Topic: - on November 10, 2002 at 1:06:21 PM CET
Mystery over German guerrilla's brain
The daughter of the German left-wing extremist, Ulrike Meinhof, one of the founders of the violent Red Army Faction, has claimed that her mother's brain was removed from her body for scientific investigation without the family's permission.
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Topic: - on November 8, 2002 at 6:06:58 PM CET
Bin Laden is alive - Interpol
Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden is alive and planning further high-profile terrorist attacks around the world, the head of Interpol has said. Ronald Noble told the French newspaper Le Figaro: ''Osama Bin Laden is alive, and on the ground the hunt for him goes on as it did on the very first day. "
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Topic: - on November 7, 2002 at 10:14:44 PM CET
Irises, voices give away terrorists
The United States is compiling digital dossiers of the irises, fingerprints, faces and voices of terrorism suspects and using the information to track their movements and screen foreigners trying to enter the country. Since January, military and intelligence operatives have collected the identifying data on prisoners in Afghanistan and at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. There are also plans to extend the collection process to Iraq in the event of a U.S. invasion.
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Topic: - on November 6, 2002 at 12:58:33 PM CET
US 'still opposes' targeted killings
The United States has said it still opposes Israel's policy of targeted assassinations, despite its apparent use of the same tactic to kill six al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen on Sunday. "Our policy on targeted killings in the Israeli-Palestinian context has not changed," US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. Mr Boucher refused to talk about the Yemen attack, but said that Washington's reasons for opposing the targeted killings of Palestinians might not apply in other circumstances.
The wrecked jeep was
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Topic: - on November 5, 2002 at 5:07:47 PM CET
Hamas launches webzine for kids
Islamic terror group Hamas has launched a new Web magazine for kids that praises martyrs while encouraging children to follow the example of committing suicide for the "cause."
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Topic: - on November 3, 2002 at 1:15:44 PM CET
Iran detained one of bin Laden's sons
Iranian security forces have detained one of Osama bin Laden's sons among several hundred people suspected of links to the al Qaeda terror network, the Financial Times reported on its Web site Saturday. Bin Laden has at least 23 children by several wives. One of the oldest, Saad bin Laden, who is about 22, has emerged as an al Qaeda leader and one of America's top two dozen targets in the network. Mohammed and Ahmed bin Laden also support their father's efforts, U.S. officials say.
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Topic: - on November 2, 2002 at 11:01:29 AM CET
Russia clamps down on media freedom after Chechen hostage-taking
In future, broadcasters and print media are barred from releasing information that could hamper anti-terrorist operations or put people's lives in danger. The media is also banned from criticising security operations or identifying members of special forces and crisis units without their prior approval.
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Topic: - on November 1, 2002 at 12:35:13 AM CET
Russia Arrests Alleged Terrorist
Sergei Krymgerei, an alleged member of prominent Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev's gang, was arrested by police acting on a tip, city police spokesman Filipp Zolotnitsky said. The suspect was carrying a champagne bottle full of the highly toxic substance when arrested, the Interfax news agency reported.
"Such an amount of mercury would poison a very large number of people," Zolotnitsky said on NTV television.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 2:13:10 PM CET
Deutsche Mediziner lösen Rätsel um Narkosegas
Das gängige Narkosemittel habe sich im Blut und im Urin einer der beiden deutschen Geiseln befunden, sagten die Mediziner Thomas Zilker und Ludwig von Meyer am Mittwoch in München. "Auch die Symptome und die Verteilung in den Organen weisen auf die Verwendung hin", sagte der Rechtsmediziner von Meyer. Beide Experten gehen allerdings davon aus, dass bei der Befreiungsaktion außer Halothan noch ein zweites, nicht bekanntes Mittel eingesetzt wurde. Zilker vermutet auch, dass zur schnelleren Verbreitung des Narkosemittels ein so genanntes Treibgas benutzt wurde.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 1:00:06 PM CET
Bomb blasts rock Soweto
A series of bomb explosions has hit Soweto township, in South Africa, killing at least one person. Another was badly injured. Police say nine bombs exploded and one more has been defused. The blasts began at about midnight, rocking parts of the sprawling township one after the other. Several of the explosions targeted railway lines linking Soweto to Johannesburg.
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Topic: - on October 29, 2002 at 5:18:48 PM CET
Guantanamo detainees that have been released describe experience
Long interrogations but treated well overall, they sayThe two elderly men -- who appeared to be in their 70s -- and a younger man are the first former detainees to speak about their arrest and detainment at Guantanamo Bay. They spoke to The Associated Press at a military hospital in Kabul where they are convalescing, under the watch of Afghan security guards.
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Topic: - on October 29, 2002 at 1:47:01 PM CET
Bomben und Explosionen sind medienästhetisch kaum zu überbieten
Warum haben Terroristen bislang kaum biologische, chemische oder radioaktive Massenvernichtungswaffen eingesetzt?
Wenn die Gefahr so bedeutsam sein soll, dass Terroristen Anschläge mit Massenvernichtungswaffen ausführen, dann wäre es in der Tat recht interessant zu eruieren, warum dies nicht schon öfter geschehen ist oder warum Terroristen normalerweise doch auf Sprengstoffe - und sei es in Raketen verwandelte Passagierflugzeuge - oder auf immer spektakulärere Geiselnahmen wie eben in Moskau zurückgreifen.
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