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Capital : Khartoum - Population : 35 million - Religion : Islam 75%

Breaches seen as terrorist tests


Authorities believe these socks seized during the arrest of Sajid Badat were designed to be filled with explosives and then tethered and worn around a bomber's neck. (Transportation Security Administration photo obtained by ABCNEWS

According to sources, there has been increased discussion in the intelligence community this week concerning the use of explosives that a would-be attacker could wear on board an airplane and then assemble into a bomb. U.S. authorities reportedly are meeting in Britain with British counterintelligence officials to review whether Badat and his suspected device may have had any possible connection to New York and the northeastern United States.

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U.S. Officials Fear Socks Represent New Way to Smuggle Bombs Aboard Planes

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"Thailand Concedes Militant Islamic Hand Behind Violence"
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com Pacific Rim Bureau Chief
January 15, 2004


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In an unprecedented televised broadcast of a weekly cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his ministers discussed the violence, in which four soldiers and two policemen were killed by militants who raided an armory, planted bombs and torched almost two dozen schools."