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...several countries, antiterrorism efforts in Europe intensified last week. Three suspects in last month's Madrid train bombings blew themselves up as Spanish police engaged them in a standoff Saturday night that also killed an agent. Officials had earlier in the week identified a Tunisian man, Sarhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet, as "leader and coordinator" of the train blasts that killed 191, and they had a warrant for his arrest as well as the arrests of five Moroccan accomplices. It wasn't immediately clear whether Fakhet was linked to the raid. The standoff occurred just a day after an inspector near...
...last stand there - the investigators found a videotape in the rubble. On it, an intense man, flanked by two others brandishing Sterling submachine guns, warned of massacres to come. "The Brigades of al-Mufti and Ansar al-Qaeda" - or supporters of al-Qaeda - were in Spain, said Sarhane Ben Abdelmajid Fakhet, 35, to demand that "its troops pull out immediately from the land of the Muslims." Linking Iraq and Afghanistan to the 15th century expulsion of Muslims from Spain and the Inquisition, he demanded "blood for blood!" and "destruction for destruction!" Days after recording the message, Fakhet and five...
...tackle the country's endemic corruption and inefficiency was endorsed by international aid donors, but he had been criticized by the opposition for having little impact and by ruling party politicians for probing too deeply. His departure has led to speculation that he was sacked. ARRESTED. ABDELMAJID DAHOUMANE,33, Algerian Muslim militant alleged to have played a leading role in the "millennium bomb" plot in the U.S.; in Algiers. Dahoumane is accused of helping make bombs intended to explode at various West Coast cities at midnight on New Year's Eve 1999. He had been indicted in absentia along with...
First, Canadian authorities could not find Ressam's Algerian compatriot, Abdelmajid Dahoumane, indicted with Ressam for transporting explosives and timing devices from Canada into the U.S. on Dec. 14. While an uncooperative Ressam pleaded not guilty last Thursday in Seattle, Dahoumane remains at large. Then Irish police lost track of Hamid Aich, also Algerian. He lived in Vancouver at the same time as Dahoumane, and the U.S. would like to question him. But he had ducked out to Ireland, where he was arrested briefly during the holidays, then released. Now he has disappeared. Last week came the clincher...
...Boston University (BU) first-year was raped at knife-point on Sunday in the bathroom of her dorm room by an attacker who emerged from behind the shower curtain. Abdelmajid Akouk, 32, was charged with the crime and released Monday on $75,000 bail...
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