India Heightens Security Amid Al Qaeda Terror Attack Warnings
Truce deal disappoints hostages' families
Ynetnews - Israel
... Uzi Dayan and Attorneys Yaakov Neeman and Mordechai Algarabaly, who
organized a delegation to Paris some weeks ago to seek aid towards the
hostages' release. ...
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Terror inquiry expands globally
Boston Globe - United States
... Al Qaeda cell that masterminded the 9/11 attacks and Al Qaeda
leader
Osama bin Laden. ... in an effort to track Web - based e-mails or
instant
messages about the ...
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Nerve-Gas Guru Tests Japan Legal System
Forbes - USA
... the daughter of Japan's most hated man - something like Osama bin
Laden
to Americans. ... their reasons: They feared Asahara might try to pass
messages to followers ...
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Plumes of smoke after HGV blast
Thick smoke was seen drifting across Manchester city centre on Sunday after a tanker exploded at an industrial unit in Salford.
The fire service, police and ambulances were sent to the scene on Seaford Road, off Frederick Road, when the fire broke out just after 1500 BST.
A fire service spokesman said an HGV and a nearby building were well alight.
Greater Manchester Ambulance Service said there were no reports of anyone injured in the explosion.
Police warned people to avoid the Pendleton area and local residents were urged to stay indoors and keep all windows and doors shut.
The immediate area was cordoned off as a precaution.
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'Airline plot' police search wood
Detectives investigating an alleged plot to blow up planes are conducting a major search for evidence at woods near the scene of a series of raids.
Police and security service officials have brought in powerful lights to enable them to work through the night in King's Wood near High Wycombe.
Officers are continuing to question 23 people arrested in the inquiry.
Earlier, Home Secretary John Reid said "at least four major plots" have been thwarted since the 7 July 2005 attacks.
According to BBC home affairs correspondent Daniel Sandford officers were looking for possible signs of makeshift explosives and detonators in King's Wood.
The home secretary, meanwhile, has said he thought it was right to keep Britain at the highest possible level of terrorist alert.
But Mr Reid acknowledged the "terribly inconvenient regime" of restrictions imposed on carrying hand luggage was affecting airlines and the travelling public.
NEW THREAT LEVELS
Low - an attack is unlikely
Moderate - an attack is possible but not likely
Substantial - strong possibility of an attack
Severe - an attack is highly likely
Critical - an attack is expected imminently
He told the BBC News 24 Sunday programme those limits were being reviewed but any new regime would still need to ensure safety.
Even if the threat level was reduced to "severe", Mr Reid said it was "highly likely there would be another terrorist attempt and that is one thing of which we can be sure."
Asked whether the four major plots he revealed could have caused a major loss of life, Mr Reid said: "In my view yes, on the information I have received."
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Transdnestr explosion kills one, injures eleven
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
TIRASPOL, August 13 (RIA Novosti) - One person was killed and eleven
others
wounded in a trolley-bus explosion in the capital of Moldova's
breakaway
province ...
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Turkish worker killed in mine explosion
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
ANKARA, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Turkish rescuers were struggling on Sunday
to
save a trapped miner after an explosion which killed one of his
workmates.
...
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Tanker alight after 'explosion'
BBC News - UK
... building were well alight. The spokesman added that one person was
believed to be missing after the explosion. Police are warning ...
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One Person Dies in Explosion in Trolley Bus in Tiraspol
Focus News - Sofia,Bulgaria
Tiraspol. One person died and another 11 were wounded in explosion in a
trolleybus in Tiraspol, ITAR-TASS reported. According to ...
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Bomb might have caused trolleybus explosion in Tiraspol
ITAR-TASS - Moscow,Russia
TIRASPOL, August 13 (Itar-Tass) - An explosion on a trolleybus occurred
in Tiraspol on Sunday noon. Presumably, there was a bomb ...
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Two Miners Killed in Bolu Gas Explosion
Zaman Online - Istanbul,Turkey
... of Bolu. A coalmine collapsed on Sunday morning around 10.00 am in
the town of Mengen, near Bolu, due to the gas explosion. Two ...
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Morocco arrests 44 in alleged Al Qaida insurrection plot
IDF Shoots Down Two Unmanned Hizbullah Drones Loaded with
Explosives
Northern Command: Hizbullah Has Not Accepted Ceasefire
Iraq group uses "dog bomb" against US forces: Web
Baby bottle 'used as bomb'
By Fiona Hudson
August 14, 2006
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20115941-2,00.html
A HUSBAND and wife arrested in the British terror raids allegedly
planned to take their six-month-old baby on a mid-air suicide mission.
Scotland Yard police are quizzing Abdula Ahmed Ali, 25, and his
23-year-old wife Cossor over suspicions they were to use their baby's bottle
to hide a liquid bomb.
The theory is one of the reasons security chiefs are now insisting
mothers taste babies' milk at check-in desks before allowing them to take
bottles aboard flights.
The pair are among up to 23 suspects being questioned over a plot to
bring down nine airliners over five US cities, killing thousands of
people in the air and on the ground.
The questioning of the group comes as British Government sources
yesterday revealed many of those suspects posed as relief workers to travel
to al-Qaeda training camps in Pakistan.
It has also been revealed that security services are secretly
monitoring "dozens" of fresh plots involving hundreds of suspects which could be
unleashed at any time.
One government source said at least 30 priority cases were under urgent
investigation.
"All those 30 are seen as serious, determined attacks that will happen
unless we stop them," the source said.
Police spent yesterday combing through the Alis' east London housing
commission flat for clues.
Cossor took her baby with her to the police station during last week's
raids but her son is now being cared for by grandparents.
Cossor's grandfather, Nazir Ahmed, 84, said Abdula had travelled to
Pakistan about four weeks ago.
"We didn't understand what the hurry was and why he needed to go," Mr
Ahmed said.
A neighbour at the flats where the married couple lived said he would
be stunned if claims were true.
"I simply cannot believe he could have been involved in a plot like
this. He is religious and seemed to love his family," the neighbour said.
"I would never have dreamed he could have been involved in anything
like this."
A family friend of Cossor said she had known the arrested mother 12
years and believed her to be innocent.
"I think it is a case of mistaken identity. The last thing she'd be
interested in is terrorism. They are just simple day-to-day people going
about their own business," she said.
Police in England have reportedly recovered bottles containing
peroxide, including some with false bottoms, from a recycling centre close to
the homes of some of the arrested suspects.
It has emerged MI5 agents launched covert intrusions on the homes of
some suspects several weeks ago in "sneak and peek" operations to plant
listening devices and gather evidence ahead of the arrests last week.
Links between suspects in the jet bomb plot and those behind the London
7/7 attacks have also come to light.
There are reports as many as five of those arrested attended the same
terror training camp in Pakistan as two of the July 7 London suicide
bombers.
And US intelligence sources said they believed at least two of the
suspects had trained in Karachi and met al-Qaeda operatives in the lead up
to the 7/7 attacks.
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The son of a Muslim immigrant from India and suspected al-Qaeda leader is among the 24 people arrested in the UK.
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Intelligence and counterterrorism officials say the scale and sophistication of the scheme to blow up jetliners over the Atlantic could mean that Al Qaeda, whose central command has been severely damaged since 2001, is again able to direct attacks.
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Strong indications of an al Qaeda link to the alleged airline bomb plot uncovered in London on Thursday suggest that the terrorist network has survived and adapted despite heavy blows to its leadership and organizational structure over the past five years,...
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US authorities issued their highest level "Red" terrorism alert for the first time after the discovery of a plot to bomb multiple US airliners flying home from Britain, an operation officials said bore the imprint of the Al-Qaeda movement.
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Jerusalem Post
Aug. 13, 2006 9:10
What Israel has done for US lately
By YOSSI KUPERWASSER
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Many pundits in Washington, among them supporters of Israel,
anticipated
better results from the month-long war against Hizbullah.
They were hoping for Israel to put Iran and Syria on the defensive by
using IDF military might to eradicate Hizbullah much faster. Some have
already concluded that this was an opportunity squandered.
The truth is that the last month has not been "a walk in the park" for
Israel. We have been fighting a ruthless, well-armed and well-trained,
albeit small, army that has spent the last six years preparing for this
war while we have been busy on many other fronts.
Nevertheless, those in Washington who are disappointed with the results
should consider a list of dividends that America has received from our
campaign: First and foremost, Israel has sent a loud and clear message
that any terrorist entity that carries out an act of aggression will
pay
a heavy price.
Moreover, we have proven that a "spoiled" Western society, as Hizbullah
perceived Israel, can withstand barrages of rocket-fire on its
civilians
and still maintain an unfaltering resolution to stand up and fight.
Second, by exerting heavy military pressure on Hizbullah and the
Lebanese government, we forced the collapse of Nasrallah's strategy
that
was based on unaccountability and terror-deterrence.
In so doing, we created the necessary conditions to compel the
international community to take long-overdue measures to implement
earlier UN resolutions that the free world hopes will ultimately turn
Lebanon into an accountable, sovereign nation.
If this happens, Syria and Iran would be the main losers of this war.
Security Council Resolution 1701 approved Friday is the direct result
of
that pressure, and now it is up to the international community to
ensure
that it is implemented.
Third, we helped people across the globe world understand the extent of
the threat that Iranian radicalism poses to the entire free world, and
why it is so important to prevent it from becoming a nuclear power.
Fourth, we exposed Syria's role in supporting terror - both by
facilitating the transport of Iranian weapons to Hizbullah, and by
supplying its own heavy, long-range rockets and other weaponry to this
terror organization. You might be surprised to know that until this
war,
the international community had refused to acknowledge that Syria
supplied these rockets to Hizbullah.
Fifth, we have shown how irresponsible the Russians were in supplying
Syria with state-of-the-art weapons that have ended up in the hands of
Hizbullah.
And finally, we helped the world to better understand the dangers posed
by Hizbullah's fundamentalist brainwashing machine. In terms of the
systematic and deliberate killing of civilians, the difference between
Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah and Nazi Germany is that while the SS
sought
to conceal its deeds - including from German society - Hizbullah
proudly
proclaims its successes in killing Jewish civilians. This stream of
distorted Islamist extremism is cut from the same cloth of twisted
ideology to which the planners of the thwarted terror attacks on
airliners flying out of London subscribe.
This is a short list of what Israel has achieved in the last month.
These significant, concrete advances should go a long way to satisfying
those wondering what Israel has done lately for those who live in the
land of the free and the home of the brave.
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The writer is a brigadier-general and former head of IDF Military
Intelligence's research department.