The Department of Homeland Security took a Muslim group with known past ties to terror organizations on a VIP tour of security operations at the nation's busiest airport at the same time British authorities were working to break up a plot to blow up U.S. airlines. On June 21, a senior DHS official from Washington personally guided Muslim officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations on a behind-the-scenes tour of Customs screening operations at O'Hare International Airport in response to CAIR complaints that Muslim travelers were being unfairly delayed as they entered the U.S. from abroad.
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Has Osama bin Laden been sighted? A report with the Government of India says Al-Qaeda's top leadership was recently spotted near Darkot, a Pakistani village near the border with Afghanistan's Wakhan corridor.
Sources say the report was made less than a fortnight ago.
Till now, Bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri were thought to be in the rugged mountains of Pakistan, along Afghanistan's southeast border.
There is now the possibility that they have shifted to the Wakhan corridor. Sticking out of northeastern Afghanistan, the corridor (a strip of land) is wedged between Tajikistan, Pakistan and the part of PoK known as Northern Areas.
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Singapore Tourist Guides To Be Trained In Handling Terror Attacks
17 August
A total 800 tourist guides in Singapore will over the next three months be trained on how to react to chemical and other kinds of terrorist attacks. The one-day course, taught in Chinese and English, is designed to create a 'frontline' force of guides to handle such emergencies. Singapore, perceived as a staunch supporter of United States president George W. Bush's war against terror, sees it itself as a prime terror target. And the authorities consider tourist sites and the tour groups that visit them to be particularly at risk.
In a previous experiment in October 2004, the city-state, adjacent to the Muslim countries of Malaysia and Indonesia, trained 40,000 taxi-drivers as anti-terror monitoring agents. They were given the task of noting any strange behaviour, such as nervous passengers, or people leaving their luggage inside the taxi.
Singapore is within the area eyed by local terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) for the creation of a new Islamic caliphate in southeast Asia. Security forces in Singapore foiled planned attacks against United States and Western targets, due to take place in December 2001, January 2002 and April-May 2002, according to the government
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