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Muslim group claims royal wedding is legitimate terror targetThe royal wedding is a “legitimate target” for a terrorist attack because of Britain’s foreign policy and the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, a radical Islamic group has claimed. By Victoria Ward 1:57PM BST 27 Apr 2011 Muslims Against Crusades, which had its application to protest on Friday turned down by police, yesterday urged Muslims to stay away from central London when Prince William marries Kate Middleton and to avoid all means of public transport due to the heightened risk of an attack. Assad Ullah, leader of the extremist campaign group, insisted...

SNIPPET: "SRINAGAR: In a joint operation, the Jammu and Kashmir police, CRPF and the army on Wednesday arrested a top Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist from Sopore distrcit in North Kashmir. The security personnel, on a tip-off, arrested Abid alias Assadullah, who has been active in this region for the last two years and is involved in various attacks on security forces, at Wetlab, 65km from here on Sopore-Bandipora Road, official sources said. Abid is a resident of Peshawar in Pakistan, they said. Police recovered one Chinese pistol, one magazine and four rounds of ammunition Abid, who was the Battalion Commander of the...

Al-Zawra, the Iraqi Journalists Union newspaper, published "Who Kills Hostages in Iraq?" by Samir Addad and Mazin Ghazi on 19 September. A text in English has been released by BBC Monitoring International Reports. The article reports on the armed groups that are involved in violent resistance in Iraq, dividing the resistance into three categories: the Sunni resistance groups the Shi'i resistance groupsFactions abducting and killing.Below is an outline of the groups in these three categories: The main Sunni resistance groups The Iraqi National Islamic Resistance, "The 1920 Revolution Brigades" TARGETS: U.S. soldiersORIGIN: emerged on 16 July 2003GOAL: Expulsion of...