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One of the women in the New Mexico compound reached out to a family friend with a desperate message for help, expressing danger of starvation. Abdur-Rashid Al-Amin, an Islamic counselor in Georgia, said that message sent to him was the tip authorities used to raid the compound in rural New Mexico on August 3. Amin told CNN he received a friend request on Facebook around July 31 from Subhannah Wahhaj, one of the women who was found in the compound and subsequently charged with child abuse. When he accepted her Facebook request, she requested confidentiality and then cash. "I am...

THE alleged field commander of the Bali bombings, Imam Samudra, yesterday threatened a new terror campaign would follow the three blasts that killed at least 34 in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh. As he was being led from the prosecutor's office to an armoured police van in Denpasar in Bali, Imam Samudra shouted: "After Riyadh there will be another one." He also repeatedly yelled "Aluha Akhbar (God is Great) and America will be destroyed". Imam Samudra's taunts were interpreted as an attempt to inspire followers of the Jemaah Islamiah terrorist group in which he once held a senior position. Local...