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Iran issues Mugniyah stamp
03.10.08

Iran issued a new state stamp Monday, carrying the image of slain Hizbullah commander Imad Mugniyah, they claim was assassinated by Israel. Mugniyah was killed in a Damascus explosion on February 12th.

According to the Iranian news agency Fars the stamp will be "a cultural message of support from the Iranian people to the Lebanese nation against the crimes of the Zionist regime." The stamp was revealed in an official state ceremony, attended by the heads of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Iranian minister of communications, representatives of Hamas, Hizbullah and family members of the Lebanese killed in the Second Lebanon War.

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Iranian group puts price on Barak's head
3/9/08

Do Ehud Barak, Meir Dagan and Amos Yadlin need to be worried? In the Iranian capital of Tehran, it was reported that an unprecedented ceremony took place on Sunday in which a price was put on the heads of the top ranking Israeli security officials as revenge for the assassination of Hizbullah arch terrorist Imad Mugniyah last month.

The Iranian news agency IRNA quoted an announcement from a radical organization called the "Islamic Student Justice Seekers" in which the group made clear its reasoning for the move.

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Turkish police foil ‘plot’ to bomb US companies
Monday, March 10, 2008

ANKARA: A Turkish news agency says police have foiled an alleged plot to bomb US companies in the country. Police arrested three suspects belonging to a leftist militant group during a raid in Istanbul, the Dogan agency reported. Authorities seized a remote-controlled toy car allegedly being prepared to be used in a bombing.

Police also seized a list of US companies that the DHKP-C group was targeting, including Coca Cola, Pepsi and Citibank, Dogan reported. The DHKP-C is listed as a terror group by the US and EU, and has been active since the 1970s.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\03\10\story_10-3-2008_pg7_53

'Suspicious liquids' used in plane crash attempt (China)
Mon Mar 10, 2008

BEIJING - Passengers carrying suspicious liquids on board a Chinese airliner were involved in what officials have called an attempted terror attack last week, the national aviation authority saidMonday.

A government official from the Muslim-dominated region of Xinjiang in China's northwest had said the flight crew had foiled Friday's alleged attempt to deliberately crash a plane flying from the region's capital of Urumqi to Beijing.

But on Monday, the General Administration of Civil Aviation said in a statement on its website that "China Southern Airlines flight CZ6901 from Urumqi to Beijing discovered some passengers were in possession of suspicious liquids. "To safeguard passenger safety, the plane was diverted to Lanzhou's Zhongchuan Airport."

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