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Court hears how hero took on 'tube bomber' 16.01.07 Suspects: (Top from left) Manfo Asiedu, Muktar Said Ibrahim, Ramzi Mohammed, (bottom from left) Yassin Omar, Hussain Osman and Adel Yahya Dramatic CCTV footage of the moment when one of the alleged July 21 bombers tried to detonate his rucksack bomb and failed was revealed for the first time today. Ramzi Mohammed was the first of four men to try to cause chaos on London's transport system that day. A heroic off-duty firefighter tried to tackle a would-be suicide bomber after his device failed to detonate on a Northern line Tube...

Arab terrorists 'are getting into the US over Mexican border'By Julian Coman in Washington(Filed: 15/08/2004) President Bush has launched a drive to halt illegal immigration across America's porous southern border, amid growing fears that terrorists may be using Mexico as a base camp before heading to Arizona, Texas and California.A string of alarming incidents has convinced Bush administration officials that lax immigration rules, designed to cope with the huge numbers of illegal entrants from Mexico, have become a significant loophole in the war on terror.Over the past month, border agents from Arizona and Texas have anonymously reported recent encounters with...

Internal memo advises tightening aircraft security during holidays WASHINGTON -- An internal Homeland Security Department memo obtained by WorldNetDaily advises airports and air carriers to tighten security over passenger aircraft and air cargo during the holiday season. U.S. officials explain that air cargo and the back side of airports – known as the ramp, where jets are serviced – are still relatively vulnerable to terrorism more than two years after al-Qaida terrorists hijacked and crashed four jumbo jets on the East Coast. Based on recent al-Qaida chatter, U.S. intelligence remains concerned that the terrorist group plans to use jets to...

Al-Qaida prepared exploding holy book for faithful in Mecca Copies of the Quran were booby trapped by Muslim terrorists seeking to kill and maim pilgrims to Islam's holiest city, Mecca, according to a Saudi newspaper. Saudi security sources say police found the unusual weapon amid arms caches discovered in recent raids of terrorist hideouts in Mecca and the Saudi capital of Riyadh, reported the London-based daily Asharq al-Awsat, according to Reuters. Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb attack on a Riyadh residential compound this week that killed at least 18 people. Most were Arab...

John Loftus now on Batchelor Alexander WABC reports: A student of Nuclear Engineering at McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario. has disappeared along with 180 pounds of nuclear waste stolen from the university's nuclear reactor. This happened several months ago but an alert has been ordered tonight in the USA and Canada. His name is ? Adnan al-ShoukriJumai, 27 years old, a Saudi national. A search is underway. The fear is that they may hijack a cargo plane in Canada. I hope to provide further details later on this thread.

France is involved in a massive, emergency investigation of the activities of Islamic terror groups operating inside the country, turning the European nation into a major logisticsl and operational base, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. Much of the new information on the French terror connection comes from intelligence and law-enforcement sources in Australia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Singapore. Among the startling discoveries: an Islamic terror training center is based in Paris; the terrorists are trained in the Fontainebleau Forest, in the coastal city of Marseilles and in the French Alps; the base, with Wahabbi connections, began to operate more than two...

Intelligence uncovered by the FBI indicates al-Qaida terrorists plan to hijack an aircraft in Britain within the next two months and fly it into an ''important'' building. British Airways and other leading airlines operating in and out of Britain have been put on alert. The report says the most likely targets for the hijackers were aircraft taking off from London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports, according to a report in the London Telegraph. The FBI and Department of Homeland Security circulated a warning to American and British airlines on July 30, saying terrorists working in teams of five were likely to...

WASHINGTON -- Increasing numbers of Middle Easterners are ducking a new anti-terrorist screening system by coming to America on passports from "low-risk" nations such as France, which participate in the federal Visa Waiver Program, immigration officials warn. The controversial program -- still in effect after Sept. 11, despite growing calls here for its elimination -- allows foreign travelers from 28 nations to enter the U.S. for business or tourism for up to 90 days without obtaining the documentation law enforcement needs to screen out foreign threats. Adding to worries, passport fraud in some of these countries -- namely France and...