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6 hours ago ago from Twitze
CNN News: Explosive device set off in Airplane Attempted Terrorist Attack terrorista tenta derrubar avião nos eua Al-Qaeda linked' passenger on Detroit Metro Airport flight tried to blow up plane Fausta's Blog » Blog Archive » Nigerian working for Al-Qaeda tries The man, who has not been publicly identified by officials, told investigators that he was given the device by Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen, where he was also given ...
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11 hours ago ago from Muslims Against Sharia
SAN'A, Yemen — A U.S.-born radical cleric is alive and well following reports he may have been killed in a Yemeni airstrike against suspected Al Qaeda hideouts, friends and relatives said Friday. The government said it targeted a meeting of high-level Al Qaeda operatives in Thursday's airstrike in the remote Shabwa region. It claimed at least 30 militants were killed, possibly including Anwar al-Awlaki , a radical cleric who has been linked ...
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3 hours ago ago from Atomic Fungus by Ed Hering
"The law enforcement officials cautioned that [claims that this was an Al Qaeda attack] could not be verified immediately...." WTF difference does it make if the guy was acting alone or for Al Qaeda? It was a freaking muslim terrorist suicide bomber who failed. It doesn't fricking matter if the guy's a lone freak or part of a terror cell, does it? It's still a frickin' terrorist attack. All he managed to do was to set his legs on fire, ...
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4 hours ago ago from Harry's Place
This is a crosspost by Shiraz Maher from Standpoint Peter Neumann from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King's College, provides some instant analysis of the attempted bombing of a Delta Airlines flight travelling from Amsterdam to Detroit. He's got all the main bases covered, so I'll only provide some footnotes to a few his points: Similarities with the ‘shoe bomber'. Richard Reid, the so-called ...
Related contentTerror Attack: "Firecracker" Incident on Plane Was Terror Attack With Al Qaeda Link
3 hours ago ago from GINA COBB
Terror in the skies -- again: A Nigerian man who said he was an agent for al Qaeda tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane Friday as it was preparing to land in Detroit, but travelers who smelled smoke and heard what sounded like firecrackers rushed to subdue him, the passengers and federal officials said. Flight 253 with 278 passengers aboard was about 20 minutes from the airport when... Continued at website.
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11 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
Associated Press This picture provided by J.P. Karas shows Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on the runway after arriving at Detroit Metropolitan Airport from Amsterdam on Friday. DETROIT -- A passenger on a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight tried to detonate an explosive device that was strapped to his leg and later told investigators that he was trying to blow up the plane and had affiliations with al Qaeda, according to a ...
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