Topic: Terror - on June 17, 2004 at 12:00:00 PM CEST
Hostage paraded on video at Islamic website
A CAPTURED United States hostage was last night paraded on a website video by kidnappers who threatened to murder him within 72 hours unless al-Qaeda prisoners were released.
A man identifying himself as Paul Johnson was shown on video, blindfolded and saying he worked on an Apache helicopter programme in the kingdom for the Lockheed Martin firm.
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Topic: Terror - on June 13, 2004 at 6:39:00 PM CEST
Al-Jazeera airs American's execution video
Qatar's Al-Jazeera television station has aired video footage of what it says is the murder of US national Robert Jacob in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, by suspected Al Qaeda killers.
The body of a man in Western dress is seen hitting the ground as several gunshots ring out.
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Topic: Terror - on June 11, 2004 at 12:05:00 PM CEST
Rumsfeld okayed torture methods: Report
Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had approved various methods of interrogating terror suspects, in a memo under which US military personnel at Guantanamo Bay could put prisoners in "stress positions" for four hours, hood them and subject them to 20-hour-long interrogations.
The approval, first in December 2002 and later in a January 8, 2003 memo, allowed for inflicting "fear of dogs", and "mild non-injurious physical contact", The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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Topic: Terror - on June 10, 2004 at 9:29:00 PM CEST
Interpol IDs piracy link to funding of terrorism
There is new evidence that terrorist organizations around the world are getting at least some of their funding from the sale of illegally copied intellectual property, including pirated DVDs and CDs, according to Interpol and copyright trade groups.
According to an Interpol report prepared for the House Committee on International Relations, intellectual property crimes are a growing resource for terrorist groups from Northern Ireland to the Arab world, including al-Qaida and Hizbullah, and the RIAA has evidence that a pair of illegal CD plants in Pakistan is financed by Dawood Ibrahim, an Indian Muslim the Treasury Department named a "specially designated global terrorist" in October.
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Topic: Terror - on June 10, 2004 at 7:23:00 PM CEST
Israel can now spot, destroy roadside bombs from air
Israel's military has succeeded in detecting and neutralizing improvised explosive devices from the air.
Israeli officials said the Israel Defense Forces have combined air and ground forces to detect IEDs during military operations in the Gaza Strip.
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Topic: Terror - on June 8, 2004 at 6:44:00 AM CEST
ISRAELI JETS ATTACK BEIRUT TARGET
Israeli jets have attacked a guerrilla target near the Lebanese capital Beirut, according to an army statement.
The air strike was reportedly in response to an attack on an Israeli naval vessel patrolling in the Mediterranean earlier in the day.
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Topic: Terror - on June 7, 2004 at 7:14:00 PM CEST
'Al-Qaeda' threat to US airlines
A statement purportedly from al-Qaeda militants in Saudi Arabia has warned of new attacks on US and Western airlines and other transport facilities.
"All compounds, bases and means of transport, especially Western and American airlines, will be a direct target...," it said.
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Topic: Terror - on June 7, 2004 at 11:27:00 AM CEST
Hilfsgelder für Palästinenser finanzieren Terror
Über Jahre hinweg ist es Palästinenser-Präsident Yassir Arafat und seiner Autonomiebehörde gelungen, gewaltige Summen aus den internationalen Hilfsgeldern für Aktivisten der Al Fatah, der Al- Aqsa-Brigaden und der Tan-zim-Milizen abzuzweigen. "Report München" legt heute Abend (Sendetermin: 21.00 Uhr im Ersten) Beweise für illegale Finanzströme vor, die über Banken in London , Kairo, New York und Genf in die Taschen von Attentätern und deren Hintermännern führen.
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Topic: Terror - on June 6, 2004 at 2:24:00 AM CEST
Thousands of Iranians said ready for suicide raids
Thousands of Iranians have signed up for suicide attacks on Israel, U.S.-led forces in Iraq and British author Salman Rushdie, a recruiting group said today.
Shiite Iran has strongly condemned the occupation of Iraq and voiced its outrage at damage to shrines in the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala.
The father of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, condemned Rushdie to death in 1989 for alleged blasphemy in his novel "The Satanic Verses."
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Topic: Terror - on June 4, 2004 at 6:37:00 PM CEST
Rumsfeld says even his wife needles him on hunt for Osama bin Laden
U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says his wife often wants to know where Osama bin Laden is hiding - and she usually pops the question soon after he wakes up in the morning.
"When I walk out of the bedroom in the morning, my wife frequently rolls over and says 'Where's UBL?' " Rumsfeld told U.S. sailors and marines aboard the USS Essex in Singapore on Friday, referring to al-Qaida leader's initials.
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Topic: Terror - on June 4, 2004 at 5:16:00 PM CEST
Taliban Told U.S. It Would Give Up Osama - Middleman
U.S. and Taliban officials met secretly in Frankfurt almost a year before the Sept. 11 attacks to discuss terms for Afghanistan to hand over Osama bin Laden, according to a German television documentary. But no agreement was reached and no further negotiations took place before the suicide hijackings in 2001. ZDF television quoted Kabir Mohabbat, an Afghan-American businessman, as saying he tried to broker a deal between the Americans and the purist Islamic Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, who were sheltering bin Laden and his al Qaeda network.
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Topic: Terror - on June 4, 2004 at 5:08:00 PM CEST
Taliban wollten Osama bin Laden ausliefern
Schon Ende 2000 wollten die Taliban den Terroristenführer Osama bin Laden ausliefern. Mittelsmänner verhandelten mit der US-Regierung – die aber lehnte ab.
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