CHENGDU, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- A man was detained on Sunday at Dazhou Airport in southwest China's Sichuan Province for carrying weapon, local police said. According to the police, a pistol was found in interlayer of the man's handbag during the security check before he attempted to go aboard an Airbus 319 to Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province.
The airplane was scheduled to take off at 4:30 p.m. and delayed about one hour due to the incident. It took off at 6 p.m. The police is conducting investigation on the incident.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/14/content_5605609.htm
AM CID investigates into aircraft parts found hidden inside a cargo ship bound to KKS harbor (Sri Lanka)
1/15/2007
Harbour Police in Colombo has discovered with the help of the Sri Lanka Navy parts of an airplane hidden inside a cargo ship owned by the United National Party parliamentarian T.Maheshwaran. The UNP Tamil parliamentarian has reportedly bought the ship to transport goods to Jaffna from Colombo.
The police investigations will proceed to determine whether the parts of the aircraft are in anyway related to the air force the warring Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is slowly but steadily building in the North. Air craft in the hands of the LTTE have been considered an extremely dangerous element by the US as well as Indian intelligence for the security of the region and for the security of the world at large as far as terrorism is concerned since the terrorist group owns the worlds most advanced technology regarding suicide bombers.
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http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20070115_04
Couple beheaded after shot dead in Yala (Thailand)
January 16, 2007
Yala - A married couple were beheaded after they were shot dead apparently by Muslim insurgents in this southern border province Sunday morning police said. The bodies of Ging Khachaging, 39, and his wife, Ruangrong Kaewkrai, 35, were found about three metres away from their heads in a village in Tambon Taseh of Yala's Muang district.
Police said the couple were riding their motorcycle back from their rubber plantation when they were shot by insurgents. Each was shot three times on their body.
http://nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30024095
GAZA - Palestinian security forces uncovered an extensive network of tunnels in the Gaza Strip that the Fatah faction said on Monday could have been used to assassinate its top leaders, including President Mahmoud Abbas. The ruling Hamas faction would not say whether it dug the tunnels, discovered by Fatah-dominated security forces in central and northern Gaza on Monday and over the weekend.
A Fatah spokesman, Abdel-Hakim Awad, held Hamas responsible but stopped short of accusing the group of being behind any specific assassination plot. Awad said some of the tunnels were lined with explosives and ran directly beneath the homes of prominent Fatah members.
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Six go on trial for failed July 21 'suicide bombings' (UK)
January 15, 2007
A group of six Muslim men plotted a series of "murderous suicide bombings" on London's public transport system just days after the July 7 London bombings, a court has heard. At the opening of a high-profile trial of the men, Woolwich Crown Court heard that they were engaged in an "extremist Muslim plot" to target the capital using bombs made partly of chapatti flour.
The alleged attacks would have occurred on July 21, 14 days after the "carnage" of the July 7 London bombings, Nigel Sweeney, QC, for the Crown, said. Police found a bomb factory where the explosives were to be put together and timetable for doing so, he added.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2548394,00.html
Alleged terrorist plot hearing underway (Canada)
January 15, 2007
BRAMPTON, Ont. (CP) - A preliminary hearing is underway for four young men charged in an alleged terrorist plot to attack targets in Ontario. The four, who cannot be named under the terms of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, asked for a preliminary hearing and requested their cases be heard by judge and jury. Evidence at the hearing, which will determine whether the case should proceed to trial, is covered by a publication ban.
The four youths, arrested last summer along with 14 adult suspects, are charged with belonging to a terrorist organization and attending a terror camp.
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http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/01/15/3383553-cp.html
Thank you Oorang.
Glad they got the gun before going on the plane.