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The latest snips occurred Tuesday, when someone sliced at least three fiber-optic cables in an underground vault in Alameda County east of San Francisco. The cuts disrupted Internet and phone service around Sacramento for 20 hours before service was restored.

Residents in this Central Valley town had hoped to set aside the suspicions that divided them in the 11 months since federal agents arrested a young man, his father and two Muslim religious leaders amid terrorism allegations. But the government's chief prosecutor said Wednesday that the investigation is continuing - a day after a federal jury convicted 23-year-old Hamid Hayat of providing material support to terrorists by attending a training camp in Pakistan in 2003 and lying about it to the FBI. U.S. Attorney McGregor Scott is considering seeking a new trial for Hayat's father, Umer, 48, after a separate...

PARIS (Reuters) - Police have arrested the head of a mosque on the western outskirts of Paris and two associates suspected of involvement in a terrorist conspiracy, a judicial source says. Police arrested the men on Wednesday, acting on an intelligence service tip-off that the imam of Puteaux, who is of Moroccan origin, and two close colleagues, incited militants to carry out terror strikes, the source said. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said last week that a separate group of men arrested in Marseilles and Lyon in connection with April's synagogue bombing in Tunisia had links to Osama bin Laden's al...