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Asha Ali Abdille was remanded in custody to a pre-trial conference in the High Court at Christchurch on February 13, when the trial date may be set. The 34-year-old Somali woman, faces a charge of hijacking, taking an offensive weapon onto an aircraft, and four charges of wounding or injuring with reckless disregard for safety. When the armed offenders squad members escorted Abdille away from the plane they handcuffed her and made her kneel down. They found a knife in her shoe ... Detective Donald Rayne, said he first noticed a trail of blood from the steps of the plane...

This appears to be what is the final follow up on the story of the Muslims at Swift Plant who demanded extra break times to pray for the month of Ramadan. After a back and forth struggle which saw about 100 Muslims being fired, Swift will be paying the Muslims hundreds of thousands of dollars.

"The 41-year-old man, identified as Ali Elmi Hayow, is a Swedish citizen. He was arrested in March on suspicion of having had his daughter circumcised during a visit to Mogadishu in January 2005, the court documents said. The Goteborg district court in southwestern Sweden also found Hayow guilty of having forced his daughter to accompany him on the trip to Somalia, and ordered he pay her damages in the sum of 346,000 kronor ( € 37,500; US$46,000), the AP reports."