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
Algiers - Eight would-be suicide bombers left eastern Algeria a few days ago and are reportedly heading to the Gaza Strip to commit suicide attacks against Israeli soldiers, reported pan Arab daily al-Sharq al-Awsat on Monday. The young men reportedly left their homes days ago without saying anything to their families.
Reportedly, their intent is to join Hamas' armed wing, the Izzadin al-Qassam brigades, considered a terrorist organisation by the European Union, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. It is reported that the eight were driven to go to Gaza after the grim images broadcasted by Arab satellite TV stations showing the dead, following Israel's military operation against alleged Palestinian rocket crews.
The raids in late February lasted five-days and left 125 people dead, half of them civilians, Israeli sources said, citing medical officials. The report said that after a few days, two of the would-be bombers reached Gaza and called their parents saying they were in good health and that they wanted "to carry out a suicide attack against the Jews." The eight men, aged between 18 and 24 come from the village of al-Raqiba in the province of Wadi, about 600 kilometres from the capital Algiers.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1958055378
Abu Sayyaf man in doc's kidnap held in Basilan
3/10/08
Police intelligence operatives on Monday arrested a suspected member of the Abu Sayyaf who allegedly took part in the abduction of a doctor in Isabela City, Basilan, ABS-CBN Regional Network Group reported. The Philippine National Police identified the suspect as Ronnie Tillung alias Taming Yakan. He was arrested at around 11 a.m.
Tulling was allegedly involved in the kidnapping of Dr. Nilo Barandino, a local physician kidnapped on Nov. 28, 1992. Barandino was eventually freed and is now continuing his practice. Tuling was transferred to Zamboanga City and will be detained at the city jail.
Aside from the Barandino kidnapping, the Abu Sayyaf has been tagged in other abductions, including the Dos Palmas resort (2001) and the Sipadan dive site (2000) incidents. Authorities have tagged the group as the Philippine arm of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network.
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=111724