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Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Wednesday announced enhanced security measures for airlines, amid “renewed” terrorist interest in targeting planes and airports. “The threat has not diminished. In fact, I am concerned that we are seeing renewed interest on the part of terrorist groups to go after the aviation sector —from bombing aircraft to attacking airports on the ground,” Kelly said at a security conference hosted by the Center for a New American Security....

Zainab Bint Muhammed, 16, student in Tower Hamlets, who wants to be a human rights lawyer Muslims are beginning to get angry about the way we are being treated. Muslim boys have to prove their innocence on the streets now, instead of the police proving their guilt. This is supposed to be a multicultural society, yet there are increasing divisions between the people who live within it. British foreign policy is disastrous for harmony in this country. How can Muslims trust the government any more? It condemns Hizbollah, but funds Israel to kill innocent children. No wonder Muslims are angry....

UK: Welsh Objection To Islamist's Visit The famous preacher on Islam, Dr Zakir Naik (pictured left), will be due speak publicly in Cardiff this Saturday (19 August), at the St David's Hall. The Western Mail reports that a Welsh MP, David Davies of Monmouth, has voiced strong objections to the arrival of the Islamist showman. Davies states: "Cardiff County Council ought to step in immediately to prevent this hate-monger from having a platform for his obnoxious views. If a British Nazi party wanted to promulgate the annihilation of ethnic minorities, I can't imagine they would be given a public platform....

‘Quake money’ used to finance UK plane bombing plot * Funds given to two British citizens of Kashmiri origin and an Islamabad-based Kashmiri builder * ‘Earthquake relief’ money remitted to individuals alarmed British agencies By Sarfaraz Ahmed and Maqbool Ahmed KARACHI: A UK-based Islamic charity organisation remitted a huge amount of money to three individuals in three different bank accounts in Mirpur, Azad Kashmir, in December last year with the sole purpose of helping its recipients and their organisations carry out the aircraft bombing plan in the UK, insider sources told Daily Times yesterday. An investigation carried out by Daily...

Friday, August 11, 2006 (Jammu): Three members of a Hindu family, including two children, were shot dead by militants in Udhampur district on Friday. A group of suspected LeT militants entered into the house of one Ram Singh in Ara village of Gool tehsil and enquired about him. Singh, who had been receiving threats from militants, had taken shelter for the night in a nearby Special Task Force camp of J & K Police and only his wife and two children were present in the isolated house, on the outskirts of the village and surrounded by hillocks. The militants severely...

LeT founder Saeed detained in Lahore Nirupama Subramanian "Arrest not made at India's instance" ISLAMABAD: Hafiz Saeed, head of the Jamaat-ud-Daawa (JuD) and founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, (LeT) has been placed under house arrest in Lahore, a spokesman for the group said. New Delhi has several times demanded that Pakistan arrest Mr. Saeed, linking the LeT to a string of terrorist attacks across India. The demand was most recently reiterated after the Mumbai blasts, when India postponed Foreign Secretary-level talks with Pakistan. But the JuD dismissed the possibility that the arrest was made under Indian pressure. JuD spokesman Yahya Mujahid...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Thursday began trying three local policemen for failing to stop the 2004 Beslan school massacre but victims' relatives said they were being made scapegoats for the mistakes of their superiors. The three policemen are the only officials being prosecuted over the bloodbath, which happened after gunmen linked to separatists in Chechnya seized the school. The death toll from the siege was 331 people, half of them children. Prosecutors told the trial in Beslan that the officers' carelessness allowed the heavily-armed gunmen to slip through a security cordon and reach Beslan. "As a result...