Indian’s documentary nominated for top honour in Gulf fest
April 5th, 2010 - 11:59 am ICT by IANS
Dubai, April 5 (IANS) A documentary by an Indian filmmaker based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been nominated along with seven others for the top honour at the Gulf Film ... Read more...
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UK Police set to hand over personal data of 1,000 British Muslim students to CIA
April 1st, 2010 - 5:28 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr. 1 (ANI): In the wake of the Detroit flight bombing bid by Nigerian-origin British student, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, police in Britain are set to share personal information concerning the private ... Read more...
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Heathrow `naked’ image row: woman plans legal action
March 25th, 2010 - 12:21 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 25 (IANS) A 29-year-old airport security worker plans to take legal action after a colleague passed a lewd remark on her `nude' image when she mistakenly walked into an X-ray ... Read more...
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Now, Al Qaeda develops ‘boob-job bombs’ which are impossible to detect
March 24th, 2010 - 4:57 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar. 24 (ANI): Al Qaeda is laying deadly "booby traps" by equipping its female suicide bombers with explosive breast implants that are impossible to be detected at airport security checkpoints, British ... Read more...
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Pentagon says Internet helps in terrorist recruiting, radicalisation
March 11th, 2010 - 1:40 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Mar.11 (ANI): Militant and terrorist groups are using the Internet to streamline their terrorist recruiting, radicalization, and training, the Pentagon has claimed.American defense ministry officials said that the Nigerian man ... Read more...
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Nearly five in 10 Americans disapprove Obama’s handling of Detroit bomber
March 9th, 2010 - 3:55 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar. 9 (ANI): Nearly five in 10 Americans have disapproved the Obama administration's handling of the arrest of Detroit bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, following two months of continuous criticism by Republicans, ... Read more...
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Claims that US is less safe under Obama not credible: Powell
February 22nd, 2010 - 12:36 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb. 22 (ANI): Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell has nullified claims that the United States is less safe under President Obama."The bottom line answer is the nation ... Read more...
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Yemeni Qaeda hoping to recruit English speakers, women
February 16th, 2010 - 2:30 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb.16 (ANI): The Yemeni Al Qaeda is actively recruiting English-speaking individuals, intelligence officials told Fox News on Monday.They said investigators are looking for people who are more like Americans, having been ... Read more...
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‘Britain’s ‘War on Terror’ may last as long as Cold War’
February 10th, 2010 - 5:24 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb. 10 (ANI): Britain's "War on Terror" is likely to last as long as the Cold War, Charles Farr, the head of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, has warned.The ... Read more...
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Akshay Kumar to perform ‘Parkour’ in new Thums Up ad
February 9th, 2010 - 7:56 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) Action star Akshay Kumar will be seen performing the death-defying sport Parkour in his upcoming Thums up commercial. He says that besides action, it has fun ... Read more...
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Yemeni Al-Qaeda vows to wage jihad against Christians, Jews
February 9th, 2010 - 12:57 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb. 9 (ANI): Senior commanders of the Yemeni wing of Al-Qaeda have urged Muslims in the region to wage a jihad against Christians and Jews.In an audio message posted on ... Read more...
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Yemen Al Qaeda leader blasts Arab states in new tape
February 8th, 2010 - 9:23 pm ICT by IANS
Cairo, Feb 8 (DPA) The deputy head of Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch accused Egypt and Saudi Arabia of helping "crusaders" wage a war against the Arabian peninsula, in an audiotape posted on ... Read more...
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UK, not Nigeria is the breeding ground for Islamist terrorists: Nobel laureate
February 7th, 2010 - 6:02 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 7(ANI): Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has said that UK, not Nigeria, should be on the United States' watch-list of countries deemed to be incubators of Islamist terrorism.Soyinka was responding ... Read more...
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America is ready for another revolution: Palin
February 7th, 2010 - 5:33 pm ICT by ANI
In her keynote speech on Saturday night to a gathering here, Palin said: "I am a big supporter of this movement and believe in this movement. America is ready for another ... Read more...
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Xmas bomb suspect claims radical imam told him to bomb jet
February 6th, 2010 - 3:28 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb.6 (ANI): The suspect in the failed Christmas Day airliner attack has told federal investigators that radical U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki directed him to carry out his attempt at mass murder.Fox ... Read more...
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Nigerian bomber begins talking to US investigators again
February 3rd, 2010 - 6:51 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb. 3 (ANI): Nigerian bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, has begun talking to investigators again.He earlier talked to agents for about ... Read more...
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Trials of full-body scanners at Delhi airport from May
February 3rd, 2010 - 3:53 pm ICT by IANS
By Murali Krishnan
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) India will start using full-body scanners to screen passengers at the international airport here on a trial basis from May and decide by the end ... Read more...
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Nigerian Nobel Laureate says England is a ‘cesspit of Islamists’
February 2nd, 2010 - 2:10 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb.2 (ANI): Nigerian Nobel Laureate political activist Wole Soyinka has described England as a "cesspit" and breeding ground for fundamentalist Muslims.In an interview, according to the Guardian, he also accused Britain ... Read more...
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Al-Qaeda could have bombs surgically implanted in UK
February 1st, 2010 - 2:00 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb.1 (ANI): British security agency MI5 has uncovered evidence that al-Qaeda is planning to insert surgical bombs inside people for the first time and send them over to the country.Security services ... Read more...
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Obama vows to keep pressure on Al Qaeda
January 28th, 2010 - 10:36 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Jan 28 (DPA) US President Barack Obama has vowed to intensify the fight against Al Qaeda in the wake of last month's attack on a Detroit-bound airliner.
"We are filling unacceptable ... Read more...
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Al Qaeda prepares ‘non-Arab’ women suicide bombers
January 24th, 2010 - 3:29 pm ICT by IANS
New York, Jan 24 (IANS) The Yemen-based Al Qaeda group has formed a women's brigade of "non Arab" suicide bombers as part of its new tactic to attack western targets, anti-terror ... Read more...
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UK facing ’severe’ terror threat
January 23rd, 2010 - 12:30 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan. 23 (ANI): Britain has raised its terror threat level from "substantial" to "severe", fearing "highly likely" attacks from international terrorists.British Home Secretary Alan Johnson said while there was no intelligence ... Read more...
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U.S. Dept. of Justice says Christmas Day bomber legally interrogated
January 22nd, 2010 - 2:14 pm ICT by BNO News
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) – The arrest, interrogation, and prosecution of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the alleged Christmas Day bomber, was treated no differently than the law permits, a U.S. Department of Justice ... Read more...
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US intelligence chief admits to mistakes on Detroit plane bombing plot
January 21st, 2010 - 1:57 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan.21 (ANI): The United States' Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, has in a candid assessment revealed what went wrong before and after the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight.He ... Read more...
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Obama nominee to head transportation security withdraws
January 21st, 2010 - 4:31 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Jan 21 (DPA) US President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) withdrew Wednesday, keeping the agency that manages airport security without a permanent head in the ... Read more...
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Britain suspends flights from Yemen
January 20th, 2010 - 8:38 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 20 (IANS) Britain Wednesday suspended all direct flights from Yemen.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown told parliament the twice-weekly Yemenia Airlines flights have been suspended with immediate effect.Announcing a series of ... Read more...
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Al Qaeda’s No.2 in Arabian Peninsula arrested in Yemen
January 19th, 2010 - 6:35 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Jan 19 (RIA Novosti) Yemeni security forces have detained a senior commander of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen Observer newspaper reported Tuesday.
Said Ali al-Shihri, second-in-command of the terror ... Read more...
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Growing influence of Al Qaeda in Britain single most serious threat to West
January 16th, 2010 - 2:38 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan. 16 (ANI): A U.S. intelligence report, conducted in the wake of the failed Christmas Day flight bombing bid by a British student, has warned that the increasing use of Britain ... Read more...
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Report: U.S. to increase airline security amid al-Qaida threat
January 15th, 2010 - 3:10 pm ICT by BNO News
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- The United States is planning to increase airline security amid a purported new threat from al-Qaida in Yemen, NBC News reported on Thursday.The new security regulations – ... Read more...
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Americans confident Obama can handle terrorism: Poll
January 12th, 2010 - 1:06 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Jan 12 (IANS) Most Americans remain confident that President Barack Obama's administration can protect the country from terrorism despite the Christmas Day attempt to blow up a US airliner, according ... Read more...
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Detroit Terror Suspect Files Not Guilty Plea In Court
January 11th, 2010 - 8:05 pm ICT by GD
By Gina Gomez
Detroit, Jan 11, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The 23 year old Nigerian, who is accused of attempting to blow up a Detroit bound plane on Christmas Day appeared in a Detroit court ... Read more...
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Man who caused Newark airport lockdown arrested
January 10th, 2010 - 2:04 pm ICT by IANS
New York, Jan 10 (DPA) The man who caused the lockdown of busy Newark International Airport right after New Year has been arrested and faces charges of disorderly conduct, media reports said.
Haisong ... Read more...
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20 more terrorists trained in Yemen for attacks: Report
January 10th, 2010 - 10:55 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Jan 10 (DPA) Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man charged with attempting to blow up a Christmas Day flight over Detroit, told investigators that about 20 other Muslims were being ... Read more...
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3 Britons held for ‘bomb threat’ in Dubai-bound plane (Lead)
January 9th, 2010 - 7:08 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 9 (IANS) Three Britons aboard a Dubai-bound flight were arrested after the cabin crew alerted the police about a potential bomb threat as the aircraft prepared to take-off from Heathrow ... Read more...
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3 held in Britain for ‘bomb threat’ on Dubai-bound plane
January 9th, 2010 - 2:52 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 9 (IANS) Three British passengers aboard a Dubai-bound flight were arrested for allegedly threatening to blow up the aircraft while it was ready for take-off from Heathrow airport here, police ... Read more...
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