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DENVER (AP) - Authorities are investigating whether a man arrested with rifles, ammunition and drugs in his truck made statements threatening Barack Obama, but emphasize he never posed a "credible threat" to the candidate or the Democratic National Convention. Federal and local authorities had scheduled a news conference for Tuesday afternoon, but U.S. Attorney Troy Eid downplayed the case. "We're absolutely confident there is no credible threat to the candidate, the Democratic National Convention, or the people of Colorado," Eid said in a statement.

ISTANBUL — Eighty-six people, including writers, members of civil organizations and former military officers, were charged Monday with membership in an illegal ultranationalist organization and of plotting to overthrow the Turkish government. Speaking at a televised news conference, the Istanbul chief prosecutor, Aykut Cengiz Engin, refused to give details of the case against the ultranationalist and hard-line secular organization, known as Ergenekon, because the case had not yet been formally accepted by the court. But he said the suspects, 48 of them in police custody and the others free while awaiting trial, were charged with forming, managing and aiding the...

Three Israeli Arabs from Lod were arrested by the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) and Israel Police after they allegedly planned to kidnap and kill an Israeli soldier and use him as a bargaining chip for the release of Palestinian security prisoners, the Shin Bet announced Monday. The three, Amir Nafar, 20, an Islamic Studies student at the University of Jordan, Aiman Kadura, 26, and Yassin Hinawi, 19, were arrested in the past two months. During their interrogation, the Shin bet discovered that the idea to perpetrate the attack was formulated by the three in the largest mosque in Lod,...

Prosecutors say Chhun could face life imprisonment A US court has convicted a Cambodian-born man of masterminding a failed coup attempt against the Cambodian government eight years ago. Chhun Yasith, 52, was found guilty of four charges relating to the failed attack in November 2000. Dozens of armed men attacked government buildings in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, in a bid to overthrow Prime Minister Hun Sen. Several people were killed but the prime minister escaped unhurt. The court in Los Angeles found Chhun guilty of three charges of conspiracy and one of planning a military expedition against a...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A former stripper-turned-soccer mom has been sentenced to 99 years in prison for plotting the 1996 to kill her former fiance. Mechele Linehan was sentenced on Wednesday. Linehan, 35, was convicted in October of first-degree murder in the 1996 shooting of death of Kent Leppink. Leppink's body was found on a remote trail. Prosecutors say Linehan had Leppink killed for insurance money and was inspired by a 1994 movie, "The Last Seduction," in which a woman coaxes her lover into killing her husband for money. Linehan's coconspirator, John Carlin III, was sentenced in January to 99 years...

BRIGHTON, England - British police thwarted a suspected plot to kill the Saudi crown prince in 2003, a top counterterrorism officer said Wednesday. Officers caught a man as he tried to smuggle more than $330,000 in cash through Heathrow Airport on a flight from the United States to Syria in August 2003, said Detective Superintendent Mark Holmes, head of Britain's National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit. Holmes said police confiscated the money but freed the man, later identified as naturalized American citizen Abdurahman Alamoudi, a Muslim activist. They said they later learned he intended to give the cash to Saudi dissidents...

A man described as a "fanatic" has pleaded guilty to plotting to kidnap and kill a British Muslim soldier. Parviz Khan, 37, an unemployed charity worker from Birmingham, intended to seize and behead the serviceman "like a pig",

Four men on Tuesday pleaded guilty to a plot to kidnap a Muslim member of the Armed Forces from Birmingham City Center and behead him “like a pig,” the Times of London reports. The suspected Islamic extremists belong to a group led by Parviz Khan, a charity worker who allegedly sent funds and equipment to terror organizations in Pakistan and was arrested last year during counter-terrorism raids.

SCRANTON, Pa. - A man was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Tuesday for plotting to help a supposed al-Qaida operative blow up U.S. oil pipelines and refineries. Michael C. Reynolds claimed he had been trying to root out terrorists on the Internet, but was convicted in July of providing material support to terrorists and other charges. "Today's sentencing constitutes a triumph of the rule of law over those who would use terror against this nation," Acting U.S. Attorney Martin Carlson said in a statement. David P. Cherundolo, a defense attorney assigned to Reynolds in August, said Tuesday that...

Iran has hanged up to 30 people in the past month amid a clampdown prompted by alleged US-backed plots to topple the regime, The Observer can reveal. Many executions have been carried out in public in an apparent bid to create a climate of intimidation while sending out uncompromising signals to the West. Opposition sources say at least three of the dead were political activists, contradicting government insistence that it is targeting 'thugs' and dangerous criminals. The executions have coincided with a crackdown on student activists and academics accused of trying to foment a 'soft revolution' with US support. The...

Bomb Plot Worries Foreign Doctors in US Friday July 6, 2007 11:16 PM By MATT APUZZO Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Evidence that doctors are at the heart of a British terrorist plot has foreign-born physicians in the U.S. on edge and wondering whether already stringent immigration security will get even tougher. Six physicians are among eight suspects in the failed terror attacks, including one from Iraq, one from Jordan, two from India and a man identified by hospital staff as being from Lebanon. ``We're hoping and praying these physicians are cleared and that they've done no harm,'' said...

OK! Here's my question to liberals appeasers, so far I didn't get ANY answer on this (besides a lib/lip/sipn). Why did Islamic Al Qaeda plan to attack UK on 2001? Before the Iraq war... excuse http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/monitoring/media_reports/1713557.stm Al-Qaeda note suggests 'attack on London' Sunday, 16 December, 2001 I saw yesterday Alan Colmes telling (on H&C) Oliver North that it's not radical Islam it's not "Islam¨". Hey, I like you as a person but not your opinions. Alan, 1) Do you know any better then the Muslims themselves, as to what Islam is & what it is not? 2) They do it...

Cleric: 'Al-Qa'eda leader told me of bomb plot' By Nicole Martin and Sophie Borland Last Updated: 2:52am BST 04/07/2007 A British cleric in Baghdad last night claimed that an al-Qa'eda leader warned him that "the people who cure you would kill you" months before the terrorist bomb plots in Glasgow and London. Canon Andrew White, who runs the Iraqi capital's only Anglican parish, claimed that he met an unnamed al-Qa'eda leader on the sidelines of a religious reconciliation meeting in Amman, Jordan. "He told me that the plans were already made and they would soon be destroying the British," Canon...

Five indicted in plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix Five men arrested last month for allegedly plotting an armed assault on Fort Dix in Burlington County were indicted last week, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Christopher J. Christie announced. The five defendants are charged with conspiracy and other charges related to their plans to kill as many soldiers at the Army base as possible. A sixth man was indicted for aiding and abetting the illegal possession of firearms by three members of the group. The charges and details in the indictment mostly mirror those brought in the original criminal...

Al-Qa'eda bomb plot gang jailed for 136 years By John Steele, Crime Correspondent and Duncan Gardham Last Updated: 2:05am BST 16/06/2007 Seven members of a gang run by Dhiren Barot, one of the most dangerous al-Qa'eda terrorists seen in Britain, were jailed for a combined total of 136 years yesterday for plotting terrorist atrocities on both sides of the Atlantic. Dhiren Barot: the gang leader All seven were recruited by Barot, who was jailed for a minimum of 30 years last year for plotting to kill thousands of people using limousines packed with explosives and a "dirty" radiation bomb. They...

Army officers seized over Mugabe 'coup plot' By Byron Dziva in Harare Last Updated: 2:18am BST 14/06/2007 Seven serving and former officers of the Zimbabwe army have been charged with planning a coup d'etat against President Robert Mugabe. There have been rumours of coup plots against Robert Mugabe's government for months The men were arrested in stages, beginning on May 29, and appeared twice in closed hearings at Harare magistrates' court earlier this month. Journalists and family members have been barred from the hearings and the case has now been referred to the Harare high court, where the accused are...

JUNE 4--One of the plotters behind the alleged scheme to explode gas pipelines at John F. Kennedy airport directed his co-conspirators to use Google Earth to obtain detailed aerial photos of the targeted facility. In a federal criminal complaint, an excerpt from which you'll find below, one of the accused, Abdul Kadir, reportedly told cohorts to use the popular satellite software after he determined that surveillance video shot by the men was "not sufficiently detailed for operational purposes." Kadir, a Guyanese citizen and former member of that country's parliament, made the Google suggestion during a February meeting with an alleged...

Plot to blow up JFK is 'tip of the iceberg' By Toby Harnden, in Washington Last Updated: 2:16am BST 04/06/2007 The alleged conspiracy to blow up John F Kennedy airport, in New York, and a recent plot to kill soldiers at a nearby United States Army base represent only the "tip of the iceberg" of terrorist plots against America, according to US officials. "There's a lot of activity out there," a counter-terrorism official said yesterday. Abdul Kadir: suspected of plotting to attack fuel line "Obviously, you don't want to tip off every suspect that they are being monitored. On the...

The 17 suspects arrested in Toronto one year ago today for allegedly belonging to an al- Qaeda-inspired terrorist cell were part of a larger group of almost 50 that were under investigation, sources say. A year after the RCMP led Canada's largest counter-terrorism bust since the 9/11 attacks, the National Post has learned that almost two-thirds of the suspects probed during the investigation were not charged. They include those who were believed to have trained overseas and provided supplies to the group but who were not among the 12 adults and five youths arrested under the Anti-Terrorism Act on June...

the 9/11 plot with testimonies of experts and pictures of the terrorists. How they looked like Westerners (watch their original clothes) and worked with Iraq to do 9/11. How they were trained in Salman Pak, Iraq. And how Ahmed Al Haznawi was treated in Holy Cross Hospital in June 2001 for sknin infection by anthrax. The first anthrax attacks happened in September 18 2001, with a letter which stated: "Death to America, Allah is great." Experts link Iraq before both 9/11 and the anthrax attacks which remained unsolved. Watch the video. The enemy is stronger than we thought.