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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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080310/wl_afp/chinaattacksoly2008xinjiangliquids
SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Federation of BiH (FBiH) police have arrested a man identified as Muamer Basic, 24, on charges of terrorism.
The FBiH interior ministry said on Saturday (March 8th) that he had been detained in the town of Kiseljak Thursday, with two bombs in his car. On Sunday, FBiH prosecutors ordered Basic held for a month until an investigation is complete.
The Nezavisne Novine newspaper reports he told police he planned to sell the explosives rather than attack any particular target himself.
http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/newsbriefs/setimes/newsbriefs/2008/03/10/nb-07
Saudi Arabia: Police hunt distributors of mobile terror video
10 March 2008
Riyadh - Saudi police are searching for the distributors of a fundraising video featuring al-Qaeda's second in commmand Ayman al-Zawahiri, which is been circulating on mobile phones in the country in recent weeks, Arabic satellite TV channel al-Arabiya reports.
Saudi police have ordered anyone who has received the video on their mobile to hand in their phones within one week so that police can track down its distributors and stop its circulation. In the video, al-Zawahiri (photo) asks Islamists to donate money to the terror network. "Everyone who has received this video must inform the police - you have until next Saturday to do so. Anyone found on possession of the video after this date will be arrested," said an interior ministry statement.
Fifty-six people were arrested last week, suspected of having set up new al-Qaeda cells in Saudi Arabia, according to the interior ministry. All the suspects had the al-Zawahiri video on their phones and were allegedly using it to proselytise and raise funds for al-Qaeda.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1958271375