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President Donald Trump’s blanket pardon for the rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, does not cover a conspiracy by one defendant to kill the law enforcement officials who investigated him, a federal judge ruled Monday. Edward Kelley, who was convicted of the conspiracy last year by a federal jury in Tennessee, had argued that Trump’s sweeping clemency for rioters should also cover his conviction since the agents and officers he targeted were connected to the Jan. 6 investigation. The Trump administration had opposed Kelley’s claim, saying the conspiracy was too far removed from the Jan. 6 attack...

British terrorists conspired in bombs plot - security officials · Six suspects are doctors · Controlled explosions at hospital · London car came from Scotland Vikram Dodd and Richard Norton-Taylor Tuesday July 3, 2007 The Guardian(UK) Counter-terrorism officials said last night they believe British terrorists who are still at large were involved in the conspiracy to launch car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow. Details emerged as it became clear that five of the suspects under arrest are doctors working and training in the NHS, and one is a doctor working in Australia where he was arrested last night. Seven...

HAMBURG, Germany (Feb. 19) -- A Moroccan student was convicted Wednesday of more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder in the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, ending the first trial of anyone connected with the suicide hijackings. Mounir el Motassadeq, 28, was sentenced to the maximum 15 years in prison for helping the Hamburg-based al-Qaida terror cell that included lead hijacker Mohamed Atta and two other suicide pilots. In addition to the 3,045 counts of accessory to murder, he was convicted of five counts of attempted murder and bodily injury. El Motassadeq denied the charges during his...