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German Interior Minister Cites Detonators from Syria, Pakistani Operatives in Foiled Jihad Plot -- Three terrorism suspects arrested this month in Germany had acquired detonators that originated in Syria and received direct orders to act from operatives in Pakistan, the German interior minister said Tuesday. |
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Dry Runs |
Panama |
Panama Arrests 6 Syrians Who Tried to Enter Cockpit -- According to Panama's National Police director, Rolando Mirones, the Syrians approached the cockpit "apparently with the intention of opening a door." Police Director Jose Ayu Prado issued a statement this morning stating that the Syrians had indeed "approached the cockpit door and tried to open it." |
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Picadilly-Glasgow |
United Kingdom |
ABC's Boston Legal Ridiculed Idea Doctor Could Be a Terrorist -- Nearly eight weeks before six medical doctors were arrested for their involvement in the late June terrorist attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow, ABC's "Boston Legal" drama -- which has its 90-minute season premiere tonight (Tuesday) -- aired an episode which ridiculed the idea a doctor could be a terrorist. |
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Ramstein |
Germany |
German Terror Suspect Worked at Frankfurt Airport -- Terror suspect Adem Yilmaz, one of the three alleged ringleaders in the foiled German bombing plot, worked at Frankfurt Airport from 1997-2002. Spiegel reports that Yilmaz, a foreign national and citizen of Turkey, had been employed by German rail company Deutsche Bahn — and that he worked in the security division on the train that serves Frankfurt Airport. |
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German Terror Suspect Worked at Frankfurt Airport -- Terror suspect Adem Yilmaz, one of the three alleged ringleaders in the foiled German bombing plot, worked at Frankfurt Airport from 1997-2002. Spiegel reports that Yilmaz, a foreign national and citizen of Turkey, had been employed by German rail company Deutsche Bahn — and that he worked in the security division on the train that serves Frankfurt Airport. |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
USF Terror Suspect Had Two Passports, Different Names -- The St. Petersburg Times offers new details on University of South Florida terror suspects Ahmed Mohamed and Youssef Megahed (Egyptian transliteration: "Mujahid"). In addition to providing details about the explosives, ammunition, fuses, gasoline, bomb making instructions and martyr-referencing video that the pair were carrying when they were pulled over by police for speeding, the Times provides alarming details about Megahed's travel documents. These details include: |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
USF Suspect Produced Video on Remote-Controlled Bombs -- a 12-minute video showing how to take apart a remote-control toy car and reassemble the wiring to make it into a remote detonation device, a federal prosecutor said Friday. The video’s narrator, a graduate student at the University of South Florida, said the device helped "to save one who wants to be a martyr for another battle." |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
CAIR: Megahed "Just Happened To Be in the Car" -- When federal agents searched the men's car, a Toyota Camry registered to Megahed's brother, Yahia Megahed, they found the stuffed pipes wrapped in plastic bags in the trunk alongside a 5-gallon container of gasoline... Potassium nitrate is a low-grade explosive otherwise used as fertilizer. Kitty litter bound the ingredients while syrup could add fuel. "I think you can safely say it's a bomb," said Edward Dreizin, a New Jersey Institute of Technology chemical engineering professor. |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
Case Against Pair Shown -- Pipes stuffed with fertilizer, Karo syrup and kitty litter. Bullets and fuses. A laptop with Internet searches about martyrdom, Hamas and Qassam rockets. Video instructions for turning a child's toy into a detonator. |
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Flying Imams |
United States |
Flying Imams Update -- There was a new document in the Flying Imams lawsuit, called a “Stipulation.” There were six items of the stipulation, agreements between all the parties involved. |
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Muslim Cab Drivers |
United States |
The Taxi Jihad Continues -- Muslim cabbies in Milwaukee are still trying to impose shari’a law on their passengers, and refusing to pick up blind passengers with seeing-eye dogs. |
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Ramstein |
Germany |
The War on Terror: The German Front -- Although praise for the United States occurs very seldom in anti-American Western Europe, it was different in Germany last week. Unreported by most media outlets, the largest potential terrorist attack on German soil since the Second World War that saw three men arrested, two of them German converts to Islam, was thwarted with considerable American help. |
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Ramstein |
Germany |
Islamic Group Claims Planned Attack on U. S. Base in Germany -- The Islamic Jihad Union, a little-known group from Uzbekistan with links to Al-Qaeda, claims it was behind a recent plot to attack a major US base and other targets in Germany, the interior ministry said Tuesday. The group was planning to attack the US military airbase in Ramstein and was also targeting "US and Uzbek consulates in Germany," a statement from the German ministry said. |
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Ramstein |
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Fritz the Jihadist -- This article focuses on the story of Fritz Gelowicz, one of the three arrested earlier this week for plotting a massive and imminent attack on commercial and American military interests in Germany. But it also demonstrates that Gelowicz did not work in a vacuum; rather, there was significant support for "radical Islam" right in the German town of Ulm. And that seemingly unlikely place only underscores the fact that jihadists can plot and potentially wreak havoc wherever they are allowed to operate unchallenged, both by the larger community, and by fellow Muslims who are all too often assumed to be uniformly "moderate." |
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Ramstein |
Syria |
German Terror Plot: Connected to Syria? -- In the New York Times’ latest article on the German terror plot uncovered this week, they reveal that the detonators found by police came from Syria. |
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Ramstein |
United States |
U.S. Intercept Key in German Terror Plot -- A U.S. intelligence intercept of suspicious communications between Pakistan and Stuttgart was the initial break that ultimately led to the arrest this week of three suspected Muslim militants accused of plotting massive car bomb attacks here against Americans, U.S. and German officials said Thursday. |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
Muslim Students Arrested in SC Had Bullets in Car -- The deputy who pulled over Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed and Youssef Samir Megahed, 21, found a box of bullets near the seat, several pipe bombs in the trunk and "other suspicious items," according to the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office. The men have said they had only fireworks, but deputies found no sign of any commercial fireworks, said Berkeley County Chief Deputy C.W. Henerey. |
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Ramstein |
Pakistan |
Pakistan Link to Foiled Germany Terror Plot -- The Los Angeles Times, citing unidentified officials, reported Friday that communications referring to "apparent terrorist activity" were first detected by US intelligence last year before the lead was passed to German officials.
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Ramstein |
Germany |
German Police Hunt for Terror Plot "Back-Up Team" -- German police were today searching for around 10 more members of a terror cell suspected of plotting major bomb attacks, after the arrest of three men and the seizure of explosives materials. Officials have said the three men already in custody - two German converts to Islam and a Turkish national - were planning attacks which could have proved more deadly than those in London or Madrid, with possible targets including US military bases, discos, pubs and Frankfurt's international airport. |
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Ramstein |
Germany |
Germany Foils "Massive Bomb" Plot -- Three men have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning a "massive" terrorist attack on US facilities in the country, officials have said. |
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Ramstein |
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"New Al Qaeda Plot to Blow Up Planes on September 11" Smashed -- Police have smashed a suspected al Qaeda terror cell nursing a "profound hatred of US citizens" plotting to bomb civilian and military jets. The force of the planned explosions would have been worse than the train bombings in Madrid and the Tube and bus attacks in London on 7 July, 2005, according to German security sources. Those attacks killed 191 and 52 people respectively.
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Terror Plot Targeted U.S. Base -- Three suspected Islamic militants were arrested for allegedly plotting "imminent" and "massive" attacks on a major U.S. Air Force base in Germany and Frankfurt International Airport, one of Europe's busiest, German authorities said Wednesday. |
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Ramstein |
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Germans Thwart Plot Against U.S. Base -- Three suspected Islamic terrorists from an al Qaeda-influenced group nursing a "profound hatred of U.S. citizens" were arrested on suspicious of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks on U.S. facilities in Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday. |
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Copenhagen |
Denmark |
Terror Arrests in Denmark -- Earlier today, Denmark's intelligence service arrested eight "Islamic militants linked to leading al-Qaida figures." Six of the eight are Danish citizens; the suspects are of Afghan, Pakistani, Somali and Turkish origin. Danish authorities say that the eight suspects were plotting "an attack involving explosives." |
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Copenhagen |
Denmark |
Denmark Arrests Eight Suspected of Plotting an Interior Spiritual Struggle -- Denmark's intelligence service early Tuesday arrested eight Islamic militants linked to leading al-Qaida figures, and said the suspects were plotting an attack involving explosives. |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
Florida Muslim Students Indicted (Video Update: CAIR Spokesman Calls Them 'Victims') -- Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, 24, an engineering graduate student and teaching assistant at the Tampa-based university, faces terrorism charges for teaching and demonstrating how to use the explosives. According to officials familiar with the case, Mohamed has been arrested previously in Egypt on terrorism-related charges. He is said to have produced an Internet video showing how to build a remote-controlled car bomb. Mohamed and Youssef Samir Megahed, 21, also an engineering student, were stopped for speeding Aug. 4 in Goose Creek, S.C.,
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Goose Creek |
United States |
Indicted USF Student Has Terror Past in Egypt -- Two Egyptian students enrolled at the University of South Florida have been indicted for carrying explosive materials across states lines. One of the defendants also is charged with teaching the other how to use them for violent reasons. Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, 24, an engineering graduate student and teaching assistant at the Tampa-based university, faces terrorism charges for teaching and demonstrating how to use the explosives. According to officials familiar with the case, Mohamed has been arrested previously in Egypt on terrorism-related charges. He is said to have produced an Internet video showing how to build a remote-controlled car bomb.
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Goose Creek |
United States |
Fla. Students Face Explosives Indictment -- Two Egyptian students at the University of South Florida were indicted Friday for carrying explosive materials across states lines and one of them was charged with teaching the other how to use them for violent reasons. |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
Goose Creek Terrorism Indictments -- Remember that Mohamed hasn't been in the US very long - since January, I believe. I'm adding some additional info below. Mohammed was also brought into the mix by the as yet un-identified individual said to have returned to Canada right after the initial arrest. CBS reports he was teaching the use of explosives for "violent reasons." As I pointed out, as opposed to ABC's The Blotter's reporting, the material they were said to have been transporting was potassium chlorate - said to be too unstable for model rocketry.
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Goose Creek |
United States |
Goose Creek Indictments -- Two University of South Florida (USF) students have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Tampa, Florida, for transporting explosives materials without permits, the Department of Justice announced today. |
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JFK Airport |
United States |
Feds: We Need Time in JFK Terror Plot Case -- Federal prosecutors said Friday it will take about two or three months for them to review classified documents and decide whether they believe the documents can be disclosed in the case of Kennedy Airport terror suspect Russell DeFreitas. |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
Another Tampa terrorism investigation? -- Grand juries, by their nature, are secret, but one of the few facts we have is that the Tampa federal grand jury is demanding hair and DNA from the two USF students, Youssef Megahed and Ahmed Mohamed. |
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TWA Flight 800 |
United States |
TWA 800 FOIA Suit Yields Smoking Gun -- More than six years after retired United Airline captain Ray Lahr launched his Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) petition into the fate of TWA Flight 800, the FBI has shown him—likely by accident—one seriously smoking gun. |
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Flying Imams |
United States |
Imams Drop "John Doe" Suit -- A group of Muslim imams today dropped all charges in a federal lawsuit levied against "John Doe" airline passengers for reporting the men's suspicious behavior that led to their removal from a U.S. Airways flight last year. |
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Jose Padilla |
United States |
Closing Arguments Made in U. S. Terror Suspect Case -- Closing arguments, in the case against Padilla and two co-defendants, were heard on Monday. The prosecution called Padilla the “star recruit” for a Florida terrorism support cell that sent the former dirty bomb suspect to an al Qaeda camp to learn how to kill. The three defendants face life in prison if convicted on charges that they provided material support for Islamist terrorist groups and conspired to murder, kidnap and main people in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Bosnia and other countries from 1993 to 2001. |
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JFK Airport |
United States |
Psychologists To See Sccused JFK Terror Plot Mastermind -- New York Eastern District Judge, Dora Irizarry yesterday granted an order permitting two psychologists to enter the Metropolitan Detention Centre to examine terror plot accused, Russell Defreitas who is currently indicted along with three others for plotting to destroy the JFK Airport in New York. |
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Jose Padilla |
United States |
Terrorist Padilla Was Star Recruit -- US citizen Jose Padilla was the "star recruit" for a Florida terrorism support cell that sent the former dirty bomb suspect to an al Qaeda camp to learn how to kill, a prosecutor told jurors in closing arguments. The high-profile terrorism case against Padilla and two co-defendants is expected to go to the jury on Tuesday. All three face life in prison if convicted on charges that they provided material support for Islamist terrorist groups and conspired to murder, kidnap and maim people in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Bosnia and other countries from 1993 to 2001. |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
House Search Part of Inquiry -- The FBI removes items from a home where an explosives suspect had planned to rent a room. |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
Mystery at Goose Creek: Who are the Accused Pipe Bomb Boys? -- Last weekend, I noted the arrest of Yousef Megahed, 21, and Ahmed Mohamed, 24, in the vicinity of the Naval Weapons Station, located in Goose Creek, South Carolina. National media scrutiny since the men were charged with possession of pipe bombs has been scant. Some MSM reports read like CAIR press releases. The AP dispatch carried in the Miami Herald concludes: "Some have suggested the men were targeted because of their ethnicity. Mohamed is a native of Kuwait and Megahed is Egyptian. Both are in the country legally. The arrests were ‘absolutely wrong,’ said Chaudhry Sadiq, director of the South Carolina chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations." |
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Goose Creek |
United States |
FBI Search Linked To Jailed Students -- The FBI searched a Temple Terrace (Tampa) home Saturday morning in connection with the two University of South Florida students jailed in South Carolina on charges of possessing a pipe bomb. |
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Jose Padilla |
United States |
In Fort Dix Terror Plot Case, Lawyers Object to Secrecy on Jury -- The case of six men accused of plotting to attack soldiers on Fort Dix was so frightening and attracted so much interest that the judge and federal prosecutors in the case suggested going to trial unusually quickly and protecting the identity of jurors. Defense lawyers for the suspects are balking at both notions, saying in court filings that their clients are not the dangerous men the government has portrayed them as. The six men — all foreign-born, all in their 20s and all living in or near Philadelphia — were arrested in May and accused of plotting a raid on the New Jersey military installation. |
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