U.S. Forces Capture Zarqawi Aide
March 31, 2005
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U.S. Forces Capture Zarqawi Aide
U.S. forces in Iraq are holding a senior operative of terrorist leader Abu Musab Zarqawi who holds joint American-Jordanian citizenship, defense officials said Thursday.
The man was captured in a raid by U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq late in 2004, said Matthew Waxman, the Pentagon’s deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs.
“Weapons and bomb-making materials were in his residence at the time he was captured,” Waxman said.
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Group claiming Qatar bombing says it carried out Texas BP blast
March 25, 2005
A shadowy Islamist group which claimed it carried out last weeks suicide bombing in Qatar said in an internet statement it was responsible for an oil refinery explosion in Texas that left 15 people dead.
It was a new kind of operation as we promised before, said the Jund al-Sham Organisation (Organisation of Soldiers of the Levant) in the statement posted on an Islamist website and dated March 24.
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Web to have ‘terror watch’ team
March 21, 2005
Five European governments are setting up a hi-tech team to monitor how terrorists and criminals use the net.
The group will make recommendations on shutting down websites that break terrorism laws.
The plans for the initiative came out of a meeting of the G5 interior ministers in Spain that discussed ways to tackle these threats.
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Pirates hijack Indonesian chemical tanker - Yahoo! UK & Ireland News
March 17, 2005
Gunmen armed with rocket launchers have stormed a chemical tanker in the Strait of Malacca at the weekend in an unusually daring attack, raising initial fears of a terrorist attack, an anti-piracy centre says.
Thirty-five pirates boarded the MT Tri Samudra, laden with an unknown flammable chemical, on Saturday, briefly taking control of the ship before making off with the captain and chief engineer who were being held for ransom, the centre said.
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U.S. Report Lists Possibilities for Terrorist Attacks and Likely Toll
March 15, 2005
The Department of Homeland Security, trying to focus antiterrorism spending better nationwide, has identified a dozen possible strikes it views as most plausible or devastating, including detonation of a nuclear device in a major city, release of sarin nerve agent in office buildings and a truck bombing of a sports arena.
The document, known simply as the National Planning Scenarios, reads more like a doomsday plan, offering estimates of the probable deaths and economic damage caused by each type of attack.
They include blowing up a chlorine tank, killing 17,500 people and injuring more than 100,000; spreading pneumonic plague in the bathrooms of an airport, sports arena and train station, killing 2,500 and sickening 8,000 worldwide; and infecting cattle with foot-and-mouth disease at several sites, costing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. Specific locations are not named because the events could unfold in many major metropolitan or rural areas, the document says.
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D.C. Investigates Anthrax in Mail
March 15, 2005
The mayor of the nation’s capital offered all workers at a local postal facility a three-day course of antibiotics Tuesday after it was determined that the post office had been the source of anthrax (search)-tainted mail sent to two military mail facilities in Virginia a day earlier.
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Feds Reveal Russian Weapons Smuggling Plot
March 15, 2005
U.S. authorities charged 18 people in an alleged scheme to smuggle grenade launchers, shoulder-fired missiles and other Russian military weapons (search) into the United States.
The arrests resulted from a yearlong investigation in which an FBI informant posed as an arms buyer who claimed to have ties to Al Qaeda
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Powdery Substances Found In More Buildings
March 15, 2005
D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel responded to the Internal Revenue Service building Tuesday morning because of a powdery substance that was found.
Fire Department spokesman Alan Etter said the hazardous-material team cleared after firefighters concluded with a “high degree of certainty” that the substance found in a letter was not anthrax.
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U.S. authorities charge 18 with Russian weapons-smuggling plot
March 15, 2005
Federal officials say they’re charging 18 people with trying to smuggle grenade launchers, shoulder-fired missiles and other arms into the U-S.
A federal prosecutor’s office in New York says the arrests come from a yearlong wiretap investigation. The office says an informant posed as an arms trafficker selling weapons to terrorists.
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Terror-gang suspects rounded up in 7 cities
March 15, 2005
Some 103 suspected members of a violent criminal street gang that has been linked to al-Qaida and other terrorist groups have been arrested in seven U.S. cities, the government announced today.
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