Topic: Terror - on December 11, 2003 at 7:42:07 PM CET
The Saudi Connection
How billions in oil money spawned a global terror network. The CIA's Illicit Transactions Group isn't listed in any phone book. There are no entries for it on any news database or Internet site. The ITG is one of those tidy little Washington secrets, a group of unsung heroes whose job is to keep track of smugglers, terrorists, and money launderers. In late 1998, officials from the White House's National Security Council called on the ITG to help them answer a couple of questions: How much money did Osama bin Laden have, and how did he move it around?
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Topic: Terror - on December 9, 2003 at 1:44:59 AM CET
Dirty bomb rockets vanish
In the ethnic conflicts that surrounded the collapse of the Soviet Union, fighters in several countries seized upon an unlikely new weapon: a small, thin rocket known as the Alazan. Originally built for weather experiments, the Alazan was transformed into a terror weapon, packed with explosives and lobbed into cities. Military records show that at least 38 Alazan warheads were modified to carry radioactive material, effectively creating the world’s first surface-to-surface dirty bomb. The warheads are not known to have been used. But now, according to experts and officials, they have disappeared.
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Topic: Terror - on December 9, 2003 at 1:40:36 AM CET
Survey: Saddam Killed 61,000 in Baghdad
Saddam Hussein's government may have executed 61,000 Baghdad residents, a number significantly higher than previously believed, according to a survey obtained Monday by
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Topic: Terror - on December 8, 2003 at 6:54:28 PM CET
Studie: Kaum Erfolge im Kampf gegen den Terrorismus
Zweifel an Erfolgsmeldung des US-Justizministeriums
Das US-Justizministerium hat nach den Anschlägen vom 11. September 2001 die Strafverfolgung im Zusammenhang mit Terrorismus drastisch verschärft. Doch entgegen anders lautenden Behauptungen von Justizminister John Ashcroft gab es dabei kaum Erfolge, wie eine neue Studie belegt.
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Topic: Terror - on December 8, 2003 at 6:52:59 PM CET
Schmutzige Bomben verschwunden
Mindestens 38 Sprengköpfe, die für so genannte "Schmutzige Bomben" (Dirty Bombs) verwendet werden können, sind laut einem Bericht der "Washington Post" aus einem Lager in Transnistrien (de facto ein autonomer Bestandteil Moldawiens) verschwunden. Dies berichtet die Zeitung unter Berufung auf Diplomaten und Experten, die ungenannt bleiben wollen.
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Topic: Terror - on December 6, 2003 at 1:52:57 PM CET
Stocking Stuffer
U.S. Officials Fear Socks Represent New Way to Smuggle Bombs Aboard Planes. Authorities in the United Kingdom are examining a pair of blue socks, which they believe contain key components of an improved explosive device that could be used in future terrorist airline hijackings, intelligence sources told
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Topic: Terror - on December 4, 2003 at 2:43:38 AM CET
U.S. to Free 140 Guantanamo War Detainees -Report
The United States plans to release 140 of the 660 prisoners at its Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison for suspects in the U.S.-declared war on terrorism, Time magazine reported on Sunday.
Slated for release were "the easiest 20 percent" of detainees, a military official told the magazine. It did not identify its source, who said the military was waiting for "a politically propitious time to release them."
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Topic: Terror - on December 3, 2003 at 11:39:54 PM CET
Terroristen-Rekruteur in München gefasst
In einer Blitzaktion hat die bayerische Polizei in München das Mitglied einer der gefährlichsten Terrorgruppen im Irak festgenommen. Der Mann soll Selbstmordattentäter für Ansar-e Islam geworben und deren Reise in den Irak organisiert haben.
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Topic: Terror - on November 30, 2003 at 2:44:27 PM CET
How the CIA Created Bin Laden
Between 1978 and 1992, the US government poured at least US$6 billion (some estimates range as high as $20 billion) worth of arms, training and funds to prop up the mujaheddin factions. Other Western governments, as well as oil-rich Saudi Arabia, kicked in as much again. Wealthy Arab fanatics, like Osama Bin Laden, provided millions more. Washington’s policy in Afghanistan was shaped by US President Jimmy Carter’s national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and was continued by his successors. His plan went far beyond simply forcing Soviet troops to withdraw; rather it aimed to foster an international movement to spread Islamic fanaticism into the Muslim Central Asian Soviet republics to destabilise the Soviet Union.
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Topic: Terror - on November 25, 2003 at 10:21:03 AM CET
Chocs away over Santa bomb scare
MORE than 100 staff were evacuated from a city centre bank HQ after the bomb squad were called in to detonate a chocolate Santa.
Workers in the Bank of Scotland’s headquarters on Edinburgh’s Mound were thrown into panic after the string used to tie the novelty chocolate to the Christmas tree was mistaken for wiring.
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Topic: Terror - on November 22, 2003 at 12:59:04 PM CET
Terroristen wollten tausende Menschen töten
Islamische Terroristen sollen im vergangenen Jahr einen gigantischen Giftanschlag in London geplant haben. Bei dem Versuch, eine halbe Tonne Chemikalien zu kaufen, flogen die Terroristen jedoch auf, berichtet eine britische Zeitung.
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Topic: Terror - on November 20, 2003 at 12:11:49 PM CET
Major explosions shake Istanbul
Bomb attacks on the British consulate and the HSBC bank headquarters in Istanbul have left at least five dead and many injured.
The explosions come just days after 23 people died in suicide bombings on two synagogues in the city.
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