Egyptian security forces have found 500 kilograms of TNT explosives in the northern Sinai desert believed to be destined for the Gaza Strip, a security official said Monday.
"It is thought that Islamic militants buried the explosives, but no militants were in the vicinity when the police, acting on a tip-off, uncovered the cache," said the official, who spoke on the customary condition of anonymity. The explosives were found stashed in plastic bags and hidden in a warehouse near el-Rodha village, about 100 kilometers to the west of the Egypt-Gaza Strip border, the official said.
Egyptian investigators believe that Islamist militants were stashing the explosives, which they planned to smuggle into the Gaza Strip. There have been three major bomb attacks in Sinai since October. The blasts in the resorts of Sharm el-Sheik, Taba and Dahab killed 125 people. The Egyptian government blamed the attacks on a local Islamic militant group, which appears to have been inspired by Al-Qaida ideology.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/933073.html
London pair charged with inciting terror abroad
Mon Dec 10, 2007
LONDON - Police in London on Monday evening charged two men, described by a human rights activist as supporters of a separatist movement in south-western Pakistan, with inciting terrorism outside of Britain.
The pair, 25-year-old Faiz Baluch and 39-year-old Hyrbyair Marri, were accused of "jointly incited another person to commit an act of terrorism wholly or partly outside the UK which would, if committed in England and Wales, constitute murder." Marri was also charged with "possession (of) a weapon designed or adapted for the discharge of any noxious liquid, gas or other thing."
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Egypt (at least in the news) seems to be a busy place, lately.
These two guys should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, emphasis "fullest."
Audit finds US funded university linked to terrorism
U.S. government officials authorized giving nearly $1 million in foreign aid to a Palestinian university with links to the terrorist group Hamas, despite vetting the school eight times for ties to terrorism, according to a government audit.
The audit concluded that the vetting process, initiated by the U.S. Agency for International Development and conducted by the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, found no "derogatory information" on the Islamic University in Gaza between 2002 and 2006—even after Hamas claimed a parliamentary majority in Palestinian elections in 2006. Several times, university officials certified that they provided no material support for terrorism.