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FBI Warns of Potential Terror Attacks The FBI and Department of Homeland Security today issued an analytical "note" to U.S. law-enforcement officials cautioning that al-Qaida terrorists have in the past expressed interest in attacking public buildings using a dozen suicide bombers each carrying 20 kilograms of explosives. Authors with the U.S. Office of Intelligence and Analysis added that they have "no credible or specific information that terrorists are planning operations against public buildings in the United States." The FBI and DHS analysts said they were releasing the note because "it is important for local authorities and building owners and...

A court in Germany has ruled that a radical Muslim leader can be extradited to Turkey to face treason charges. Metin Kaplan is accused of planning to crash a plane loaded with explosives into the mausoleum of Kemal Ataturk, founder of modern, secular Turkey. The decision overturns a previous ruling that he was unlikely to receive a fair trial in Turkey. Mr Kaplan, the self-styled 'Caliph of Cologne' can appeal against the decision to a federal court. The extradition announcement is a victory for the German government, which has been seeking to deport Mr Kaplan since he was released from...

A court in the German city of Duesseldorf has turned down a Turkish request to extradite a militant Islamic cleric to face treason charges. The court ruled that Metin Kaplan, known as the "Caliph of Cologne" after a radical group he set up, could face human rights abuses if he returned to Turkey. German Interior Minister Otto Schily "regretted" the decision which he said had been made despite Turkish assurances that legal principles would be respected. Kaplan in March completed a four-year jail term for calling for the murder of a rival religious leader, but has been in custody ever...

The radical Islamic Caliph Organization, led by the imprisoned Memit Kaplan, will remain outlawed in Germany, pending a possible appeal to the Federal Constitutional Court. The Federal Administrative Court, rejecting a bid to have the German Interior Ministry's ban on the organization overturned, ruled on Wednesday that the Cologne-based group had forfeited its claims to protection under the constitutional guarantee of freedom of religion by making public calls for violence against opponents. The court ruled that the organization has an “aggressive“ approach toward Germany's democratic order. It has been banned since last December. Kaplan is expected to be released in...