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...small, anxious-looking man who stood before a judge last week in London's Central Criminal Court hardly resembled the feral terrorist British police are linking him to. But Saajid Badat, 24, faces charges of having conspired with fellow Briton and convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid, who tried to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami in December 2001. And Badat is just one of 21 people detained by British police in the past three weeks under antiterrorism laws (some suspects have since been released...
...militants to join the jihad in Iraq. Lawyers for Mahdjoub, 29, were unavailable for comment. Italian authorities said warrants had been issued for five of his associates, and that three - two Tunisians and a Moroccan - had been nabbed in Milan. In Britain, police in Gloucester arrested Sajid Badat, a Briton of Pakistani origin whom unconfirmed reports linked to shoe bomber Richard Reid, serving a life sentence for trying to blow up a plane in 2001. Authorities believe Badat, 24, was connected to "the network of al-Qaeda groups," said Home Secretary David Blunkett. "We wouldn't have taken these steps...
...very edgy and it had a lot of impact," says DJ EZ, who includes it on one of his popular Pure Garage compilations in 2001. Then the doors swing open: to a big record deal and chart success in the U.K. and U.S., where Bedingfield's the only Briton to have scored two Top 20 singles in the past year (take that, Robbie Williams). The musical superlatives mask a major part of Bedingfield's nonmusical appeal: his averageness. He looks like a plumber, not a pinup. He laughs (often too) loudly. He talks openly about his struggles, such as attention...
...Obesanjo, who was under pressure from Western governments and the E.U. to stop the sentence being carried out. Amina Lawal would have been the first person to be stoned to death since Shari'a law was adopted by 12 predominantly Muslim northern states in 1999. Fleeing to Freedom COLOMBIA Briton Matthew Scott emerged safe from the jungle 12 days after escaping armed kidnappers who took him and seven other foreigners hostage on Sept. 12. Scott,19, who evaded his captors by leaping down a ravine, was found by Indian tribespeople. The government has blamed one of the rebel groups operating...
Lakhani, 68, a Briton born in India, was arrested in New Jersey last week in a joint sting operation by the FBI and the Russian Federal Security Service for trying to sell a shoulder-fired missile to an informant posing as a terrorist. In what appears to be a coincidence, at almost the exact moment the FBI was beaming over Lakhani's arrest, security forces in Saudi Arabia discovered a document indicating that Saudi militants were casing King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh in preparation for an attack on a British target. U.S. officials believe that the militants may have...