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For most Canadians, ammonium nitrate — even after it was used to destroy the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people, including dozens of kids in a daycare centre —is nothing much more than a commonly used plant fertilizer. Farmers buy and use it by the tonne, mixing it into the soil to ensure a bountiful crop. But mix ammonium nitrate with the inflammatory rhetoric of an Internet chat room, and it instantly acquires the potential to become something entirely different, needing only the addition of a little fuel oil to turn it into a lethal...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some members of a group of Canadians arrested on terror-related offenses may have been in contact with two U.S. suspects now in custody who were based in Georgia, the FBI said on Saturday. "There is preliminary indication that some of the Canadian subjects may have had limited contact with the two people recently arrested from Georgia," said FBI spokesman Richard Kolko in an e-mail. Syed Haris Ahmed, 21, of Atlanta, Georgia, was arrested March 23 after a grand jury returned an indictment charging him with material support of terrorism. He has pleaded innocent and has not yet...

As has now become routine, the mainstream US media has gone to great lengths to conceal and downplay the Muslim identities of the terrorists arrested last night in Toronto, Canada. Reading the stories on AP, Reuters, and other outlets, you come across laughable phrases like "suspects were either citizens or residents of Canada", "Canadian youths in their teens and 20s", "...are Canadian residents from a variety of backgrounds", and so on. This tiptoeing around the real and only identity of the perpetrators is just another example of the sick, twisted mind of the media when it comes to reporting...

For a team of FBI anti-terrorism agents, the April incident was yet another false alarm. But in a business where U.S. authorities must be right every time and terrorists need only be successful once, everything is taken seriously. "We operate in Los Angeles under the assumption that we will be attacked and we need to stop it," said Eric Velez, an FBI assistant special agent in charge who oversees several Southern California-based counterterrorism squads. Indeed, since the 2001 terror attacks federal officials repeatedly have said Los Angeles is a primary al-Qaida target. Earlier this year, President Bush disclosed new details...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – A Malaysian recruited by al-Qaeda to pilot a plane in a second wave of Sept. 11-style attacks on the United States pulled out after observing the carnage of the 2001 assaults, Southeast Asian officials said Friday. President Bush on Thursday outlined details of an alleged plot to hijack an airliner and fly it into a skyscraper in Los Angeles. He said cooperation between Washington and several Asian countries helped expose it. The plan never appeared close to the stage where it could be put into execution. Scores of arrests in the aftermath of the Sept. 11,...

Its pretty good video that goes into several of al-Qaeda's other 2002 attack plots.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Thursday he was blindsided by President Bush's announcement of new details on a purported 2002 hijacking plot aimed at a downtown skyscraper, and described communication with the White House as "nonexistent." "I'm amazed that the president would make this (announcement) on national TV and not inform us of these details through the appropriate channels," the mayor told The Associated Press. "I don't expect a call from the president _ but somebody." Bush has referred to the 2002 plot before but he publicly filled in the details Thursday. Bush said Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of...

he explosives that blasted an Oslo apartment on Wednesday killing a teen occupant were intended to be used to blow up Oslo Transit ticket machines. Police said at a Thursday press conference that the three men present when their homemade bomb detonated were preparing a crime scheme from a recipe downloaded from the Internet. The explosion killed a 17-year-old boy of Syrian origin. He and his 19-year-old brother were awaiting trial on a number of charges of crime for profit, including emptying slot machines. A 20-year-old friend of the brothers has been charged with illegal handling of explosives and was...

MADRID, Spain (AP) — Police on Wednesday arrested a Moroccan and three Algerians in connection with an alleged plot by a radical Islamic cell to blow up a court and other buildings in Spain, officials said. The three Algerians, who were not immediately identified, were arrested Wednesday night in the southeastern city of Gandia. One was described as a right-hand man of Mohamed Achraf, who police suspect of masterminding a plot to ram a truck loaded with 1,100 pounds of explosives into Madrid's National Court, a hub of anti-terror investigations. Achraf is being held in Switzerland, and Spain last week...

MADRID (AFP) - Spanish police arrested eight suspected Islamic extremists believed to be plotting a bomb attack on the National Court, Spain's highest criminal court, Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso said. Alonso told reporters that seven men were arrested overnight while another suspect was detained in the northern city of Pamplona on Tuesday morning as police swooped on several cities. The cell "was envisaging carrying out an attack against the National Court or against another judicial institution," Alonso told journalists. An interior ministry statement said following the overnight arrests that seven "radical and violent" Moroccans and Algerians living in Spain...

The timing couldn't be worse. With clear evidence that al Qaida plans for the next 9/11 attack on America are well underway, media hysteria over the Iraqi prison abuse scandal has the U.S. intelligence establishment on the ropes over its interrogation tactics. As a result, military and CIA interrogators whose responsibility it is to with extract information from terrorist suspects have been warned to be on their best behavior. And that means they won't be doing anything that could be remotely interpreted as bringing undue pressure on the bad guys to talk. Meanwhile, just last month the FBI issued frightening...

Italy acquits Moroccan terror suspects Wednesday 28 April 2004, 19:32 Makka Time, 16:32 GMT The men were detained in 2002 amid a crackdown on immigrants       An Italian court has acquitted nine Moroccans accused of plotting an attack on the US embassy in Rome. The verdict by the eight-member panel came after about three hours of deliberations in a top security court house in Rome. The nine were arrested in February 2002, on suspicions they were planning to poison the embassy's water supply with a mildly poisonous chemical compound found at the Rome apartment where four of the...

A major terror attack on the city of St Petersburg during its tricentennial celebrations was thwarted last weekend, according to Russian security sources. A plot to drive trucks laden with explosives into the city where dozens of world leaders and thousands of civilians were attending the festivities, was planned by 'Islamic fundamentalists' said one senior official who confirmed the threat was 'serious'. He added the perpetrators had been identified, but were still at large. He declined to provide further detail for risk of disclosing 'operational data'. Security was so tight at the summit - one of the largest gatherings ever...

A German court has convicted four Algerian men of plotting to bomb a busy Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg, and sentenced them to prison terms of 10-12 years. The plot was foiled by German police just before it was to have taken place in late December 2000. In handing down the Frankfurt court's sentence, presiding Judge Karlheinz Zeiher said the four men had intended to kill defenseless people with the aim of spreading terror in France and throughout Europe. He said they wanted to punish France because of its support for the Algerian government. Judge Zeiher said...

Germans arrest Turkish man and American fiancee for plotting Sept. 11 anniversary attack on U.S. facilities Fri Sep 6, 4:47 PM ET STUTTGART, Germany - Tipped by U.S. authorities, German police arrested a Turkish man and his American fiancee for planning an attack on U.S. military bases in Heidelberg on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, German authorities said Friday. Authorities found 130 kilograms (287 pounds) of chemicals and five unarmed pipe bombs along with a picture of Osama bin Laden ( news - web sites) on Thursday in the couple's apartment near Heidelberg, home to the U.S....