Word: syrians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...share intelligence and tactical tips, already has a defense minister, an army chief and an operations commander of sorts. At recent meetings, insurgent leaders--including Iraqi nationalists, Baathists and sundry Sunni extremists--have debated streamlining their activities under a single leader. According to several sources involved in the movement, Syrian intelligence agents in the area, who have helped arm the groups and aided their propaganda campaigns, have also been participating in the debate...
...Eastern passengers on Northwest Airlines Flight 327 from Detroit to Los Angeles. Were the men terrorists casing the plane for a possible attack, as freelance journalist Annie Jacobsen suspected in a long article about the incident? Or were they, as the men said and federal investigators later concluded, a Syrian band on their...
...Upon arrival in Los Angeles, the 14 men were interviewed by FBI agents and Federal Air Marshals, who determined the men were a Syrian band heading to play a casino in San Diego. After being checked through government databases, they were not charged with any crime or detained beyond questioning...
...keep talking to the government and our version of the I.R.A. to practice terror." Belyayev sees himself as a defender of Russian interests, participating in politics but condoning violence "as the only self-defense left for Russian youth." He brags that a member of the Freedom Party pushed a Syrian student under a train in the St. Petersburg subway a couple of months ago. The student was killed. But Belyayev's political engagement leaves him open to accusations of weakness from more radical neo-Nazis. Alex, a member of the Nationalist-Socialist Society, a newly launched movement that seeks...
...search Zougam's Madrid apartment, where he lived with his mother, who had taken him from Tangiers when he was 10, and two sisters. Inside police found videotapes on bin Laden and jihad and the telephone numbers of three members of the Soldiers of Allah cell run by Syrian-born Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, known as Abu Dahdah. In November 2001 Spanish authorities jailed Yarkas, believed to be the leader of al-Qaeda's cells in Spain, for allegedly helping in the preparation and implementation of the 9/11 attacks...