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Nageeb Abdul Jabar Mohammed Al-Hadi -- if that's even his name -- is just one of nearly 750 people U.S. investigators want to know more about in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. He has at least four aliases and two different birth dates. He is a Yemeni, with a Michigan driver's licence and a Detroit wife. He was on a plane from Frankfurt, Germany headed for Chicago when it was diverted to Toronto. He was arrested at Pearson International Airport and may be extradited to the United States to face two charges related to false passports and fraudulent misuse ...

On the surface there would seem to be little to unite the Aryan racialists of the neo-Nazi movement with the terrorists of radical Islam. To the neo-Nazis, Muslims are almost all members of ``inferior`` races; and to the Islamic terrorists, the neo-Nazis are almost without exception either atheists or members of fringe quasi-Christian sects. But the reality is that there has been close cooperation between Muslim extremists and Fascists ever since the founding of the Nazi movement in the 1920`s. For all of their differences, Muslim extremists and Nazis have always been united by a common group of beliefs and...

FRANKFURT/ZURICH (Reuters) - Germany's Deutsche Lufthansa has agreed to take over Swiss International Air Lines in a deal worth up to 310 million euros ($409 million), ending three years of independence for the loss-making Swiss carrier. The long-rumored agreement on Tuesday marks the start of Europe's biggest airline merger since Air France took over Dutch KLM last year to form the world's largest airline group by revenues. Under the terms of the agreement, Lufthansa will pay up to 265 million euros to the Swiss carrier's major shareholders — the Swiss government and big companies — and about 45 million euros...

"BRUSSELS, Belgium — Police said Friday they had removed all unarmed Iranian pro-monarchists (search) without resistance from a Lufthansa (search) plane ending a 15-hour protest action by the group against the Iranian government. Police spokeswoman Els Cleemput said at least 90 officers were used to remove the 56 protesters from the aircraft which was moved away from the terminal at Brussels airport after negotiations failed to end the protest action at 0230 GMT. "The plane is now empty," Cleemput said, adding no handcuffs had to be used and there were "no major incidents". She said however some protesters had to...

Police have entered a Lufthansa plane at Brussels airport, 13 hours after a group of Iranian monachists began a hunger strike and sit-in. The flight arrived on Thursday from Frankfurt, but 59 unarmed European citizens of Iranian origin refused to disembark at Brussels. They are demanding to speak to a member of the European Parliament. The plane has now been moved away from the terminal, but it is not clear if the protest is over. Earlier story http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBAJDMT56E.html shows that Iranian monarchists are demanding diplomats from EU, Russia, US sign a form promising not to help the Islamic regime in...

About 50 Iranian activists are holding a protest on an airplane at the Brussels airport, seeking to convince heads of the European Union to stop accommodating Tehran's cleric-led Islamic regime. The activists, who refuse to disembark a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt, are in cell phone contact with an Iranian scholar and activist in London who runs a TV station out of his home, Frood Fouladvand. The protesters, according to Fouladvand, are chanting: "We are the messengers of peace. We are against global terrorism. We will remove the malignant terrorist regime of the Mullahs." The Boeing 737 arrived at Brussels' Zaventem...

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - A group of unarmed Iranians staged a protest aboard a Lufthansa jet at the Brussels airport Thursday, refusing to leave the plane and calling for the return of the monarchy in Iran, officials said. "This is not a hijacking," said police spokeswoman Astrid Kaisen.

Several dozen passengers refused to disembark from a Lufthansa airliner when it arrived in Brussels in what appeared to be a protest against the European Union (news - web sites)'s conciliatory policies towards Iran (news - web sites), officials and reports said.(AFP-EPA/File/Frank May) A relative of an Iranian who is protesting against the government in Tehran aboard a Lufthansa aircraft on the tarmac at Brussels' Zaventem airport talks with a security guard, March 10, 2005. A group of passengers refused to leave the plane after it landed in Brussels earlier today and are demanding the European Union (news - web...

Big companies are hoping to marry their brands to gays and lesbians this weekend — about 20,000 of them. In the first days after the presidential election — in which gay marriage proved to be a pivotal issue — the nation's biggest exposition on homosexual life is setting attendance records. Booths for exhibitors are also sold out for the first time at the Javits Center, which since 1999 has hosted Gay Life Expo, one of the center's liveliest trade shows. Companies ranging from Citigroup and American Express to Jet Blue and J.P. Morgan Chase are hawking their offerings to the...

Israeli jet fighters have forced an incoming Lufthansa airliner to land in Cyprus after a bomb alert that German officials had not considered serious. "We wanted to fly to Tel Aviv but the Israeli authorities forced us to land in Larnaca," said a Lufthansa official. The flight from Frankfurt landed safely and security staff are searching it. Three passenger jets - two from Greece to New York and one British Airways flight from Berlin - have been diverted after bomb hoaxes in the last 10 days. "We came to the conclusion with the German authorities that this alert was not...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German airline Lufthansa said on Saturday it was seeking approval to resume flights to Baghdad as soon as possible. Deutsche Lufthansa AG said it needed the consent of the authorities in Iraq but hoped to take a decision in a few weeks after clarifying issues such as take-off and landing rights. ``With its oil refineries, Baghdad is the country's leading industrial center and is becoming an increasingly important destination for business travelers,'' it said in a statement. A spokeswoman said decisions on the frequency of flights and aircraft to be used would be taken once approval was...