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  • PATH terror foiled

    02/11/2007 4:52:48 PM PST · by Coleus · 40 replies · 1,519+ views
    NorthJersey.com ^ | 07.08.06 | DAVID A. MICHAELS & KATHLEEN CARROLL
    A worldwide investigation has uncovered an al-Qaida loyalist's plan to blow up the PATH train tunnels under the Hudson River, thwarting a terrorist conspiracy the FBI called "the real deal," authorities said Friday. The alleged mastermind has been arrested. "The individuals were moving forward," said Special Agent Mark J. Mershon, assistant director of the FBI's New York office. They "were about to go to a phase where they would attempt to surveil targets, establish a regimen of attack and then acquire the resources necessary to effectuate the attacks." Mershon identified the plan's mastermind as Assem Hammoud, a 31-year-old Lebanese citizen...
  • Ex-U.N. Oil-For-Food Chief Charged

    01/16/2007 9:58:42 AM PST · by SmithL · 10 replies · 554+ views
    AP via SFGate ^ | 1/15/7 | LARRY NEUMEISTER
    The former United Nations oil-for-food chief was charged Tuesday with bribery and conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in the scandal-tainted humanitarian program. The charges against Benon Sevan, 69, of Nicosia, Cyprus, were contained in a rewrite of an indictment stemming from the scandal over the operation set up from 1996 to 2003 to permit the Iraqi government to sell oil primarily to buy food and medicine for suffering Iraqis. The program was designed to help Iraqis cope with U.N. sanctions, but authorities said it was corrupted by bureaucrats, oil tycoons and Saddam Hussein after the former Iraqi...