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COTABATO — Authorities in Mindanao have arrested a Pakistani with alleged links to a Southeast Asian extremist group for making bombs, it was announced yesterday. Muhammand Alpariz was arrested at his apartment in Shariff Kabunsuan province by joint police and military operatives on Tuesday, local 6th Infantry Division spokesman Lt. Col. Julieto Ando said. Found in his possession were "two 60-millimeter mortar shells rigged to improvised explosives devices" and two howitzer shells ready to be attached to similar bombs, said Southern Mindanao police head Chief Superintendent Pedro Tango. "These bombs, if exploded, would cause extensive damage," he added. "He did...

Magazines from ‘domestic terrorism threat’ found ... Ronald Swerlein kept magazines in his home from the Animal Liberation Front, a group the FBI calls a “leading domestic terrorism threat,” ... Police first searched the 50-year-old’s home over the weekend and arrested him Sunday on suspicion of possessing and making explosives. According to a search warrant inventory, police seized four magazines from the Animal Liberation Front from Swerlein’s home. The warrant requesting the search said the magazines describe arsons and use of explosives claimed by members of the group, who typically remain anonymous. The group’s Web site states that individuals work...

The supreme military chief of Hamas wounded in a raid of Israel JERUSALEM - the supreme chief of the branch armed with Hamas, Mohammed Deif, was wounded at the time of a raid of Israeli aviation close to Gaza, indicated to Wednesday morning a military spokesman in Tel-Aviv. "Mohammed Deif was wounded in the night at the time of a raid of aviation against a house of Sheik Radwan, close to Gaza, but we are unaware of the gravity of its wounds", it specified. A Palestinian medical source confirmed with AFP that Mr. Deif was wounded and operated. According...

THE death of Malaysian bomb mastermind Azahari Husin will remove one of the brains behind terrorist network Jemaah Islamiah, the Australian government has said. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Attorney General Philip Ruddock have welcomed reports the so-called "Demolition Man" who was behind both Bali attacks and the Jakarta Australian Embassy bombing has blown himself up after a shootout in Indonesia. "Noordin Top and Azahari have been the two keys to these bombings by what we broadly define as Jemaah Islamiah in Indonesia, so to take either or both of them out is a very important step forward," Mr Downer...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A shadowy Hamas bombmaker who tops Israel's most-wanted list on Saturday issued his first videotaped statement since going into hiding more than a decade ago. Mohammed Deif praised Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip as a victory for armed resistance, rejected calls for his group to disarm, and vowed to continue attacks on Israel until the Jewish state is erased from the map. Deif, who has escaped three Israeli attempts to kill him, has been living underground since 1992. He is so shadowy that the most recent photograph of him is from the 1980s.

British police and intelligence officials have launched a nationwide manhunt for a man identified as a likely bomb maker in last week's London attacks, who was seen on a security tape with the four suspected bombers, according to a U.S. official. "They know who No. 5 is," said the official, who has access to substantial intelligence flowing from the bomb investigation but asked to not be identified. The man was pictured on a closed-circuit security tape with the four bombers just before they entered London's Underground on July 7 with backpacks the police believe contained bombs. He is British and...

An amateur bomb-maker in Suffolk County is in police custody this morning after testing the explosions in his back yard. Police charged 28-year-old Robert Rotella of Shore Manor with criminal weapons possession after they were told he accepted delivery of chemicals that were used to make explosives. He was arraigned yesterday in First District Court in Islip and released on his own recognizance. Rotella's neighbors simply said he is no threat to national security and that he makes fireworks for fun.

Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado professor caught up in the controversy about his remarks calling the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center "little Eichmanns," reportedly trained domestic terrorists, Fox News reported tonight, citing a Denver newspaper. The January 18, 1987 issue of the Denver Post reported that Professor Churchill taught the Weatherman, a violent, revolutionary radical group, how to make bombs and fire weapons. This revelation comes on the heels of the comments by a former student of Churchill's who was in his class on April 19, 1995, the day of the...

Indonesian police say a Malaysian bombmaker was responsible for both the Bali bombings last year and the hotel bombing in Jakarta earlier this month. Indonesia's chief of detectives says Azahari bin Husin - who was educated in Australia - is one of a group of 16 who were involved in the latest attack on the Marriott hotel. Many of those involved are already in custody. Dr Azahari is still at large, along with another Bali bomb suspect named in connection to the Marriott attack, fellow Malaysian Noordin Mohammed Top. Two others already under arrest in connection with the Bali plot...

Known as The Bombmaker.

A massive manhunt is underway for an Irish republican bomb-maker who is believed to be training Palestinian activists in the West Bank. According to the Observer newspaper, Israeli police and the internal security agency Shin Bet are searching for the man who arrived at Israel's International Airport three weeks ago, travelling on a British passport. The bomb expert has been sent to the Occupied Territories to share his expertise to groups like Islamic Jihad, The Observer added on Sunday. Israeli sources told the newspaper that the man travelled on his own passport posing as a tourist when he arrived at...

Saddam's Bomb maker, Dr. Khidhir Hamza on Radio this Saturday March 15, 2003 at 3 P.M. -- 50,000 Watt KCBC Radio 770 AM in Central California On Sunday March 9, 2003 Steve Wampler interviewed Dr. Khidhir Hamza, who headed Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program and is the author of the book, "Saddam's Bomb maker". The show will be rebroadcast Saturday at 3 p.m. (at 50,000 watts, with reach over about one-third of California) on KCBC, 770 AM. The interview lasted for 40 minutes of the 60-minute program and covered topics such as: Why Saddam should be removed from power in...