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Five Australians facing terrorism charges had stockpiled chemicals to make a bomb and kill non-Muslims, a court in Sydney was told Tuesday.
Crown prosecutor Richard Maidment said the five men divided the world into those who shared their faith and those who didn't and were committed to "the application of extreme force and...
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An Afghan district governor along with his two bodyguards were killed mistakenly by NATO-led Australian troops in southern Afghanistan while five police officers and three Taliban militants were killed in a clash and a roadside bombing, officials said Thursday.
Rozi Khan Barekzai, governor of the Chora district in Uruzgan province,...
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An Australian cleric and five of his followers Monday were found guilty of forming a terrorist cell and face possible life terms when sentence is passed.
Four of the group of 12 Melbourne Muslims were declared innocent and two have yet to receive a verdict on the terrorism-related charges against them.
Algerian-born Abdul Nacer...
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 Australian authorities filed charges against an Indian doctor on Saturday in connection with the failed car bomb attacks in Britain.Mohammed Haneef was arrested on July 2 in Brisbane while he was waiting for a flight to take him back in homeland India. He is accused of providing support for the men that tried to bomb Glasgow...
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Extending an olive branch to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of unity talks in Cairo next month, the Islamic Hamas movement released 17 members of the president's Fatah movement it had detained in the Gaza Strip in July.
The 17 were among dozens of Fatah activists arrested by Hamas police after a car bomb killed five Hamas...
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A prominent dovish Israeli professor who was wounded by a pipe bomb outside his Jerusalem home warned Friday that the attack against him underscored the collapse of the rule of law in the occupied territories.
Police believe the bomb was placed at his doorstep by right-wing Jewish extremists angered by Professor Zeev Sternhell's...
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A pipe bomb exploded early Thursday morning next to the home of a prominent Israeli political scientist and critic of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, lightly injuring him.
Some hours later police found leaflets offering over one million shekels (290,000 dollars) to anyone who kills a member of the dovish Peace...
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One day after securing the leadership of Israel's ruling party, Tzipi Livni called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to implement his promise to resign as soon as possible, allowing her to form a new government urgently.
The Israeli foreign minister - chairing the first meeting of the centrist Kadima party since she won primaries held...
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Israel currently holds some 8,500 Palestinian security prisoners in its jails, a spokeswoman for the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said Monday.
As of July 30, the number of Palestinian security prisoners in the Israel Prisons Service (IPS) stood at 8,472, B'Tselem said.
They include 5,176 Palestinians serving a sentence,...
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Crises in Somalia and the Middle East need to be resolved to prevent further extremism and terrorist attacks, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga said Thursday on the 10th anniversary of deadly bomb attacks in East Africa.
Over 200 people died and more than 4,000 were injured in Kenyan capital Nairobi and Tanzanian capital Dar es...
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Unknown militants stormed a Gaza Strip beach
resort early Wednesday and burned it down, after handcuffing three
security guards, witnesses and security sources said. The militants left the Ebad al-Rahman resort after confiscating three computers, the sources added.
The resort, which opened this summer, is located in the...
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Israeli is preparing to transfer to the West
Bank Palestinian Fatah activists who fled internecine fighting in the
Gaza Strip, the Israeli Defence Ministry said Monday.
The move comes amid fierce inter-Palestinian clashes in the Strip
between Fatah and Hamas, which administers the enclave. It overturns a
previous decision made at...
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Three people were killed and five injured when a bomb went off in a cafe in Iraq's Hillah province, witnesses said Monday.
The explosion hit a coffee shop known for its young visitors and caused
serious damage, witnesses told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. Several
cars were also damaged. Hillah province is located some 100...
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Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and another
soldier injured by a bomb blast in the northern Iraqi province of
Kirkuk, an Iraqi army source said Friday. The incident
appeared to be the result of a roadside bomb that targeted an army
patrol between the districts of al-Rashad and al-Humayra. The explosion
totally destroyed the...
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A suicide attacker in an explosive-laden car
detonated the bomb near an Iraqi police department in a blast that
killed three policemen and injured four, security sources said
Thursday. The blast hit the al-Shaheed police department in
the al-Qayara district, south of Mosul, the Voices of Iraq news agency
reported. Mosul province...
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Turkish police continued investigations
Tuesday into a bomb blast on Sunday in Istanbul that killed 17 people
and injured more than 150 with officials pointing the blame at the
separatist Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), charges the PKK have denied.
As the families of the dead continued funeral preparations police
were seeking a man...
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Lebanese Sunni leader Saad Hariri met Iraqi
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad on Thursday during a rather
calm day in Iraq after a deadly explosion that took place north of the
capital the night before. According to the Voices of Iraq
(VOI) news agency, the Shiite Iraqi leader congratulated Hariri on the
formation of a...
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Two suicide bombers killed 22 people and wound
57 others in an attack Tuesday at an army recruitment station in Diyala
province, officials said.
Medical workers said the two attackers detonated their explosive
vests about two minutes apart in the attack at the Saad military
barracks in Baquba, capital of the province.
Diyala,...
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US troops killed a former Iraqi army officer
in northern Iraq while twin bombings left six people injured in
volatile Diyala province where the search is on for three suspected
female suicide bombers, security officials said Tuesday. In
the northern Salahaddin province, a US force stormed Monday night the
house of an officer in...
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A small bomb exploded in the car of
Palestinian Attorney-General Ahmad Mughani as he drove away early
Tuesday from his home in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, police
said. Police spokesman Adnan Damiri said the incident was under investigation and several suspect were being interrogated.
The small device, hidden in the...
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Fifteen people were killed and other 40 were wounded as a
result of another bomb attack carried out by a woman in central Baquba on
Sunday, Iraqi security officials reported.
The suicide bomber detonated the explosives hidden beneath
her black robe near a fortified courthouse and government outpost. Seven
policemen were killed...
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 A four-year-old Palestinian girl was killed
and her mother wounded in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip. The Israel army
confirmed it carried out an air strike in the area, saying it targeted a group
of militants. Apparently, the bomb missed its target and landed near a house,
security forces said.
“The air force conducted a...
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 The International Atomic Energy report
issued in Vienna said Tehran is holding back information on
high-explosives testing relating to its nuclear programme and it should provide
more information on its missile-related activities, Reuters reported.
“I think right now the Iranians have a lot
of explaining to do about the IAEA...
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 A suicide bomber blew up a truck with four
tons of explosives, which was parked on the Palestinian side of the Erez
Crossing. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the bomb attack, which could
be heard for miles away and blew out windows in the nearby Israeli border
community of Netiv Ha'Asara. A militant was killed in the suicide...
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 At least 49 people were killed and others were wounded when
a suicide bomber struck a funeral for a tribal leader in northern Iraq on Thursday.
The bomber blew himself up in the Sunni village
of Bu Mohammed, near the city of Baquba, north of the capital, Baghdad, officials said.
The strike appears to be the latest assault to...
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policemen were killed after an attack set by some Taliban insurgents. According
to Deputy provincial police chief Amanullah Khan, the attack occurred Saturday at
a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan.
Apparently, the insurgents opened fire in the policemen in the Arghandab
district of Kandahar province. Some reports...
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 Shiite militiamen and Iraqi security forces fought for a
second day in the southern city of Basra
on Wednesday, waving rocket-propelled-grenade launchers and injuring three
Americans and an Iraqi, officials claimed. The explosions could be heard every
10 or 15 minutes.
The authorities ordered sieges across southern Iraq in...
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 Four U.S.
soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad
on Sunday, bringing the overall American toll in the Iraq war to 4,000. The roadside
bomb exploded next to the four troops’ vehicle in southern Baghdad,
causing their death and injuring another soldier, the U.S. military
reports.
The U.S.-protected Green Zone...
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 A Christian archbishop, who had been previously kidnapped, was found dead, local authorities said.The corpse of Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paul Faraj Rahho was found on Thursday on the outskirts of Mosul. The Archbishop was abducted on February 29, when his car was ambushed by several gunmen. In the ambush, Rahho’s driver and his two...
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 Three U.S.
troops and their interpreter were killed on Monday in Iraq's Diyala
province by a roadside bomb. A fourth serviceman was also wounded by the
improvised bomb that exploded near their patrol. On the same day, another five U.S. soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber in
the capital Baghdad.
The religiously...
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 Five American foot soldiers went on Monday on their last patrol. They were killed in an upscale shopping district in central Baghdad in another suicide bomb attack, the military officials said.The soldiers were patrolling when a militant approached them and detonated the explosive-laden vest he was wearing. Four soldiers died at the...
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 After urging Ankara to end it military operation in northern Iraq as soon as possible, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates got an answer from his Turkish counterpart, although it may not be the one he had hoped for.Gates’ counterpart, Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul said that Turkey’s assault on Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)...
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 Three Shiite pilgrims were killed
and 15 were injured in a roadside bomb attack Monday morning, in Iraq,
during a Shiite festival, police said.
The roadside bomb exploded on the
outskirts of Baghdad while pilgrims were heading
on foot to the annual Arbaeen festival, in the southern city of Karbala, Reuters...
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A suicide bomb attack killed 80 people and wounded many more
Sunday in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar,
during a dog fighting, attended by 300 people, and also by some members of the
militia, Al Jazeera reports.
Assadulah Khalid, Kandahar’s
provincial governor, said that the bomb was detonated by a suicide attacker.
The...
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Pakistani authorities said that a suicide bomb attack has
killed Saturday at least 18 people and wounded at least 25 people at an
election rally in northwestern Pakistan,
the Associated Press reports.
North West Frontier province, bordering Afghanistan, is
a region where Islamic extremists operate and has been the scene of...
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 A suicide attack struck a mosque in Afghanistan’s Helmand province
Thursday, killing the deputy provincial governor along with five other persons,
media informed.
The explosion occurred during afternoon prayers in Lashkar
Gah, capital of the province known as a Taliban stronghold and the country's
main poppy growing area. The...
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 Iraq’s capital Baghdad was rocked Tuesday by three powerful
explosions that injured at least 18 people, but didn’t cause any fatalities,
security officials informed.
Police said 10 of the injured in two of the blasts were
police officers and the rest were civilians, the Kuwait News Agency reported.
The third explosion caused no...
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 Five US soldiers were killed Monday by a roadside bomb in the northern city of
Mosul, US military officials informed.
A vehicle of the US forces was hit by a powerful explosion in the
capital of Nineveh province and then came under small arms fire, before additional
security forces arrived in the area.
Monday’s attack came...
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 A powerful explosion tore through a suburb of the Lebanese
capital on Friday, killing a senior police intelligence officer and at least
nine other persons, police reported.
According to Lebanese officials, the murdered officer was a
key member of a special unit investigating bombings in Lebanon.
Sources with the Lebanese...
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 An Iraqi police chief was killed Thursday in the northern
city of Mosul when a suicide attacker detonated his explosive vest, officials
informed.
The bomber struck after the provincial police chief toured
the site of a fierce blast that rattled a predominantly Sunni neighborhood on
Wednesday.
Two other police officers working...
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 Israel launched three more airstrikes Friday, targeting also Gaza
City's Hamas-run Interior Ministry, in response to three days of
escalating violence during which Palestinian militants fired at least
130 rockets and mortar shells at the Jewish state.
A 52-year-old woman was killed and at least 46 people were injured
in the strike...
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 Lebanese and US security officials met Wednesday with Lebanon's General
Prosecutor Said Mirza, a day after a bomb blast ripped through a US
embassy car killing three people and wounding 20 others, Lebanese
judicial sources said.
The meeting was chaired by Mirza at the Lebanese Justice Palace, in
the presence of Lebanese military...
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 At least 14 people were killed, including a US marine, and 25 wounded
Wednesday in bomb blasts in Iraq, while 65 terrorist suspects were
arrested. Curfews in several Iraqi cities were also reported.
The first attack occurred in central Baghdad, security sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
In the early hours of Wednesday, a...
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 A bomb struck a car belonging to the US embassy north of Beirut on
Tuesday, killing at least three people and injuring 20, US, Lebanese
and Red Cross officials said.
The US embassy issued a statement late Tuesday confirming that one
of its vehicles was "involved in an explosion in the Karantina district
of Beirut" near...
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 Militants in police uniform killed at least five foreigners and two
Afghan guards in a brazen suicide bomb and gun attack at the Kabul
luxury hotel, Afghan authorities and a victim said on Tuesday.
At least three militants carried out a multi-pronged attack in the
city's most fortified area, which is some 300 metres from...
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 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the United Nations
nuclear watchdog to fulfil its responsibility and not be influenced by
world powers in the nuclear dispute, ISNA news agency reported.
"The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) should not be
influenced by pressures of world powers and fulfil its...
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 US air strikes hit Thursday targets of the al- Qaeda terrorist network
in Baghdad, while five people were killed and 11 injured in the latest
attacks around the country.
In the Arab al-Jabor area of southern Baghdad, US air forces
dropped 40,000 pounds of explosives during the first 10 minutes of the
massive raid targeting more...
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The Pentagon released a video Tuesday showing small Iranian boats
speeding around three US naval warships in the Gulf and a voice over a
radio that warned the US sailors "you will explode."
At one point one of the five Iranian boats came within less than
200 metres of a destroyer, the USS Hopper, despite requests by...
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 At least 13 people were killed, including civilians, and 33 wounded Sunday in the latest Iraq violence.
Nine people were killed and 17 wounded in Baghdad's central Karada
district when a suicide attacker detonated his explosive belt near a
group of members of a non-governmental organization celebrating the
army holiday feast,...
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 US forces have captured a wanted leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist
network in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, the city's operations
command said on Sunday. As meanwhile, violence and raids were reported
elsewhere in Iraq.
Jasim Muhammad Ali, also known as Mullah Jasim, was arrested by
US-led coalition forces on Saturday, a...
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 Turkish fighter planes renewed strikes on Tuesday against Kurdish
rebels based in the mountainous border area of northern Iraq, a source
from the border guard forces in the northern Iraqi town of Duhuk said.
According to the Voices of Iraq news agency, Tuesday's strikes hit
an uninhabited area called Jum Juhi only four kilometres...
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 At least 31 people were killed and around 100 wounded Tuesday in a wave
of violence in Iraq. The US army said it killed 13 militants during
operations that began a day earlier.
In one incident, 23 people were killed when a suicide attacker
detonated his bomb-riddled car simultaneously when another two suicide
bombers detonated...
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 Kurdish security officials said there were no fatalities in attacks by
the Turkish air force on suspected positions of the banned Kurdish
Workers' Party (PKK) on Saturday, the pan-Arab al-Jazeera news
broadcaster reported.
The Turkish military earlier confirmed the renewed aerial attacks, saying hundreds of PKK fighters might have...
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 At least 15 Iraqis were killed and 16 others wounded in two separate
suicide attacks in Baquba city and the Iraqi capital Baghdad Thursday,
sources said.
In Baquba, at least 13 Iraqi volunteer fighters, including a
leader, were killed and eight others wounded in a suicide attack in
Baquba city Thursday, an Iraqi medical source...
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US military spokesmen confirmed that Taliban rebels shot down a US helicopter in central Afghanistan Monday, while three US-led soldiers died in suicide and roadside attacks elsewhere in the country, officials said.
The helicopter crew engaged with Taliban fighters on the ground in Wardak province, about 50 kilometres west of Kabul...
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 The troubled south of Philippine was the target of an attack. The crime gang put a bomb inside a bus in Digos city and killed six people on Monday. On Tuesday, the officials in Philippine said that the attack hadn’t been planned by the Muslim separatist rebels.The Metro Shuttle bus attack might have been created by a gang called Al...
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 A small aircraft which was participating to an experimental flight on Friday crashed into a house of Los Angeles. The plane exploded after it took off and killed the pilot inside together with two people inside the house. The plane was home-built and its pilot tried to announce the officials from the North Las Vegas Airport that he might...
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A man was arrested Wednesday after supposedly threatening the police to having planted a bomb at Los Angeles International
Airport, provoking
authorities to ground several flights and close down traffic in the area.
However, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller reported that
no explosives were found on the man, not even in the rucksack...
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A split verdict was reached in the case of a fourth-grade
teacher in Philadelphia who was accused of planting terrorist notes in the
school where she worked.
The judge found Susan Romanyszyn guilty on eleven charges, but
she was also acquitted on seven other.
Romanyszyn left threatening messages in the hallways of
Longstreth...
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U.S. marine Lt Andrew Grayson has been acquitted by a military jury of charges that he helped cover up the killing of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Haditha in 2005, BBC News reports. The trial is being held at Camp Pendleton, a military base in CaliforniaHe had been charged with obstruction of justice and making false statements by...
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 The Pentagon says Binayam Mohamed, an
Ethiopian national, is accused of supporting terrorism and conspiracy to commit
terrorist attacks in the United
States. He allegedly planned with al-Qaeda to
use a radioactive “dirty bomb.”
His lawyers say the case is based on
evidence obtained through torture while he was in...
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The Hilton San Diego Bayfront hotel, which was scheduled to
open in December, suffered serious damages after an explosion hit it this
Monday. The hotel was under construction and 14 of the 400 workers who were
there when the explosion occurred were injured, five of them critically. Maurice
Luque, the San Diego Fire-Rescue...
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 Michael Ambrose was arrested Thursday night after a great
number of explosive devices was found in his house. The 41-year-old man, who
lives on 188 East Street in East Bridgewater, was charged with multiple counts
of possession of explosive and is due to be arraigned on Friday in Brockton District Court. The neighbors
were shocked...
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 A suspected pipe bomb exploded at the Edward J. Schwartz
Federal Courthouse in downtown San
Diego early Sunday, blowing out a window and damaging
the front entrance, officials said according to the Associated Press. The blast
caused no injuries.
The FBI’s counter-terrorism unit is trying to find out who
detonated the...
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 Ryan Schallenberger, 18, planned to make several bombs and
he had enough supplies to carry out a bomb attack that could kill dozens at Chesterfield High School. He used to keep a diary
that included details of the attack, called “Columbine III,” such as schemes
and maps of the building.
The young man was arrested Saturday after...
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 Investigators found the body of a man in the rubble of a Puyallup house destroyed by an explosion, Pierce County
sheriff's Detective Ed Troyer said. The entire house was almost completely
destroyed by the explosion and the fire which followed it.
The 26-year old man was a registered sex offender who rented
the room in the house...
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 One of the Hells Angels’ members, 50-year-old Richard Vallee,
was sentenced Monday to a life term for murdering a federal drug informant in
1993. Vallee killed Lee Carter Jr. in order to stop him from testifying in the
Hells Angel’s cocaine smuggling case.
Carter was killed on July 28, 1993, near Champlain, N.Y,
outside a bowling...
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The Marine Corps dropped charges against Lance Cpl. Stephen
Tatum, 26, who was accused of killing two Iraqi children in Haditha in 2005. He
was about to face a court martial on charges of involuntary manslaughter.
Charges were dropped in the day he was supposed to go to trial. The Marine
Corps gave him full immunity based on the...
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 The FBI is currently analyzing a parachute discovered buried
by children in southwest Washington
in order to determine whether it belonged to famous hijacker D.B. Cooper.
The children found it while they were playing outside near
Amboy and due to the recent media coverage of the Cooper case, they rushed their
father to call the...
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 Former 1970s radical Sara Jane Olson, who lived as a
fugitive in Minnesota,
went back to prison Saturday after her short-lived release on parole last week.
According to the corrections officials, she has to serve one more year, as they
miscalculated the date of her release.
“The department is sensitive to the impact such an...
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 The ex-Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
fugitive Sara Jane Olson was released from prison on Monday, officials said Thursday
quoted by the Associated Press.
Olson had hidden for years claiming she was just an ordinary
housewife, but she pleaded guilty in 2001 after attempting to bomb police cars
with the SLA. She was sentenced...
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 It’s Business as usual in New York City’s Times Square after a military recruitment center was bomb attacked on March 6. The same goes for the police as the investigators of the explosion searched through dozens of security video tapes, but couldn’t identify the man who threw the bomb and the incendiary device. They managed, however, to...
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 Ten Congress members received letters saying “We did it” and also containing a picture of the recently-attacked Armed Forces Recruiting Station in New York’s Times Square. The military recruiting station was bomb attacked yesterday. The attacker was apparently a man on a bicycle, who threw an explosive device and an incendiary...
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 An explosion that occurred in New York City's Times Square determined the police to cordon off a section of the area for investigations. According to preliminary reports, the target of the explosion was the Armed Forces Recruiting Station at which a man riding a bicycle threw an explosive device and an incendiary device. The blast...
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Yakima Police arrested a member
of the U. S.
military who was trying to get through airport security with two grenades in a
carry-on bag, the Associated Press reports. He was intending to embark on a
plane heading to Seattle.
Police Sgt. Tim Bardwell of the
Yakima Police Department said that “They called us. We responded and...
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 Jose Padilla, a US citizen in custody since 2002 for involvement in a
terrorist cell, was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years and four months in
prison, the US Justice Department said.
Padilla, 37, who was held as an "enemy combatant" for more than
three years in a military prison without access to a lawyer, was found
guilty...
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 A US federal judge in New York sentenced an al-Qaeda terrorist to life
in prison on Friday for plotting to bomb US embassies in Singapore and
the Philippines, New York media reported.
Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, a Canadian citizen of Iraqi descent who
pleaded guilty in July 2002 to the disrupted plot, was unable to
persuade Judge...
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 US President George W Bush sternly warned Iran on Wednesday of "serious consequences" if it attacks US warships in the Gulf.
"We have made it clear publicly, and they know our position, and
that is, there will be serious consequences if they attack our ships,
pure and simple. And my advice to them is don't do...
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 A five-hour hostage standoff Friday at a Hillary Clinton campaign
office ended peacefully when police arrested a man who allegedly held
three captives claiming he had a bomb.
The suspect, described by US media as a local man in his 40s with a
history of mental illness, surrendered to police in Rochester, New
Hampshire, after a...
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 According to police authorities, emergency vehicles were on hand at New York's LaGuardia Airport when an American Airlines flight from Chicago landed early Thursday afternoon. The MD-80, Flight 382 with 117 passengers and five crew members, was | | | |
