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How Can You Tell Someone Is al-Qaida? Look at His Watch
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsIt's a simple, water-resistant digital watch that retails for about $11. But beware: It could sell you out as al-Qaida. A new batch of WikiLeaks files from Guantanamo Bay reveals a secret checklist U.S. investigators used to figure out whether detainees were really al-Qaida members. Among the criteria was the kind of wristwatch they were wearing. Shiho Fukada, AP The U.S. military says Casio F-91W watches like this one have been used in terrorist bombings by members of al-Qaida, according to Guantanamo Bay files released by WikiLeaks. The U.S. military lists the Casio F-91W model ...
NATO: Key Figure From al-Qaida-Linked Group Captured
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- A militant who led operations in Afghanistan for an al-Qaida-linked terror group has been captured in the north where his fighters joined forces with the Taliban to step up attacks against Afghan and coalition forces, NATO said Friday. The senior figure from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan was apprehended in Kunduz province along with two of this associates, the coalition said. NATO described the militant, whom it did not identify, as a key conduit between the IMU's leadership in Pakistan and senior Taliban leadership in Afghanistan. "He assisted both groups by ...
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Belarus President: Subway Explosion Kills 11, Wounds 126
By not in system - AOL NewsMINSK, Belarus -- An explosion tore through a key subway station in the Belarusian capital of Minsk during evening rush hour Monday killing 11 people and wounding 126. An official said the blast was a terrorist act. President Alexander Lukashenko did not say what caused the explosion at the Oktyabrskaya subway station, but suggested outside forces could be behind it. "I do not rule out that this gift could have been brought from outside," Lukashenko said. The authoritarian leader, under strong pressure from the West over his suppression of the opposition, has frequently alleged ...
Protests Spike in Greece as Government Weighs Support of Attack on Libya
By Anthee Carassava - AOL NewsATHENS, Greece -- Demonstrators took to the streets of the capital today to protest international air strikes against military assets of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi as Greece weighed its support of the allied offensive. Toting anti-war banners and shouting slogans against the bombing raids, hundreds of leftist protesters -- mainly high school and university students -- gathered in central Athens, setting off on a protest march to the Parliament. Similar protests also took place on the island of Crete, where hundreds marched to the U.S.-controlled Souda Bay naval base, which provides ...
Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari: What We Know So Far About the Saudi Terror Suspect in Texas
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsFBI officials in Texas have arrested a Saudi Arabian citizen suspected of plotting a terrorist attack using explosive chemicals he purchased over the Internet. Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, a 20-year-old chemical engineering student at South Plains College near Lubbock, Texas, was detained late Tuesday and charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. He is expected to appear in federal court in Lubbock on Friday. Check out a video report from The Associated Press: Here's what is known about the suspect thus far: Aldawsari is legally in the U.S. on a student ...
The Raymond Davis Case: Killings by CIA Operative Strain U.S.-Pakistan Ties
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyEnraged Pakistanis on Monday called for the execution of Raymond Davis -- an imprisoned American accused of murdering two Pakistani civilians last month -- as U.S. officials sought to minimize damage to bilateral relations and persuade the government of Pakistan to spare Davis' life. Negotiations were complicated by the revelation this weekend that Davis was not working in a diplomatic capacity, as American officials had previously maintained, but instead was a covert operative contracted by the CIA. Davis' story reads like a John LeCarre novel: a former special operations agent, he ...
Muslim Brotherhood Enters Fray in Egypt: Is That a Good Thing?
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsEgypt's largest political opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, has announced it will join anti-government street demonstrations on Friday. Although it is believed that the Brotherhood has supported the protests in Cairo all along, the Islamist organization has not taken an official stand until now. This announcement further complicates matters for the Obama administration, which has struggled to signal support for pro-democracy protesters without alienating Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a strong U.S. ally. The Muslim Brotherhood is technically banned in Egypt, but its members ...
Daniel Pearl Kidnappers at Large: 5 Facts About Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Janghvi
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsAmerican journalist Daniel Pearl was beheaded by alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, but more than a dozen Pakistani militants believed to have been involved in Pearl's 2002 kidnapping and slaying have not been captured. That's the conclusion of a report released today by the Pearl Project, an investigative journalism project at Georgetown University. Mohammed, who is being held in Guantanamo Bay awaiting trial on terrorism charges, has not been charged in Pearl's death. According to the new report, Pakistan's government considers the Pearl case closed and the United States is no ...
Greece Begins Trial of Terror Suspects Under Heavy Security
By Anthee Carassava - AOL NewsATHENS, Greece -- Amid heavy security, Greece today began trying 13 alleged members of a militant anarchist group linked to a spree of attacks, including a letter bomb campaign that spilled into neighboring European states last year. Hundreds of policemen stood watch at the courtroom within a maximum-security prison on the outskirts of Athens to guard against anticipated anarchist reprisals. The accused -- 12 men and one woman -- allegedly belong to the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire, a mob of militant anti-capitalists that authorities say they have cracked but have not yet crushed after ...
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