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Some of you may have read an article by Stephan Hayes of the Weekly Standard where he wrote about terrorist operations planed by Saddam regime in May 1999 to be conducted in Europe and elsewhere. The code name of the terrorist operations was called “Blessed July”. The operations were planned by Uday Saddam Hussein who was in charge of Saddam Feedeyeens and they called him as well the Supervisor or the Commander as you will read in the translation below. This Iraqi document ISGZ-2004-01894 is yet another powerful proof that Saddam regime was heavily involved with terrorism and President...

Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006 11:42 a.m. EST Europe on High Terror Alert The threat of a terrorist attack in Europe by Islamic radicals has reached its highest level since the July 2005 transit bombings in London, counterterrorism officials say. European authorities have disrupted dozens of terrorist attempts since the bombings and have far more suspected radicals under surveillance than at any point since 9/11, The Washington Post reports. Last week, British Home Secretary John Reid disclosed that an attempted terrorist attack in the U.K. was "highly likely” during the Christmas holiday season. Also last week, Spanish authorities broke up a...

The man who killed 270 people in the Lockerbie bombing will serve a minimum of 27 years in jail. Tight security was in place for Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi's High Court appearance. The judges decided he should serve this period before he can even be considered for parole. Al Megrahi, 51, is convicted of the biggest single act of mass murder in British history. He has been held at Barlinnie prison since March last year after losing his appeal against conviction for the December 1988 Pan Am airliner bombing over Lockerbie. He was jailed for life in 2001, when...