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Feds offer $1 million reward for fugitive Chesimard EWING, N.J. -- Fugitive cop killer Joanne Chesimard is now on the same terrorist watch lists that include Osama bin Laden. In an indication of how badly New Jersey authorities still want to recapture the Black Liberation Army member who executed a state trooper as he lay on the ground 32 years ago, the bounty on Chesimard's head was increased Monday from $150,000 to $1 million. State Police Superintendent Col. Rick Fuentes said he hopes the sweetened reward will encourage someone to come forward with information leading to the capture of Chesimard,...

AN ALLEGED terrorist suspected of plotting the September 11 massacres and being an accomplice of the Madrid train bomb cell has been arrested in Britain, The Times can disclose. Alleged links between Farid Hilali and the two biggest al-Qaeda attacks in the West make him one of the most important Islamist terrorist suspects held by Scotland Yard. His arrest on Monday made him the first high-profile suspect detained in Britain under new European warrants designed to improve crossborder co-operation. Mr Hilali, 35, from Morocco, is believed to be the shadowy figure, previously known as “Shakur”, who telephoned the alleged chief...