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...Jacquard, "they're apparently going after more than one plot and group." Two weeks ago, London Mayor Ken Livingstone said police had thwarted four separate plots "to actually cause mayhem and take life in this city." In Britain, a 24-year-old man, accused of conspiring with convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid, was formally charged last week. At the time of his arrest, the man - whom neighbors described as a quiet student working to become an Islamic cleric - was in possession of a small amount of explosives. He is charged with "unlawfully and maliciously" conspiring with Reid "and others unknown...
...terrible as 9/11 was, it didn't repeal the Constitution." ROSEMARY POOLER, federal appeals-court judge, considering the case of alleged "dirty bomber" and U.S. citizen Jose Padilla, whom the President designated an "enemy combatant," meaning he could be detained indefinitely and denied access to his lawyer...
...discussed closing the Rome and Milan metros in the final 48 hours of Ramadan. But authorities say last week's arrests were the culmination of long investigations, not hasty responses to the Istanbul blasts. And some of them were meant to thwart a different threat: the export of suicide bombers from Europe, mainly to Iraq. Groups like Ansar al-Islam have reportedly stepped up recruitment on the Continent. "There has been a call from Ansar for kamikazes from Europe," says an Italian investigator. Authorities say they intercepted a satellite-phone conversation in which Mullah Fouad, a 32-year-old Iraqi...
...have one last father-daughter heart-to-heart. He had come back to Israel from a symposium in New York City on post-9/11 emergency preparedness to see his daughter get married; but he never made it to the wedding, and neither did Nava. A suicide bomber blew up the cafe. Nava’s fiancé, family, and friends attended her funeral instead of her marriage...
...Hundreds of Iraqis have been wounded--security guards, ordinary citizens, children. A U.S. official says locals working for the U.S.-organized Iraqi Facilities Protection Service, which guards the outer perimeter of many strategic sites, have paid a steep price. At the Baghdad Hotel, Iraqi guards shot up a suicide bomber's vehicle as it approached, preventing the bomb from detonating next to the hotel; six guards died in the explosion...