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Yemen emerges as base for Qaida attacks on US
Not long ago, most Americans had scarcely heard of Yemen, the arid, Texas-size country in the southern corner of the Arabian peninsula. But on Friday, as news emerged of a plot to send explosives in courier packages from Yemen to synagogues in Chicago, the world's attention was focused once again on the threats brewing in Yemen's lawless, strife-to...
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Taped cellphones in bag lead to terror alert on plane
Two United States residents of Yemeni descent who flew from Chicago to Amsterdam on Sunday night were detained by the Dutch police after landing on Monday in a bizarre episode that American officials feared might be a dry run for a terrorist plot.But American law enforcement officials cautioned on Monday night that the men had not been charged with...
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India-born sentenced in US terrorism case
Two Illinois cousins, one of them an India-born American citizen, have been sentenced by a US court to prison for conspiring to kill US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.Zubair Ahmed, 31 was sentenced to 10 years in prison while Khaleel Ahmed, 29 was sentenced to eight years and four months, US Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio Steven Dettelb...
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Times Square terror plot: Obama sends top aides to Pak
US President Barack Obama has sent two of his senior most officials to Pakistan to follow-up the investigations of the failed Times Square car bomb.A White House official said the US national security advisor General James Jones and CIA Director Leon Panetta have left for Islamabad. The US describes the visit as 'time to redouble efforts with allie...
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US terror plot: Faisal's accomplice arrested in Pakistan
In a major breakthrough in the Times Square bomb plot, a man believed to be the accomplice of the main suspect Faisal Shahzad has been arrested in Pakistan. The arrest was not previously disclosed.The suspect arrested in Pakistan has reportedly admitted to helping Faisal. He is also said to have connections with the Pakistan Taliban. US intelligenc...
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Times Square bomb plot has damaged US-Pak ties: Qureshi
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said ties between his country and the United States have been adversely affected after the Times Square bomb plot, in which the Pakistan Taliban was involved. Speaking to a TV channel, the minister said, "Ties between his country and the United States are damaged to an extent after the Times Squa...
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Times Square bomb plot: Investigators seek money courier
Investigators of the failed car bombing in Times Square are looking for a money courier they say helped funnel cash from overseas to finance a Pakistani-American's preparations to blow up the crude gasoline-and-propane bomb in the heart of New York, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.Investigators have the name of the courier they...
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Yemen emerges as base for Qaida attacks on US
Not long ago, most Americans had scarcely heard of Yemen, the arid, Texas-size country in the southern corner of the Arabian peninsula. But on Friday, as news emerged of a plot to send explosives in courier packages from Yemen to synagogues in Chicago, the world's attention was focused once again on the threats brewing in Yemen's lawless, strife-to...
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Taped cellphones in bag lead to terror alert on plane
Two United States residents of Yemeni descent who flew from Chicago to Amsterdam on Sunday night were detained by the Dutch police after landing on Monday in a bizarre episode that American officials feared might be a dry run for a terrorist plot.But American law enforcement officials cautioned on Monday night that the men had not been charged with...
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India-born sentenced in US terrorism case
Two Illinois cousins, one of them an India-born American citizen, have been sentenced by a US court to prison for conspiring to kill US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.Zubair Ahmed, 31 was sentenced to 10 years in prison while Khaleel Ahmed, 29 was sentenced to eight years and four months, US Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio Steven Dettelb...
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Times Square terror plot: Obama sends top aides to Pak
US President Barack Obama has sent two of his senior most officials to Pakistan to follow-up the investigations of the failed Times Square car bomb.A White House official said the US national security advisor General James Jones and CIA Director Leon Panetta have left for Islamabad. The US describes the visit as 'time to redouble efforts with allie...
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US terror plot: Faisal's accomplice arrested in Pakistan
In a major breakthrough in the Times Square bomb plot, a man believed to be the accomplice of the main suspect Faisal Shahzad has been arrested in Pakistan. The arrest was not previously disclosed.The suspect arrested in Pakistan has reportedly admitted to helping Faisal. He is also said to have connections with the Pakistan Taliban. US intelligenc...
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Times Square bomb plot has damaged US-Pak ties: Qureshi
Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said ties between his country and the United States have been adversely affected after the Times Square bomb plot, in which the Pakistan Taliban was involved. Speaking to a TV channel, the minister said, "Ties between his country and the United States are damaged to an extent after the Times Squa...
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Times Square bomb plot: Investigators seek money courier
Investigators of the failed car bombing in Times Square are looking for a money courier they say helped funnel cash from overseas to finance a Pakistani-American's preparations to blow up the crude gasoline-and-propane bomb in the heart of New York, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.Investigators have the name of the courier they...
