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A QUEENSLAND judge has warned a man guilty of a bomb hoax not to be a "smart arse". Dominic Arthur Burns, 21, of Brisbane, today pleaded guilty in the Brisbane District Court to a bomb hoax he committed against a recruitment agency on September 16, 2005. Prosecution lawyer Carole Marco told the court Burns phoned Adecco, based in Eagle Farm on Brisbane's northside, and told a female employee there was a bomb in the building. "(He said) 'There is a bomb in your building, no seriously, there is a bomb in your building and you had better get out'," Ms...

BOSTON - At least nine electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city Wednesday in what a cable network said was a marketing campaign for a late-night cartoon. Highways, bridges and a section of the Charles River were shut down and bomb squads were sent in before authorities declared the devices were harmless. “It’s a hoax — and it’s not funny,” said Gov. Deval Patrick before the objects were determined to be part of an ad campaign.

Terror Connections Found in N.C.FBI says most terror activity in the United States is of 'nonviolent' type By Richard Wagner January 10, 2007 RALEIGH — Individuals involved in domestic and international terrorism not only have infiltrated American society, but also have initiated some of their activities in North Carolina, a top federal law-enforcement official in Charlotte and experts on radical Islam say. Other groups with Islamic connections work diligently through various means to expand their civic and political clout and ultimately to influence state and national policy, an investigation by Carolina Journal shows. The Muslim American Society — which has...

BOSTON -- Four "hoax devices" were found at several Boston locations Wednesday, hours after officials detonated a suspicious package on an elevated structure above the Sullivan Square Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority station. The additional packages were found at the Boston University Bridge, the Longfellow Bridge and near the intersection of Stuart and Columbus streets. A device described by officials as a pipe bomb was found in the basement of the Tufts New England Medical Center at 185 Harrison Ave. A spokesman for the Boston Police Department said that all of the packages appeared to be similar. "Our device was not...

An airport cleaner has denied telling a stewardess he had put a bomb under the seat of an aircraft. Hazar Ali, 26, of Lea Road, in Sparkhill, Birmingham, denied two charges of interfering with an aircraft and communicating false information. Mr Ali was working at Nottingham East Midlands Airport on 12 July when the alleged offences took place. He has been released on bail and a trial is due to take place at the end of March.

Collier Sheriff's Office voids ticket given to medical student Earlier reports from authorities said that Kambiz Butt ran the tollbooth without paying. Thursday, September 19, 2002By BRIGID O'MALLEY, bmomalley@naplesnews.com The Collier County Sheriff's Office has voided the ticket given to the driver of one of the cars stopped on Alligator Alley last week during a terrorism scare, saying the tollkeeper Wednesday recalled taking the $1.50 from the man. "She was very nervous at the time," said Collier Sheriff Don Hunter. He said the tollbooth attendant, who had earlier given a sworn statement that the driver hadn't paid, had spotted the...

Three Muslim medical students who were stopped by police on Friday and interrogated for 17-hours after allegedly making jokes and threats related to the 9-11 anniversary have declined to take lie detector tests to back up their denials. The refusal came after their accuser, Georgia resident Eunice Stone, said she'd be willing to submit to a lie test to prove her story, challenging them to do the same. "While the young men were willing to take a polygraph.... we didn't want them to take a polygraph at this time," said the students' lawyer, Khummar Wahid, in an interview Tuesday...

Eunice Stone now on Donahue with her lawyer.

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AVIE, Fla., Sept. 15 (AP) — Insisting that he and his friends harbored no resentment, one of the three Muslim medical students detained in a terror scare on a Florida highway said today that the situation had been a misunderstanding.The student, Kambiz Butt, 25, said the men simply wanted to clear their names and be allowed to continue their education in the United States."We're medical students; we are not terrorists," said Mr. Butt, flanked at a news conference by the other students, Ayman Gheith, 27, and Omar Choudhary, 23. "Our concern in life is to become doctors. We want...

<p>MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A car, not a building, was what three Muslim medical students were talking about "bringing down" in a restaurant conversation that triggered the daylong closure of a Florida highway, lawyers for the students said Sunday.</p> <p>"Our conversation at Shoney's had nothing to do with terrorism or 9/11 or 9/13," said Kambiz Butt, one of the three students. "We were basically sitting down having a regular conversation about our trip, the experience we were about to face in Miami, we were talking about school and friends."</p>

<p>NAPLES, Florida (CNN) -- The Georgia woman who prompted Friday's terror scare was "flat-out lying" when she told authorities she overheard three Muslim men at a restaurant laughing about September 11 and making suspicious comments, one of the men said late Friday.</p>

<p>NEW YORK (CNN) -- A Delta Air Lines flight about to leave LaGuardia Airport for Fort Lauderdale Saturday afternoon returned to the gate after a passenger told a flight attendant he had brought a bomb onboard, police said.</p> <p>Passengers were taken off the plane and the man was arrested, said Port Authority Police Sgt. John O'Donnell. A search of the man's luggage and the plane, with at least one bomb-sniffing dog, turned up no explosives, O'Donnell said.</p>