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Bomber kills 16 at Pakistan court: officials

AFP South Asian Edition yesterday

A suicide bomber struck outside a Pakistan court, killing 16 people on Thursday in the sixth attack on the northwestern city in 11 days as troops press a major anti-Taliban offensive. The bomb exploded at the main gate of the building near ...

Bomber kills 19 outside Pakistan court: officials

AFP South Asian Edition yesterday

A suicide bomber struck a court in Peshawar Thursday killing 19 people, the sixth attack on the northwestern city in 11 days as Pakistani troops press a major anti-Taliban offensive. The bomber hit at the main gate of the building, near the ...

Indonesia's anti-terrorism unit warns of new cells

Reuters US Online Report World News yesterday

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia still faces a key risk of new militant attacks as Islamic radicals have set up new cells in recent years and some bomb experts remain at large, the head of the country's anti-terrorism unit said on Thursday. Police ...

Brothers imprisoned for Sears Tower plot

AFP American Edition 2 days ago

A judge handed two brothers prison terms of six and seven years on Wednesday for swearing allegiance to Al-Qaeda and plotting to blow up the Sears Tower, once the tallest building in the world. US District Judge Joan Lenard found Burson and ...

Six-year jail term for Sears Tower plotter

AFP American Edition 2 days ago

A judge on Wednesday handed a six-year jail sentence to one of five men convicted of plotting to blow up the tallest building in the United States, Sears Tower, and swearing allegiance to Al-Qaeda. US District Judge Joan Lenard found that Burson ...

Six year jail term for Sears Tower plotter

AFP American Edition 2 days ago

A judge on Wednesday handed a six-year jail sentence to one of five men accused of plotting to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and allegedly swearing allegiance to Al-Qaeda. US federal prosecutors have asked for prison sentences of between 30 ...

Britain plans Afghan handover conference

AFP Asian Edition 3 days ago

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown offered to host an international conference on Afghanistan in London, which he said could set a time-frame for a handover of security to Afghan forces from 2010. In a speech here late Monday, Brown stressed that such ...

Britain plan Afghan handover conference

AFP Asian Edition 3 days ago

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown offered to host an international conference on Afghanistan in London, which he said could set a time-frame for a handover of security to Afghan forces from 2010. In a speech here late Monday, Brown stressed that such ...

Britain's Brown defends Afghan role

AFP Asian Edition 3 days ago

Foreign forces in Afghanistan are "disrupting and disabling" Al-Qaeda's leadership, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday, in a strong defence of Britain's involvement in the conflict. Brown also offered to host an international conference in London early next year on Afghanistan to ...

Suspect physicist discussed attacks on French army

AP News 3 days ago

Officials: Nuclear physicist with suspected al-Qaida contacts discussed targeting French army A French nuclear physicist discussed possible terrorist attacks targeting France's army in e-mail exchanges with North Africa's al-Qaida branch before his arrest last month, the Paris prosecutor's office said Tuesday. Adlene ...

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