COPENHAGEN: Four young Muslims were charged in Denmark on Wednesday with planning terrorist bombings in Denmark or abroad, the justice ministry said. The four men were accused of acquiring chemicals and laboratory instruments to make triacetone triperoxide (TATP) explosives, often used by suicide bombers.
TATP bombs were used in the July 2005 London bombings. The identities of the four were not disclosed. They are residents of Denmark but do not hold Danish citizenship. The men were part of a group of nine people arrested in a September 2006 swoop in Odense in central Denmark.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007/03/29/story_29-3-2007_pg7_25
Iran's Suicide Brigades Terrorism Resurgent
More than five years after President George W. Bush's declaration of a global war against terrorism, the Iranian regime continues to embrace suicide terrorism as an important component of its military doctrine. In order to promote suicide bombing and other terrorism, the regime's theoreticians have utilized religion both to recruit suicide bombers and to justify their actions. But as some factions within the Islamic Republic support the development of these so-called martyrdom brigades, their structure and activities suggest their purpose is not only to serve as a strategic asset in either deterring or striking at the West, but also to derail domestic attempts to dilute the Islamic Republic's revolutionary legacy.
Such strategy is apparent in the work of the Doctrinal Analysis Center for Security without Borders (Markaz-e barresiha-ye doktrinyal-e amniyat bedun marz), an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps think tank.[1] Its director, Hassan Abbasi, has embraced the utility of suicide terrorism. On February 19, 2006, he keynoted a Khajeh-Nasir University seminar celebrating the anniversary of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's fatwa (religious edict) calling for the murder of British author Salman Rushdie. As Khomeini often did, Abbasi began his lecture with literary criticism. He analyzed a U.S. publication from 2004 that, according to Abbasi, "depicts the prophet of Islam as the prophet of blood and violence." Rhetorically, he asked, "Will the Western man be able to understand martyrdom with such prejudice? [Can he] interpret Islam as anything but terrorism?" The West sees suicide bombings as terrorism but, to Abbasi, they are a noble expression of Islam.
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http://www.meforum.org/article/1059
Basque separatists arrested, explosives seized
March 29, 2007
Spanish police arrested eight people suspected of being members of armed Basque separatist group ETA and seized 30kg of explosives and detonators, officials and news reports said. The explosives were found in a basement in the Basque town of Andoain, the leading daily El Pais said on its website.
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Basque terrorists maintain presence in Latin America
Snip: ....it is estimated that more than 150 ETA members reside in Latin America. About 100 of these are in Mexico; several dozen are in Venezuela; there are handfuls in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Uruguay and Argentina; and more than a dozen are believed to be in Cuba. Activities abroad seem mainly focused on raising money for ETA operations and for recruiting. In most of the Latin American countries where they have a presence, the ETA members conduct money-laundering operations and collect "revolutionary taxes" from the Basque residents there. By one report, ETA raises $10 million dollars annually Mexico recently expelled a member of ETA's Vizcaya Commando to Spain, where he appears to have taken part in many terrorist attacks and to have caused 16 deaths.