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'Saddam' terror group says it's targeting U.S.
January 6, 2007

JERUSALEM – Palestinians in the Gaza Strip today announced the formation of what they say is a new "resistance" group to carry out attacks against the United States, Israel and Iran in the name of executed former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

The new purported organization, the Saddam Hussein Martyrs Brigades, will "hit America, Israel, Iran and all the traitors to our people," according to a pamphlet distributed today in the densely populated Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis and obtained by WND.

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53659

Albanian man sentenced after threatening explosion at Budapest airport
January 05, 2007

An Albanian man who threatened to explode a bomb at Budapest's Ferihegy International Airport was given a six-month suspended sentence and banned from entering Hungary for three years, reports Financial Times. The man, an Albanian national, was expelled from Norway and was accompanied by two Norwegian police officers when he arrived at the Budapest airport en route to Tirana, Albania. On arrival in Budapest, the man slipped away from his police guard and attempted to board a plane for Kiev, Ukraine. The airport personnel attempted to prevent him from entering the wrong plane at which point the man threatened them with a bomb explosion.

Passengers from both the Tirana and the Kiev planes were forced to disembark for a luggage check as well as an inspection of the aircraft. No explosives were found. The two planes departed an hour and a half late, while the Albanian man, whose name was not released, was taken into custody. He is held in the airport detention facility belonging to the Hungarian border police.

http://www.serbianna.com/news/2007/01012.shtml

Released terror suspect granted asylum in Albania
Saturday, January 6, 2007

CAIRO (AP)--Two Egyptians have been released from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay and one requested not to return home, Egypt's interior ministry said Friday. The two detainees were not identified, but the state-run MENA news agency said that one had arrived in Egypt while the second had been granted asylum in Albania.

"Egypt's diplomatic effort succeeded in the release of two out of five Egyptians in Guantanamo," Egyptian newspapers quoted Abdulaziz Seif al-Nasr, the deputy foreign minister for legal and counterterrorism affairs, as saying. The released detainee who chose to go to Albania "has the right to return home whenever he wants," Seif al-Nasr said.

Egyptian authorities did not disclose when or why the two men were held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in southern Cuba, where U.S. authorities have held more than 750 people suspected of links to terrorism since 2002. An official from Egypt's interior ministry declined to say whether the two released men were being investigated for ties to Islamic militant groups, but said that "the former Guantanamo inmate (who returned to Egypt) is still in custody." Seif al-Nasr said that Egypt would continue its efforts to release the remaining three Egyptians still held at the naval base.

http://www.serbianna.com/news/2007/01005.shtml