Bin Laden = Black Leaves. Thanks Vel.
Doctor who offered to treat al-Qaida fighters is sentenced in NY
NEW YORK - A defiant doctor convicted of conspiring to treat injured al-Qaida fighters was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison by a judge who said a sentence to deter others was needed because terrorists cannot carry out their deadly aims without help.
U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska noted Dr. Rafiq Sabir, 53, showed no remorse after his May conviction for conspiring to provide material support to terrorists by agreeing to treat injured al-Qaida members so they could return to Iraq to battle Americans.
The judge said there was “no reason to believe that this defendant has abandoned any criminal intentions.”
She said terrorism offenses were among the most serious crimes prosecuted and required stern punishments.
“If not for assistance to terrorists, then terrorist acts would not take place,” she said.
Just before the announcement of the sentence in a crowded courtroom, Sabir, of Boca Raton, Fla., insisted he was “completely innocent.”
He said a co-defendant, jazz musician and martial arts expert Tarik Shah, had duped him into taking an oath with an FBI agent who posed as an al-Qaida recruiter, never explaining that he was pledging loyalty to al-Qaida or its leader, Osama bin Laden.
“I’m an extremely gullible man,” he said. ~snip~
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny—terrorismarrest1128nov28,0,1822625.story
More than 1,000 reports of possible terrorist activity have been made by UK banks and financial institutions during the past year.
The National Terrorist Finance Investigation Unit received 1,088 tip-offs of suspicious transactions from alert financial workers. Among them were 153 reports connected to a police investigation into an alleged plot to blow up transatlantic jets that was smashed in August 2006.
The vast majority of terrorism-linked tip-offs came from banks and building societies but solicitors, accountants and even casino workers also provided information.
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http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=77398&in_page_id=34&ito=newsnow
Passenger takes a kilo of fireworks with her on flight from Moscow to Málaga
Nov 28, 2007
A traveller on a flight from Moscow to Málaga has been found to be carrying a kilo of fireworks with her in the passenger cabin of a private flight. The fireworks were mostly rockets and were taken onboard the flight in a box, and police say the slightest movement could have set off the explosives as they were not correctly packed.
There were a total of 33 rockets and 26 bangers which were removed and destroyed by the Guardia Civil on their discovery on arrival in Málaga.
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_13860.shtml