Official: Zarqawi Eludes Capture; Computer Discovered

Jordanian rebel Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Iraq’s most wanted fugitive recently eluded capture by American troops, but left behind a treasure trove of information.

On Feb. 20, the alleged terror mastermind was heading to a secret meeting in Ramadi, just west of Fallujah, where he used to base his operations, the official said.

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Annie Jacobsen Gets a Visit from the Feds

Here’s what I find fascinating: while one arm of the government (the Federal Air Marshal Service) has vehemently maintained all along that “nothing happened on flight 327,” the other, more muscular arm (the Department of Homeland Security) has been conducting a rather large investigation about it.

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Reports reveal Zarqawi nuclear threat

Recurrent intelligence reports say al Qaeda terrorist Abu Musab Zarqawi has obtained a nuclear device or is preparing a radiological explosive — or dirty bomb — for an attack, according to U.S. officials, who also say analysts are unable to gauge the reliability of the information’s sources.

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Secret FBI Report Highlights Domestic Terror

A secret FBI report, obtained by ABC News, identifies 22 domestic terror organizations as the current subjects of 338 active FBI field investigations.

The Aryan Nations, and other white supremacist groups, are cited in the report for hate crimes, fire bombings, threats via mail, as well as robberies and murders. The National Alliance, one of the largest neo-Nazi organizations in the world, is subject to 51 FBI investigations alone, according to the report.

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Stowaway on American nuke-powered aircraft carrier

A Newport man who boarded an American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier anchored in The Solent has been made subject to an anti-social behaviour order and banned from named sensitive areas.

Abdoul Masmoud Yessoufou, 37, whose address was given at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday as East Street, Newport, admitted entering a prohibited area at Portsmouth Docks.
The court was told that Yessoufou was found on the USS Harry S. Truman at the weekend after he strolled past guards and hitched a ride out to the carrier on a boat used by sailors on runs ashore.

Yessoufou had previously appeared before Uxbridge Magistrates three times this year for entering restricted zones at Heathrow. He also reached the side of an aircraft at Southampton Airport in January.

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Suspected Afghan rebels blow up 5 U.S. tankers

Suspected Taliban rebels set off a bomb next to a fuel tanker parked outside the main U.S. military base in southern Afghanistan Sunday, setting off a chain of large explosions that destroyed five tankers and injured three drivers, officials said.

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No Fly List Grows

The no-fly list created by U.S. authorities, which singles out passengers who are potential terrorist threats, is the target of frequent criticism that it’s incomplete and unreliable. But that hasn’t stopped it from expanding dramatically.

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Mystery Flight Catches Attention of Authorities

The two Saudis, the database reported, were brothers and pilots who had attended the same Arizona flight school as 9/11 hijacker Hani Hanjour. Soon the multiplicity of U.S. terror databases started pumping out similar hits. Fearing that Flight 685 might be a 9/11-style plot in the making, U.S. authorities refused the plane overflight rights, and Canada rejected a request to land. Much to the chagrin of its 278 passengers, the KLM jet made an exhausting odyssey back to Amsterdam.

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U.S. to indict 3 men held in Britian in surveillance of U.S. financial targets

Three individuals face charges in relation to a terrorism threat last summer to financial institutions in New York, northern New Jersey and Washington, D.C., the Justice Department said.

The charges against the suspects, who were detained in London, were under seal but would likely be announced during a press conference on Tuesday.

Two Girls Held as U.S. Fears Suicide Bomb

Two 16-year-old girls from New York City were arrested last month and charged with immigration violations after the F.B.I. asserted that they intended to become suicide bombers, according to a government document.

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New Details Emerge About Alleged DNA Theft At UCF

Channel 9 has uncovered new details about a University of Central Florida scientist in jail for stealing DNA. Police say he was rejected from going in to one area of the lab that had dangerous chemicals and think that may have motivated him to steal the DNA.

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Islam Factor May Decide Pope Pick

On one of Pope John Paul II’s last major trips four years ago, he stood in the ancient Omayyad Mosque in Syria and appealed for Christians and Muslims to seek common ground rather than confrontation.

“May the hearts of Christians and Muslims turn to one another with feelings of brotherhood and friendship,” urged the pontiff, the first pope to enter a Muslim place of worship.

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Terror cover-up in Texas City?

Within hours of the explosion of the Texas City oil refinery that killed 15 and injured more than 100, FBI officials were ruling out terrorism as a cause.

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US to hold chemical and biological attack exercise

U.S. security officials are set to begin a five-day exercise that simulates chemical and biological terrorist attacks in the eastern US states of Connecticut and New Jersey.

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