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...that he should plan to return soon to Kuwait, but in the meantime, al-Faruq was to set in motion new terrorist missions. Knowing the U.S. Navy was scheduled to conduct joint exercises in the Surabaya harbor in late May, al-Faruq plotted a suicide attack against a U.S. ship, similar to the deadly al-Qaeda operation against the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen in 2000. He drafted a Somali operative named Gharib to help find Arabs willing to participate in the suicide mission. But when he failed to recruit enough operatives to carry out the plan, al-Faruq...
...problem appears to be growing across a wide swath of the developing world, where the spread of Internet access combines with petty official corruption to create a breeding ground for digital crime. Lately, credit-card fraud has been joined with often ingenious forms of postal and shipping fraud, moving more and more U.S. companies to refuse to ship goods to such countries as Indonesia, Russia and other former Soviet republics...
Large merchants as well as individuals who sell via online auction giant eBay often refuse to ship goods to Indonesia, Romania and Ukraine. Buy.com has completely overhauled its overseas-shipping practices. Citing fraud, the discount e-tailer last year closed its export operations run from offices in Britain, Canada and Australia and instead built a more secure export system run through its shipping partner in Florida...
...emerald waters of the Red Sea. And, for scuba or snorkeling fans, the Royal Diving Club in the resort area of Aqaba is the perfect place to combine a quick swim with a chance to spot lionfish, snappers and barracuda in the wreck of the container ship Cedar Bride, which lies 20 meters deep in the warm waters off Rainbow Reef. Read more details at www.jptd.com.jo...
...been denied a visa to enter the U.S. four times. Germany said it would request his extradition. Elsewhere, Dutch police arrested the head of a Kurdish group suspected of links with al-Qaeda, while Italian authorities took 15 suspected terrorists, believed to be Pakistanis, into custody from a ship docked in Sicily. They had pretended to be seamen, but their ignorance of navigation aroused the suspicion of the ship's captain, who diverted his vessel from Libya to Sicily. The men had false passports, along with lists of names with the annotation "about to get married" - believed...