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Ex-bin Laden aide gets life for NY prison stabbing

Wednesday, 01 September 2010 14:03
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By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK – A former Osama bin Laden aide who stabbed a federal prison guard in the eye was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison after telling the court he's not a terrorist and hearing his victim tell him he will go to hell.

U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts said Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, 52, deserved a life sentence for his "unusually cruel, brutal" attack in 2000 on guard Louis Pepe at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan. She...


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Dutch probe continues into suspected plane plot

Wednesday, 01 September 2010 14:02
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THE HAGUE (AFP) – Two Yemenis arrested in Amsterdam on suspicion of Terrorism will appear before a judge on Thursday, a Dutch prosecution spokesman said.

"They will appear before an examining judge on Thursday," prosecution spokesman Ernst Koelman told AFP on Wednesday. The men were arrested early Monday after a flight from Chicago. US security had found a mobile phone taped to a bottle in their luggage.

The judge would decide whether to free or charge the men, or extend the...


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Amsterdam Arrests: Terrorism Trial Run for Yemeni Men?

Wednesday, 01 September 2010 14:01
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By BRUCE CRUMLEY / PARIS

Were the two U.S. residents of Yemeni origin who were arrested upon landing in Amsterdam on Monday tripped up amid a trial run for a Terrorism attack? Or was their apprehension a belated reaction by airline and airport authorities to behavior in Chicago and Alabama that, while strange, was ultimately innocent?

As Dutch officials sift through the clues they have gathered, the public and the media have this information to work on: the men identified in press reports...


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New York imam: Mosque fight about Muslim role

Wednesday, 01 September 2010 14:02
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By BRIAN MURPHY, Associated Press Writer

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The imam leading plans for an Islamic center near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York said the fight is over more than "a piece of real estate" and could shape the future of Muslim relations in America.

The dispute "has expanded beyond a piece of real estate and expanded to Islam in America and what it means for America," Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf told a group Tuesday that included professors and policy...


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Lawyer says Yemeni suspect denies terror link

Wednesday, 01 September 2010 14:00
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The lawyer for one of the two Yemenis being held by Dutch authorities amid fears they were conducting a test run for a terror attack says his client denies any involvement in Terrorism and was just planning to visit his family.

Attorney Wouter Hendrickx says his client Ahmed Mohamed Nasser al Soofi "is in shock" after being arrested Monday by Dutch airport police as he arrived on a flight from Chicago.

Al Soofi was detained along with another Yemeni, Hezam al...


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