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Bomb Attack Prevented in Moscow
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Security officials prevented a bomb attack in Moscow the day before the country celebrated a national holiday last week, police said Monday. The Federal Security Service and city police detained a 29-year-old man from Dagestan with a 500-gram explosive device on a trolleybus in northwest Moscow on Feb. 22.

"The 'hellish device' was in a solid cylinder, and filled with buckshot, nails and other pieces of metal," the police said in an e-mailed statement. The man, identified as Farid Magomedov, was traveling to a metro station and had a remote-controlled detonator in his pocket, police said.

The arrest came one day before five policemen were killed when a bomb exploded in Chechnya on Defenders of the Fatherland Day. Five more officers lost their lives Monday in a blast in the region, Interfax reported.

http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2007/02/27/019.html

Algeria: Eight Suspected Al-Queda Militants Arrested

Algiers, 26 Feb. - Algerian police have arrested eight people suspected of being members of a Salafite group which has pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda and is believed to have carried out deadly attacks earlier this month, London-based Arabic daily al-Sharq al-Awsat reported on Monday citing local security sources.

The suspects, aged between 24 and 45, were arrested in Tizi Ouzu and Bourmedes, in Algeria's eastern Kabylia area, and in the capital Algiers. They are reportedly charged with supporting an armed group and planning attacks against public figures.

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Radical Cleric To Be Deported From Britain

London, 26 Feb. - A British court on Monday ruled the government can deport radical Muslim cleric Omar Othman - known as Abu Qatada - to his native Jordan. Home Secretary John Reid welcomed the decision, seen as the first test of a crucial part of anti-terror policies.

The government considers Othman a national security threat and wants to deport him under diplomatic assurances from Jordan that it will not torture him. But Othman's lawyers and human rights groups oppose his repatriation, saying Jordan's promises are unreliable.

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