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GOOSE CREEK, S.C. --Two men were detained after police found and detonated a suspicious item found in their car during a routine stop for a speeding violation on a highway near Charleston, Berkeley County sheriff's Lt. Vince Lombard said Sunday morning. Lombard said the men were being held pending a charge of unlawful possession of an explosive device, but he would not say what the device was or what bomb technicians from neighboring Charleston County exploded about 2:45 a.m. Sunday. The item made a loud bang, similar to a firecracker, when it was demolished. Authorities closed the road about 7...

Washington - Local police outside Charleston, South Carolina stopped a vehicle in which they found what were suspected to be explosives, according to media reports late Saturday. Two men described as being of possibly Middle Eastern origin were in the vehicle, which was stopped on a highway. A police bomb squad was at the scene and preparing to examine the vehicle, a local television reported told the Cable News Network (CNN).

Car bombs kill dozens in Baghdad The Karrada bombing went off in a busy market area At least 67 people have been killed and almost 100 have been wounded in two separate bombings in Baghdad, Iraqi police have said. In one attack, a fuel tanker exploded near a petrol station in the mainly Sunni suburb of Mansour, killing 50. Earlier, at least 17 people were killed and 32 injured in a blast in the mainly Shia shopping district of Karrada. Elsewhere, US officials said three of its troops had been killed, and the UK said a British soldier had...

BAGHDAD (AP) - Two suicide car bombings struck soccer fans in Baghdad as they were celebrating Iraq's victory in the Asian Cup semifinal on Wednesday, killing at least 50 people and wounding more than 100, officials said. The victims were among the thousands of revelers who took to the streets of the capital after the country's national soccer team beat South Korea to reach the tournament's final against Saudi Arabia on Sunday in Jakarta, Indonesia. The first attack took place about 6:30 p.m. when a bomber exploded in a crowd of people cheering near a well-known ice cream parlor in...

WASHINGTON, July 17, 2007 – A suspected al Qaeda leader is among three terrorism suspects detained today in Mosul, Iraq, by coalition and Iraqi forces, and local citizens helped to foil a car-bomb attack in eastern Baghdad. Officials also reported that a firefight yesterday left about 12 enemy fighters dead. Among the three suspects captured in Mosul is an alleged al Qaeda leader believed to have been promoted within the organization after recent coalition operations created numerous vacancies in the terrorist organization’s leadership structure. Intelligence reports also indicate the individual is responsible for mortar and sniper attacks against Iraqi forces...

A woman arrested in connection with the alleged London and Glasgow car bomb plots has been released without charge. Marwa Asha, 27, was arrested with her husband, Mohammed Asha, 26, of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, on the M6 motorway in Cheshire on June 30. The arrests came hours after a burning jeep was driven into the Glasgow airport terminal. The attempted attack followed the discovery of two car bombs in London that had failed to detonate. A Scotland Yard spokesman said the woman was released at 7.40pm yesterday. Muhammad Haneef, an Indian doctor who was arrested in Australia on July 2 in...

Oh Allah, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz ? Hezbulah all drive Porsches, I must make amends. Fought hard in the Jihad, no help from bin Laden, So Allah, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz ? Oh Allah, won’t you buy me a UAV ? All the Special Forces are trying to find me. I hide in my cave with no way to see, So oh Allah, won’t you buy me a UAV ? Oh Allah, won’t you buy me a nuclear bomb ? I’m counting on you, Allah, please don’t let me down. Prove that you hate...

Indian Doctor Arrested in U.K. Terror Plot Manhunt Authorities Arrested Muhammad Haneef in Australia July 3, 2007 — The investigation into the failed British terror plot is widening. The latest arrest came Monday in Australia, where authorities captured 27-year-old Muhammad Haneef as he was trying to board a flight at Brisbane Airport. Haneef is of Indian descent and is on staff at an Australian hospital. He had previously worked in Liverpool, England. He's been taken into custody and questioning is underway. The police are being assisted in their investigation by the landlord at an apartment where Haneef lived, who called...

Difficult to know whether to laugh or scream after the weekend of madness we've just been through. And it's not over yet, with the security level raised to 'critical' and another terrorist attack imminent. So let's get the laughter out of the way first, something which wouldn't have been possible had the bombers succeeded and hundreds of innocent people been killed or maimed. Mistake One as far as the jihadists were concerned was trying to set off car bombs in the West End of London. The chances of either vehicle staying put for long enough to detonate were always going...

6 Spaniards tourists were killed by a car bomb which exploded in the historical landmark of Marib, 100 miles from Sanaa, Yemen's capital. Sources tell LE FIGARO that the attack was "probably" planned by Al-Qaeda. Yemen, country of origin of the family of Usama Bin Laden, is supported by the United States in its confrontation with the islamist radicals of the sunnite majority of the country. Since September 11, 2001, the Yemeni authorities launched a series of operations against the supposed Al-Qaida members. In September 2006, they had thus thwarted a double suicide bombing with the booby-trapped car against oil...

Car bomb kills at least 8 at ancient temple site in northeast Yemen SAN'A, Yemen: A car bomb exploded at the site of an ancient temple in Yemen's northeast province of Mareb on Monday, killing eight people and wounding at least seven, police said. Police in Mareb said six of the people killed were tourists, believed to be mostly from Spain. The other two were Yemenis, they said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. Authorities in the province said the blast was caused by a car bomb,

Police in Birmingham having been checking thousands of cars across the city following the bomb alert in London. It is believed the vehicle at the centre of the main alert in the capital could have been registered to an address in the region. An increased police presence in cities throughout the country saw officers from West Midlands Police take to the streets. The force had been placed on high alert after the discovery in London of two Mercedes cars containing similar explosive materials. The first car in question - a Mercedes rumoured to be registered to a Birmingham owner -...

THE terrorists who attempted to bomb central London last week deliberately placed the second vehicle to catch rescuers attending the injured from the first explosion, Scotland on Sunday can reveal. The senior security source also said the primitive gas and petrol devices were most likely the work of determined terrorists struggling - because of the security crackdown - to get their hands on the ingredients needed to create high explosives. Yesterday, a huge police manhunt was under way for the terrorists responsible as forensic experts continued to examine the vehicles involved for clues. The attack was thwarted after fumes were...

The “patio gas” bomb defused in Haymarket would have generated a fireball the size of a house and a shock wave spreading out over a diameter of at least 400 yards, explosives experts said today. The propane cylinders and petrol used in the device would have triggered a huge conflagration, as well as causing shrapnel and blast injuries from the exploding car chassis and the nails packed around the bomb, according to Hans Michels, Professor of Safety Engineering at Imperial College, London. Just one 13kg propane canister — the type sold by Calor under the brand name “Patio Gas” —...

Teams of forensic scientists are poring over two "gold mines" - the Mercedes cars filled with petrol, gas and nails which failed to explode in central London. Last night, scores of specialists were taking the vehicles apart at secret locations, confident they will find crucial clues to the identity of the terrorists. Police expect to find DNA from the bombers and to secure evidence about where the bomb material came from. The car bombs are of the kind used on a daily basis in Iraq but, unlike attacks there, the militants operating in London were not suicide bombers prepared to...

The first car bomb found in central London on Friday morning has been taken to a specialist maximum security laboratory. The Forensic Explosives Laboratory has experts on around-the-clock stand-by to deal with terrorist incidents. Once a device such as a car bomb is made safe, it is taken to the small team based in a complex hidden away in the Kent countryside. The scientists painstakingly examine car bombs in the specialist "X47" laboratory built during the IRA era. The X47 building complex most recently housed the remains of the bus blown apart by one of the 7 July 2005 London...

Breaking news on Fox: SUV loaded with explosives explodes in front of Glasgow airport.

British police have a "crystal clear" picture of the man who drove the bomb-rigged silver Mercedes outside a London nightclub, and officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com he bears "a close resemblance" to a man arrested by police in connection with another bomb plot but released for lack of evidence. Officials say the suspect had been taken into custody in connection with the case of al Qaeda operative Dhiren Barot (pictured), who was convicted of orchestrating a vehicle bomb plot involving targets in London, New York, Newark, N.J. and Washington, D.C. Officials say a surveillance camera caught the suspect "staggering...

Police have confirmed that not one, but two massive car bombs were set to explode in the heart of London's West End. >snip< In a news conference Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke said the second car, a blue Mercedes, was parked a few hundred yards from the first in Cockspur Street which runs between Haymarket and Trafalgar Square. >snip

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British authorities were seeking three men Friday after police defused two car bombs that they said could have caused “significant injury or loss of life” in London. The three men are believed to be from the Birmingham area, a center of radical Islamic unrest in Britain, U.S. officials who had been briefed on the developments told NBC News. Police said the two cars, a light green and a light blue Mercedes-Benz, were found early Friday morning in London’s theater district. The green Mercedes was defused at the site. The blue Mercedes was not discovered to be a threat until early...

The “patio gas” bomb defused in Haymarket would have generated a fireball the size of a house and a shock wave spreading out over a diameter of at least 400 yards, explosives experts said today. The propane cylinders and petrol used in the device would have triggered a huge conflagration, as well as causing shrapnel and blast injuries from the exploding car chassis and the nails packed around the bomb, according to Hans Michels, Professor of Safety Engineering at Imperial College, London. Just one 13kg propane canister — the type sold by Calor under the brand name “Patio Gas” —...

London faced a fresh terror alert tonight as police hunting the gang behind the nightclub bomb plot evacuated Hyde Park.Fresh details emerged of how the gang - believed to be linked to al Qaeda - came within moments of causing carnage with a 'massive bomb' attack on a West End club.Park Lane, on Hyde Park's eastern edge, is closed from Marble Arch to Hyde Park corner, with a 200-metre cordon around a suspicious vehicle in an underground car park. It is not known however if this vehicle also contains a bomb.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police took unspecified precautions on Friday after explosives experts in London defused a car bomb packed with gasoline, gas and nails, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. "We'll take a little bit of extra precaution," Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show on WABC. "We're going to ramp up a little bit, not dramatically. Some you will notice, some you will not." New York normally puts police on heightened alert in response to security incidents in other countries. As a city that has twice been attacked by Islamic extremists -- a truck bombing of the World...

Car Bomb Found in London 20 Days After al Qaeda Suicide Bomber 'Graduation Ceremony' June 29, 2007 7:02 AM Brian Ross Reports: The discovery of a massive car bomb set to detonate in central London comes just three weeks after what was described as an al Qaeda graduation ceremony of suicide bomb teams to be dispatched to Europe and the United States. A videotape obtained by ABC News from a Pakistani journalist shows groups of dozens of men al Qaeda says have gone through a terror training camp somewhere in Pakistan. Teams of 50 to 60 men were supposedly dispatched...

LONDON, England (CNN) -- A second car found on a London street on Friday contained possible bomb materials, sources told CNN, hours after police disarmed an explosives-filled car in the city's busy theater district. The second car was towed from Trafalgar Square to Park Lane overnight, because it was illegally parked, the sources said.At the Park Lane garage, workers called authorities when they became suspicious after news of the first incident, because the car smelled of gas.Police and security sources say the car was found to contain components very similar to the first car -- definitely fuel, and possibly much...

British Intelligence: Al-Qaida Expanding -Full Story- British intelligence officials said they believe that al-Qaida has a secure base in Pakistan's Waziristan region and is planning terrorist operations.The group is reaching out to Muslims in North Africa, The Telegraph reported. Last year, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, an Algerian terrorist group, merged itself into al-Qaida, a move announced by Osama bin Laden's chief lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a tape promising action against the "apostates" in the Algerian government and "the treacherous sons of France."Al-Qaida is also believed to be planning expansion into Lebanon and Syria, the newspaper report...

The threat of terror returned to London today after a car bomb was found outside a West End nightclub. The apparent target was Tiger Tiger in Haymarket, where up to 1,700 people were inside on 'ladies night'. It is feared the attack is the work of Al Qaeda militants, who plotted a similar attack on the capital's Ministry of Sound nightclub and Bluewater shopping centre. The British-born Al Qaeda gang was jailed last month. One witness described seeing a green gas cylinder in the boot of the car, believed to be a silver Mercedes, which probably contained explosives. The boot...

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An explosive device found in a car in central London has been defused. Police were called to reports of a suspicious vehicle parked in The Haymarket area shortly before 02:00 this morning. The area was cordoned off by police who examined the car. They discovered what appeared to be a potentially explosive device, which was then made safe. An investigation has been launched by the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command. More follows...

AFP via translation - ALARM - Iraq: 40 died in a car bomb attack in Kerbala KARBALA (Iraq) - At least 40 people were killed and from wounded tens during the explosion Saturday of a booby-trapped car close to the principal mausoleum of the Holy City Shiite of Kerbala (110 km in the south of Baghdad), one learned from medical source.

WASHINGTON, April 9, 2007 – Coalition forces captured 14 suspected terrorists during operations across Iraq today, and terrorists killed 17 Iraqis and wounded 26 in a car bomb yesterday. In raids around Iraq today, coalition forces northwest of Bayji detained five suspected terrorists with ties to foreign-fighter facilitation. Coalition forces in Tarmiyah captured seven suspects with alleged ties to al Qaeda and the Islamic State of Iraq terrorist group. Elsewhere today, coalition forces northwest of Karmah nabbed two suspected terrorists with links to a car-bomb cell allegedly responsible for planning attacks against Iraqi police and coalition forces, military officials...

Just months after 9/11, videotapes were confiscated in Afghanistan showing al-Qaeda terrorists training to takeover a school. Six months later, spokesman Suleiman Abu Gheith boldly declared al-Qaeda’s “right” to kill 2 million American children. In 2004, an Iraqi national with known terrorist connections was caught with a computer disk containing information detailing Department of Education crisis planning for US school districts. Last year, two Saudi men – one wearing a black trench coat despite the Florida heat -- terrified a busload of Tampa schoolchildren by boarding a school bus and remaining for the entire ride to school, all the while...

BAGHDAD, Feb 12 (Reuters) - A car bomb attack at a market in central Baghdad on Monday killed 31 people and wounded 77, police said. The attack at the Shorja market was one of two blasts to hit Baghdad in quick succession. A roadside bomb at a second market has killed at least five people.

CAR BOMB EXPLODES IN MARKET IN IRAQI SHI'ITE CITY OF KUFA, MANY CASUALTIES - REUTERS WITNESS

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomb exploded in a main square of central Baghdad on Tuesday morning, killing at least 23 people and wounding 94, police said. The attack occurred in Tayaran Square at 7 a.m. and appeared to target a police patrol and a crowd of Iraqis gathering to apply for jobs as day laborers on construction sites, police Lt. Bilal Ali. Gunfire could be heard right after the explosion, but it was not immediately clear if it involved police or insurgents involved in a carefully coordinated attack. The square is located near several government ministries and a...

LONDON (AFP) - Government buildings are to be provided with defences to stop them being rammed by cars or trucks packed with explosives. The Sun newspaper said the buildings were to be surrounded with security devices designed to look like street furniture, at a cost of 25 million pounds. The new Home Office building in central London will be used as a guide, The Sun said Saturday. The interior ministry has state-of-the-art black concrete bollards one metre apart encircling it with raised grass verges in large concrete "pools" outside the main entrance. "The architects want the measures to look good...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two car bombs targeting police exploded within a span of 30 minutes in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 15, police said. The first explosion was a parked car bomb targeting a police patrol Tuesday morning in the city center. Ten people, including two policemen and eight civilians, were killed and nine people, including a police colonel, were wounded in the attack, Brig. Gen. Sarhat Qadir said.

BALAD, Iraq, June 4, 2006 – Iraqi soldiers raided a housing compound in Baghdad on May 31 and captured three insurgents who were members of a vehicle-bomb cell, military officials here reported today. Scouts from the 3rd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, assisted by coalition force advisers, raided three separate objectives simultaneously in the Al Rasheed district in east-central Baghdad. They captured three key members of a cell operating in the Al Doura area of Baghdad. This cell is responsible for making vehicle bombs and carrying out attacks against Iraqi and coalition forces, officials said. The Iraqi soldiers also detained...

A Virginia man accused of joining al-Qaida and plotting to kill President Bush can have an independent medical exam to corroborate his claim that he was tortured, a judge ruled Wednesday. Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 24, claims that the U.S. government's evidence against him was obtained through torture while he was jailed in Saudi Arabia. Federal prosecutors deny Abu Ali was mistreated and say no evidence of torture was found by government doctors who examined Abu Ali last month, when the Saudi government turned him over to face federal charges. Abu Ali is a former high school valedictorian in Virginia...

CALIPARI: A 'KIDNAPPERS' TRAP' KILLED HIM? (AGI) - Rome, 29 March - Could it have been a 'trap' of the journalist Giuliana Sgrena's kidnappers that killed the secret service man Nicola Calipari, who was in the car hit at a US checkpoint on 4 March last year, while travelling to Baghdad airport. This, according to Corriere della Sera this morning, is the version offered by a terrorist, Mustafa Mohammed Salman, currently imprisoned in Iraq, according to whom it was the Imam of the Sunnite mosque, the sheik Hussein (who Sgrena was supposed to meet with the day she was...

A trooper from Nassiria Province has managed to prevent a terrorist from blasting a car bomb a mid a crowd of cars and people gathering near a police station. The policeman called Salah Abdul Hussein said that he had seen a speeding car coming toward the police station and realized that the car was booby tabbed for a terror act. Despite safe guards shot the car, the driver continued pushing into the gate, that made the policeman to direct to the car and stop the driver forcing him to get out of the car but it was exploded. The explosion...

Woodstock – Jerry West was a bundle of nerves yesterday, waiting for more word of a grenade and car bomb attack in Iraq that seriously wounded his son-in-law, killed a Vermont soldier and injured another man from Rochester. West will depart early this morning for Walter Reed Army Hospital in Bethesda, Md., where his daughter’s husband, Sgt. Jose Pequeno, is expected to arrive early this evening. “As soon as I hear what’s happening, I’m getting on the road,” West said. Driving down with him will be his stepson, Jon McGoon, a lifelong friend of Pequeno’s and a member of the...

Reuters - CAR BOMB EXPLODES IN STREET MARKET IN IRAQI CITY OF KERBALA, DOZENS OF CASUALTIES-POLICE

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Anti-Syrian journalist and lawmaker Gibran Tueni was killed by a car bomb Monday, a day after he returned from France, where he had been staying periodically for fear of assassination. Tueni''s uncle, Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamadeh, and the leading Lebanese politician Walid Jumblatt blamed Syria for the bombing, a charge that Syria promptly denied. Police said Tueni was one of three people killed when a car bomb exploded as his motorcade drove through the industrial suburb of Mkalles. Another 30 people were wounded in the bombing, which started a fire that destroyed at least 10 vehicles....

A car bomb has exploded in a Christian-dominated suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut, say reports. At least three people are believed to have been killed and several injured in the blast in the Mekallis area, according to unconfirmed reports. One local resident told the French news agency AFP they thought a passing official convoy was the target. Several cars were reportedly set alight and nearby shops and buildings damaged by the explosion.

Explosion Outside KFC in Pakistan Kills 3 By AFZAL NADEEM, Associated Press Writer 38 minutes ago A powerful car bomb exploded outside a KFC restaurant in southern Pakistan on Tuesday, setting off a massive fireball that overturned cars and shattered steel and glass. Three people were killed and 22 injured. An ethnic Baluch nationalist group from southwestern Pakistan claimed responsibility. A spokesman denied the group targeted civilians, saying it tried to hit the offices of a state-owned oil and gas company above the KFC. "We did it to protest, and we did it to pressure the government to get our...

A massive car bomb explosion ripped through summer capital Srinagar (of the Indian state of Jammu&Kashmir) on Wednesday, killing four people, even as the administration and security forces were busy making preparations for Ghulam Nabi Azad's swearing-in ceremony as the tenth chief minister of the state. The car bomb rocked the entire Nawgam area on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road, smashing glass panes in nearby homes. Jaish-e-Mohammad has claimed responsibility for the attack. The site of the explosion is near the private residence of former chief minister, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. Gopal Sharma, director general of police, Jammu and Kashmir, told rediff.com that...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2005 – U.S. and Iraqi police and military personnel stopped a car bomb from reaching its intended target Oct. 4 in Baghdad's fortified International Zone, U.S. military officials in Iraq said. The car bomber still managed to wound 12 U.S. and Iraqi personnel. Officials said the probable target was either an Iraqi Ministry of Interior official or a Transitional National Assembly delegate. Initial reports indicate four Iraqi police officers, three Iraqi army soldiers and three civilians were wounded during the explosion. Two U.S. Task Force Baghdad soldiers were also slightly wounded. Baghdad emergency workers and firefighters quickly...

At least 19 Palestinians were killed and 85 injured when an explosive-packed car blew up during a rally organized by the militant group Hamas on Friday in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian interior ministry said. Thousands of Hamas activists and supporters took part in an armed parade to celebrate the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip last week after 38 years of military occupation. Ismael Haneya, a senior Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, told the crowds who were waving Hamas green flags that the Palestinians should continue their armed struggle in order to force Israel...