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  • Terror on the Eurostar: Al Qaeda suspect arrested sneaking into Britain

    02/10/2003 8:50:15 PM PST · by Pokey78 · 16 replies · 384+ views
    The Sun (U.K.) ^ | 02/11/03 | MIKE SULLIVAN
    Going nowhere ... terror suspect was held on Eurostar EXCLUSIVE!AN al-Qa’ida terror suspect has been arrested trying to sneak into Britain on the Eurostar. Armed Special Branch cops nabbed the 25-year-old Algerian as he stepped off the train from Paris at London’s Waterloo Station. He is thought to have been intending to carry out a bombing in the UK. Last night, the man was being held at top security Paddington Green police station, West London, under the Terrorism Act 2000. He was seized last Thursday after a joint operation by British and French security services. Details of his arrest...
  • Britain's first convicted al-Qaida terrorists jailed

    04/01/2003 12:26:13 PM PST · by knighthawk · 7 replies · 181+ views
    icNewcastle ^ | April 1 2003
    Britain's first convicted al-Qaida terrorists have been jailed for 11 years each after they were found guilty of raising funds and recruiting people for the terror network. Illegal immigrants Brahim Benmerzouga and Baghdad Meziane raised thousands of pounds through a credit card fraud for an international network of terrorists planning a Jihad, or holy war, against the West. The two Algerians also worked together to make military equipment, false travel documents and recruitment material available to the terrorist organisation, a jury at Leicester Crown Court heard. Benmerzouga, 31, and Meziane, 38, became the first men in Britain to be convicted...