(SYDNEY, Australia) -- Nine man accused of Australia's largest terrorist conspiracy downloaded bomb-making instructions off the Internet and stockpiled chemicals to make lethal explosives because they believed Islam was under attack, a state prosecutor said Tuesday.
The nine were devotees of a radical Muslim cleric sympathetic to Osama bin Laden, and struck a pact to launch a terrorist attack because they felt their religion was under threat and needed to be defended at any cost, a pre-trial hearing heard Tuesday.
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3 rocket launchers seized in SW Pakistan
2007-03-07
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's Frontier Corps seized three 107 mm rocket launchers along with 17 shells from an area in southwest district of Pishin in Baluchistan province, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
The weapons had been dumped underground by unknown persons for sabotage purposes, said the report. No arrest was made in this regard.
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Lebanese police seize ammunition for rocket-propelled launchers
Mar 6, 2007
Beirut - Lebanese police seized Tuesday 25 rocket-propelled grenades in a mountainous area, south-east of Beirut. 'The ammunition, which were wrapped in plastic bags, were found by a villager in a field near Aitat,' - a mainly Druze village, a police source said. Police cordoned off the area and confiscated the weapons, the source said.
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A SHOREHAM town centre road was cordoned off this morning (Tuesday) amid fears unexploded bombs had been found. Royal Navy bomb squad officers were called to Western Road after what were believed to be unexploded devices were found in a house.
Gap-year student Jaime said: "The whole street has been cordoned off. We are not allowed out of our houses." It is believed council workers had been clearing a house in the street when they came across the unexploded devices.
http://www.shorehamtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=470&ArticleID=2100045
Iraq: Cellphone-Bomb Gang Broken Up
Baghdad, 6 March - Iraqi police have uncovered a new terror technique adopted by the insurgents, a cellphone used, not simply as a trigger for a bomb, but as an explosive device. According to the Iraqi news portal Nasariya.net, police in the capital have in recent days arrested an insurgent whom at first appearance seemed similar to hundreds of others belonging to al-Qaeda linked or Baathist groups behind much of the recent bloodshed.
What set him apart was that he headed a gang which had developed a new technique, which enabled him to insert small quantities of explosives inside mobile phones.
The man, 23, whom the portal says lived in the comfortable al-Doura neighbourhood of Baghdad, reportedly confessed to police his role in various killings and explosive attacks, mainly targeting the heavily fortified Green Zone. According to the police, it is the first time that insurgents there have used a similar technique. The man was charged with training other members of the group, who were subsequently arrested.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.392435852&par=0