Indian arrested for threatening to hijack plane
NEW DELHI: Police arrested a passenger after he threatened to hijack a plane flying to New Delhi from the western tourist destination of Goa.
The domestic airliner made an emergency landing Sunday at New Delhi Airport and was quickly surrounded by police commandos who arrested the unarmed man, Indigo Airlines President Aditya Ghosh said. He declined to say where the man wanted the plane to go, or whether there was a struggled aboard the plane....
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/02/asia/AS-India-Hijack-Threat.php
Top FBI official: al-Qaida ‘still our no. 1 concern’
WASHINGTON - Pull out your cell phone, start writing a text message and you’ll probably notice the device guessing what words you are writing. It will even offer to finish them for you. It’s called predictive text.
Federal law enforcement and intelligence authorities have adopted the idea, along with a new way of thinking. New shadowy, transnational terror organizations forced U.S. Homeland Security authorities to change the way they work, says Michael J. Heimbach, assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division.
The FBI’s goal is to stay a step ahead of these threats.
The predictive method is broken down into an interlocking, three-pronged approach called “find, fix and finish.” ....
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Md. college removes professor accused of genocide
BALTIMORE (AP) — A Rwandan professor has been suspended with pay from teaching French at Goucher College while officials there investigate claims that he was involved in the 1994 genocide in his home country.
College President Sanford Ungar told faculty and students in an e-mail Saturday that Professor Leopold Munyakazi, 59, was removed from teaching after officials learned he had been indicted in 2006 on genocide charges in Rwanda....
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Pakistani Gunmen Kidnap American Head of UN Office, Kill Driver
Suspected Islamic militants abducted the American director of the United Nations refugee agency in southwest Pakistan yesterday and killed his driver, police said.
Four gunmen in the city of Quetta halted the car of John Solecki, head of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees office, as he drove from home to work, said Khalid Masood, the Quetta police superintendent. It was the most high-profile abduction of a Westerner in several years, and the third attack in five months on Americans working in Pakistan’s ethnic Pashtun zone bordering Afghanistan in the country’s west.....
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