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Hunter Biden plotted an investment meeting with the Serbian president and “high net worth individuals” — and planned to hitch a ride with then-Vice President Joe Biden when he flew to Europe on an official visit, newly uncovered emails show. The emails — published by Fox News on Thursday — show that Hunter had been liaising with a registered Serbian foreign agent and the then-US Serbian ambassador in April 2010 to arrange the potential investment meeting. The emails show that Mark Doyle, who had previously served as a senior adviser to then-Sen. Joe Biden and as national finance director of...

Undercover police looked on as terrorist suspects apparently used the mountains of Snowdonia as a training ground. They are accused of taking their lead from copies of the Al Qaeda magazine Inspire, which contains blueprints for home-grown attacks. The alleged 16-month plot emerged as four British Muslim men appeared in court yesterday charged with a raft of terrorist offences. (Snip) Another said: ‘I was like driving past the TA centre … if you had a small toy car, there’s a small gap under the gate. ‘You could drive it under a vehicle that they use.’

Don’t ever let a horrible slaughter at a supermarket go to waste. Democrats plotted to blame the tea party patriots for yesterday’s slaugher in Arizona. A democratic operative admitted this to The Politico. Of course, Politico buried it in their story. One veteran Democratic operative, who blames overheated rhetoric for the shooting, said President Barack Obama should carefully but forcefully do what his predecessor did. “They need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers,” said the Democrat. “Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people.”

(IsraelNN.com) Police and security personnel disclosed Thursday evening they arrested five Arabs, including two Israeli citizens, who plotted to kill Jewish scientists and pilots. Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) officers, the IDF and police were involved in the joint investigation and arrests, which were disclosed a short time ago. Plans to carry out the assassinations were in the early stages when the five were arrested and they had carried out advanced training for a planned shooting attack on IDF soldiers at the Atara checkpoint near Jerusalem. Their intended targets included university academics and pilots. The Israeli Arabs, from Shefaram, east...

Gang 'plotted to blow up Ministry of Sound' By Duncan Gardham (Filed: 26/05/2006) An alleged al-Qa'eda terrorist cell discussed blowing up the Ministry of Sound nightclub to take revenge on "those slags dancing around", a jury heard yesterday. Top, from left: Jawad Akbar, Omar Khyam and Shujah Mahmood. Bottom, from left: Salahuddin Amin, Anthony Garcia and Waheed Mahmood Pictures of six of the seven alleged British terrorists were released for the first time as the court heard a covert recording made by MI5 in the student flat occupied by Jawad Akbar in Uxbridge, west London. Akbar, then 20 and studying...

'Gang plotted to buy a radioactive bomb from Russia and attack shopping centre' By John Steele, Crime Correspondent (Filed: 23/03/2006) Terrorists linked to an alleged al-Qa'eda gang which plotted a bombing campaign in Britain tried to buy a radioactive bomb from the Russian mafia, the Old Bailey was told yesterday. The gang was also said to have discussed attacking the Bluewater shopping centre in Kent, a London nightclub, and gas and electricity facilities The Bluewater shopping centre in Kent A Luton taxi driver who is said to be a member of the alleged gang was given information while in Pakistan...

Terror cells 'plotted devastating twin attack in Australia' By Nick Squires in Sydney (Filed: 09/11/2005) Chilling details of an alleged plot by Islamist radicals to carry out a "catastrophic" terrorist attack in Australia emerged yesterday. Police arrested 17 suspects during dawn raids involving 450 heavily armed policemen backed by helicopters. Authorities alleged that the suspects were members of a terrorist cell committed to "violent jihad" on Australian soil. A bomb disposal officer had to check a suspect package at the Sydney arrest scene Among those detained was a trainee electrician allegedly impatient to carry out a suicide bombing in retaliation...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Three teenage boys have been arrested for allegedly conspiring to seize control of a school and methodically murder some of its students and teachers. Police found gunpowder and other material used for making pipe bombs at the boys' homes and believe the youths had practised making bombs. The boys, aged 15 to 17, were Saint John air cadets and their alleged plot was planned for April 20, the anniversary of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre where 12 students and a teacher were killed. At a Saint John bail hearing for the two eldest teenagers on...

By PETER PORCO Anchorage Daily News November 26, 2004 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sixteen-year-old Rachelle A. Waterman would appear to be any parent's ideal child - an honor student, an athlete, a gifted singer. But for months, she planned her mother's murder with two of her former boyfriends who are eight years her senior, according to Alaska State Troopers. Two weekends ago on Southeast's Prince of Wales Island, their plot ended in the death of 48-year-old Lauri Waterman of Craig, according to court papers. Lauri Waterman, a teacher's aide and community activist, was killed by one of the men using a...

MADRID, Spain - The suspected leader of a militant Muslim cell plotted to deal Spain the “biggest blow of its history” — a suicide truck bomb laden with half a ton of explosives aimed at killing the country’s top judges investigating Islamic terror and destroying their case files, officials said Wednesday. Police said they had intercepted hundreds of letters from suspected cell members in which they said they were willing to stage suicide attacks.

ALL OF GOTHAM IN CROSS HAIRS By PATRICK GALLAHUE, LARRY CELONA and ALY SUJO August 29, 2004 -- Two men charged with plotting to blow up the Herald Square subway station were also planning a "holy war" rampage against seven other crucial targets around the city — including at least two other stations, three police precincts and the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, officials said yesterday. "They had the intention to cause damage, to kill people," said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. But "they did not immediately have the means to do it." Shahawar Matin Siraj, 21, a "loose cannon" from Pakistan, and...

Germans lap up claim that US plotted Sept 11 By Kate Connolly in Bonn (Filed: 17/10/2003) A former cabinet minister is drawing huge crowds and stoking the fires of anti-Americanism in Germany with a book arguing that the US government mounted the Sept 11 attacks as part of a plot to win global domination. Andreas von Bülow has gone even further than Michael Meacher, Britain's former environment minister, who claims the US knowingly failed to prevent the attacks. Von Bülow, 66, believes that Sept 11 was staged to justify the subsequent wars on Afghanistan and Iraq. "If what I say...

Al-Qa'eda 'plotted assassination of Saudi ministers' By John R Bradley in Jeddah (Filed: 09/05/2003) Saudi Arabia is hunting a large al-Qa'eda cell accused of plotting to assassinate the interior and defence ministers. The operation comes as the kingdom steps up efforts to liberalise the political system and restrict the influence of the powerful Islamist religious establishment.The government offered a £50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of 19 men thought to be on the run after a gunfight with security forces. The suspects were all Saudis, but for a Yemeni and an Iraqi. A security official said the intended...