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LONDON — A young man hands out candy to passers-by and Sunday afternoon visitors are welcomed through its open doors with cups of tea and biscuits. It is hard to imagine that a decade ago this place of worship was a hangout for some of the world's most notorious and deadly jihadis. Finsbury Park Mosque in north London was once the domain of hook-handed imam Abu Hamza, whose extremist sermons inspired attendees including 9/11 co-conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, failed American Airlines "shoe bomber" Richard Reid and London subway suicide bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan. The "suicide factory" — as one book called...

MARIETTA - Cobb police have arrested six Hispanic men for manufacturing identification documents at Twelve Oaks Apartments on Austell Road in an undercover sting that authorities expect will lead to more arrests. Because the investigation is ongoing and additional arrests are pending, police did not release information about the Oct. 25 arrests until Tuesday. Agents from the Marietta-Cobb-Smyrna Organized Crime and Intelligence Unit executed a search warrant for an apartment at 8 p.m. Oct. 25 and walked in on a "large operation," Cobb Police Department spokesman Officer Wayne Delk said. Officers seized about 1,300 photographs, 217 completed identification cards, various...

Foreign Peace Activists Visit Southern Philippine Island Base of Muslim Extremist Group By Jim Gomez Associated Press Writer Published: Mar 23, 2002 ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AP) - Foreign peace activists visited a southern Philippine island Saturday, bringing a message that dialogue and development, and not an ongoing U.S.-backed war, could eradicate a Muslim extremist group based there. Organizers said the mission will assess the impact on villagers on Basilan island of the military assault against Abu Sayyaf rebels, who are believed to have links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network and are holding to American hostages. It will also look for...