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January 23, 2009 They were responsible for "five near-simultaneous bombings on December 30, 2000, which killed 22 people." On December 30, 2000, hardly anyone in the world understood the global threat of jihad terrorism and Islamic supremacism. It wasn't until September 11, 2001, that large numbers of people woke up -- and seven and a half years after that, the new President of the United States promises to build relationships with the Islamic world based on "mutual respect," as if it has been on our side that the respect has been lacking. Well, in reality the respect is lacking from...

MADRID (Reuters) - A Moroccan suspected of direct involvement in the 2004 Madrid train bombings which killed 191 people was arrested on Sunday in Rabat, a judicial source in Spain familiar with the case said on Monday. Abdelilah Hriz, 29, will be tried in his home country for his suspected part in Europe's deadliest Islamist attack, the first time Morocco has agreed to try one of its citizens for crimes allegedly committed abroad, said the source. Spanish Judge Juan Del Olmo recently traveled to Morocco to question Hriz and take DNA samples, the Moroccan state news agency MAP said last...

German police have ruled out blackmail as the reason why two bombs were left on trains on 31 July - and now believe it was a failed terror attack. The bombs were in identical black cases on trains in Dortmund and Koblenz. They had been timed to explode 10 minutes before the trains arrived, said federal crime chief Joerg Ziercke. "We are now working on the basis that this was the work of a terrorist group... and was an attempt to kill a large number of people," he said. Police want to trace two men seen on CCTV wheeling cases...

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BERLIN (Reuters) - A man held in Lebanon in connection with a failed attack on German trains has confessed to planting a suitcase bomb and investigations suggest he might have links to al Qaeda, the Lebanese government said on Friday. "When he saw the pictures, he admitted that he planted the bomb," Lebanon's acting Interior Minister Ahmad Fatfat told Reuters television. "There is nothing clear now, but in his computer, we found something that can be related to al Qaeda, some contacts. He denied any contact till now with al Qaeda, but maybe he was working without knowing (it) himself...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German security forces have taken into custody a suspect linked to last month's failed plot to explode bombs on German trains, a newspaper reported on Saturday. In a preview of an article to appear in Bild am Sonntag on Sunday, the paper cited security sources as saying one of two suspects in the case had been seized in the northern city of Kiel and was being questioned by police. Earlier on Saturday, the train station in Kiel was shut down for five hours. Police said the move was linked to the investigation into two bombs that were...

by Mark Finkelstein August 10, 2006 - 07:58 There is a noteworthy MSM tendency to downplay the gravity of various terrorist acts by suggesting that they are local, home-grown incidents rather than forming part of international conspiracies. A recent example was the MSM's treatment of the Seattle Jewish center shootings in which an Muslim-American killed one woman and injured several others. To his credit, NBC terrorism expert Roger Cressey wouldn't let Matt Lauer sing that song when he tried it on this morning's Today show in connection with the plot to blow up in midflight planes originating in the UK....

MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish police have arrested three Moroccan men on suspicion of providing arms and financing for the Madrid train bombing attacks that killed 191 people, police said on Tuesday......

A man charged with the Madrid train bombings was monitored by the Gardai when he lived in Ireland in the 1990s, according to garda sources. The Sunday Business Post has learned that Moroccanborn suspect Mohamed Bekkali (31) was brought up in Dublin, where he was arrested at least once. "He was educated here, sat his Intermediate and Leaving Certificate, and later became the most prominent of the Moroccans," a garda source disclosed. The source would not say why Bekkali was arrested or when he left the country. "The general feeling here is that people would rather this was played down,"...