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Indonesian cleric blames CIA for Bali bombing (AFP)AFP - An Indonesian Islamic cleric linked to the three extremists awaiting execution for the Bali bombings said Thursday the 2002 attack which killed more than 200 people was the work of the CIA. Full text |
AFP - World leaders attending a conference on Iraq unanimously approved a declaration Thursday acknowledging Baghdad's efforts to improve security and "combat terrorism" in the war-torn country.
Reuters - Families of those killed in the Beirut Marine barracks bombing 25 years ago staked their claim on Thursday to ancient Persian clay tablets, on loan to a U.S. museum, to satisfy a $2.7 billion judgment won against Iran.
Reuters - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday he would stick to his principles over plans to detain terrorism suspects for longer prior to being charged despite the prospect of a humiliating defeat in parliament.
AP - After months on the run, two alleged leaders in a Southeast Asian militant group were holed up in a cheap Malaysian hotel, ready to fly to the Middle East to link up with other Islamic extremists, possibly in Iraq.
The Christian Science Monitor - Sir Hugh Orde, the chief of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), said that Britain should consider negotiations with Al Qaeda in an effort to end its terrorist activities.
MADRID, Spain - Spanish police arrested eight Moroccan men accused of harboring Islamic extremists and helping them flee the country, including several suspects in the Madrid terror bombings of 2004, the Interior Ministry said Thursday.
Police made the arrests in pre-dawn raids Thursday in three northeastern towns near Barcelona, as well as in Madrid and Algeciras in the south.
The arrests stemmed from a 2005 police operation in which Spain broke up a terror cell that allegedly recruited people to stage suicide attacks against U.S.-led forces in Iraq and other targets set by al-Qaida, the ministry said in a statement.
The Moroccans arrested Thursday are suspected of giving shelter to at least five suspects in the March 11, 2004, train bombings in Madrid and helping them to flee the country.
That attack killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800.
Muslim militants claimed responsibility for the attack, saying they had acted on behalf of al-Qaida to avenge the presence of Spanish peacekeeping troops in Iraq. But Spanish authorities say they have found no evidence that al-Qaida ordered or financed the attacks.
Spanish investigators have said one of the fugitive suspects in the Madrid attacks, Moroccan Mohamed Afalah, is believed to have died in a suicide attack in Iraq in 2005.
A confidential police report quoted in Spanish newspapers says another fugitive, Daoud Ouhnane of Algeria, died in Iraq while fighting coalition forces.
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Spanish police arrest 13 suspects in terror raids (AP)
Spanish police arrest 8 suspects in terror raids (AP)
Al Qaida in Iraq leader killed in raid, U.S. says (McClatchy Newspapers)
Next president must outline homeland security aims (AP)
Rockefeller: WH stonewalling interrogation probe (AP)
UK government weighs telecom terror database (AP)
UK government considering huge telecoms database (AP)
Damascus says Lebanon, Syria face same threat (Reuters)
Damascus says Lebanon, Syria face same militant threat (Reuters)
Govt monitoring 'another great plot': security minister (AFP)
