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<p>An Algerian man and two roommates who were arrested in Detroit a week after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were planning to conduct holy war against the United States, a federal prosecutor said in court Friday.</p> <p>Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Convertino said Farouk Ali-Haimoud, 21, of Detroit was trying to smuggle automatic weapons and people into the United States with phony documents to carry out terrorist activities.</p>

37 arrested at Warren AFB Raid finds illegal workers at largest missile-defense unit By Hector Gutierrez, Rocky Mountain News February 27, 2003 Nearly 40 illegal workers were arrested Wednesday at the Francis E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, home to the country's largest strategic missile-defense unit. The raid was one of the biggest in recent memory involving national security in the region. The presence of unauthorized workers at the Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile unit, or ICBM, was an egregious security breach in which foreigners were able to penetrate a powerful U.S. military installation, officials said. The Denver District of the...

QUANTICO, Va. May 12 — A man who apparently tried to enter Marine Corps Base Quantico illegally on Sunday was shot in the arm while fleeing from security guards. Base spokesman Maj. Tim Keefe said a guard stationed at the entrance checkpoint spotted a weapon inside a pickup truck as the man tried to enter in the vehicle at about 5 p.m."Evidently, this individual tried to flee the checkpoint and was pursued by military police on the western portion of the base," Keefe said.The driver abandoned his truck and was fleeing on foot and "sustained a gunshot wound to the...

EIDELBERG, Germany, Sept. 7 — Neighbors and co-workers describe Astrid Eyzaguirre as a chatty, vivacious woman who bounced through several jobs at the military shopping center in this romantic university town where the European headquarters of the United States Army is based. It may have been her chattiness that led Ms. Eyzaguirre to warn a colleague at the liquor store where she worked not to come in next Wednesday, Sept. 11. Something bad, she said, was going to happen that day.Her colleague reported the remark to the military police, according to several people who work at the shopping center,...