Police are searching for a consignment of bomb-making materials that disappeared while on transit to Uganda a month ago.
The 30 tons of Ammonium nitrate and 10 cartons of electronic detonators disappeared somewhere between Mombasa and Uganda on or about September 11 and 15. It is feared that the explosives could have been stolen.
The crew of the transport company ferrying the cargo are yet to explain the circumstances under which the explosives disappeared. Kenya’s Anti-Terrorism Police Unit detectives were put on high alert after the two lorries that were transporting the explosives arrived in Uganda empty. Uganda police arrested the transport company’s crew and held them for three weeks before handing them over to the Kenya Anti Terrorism Police Unit. The suspects were scheduled to appear in court yesterday but did not.
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France arrests 7 alleged Islamic militants
Nov 16, 2007
French authorities have detained seven suspected Islamic militants who allegedly trained to fight in Iraq by firing weapons in the woods of eastern France, police officials said Friday.
Six of the men are French nationals of Bosnian origin, while the seventh is Algerian, said the officials. The men ranged in age from their early 20s to mid 40s. At least one was a student; another is a teacher. They were arrested Tuesday in two towns in eastern France, Besancon and Pontarlier.
Dozens of youths, some just young teens, are thought to have left from France for Iraq to join the insurgency. Some have been killed there. Police are particularly worried that some French youths with roots in North Africa may be traveling to Iraq without being noticed, traveling via countries like Algeria and Morocco.
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Missing explosives and youths....
Jihad — another day.
Thank you for the heads up Oorang.
A defunct Islamic charity in Oregon that says it was illegally wiretapped by federal authorities can pursue its lawsuit challenging President Bush's clandestine eavesdropping program, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco rejected arguments by the Bush administration that Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation's lawsuit should be dismissed on the grounds that the warrantless surveillance program was a state secret.