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Denmark charge four with plotting Euro terror attack

COPENHAGEN, Denmark Four young Muslim men are being charged in connection with what authorities say were plans for a European terror attack.

Prosecutors in Denmark say the suspects helped supply explosives and weapons to blow up an unidentified target. The four have been in custody since October and deny any wrongdoing.

Five other suspects are already being held in Bosnia, where authorities believe the leaders were planning an attack there or in another European nation. They say the goal was to force foreign troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.kvia.com/global/story.asp?s=5321890

The following article might be somewhat funny, if it did not include an "Iraqi" named "Amin" who was travelling by plane on August 16th....nope I'm not buying this guys story.

Evidence Ruled Sufficient in Penis Pump Case (IL - O'Hare Airport - 8/24/06)

BY STEFANO ESPOSITO Staff Reporter

The female airport security guard held the small, black, squeezable rubber object she'd just plucked out of Mardin Amin's backpack, and eyed it suspiciously.

Standing next to his mother, an embarrassed Amin whispered out of one corner of his mouth that it was a "pump" -- as in a penis pump. The guard misunderstood the Iraqi man and thought she heard the word "bomb," Amin's attorney told a Cook County judge Wednesday.

"He told her it's a pump," attorney Eileen O'Neill-Burke said as a cluster of burly, snickering police officers watched the court proceedings. "He's standing with his mother. Of course he's not going to shout this out."

But after listening to the female guard testify she heard Amin "clearly" say the word bomb during the Aug. 16 incident at O'Hare Airport, Judge Gerald Winiecki decided there was enough evidence for the case to move forward. Amin, 29, is charged with felony disorderly conduct and faces up to three years in prison if convicted.

Prosecutors say Amin, who was on his way to Turkey with his mother and two small children last week, twice told security officials that he was carrying a bomb. Only later did he admit he had initially lied about the rubber object's true function because he didn't want his mother to know he was carrying a penis pump, prosecutors say.

After Wednesday's hearing, a mostly jovial Amin said airport security officials never gave him an opportunity to explain the misunderstanding. And he said he would never utter the word "bomb" while going through security.

'Half of America' uses it:

"Come on -- what do you think?" said Amin, who lives in Skokie and works for a janitorial service. Amin may not want his mother to know he has a penis pump, but he said he doesn't consider it an unusual device to own. "It's normal," he said. "Half of America they use it." Amin is due back in court Sept. 13.

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http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060824-010420-7078r

8/24/2006 1:27:00 PM -0400
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"Bali bomber plotted another attack"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "JAKARTA, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- An Indonesian police official says a man on death row for the 2002 Bali bombings plotted another attack from his prison using a smuggled laptop computer.

Police Col. Petrus Golose of Indonesia's anti-terror task force testified that Imam Samudra, one of the accused in the Bali bombings that killed 202 people, plotted a repeat of that in Jakarta, reports The Times of London. He devised his plot using an Internet connection from his death cell. Samudra is to be executed by a firing squad."

ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "Two of his contacts were arrested last week in separate raids on Java, the report said. One of them, an Information Technology lecturer, is believed to have smuggled the computer to Samudra.

Samudra has published a book describing how to perpetrate credit card fraud to raise funds for terrorist attacks, the report said."