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More than 800 deadly firearms have been taken off the streets following a major operation by anti-terror police and officers from the National Crime Agency. During a month long operation to prevent terrorists and criminals getting their hands on illegal guns, officers also arrested almost 300 suspects. Among the weapons seized were 200 handguns, two machine guns, one sub-machine gun, 11 assault rifles, as well as 4,385 rounds of ammunition. Some of the weapons were seized from registered firearms dealers who had had their licenses revoked, while others are thought to have been smuggled into the UK from the continent.

Keeping track of who is blaming whom for the failures in U.S. intelligence that allowed Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to almost blow up a U.S. airliner last week can be confusing, so Washington Wire compiled a guide in an attempt to make some sense of the Washington blame game starting with President Barack Obama. According to the president, it was the whole system that failed. “But what’s also clear is this: When our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared and acted upon as it should have been, so that this extremist boards...

Suspected Abu Sayyaf gunmen knocked on door in a farm in Patikul, Mindanao, and opened fire after asking residents if they were Christian. Six people are confirmed dead, including a nine-month baby girl, and five others are seriously wounded. Jolo (AsiaNews) – The massacre of Christians in Jolo “deals a heavy blow at hopes for peace” and is very dangerous because “any incident can now spark a war of religion,” a local Catholic source (who preferred to remain anonymous for security reasons) told AsiaNews as he commented this morning’s attack against Christians in Patikul, a small town on Sulu Island...