Topic: Terror - on May 25, 2004 at 2:16:00 PM CEST
FBI Apologizes for Falsely Arresting Lawyer for Terrorism
The FBI apologized for arresting Brandon Mayfield, a 37 y.o. lawyer who used to be an officer in the military and recently converted to Islam. The FBI thought his fingerprint was on a bag of detonators used in the March Madrid bombing.
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Topic: Terror - on May 24, 2004 at 2:45:00 PM CEST
Terror threat: We'll kill Madonna
MADONNA has axed three gigs in Israel — after terrorists threatened to kill her and her kids.
The singer was terrified by a blitz of poison-pen letters.
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Topic: Terror - on May 21, 2004 at 10:11:00 PM CEST
In pictures: Gaza after the withdrawal
Palestinians went out into the streets of parts of Rafah for the first time on Friday after a two-day Israeli operation in search of arms-smuggling tunnels.
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Topic: Terror - on May 21, 2004 at 10:12:00 AM CEST
Al-Qaeda targeted Olympics, Jews: court
Al-Qaeda planned an attack during the Sydney Olympics and to target the Jewish community, according to notes revealed during the trial of an Australian man accused of plotting to bomb the Israeli embassy in Canberra.
A notebook seized from Jack Roche's Perth home in 2002 describes in Indonesian how al-Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Malaysia planned the attacks. The Melbourne Jewish leader, businessman and football identity Joseph Gutnick was identified as an important target.
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Topic: Terror - on May 21, 2004 at 10:00:00 AM CEST
US airport fake ID study 'was found in al-Qaida cave'
The US House Aviation Subcommittee yesterday heard how congressional investigators used false IDs to gain access to a series of federal buildings and two commercial airports, and how a copy of the report detailing their success was later found in an al-Qaida cave in Afghanistan. The investigators were 100 per cent successful in getting past security, but apparently less so in the case of their own report's security.
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Topic: Terror - on May 18, 2004 at 10:05:00 AM CEST
120,000 Names on US Terrorist Watchlist
Screeners at airports, police officers and border patrol guards now have access to the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) database which lists 120,000 people. The CIA compiled this list but few know what their process was in creating it.
The list follows concerns that before the 9-11 attacks, suspected terrorists could travel freely around the US and easily evade law enforcement authorities. John Pike, who directs GlobalSecurity.org, thinks there are too many names on the list.
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Topic: Terror - on May 17, 2004 at 9:59:00 PM CEST
EU-Kommission gibt Flugpassagierdaten für USA frei
Die EU-Kommission hat heute dem Abkommen zur Weitergabe von Flugpassagierdaten an die USA formell zugestimmt. "Laut dieser Entscheidung geht die Kommission davon aus, dass die an die US-Behörden übermittelten Flugpassagierdaten 'angemessen geschützt' werden", heißt es in einer Mitteilung der Kommission. Demnach dürfen die USA demnächst über jeden EU-Passagier 34 Daten von der Kreditkartennummer bis zu Bonus-Meilen erfassen und dreieinhalb Jahre lang speichern. Die Regelung tritt kommende Woche nach der Unterzeichung in Washington in Kraft.
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Topic: Terror - on May 17, 2004 at 1:48:00 PM CEST
Getting Naked for Big Brother
Americans are willing to "get naked" for their government if they feel it will make them more secure. That's the conclusion Jeffrey Rosen reached in his new book The Naked Crowd, which explores the willingness of Americans to abandon privacy for perceived security.
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Topic: Terror - on May 14, 2004 at 1:47:00 AM CEST
FBI anti-terror network scares experts
The FBI's Trilogy project - a plan to replace ther Bureau's existing local and wide area networks - has been slammed by technology experts from the National Research Council.
The NRC said the $600m project was "not on a path to success" and failed to adequately support the FBI's focus on terrorism since 9/11. The report calls on the bureau to build anti-terrorism systems from scratch. The NRC described the FBI's efforts in the last twelve months as "late and limited" and said its upgrade programs "fall far short of what is required."
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Topic: Terror - on May 8, 2004 at 2:07:00 AM CEST
Bin Laden offers gold for killing of Bremer
An audio recording attributed to the al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden, today offered gold to anyone who killed the US administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, or the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan.
The 20-minute message, the authenticity of which has not been verified, appeared on two websites that have in the past carried messages from militant Islamists.
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Topic: Terror - on May 8, 2004 at 2:06:00 AM CEST
US lawyer arrested over Madrid bombings
An American lawyer has been arrested in connection with the Madrid train bombings, it was reported today.
Brandon Mayfield, a former army officer, was taken into custody yesterday by FBI agents, who also searched his home in the Portland suburb of Aloha.
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Topic: Terror - on May 1, 2004 at 7:43:00 PM CEST
Bremer faulted Bush before terror attacks
L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, said in a speech six months before the Sept. 11 attacks that the Bush administration was "paying no attention" to terrorism. "What they will do is stagger along until there's a major incident and then suddenly say, 'Oh my God, shouldn't we be organized to deal with this,'" Bremer said at a McCormick Tribune Foundation conference on terrorism on Feb. 26, 2001.
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