Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 7:34:52 PM CET
Italy jet in al Qaeda hijack scare
An Italian man claiming to be a member of al Qaeda has been arrested by French police in Lyon after he tried to hijack an Alitalia flight from Bologna to Paris. Stefano Savorani, a former policeman, went to the cockpit with a remote control device and told the crew he intended to blow up the plane, which had 67 passengers and seven crewmembers on board.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 6:26:05 PM CET
Fatwa journalist 'flees Nigeria'
Fashion writer Isioma Daniel is reported to have left Nigeria after calls for her to be killed for insulting the Prophet Mohammed. Colleagues at ThisDay newspaper say she is now in the United States, according to Reuters news agency.
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Topic: - on November 25, 2002 at 4:00:34 PM CET
Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America'
Online document: the full text of Osama bin Laden's "letter to the American people", reported in today's Observer. The letter first appeared on the internet in Arabic and has since been translated and circulated by Islamists in Britain.
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Topic: - on November 22, 2002 at 3:20:45 PM CET
50 Killed Over Miss World Article
— Angry mobs stabbed and set fire to bystanders Thursday in rioting that erupted after a newspaper suggested Islam's founding prophet would have approved of the Miss World beauty pageant. At least 50 people were killed and 200 injured, Nigeria's Red Cross president said.
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Topic: - on November 22, 2002 at 3:02:20 PM CET
Twelve killed in Miss World riots
At least 12 people have been killed in the Nigerian city of Kaduna after protests against next month's Miss World beauty competition descended into bloody violence. Many more are also believed to have died, after thousands of Muslim youths rampaged through the suburbs of the city, erecting barricades of burning tyres, setting fire to buildings, and attacking churches.
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Topic: - on November 19, 2002 at 6:54:01 PM CET
Czechs Find Bomb on Rail Track Ahead of NATO Meet
Workers checking tracks found a bottle placed underneath a rail, which had been partially sawed through, on the outskirts of the Czech capital at around 9 a.m. (3 a.m. EST). "It was an explosive device," police spokeswoman Eva Miklikova told Reuters. "Bomb disposal experts defused it and took it away for examination."
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Topic: - on November 17, 2002 at 8:33:52 PM CET
Blasts Rock Russian Soccer Stadium
Two explosions rocked a stadium Sunday about an hour after a soccer match in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz, but there were no immediate reports of casualties. The explosions occurred two to three seconds apart at the city's central Spartak stadium, said an official in the local Interior Ministry, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Vladikavkaz, the capital of the republic of North Ossetia, is near Chechnya.
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Topic: - on November 17, 2002 at 8:24:03 PM CET
Al-Qaida video puts hotels on alert
English-speaking terrorists trained to execute guests
A new cache of chilling al-Qaida training videos has been discovered in Afghanistan in which terrorists speaking English simulate the seizure of what appears to be a building full of Westerners, suggesting a hotel might be Osama bin Laden's next target.
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Topic: - on November 16, 2002 at 10:06:51 AM CET
Terror Warning Issued By Government, Nov. 14, 2002
National Infrastructure Protection Center HOMELAND SECURITY INFORMATION UPDATE RECENT RELEASE OF POSSIBLE USAMA BIN LADEN AUDIOTAPE MESSAGE FORESHADOWS POTENTIAL Al-QA'IDA ATTACKS
Information Bulletin 02-010 November 14, 2002
NIPC Information Bulletins communicate issues that pertain to the critical national infrastructure and are for informational purposes only.
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Topic: - on November 14, 2002 at 10:54:13 PM CET
Terrorist's brain to be returned
German prosecutors say the brain of the urban terrorist Ulrike Meinhof, which had been removed after her suicide in 1976, will be returned to her family.
Meinhof's daughter, Bettina Roehl, filed a lawsuit in Stuttgart on Monday demanding the return of her mother's brain, so that it could be given a proper burial.
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Topic: - on November 14, 2002 at 10:50:49 PM CET
Pentagon begins designing global computer surveillance system
A new Pentagon research office has started designing a global computer surveillance system to give U.S. counterterrorism officials access to personal information in government and commercial databases around the world.
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Topic: - on November 12, 2002 at 10:45:20 PM CET
'Bin Laden' hails recent attacks
An Arabic news channel has broadcast what it says is an audio recording of Osama Bin Laden praising anti-Western attacks committed as recently as last month. A voice, purported to be that of the al-Qaeda leader, was heard commending recent attacks in Bali, Kuwait, Yemen and the takeover of a Moscow theatre by Chechen rebels.
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