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NEW YORK - A Canadian terrorist who briefly became an informant against top al-Qaida leaders was sentenced to life in prison Friday for plotting to blow up American embassies in Singapore and the Philippines. A federal judge in Manhattan imposed the sentence after listening to a 20-minute speech from admitted terrorist Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, in which he repudiated violence and asked to be allowed to go home to his family.

Singapore -- The government said Friday that 13 of 15 people arrested here last month for suspected links to al-Qaida terrorists plotted to blow up Western embassies, U.S. naval vessels and a bus carrying American soldiers. "The plan was apparently ... ready for activation,” a government statement said, but was thwarted when documents and evidence found in Afghanistan allowed authorities to arrest the suspects. Singapore released evidence, including notes in Arabic and a videotape it said was "found in the rubble of an al-Qaida leader's house in Afghanistan.” In the tape, one detainee told how explosives could be carried ...

<p>January 12, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - A chilling videotape U.S. forces plucked out of the rubble in Afghanistan helped Singapore foil a massive al Qaeda plot to blow up U.S. naval vessels and murder American sailors and businessmen.</p> <p>The Southeast Asian island's government yesterday released the videotape and handwritten notes written in Arabic it said were found in the ruins of an al Qaeda leader's house in Afghanistan.</p>

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Acting on U.S. intelligence gathered in Afghanistan, the Singapore government earlier this month raided a "terrorist nest" and arrested 12 alleged al Qaida members suspected of planning an attack on the island nation's deep-water Navy port, top Pentagon and other government officials said. Two suspected terrorists escaped arrest, Pentagon officials said. Singapore officials have also failed to locate two tons of explosives intended to be used in the attack or attacks, a military official said. Neither the Singapore government nor the Pentagon has publicly acknowledged the raid out of concern over compromising the source of ...