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CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Thursday found a Pakistani-born Chicago businessman guilty of providing support to an Islamic militant group but not guilty of participating in the group's 2008 assault on Mumbai that killed 166 people.In a mixed verdict, the ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. jury on Thursday found a Pakistani-born Chicago businessman guilty of conspiring to attack a Danish newspaper and supporting an Islamic militant group blamed for the 2008 attack in Mumbai.The jury found Tahawwur Rana, 50, a former Pakistan ...
New anti-terror rules inadvertently thwart trade in illegal Cubans, leaving cigar fans fumingIt's an unintended consequence of the fight against terrorism that's left some cigar aficionados fuming: Terrorists in Yemen try to send bomb-laden packages to the U.S. aboard cargo planes, and ...
The announcement came ahead of an alert by global police agency Interpol aimed at helping forces in its 188 member states spot disguised bombs of the kind Al-Qaeda sent last week from Yemen using airmail parcel couriers.The UAE's General Civil Aviation Authority ...
Despite apparent rehearsal, timing midair explosion not easy; al-Qaida rigged bombs to timersEven after a suspected test run in September, last week's attempted mail bombings from Yemen were a shot in the dark for al-Qaida, which could not have known exactly where ...
Bomb plot stretching from Yemen to Chicago was just narrowly averted, officials sayThe mail bomb plot stretching from Yemen to Chicago may have been aimed at blowing up planes in mid-flight and was only narrowly averted, officials said Sunday, acknowledging that one ...
Investigators hunt for mail bombers in Yemen behind terror plot to attack Chicago synagoguesU.S. and Yemeni authorities are searching for the terrorists who tried to mail two bombs from Yemen to Chicago-area synagogues.Authorities on three continents thwarted the attacks when they seized ...
Chicago Jewish groups on alert after reports of suspicious packagesThe director of a Chicago Jewish institution says his staff is on alert for suspicious packages after reports that explosive materials were intercepted on their way from Yemen to the United States.Chicago FBI ...
Explosive found in Dubai linked to mail bomb terror plot; Al-Qaida in Yemen suspectedAuthorities in Dubai intercepted an explosive device bound for a Chicago-area Jewish institution aboard a cargo jet, officials disclosed Friday, triggering a worldwide alert and fears that al-Qaida was ...
National Security: Bob Woodward's new book, "Obama's Wars," should be called "Obama's Retreat. In White House strategy sessions, Woodward reports, President Obama avoids talk of "victory" in Afghanistan, preoccupied as he is with exiting another Muslim country. com that Obama has been ...
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