Appendix: The MIPT News Briefing on Global Terrorism
Gordon reveals his cool in crisis
thesun Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:57:00 AM CEST
FEW events could underline the contrast of Brown and Blair as much as a terrorist strike...
Bombs an 'al-Qaeda memo'
smh Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:54:00 AM CEST
Failed plot to detonate car bombs in London appears to have been intended as a message to new British prime minister....
Egypt's Bedouin stage protest against police brutality in northern Sinai
haaretzdaily Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:53:00 AM CEST
Thousands of Egyptian Bedouin demonstrated Friday in the northern Sinai Peninsula to protest police brutality and demand better treatment by the government, security officials said. Trucks loaded with thousands of Bedouins, many of them carrying machine guns, passed through streets in this desert town and nearby villages, said the officials....
Hamas preacher defies PA gov't ban on incitement in mosques
haaretzdaily Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:53:00 AM CEST
A leading Hamas preacher on Friday defied an order issued by the moderate Palestinian government in the West Bank, prohibiting the dissemination of political messages and incitement within mosques. The order, part of a campaign to stem Hamas' influence in the West Bank following the group's violent.......
Disease wiping out bees and raising alarm
[Huh? Should Bush declare a “War on Honey”?]
taipeitimes Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:36:00 AM CEST
Five US soldiers die in coordinated Iraq attack
taipeitimes Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:36:00 AM CEST
AP, BAGHDAD Saturday, Jun 30, 2007, Page 7 Five US soldiers were killed and seven wounded in a coordinated attack in southern Baghdad involving a roadside bomb and rocket-propelled grenades, the US military announced yesterday. The soldiers were on a combat patrol when a roadside bomb exploded near.......
US making little effort to find deserters, data shows
taipeitimes Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:36:00 AM CEST
British police ward off apparent terror attack in London
taipeitimes Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:36:00 AM CEST
AP AND AFP, LONDON Saturday, Jun 30, 2007, Page 1 British police yesterday thwarted an apparent terror attack in central London, discovering a parked silver Mercedes that was packed with gas containers and a large number of nails and a detonator. The attack would have caused "significant injury or loss of life," police said....
Mexicans chide U.S. over immigration
news-yahoo Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:44:00 AM CEST
Taliban Pushing Out of Frontier, Pakistani President Is Warned
nytimes Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:29:00 AM CEST
Gen. Pervez Musharraf, was warned this month that without “swift and decisive action,” the growing militancy could engulf the rest of the country....
London Police Defuse Bombs; Iraq Ploy Cited
nytimes Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:29:00 AM CEST
Two Mercedes sedans filled with gasoline, nails and gas canisters had been parked near Piccadilly Circus in the bustling West End....
Police in massive manhunt for car bombers
NEWScomAU Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:29:00 AM CEST
BRITISH police have launced a massive manhunt for the people behind failed attempts to carry out two car bombings in London's nightclub district in what experts called Iraq-style attacks. 11:13am (AEST)...
Suicide bombers hole up in Pakistan mosque: Musharraf
ChinaPost Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:23:00 AM CEST
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said on Friday suicide bombers from an al-Qaida linked militant group are holed up in a mosque in the centre of the capital, Islamabad....
Uribe accuses FARC of killing hostages
ChinaPost Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:23:00 AM CEST
President Alvaro Uribe accused Colombian rebels of killing 11 state lawmakers in cold blood, appealing to Colombians on live television after the guerrillas said the hostages died in the crossfire of a military attack....
[Finally, an actual non-Islamist terrorist story: though there is little danger that Colombian guerillas are waging a terrorist war against any country outside of Colombia]
London police thwart car bomb plot
ChinaPost Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:23:00 AM CEST
Police in London's bustling theater district on Friday thwarted an apparent terror attack, after an ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from a Mercedes car filled with a lethal mix of gasoline, propane and nails, authorities said....
Ring of steel to aid bomb inquiry
ft Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:19:00 AM CEST
The ring of steel monitors 52 entrances to central London, taking photographs of vehicle number plates, the vehicles themselves as well as separate images of drivers. The locations of the monitoring points are not publicly disclosed. Apart from this, the centre is covered by intensive closed circuit.......
Police hunt for West Endcar bomber
Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:03:00 AM CEST
Police were last night hunting a terrorist who planned to kill hundreds of people in London's West End by detonating a car bomb outside a crowded nightclub. The bomb outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub in Haymarket near Piccadilly Circus - which was defused by police - was set togo off less than 48.......
Manhunt For London Car Bombers
guardiannewsngr Saturday, June 30, 2007 3:54:00 AM CEST
BRITISH police and other security experts last night launched a massive offensive to track down car bomb drivers and accomplices who threatened the peace of London yesterday with explosives in two Mercedes Ben cars....
London Police Investigate Suspected Bomb
topix Saturday, June 30, 2007 3:51:00 AM CEST
Police defused an explosive device found in a parked car in central London on Friday, and the new government called an emergency meeting of senior security chiefs to investigate what many feared could have been ......
U.S. Reacts to London Bombs
ABCnews Saturday, June 30, 2007 3:17:00 AM CEST
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly were quick to speak publicly on the city's reaction. "We'll take a little extra precautions, although we have a lot of police officers on the road anyway," Bloomberg said. "So we're going to ramp up a little bit, nothing dramatic....
Wimbledon Championships 2007: Easy for Justine and Serena
nst Saturday, June 30, 2007 3:05:00 AM CEST
Justine, trying to complete a career Grand Slam with a title at the All England Club, beat Elena Vesnina of Russia 6-1, 6-3. Serena defeated Milagros Sequera of Venezuela 6-1, 6-0 in only 43 minutes. Justine beat Serena in the quarter-finals of the French Open, and then went on to win her third straight title at Roland Garros....
[Woops! How did a story about a tennis competition get into a news briefing about terrorism? Should Bush declare a “War on Net Sports”?]
Palestinian PM bans mosque politics
aljazeera-en Saturday, June 30, 2007 3:05:00 AM CEST
Preacher defies Salam Fayyad's order by criticising the new Palestinian government....
Troubles trauma victory for RUC officers
telegraph Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:59:00 AM CEST
Thousands of Royal Ulster Constabulary officers have won the right to fight for compensation from the Government for the trauma they endured during Northern Ireland's Troubles....
[This is good news: it shows that the IRA terrrorism has become moderated over time; and anyway, it never posed a threat outside of Ireland and a few spots in England]
telegraph Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:59:00 AM CEST
Chilling parallels to other attacks in Britain
telegraph Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:59:00 AM CEST
Security officials will be keen to investigate a number of chilling parallels to other terrorist plots to attack Britain....
chilling parallels to other terrorist plots to attack Britain....
Signs point to radicalised Muslims
telegraph Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:59:00 AM CEST
Police investigating the London car bomb plot said it was too early to say who was behind it. But when the perpetrators are caught they will almost certainly possess a number of chillingly familiar characteristics....
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Hazel Blears is Brown's little ray of sunshine
telegraph Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:59:00 AM CEST
Interview: You either love me or hate me, the new minister for Communities and Local Government tells Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson....
Last things
guardian Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:55:00 AM CEST
Arts & entertainment: Mark Lawson considers Michael Dibdin's unique contribution to British detective fiction....
Henin shrugs off rain delay to reach fourth round
japantimes Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:28:00 AM CEST
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Justine Henin became the first player to reach the fourth round at Wimbledon, beating Elena Vesnina of Russia 6-1, 6-3 Friday. Read more . . ....
[What in blazes are the above four stories doing on a news briefing concerning global terrorism? Anyway. . .]
Al-Qa'eda hunt after two London bombs found
telegraph Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:29:00 AM CEST
A huge manhunt was going on last night for a group of suspected al-Qa'eda terrorists after two car bombs were planted in the West End of London....
Garibaldi, as every schoolboy used to know, was the chap who marched up and down Italy with 1,000 men in red shirts fighting everybody who was against the unification of the leg of Europe. He became so famous he had a biscuit named after him, which, as every schoolboy still knows, is called a "fly cemetery" or "dead-fly sandwich"....
[Not sure what this story is doing on a news briefing of global terrorism, but perhaps the Leftist paper The Independent whence the story comes, and this MIPT new briefing feature which bothers to cite it, are drawing an equivalence between the “swashbuckling” romantic revolutionary of 19th century Italian politics, Giuseppe Garibaldi, and the Muslim “freedom fighters” of our day who behead little girls, shoot nuns in the back, torture Christian boys to try to force them to renounce their Christianity, torture Greek Orthodox priests then kill them, shoot children in the back, use physical violence to intimidate fellow Muslims who sell music CDs and videos, gang-sodomize Muslims who convert to Christianity, hide amongst their own women and children, blow up their own mosques and funeral processions and groups of children lining up for candy to celebrate a new sewage plant built with the help of the evil Infidels who are just trying to help the Muslims have a better life, etc., ad hideous nauseam...]
Henin, Serena reach fourth round at Wimbledon
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:09:00 AM CEST
WIMBLEDON: Justine Henin and Serena Williams moved closer to another Grand Slam quarterfinal match, each easily advancing to the fourth round at Wimbledon on Friday. Henin, trying to complete a career Grand Slam with a title at the All England Club, beat Elena Vesnina of Russia 6-1, 6-3....
[Ah, more terrorist tennis news!]
NATO never ‘intentionally’ kills civilians: Scheffer
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:09:00 AM CEST
OHRID: NATO forces in Afghanistan would never “intentionally” kill civilians, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer told a conference of the alliance and its partners Friday. The comments were apparently in response to criticism last week from Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who accused the....
[Notice the sneering quotes around the word intentionally, implying no difference between civilian deaths inevitably caused in war, and the first-degree murders (not to mention grotesque tortures) routinely perpetrated by Muslim “freedom fighters” around the world.]
Turkey has plans to move against Iraqi Kurds: Gul
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:09:00 AM CEST
* Denies differences between Turkish govt and military on Iraq ANKARA: Turkey has prepared detailed plans for a cross-border operation into Iraq against Kurdish rebels and will act if US or Iraqi forces fail to tackle them, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul was quoted as saying on Friday....
U-turn on terrorism prisoners' appeals
TheScotsman Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:54:00 AM CEST
THE US Supreme Court has said it will hear appeals by Guantanamo Bay prisoners on their right to challenge their confinement before federal judges, a test of President George W Bush's powers in the war on terrorism....
Cartoon character is 'martyred' on TV
TheScotsman Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:54:00 AM CEST
THE Hamas-affiliated al-Aqsa TV channel last night broadcast what it said was the last episode of a weekly children's show featuring "Farfour", a Mickey Mouse lookalike who had made worldwide headlines for preaching Islamic domination and armed struggle......
First suspect could face Lockerbie charge
TheScotsman Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:54:00 AM CEST
THE original suspect in the Lockerbie bombing could still be charged with mass murder because he does not have immunity from prosecution, the Crown Office confirmed last night.... Pride and grief over death of heroes
TheScotsman Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:54:00 AM CEST
THE news they had been dreading arrived in a group text message. Private James Kerr, 20, would never return to Cowdenbeath - his life snuffed out by an roadside bomb while on patrol in the dusty streets of Basra....
Police hunt Iraqi on run after double bomb plot in London
TheScotsman Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:54:00 AM CEST
POLICE were last night hunting an Iraqi, suspected of plotting car-bomb attacks in Britain, who went on the run just days before two vehicles packed with petrol, gas and nails were found in central London....
Garibaldi: The first global action hero
independent Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:55:00 AM CEST
Published: 30 June 2007 Revolutionary, sex symbol, global celebrity - as romantic heroes go,
Guiseppe Garibaldi really took the biscuit. Paul Vallely celebrates his bicentenary...
[cf. supra on Garibaldi]
Hamas TV show kills militant mouse character
cnn Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:53:00 AM CEST
GAZA CITY (AP) -- A Mickey Mouse lookalike who preached Islamic domination on a Hamas-affiliated children's television program was the victim of a pretend beating death in the show's final episode Friday. In the final skit, the "Farfour" character was killed by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour's land....
Half of Baghdad now under control
usaToday Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:44:00 AM CEST
In the face of stiffening insurgent resistance, U.S. and Iraqi security forces now control about half of Baghdad, the American ......
Court reversal over Guantanamo
itv Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:33:00 AM CEST
In a highly-unusual reversal, the US Supreme Court will hear appeals by Guantanamo inmates on their right to challenge their captivity. In April, the high court refused to hear arguments but has now said two cases will now be brought before the court when its new term begins in October.... US warns Americans to avoid Colombian tourist town
alertnet Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:27:00 AM CEST
BOGOTA, June 29 (Reuters) - Colombian rebels who have held three Americans hostage for about four years may be planning to target more U.S. citizens in a popular central Andean tourist town, the U.S. Embassy in Bogota said on Friday. "The embassy has received information indicating that the.......
London on the edge
independent Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:25:00 AM CEST
Published: 30 June 2007 Chaos in the capital after police prevent massive car-bomb attacks on packed West End nightclubs... VIEW: The ‘other’ mighty hearts -Rafia Zakaria
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
Since Pearl’s death seven Pakistani journalists have been killed for their reporting. Of these three are said to have been targeted by Islamist groups. Yet, it is unlikely that any movies will be made about their deaths While Karachiites were braving the cataclysmic deluge of the past week, another.......
VIEW: Beyond the death-penalty debate -Antonio Cassese
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
How can we ignore that many states today kill not only through legal punishment, but also by murdering and massacring in international or civil wars, or by allowing starvation? In short, opposition to the death penalty cannot be an end in itself, for it is only one element of a more general fight.......
United States charges four in planned attack on JFK airport
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
NEW YORK: The United States charged four men on Friday with conspiring to blow up fuel tanks and pipelines at New York’s John F Kennedy International airport. A grand jury at the US district court here charged Trinidadian Kareem Ibrahim, former Guyana parliamentarian Abdul Kadir, Guyana native.......
Pakistan, NATO coordinating tribal strikes: report
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
WASHINGTON: There is a covert understanding between the Pakistan government and NATO forces in Afghanistan regarding direct US military action in the tribal areas, according to a commentary published here. Hassan Abbas writes in Terrorism Focus, a publication of the Jamestown Foundation, that the.......
Five US troops killed in Baghdad bomb blast
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
* US military says 3 Al Qaeda-linked militants killed in Friday raids BAGHDAD: Insurgents killed five US soldiers in an ambush in Baghdad as the military said it had detained dozens of suspected Al-Qaeda linked militants in raids across Iraq on Friday....
PIDC bombing suspect arrested
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
KARACHI: Karachi Police on Friday arrested the alleged mastermind behind a car bomb blast outside the Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) building. Abdul Hameed Bugti was arrested from a hideout in Garden area on a tip-off. Police claimed that Hameed had masterminded the attack and.......
Mufti urges boycott of suicide bombers’ funeral
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
SRINAGAR: Indian-held Kashmir’s top Muslim cleric has called on Muslims to boycott funerals of people who kill themselves in a bid to halt a rise in suicides in the revolt-hit state, a report said on Friday.
[Now, this sounds at face value like a bit of heartening news, a Muslim cleric calling on Muslims not to honor suicide bombers with Islamic funerals. However, the fact that he has to issue this call shows that normal grassroots Muslims are in fact honoring those suicide bomber "martyrs", and when we read the story we see disturbing statistics against which this lone solitary (albeit apparently “top” cleric is remonstrating: Indian-held Kashmir’s top Muslim cleric has called on Muslims to boycott funerals of people who kill themselves in a bid to halt a rise in suicides in the revolt-hit state, a report said on Friday.Sixty suicides have been reported in the first six months of the year according to official figures, compared with a total of 61 in all of 2006.
UK police avert 2 car bomb attacks
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
* Al Qaeda message traced in US hours before police defuse first car bomb LONDON: Police found two car bombs packed with petrol, gas and nails in London’s teeming theatre district on Friday, averting attacks that echoed an earlier al Qaeda plot that could have killed hundreds.... Musharraf ready to raid Lal Masjid but...
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
* Says govt will act if media doesn’t show bodies By Iqbal Khattak ISLAMABAD: President Musharraf said on Friday that the potential loss of human lives was preventing him from taking any action against the Lal Masjid, while adding that suicide bombers from Jaish-e-Mohammad were also hiding in the mosque....
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Weeks of careful planning and a good breakfast - the making of Gordon Brown's perfect week
guardian Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
Oliver Burkeman and Patrick Wintour on the secret meetings and last minute manoeuvring behind this week's handover.... Turkey warns of plans to invade northern Iraq
guardian Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
• Call for US to move against Kurdish guerrillas• PKK behind bombings in Ankara, say authorities...
Car bombs come to London
guardian Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
Police are desperately hunting a suspected al-Qaida inspired terrorist cell following the discovery of two "Iraqi style" car bombs.... Report of the secretary general on the implementation of Sec
icelandnews Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:18:00 AM CEST
I. Introduction 1. The present report is the fourth report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolution 1701 (2006), notably on efforts towards the achievement of a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon and a long-term solution based on the principles and elements outlined in paragraph eight of the resolution....
International probe as London police avert car bomb carnage
eirepost Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:15:00 AM CEST
. (AFP) British police on Friday defused a car bomb composed of gas cylinders, petrol and nails in London's entertainment district, sparking a security probe into possible international links, including Iraq. Amid widespread disruption in the capital, new Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned the alert....... The old spirit still stirs but the people of Baghdad have one wish: to get out
thetimes Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:03:00 AM CEST
Baghdad was shrouded in a sinister orange glow from a scorching dust storm that had just blown in from the desert and settled over the city. Through the gritty haze a fire burned at the nearby Doura oil refinery. In the distance white flashes marked the detonation of mortars from the latest US offensive against insurgents....
London: 2nd car bomb found; dismantled with no incident
jpost Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:01:00 AM CEST
Expert: Similiarity to Iraq, Lebanon bombs meant as message that int'l war on terror has failed. PM Brown: "vigilance must be maintained."... Hamas TV Kills Off Mickey Mouse Double
topix Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:51:00 AM CEST
A Mickey Mouse lookalike who preached Islamic domination on a Hamas-affiliated children's television program was beaten to death in the show's final episode Friday....
London police foil major terror plot
news-yahoo Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:44:00 AM CEST
The plot, coming only two days after Gordon Brown took over as prime minister, raised the specter of the attacks in July 2005 when the London Underground and an iconic double-decker bus were targeted by a group of homegrown terrorists who killed 52 people. As police searched for car bombs and terrorists in the city of 7.... 'Massive' car bombs put London on terror alert
24dash Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:28:00 AM CEST
Two massive car bombs were defused in the centre of London today. The first - packed with petrol, nails and gas canisters - outside a nightclub in Haymarket, was "clearly linked" to a second car a few hundred yards away, police said. The second vehicle, a blue 280E model Mercedes was found to be a.......
Both London car bombs 'potentially viable,' police say
cnn Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:23:00 AM CEST
Two cars found Friday in central London were part of one terror plot with both vehicles "potentially viable" bombs made up of gas canisters, fuel and nails, police said. One car was found in an entertainment district as people were leaving nightclubs. UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said the bombs could have caused "considerable loss of life.... Second car bomb found
smh Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:22:00 AM CEST
Police found a second car bomb packed with petrol, gas and nails in London's teeming theatre district....
Hamas Mickey Mouse 'beaten to death'
TorontoStar Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:14:00 AM CEST
A Mickey Mouse lookalike on a Hamas-affiliated children's TV program was beaten to death in the show's final episode today.... Second car bomb found in London
aljazeera-en Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:02:00 AM CEST
Alarming discovery comes hours after police defuse explosive device in a parked Mercedes....
In London, the Manhunt Is On
time Friday, June 29, 2007 11:55:00 PM CEST
After dismantling two car bombs in central London, British authorities search for the plotters.... Report of the secretary general on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1701
LBdailystar Friday, June 29, 2007 11:49:00 PM CEST
1. The present report is the fourth report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolution 1701 (2006), notably on efforts towards the achievement of a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon and a long-term solution based on the principles and elements outlined in paragraph eight of the resolution....
Fadlallah: 'Terrorist attacks' on UNIFIL aim to stir strife
LBdailystar Friday, June 29, 2007 11:49:00 PM CEST
Senior Shiite cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah said on Friday that attacks on UN peacekeepers in the South were the precursor of further instability in Lebanon."All terrorist attacks against Lebanon, including those on the peacekeepers in the South and attacks on the Lebanese Army, aim at inciting chaos in Lebanon.... Three Palestinians killed in protest outside Nahr al-Bared
LBdailystar Friday, June 29, 2007 11:49:00 PM CEST
Three displaced Palestinian refugees were killed and at least 30 others wounded on Friday after refusing to heed army orders to disperse during a demonstration outside the North Lebanon refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared. This incident came as mediators from the Palestinian Clerics Association announced....
Ban releases report on Resolution 1701
LBdailystar Friday, June 29, 2007 11:49:00 PM CEST
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon released his fourth report on Security Council Resolution 1701 on Friday, voicing his dismay over the political turmoil in Lebanon and Israel's continual violations of the resolution. "I am deeply concerned that Lebanon remains in the midst of a debilitating political crisis and faces ongoing.... Let Iraq burn, but don't leave the scene of the fire
LBdailystar Friday, June 29, 2007 11:49:00 PM CEST
"Sometimes you just have to let a fire burn." George Shultz, a former secretary of state who was trained as an industrial economist, is said to have made that remark about labor negotiations that have reached an impasse. It applies with ever-greater clarity to Iraq....
Key Sunni bloc suspends participation in Iraqi Cabinet
LBdailystar Friday, June 29, 2007 11:49:00 PM CEST
Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc is suspending its participation in Cabinet in protest of the legal steps being taken against one of its prominent ministers, who is the head of the bloc, Adnan al-Dulaimi said on Friday. The Sunni Accordance Front has six ministers in Cabinet and the move is a big blow to Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.... Sadr calls off planned march to Shiite shrine in Samarra
LBdailystar Friday, June 29, 2007 11:49:00 PM CEST
Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has postponed a march by his followers to the northern Sunni town of Samarra called to protest at the destruction of a revered shrine there, a top aide said on Friday. Assad al-Nasiri, a Shiite imam and Sadr loyalist, cited one of the reasons for the.......
Globalization is exposing injustice in the Arab world
LBdailystar Friday, June 29, 2007 11:49:00 PM CEST
Perhaps the most dramatic effect of globalization is that every thing has become, theoretically at least, within reach. A depressed Iraqi woman may find a better supporter in a South African activist than she does in a next-door neighbor. The downside effect of globalization is that rumors and misinformation circulate just as fast as ground truths.... Spain detains four suspected of links to Al-Qaeda
LBdailystar Friday, June 29, 2007 11:49:00 PM CEST
Spain's Interior Ministry said Friday police had arrested a Moroccan man in Barcelona suspected of having links to Al-Qaeda, three days after three other Moroccans were detained for the same reason. The ministry said the man arrested Friday was "presumed linked to the Al-Qaeda cell dismantled this week....
Richardson's campaign raises $7 million
news-yahoo Friday, June 29, 2007 11:44:00 PM CEST
Richardson disclosed the number a day before the end of the second quarter. Meanwhile, Republican Mitt Romney 's presidential campaign predicted Friday that his April-June fundraising would fall short of the $20 million he raised in the first quarter of the year, lowering expectations in a tight race for financial prominence.... U.S. urges vigilance after London bomb scares
usaToday Friday, June 29, 2007 11:38:00 PM CEST
The government is urging Americans to be vigilant about suspicious activity after British police defused a bomb in downtown London, ......
Ring of steel tightens on suspect
ft Friday, June 29, 2007 11:32:00 PM CEST
The ring of steel monitors 52 entrances to central London, taking photographs of vehicle number plates, the vehicles themselves as well as separate images of drivers. The locations of the monitoring points are not publicly disclosed. Apart from this, the centre is covered by intensive closed circuit.......
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Other stories interspersed in this news briefing ostensibly dedicated to the topic of global terrorism include irrelevant stories, such as one about a disease that is killing bees, etc.:
An alarming disease has wiped out 2.4 million beehives and scientists are working to discover the cause, while concern grows that a similar crisis could hit the UK By Peter Huck THE GUARDIAN, LOS ANGELES Saturday, Jun 30, 2007, Page 9 Dave Hackenberg, an apiarist from West Milton, Pennsylvania,.......
NO BOUNTY HUNTERS: Pentagon officials said that it would be a poor use of time to go after the growing number of deserters, particularly when there is a war on AP, FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA Saturday, Jun 30, 2007, Page 7 Despite a rise in desertions from the US Army as the Iraq war drags on into a.......
President Bush 's plan to legalize as many as 12 million unlawful immigrants from around the world while fortifying the border failed in the U.S. Senate on Thursday. "This is very bad news for Mexican migrants in the U.S.," said Jorge Bustamante, special rapporteur to the U.N. human rights commission for migrants....
Baltimore, Philadelphia and other cities in a bloodstained corridor along the East Coast are seeing a surge in killings, and one of the most provocative explanations offered by criminal-justice experts is this: not enough new immigrants. . .
[Note: The above is a news story about increased crime, not terrorism]
Ara Darzi The surgeon drafted into the Brown government to help boost the NHS is one of Britain's leading experts in keyhole surgery. But Sir Ara Darzi has already crossed swords with ministers, recommending in vain two years ago that two hospitals in Hartlepool and Stockton should remain open....
thesun Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:57:00 AM CEST
FEW events could underline the contrast of Brown and Blair as much as a terrorist strike...
Bombs an 'al-Qaeda memo'
smh Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:54:00 AM CEST
Failed plot to detonate car bombs in London appears to have been intended as a message to new British prime minister....
Egypt's Bedouin stage protest against police brutality in northern Sinai
haaretzdaily Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:53:00 AM CEST
Thousands of Egyptian Bedouin demonstrated Friday in the northern Sinai Peninsula to protest police brutality and demand better treatment by the government, security officials said. Trucks loaded with thousands of Bedouins, many of them carrying machine guns, passed through streets in this desert town and nearby villages, said the officials....
Hamas preacher defies PA gov't ban on incitement in mosques
haaretzdaily Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:53:00 AM CEST
A leading Hamas preacher on Friday defied an order issued by the moderate Palestinian government in the West Bank, prohibiting the dissemination of political messages and incitement within mosques. The order, part of a campaign to stem Hamas' influence in the West Bank following the group's violent.......
Disease wiping out bees and raising alarm
[Huh? Should Bush declare a “War on Honey”?]
taipeitimes Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:36:00 AM CEST
Five US soldiers die in coordinated Iraq attack
taipeitimes Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:36:00 AM CEST
AP, BAGHDAD Saturday, Jun 30, 2007, Page 7 Five US soldiers were killed and seven wounded in a coordinated attack in southern Baghdad involving a roadside bomb and rocket-propelled grenades, the US military announced yesterday. The soldiers were on a combat patrol when a roadside bomb exploded near.......
US making little effort to find deserters, data shows
taipeitimes Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:36:00 AM CEST
British police ward off apparent terror attack in London
taipeitimes Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:36:00 AM CEST
AP AND AFP, LONDON Saturday, Jun 30, 2007, Page 1 British police yesterday thwarted an apparent terror attack in central London, discovering a parked silver Mercedes that was packed with gas containers and a large number of nails and a detonator. The attack would have caused "significant injury or loss of life," police said....
Mexicans chide U.S. over immigration
news-yahoo Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:44:00 AM CEST
Taliban Pushing Out of Frontier, Pakistani President Is Warned
nytimes Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:29:00 AM CEST
Gen. Pervez Musharraf, was warned this month that without “swift and decisive action,” the growing militancy could engulf the rest of the country....
London Police Defuse Bombs; Iraq Ploy Cited
nytimes Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:29:00 AM CEST
Two Mercedes sedans filled with gasoline, nails and gas canisters had been parked near Piccadilly Circus in the bustling West End....
Police in massive manhunt for car bombers
NEWScomAU Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:29:00 AM CEST
BRITISH police have launced a massive manhunt for the people behind failed attempts to carry out two car bombings in London's nightclub district in what experts called Iraq-style attacks. 11:13am (AEST)...
Suicide bombers hole up in Pakistan mosque: Musharraf
ChinaPost Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:23:00 AM CEST
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said on Friday suicide bombers from an al-Qaida linked militant group are holed up in a mosque in the centre of the capital, Islamabad....
Uribe accuses FARC of killing hostages
ChinaPost Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:23:00 AM CEST
President Alvaro Uribe accused Colombian rebels of killing 11 state lawmakers in cold blood, appealing to Colombians on live television after the guerrillas said the hostages died in the crossfire of a military attack....
[Finally, an actual non-Islamist terrorist story: though there is little danger that Colombian guerillas are waging a terrorist war against any country outside of Colombia]
London police thwart car bomb plot
ChinaPost Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:23:00 AM CEST
Police in London's bustling theater district on Friday thwarted an apparent terror attack, after an ambulance crew spotted smoke coming from a Mercedes car filled with a lethal mix of gasoline, propane and nails, authorities said....
Ring of steel to aid bomb inquiry
ft Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:19:00 AM CEST
The ring of steel monitors 52 entrances to central London, taking photographs of vehicle number plates, the vehicles themselves as well as separate images of drivers. The locations of the monitoring points are not publicly disclosed. Apart from this, the centre is covered by intensive closed circuit.......
Police hunt for West Endcar bomber
Saturday, June 30, 2007 4:03:00 AM CEST
Police were last night hunting a terrorist who planned to kill hundreds of people in London's West End by detonating a car bomb outside a crowded nightclub. The bomb outside the Tiger Tiger nightclub in Haymarket near Piccadilly Circus - which was defused by police - was set togo off less than 48.......
Manhunt For London Car Bombers
guardiannewsngr Saturday, June 30, 2007 3:54:00 AM CEST
BRITISH police and other security experts last night launched a massive offensive to track down car bomb drivers and accomplices who threatened the peace of London yesterday with explosives in two Mercedes Ben cars....
London Police Investigate Suspected Bomb
topix Saturday, June 30, 2007 3:51:00 AM CEST
Police defused an explosive device found in a parked car in central London on Friday, and the new government called an emergency meeting of senior security chiefs to investigate what many feared could have been ......
U.S. Reacts to London Bombs
ABCnews Saturday, June 30, 2007 3:17:00 AM CEST
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly were quick to speak publicly on the city's reaction. "We'll take a little extra precautions, although we have a lot of police officers on the road anyway," Bloomberg said. "So we're going to ramp up a little bit, nothing dramatic....
Wimbledon Championships 2007: Easy for Justine and Serena
nst Saturday, June 30, 2007 3:05:00 AM CEST
Justine, trying to complete a career Grand Slam with a title at the All England Club, beat Elena Vesnina of Russia 6-1, 6-3. Serena defeated Milagros Sequera of Venezuela 6-1, 6-0 in only 43 minutes. Justine beat Serena in the quarter-finals of the French Open, and then went on to win her third straight title at Roland Garros....
[Woops! How did a story about a tennis competition get into a news briefing about terrorism? Should Bush declare a “War on Net Sports”?]
Palestinian PM bans mosque politics
aljazeera-en Saturday, June 30, 2007 3:05:00 AM CEST
Preacher defies Salam Fayyad's order by criticising the new Palestinian government....
Troubles trauma victory for RUC officers
telegraph Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:59:00 AM CEST
Thousands of Royal Ulster Constabulary officers have won the right to fight for compensation from the Government for the trauma they endured during Northern Ireland's Troubles....
[This is good news: it shows that the IRA terrrorism has become moderated over time; and anyway, it never posed a threat outside of Ireland and a few spots in England]
telegraph Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:59:00 AM CEST
Chilling parallels to other attacks in Britain
telegraph Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:59:00 AM CEST
Security officials will be keen to investigate a number of chilling parallels to other terrorist plots to attack Britain....
chilling parallels to other terrorist plots to attack Britain....
Signs point to radicalised Muslims
telegraph Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:59:00 AM CEST
Police investigating the London car bomb plot said it was too early to say who was behind it. But when the perpetrators are caught they will almost certainly possess a number of chillingly familiar characteristics....
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Hazel Blears is Brown's little ray of sunshine
telegraph Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:59:00 AM CEST
Interview: You either love me or hate me, the new minister for Communities and Local Government tells Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson....
Last things
guardian Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:55:00 AM CEST
Arts & entertainment: Mark Lawson considers Michael Dibdin's unique contribution to British detective fiction....
Henin shrugs off rain delay to reach fourth round
japantimes Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:28:00 AM CEST
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Justine Henin became the first player to reach the fourth round at Wimbledon, beating Elena Vesnina of Russia 6-1, 6-3 Friday. Read more . . ....
[What in blazes are the above four stories doing on a news briefing concerning global terrorism? Anyway. . .]
Al-Qa'eda hunt after two London bombs found
telegraph Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:29:00 AM CEST
A huge manhunt was going on last night for a group of suspected al-Qa'eda terrorists after two car bombs were planted in the West End of London....
Garibaldi, as every schoolboy used to know, was the chap who marched up and down Italy with 1,000 men in red shirts fighting everybody who was against the unification of the leg of Europe. He became so famous he had a biscuit named after him, which, as every schoolboy still knows, is called a "fly cemetery" or "dead-fly sandwich"....
[Not sure what this story is doing on a news briefing of global terrorism, but perhaps the Leftist paper The Independent whence the story comes, and this MIPT new briefing feature which bothers to cite it, are drawing an equivalence between the “swashbuckling” romantic revolutionary of 19th century Italian politics, Giuseppe Garibaldi, and the Muslim “freedom fighters” of our day who behead little girls, shoot nuns in the back, torture Christian boys to try to force them to renounce their Christianity, torture Greek Orthodox priests then kill them, shoot children in the back, use physical violence to intimidate fellow Muslims who sell music CDs and videos, gang-sodomize Muslims who convert to Christianity, hide amongst their own women and children, blow up their own mosques and funeral processions and groups of children lining up for candy to celebrate a new sewage plant built with the help of the evil Infidels who are just trying to help the Muslims have a better life, etc., ad hideous nauseam...]
Henin, Serena reach fourth round at Wimbledon
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:09:00 AM CEST
WIMBLEDON: Justine Henin and Serena Williams moved closer to another Grand Slam quarterfinal match, each easily advancing to the fourth round at Wimbledon on Friday. Henin, trying to complete a career Grand Slam with a title at the All England Club, beat Elena Vesnina of Russia 6-1, 6-3....
[Ah, more terrorist tennis news!]
NATO never ‘intentionally’ kills civilians: Scheffer
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:09:00 AM CEST
OHRID: NATO forces in Afghanistan would never “intentionally” kill civilians, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer told a conference of the alliance and its partners Friday. The comments were apparently in response to criticism last week from Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who accused the....
[Notice the sneering quotes around the word intentionally, implying no difference between civilian deaths inevitably caused in war, and the first-degree murders (not to mention grotesque tortures) routinely perpetrated by Muslim “freedom fighters” around the world.]
Turkey has plans to move against Iraqi Kurds: Gul
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 2:09:00 AM CEST
* Denies differences between Turkish govt and military on Iraq ANKARA: Turkey has prepared detailed plans for a cross-border operation into Iraq against Kurdish rebels and will act if US or Iraqi forces fail to tackle them, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul was quoted as saying on Friday....
U-turn on terrorism prisoners' appeals
TheScotsman Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:54:00 AM CEST
THE US Supreme Court has said it will hear appeals by Guantanamo Bay prisoners on their right to challenge their confinement before federal judges, a test of President George W Bush's powers in the war on terrorism....
Cartoon character is 'martyred' on TV
TheScotsman Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:54:00 AM CEST
THE Hamas-affiliated al-Aqsa TV channel last night broadcast what it said was the last episode of a weekly children's show featuring "Farfour", a Mickey Mouse lookalike who had made worldwide headlines for preaching Islamic domination and armed struggle......
First suspect could face Lockerbie charge
TheScotsman Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:54:00 AM CEST
THE original suspect in the Lockerbie bombing could still be charged with mass murder because he does not have immunity from prosecution, the Crown Office confirmed last night.... Pride and grief over death of heroes
TheScotsman Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:54:00 AM CEST
THE news they had been dreading arrived in a group text message. Private James Kerr, 20, would never return to Cowdenbeath - his life snuffed out by an roadside bomb while on patrol in the dusty streets of Basra....
Police hunt Iraqi on run after double bomb plot in London
TheScotsman Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:54:00 AM CEST
POLICE were last night hunting an Iraqi, suspected of plotting car-bomb attacks in Britain, who went on the run just days before two vehicles packed with petrol, gas and nails were found in central London....
Garibaldi: The first global action hero
independent Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:55:00 AM CEST
Published: 30 June 2007 Revolutionary, sex symbol, global celebrity - as romantic heroes go,
Guiseppe Garibaldi really took the biscuit. Paul Vallely celebrates his bicentenary...
[cf. supra on Garibaldi]
Hamas TV show kills militant mouse character
cnn Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:53:00 AM CEST
GAZA CITY (AP) -- A Mickey Mouse lookalike who preached Islamic domination on a Hamas-affiliated children's television program was the victim of a pretend beating death in the show's final episode Friday. In the final skit, the "Farfour" character was killed by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour's land....
Half of Baghdad now under control
usaToday Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:44:00 AM CEST
In the face of stiffening insurgent resistance, U.S. and Iraqi security forces now control about half of Baghdad, the American ......
Court reversal over Guantanamo
itv Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:33:00 AM CEST
In a highly-unusual reversal, the US Supreme Court will hear appeals by Guantanamo inmates on their right to challenge their captivity. In April, the high court refused to hear arguments but has now said two cases will now be brought before the court when its new term begins in October.... US warns Americans to avoid Colombian tourist town
alertnet Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:27:00 AM CEST
BOGOTA, June 29 (Reuters) - Colombian rebels who have held three Americans hostage for about four years may be planning to target more U.S. citizens in a popular central Andean tourist town, the U.S. Embassy in Bogota said on Friday. "The embassy has received information indicating that the.......
London on the edge
independent Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:25:00 AM CEST
Published: 30 June 2007 Chaos in the capital after police prevent massive car-bomb attacks on packed West End nightclubs... VIEW: The ‘other’ mighty hearts -Rafia Zakaria
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
Since Pearl’s death seven Pakistani journalists have been killed for their reporting. Of these three are said to have been targeted by Islamist groups. Yet, it is unlikely that any movies will be made about their deaths While Karachiites were braving the cataclysmic deluge of the past week, another.......
VIEW: Beyond the death-penalty debate -Antonio Cassese
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
How can we ignore that many states today kill not only through legal punishment, but also by murdering and massacring in international or civil wars, or by allowing starvation? In short, opposition to the death penalty cannot be an end in itself, for it is only one element of a more general fight.......
United States charges four in planned attack on JFK airport
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
NEW YORK: The United States charged four men on Friday with conspiring to blow up fuel tanks and pipelines at New York’s John F Kennedy International airport. A grand jury at the US district court here charged Trinidadian Kareem Ibrahim, former Guyana parliamentarian Abdul Kadir, Guyana native.......
Pakistan, NATO coordinating tribal strikes: report
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
WASHINGTON: There is a covert understanding between the Pakistan government and NATO forces in Afghanistan regarding direct US military action in the tribal areas, according to a commentary published here. Hassan Abbas writes in Terrorism Focus, a publication of the Jamestown Foundation, that the.......
Five US troops killed in Baghdad bomb blast
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
* US military says 3 Al Qaeda-linked militants killed in Friday raids BAGHDAD: Insurgents killed five US soldiers in an ambush in Baghdad as the military said it had detained dozens of suspected Al-Qaeda linked militants in raids across Iraq on Friday....
PIDC bombing suspect arrested
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
KARACHI: Karachi Police on Friday arrested the alleged mastermind behind a car bomb blast outside the Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) building. Abdul Hameed Bugti was arrested from a hideout in Garden area on a tip-off. Police claimed that Hameed had masterminded the attack and.......
Mufti urges boycott of suicide bombers’ funeral
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
SRINAGAR: Indian-held Kashmir’s top Muslim cleric has called on Muslims to boycott funerals of people who kill themselves in a bid to halt a rise in suicides in the revolt-hit state, a report said on Friday.
[Now, this sounds at face value like a bit of heartening news, a Muslim cleric calling on Muslims not to honor suicide bombers with Islamic funerals. However, the fact that he has to issue this call shows that normal grassroots Muslims are in fact honoring those suicide bomber "martyrs", and when we read the story we see disturbing statistics against which this lone solitary (albeit apparently “top” cleric is remonstrating: Indian-held Kashmir’s top Muslim cleric has called on Muslims to boycott funerals of people who kill themselves in a bid to halt a rise in suicides in the revolt-hit state, a report said on Friday.Sixty suicides have been reported in the first six months of the year according to official figures, compared with a total of 61 in all of 2006.
UK police avert 2 car bomb attacks
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
* Al Qaeda message traced in US hours before police defuse first car bomb LONDON: Police found two car bombs packed with petrol, gas and nails in London’s teeming theatre district on Friday, averting attacks that echoed an earlier al Qaeda plot that could have killed hundreds.... Musharraf ready to raid Lal Masjid but...
dailytimesPK Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
* Says govt will act if media doesn’t show bodies By Iqbal Khattak ISLAMABAD: President Musharraf said on Friday that the potential loss of human lives was preventing him from taking any action against the Lal Masjid, while adding that suicide bombers from Jaish-e-Mohammad were also hiding in the mosque....
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Weeks of careful planning and a good breakfast - the making of Gordon Brown's perfect week
guardian Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
Oliver Burkeman and Patrick Wintour on the secret meetings and last minute manoeuvring behind this week's handover.... Turkey warns of plans to invade northern Iraq
guardian Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
• Call for US to move against Kurdish guerrillas• PKK behind bombings in Ankara, say authorities...
Car bombs come to London
guardian Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:24:00 AM CEST
Police are desperately hunting a suspected al-Qaida inspired terrorist cell following the discovery of two "Iraqi style" car bombs.... Report of the secretary general on the implementation of Sec
icelandnews Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:18:00 AM CEST
I. Introduction 1. The present report is the fourth report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolution 1701 (2006), notably on efforts towards the achievement of a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon and a long-term solution based on the principles and elements outlined in paragraph eight of the resolution....
International probe as London police avert car bomb carnage
eirepost Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:15:00 AM CEST
. (AFP) British police on Friday defused a car bomb composed of gas cylinders, petrol and nails in London's entertainment district, sparking a security probe into possible international links, including Iraq. Amid widespread disruption in the capital, new Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned the alert....... The old spirit still stirs but the people of Baghdad have one wish: to get out
thetimes Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:03:00 AM CEST
Baghdad was shrouded in a sinister orange glow from a scorching dust storm that had just blown in from the desert and settled over the city. Through the gritty haze a fire burned at the nearby Doura oil refinery. In the distance white flashes marked the detonation of mortars from the latest US offensive against insurgents....
London: 2nd car bomb found; dismantled with no incident
jpost Saturday, June 30, 2007 1:01:00 AM CEST
Expert: Similiarity to Iraq, Lebanon bombs meant as message that int'l war on terror has failed. PM Brown: "vigilance must be maintained."... Hamas TV Kills Off Mickey Mouse Double
topix Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:51:00 AM CEST
A Mickey Mouse lookalike who preached Islamic domination on a Hamas-affiliated children's television program was beaten to death in the show's final episode Friday....
London police foil major terror plot
news-yahoo Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:44:00 AM CEST
The plot, coming only two days after Gordon Brown took over as prime minister, raised the specter of the attacks in July 2005 when the London Underground and an iconic double-decker bus were targeted by a group of homegrown terrorists who killed 52 people. As police searched for car bombs and terrorists in the city of 7.... 'Massive' car bombs put London on terror alert
24dash Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:28:00 AM CEST
Two massive car bombs were defused in the centre of London today. The first - packed with petrol, nails and gas canisters - outside a nightclub in Haymarket, was "clearly linked" to a second car a few hundred yards away, police said. The second vehicle, a blue 280E model Mercedes was found to be a.......
Both London car bombs 'potentially viable,' police say
cnn Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:23:00 AM CEST
Two cars found Friday in central London were part of one terror plot with both vehicles "potentially viable" bombs made up of gas canisters, fuel and nails, police said. One car was found in an entertainment district as people were leaving nightclubs. UK Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said the bombs could have caused "considerable loss of life.... Second car bomb found
smh Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:22:00 AM CEST
Police found a second car bomb packed with petrol, gas and nails in London's teeming theatre district....
Hamas Mickey Mouse 'beaten to death'
TorontoStar Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:14:00 AM CEST
A Mickey Mouse lookalike on a Hamas-affiliated children's TV program was beaten to death in the show's final episode today.... Second car bomb found in London
aljazeera-en Saturday, June 30, 2007 12:02:00 AM CEST
Alarming discovery comes hours after police defuse explosive device in a parked Mercedes....
In London, the Manhunt Is On
time Friday, June 29, 2007 11:55:00 PM CEST
After dismantling two car bombs in central London, British authorities search for the plotters.... Report of the secretary general on the implementation of Security Council Resolution 1701
LBdailystar Friday, June 29, 2007 11:49:00 PM CEST
1. The present report is the fourth report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolution 1701 (2006), notably on efforts towards the achievement of a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon and a long-term solution based on the principles and elements outlined in paragraph eight of the resolution....
Fadlallah: 'Terrorist attacks' on UNIFIL aim to stir strife
LBdailystar Friday, June 29, 2007 11:49:00 PM CEST
Senior Shiite cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah said on Friday that attacks on UN peacekeepers in the South were the precursor of further instability in Lebanon."All terrorist attacks against Lebanon, including those on the peacekeepers in the South and attacks on the Lebanese Army, aim at inciting chaos in Lebanon.... Three Palestinians killed in protest outside Nahr al-Bared
LBdailystar Friday, June 29, 2007 11:49:00 PM CEST
Three displaced Palestinian refugees were killed and at least 30 others wounded on Friday after refusing to heed army orders to disperse during a demonstration outside the North Lebanon refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared. This incident came as mediators from the Palestinian Clerics Association announced....
Ban releases report on Resolution 1701
LBdailystar Friday, June 29, 2007 11:49:00 PM CEST
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon released his fourth report on Security Council Resolution 1701 on Friday, voicing his dismay over the political turmoil in Lebanon and Israel's continual violations of the resolution. "I am deeply concerned that Lebanon remains in the midst of a debilitating political crisis and faces ongoing.... Let Iraq burn, but don't leave the scene of the fire
LBdailystar Friday, June 29, 2007 11:49:00 PM CEST
"Sometimes you just have to let a fire burn." George Shultz, a former secretary of state who was trained as an industrial economist, is said to have made that remark about labor negotiations that have reached an impasse. It applies with ever-greater clarity to Iraq....
Key Sunni bloc suspends participation in Iraqi Cabinet
LBdailystar Friday, June 29, 2007 11:49:00 PM CEST
Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc is suspending its participation in Cabinet in protest of the legal steps being taken against one of its prominent ministers, who is the head of the bloc, Adnan al-Dulaimi said on Friday. The Sunni Accordance Front has six ministers in Cabinet and the move is a big blow to Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.... Sadr calls off planned march to Shiite shrine in Samarra
LBdailystar Friday, June 29, 2007 11:49:00 PM CEST
Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has postponed a march by his followers to the northern Sunni town of Samarra called to protest at the destruction of a revered shrine there, a top aide said on Friday. Assad al-Nasiri, a Shiite imam and Sadr loyalist, cited one of the reasons for the.......
Globalization is exposing injustice in the Arab world
LBdailystar Friday, June 29, 2007 11:49:00 PM CEST
Perhaps the most dramatic effect of globalization is that every thing has become, theoretically at least, within reach. A depressed Iraqi woman may find a better supporter in a South African activist than she does in a next-door neighbor. The downside effect of globalization is that rumors and misinformation circulate just as fast as ground truths.... Spain detains four suspected of links to Al-Qaeda
LBdailystar Friday, June 29, 2007 11:49:00 PM CEST
Spain's Interior Ministry said Friday police had arrested a Moroccan man in Barcelona suspected of having links to Al-Qaeda, three days after three other Moroccans were detained for the same reason. The ministry said the man arrested Friday was "presumed linked to the Al-Qaeda cell dismantled this week....
Richardson's campaign raises $7 million
news-yahoo Friday, June 29, 2007 11:44:00 PM CEST
Richardson disclosed the number a day before the end of the second quarter. Meanwhile, Republican Mitt Romney 's presidential campaign predicted Friday that his April-June fundraising would fall short of the $20 million he raised in the first quarter of the year, lowering expectations in a tight race for financial prominence.... U.S. urges vigilance after London bomb scares
usaToday Friday, June 29, 2007 11:38:00 PM CEST
The government is urging Americans to be vigilant about suspicious activity after British police defused a bomb in downtown London, ......
Ring of steel tightens on suspect
ft Friday, June 29, 2007 11:32:00 PM CEST
The ring of steel monitors 52 entrances to central London, taking photographs of vehicle number plates, the vehicles themselves as well as separate images of drivers. The locations of the monitoring points are not publicly disclosed. Apart from this, the centre is covered by intensive closed circuit.......
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Other stories interspersed in this news briefing ostensibly dedicated to the topic of global terrorism include irrelevant stories, such as one about a disease that is killing bees, etc.:
An alarming disease has wiped out 2.4 million beehives and scientists are working to discover the cause, while concern grows that a similar crisis could hit the UK By Peter Huck THE GUARDIAN, LOS ANGELES Saturday, Jun 30, 2007, Page 9 Dave Hackenberg, an apiarist from West Milton, Pennsylvania,.......
NO BOUNTY HUNTERS: Pentagon officials said that it would be a poor use of time to go after the growing number of deserters, particularly when there is a war on AP, FORT BRAGG, NORTH CAROLINA Saturday, Jun 30, 2007, Page 7 Despite a rise in desertions from the US Army as the Iraq war drags on into a.......
President Bush 's plan to legalize as many as 12 million unlawful immigrants from around the world while fortifying the border failed in the U.S. Senate on Thursday. "This is very bad news for Mexican migrants in the U.S.," said Jorge Bustamante, special rapporteur to the U.N. human rights commission for migrants....
Baltimore, Philadelphia and other cities in a bloodstained corridor along the East Coast are seeing a surge in killings, and one of the most provocative explanations offered by criminal-justice experts is this: not enough new immigrants. . .
[Note: The above is a news story about increased crime, not terrorism]
Ara Darzi The surgeon drafted into the Brown government to help boost the NHS is one of Britain's leading experts in keyhole surgery. But Sir Ara Darzi has already crossed swords with ministers, recommending in vain two years ago that two hospitals in Hartlepool and Stockton should remain open....
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