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Libyan Rebels Reboot Cellphone Service After Gadhafi's Shutdown
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsLibyan rebels who'd resorted to waving flags to communicate after Moammar Gadhafi cut off the Internet have now rebooted a local cellphone network for their own use. The new network, rigged up with help from U.S.-trained Arab engineers, is giving many Libyans their first chance in a month to contact loved ones and see if they're dead or alive. The Libyan dictator shut down all Internet service and mobile phone links to the rebel-held east more than a month ago. And as chaos and fighting spread, outages have hit huge swaths of the whole country as well. Chris Hondros, Getty ...
Witnesses Report Bodies in the Streets in Libya
By not in system - AOL NewsCAIRO -- The bodies of slain protesters littered the streets of neighborhoods in the Libyan capital Tuesday and frightened residents hunkered down in their homes as forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi sought to crush anti-government demonstrations by shooting anyone outside on sight, residents and an opposition activist said. The U.N. Security Council was holding an emergency meeting, with Western diplomats pressing for it to demand an immediate halt to Gahdafi's bloody crackdown. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who spoke to the Libyan leader on Monday, told reporters the attacks on ...
Libya Launches Harshest Crackdown Yet on Protesters
By not in system - AOL NewsCAIRO -- Security forces loyal to Libya's Moammar Gadhafi unleashed heavy gunfire Sunday on thousands marching in a rebellious eastern city, cutting down mourners trying to bury victims in a bloody cycle of violence that has killed more than 200 people in the fiercest crackdown on the uprisings in the Arab world. Protests were even reported to have spread to downtown Tripoli and a coastal city only about 45 miles (about 70 kilometers) to the west of the capital. In Benghazi, site of the funeral clashes, pro-Gadhafi forces were chased from a presidential compound by other troops sympathetic to ...
Tiger Woods Spitting in Dubai [VIDEO]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsTiger Woods' latest offense? Spitting. The golfer was on the 12th green of the Dubai Desert Classic on Sunday when he spit on the green, prompting Sky Sports commentator Ewen Murray to remark, "Somebody now has to come behind him and maybe putt over his spit. It does not get much lower than that." Watch: Now Reuters reports that tournament officials have decided to fine Woods an undisclosed amount for "a breach of the tour code of conduct." Woods has just apologized, via Twitter: .bbpBox37203687872925700 ...
Police: Mail Bombs Could Have Exploded Over East Coast
By David Lohr - AOL News(Nov. 10) -- A mail bomb that was intercepted at East Midlands Airport in England last month could have exploded over the Eastern Seaboard, Scotland Yard said today. "If the device had not been removed from the aircraft, the activation could have occurred over the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S.," British officials said in a statement, according to The Associated Press. The bomb, which was disguised as a printer cartridge, had been sent from Yemen and was bound for an airport in Philadelphia when it was discovered on Oct 29. According to British police, the bomb was timed to detonate about ...
Al-Qaida Group Takes Responsibility for Mail Bombs
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Nov. 5) -- A Yemen-based al-Qaida group is claiming responsibility for the international mail bomb plot uncovered late last week as well as the crash of a United Parcel Service cargo plane in September. A week after authorities intercepted packages in Dubai and England that were bound for the U.S., Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula issued a message Friday saying it will continue to strike American and Western interests. They specifically said they would target civilian and cargo aircraft. U.S. officials have said all week that there were strong indications the plot originated ...
Suspect in UK Plots Is Linked to Cargo Bomb Terrorists
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Nov. 3) -- A member of the terrorist group blamed for last week's failed cargo bomb plot was arrested in England earlier this year on suspicion of planning attacks in Britain, a top official revealed today. Although the arrest of that suspect -- identified by the Daily Mail as a former British Airways computer expert -- was announced in February, his links with al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, hadn't previously been made public. "An AQAP associate was arrested here earlier this year," U.K. Home Secretary Teresa May said in a speech to the London-based Royal United Services ...
US Hunts Saudi Suspect in Attempted Cargo Bombing
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Nov. 1) -- U.S. officials and their allies in the Middle East are hunting for al-Qaida in Yemen's top bomb-maker, a Saudi man who is suspected of crafting the sophisticated cargo bombs discovered last week and is believed to have outfitted suicide bombers before -- including his own brother. The mail bombs intercepted in Dubai and England were addressed to Chicago synagogues, but U.S. and British officials say they believe the devices were meant to blow up planes in flight. One of them was unwittingly flown on two passenger flights before being discovered. Both bear similarities to the ...
Yemen Hunts for More Suspects in Bomb Plot
By not in system - AOL NewsSAN'A, Yemen (Oct. 31) - Their first suspect in custody, Yemeni police continued to search for the terrorists believed responsible for mailing a pair of powerful bombs to attack the United States. U.S. and Yemeni officials were increasingly seeing al-Qaida's hand in the failed plot. Yemeni police arrested a young woman who was a computer engineering student on suspicion of mailing the bombs, which were powerful enough to take down airplanes, officials said Sunday. They also detained her mother. Investigators were hunting the impoverished Mideast country for more conspirators. U.S. officials ...
Obama Press Conference Gives Insight Into Yemeni Package Scare
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Oct. 29) -- President Barack Obama said this afternoon that an investigation is under way for a "credible terrorist threat" that turned up explosives-laden packages in England and Dubai on airplanes bound for the United States. "The events of the past 24 hours underscore the necessity of remaining vigilant against terrorism," Obama said. He added that the government will "spare no effort" at finding the people responsible for this latest terror scare. The explosive packages were addressed to Jewish synagogues in Chicago and were "intended to do harm," according to John Brennan, deputy ...
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