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Washington is laid to waste. The Capitol is a blackened, smoking ruin. The White House has been razed. Countless thousands are dead.
This is the apocalyptic scene terrorists hope to create if they ever get their hands on a nuclear bomb.
Washington is laid to waste. The Capitol is a blackened, smoking ruin. The White House has been razed. Countless thousands are dead.
This is the apocalyptic scene terrorists hope to create if they ever get their hands on a nuclear bomb.
The computer-generated image below was posted on an Islamic extremists’ website yesterday.
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This computer generated image posted on terror forums depict what would happen if a nuclear attack took place in Washington D.C
It appeared as rumours swept the Internet that the FBI was warning that an Al Qaeda video was about to be released urging militants to use weapons of mass destruction to attack the West.
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ISTANBUL (Thomson Financial) - Turkish police suspect the gunmen behind Wednesday’s attack on a guardpost outside the US embassy in Istanbul might belong to Al-Qaeda, the NTV news channel reported.
Police, contacted by AFP, refused to comment on the report, citing the secrecy of the investigation.
NTV said police had found information linking the gunmen to Afghanistan, leading to suspicions that the attack was inspired by the Al-Qaeda network.
Three gunmen and three police officers were killed in Wednesday’s attack on the well-fortified consulate building overlooking the Bosphorus Strait.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department says it’s too early to say whether Al-Qaeda was involved in the deadly attack outside a U.S. consulate in Turkey.
Gunmen opened fire on a guard post at the consulate building in Istanbul on July 9. Turkish police returned fire in a gun battle that left three militants and three police dead.
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Senior Judge Thomas F. Hogan of the United States District Court warned Justice Department attorneys on Tuesday to make the habeas corpus cases of Guantánamo Bay detainees their top priority. “The time has come to move these forward,” Hogan declared, “Set aside every other case that’s pending in the division and address this case first.”
Hogan’s comments were made during the first hearing to determine whether detainees are being held lawfully since the Guantánamo prison camp began operating nearly seven years ago. The July 8 hearing came in the wake of last month’s 5-4 ruling by the US Supreme Court, which found that Guantánamo Bay detainees could file habeas corpus petitions challenging the legality of their imprisonment.
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GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas arrested three Palestinians who fired rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Thursday, a militant faction said, in the first such detentions since the Islamist group and Israel agreed a truce last month.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a group linked to President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah group, said Hamas men pursued its members after the attack and “abducted them” in Jabalya refugee camp. No one was hurt in the strike with two rockets on southern Israel.
“We demand their immediate release,” said Abu Qusai, a brigades spokesman.
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VANCOUVER, Canada (AFP) — A convicted Air India bomber was released after 20 years in jail on 500,000 dollar (Canadian) bail and on condition that he remain mostly confined to his home, according to a court decision made public Friday.
The top court in Canada’s westernmost province released the details of the controversial bail that was granted Wednesday to Inderjit Sing Reyat.
Revealing bail details is very unusual in Canada’s justice system, due to automatic publication bans. But Justice Risa Levine told a surprise hearing Friday that “the publication ban has no application to the Court’s procedure, which operates on the principle of openness.”
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Moroccan security forces have foiled a terror plot against hotels planned for this summer, underscoring a “near-daily” struggle to root out radical cells that increasingly have links to al-Qaeda in Iraq, one of Morocco’s top security officials say.
Abdelhak Bassou, head of the Renseignements Generaux domestic intelligence agency, told AP in an interview four separate terror cells are being prosecuted so far this year, revealing networks that extend from Europe to the Iraqi insurgency.
Most of the Moroccan cells support al-Qaeda in Iraq via militant bases in neighbouring Algeria, channelling cash, weapons and combatants, said Bassou.
One cell of 11 militants caught in May was preparing terrorist attacks against tourist hotels in Morocco “planned for this summer,” said Bassou.
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Anti Pakistan elements are trying hard to keep Islamabad in limbo and in the sate of panic and instability.The prevailing fresh wave of terrorisms in Pakistan is being publicly and openly supported by foreign intelligence agencies. On July 7, 2008 some unknown terrorists baffled Karachi after triggering a series of six blasts within one hour in various areas of the city and leaving behind two persons killed, 50 injured and unrest in the masses. The blasts reminded me another 7 July of 2005 when at 9 a.m. four suicide bombers blew themselves in London subway trains and one on a bus. The explosions killed 56 people, including the bombers, and injured more than 800 others. The entire London Underground was closed for the day, and cellular telephone systems were jammed, leading to commuter chaos. UK Intelligence agencies made Islamic extremist responsible for launching of that Attack. The timings, selection of […]

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Colombia’s biggest guerrilla force said today it was betrayed by its own men in last week’s military rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages that added to a string of recent setbacks.
The rescue of the kidnap victims - who included three American defense contractors held for years in secret jungle camps - highlighted the success of President Alvaro Uribe’s US-backed offensive against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc).
The group said it remained willing to negotiate a swap with the government of remaining hostages for guerrilla detainees, although negotiations with hard-liner Uribe remained bogged down over conditions for holding the exchange.
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The release of the hostages is owed, in part, to wiretapping rebels’ phones William Fernando Martinez / AP Gerardo Aguilar of the rebel Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, allegedly was one of the jailers of the three Americans held by rebels in Colombia. He was arrested when the Americans were rescued on July 2 and is being held at a military base in Bogota. BOGOTA, Colombia - The stunning rescue of Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors owed its success not just to artful deception, but also to a five-year U.S.-Colombian operation that choked their captors’ ability to communicate. Known as “Alliance,” it began with a satellite phone call in 2003, just weeks after the Americans’ surveillance plane crashed in the southern Colombian jungle, according to U.S. and Colombian investigators and court documents….
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