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“Teenager facing terrorism charges”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A 19-year-old Bristol man has been charged with terrorist offences relating to explosive substances.
Andrew Ibrahim, of Westbury-on-Trym, was arrested on 17 April. Three controlled explosions were later carried out at his flat.
He has been charged with possession of an explosive substance, the intention to commit terrorism and the possession of articles for terrorist purposes.
He will appear at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday.
The student is a son of an NHS consultant and was educated at some of Bristol’s top independent schools.
Speaking ahead of his appearance in the London court, Mr Ibrahim’s family spoke of their “shock” at the charges.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “According to police, the teenager has been accused of possessing Hexamethylene Triperoxide Diamine, also known as HMTD, which is an explosive organic chemical compound.
He has also been accused of possessing, among other items, two home-made vests, a quantity of ball bearings, a quantity of air gun pellets, a quantity of nails and screws, wired circuitry, batteries and electric bulb filaments.
Assistant Chief Constable Jackie Roberts said: “This has been a very challenging and complex investigation for Avon and Somerset police with much work still to be done.”
She said “significant amounts of material including numerous computers and associated media” had been recovered.”
Thanks to Toby Westerman for pointing to the new edition of INATODAY.com.
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“México: piden estado de sitio en Tijuana
Las autoridades de la ciudad fronteriza de Tijuana exhortaron a la población a evitar salir de sus casas ante el incremento de la violencia en el lugar.”
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http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/04/83ebf181-e31e-474b-8238-889566a108bc.html
Monday, April 28, 2008
“RFE/RL Websites Hit By Mass Cyberattack”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Several websites run by RFE/RL’s broadcast services have been hit by an unprecedented cyberattack, making them inaccessible to the outside world.
The attack, which started on April 26, intially targeted the website of RFE/RL’s Belarus Service, but quickly spread to other sites. Within hours, eight RFE/RL websites (Belarus, Kosovo, Azerbaijan, Tatar-Bashkir, Radio Farda, South Slavic, Russian, and Tajik) were knocked out or otherwise affected.
The “denial-of-service” (DOS) attack was intended to make the targeted website unavailable to its users, according to RFE/RL’s Director of Technology Luke Springer. “The way this is normally done is by flooding the target website with fake requests to communicate, thereby using up all [the website’s] free sources and rendering the site useless to all the legitimate users,” Springer said.
RFE/RL has taken countermeasures and restored full service to most of its Internet sites. The primary target, the Belarus Service, is still affected.
RFE/RL has been hit before by denial-of-service attacks, but this attack was unprecedented in its scale, as RFE/RL websites received up to 50,000 fake hits every second.
Springer says this more sophisticated assault is known as a “distributed denial-of-service” attack, in which “the attacker has made use of other machines, distributed its intentions out to other machines, and then all of these machines attack at the same time.”
DOS attacks are difficult to protect against, and the software required to carry them out is available on the Internet.
Other Sites Attacked”
Aamer Anwar, who has become one of the country's best-known solicitors in less than 20 years of practice, appeared before three judges in Edinburgh Tuesday, The Scotsman reported. He is the first lawyer in British history to be charged with contempt for statements made outside of court.
Lord Colin Carloway referred the case, charging that Anwar made false and misleading claims in what he described as a "multi-faceted tirade" after the conviction of Mohammed Atif Siddique last year. Siddique, called a "wannabe suicide bomber" by prosecutors, received an eight-year sentence.
Man allegedly wanted to bomb mom's killers
U.S. prosecutors say a Jamaican man planned revenge on the men accused of killing his mother when he tried to board a plane with bomb-making materials. Kevin Brown was arrested April 1 at Orlando International Airport.
Witness tested explosives with alleged terror suspect
An undercover police officer has told the Victorian Supreme Court he tested explosives with the alleged leader of a group accused of plotting terror attacks in Melbourne. The witness, known only as SIO 39 is a former member of the Victoria Police Security Intelligence unit.
