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- Hate preacher Anwar Al-Awlaki was killed in a US drone strike in Yemen in 2011 - Iman FM in Sheffield broadcast 25 hours of Al-Awlaki's sermons in June - A complaint was made to Ofcom who suspended Iman FM's broadcast licence - The radio station now has 21 days to explain for face a permanent closure A Muslim radio station broadcast lectures by an Al Qaeda terror leader calling for holy war. Iman FM transmitted 25 hours of sermons from Anwar Al-Awlaki, a hate preacher killed by a US drone strike in 2011. A complaint was made to Ofcom,...

Bali bombers say ready for firing squad By Heri Retnowati REUTERS 4:34 a.m. October 29, 2007 BATU PRISON, NUSAKAMBANGAN, Indonesia – The three Indonesians sentenced to die for the 2002 Bali blasts, which killed more than 200 people, say they are ready to be executed and their only regret is that Muslims died in the attack. [...] The two blasts on Bali's Kuta strip on Oct. 12, 2002, one at Paddy's Bar, the other at the Sari Club, killed 202 including 88 Australians and 38 Indonesian citizens, and devastated the resort island's tourist industry. [...] SCARING FOREIGNERS The attacks, blamed...

Between the efforts by the partisans to find a way to blame the Bush administration for intelligence failures and the media efforts to rehabilitate the Clinton administration, the report fell through the cracks. It shouldn't have. Particularly when Iran is estimated to be only months away from being able to build nuclear weapons. In September 2000, Iran test-fired a new variant of its Shehab-3 missile. It exploded shortly after take-off in what was described in the Western media as a second 'failed missile test'. (An Iranian test conducted in 1998 also exploded shortly after takeoff.)

SIDI MOUMEN, Morocco (AP) - Women lug jugs of water from a common tap as children play in the narrow and winding alleys. But it is the searing gazes of the jobless young men lounging outside corrugated-metal roof shacks that best tell the story of Carriere Thomas, a squalid shantytown in the Casablanca suburb of Sidi Moumen. The encampment was home to 11 of 13 suicide bombers who detonated explosives-laden backpacks at five targets in Casablanca the night of May 16, 2003 - killing 32 bystanders. Residents say the settlement, with 50,000 mostly illiterate and unemployed residents, was easy prey...