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Big Bomb Found Near Indonesia Church; 19 Arrested
By not in system - AOL NewsJAKARTA, Indonesia -- Senior security minister Djoko Suyanto said he believed Islamic militants had been plotting an attack outside of the capital during Good Friday celebrations. "The army and police are under high alert," he told reporters after attending a meeting chaired by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. "We want to guarantee safety." Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, was thrust onto the front lines in the battle against extremists in 2002 after al-Qaida-linked militants attacked two nightclubs on Bali island, killing 202 people, many of them foreign ...
Libya Rebels Raise Concern About Islamic Extremism
By not in system - AOL NewsAJDABIYA, Libya - Abdel-Moneim Mokhtar was ambushed and killed by Moammar Gadhafi's troops last week on a dusty road in eastern Libya - the end of a journey that saw him fight as a jihadi in Afghanistan and then return home where he died alongside NATO-backed rebels trying to oust the longtime authoritarian leader. In describing Mokhtar's death on Friday, Gadhafi's government said he was a member of al-Qaida - part of an ongoing attempt to link the rebels to Osama bin Laden's group. Four years ago, al-Qaida said it had allied itself with the Libyan Islamic Fighters Group - of which Mokhtar ...
Unsealed NY Indictment Reveals Case Against 5 Men
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK -- The details of the criminal charges against the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and four other defendants became moot for a civilian jury when they were finally made public Monday, just as Attorney General Eric Holder was announcing the men will be prosecuted at a military tribunal instead of in a courthouse just blocks from the World Trade Center site. U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy signed an order dismissing the indictment against Khalid Sheik Mohammed as he unsealed the Dec. 14, 2009 document, signed by U.S. attorneys Preet Bharara for the Southern District ...
For al-Qaida, Detroit Was Just the Cheapest Flight
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- When an admitted al-Qaida operative planned his itinerary for a Christmas 2009 airline bombing, he considered launching the strike in the skies above Houston or Chicago, The Associated Press has learned. But tickets were too expensive, so he refocused the mission on a cheaper destination: Detroit. The decision is among new details emerging about one of the most sensational terrorism plots to unfold since President Barack Obama took office. It shows that al-Qaida's Yemen branch does not share Osama bin Laden's desire to attack symbolic targets, preferring instead to strike at ...
Iraq Weighs Whether US Troops Should Stay After 8 Years
By not in system - AOL NewsBAGHDAD -- The American invasion of Iraq was supposed to take only a few months: a quick blitz to depose dictator Saddam Hussein, find and dismantle weapons of mass destruction and go home. Eight years later, thousands of U.S. troops remain in Iraq -- and their mission may not be accomplished until far into the future. Despite a security agreement requiring a full U.S. military withdrawal by the year's end, hundreds if not thousands of American soldiers will continue to be in Iraq beyond 2012. Maya Alleruzzo, AP U.S. Army soldiers stand near ammunition to be used at a shooting ...
Yemen Police Fire on Protests; 3 Killed
By not in system - AOL NewsSANAA, Yemen -- Yemeni security forces fired live bullets and tear gas on two pro-democracy demonstrations Saturday, killing three people - including a 15-year-old student - as the government clamps down on a growing protest movement, witnesses said. The violence began with a pre-dawn raid on a central square in the capital, Sanaa, where thousands of pro-democracy protesters have been camped out for the past month to demand the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. An ally in the Obama's administration's fight against al-Qaida, Saleh has been in power for 32 years. Doctors and eyewitnesses ...
King: 'Rage and Hysteria' Over Hearing Unwarranted
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON - A congressional panel investigating homegrown terrorism in America displayed sharp divisions Thursday over how to frame the discussion, reflecting a country still struggling with how best to combat terrorism nearly a decade after the Sept. 11 attacks. Homegrown terrorism is on the rise in the United States, and al-Qaida has built a strategy around inspiring young American Muslims to become one-man terrorist cells. That strategy has at times been successful, and the U.S. government has wrestled with finding a consistent plan to combat it. Alex Brandon, AP Rep. Peter ...
Gadhafi Steps Up Airstrikes; West Weighs Rebels' Plea for No-Fly Zone
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsWestern allies are weighing military options against Libya, including a no-fly zone over the country, after forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi unleashed a weekend of furious air assaults against rebels fighting his regime. At the White House today, President Barack Obama warned that Gadhafi's supporters "will be held accountable for whatever violence continues to take place," The Associated Press reported. "We've got NATO consulting in Brussels around a wide range of potential options, including potential military options, in response to the violence that continues to take place in Libya," ...
Congress to Hold Hearing on American Muslims; Protest Planned
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says affiliates of al-Qaida are radicalizing some American Muslims and that he plans to hold hearings on the threat they pose to the U.S. Republican Rep. Peter King of New York tells CNN's "State of the Union" that he sees an international movement with elements in the United States of Muslims becoming more radical and identifying with terrorists. A Minnesota Democrat, Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the House, says that while it's proper to investigate radicalization, he thinks it is wrong to single out a ...
Gunmen Kill Christian Pakistani Government Minister
By not in system - AOL NewsISLAMABAD -- Assailants purportedly sent by al-Qaida and the Taliban killed the only Christian member of Pakistan's federal Cabinet Wednesday, spraying his car with bullets outside his parents' driveway. It was the second assassination in two months of a high-profile opponent of blasphemy laws that impose the death penalty for insulting Islam. The killing of Shahbaz Bhatti, a 42-year-old Roman Catholic, further undermines Pakistan's shaky image as a moderate Islamic state and could deepen the political turmoil in this nuclear-armed, U.S.-allied state where militants frequently stage suicide ...
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