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March, 05th 2010
Suspect, Police Hurt in Pentagon Shootout
Two police officers were injured by a suspect who opened fire outside the Pentagon tonight after the officers asked him for an access pass, police said. An aerial view of the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., is seen in this September 2003 file photo. Two police officers were shot outside the Pentagon Metro station March 4, 2010. |
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January, 13th 2010
UAE counter-terrorism efforts praised by experts
The UAE’s counter-terrorism policies may have shielded it from major attacks, but the country needs to stay vigilant and develop more comprehensive national security plans, senior terrorism experts said yesterday. “If you look at a map of the region and you ask yourself what country has had a terrorist incident, I think every country in the region has, with the exception of the UAE and Oman,” said Richard Clarke, a former chief counter-terrorism adviser to the Clinton and Bush administrations. “So they’ve done something right.” |
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December, 27th 2009
Nigerian charged over US passenger plane plot
A Nigerian man suspected of trying to blow up a passenger jet arriving into the US has been formally charged. Authorities say Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was overpowered after he attempted to set off an explosive device on a Delta Northwest airlines flight arriving into Detroit from Amsterdam on Christmas Day. |
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September, 11th 2009
US remembers the 9/11 attacks
Eight years after nearly 3000 people died in the attacks on New York’s World Trade Centre, dramatic unseen footage has been released for the first time. |
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July, 30th 2009
Security Chief Urges 'Collective Fight' Against Terrorism
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano urged Americans on Wednesday to join a "collective fight against terrorism" that combines the efforts of individuals, companies and local, state and foreign governments. |
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November, 29th 2008
Mumbai hotel siege ends; attack toll reaches 195
The first pictures have emerged from inside the battle-scarred Taj Mahal hotel, now that police in Mumbai say the siege there is over. It marks the end of three days of terror at landmarks across India’s financial capital. At least 195 people have died. Nearly 300 have been injured. |
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September, 08th 2008
UAE urges UN to tackle obstacles hindering the war against terror
The United Arab Emirates yesterday urged the international community to boost joint efforts to willfully and strongly tackle the obstacles hindering the total eradication of terror. The country also called for systematic, objective, balanced and transparent review of the definition of terrorism to facilitate international consensus on the definition of the phenomenon. |
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March, 20th 2008
Bin Laden Slams EU Over Prophet Cartoons
The message, which appeared on a militant Web site that has carried al-Qaida statements in the past and bore the logo of the extremist group's media wing al-Sahab, showed a still image of bin Laden aiming with an assault rifle. |
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March, 08th 2008
Hamas claims responsibility for Jewish school shooting
Hamas on Friday claimed responsibility for a gun attack which killed eight Jewish students at a Jerusalem religious school the night before. "Hamas is responsible for the attack. The Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades will officially claim the attack at the right moment," a senior Hamas official in Gaza told AFP on condition of anonymity, referring to the group's armed wing. |
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March, 03th 2008
Harry the No 1 terror target
Prince Harry has been warned that serving in Afghanistan made him a prime target for terrorists. Muslim extremists say the young royal is a "legitimate target" after ten weeks secretly fighting the Taliban. |
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July, 18th 2007
Bush Aides See Failure in Fight With Al Qaeda in Pakistan
President Bush’s top counterterrorism advisers acknowledged today that the strategy for fighting Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan had failed, as the White House released a grim new intelligence assessment that has forced the administration to consider more aggressive measures inside Pakistan.
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July, 03th 2007
Terror plot hatched in British hospitals
A suspected secret cell of foreign militants, believed to be linked to al-Qa'ida and using British hospitals as cover, are being questioned over the terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow. |
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June, 09th 2007
Al-Qaida Plans Nuclear Attacks on 7 U.S. Cities
The newly released book "The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World," (Prometheus Books) paints a frightening picture of al-Qaida's nuclear ambitions — one every American must read. |
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April, 29th 2007
Britain becoming a Big Brother society, says data watchdog
Britain is in danger of "committing slow social suicide" as such Big Brother techniques as surveillance cameras and recording equipment spread into every aspect of our lives, the nation's information watchdog will warn this week.
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April, 18th 2007
Gun lobby prepares for battle over rights
Last Saturday, Wayne LaPierre, executive vice-president of the National Rifle Association, urged delegates at the group’s annual convention in St Louis, Missouri, to prepare for “the storm that lies ahead”. He was referring to the threat posed to the gun lobby by a Democratic-controlled Congress and the risk that the White House could also fall into enemy hands next year.
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March, 21th 2007
Iraq insurgents used children in car bombing
Insurgents in Iraq detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle with two children in the back seat after US soldiers let it through a Baghdad checkpoint over the weekend, a senior US military official said Tuesday.
The vehicle was stopped at the checkpoint but was allowed through when soldiers saw the children in the back, said Major General Michael Barbero of the Pentagon's Joint Staff. |
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March, 10th 2007
Insurgent Leader Nabbed in Iraq Raid
The leader of the al-Qaida-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq has been captured in a raid west of Baghdad, an Iraqi military spokesman said Friday. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was captured Friday in a raid in Abu Ghraib on the western outskirts of Baghdad, said Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, spokesman of the Baghdad security operation. U.S. officials had no confirmation of the capture. |
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December, 03th 2006
Saudis Arrest 136 Suspected Militants
Saudi authorities have arrested 136 suspected militants over the past three months, accusing some of plotting to carry out suicide attacks inside the kingdom, the official news agency said Saturday.
An interior ministry official said the suspects had been captured by security forces as part of an operation aimed at arresting militants of different nationalities in several Saudi cities including the capital, Riyadh, according to the Saudi Press Agency. |
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November, 30th 2006
Iranian Weapons Arm Iraqi Militia
U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories. According to a senior defense official, coalition forces have recently seized Iranian-made weapons and munitions that bear manufacturing dates in 2006.
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October, 31th 2006
Infiltration of Iraqi Police Could Delay Handover of Control for Years
Seventy percent of the Iraqi police force has been infiltrated by militias, primarily the Mahdi Army, according to Shaw and other military police trainers. Police officers are too terrified to patrol enormous swaths of the capital. And while there are some good cops, many have been assassinated or are considering quitting the force. |
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October, 28th 2006
Saudi Arabia confirms threat to oil facilities
Top world oil exporter Saudi Arabia said on Friday it was taking measures to protect its oil and economic installations from a "terrorist threat". Western naval forces in the Gulf have been deployed to counter a possible seaborne threat to its Ras Tanura oil terminal.
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September, 29th 2006
Israel Backs Off Plan to Kill Nasrallah
Israel has quietly backed off its plan to assassinate Hezbollah's leader because of the international condemnation that his killing would create, the Israeli daily Maariv reported Friday. |
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September, 26th 2006
Al-Qaida recons nuke storage site
Two al-Qaida operatives visited the world's most accessible nuclear facility, where more than two tons of highly enriched uranium and weapons-grade plutonium are stored behind a rusty barb-wire fence protected by a handful of guards with light weapons, MI6 agents have learned. |
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September, 18th 2006
Al-Qaida warns Muslims: Time to get out of U.S.
The new al-Qaida field commander in Afghanistan is calling for Muslims to leave the U.S. – particularly Washington and New York – in anticipation of a major terror attack to rival Sept. 11, according to an interview by a Pakistani journalist. |
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August, 10th 2006
'Airlines terror plot' disrupted
A plot to blow up planes in flight from the UK to the US and commit "mass murder on an unimaginable scale" has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said.
It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled in hand luggage on to as many as 10 aircraft. Police were searching premises with 21 people in custody after arrests in the London area and West Midlands. |
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