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A GANG of British terror suspects has been charged with plotting to launch a "dirty bomb" or mini nuclear blast on London. The attacks, on targets such as Heathrow and the Parliament, were planned to coincide with similar strikes on major buildings in the US. The leader of the group is believed to be Osama bin Laden's UK general, Dhiren Barot. Born into a respected family of Kenyan expatriates, Barot, 32, was raised a Hindu before being converted to radical Islamism in his 20s and becoming one of al-Qaida's European linchpins. Barot and seven other members of the suspected al-Qaida...

Terrorist sings new tuneBy MICHELE MANDEL, Toronto Sun Last Updated: November 26, 2010 6:59pm BRAMPTON - It’s a strange road from would-be terrorist to would-be rapper. But far better Steven Chand’s bad poetry than his last hobby of training terror recruits in the snow. After pledging to have nothing more to do with terrorism and performing a rather bizarre courtroom rap, Steven Chand was handed a stiff 10 year sentence by Justice Fletcher Dawson Friday for training and fundraising for the Toronto 18 terror group. But with credit for his nearly five years in custody, Chand will have only seven...

DEWSBURY, England Police in Britain arrested a 21-year-old man and a 16-year-old youth as terrorist suspects, and were conducting searches at three locations, authorities said Wednesday. The man, who was identified only as a resident of Bradford, northern England, was arrested Tuesday night at Manchester airport, West Yorkshire Police said. Officers searched three houses in Bradford in connection with the arrest, police said. The police later said detectives also had arrested a 16-year-old in Dewsbury, near Bradford, as part of the same investigation. Police refused to comment on reports by the British Broadcasting Corp. that the arrests were linked to...

AMSTERDAM — Shots were fired as police raided a building on the Moerweg in The Hague on Friday. Dutch parliament buildings hermetically sealed by police Witnesses reported seeing masked men with automatic weapons entering a flat complex on Moerweg which has been sealed off by the police. Radio 1 News was told of people hearing gunfire. The police in The Hague have declined to comment at this stage about the reports. A spokesperson would only say police operations are taking place at several locations in the city. She would also not confirm that a raid was carried out at a...

Every year, as we enter a New Year, my mind goes back to Daniel Pearl, the Mumbai-based American correspondent of Wall Street Journal, who met with a brutal end to his young life during a visit to Karachi in January 2002 to enquire, inter alia, into the suspected Pakistani links of international jihadi terrorists. In his keenness to find out the truth, Pearl fell into a treacherous trap laid by a mixed group of Pakistani terrorists belonging to different organisations and orchestrated by Omar Sheikh, a British resident of Pakistani origin, who had participated in the so-called jihad against the...

LONDON and Washington are reportedly set to strike a deal for the return of nine British terror suspects held by the United States at a naval base in Cuba. The detainees' lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has told newspapers one of the detainees had been forced to admit taking part in an al-Qaeda plot to attack Britain's parliament. Stafford Smith says the deal to have the detainees returned to Britain will be tied up by Christmas. Washington says the detainees - among 660 prisoners from 42 countries being held in Guantanamo Bay - are all enemy combatants ineligible for due legal...

A suspected plot by muslim fanatics to destroy the heart of London was smashed yesterday in a high-seas raid on a cargo ship.More than 20 tonnes of plastic explosives-enough to blow up Parliament-are feared hidden aboard the MV Nisha.The search of the 26,000-tonne cargo of raw sugar could take days.The ship was siezed 30 miles off the English coast after a tip-off from MI6 agents in the Middle East.A Special Branch source in London said: "This is not a speculative operation.""We have information that that the ship was loaded in Yemen with a large consignment of explosives, which were to ...