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Still in Control Pervez Musharraf was calm, confident and—despite a flurry of rumors—not about to announce his resignation. Instead, the Pakistani president's "concession" to his troubled nation was an announcement that he would allow Britain's Scotland Yard to help local law enforcement agencies with their investigation into last week's assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Speaking in a nationally televised address two hours after Pakistan's election commission announced the postponement of the ballot to Feb. 18, six weeks later than had been scheduled, Musharraf was notably deferential in his remarks about Bhutto, often invoking her "martyrdom" and extolling...

New Haven (AP) _ A federal judge says prosecutors may not introduce at trial a claim that a former Navy sailor plotted to attack military personnel. Hassan Abu-Jihaad is charged with disclosing the location of Navy ships to terrorism supporters. The 31-year-old Abu-Jihaad of Phoenix pleaded not guilty in April to charges he provided material support to terrorists with intent to kill U.S. citizens and disclosed classified information relating to national defense. He is accused of disclosing the location of Navy ships and the best ways to attack them. During a hearing in November, prosecutors played secretly recorded phone calls...

Two live hand grenades were found in a yard in Josephine on Sunday and the neighborhood around the home was evacuated. The bomb squad from the Plano Police Department safely detonated the two grenades and no one was hurt.

/begin my translation N. Korea: Troops In Border Area Given Ammo & Grenades 'Good Friends', "N.K. Stepping Up Semi-Wartime Footing " [2006-09-06 18:10] N. Korea notched up its semi-wartime footing in recent days, issuing grenades and ammunition to troops stationed in the border area (with China), while N. Korean General Staff is drawing up a border shutdown plan, according to Sept. 6 issue of the news letter by Good Friends, a N. Korea relief aid agency . The N. Korean General Staffs issued an order on July 30, titled, "To the entire military regarding keeping up their vigilance, and redoubling their...

Terrorist plot in Tennessee foiled Federal authorities arrested an Iraqi-born Nashville resident on illegal weapons charges. It was after a sting operation that was set up when Ahmed Al-Uqaily (AH'-mad HAH'-sahn al YOO'-quay-lee) told an acquaintance he wanted to "go Jihad" over the war in Iraq. FBI terrorism agents arrested the 33-year-old Al-Uquaily after he took possession of two disassembled machine guns, four disassembled hand grenades and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. Court documents show Al-Uqaily also was interested in getting missiles used to disable tanks. Authorities said he expressed animosity toward the Jewish community, but did not give specific...

BAGHDAD (Army News Service, Nov. 7, 2005) -- Iraqi police in Adhamiyah responded to a call-in tip at about 7:30 a.m., Nov. 6, that an improvised explosive device had been placed near a school. The report later received by U.S. military police stated that a grenade was discovered taped to a pole with a detonating wire strung across the sidewalk. Staff Sgt. Robert Stearns, an MP liaison with the Rusafa Police Station, said it appeared that the device was set to detonate as the children left school. An Iraqi police explosive ordnance disposal team arrived to safely dispose of the...

Six people were stabbed early Sunday during a melee at a 1-year-old's birthday party, police said. It apparently started when a downstairs neighbor went upstairs to complain about the noise. They arrived at a two-family home on Crosby Street to find dozens of people running around in a thunderstorm. Some were screaming and bleeding. Most spoke only Spanish, adding to the chaos. A Spanish-speaking officer from Manchester was eventually brought into translate. Four carloads of men showed up to join the fight and police said some may have been affiliated with a gang. Police detained so many people that they...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An Iraqi-born man was sentenced Monday to nearly five years in prison after trying to buy machine guns and hand grenades in a federal sting operation. Ahmed Hassan Al-Uqaily (search), 34, was arrested last October during the investigation prompted by his alleged threat about "going jihad" against the United States, investigators said.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2005 – Coalition forces in Iraq arrested 10 suspected terrorist during a raid in western Ramadi today after Iraqi citizens pointed out a safehouse where the suspects were hiding and storing weapons. The military said a local Iraqi citizen confirmed the building was being used as a terrorist safehouse. When coalition forces approached the building, several suspects fled, officials said. Six of them were immediately detained, and four others were captured hiding inside a nearby Mosque after Iraqi citizens alerted coalition forces to their whereabouts. Meanwhile, a male who lived at the house told coalition forces the...

Anthony Pellicano, the high-profile private investigator whose clients included some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, was charged today with conspiracy and making threats against a Los Angeles Times reporter. Anita Busch was researching a story in 2002 about the relationship between actor Steven Seagal and a reputed Mafia figure when someone fired a bullet through the windshield of her unoccupied car. Left on top of the vehicle was a dead fish with a rose in its mouth and a sign reading: "Stop." The charges today were filed by Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley after a lengthy investigation...

Two small makeshift grenades exploded outside the British Consulate in New York early Thursday, causing slight damage to the building but injuring no one, officials said. The blasts occurred at 3:50 a.m. as voters were going to the polls in Britain. In London, Britain's Foreign Office said there were no provisions for Britons to vote at overseas consulates. Police spokesman Noel Waters said the grenades had been placed inside a cement flower box outside the front door of the midtown Manhattan building that houses the consulate. After piecing together the shrapnel, police determined the devices were toy grenades that had...

Search of Nogales home yields anti-tank explosive, grenades NOGALES, Sonora - U.S. and Mexican officials are investigating a heavy weapons cache discovered in this border town that police believe was headed south to arm drug cartels. In a late Wednesday search of a Nogales home, police found an anti-tank warhead, six hand grenades and more than 1,200 rounds of ammunition, Nogales Police Chief Ramses Arce Fierro said Friday. Officers also found an empty missile tube for a larger sized shoulder-fired weapon, he said. A task force of FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents were working with...

How not to test a hand grenade... A drunken German who bought three hand grenades at a flea market in Bosnia has been arrested after throwing one out of the window to see whether it worked. The 36-year-old took the three hand grenades home to Frankfurt as souvenirs where he kept them in a drawer for ten years. But after drinking heavily with friends he showed one of them the explosive devices and decided to pull the pin on one after his pals claimed they did not believe they were real. The grenade exploded between two blocks of flats and...

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Our European cousins think we're a nation of thugs because we won't indulge cutthroats and assassins in the name of sophisticated cowardice and nuanced poltroonery. Some of us, like the pituitary freaks who run up and down a basketball court in gaudy underwear and leap into the stands to beat up women and children, really are thugs. Others are merely direct-action guys. George W. Bush saw his bodyguard in trouble with Chilean cops and, like any red-blooded president before him, jumped into the security scrum to pull him out of harm's way. JWR contributor Wesley Pruden is editor in chief...

A grenade exploded at a wedding in eastern Ethiopia, killing the bride and three other people, state-run Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) has reported.

The city has agreed to pay $1.6 million to the family of a woman who was scared to death after cops mistakenly burst into her Harlem apartment and exploded a flash grenade in a bungled raid, it was announced yesterday. The deal settles a $500 million lawsuit filed in May by 57-year-old Alberta Spruill's two sisters and a niece. "While compensation cannot bring Ms. Spruill back, it nevertheless reflects the city's sorrow over her unintended and tragic death," said Corporation Counsel Michael Cardozo. Neither family members nor their attorney, former O.J. Simpson Dream Team lawyer Johnnie Cochran, could be reached...

SKOPJE, Aug. 29 — Macedonian police patrolled roads into the capital and searched cars on Friday after attackers fired grenades at three government buildings overnight. Nobody was injured in the attacks on the main government building, the courthouse and the central army barracks at around 10 p.m. (2000 GMT) on Thursday. Witnesses said the grenades were fired from a moving car.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A bag containing two grenades was left near the United Nations Development Program office in Baghdad Tuesday but the incident was not considered a serious threat, a U.N. spokesman said. The spokesman said security officers found that the grenades were not primed and could not have exploded. They were left near a car close to the UNDP office, he said. ``It was a minor incident,'' the spokesman said. Last month, an Iraqi driver for the U.N.-affiliated International Organization for Migration was killed and an international staff member was wounded when their convoy was fired on south of...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A man has thrown two grenades into the grounds of the United States consulate in Turkey's southern city of Adana, damaging a wall but causing no injuries, officials sy. Turkish police arrested the man, in his 30s, after he entered the garden of the consulate on Wednesday around 12.35 p.m. British time and threw the hand grenades towards the main building, shattering windows. "A Turkish male threw two grenades into the compound and one exploded. There was minimal damage, no injuries and the suspect was captured," a U.S. consulate official told Reuters. The United States has warned...

WASHINGTON, DC -- An allied military plan to confiscate weapons in Iraq may destabilize the nation further by giving the green light to street thugs and Baath Party loyalists who are terrorizing innocent civilians, says the Libertarian Party. "Imposing this gun grab is like declaring war on Iraq for a second time," said Geoffrey Neale, Libertarian Party chairman. "How many innocent men, women and children will be kidnapped, robbed or murdered because their U.S. 'protectors' turned self-defense into a crime?" Iraqi citizens will be forced to surrender their heavy weapons under a proclamation expected this week from U.S. and British...

Terror rakes Valley while Delhi, Islamabad talk peace Seven security personnel, including an Army major, and a block President of the ruling People's Democratic Party, were among 15 people killed and 40 injured on Friday as militants stepped up their attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said. The escalated violence saw the first suicide attack of the year in the state which made a vain attempt to target a sector headquarters of BSF, ambush on an Army patrol and a blast inside a court in Baramulla district of north Kashmir which witnessed the maximum number of militancy-related incidents on...

'How did the enemy get into our camp?" That's what Bart Womack, a command sergeant-major of the elite 101st Airborne Division, asked himself as a grenade rolled past him after 1 a.m. on Sunday at an American camp in Kuwait. The attacker worked methodically, destroying an electricity generator, throwing grenades into Womack's tent and the two other command tents, then shooting soldiers as they fled their tents. One soldier died and 15 sustained injuries. The enemy in this case appears to be not what one might expect -- an Iraqi soldier or a Kuwaiti Islamist. The only suspect in custody...

 In light of a public awakening and newfound interest in the fastest growing religion around the globe — Islam — UC Davis’ Introduction to Islam class hit a record-high class size, with over 80 students enrolled this quarter in the typically small class. Curiously, over half of these students are Muslim.         According to lecturer Kathleen O’Connor, who has taught this and other Islamic study courses for the past four years, Muslim students take the class “to get a broader understanding of their culture.         “Non-practicing Muslims want to know where they come from. Practicing Muslims want to get information on their...

cnn has first footage of the suspect. the light and satellite phone footage obscures his race, you can see the gunshot wound in his leg.

<p>PICATINNY ARSENAL, New Jersey -- It is among the most horrific weapons in any army's collection: the thermobaric bomb, a fearsome explosive that sets fire to the air above its target, then sucks the oxygen out of anyone unfortunate enough to have lived through the initial blast.</p>

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan believes three men who blew themselves up with grenades after fleeing a checkpoint in Pakistani Kashmir were responsible for the deadly attack on a Christian school that killed six people, a senior official said Wednesday. ``The way they were running to escape ... we suspect that they were the killers of six innocent people,'' Information Minister Nisar Memon said. Memon said, however, that the Interior Ministry, which supervises law enforcement in Pakistan, has not yet formally concluded the men were responsible for the Monday attack on the Murree Christian School. None of the school's 150...

IDF forces this afternoon thwarted an attempted terrorist attack at the Erez Crossing. An armed Palestinian was spotted approaching the Erez industrial area. He fled towards Palestinian- controlled territory, and security forces opened fire, apparently wounding him. Several grenades were discovered at the scene.

Topeka police said they evacuated neighbors, then spent about six hours late Wednesday and early today removing hand grenades and a rocket launcher from two houses where they conducted drug raids in East Topeka. Police said no one was hurt and no arrests had made made linked to raids conducted at the houses, which were found unoccupied. The homes are situated across the street from each other at 810 and 815 S.E. Chandler. Chandler runs two blocks east of S.E. Branner Trafficway. Lt. John Sidwell said the grenades and rocket launcher were taken to a Forbes Field bunker that police...

French cameraman injured, journalists dispersed with stun grenades, tear gas in West BankFri Apr 5, 1:53 PM ET By IBRAHIM HAZBOUN, Associated Press Writer BETHLEHEM, West Bank - A French television cameraman was slightly wounded Friday by Israeli gunfire near the Church of the Nativity, hours after soldiers lobbed stun grenades at journalists outside Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites)'s headquarters. Israel has declared both areas off-limits to the press during its major military offensive in Palestinian cities. Jerome Marcantetti, a cameraman with the LCI news channel of French broadcaster TF1, said an Israeli soldier fired at him...