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Mexican Committee for Study of Kimilsungism Formed Pyongyang, December 20 (KCNA) -- The Mexican Committee for the Study of Kimilsungism was inaugurated with due ceremony. Ramon Jimenez Lopez, chairman of the Gustavo Madero District Committee of the Democratic Revolutionary Party of Mexico in Mexico City, was elected chairman of the committee. The chairman in a speech said that Kimilsungism has become an unshakable guiding idea and philosophy of the world progressives aspiring after socialism. It is thanks to the great banner of Kimilsungism that the DPRK, though small in population and territory, is making a dynamic advance towards a great...

(The U.S. government presented to the U.N. Security Council June 27 the following background fact sheet entitled "United States June 26, 1993 Military Action Against Iraqi Terrorism.") On April 14, 1993, while former President George Bush was beginning a three-day visit to Kuwait City, Kuwaiti authorities thwarted a terrorist plot, seizing a powerful car bomb and other explosives and arresting 16 suspects, led by two Iraqi nationals. In the succeeding two months, U.S. investigative teams from the FBI and the intelligence community have conducted a thorough investigation of this operation. Based upon that review, the Department of Justice and the...

Four Islamic militants have been jailed for planning a terrorist attack at a packed Paris stadium in Paris during an international football match. Police arrested the men the day before the 2001 match at the Stade de France between France and Algeria in raids of their apartments in working-class suburbs. They moved in after intelligence agents bugged a phone call between one of the suspects and a member of an extremist Algerian movement. In the raid, police found bomb-making materials, pistols, bullets, a bullet-proof vest and a tract written by Osama bin Laden. A Paris court has jailed the men...

MIAMI - A man arrested on suspicion of plotting to bomb abortion clinics came "perilously close to carrying out his plans" after casing clinics, studying bomb-making and buying material that could be used in an attack, according to the FBI and court documents. Stephen John Jordi, 35, was arrested Tuesday after agents arranged a meeting aboard a boat, FBI spokeswoman Beverly Esselbach said. He jumped overboard and was pulled from the ocean by the Coast Guard a half-hour later. Jordi was in the final stages of planning imminent attacks, U.S. Attorney Marcos Jimenez said. A criminal complaint said Jordi cased...

Gunpowder Plot would have devastated London 00:01 05 November 03 NewScientist.com news service The area potentially affected by the blast covers a large area of contemporary London (Image: IOP/Guildhall Library) A new analysis by physicists shows that if the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to destroy the English parliament and kill the King had succeeded, it would have taken a large part of central London with it. Experts from the Centre for Explosion Studies, at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, used modern methods to estimate that severe structural damage would have been sustained by buildings up to half a kilometre away. The...

<p>FBI has new 9/11 hijacking suspect By Toni Locy, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — The FBI has identified an al-Qaeda operative who agents believe tried as late as August 2001 to join the 9/11 terrorist plot as the "20th hijacker," a top federal law enforcement official said Tuesday. "We are fairly confident we know who No. 20 is," said the official, who is involved in the 9/11 probe and asked not to be identified. The official said the unidentified al-Qaeda operative got into the USA but "had to leave" the country shortly before 19 hijackers carried out the attacks that killed more than 3,000 people. The official would not say why the operative left, whether he is alive or whether he is in U.S. custody.</p>

Adnan El Shukrijumah is a suspected al-Qaeda organizer who is the subject of a worldwide manhunt by the FBI and CIA. He is believed to be working on Osama bin Laden's plan to trigger a radiological disaster inside the United States - the so-called "dirty-bomb" scenario where a small charge would trigger dispersion of radiation over a large area, wreaking havoc on those caught in the blast and making the blast area uninhabitable. High-grade uranium is not necessary for this project; ordinary, low-grade nuclear waste will be deadly enough. El Shukrijumah has eluded capture. But Insight in field interviews...

An Indian airman displays the portable anti-aircraft Igla IM missile system, February 2003. Channel 2 TV reported Tuesday evening that Thailand's Police thwarted an al-Qaida plot to attack Israeli passengers inside Bangkok International Airport, and also down an Israeli EL AL passenger plane taking off or landing from the same airport. Bangkok Police arrested a suspicious man three months ago as he was filming with a video camera near the EL AL counter at Bangkok International Airport. After questioning the man, Police suspected he was collecting intelligence on EL AL and airport security and passenger routines. A search of the...

This just breaking on Channel Two, Israel. Authorities in Thailand have foiled an Al Qaeda plot to blow up an El Al ISrael Airlines in the Capital, Bangkok.

<p>MONTEREY PARK, Calif. — A Swiss bodybuilder who claims ties to organized crime was arrested for investigation of offering to murder the alleged victim in the Kobe Bryant (search) sex assault case.</p> <p>Patrick Graber (search), 31, allegedly agreed to carry out the killing for $3 million, said Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca (search). He made the offer to Bryant's security director and met several times with undercover detectives before being arrested during a sting Thursday.</p>

BERLIN (Reuters) - A foiled neo-Nazi attack on a Jewish community center has emphasized a growing threat of far-right violence in Germany, officials said on Friday. Police seized explosives and arrested several people with links to the far-right scene this week, saying they had planned a bomb attack possibly timed for the 65th anniversary of one of Nazi Germany's most notorious pogroms. Bavarian Interior Minister Guenther Beckstein said on Friday the alleged plot underlined the need to crush a burgeoning extremist scene. "In recent months there has obviously been an escalation. Things have moved to a totally new level," he...

Teen girls held for Morocco 'plot' By Pascale Harter BBC, Rabat Police in Morocco have said that they have detained three teenage girls, including twin sisters, suspected of planning a suicide attack on a supermarket in the capital, Rabat. Police have been on alert since the Casablanca bombings in May They say they have uncovered a cell of a radical Islamic group which was planning to attack targets in the capital, Rabat. According to the police, they have arrested eight more suspected members of the Salafia Jihadia cell and are carrying out a manhunt for 17 more. So far Rabat...

A Democratic plot to boost Tom McClintock’s candidacy at Arnold Schwarzenegger’s expense has recently come to light. On paper, the recall election should be a cakewalk for California Republicans. A cursory analysis reveals a governor with an approval rating below Richard Nixon at his low point. The only serious Democrat candidate is the state’s uninspiring lieutenant governor, Cruz Bustamante, who unquestioningly followed Governor Davis through his mishaps with the budget and energy crisis. It should be a breeze for Republicans, right? Think again. Democrats are euphoric over Tom McClintock’s intransigence in continuing his long-shot bid for governor. This allows Democrats...

ERIE, Pa. - A pizza delivery man told police he had been forced to rob a bank and asked authorities to help him minutes before a bomb strapped to his chest exploded and killed him. On Saturday, federal agents and police in northwestern Pennsylvania were trying to solve the bizarre case of 46-year-old Brian Douglas Wells, who left to deliver a pizza to a mysterious address in a remote area about an hour before he turned up at the bank with a bomb strapped to his body. No one else was hurt in Thursday's explosion, which happened in front of...

A top Al Qaeda operative plotted to smuggle weapons into New York Harbor in the shipping containers of a Garment District firm, the Daily News has learned. Days before he was captured in Pakistan in March, suspected 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed met in Karachi with the owner of a W. 35th St. clothing importing company and his son, law enforcement sources said. Al Qaeda's No. 3 man offered to invest $200,000 in International Management Group in exchange, federal authorities now believe, for access to IMG's Port Newark-bound shipping containers, sources say. Mohammed "is obsessed with attacking the United States,...

The Philippine Star 07/27/2003 After several days of denials by Malacañang, President Arroyo admitted last night that a "small band of rogue junior officers" has conspired to overthrow her government. Mrs. Arroyo said she ordered the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to hunt down and arrest 50 junior officers and men who deserted their posts, bringing with them unspecified weapons. "On my orders, the AFP and the (Philippine National Police) are hunting down to arrest a small band of rogue junior officers and soldiers who have deserted their posts and illegally brought weapons with them," the President said on...

June 19 — An Ohio truck driver who lived a "secret double life" has admitted to meeting with Osama bin Laden and plotting with al Qaeda to launch new attacks in the United States, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced today. Iyman Faris, a U.S. citizen, has pleaded guilty to two counts of providing material support to terrorists, stemming from a variety of plots against targets in the United States, including the Brooklyn Bridge. "From late 2000 to March of this year, Faris worked in concert with al Qaeda, our enemies, to plot potential attacks against America and its citizens here...

<p>ALEXANDRIA, Va. — An Ohio truck driver worked directly with Al Qaeda (search) terrorists in a plot to derail trains in the United States and sabotage a bridge in New York City, believed to be the Brooklyn Bridge (search), Attorney General John Ashcroft said Thursday as he announced the man's guilty plea to two felony charges.</p>

Saudis are aghast at plans to carry out bomb attacks in the birthplace of Prophet Muhammad; more arrests made JEDDAH (Saudi Arabia) - Saudis have reacted angrily to the threats that extremists could launch attacks in Mecca, the birthplace of Prophet Muhammad, as police made more arrests in an alleged terrorist plot to bomb sites in the holy city. Mecca, 700km west of Riyadh, is the birthplace of Islam's seventh-century prophet and the heart of the annual pilgrimage that every able-bodied Muslim is required to perform at least once. Advertisement The legitimacy of Saudi rulers rests in part on their...

There is something surreal about the charges flying that President Bush lied when he said that Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. In Europe, and especially in Britain, where Tony Blair is also under fire, the idea has actually taken hold that the charge against Iraq was a complete fabrication. The absurdity of these accusations is mind-boggling. Start with this: The Iraqi government in the 1990s admitted to U.N. weapons inspectors that it had produced 8,500 liters of anthrax, as well as a few tons of the nerve agent VX. Where are they? U.N. weapons inspectors...