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JORDAN Case Solved Jordanian officials said that they had obtained confessions from two men, a Libyan national and a Jordanian, who assassinated U.S. diplomat Laurence Foley in October. Both men are members of al-Qaeda, and authorities link them to a top al-Qaeda operative said to be involved in a series of global attacks...
...Egypt, large numbers of Jewish businessmen were arrested on false charges. Wahed remembers how the government confiscated his family’s business and home. Malaka Bublil, another refugee and now an award winning human rights activist, recalls the expulsion of Libyan Jews, who were forced to leave with no more than $20 each. When she and her family fled on a bus to the airport, the driver tried to set it on fire. When 150,000 Jews were forced to leave Iraq, the Iraqi government seized their bank accounts, and allowed each of them to take only one suitcase...
...Paris Métro case alone. It's party to proceedings arising from the Karachi bombing last May, and the Sept. 11 attacks, which killed five French citizens. SOS Attentats is also party to a suit filed last month in a Washington, D.C. federal court against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for his role in a 1989 French airline bombing, for which six Libyans have already been convicted - in absentia - by a French court. Because French law doesn't allow sitting foreign leaders to be cited in criminal cases, Rudetzki has relied on families of U.S. victims to file suit...
...Bangladesh rather than merely transiting, although he adds it was not clear whether the group sought only refuge or planned to establish a new base of operations. On Sept. 24, a fuller picture finally began to emerge when Bangladesh's domestic intelligence agency arrested four Yemenis, an Algerian, a Libyan and a Sudanese at three houses in the upper-crust district of Uttara in Dhaka. Bangladeshi intelligence sources said they received information from "several" foreign agencies that the men?Abu Nujaid of Libya, Sadek Al Nassami, Abu Sallam, Abu Umaiya and Abul Abbas of Yemen, Abul Ashem of Algeria...
During the past decade, the Abu Nidal Organization, splintered by internal feuds, grew quiet. Abu Nidal was said to be seriously ill. In 1998, after proving too onerous a political burden to his host, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, he resurfaced in Egypt. The next year, he moved to Iraq, relying on his fragile alliance with Saddam Hussein...