SUV plows through UNC gathering spot, six slightly hurt
March 3, 2006 by Homeland Security NTARC News
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University of North Carolina police have a suspect in custody after a sport utility vehicle plowed through a popular gathering spot on the Chapel Hill campus.
Six people were treated at U-N-C Hospitals, though none was seriously injured in the bizarre lunchtime incident.
University authorities say police are holding a 23-year-old suspect (Mohammed Reza Taheriazar) who was a student there as recently as last fall. They plan to charge him with multiple counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.
New Al Qaeda Leader planning Attack Against U.S.
March 1, 2006 by Homeland Security NTARC News
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Pakistani officials have told ABC News that they believe they have indications that a new terror attack is being planned there against the United States. They tell ABC News that while their intelligence does not give any specific details as to a target or time, it does indicate that the plans are being made by an emerging top al Qaeda figure.
Pakistani military officials say Matiur Rehman, 29, a Pakistani militant, is behind the new plans for an attack against the United States. Pakistan has posted a 10-million rupee (about $166,000) award for his capture.
“He is probably Pakistan’s most wanted right now,” says Alexis Debat, a former adviser in the French defense ministry and now an ABC News consultant.
Bomb expert: Simple suicide unlikely at stadium explosion
March 1, 2006 by Homeland Security NTARC News
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Contrary to statements by authorities and the conclusions of media, a police bomb expert says the explosion that killed a University of Oklahoma student outside a packed football stadium last fall was accidental.
According to the Oklahoman newspaper, Sgt. George Mauldin of the Norman, Okla., police department believes 21-year-old Joel Hinrichs III “accidentally blew himself up” Oct. 1 on a park bench 173 yards from OU stadium during the second quarter of a night game against Kansas State.
