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A man who reportedly worked near the apartment of one of the San Bernardino mass shooting suspects said he grew suspicious when he noticed half a dozen Middle Eastern men hanging around the area.

The California Highway Patrol will close I-15 north- and south-bound lanes between Centre City Parkway and the SR-78 from about 8:30 a.m.

Attacks on nuclear power stations, oil and gas terminals, Canary Wharf and Heathrow’s control tower were being considered by leaders of the plot to blow up seven transatlantic airliners in mid-flight, a court was told yesterday. Documents found on computer memory sticks at the home of an alleged terrorist ringleader contained a list of targets across Britain – including the gas pipeline between Britain and Belgium. The man, Assad Sarwar, was said to be in contact with terrorist leaders overseas and visited Pakistan a month before his arrest as preparations for the airline attacks were being finalised. Peter Wright, QC,...

<p>"NatWest handed Al Qaeda terrorist 100% mortgage to buy £93,000 home he turned into a bomb factory"</p> <p>SNIPPET: "A bank has sparked outrage by handing over a 100 per cent mortgage to an Al Qaeda terrorist who smuggled himself into Britain.</p>

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces uncovered a terrorist execution site and a building suspected of being a car bomb factory during an operation Aug. 21-23 south of Baghdad. As Coalition Forces entered the Arab Jabour area, they immediately received small arms fire. The assault force returned fire, killing one terrorist. During the 24-hour operation, Coalition Forces discovered an area used by terrorists as an execution and dumping site. The ground forces found human skulls, decomposing bodies and bones wrapped in bloody clothes. Wild dogs were rampant around the area, which was characterized by a crater where most of the human...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. military on Saturday said coalition forces south of Baghdad found a site where people were executed and bodies dumped. The discovery was made during an operation Tuesday through Thursday in the Arab Jabour area, a region where al Qaeda in Iraq has a presence. "The ground forces found human skulls, decomposing bodies and bones wrapped in bloody clothes," the military said in a statement. "Wild dogs were rampant around the area, which was characterized by a crater where most of the human remains were dumped. Inside a nearby building, the ground forces found blood...

AN Israeli missile hit the Gaza Strip home of a well known lawmaker from the governing Islamist group Hamas today in what the army said was an attack on a weapons factory. In the West Bank city of Nablus, Palestinian hospital workers said a civilian had been shot dead during an Israeli raid. The army said it believed it had shot a man who was planting a bomb. There were no reports of casualties in the strike in Gaza on the building of Mariam Farhat, better known as Umm Nidal, who has often voiced pride at the death of three...

Release A060507i BAGHDAD, Iraq – An explosion occurred in the basement of the Sheik Abdel Kader mosque at approximately 6 p.m. May 7 in Rusafa, a neighborhood of east Baghdad . According to the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Division the bomb exploded in the basement of the mosque causing a fire. The Iraqi fire department responded and began suppressing the fire when firefighters noticed an improvised explosive device inside the mosque. The Iraqi police explosive ordinance disposal team arrived at the mosque to clear the holy site of bombs and bomb making materials. The team dismantled six IEDs....

PARIS (AP) - Ten nights of urban unrest that brought thousands of arson attacks on cars, nursery schools and other targets from the Mediterranean to the German border reached Paris where at least 28 cars were burned overnight in the French capital, government officials said Sunday. Police found a gasoline bomb-making factory in a southern suburb of the city, with more than 100 bottles, gallons of fuel and hoods for hiding rioters' faces, a senior Justice Ministry official said Sunday.The discovery, Huet said, shows that gasoline bombs being used by rioters "are not being improvised by kids in their bathrooms....

Police find bomb-making factory Police found a petrol bomb-making factory in a southern suburb of Paris, with more than 100 bottles, gallons of fuel and hoods for hiding rioters' faces, a senior Justice Ministry official said. Six youths, all aged under 18, were arrested in the raid on Saturday night on a building in Evry south of Paris where the petrol bombs were being put together, Jean-Marie Huet said. Police found "150 bottles prepared for use as Molotov cocktails, of which 50 were ready to be used" said Huet, the ministry's director of criminal affairs and pardons. The discovery, he...

US troops in Iraq say they have uncovered a bomb-making factory in the south of the capital, Baghdad. A large cache of weapons and cash was also found at the unidentified site, a US military statement said. Bomb-making equipment, weapons and ammunition were found in raids at other locations - and 51 people have been taken in for questioning. The discovery coincided with one of the worst days of violence since the new Iraqi government took power on Monday. At least five members of the Iraqi security forces were killed and several more wounded in an attack on a checkpoint...

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Investigators combing the wreckage of an exploded Islamic militant bomb factory Friday found photographs of a U.S.-owned gas station militants might have been targeting and a possible hit-list of police officials and ethnic leaders. Police also uncovered additional evidence that a militant linked to the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and the deadly bombing of a U.S. consulate may have been killed in Thursday's explosion. Police said they were trying to obtain DNA samples from relatives to confirm that a body found at the site belonged to terror suspect Asif Ramzi. Five people...

THE mysterious mechanic known only as Amrozi maintains the facade of a religious and loving father, who earns extra money by sewing clothes. But littering the work surface by his sewing machine are three mobile phone boxes – believed to have held the mobiles used to detonate the blasts of October 12 that killed more than 180 people in Kuta. Also inside Amrozi's ramshackle workshop, in the tiny Javanese village of Tenggulun, are a 50kg bag of ammonium fertiliser and various bits of electrical equipment. Australian Federal Police forensic experts suspect a large quantity of ammonium nitrate fertiliser was used...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 9/20/02 BREAKING: Tel Aviv homocidal bombing BREAKING: RESPONSE in Ramallah BREAKING: RESPONSE Zaitoon, Gaza, bomb-making factory deleted BREAKING: Karachi more arms recovered Djibouti Buffalo, New York, Lackawanna Yemeni six, POW and MIA Day ===================== Tel Aviv, Israel =================== BREAKING: TERROR STIMULUS In Tel Aviv, the lastest perverted homocidal bombing, with at least five people murdered, and more than 40 wounded. In Tel Aviv, CSI forensic experts take evidence, from homocidal murders funded by the UN, EU, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. ===================== Umm el-Fahm =================== In Umm el-Fahm, Israel, another perverted homocidal bombing,...