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Police foil white plot to recapture South Africa Racist coup leaders planned to kick out millions of black people Rory Carroll in Modimolle Tuesday October 8, 2002 The Guardian To those communities feeling abandoned and threatened by a country they no longer recognise, to whom the coup to overthrow South Africa's government cannot come soon enough, the news is not good. The alleged plot has been betrayed, the weapons found, the suspects arrested. The latest setback came on Friday when the police dug up a cache of guns, grenades and homemade bombs in the red earth of a farm near...

POLICE revealed last night they had smashed an Islamic terror cell plotting attacks on US military bases. At least five people were held in raids across Germany. Cops believed that the university-based mob was only weeks from launching deadly operations. The suspects had developed contacts inside security firms working at US military bases in Germany — which could have given them access to plant bombs. Other targets were thought to include Jewish centres in Berlin and Frankfurt. Prosecutors said the group had been formed to “spread Islamic values,” adding: “They planned extremely violent attacks to further their ends.” Those held...

ay, 27 September, 2002, 21:44 GMT 22:44 UK Explosives on plane 'were bomb plot' 'Plot' may have aimed to disrupt Morocco elections French police have said explosives found aboard a Royal Air Maroc plane were part of a failed bomb plot and not just a provocation. Customs officials using sniffer dogs found the stick of explosives in between two passenger seats after the Boeing 747 had landed in eastern France on Wednesday night. No suspects have yet been identified Initial theories suggested the explosives - found without a detonator - might have been intended for clandestine onward delivery. But investigators...

KARACHI: Two Islamic militants confessed before a magistrate Wednesday to being part of an attempt to kill Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in April in this southern port city, police said. Mohammad Imran Bhai and Mohammad Hanif Ayub told the court that the plan was to blow up an explosive-laden vehicle along the road used by Musharraf, police officer Manzoor Mughal said. "A Suzuki pick-up was purchased and was parked with 500 kg of explosives in it on Sharae Faisal, near the airport from where Musharraf's motorcade was due to pass," Mughal quoted Bhai as telling the court. One of their...

After a 'Dirty Bomb' Explodes he age of terrorism is forcing all of us to learn a whole new vocabulary that describes potential threats and their consequences, if for no other reason than to calibrate how terrified we should be as each new menace emerges. The latest worry came yesterday with the revelation by Attorney General John Ashcroft that an American terrorist associated with Al Qaeda has been planning to explode a radiation-laced "dirty bomb" in the United States. We can fervently hope that no such weapon is ever exploded here. But should one ever be detonated, it is important...

A POWERFUL network of right-wing Christian campaigners is attempting to infiltrate Scotland’s mainstream political parties. Fundamentalists are trying to ensure that only candidates who back "family values" fight next year’s Holyrood election. A Scotland on Sunday investigation has established that Christian Action Research and Education (Care), a UK charity with an annual income of £2.4m, has drawn up plans for as many of its members as possible to join mainstream political parties. Last night it led MSPs to accuse the group of trying to "pervert democracy". Care was among the most vigorous opponents of the repeal of Section 28, which...