Topic: Terror - on September 5, 2007 at 2:23:00 PM CEST
Germany foils 'massive' bomb plot
Three men have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning a "massive" terrorist attack on US facilities in the country, officials have said.
Federal prosecutor Monika Harms said the three had trained at camps in Pakistan and procured some 700kg (1,500lbs) of chemicals for explosives.
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Topic: Terror - on August 27, 2007 at 1:05:00 PM CEST
Whale harpooned, hauled in by Japanese boat in front of whale-watching tourists
Eco-tourists on a whale-watching vessel, looking forward to observing the mighty creatures in their natural habitat, were instead greeted by the sight of a harpooned whale being dragged in by a Japanese whaling vessel on Friday.
At about 10:44 a.m. on Friday, a whale was spotted spraying water from its blowhole near a whaling boat, about 3.5 kilometers away from the whale-watching vessel off the coast of Hokkaido's Shiretoko Peninsula. But when the vessel approached, the passengers on board found that the whalers had harpooned the Baird's beaked whale, and it was hauled in by the whaling boat about 20 minutes later.
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Topic: Terror - on July 16, 2007 at 10:15:00 AM CEST
Bin Laden message in website film
Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has appeared in a video clip on a militant website, the first time he has been heard for more than a year.
But the clip, less than a minute long, is undated and correspondents say it may be re-run footage. Its authenticity also cannot be independently verified.
Osama Bin Laden is filmed outdoors in army fatigues and praises those who die in the name of "holy war".
bbc.co.uk scotsman.com Bin Laden's son tells of anger at publicity
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Topic: Terror - on July 14, 2007 at 11:55:00 AM CEST
Terrorist organization logos
Terrorist groups, like any organization, need brand identities. With so many groups claiming credit for terrorist acts, and so many videotapes being put out featuring men in ski masks, it’s hard to keep track of which group committed what violent act. So terrorist organizations have logos. It recently occurred to me that someone had to actually design those logos. But how did they decide who gets to do it? Did the job go to whichever terrorist had a copy of Adobe Illustrator?
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Topic: Terror - on June 15, 2007 at 4:06:00 PM CEST
Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot
The recently publicized terrorist plot to blow up John F. Kennedy International Airport, like so many of the terrorist plots over the past few years, is a study in alarmism and incompetence: on the part of the terrorists, our government and the press.
Terrorism is a real threat, and one that needs to be addressed by appropriate means. But allowing ourselves to be terrorized by wannabe terrorists and unrealistic plots -- and worse, allowing our essential freedoms to be lost by using them as an excuse -- is wrong.
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Topic: Terror - on May 18, 2007 at 1:42:00 PM CEST
EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2007
A large number of various types of terrorist organisations have an active presence in the EU. Some of them aim at Member States or Third State targets situated in Member States, whereas some others who conduct their campaigns mainly outside the EU, use the EU as their logistical base or for fundraising.
Altogether 498 attacks were carried out in the EU in 2006.The vast majority of them resulted in limited material damage and were not intended to kill. However, the failed attack in Germany and the foiled London plot demonstrate that Islamist terrorists also aim at mass casualties.
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Topic: Terror - on May 5, 2007 at 12:13:00 PM CEST
Poaching for Bin Laden
In the jungles of India, local animal trappers have a new breed of client: Islamic militants using the trade in rare wildlife to raise funds for their cause. It is so early in the morning that the cooks in the roadside dhabas along India's National Highway 37 are asleep in their kitchens, their tandoors unlit. Across the valley of Assam, in this far north-easterly corner of India, there is not a flicker of light except the feeble yellow beams from the Gypsies, the open-backed vehicles carrying small groups of tourists to the edge of one of the world's most bountiful jungles.
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Topic: Terror - on March 21, 2007 at 6:00:00 PM CET
Al-Qaida gets fake papers as Home Office issues 10,000 passports to fraudsters
An estimated 10,000 British passports were issued after fraudulent applications in the space of a year - and al-Qaida terrorists have successfully faked applications, the Home Office admitted today.
The Home Office minister, Joan Ryan, said the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) had received 16,500 fraudulent applications between October 2005 and September 2006.
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Topic: Terror - on March 17, 2007 at 12:33:00 PM CET
'Black Jesus' who terrorised jungle villages is captured
He called himself Black Jesus but Steven Tari was a false prophet, according to police in Papua New Guinea, where the Bible school drop-out will face charges of murder and cannibalism after being captured in a jungle village.
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Topic: Terror - on March 16, 2007 at 12:59:00 PM CET
TerrorStorm
The long-awaited launch of Alex Jones' latest trend-setting documentary has arrived! TerrorStorm delivers a powerful sucker punch to the ... all » architects of global terrorism and how they stage false-flag events to achieve political and sociological ends.
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Topic: Terror - on March 16, 2007 at 12:57:00 PM CET
All Nippon Airways raided by FBI
The North American headquarters of All Nippon Airways has been raided by the FBI, forcing the carrier to suspend ticket reservations for several hours.
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Topic: Terror - on March 16, 2007 at 12:56:00 PM CET
Search for bin Laden at Home!
Where in the world is Osama bin Laden? Uh ... try checking Google Earth. After Google recently updated its satellite images of parts of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, much of the region still looked blotchy — the kind of low resolution that persists in coverage of, say, upstate New York. But several small squares (they stand out as off-color patches from 680 miles up) suddenly became as detailed as the images of Manhattan. These sectors happen to be precisely where the US government has been hunting for bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
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