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...three of the nine students still stuck in their home countries are Middle Eastern, Ladd said. The remaining students are from China—which probably results from a regulation predating the terrorist attacks of Sept...
This past Wednesday United Airlines Flight 919 was ordered down; Homeland Security’s Advanced Passenger Information System detected a member of the Terrorist Watch List on board. The flight made a special landing at Bangor International Airport where the would-be terrorist was unloaded and detained. The remaining passengers continued on to Dulles International in Washington, D.C., while Yusuf Islam was interrogated and sent back to London via Boston and Washington...
...Ridge is no help, perhaps other officials within the Department or Intelligence Community can clarify. According to CNN, officials cite Islam’s donations to various charities potentially connected with terrorist activities as the cause for his detention, though—surprise—they wouldn’t say which charities. Homeland Security’s spokesman commented that “the intelligence community has come into possession of additional information that further heightens our concerns of Yusuf Islam...
...insurgents relented. They pushed me back into our Mazda sedan and ordered us to leave. We were lucky. The fighters included Iraqis, Syrians and Jordanians. They were members of Attawhid wal Jihad (Unity and Holy War), a militant group loyal to Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted terrorist in Iraq. The group's black flags flutter from the palm trees and buildings along the Baghdad boulevard where we were stopped, an area known as Haifa Street. It's a no-go zone for U.S. forces...
Sources inside the insurgency say al-Zarqawi's willingness to sanction terrorist attacks against all civilians has created splits among the various rebel groups. Nationalist guerrillas, who make up the vast majority of fighters but object to killing innocent Iraqis, say the armed insurgency is being taken over by the well-funded and motivated international jihadis answering al-Qaeda's call for a holy war. As a result, nationalist insurgent groups are attempting to create their own leadership and forge ties with moderate Islamists based in Fallujah. Their goal is to create a political party that can contest...