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BAGHDAD (Army News Service, Nov. 17, 2005) -- Alert Iraqi neighborhood watch members in east Baghdad stopped a potential car bomb attack Nov. 15. Shortly before 6 p.m., local residents noticed a suspicious vehicle getting fuel from a roadside gasoline dealer. When the neighborhood watch members approached the driver, he pulled a pistol and pointed it at them and then attempted to flee. “The citizens tried to stop the suspect but were unsuccessful,” said Oday Fakhan, the leader of the neighborhood watch in the area. As he fled, the would-be car bomber attempted to highjack a get-away vehicle at gunpoint,...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2005 – Afghan National Police forces, acting on a tip that individuals were planning attacks against Afghan and U.S. forces in the Jalalabad, Afghanistan, area, found an improvised explosive device along a well-traveled road Nov. 7, military officials reported today. After notification from Afghan officials, U.S. forces disarmed the device. Afghan National Police forces also detained two men with a large amount of money, small arms and documents outlining enemy activity near Ghazni on Nov. 8. Both individuals remain in Afghan custody. "These incidents are indicative of the success Afghan and U.S. forces have against the enemies...

SAN LEANDRO — A battle is brewing in Sacramento this year, and left-leaning lawyer Robin Johansen has drawn her lines in the sand. She's not the only one. Less than two months into what Gov. Arnold Schwarzenneger promises will be "the year of reform," at least 71 proposed state-wide ballot initiatives are already pending at the state attorney general's office. Johansen said she is knee-deep in working on about 15 ballot propositions intended to thwart some of the governor's proposed fiscal overhauls. Her San Leandro firm, Remcho, Johansen, & Purcell, has officially filed about five so far. "It's just a...

'Madrid-Style' Attack Thwarted in London - Police LONDON (Reuters) - Security services have thwarted a planned attack on London similar to the March 11 train bombings in Madrid by Islamic extremists, the British capital's police chief said on Thursday. "Thank God to date, and we have had to work extremely hard, we've thwarted attacks," Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens told the BBC. Asked if his force had stopped a strike on the scale of the Spanish attack, he added: "Yes, I can't discuss it because of court proceedings -- but yes we have stopped a Madrid." The morning...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Sen. Dianne Feinstein is "disappointed" that President Bush has not apologized to relatives of those killed Sept. 11, 2001, and the California Democrat faulted Bush for lacking "hands-on management" in the months leading up to the terrorist attacks. Feinstein, a member of the Intelligence Committee and head of the Technology and Terrorism Subcommittee, said Wednesday that Bush and his advisers failed to "connect the dots" on Aug. 6, 2001. That's when a CIA briefing warned that supporters of Osama Bin Laden were living in the United States, could enter and exit the country as they...

(IsraelNN.com) A gag order has been lifted permitting reporting the GSS (General Security Service/Shin Bet), police, and the army thwarted a Fatah Tanzim suicide bombing attack in Rosh HaAyin on Monday. The suicide terrorist, a resident of Balata, was escorted by a middle aged male and female, both Shechem residents and both parents of seven. The escorts were to draw attention away from the bomber until he crossed into Green Line pre-1967 Israel. The female carried the bomb belt in a bag since they realized security inspections for females are less rigorous. The three met near the Israeli Arab municipality...

Australia raids homes to thwart 'terror cell' October 27 2003 at 10:21AM By Belinda Goldsmith Canberra - Australia may have broken up a terror cell with a series of raids launched after the deportation of a French national suspected of training with al-Qaeda. Bob Carr, premier of the state of New South Wales where the man was detained, told reporters on Monday the presence of the 35-year-old Frenchman, arrested on October 9, deported to France and now being held there on suspicion of terror links, had been worrying. Police and intelligence officers from the Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation raided at...

Border Police units thwarted a suicide bombing Wednesday morning when they captured two Tanzim terrorists in Kfar Kassem, one of whom was carrying a bag containing a 10-kilogram explosive device packed with nails and shrapnel. Police arrested the two Fatah Tanzim terrorists, Nidal Abu Al-Hak, and Muhammad Ramadan, both from Nablus on the West Bank, and detonated the bomb in a controlled explosion, leaving a huge crater in the ground. Kfar Kassam is an Israeli-Arab village 20 kilomoters (12 miles) northeast of Tel Aviv. Security services said the terrorists' target was most likely the market in Petach Tikva. Palestinian sources...