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"Doctor faces terror charges in Palm Beach County"
Sun-Sentinel ^

Posted on 05/29/2005 8:25:29 AM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "West Boca - A 50 year old doctor was arrested Saturday morning on a federal terrorism charge.

Dr. Rafiq Abdus Sabir was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist orginization."

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Qaeda says Zarqawi leading anti-govt attacks-Web

May 29, 2005 — DUBAI (Reuters) - Iraq's al Qaeda said on Sunday its leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was leading an offensive against U.S. and Iraqi forces in response to a crackdown on insurgents, according to an Internet statement.

"Our brigades and squadrons have embarked on an offensive led by Sheikh of the Mujahideen Abu Musab al-Zarqawi under his planning and supervision," the statement said. "This incursion is in response to the futile plan announced by Defense and Interior Ministers to seal off Baghdad," it added.

The group said last week that Zarqawi was wounded but issued a statement on Friday asserting he was in good health and was back leading operations in Iraq.

The U.S. military said on Sunday it believes Zarqawi has been wounded.

"In these hours your brothers in the Al Qaeda Organization for Holy War in Iraq are launching successive attacks on the Crusaders and their (Iraqi) tails," said Sunday's statement signed by the group's spokesman Abu Maysarah al-Iraqi.

It could not be immediately authenticated.

Iraqi forces launched their biggest security crackdown since the fall of Saddam Hussein with the start of Operation Lightning on Sunday, a sweep by 40,000 Iraqi troops who will seal off Baghdad and hunt for insurgents.

The crackdown comes after a sharp increase in suicide bombings and ambushes by insurgents who have killed around 700 people in the past month since a new Shi'ite Islamist-led government was announced.

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"Pak sailor held in NY for sexually assaulting teenage girl"
We India ^ | May 29, 2005

Posted on 05/29/2005 9:18:01 AM PDT by BronzePencil

New York | May 29, 2005 1:22:37 PM IST

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Nadeem Ahmed, the accused sailor, was one among the 700 Pakistani seamen who had arrived in New York on May 25 to participate in Fleet Week Celebrations. A couple of days later, Nadeem had gone missing from the ship. A missing person's report was subsequently filed with the New York police. (ANI)"

Palm Beach County doctor faces terrorism charges

U.S. Department of Justice spokesman... declined to comment on the charge against Sabir.

...The charge against Sabir was posted on the Palm Beach County Jail's Web site after he was booked at 1:26 p.m., but later was removed from the Web site on orders of the FBI.

...Dr. Daniel McBride, spokesman for the Islamic Center of Boca Raton and a friend of Sabir, said Sabir works in the emergency rooms of two hospitals in Palm Beach County. "That's absurd," McBride said of the charge against Sabir. "He is a quality guy and a quality physician.