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British capture Iraqi bombs mastermind By Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson (Filed: 22/07/2006) British forces in Iraq have seized a two-ton cache of weapons - including rockets, grenades and bomb-making equipment - belonging to the gang responsible for the deaths of numerous servicemen. More than 50 rockets, 10 rocket-propelled grenades and 150 mortars were seized following a battle The discovery, which military commanders believe is the most significant breakthrough since they arrived in Iraq in 2003, followed the arrest of the leader of the fundamentalist Shia group in Basra last weekend. Des Browne, the Defence Secretary, told The Daily Telegraph:...

SANTA ANA -- More than 50 former investors packed the courtroom Friday at the sentencing hearing for an Orange County man charged with running a $311-million fraud scheme over nearly two decades. Many were expected to testify against James P. Lewis Jr., who faces up to 30 years in prison for defrauding about 1,600 investors. Lewis, 59, pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering and one count of mail fraud last October after he was arrested in Houston in 2004 following a nationwide manhunt. Prosecutors agreed to drop 12 of 14 counts in exchange for the pleas. During the...

LONDON (AP) - Car bombs at an Egyptian luxury hotel. Explosions in London subways. Suicide blasts in Baghdad. With the frequency of terror attacks apparently mounting, experts searching for common threads behind the attacks suggest that the war on terror is being waged against an ever-increasing well of recruits, bound together by motives and cause - rather than a single al-Qaida mastermind. With havens in Afghanistan under pressure and their finances under scrutiny, militants may take philosophical guidance from the likes of Osama bin Laden but are largely relying on their own resources in carrying operations, experts interviewed by The...

Editor's Note: The following article is a satire. New York State Attorney General Elliot Spitzer shocked the world today -- as well as the state department and the Bush administration -- with his announcement that he is charging terrorist mastermind and al Qaeda head Osama bin Laden with insider trading. At a press conference brilliantly situated on the hallowed grounds where the World Trade Center once stood, Mr. Spitzer outlined an international investment scheme so heinous that, if properly prosecuted, could lead to the eventual capture and incarceration of America’s greatest terrorist threat. Moreover, according to Spitzer, these investment manipulations...

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Tonight on FoxNews at 9 PM EST, Karl Rove, chief advisor to Pres Bush will be on the program with Sean Hannity to discuss key strategy in the election. Dont miss it, unless you are working on a GOTV project.

Then, there is the political persuasion of producer Mrs. Mapes, who had "embarrassed" her own father because of her liberal leanings, according to Seattle radio station KIRO. She engineered Mr. Rather's memo story over Labor Day, lining up experts and the suspect documents.

Terror mastermind lived in flat under Heathrow approach By Daniel Foggo and Massoud Ansari (Filed: 08/08/2004) An al-Qaeda "communications chief" who is believed to have been co-ordinating a plot to bomb Heathrow spent three weeks living near the airport late last year, the Telegraph can reveal. Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, 25, who is under arrest in Pakistan, lived in a ground floor flat in Reading, Berkshire. The address, on Wensley Road near the centre of town, lies below a western approach flight path to the airport. Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan: reconnaissance He lived there with his grandmother, Batool Begum, and...

Egyptian bombs expert held over Madrid outrage By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels (Filed: 09/06/2004) An explosives expert said to be one of the masterminds behind the Madrid train bombings was arrested in Italy yesterday Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed, known as "Mohamed the Egyptian", was seized in Milan as he was planning more outrages, said Giuseppe Pisanu, the Italian interior minister.. Rabei Osman Sayed Ahmed: conversations At least 16 other suspected Islamic extremists were arrested in a co-ordinated series of raids in Italy, Belgium, France and Spain. The attacks in March in Madrid killed 191 people and wounded 1,900. Mr Pisanu...

YANBU, Saudi Arabia (AP) - The mastermind of an attack that killed five Western oil industry workers, including two Americans, is a member of a Saudi opposition group in London, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday. Mustafa Abdel-Qader Abed al-Ansari, a Saudi citizen wanted by security forces, was behind Saturday's attack on the offices of oil contractor ABB Lummus Global Inc., in this industrial city, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. Two Americans, two Britons and an Australian were among the dead, and dozens were wounded in the attack and ensuing police chase through...

Man Trying To Buy Car Finds Out 9/11 Terrorist Took ID Terrorist Apparently Used Allen's Social Security NumberUPDATED: 10:07 a.m. EDT April 21, 2004 KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A young man went in to buy a car and realized he had been mistakenly identified as a terrorist. Ryan Allen (pictured, left), 19, turned up on a government list that includes Osama bin Laden and members of al-Qaida. Allen wanted to buy a new Chevrolet Cavalier. He filled out the paperwork at a Kansas City dealership and then the results of the credit bureau check came back. "I filled out the...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Ayman al-Zawahri gave up a medical career in Egypt to pursue a life of religious fanaticism and became the No. 2 figure in the world's most feared terror group. Al-Zawahri is thought to have provided much of the ideology driving al-Qaida, just as Mohammed Atef provided operational leadership before being killed in late 2001. The two Egyptians became Osama bin Laden's top lieutenants when their faction of Egyptian Islamic Jihad merged with his network in 1998. While bin Laden offered money and charisma to al-Qaida, al-Zawahri, now 52, brought cunning and experience in leading militant movements. Often...

Al-Qa'eda 'mastermind' trapped By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 19/03/2004) A battle was raging in the Pakistani tribal borderlands last night as hundreds of troops surrounded a "high-value al-Qa'eda target" protected by fanatical fighters. Pakistani officials said they believed they had cornered Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's right-hand-man and physician. Egyptian-born al-Zawahiri, 52, helped to mastermind the September 11 attacks and numerous other atrocities. Osama bin Laden pictured in August 2001 with al-Zawahiri Officials said he was being defended by more than 200 al-Qa'eda guerrillas in mud-walled fortified villages. American intelligence officials were hoping he would be taken alive. A...

Florida's Jihad ConferenceBy Joe KaufmanFrontPageMagazine.com | December 17, 2003 During the holiday season this year, an Islam for Humanity conference will be held near Disney World on the campus of the Universal Heritage Foundation, a 31-acre Islamic propagation center located in Kissimmee, Florida. The three day conference will commence on December 19, 2003, which “coincidentally” marks the beginning of Hanukkah. The timing is not to be confused with the objective -- highlighting peace and brotherhood will not be the conference's priorities in marking the holiday season. Originally listed as “Specially Invited Guests” were ex-Presidential candidate and Green Party leader, Ralph Nader, and Shaikh Abdur-Rahman Al-Sudais, the chief...

The suspected mastermind of this month's devastating suicide explosions in Casablanca has died of chronic heart and liver problems while in detention, the city's prosecutor said Wednesday. A total of 43 people including 12 suicide bombers were killed in the May 16 attacks in Morocco's largest city. The suspect, identified as Abdelhak and also known as Moul al-Sebbat, was arrested Monday in the northern city of Fes and died while being transferred to a hospital in Casablanca, the prosecutor said. An autopsy found that he had "died a natural death" that was "the result of heart and liver problems," according...

In the theatre of the absurd into which America's hunt for Al Qaeda so often descends, the "arrest" - the quotation marks are all too necessary - of Khaled Shaikh Mohammed is nearer the Gilbert and Sullivan end of the repertory. First, Mohammed was arrested in a joint raid by the CIA and Pakistani agents near Islamabad and spirited out of the country to an "undisclosed location." "The man who masterminded the September 11th attacks," was how the United States billed this latest "victory" in the "war against terror" (again, quotation marks are obligatory). Then the Pakistanis announced that he...

'Mastermind' tight-lipped about Bin Laden March 04 2003 at 11:58AM Islamabad - Al-Qaeda's alleged terror architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has given contradictory information on the fate of Osama bin Laden, initially telling investigators he was alive before later saying he was dead, said a senior security official. "He is changing his statements," said the official, who is familiar with the investigation. "Initially he said Bin Laden was alive. But later he changed his statement and said Bin Laden was dead because he had had no contact with the man during the past six months. "He said he used to maintain...

Terror mastermind 'was preparing more attacks' on US By Andrew Buncombe in Washington 04 March 2003 The alleged al-Qa'ida mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was plotting attacks against commercial targets in the United States and the Arabian peninsula, the plans for which may already have been set in motion, American intelligence officials said yesterday. His arrest in Pakistan at the weekend and subsequent interrogation should provide a "treasure trove" of information about the terrorism network, they said. A Bush administration official said the man accused of being the main operational planner behind the 11 September attacks was placed in their custody...

Mystery surrounds convenient arrest of the al-Qa'ida mastermind 'behind 11 September' By Phil Reeves, Asia Correspondent 03 March 2003 The United States badly needed a big victory in its war on al-Qa'ida to counter those critics who said that the violent and fanatically anti-Western network represents a far greater and more immediate threat to Americans than Iraq. And now, just as its generals and Pentagon strategists apply the finishing touches to their plans to invade Baghdad and topple Saddam Hussein, America says this is precisely what it has secured. Pakistani agents, who have been working with the CIA and FBI,...