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Army troops on Thursday shot dead a self-styled commander of pro-Pakistan Hizbul Mujahideen outfit in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir, official sources said. On an intelligence report about the presence of a group of Hizbul terrorists, troops launched a seek and destroy operation in Tringa forest belt of Mahore tehsil in Udhampur district around 8.30 am on Thursday, they said. During search of the area, an encounter took place between terrorists and troops, they said adding that one top terrorist was killed. The encounter was still going on. The slain terrorist is codenamed Abu Usma, tehsil commander of HM,...

LAHORE. Security forces arrested four suspected terrorists who were planning a suicide bombing in the city, intelligence officials told Daily Times on Wednesday. The suspects who were wearing jackets with several large pockets were disguised as street vendors, officials said, adding that security forces also seized explosives and weapons from their carts. The arrests came from the information gleaned from another suspected terrorist Tariq Gujjar, who was arrested four days ago. Gujjar told investigators that he was a member of an Al Qaeda gang headed by Munna Pathan. He said the gang planned to bomb the American Consulate in Lahore....

Pak nets bomb cleric Islamabad Dec. 3: Pakistani security forces today arrested a suspected militant and recovered 10 bombs from his custody in Sheikhpura town, near Lahore. Local police officials said security forces arrested Muhammad Aslam, who is the chief cleric of a mosque in Sheikhpura, during a raid. The police said Aslam is a member of the outlawed Sunni militant outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi but did not give any details. President Pervez Musharraf had banned five militant outfits in January 2002 as part of the government’s drive to curb sectarianism and track down extremist elements in the aftermath of the September...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- US-led troops mounted overnight raids on suspected Al Qaeda compounds in eastern Afghanistan, killing four people and detaining several others, officials said yesterday. The US military said "several Arab fighters" were among the suspects killed or detained in the operation in Nangarhar Province, although a local official said only Afghans survived. News reports of the operation were announced as Lieutenant General David Barno, the top US commander in Afghanistan, reported that Al Qaeda suspects were continuing to slip across the Pakistani border nearby. The raids targeted several compounds that "had clear connections to Al Qaeda," the military...

GAZIANTEP - One of three terrorists who attempted to plant a bomb on railway bridge near Dortyol town of southern city of Hatay was captured in southeastern city of Gaziantep, sources said on Saturday. It was learned that the captured terrorist was preparing to bomb Gaziantep governor's office. Sources told A.A correspondent that Anti-Terrorism Office and intelligence teams captured Adil Abi when he was checking the area around the governor's office for a terrorist attack he was planning. Another person who was with Adi escaped. Sources noted that Adil Abi told police that he was among people who tried to...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Turkish television stations broadcast a video Friday that claimed that Habib Akdas, suspected leader of the Turkish al-Qaida cell blamed for November suicide bombings in Istanbul, was killed this week in a U.S. bombing raid in Iraq. The video, broadcast by Turkish television channels CNN-Turk and NTV, showed the body of a bearded man with a bloody face, who was wrapped in a cloth. A man who claimed to be a Turkish militant was heard in the video saying that the body was that of Akdas and that Akdas was killed in a bombing raid this...

Summary: ITAR-TASS is reporting claims by Prime Minister Ayad Allawi yesterday to Al-Arabiya satellite channel that four close associates of Osama bin Laden have been seized in Iraq. Allawi says other members will be caught soon.

WANA - Pakistani forces have destroyed a suspected Al-Qaeda training camp in a remote tribal area near the Afghan border, killing some 50 militant fighters, the military said. "Around 50 people, 90% of them foreigners, were killed in the strike on the terrorist training camp," military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan told the private ARYOne television channel. Most of the victims were Uzbeks and Chechens with some Arabs among them, Sultan said. The camp was in the tribal district of South Waziristan, where hundreds of Al-Qaeda fighters have been taking refuge and running training camps since US-led forces ousted Afghanistan's...

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - A suspected al-Qaida operative who was captured along with another man during raids in this southwestern city is an "explosives expert" who had arrived here from Iran, a security official said Thursday. The suspects, an Egyptian named Sharif al-Misri and another man of Middle Eastern origin identified as Abdul Hakeem, were caught Sunday when Pakistani intelligence agents acting on a tip raided a home in Quetta, the capital of the province of Baluchistan. The arrests were announced Wednesday by Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed. A security official who is familiar with the investigations of the two...

Islamabad - Pakistan has arrested a key Egyptian al-Qaeda operative who holds a senior position within the terrorist network, a security official said on Wednesday. The official, asking to remain anonymous, identified the suspect as Sharif Al-Misri and said his capture carried a significant reward. "He is one of the top operators in al-Qaeda's hierarchy," said the official. Sheikh Rashid, who is due to be sworn in as information minister later on Wednesday, confirmed to AFP that Al-Misri and another al-Qaeda suspect had been detained. The security official said the pair were arrested on Sunday in Quetta, the capital of...

Pakistan nears endgame in al-Qaeda hunt By Syed Saleem Shahzad KARACHI - As Pakistan continues its relentless campaign against al-Qaeda, diplomatic circles in Islamabad and Washington believe that some "high-value" targets might already have been arrested to be produced at a later date. At the same time, the strongest-ever operation in the country against jihadi forces is seen as a preemptive strike against a backlash in the event of a high-value target being caught. On Monday, the Pakistani army said security forces had killed four suspected al-Qaeda members and captured two others in a raid in the tribal regions of...

KABUL — U.S. and Afghan troops killed a Taliban commander and detained 22 suspected Taliban fighters during a major search operation after a gunbattle in a southern Afghanistan mountain range, officials said yesterday. A renegade warlord also was taken into custody weeks after a clash with a powerful rival in the west of the country, as authorities struggle to improve security for October elections. Mullah Rozi Khan, a Taliban commander in Zabul province, was killed after troops surrounded a group of rebels in Ghazoi village Friday evening, said Asadullah Khan, governor of neighboring Ghazni province.

Men wanted to blow up bomb in 34th Street/Herald Square station. Men of Middle-Eastern descent. No ties to convention. More to follow...

DENVER - A man accused of attending a terrorist training camp was deported Thursday to Pakistan. Sajjad Nasser, 29, was deported under a section of the Patriot Act that expands the legal definitions of terrorist organizations and acts, said Corina Almeida, chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. "I think this case sends a very loud message to the terrorists and those that seek to do us harm," she said. Nasser's attorney, David Lane, called the allegation that his client helped terrorists "a big, fat lie." "He is a sacrificial lamb," his lawyer said. "It's ludicrous. It's racist." Nasser...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Aug. 23, 2004 — Pakistani troops acting on a tip raided a terrorist hideout Monday in a remote tribal region, sparking a shootout that left four foreigners dead and several wounded, an army spokesman said. The operation was launched after intelligence reports said some foreign fighters were hiding on the outskirts of Miran Shah, the main town in North Waziristan a tribal region in Pakistan's northwest near the border with Afghanistan, said Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan. He described the assault as successful, and said the bodies of the four slain men were recovered. "The raid also netted (alive)...

Posted on Tue, Aug. 24, 2004 Swiss Accuse Group of Backing al-Qaida JONATHAN FOWLER Associated Press GENEVA - Swiss investigators have found evidence that suspected members of a group backing al-Qaida were supplying fake documents to enable collaborators to enter Switzerland and other European countries illegally, the supreme court said Tuesday. The Federal Tribunal said one suspect, whose name was not released, was found to have links to both an unidentified al-Qaida recruiter who sent volunteers to the terror group's training camps and another unidentified individual convicted of terrorism offenses in France. The support group also provided cell phone numbers...

AL QAEDA MILITANTS KILLED Pakistani security forces have killed four al Qaeda-linked Uzbek militants in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, officials have said. Another foreigner and a Pakistani were also captured in the raid on a hideout near North Waziristan's capital town of Miranshah.The operation coincided with a big assault on the other side of the border by US helicopter gunships and hundreds of Afghan and US-led troops. A government official said the men were thought to have been among a large group of militants pursued by the military since March in neighbouring South Waziristan. Hundreds of foreign militants, including...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Security forces were hunted for more terror suspects, officials said Sunday, as Pakistan revealed that it has arrested a dozen al-Qaida-linked militants who had planned to launch simultaneous suicide attacks on government leaders and the U.S. Embassy. Officials said the plot could have killed hundreds of people, underscoring the deadly stakes in President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's aggressive push to defeat violent extremists enraged by his support of the U.S.-led war on terrorism. "We have infiltrated their network and that is why we have made these arrests," Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayyat told The Associated Press. "They...

Time is GMT + 8 hours Posted: 22 August 2004 1252 hrs Australian Taliban fighter and Osama bodyguards to face US military justiceA TV grab of an undated photo of David Hicks taken in Kosovo. GUANTANAMO BAY US NAVAL BASE, Cuba : The United States will this week start controversial military proceedings against an Australian Taliban fighter and three bodyguards for Osama bin Laden. David Hicks, an Australian, two Yemenis, Salim Ahmed Hamdan and Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman al-Bahlul, and a Sudanese, Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi, will be the first of the 585 detainees at the Guantanamo detention camp in...

GENEVA, Aug 21 (AFP) - Two Yemeni nationals arrested this year in Switzerland are linked to key Al-Qaeda figures with ties to the October 2000 bombing of a US aircraft carrier off Yemen and to a suicide strike in Riyadh last year, the Swiss public prosecutor was quoted as saying on Saturday. The pair, who were detained in Geneva and Bern in January, have been linked to "several core members of the (Osama) bin Laden movement," said a report on an inquiry by public prosecutor Claude Nicati, obtained by Le Temps newspaper. A spokesperson at the federal prosecutor's office declined...

HOUSTON (AP) - A South African woman pleaded not guilty Friday to immigration charges in a case that raised concerns about whether terrorists could enter the country by way of Mexico. Farida Goolam Mahamed Ahmed, 48, was arrested July 19 after being stopped by the Border Patrol at McAllen-Miller International Airport in south Texas as she tried to board a plane bound for New York. She carried a pair of muddy, wet pants in her baggage, $7,300 in various currencies and a passport with three double-sided pages missing. Border Patrol agents determined Ahmed did not have a valid visa for...

Libyan now believed responsible for U.S., & U.K. terrorist plans Pakistani officials are seeking a man they and U.S. officials believe has taken over responsibility for planning al-Qaida attacks on the United States. They say he is the new No. 3 man in the terrorist network and may know the general whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri — al-Qaida's No. 2 man. Abu Faraj al Libi, a Libyan citizen who has long worked with bin Laden, is believed to have taken over the No. 3 job with the capture of his mentor, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, in March...

Osama’s cook arrested By Shahzad Malik ISLAMABAD: Law enforcement agencies have arrested a man believed to be the cook of Osama Bin Laden, head of the Al Qaeda network, sources told Daily Times on Thursday. They said Muhammad Osman was arrested in a raid on Jamia Faridia on Wednesday and was taken to an undisclosed location for questioning. Sources said that Osman served the Al Qaeda head for six years. He had been studying Fiqa in the seminary for the last two years and had been staying in the hostel, sources said. “The man is being interrogated and therefore it...

KARACHI - The recent arrest of two top Pakistani jihadis, Maulana Fazalur Rehman Khalil and Qari Saifullah Akhtar, marks the beginning of the end of an era that started in the mid-1980s when the dream of an International Muslim Brigade was first conceived by a group of top Pakistan leaders. The dream subsequently materialized in the shape of the International Islamic Front, an umbrella organization for militant groups formed by Osama bin Laden in 1998 and loosely coordinated by the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) of Pakistan. The arrests in Pakistan, made under relentless pressure from the United States, are aimed at tracing...

PESHAWAR: Police in Pakistan arrested an Algerian suspected of links with al-Qaeda as he was trying to flee a security cordon near his house in the city of Peshawar on Thursday, intelligence officials said. The man, who was not identified, was wounded in the neck when police opened fire on his vehicle, an intelligence official said. "His condition is stable," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. A man who fled with the Algerian escaped. He was not identified. Pakistan, a key ally in the US-led war on terror, has launched a major crackdown on members of Osama bin...

U.S. WELCOMES CONVICTION OF 17 ABU SAYYAF BANDITS MANILA, August 18 , 2004 (STAR) By Marvin Sy - The United States has welcomed the conviction of 17 Abu Sayyaf bandits who kidnapped three Americans and 17 Filipino tourists from a resort off Palawan three years ago. All 17 were sentenced to death on Aug. 13 for kidnapping nurses from a church-hospital compound in Lamitan, Basilan in June 2001. Four of them, who remained at large, were sentenced in absentia. In a statement, State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said his government has lauded the effort of the Philippines in fighting terrorism...

N A T I O NWhat is this Man Plotting? A newly revealed summit of terrorists raises fears of a fresh plan to attack the U.S. This bombmaker and pilot could be a key player By ELAINE SHANNON WASHINGTON AND TIM MCGIRK ISLAMABAD WANTED: Three undated images of Adnan el-Shukrijumah, from an FBI website, obtained Aug. 9 Special Report: Al-Qaeda in America Sunday, Aug. 15, 2004 It was a gathering of terrorism's elite, and they slipped silently into Pakistan from all over the world in order to attend. From England came Abu Issa al-Hindi, an Indian convert to radical Islam who specializes in surveillance. From...

NEW YORK - American and Pakistani authorities fear a 'second string' of Al-Qaeda leaders is plotting a major new attack after a terrorist summit in Pakistan, Time magazine reported. Some United States officials fear the meeting could have been a key planning session ahead of a major attack, similar to the way a 2000 meeting in Kuala Lumpur was ahead of the Sept 11 terror attacks in the US. 'The personalities involved, the operations, the fact that a major explosives expert came here and went back,' Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf told the magazine, 'all this was extremely significant.' A US...

In the autumn of 2001 I was one of scores of journalists who ventured into northern Afghanistan to write about the U.S.-assisted war against the Taliban. As I crossed the Hindu Kush to cover the fighting for The Wall Street Journal, my journey took what looked like a fatal turn: the battered black pickup truck I had rented—which in its better years had been a war wagon for Afghan gunmen—lost its brakes as it headed down a steep mountain path, careened along the edge of a gorge, slammed headlong into the back of a Northern Alliance fuel truck that was...

The Washington Timeswww.washingtontimes.com Al Qaeda's U.S. networkBy Arnaud de BorchgravePublished August 13, 2004 Before we convince ourselves al Qaeda is down for the count, check the stats.     Islamist extremists in the world as estimated by moderate Muslim leaders: about 12 million. Fundamentalist sympathizers: 120 million. Those numbers represent 1 percent and 10 percent of the world's Muslim population of 1.2 billion. The CIA puts the extremists much higher -- 40 million.     Then there's the number who trust Osama bin Laden more than President Bush: a majority in Muslim countries whose populations total 450 million.     European intelligence services know an alarming...

Islamabad - Two top al-Qaeda suspects, a Pakistani linked to attempts on President Pervez Musharraf's life and an Uzbek national, have been captured in Pakistan, said an intelligence official on Thursday. They are the latest in a gallery of suspected top operatives of Osama bin Laden's terror network caught in the world's second most-populous Muslim nation since mid-July. Both men were close to al-Qaeda's "top leadership", the official said, without naming bin Laden or his Egyptian deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who are believed to be both hiding in mountains along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier. The Pakistani, identified only as Mohsin, was nabbed...

Police have arrested a close aide of a senior Pakistani al-Qaida operative who used to run a terror training camp in Afghanistan and was recently captured in the United Arab Emirates, an official said Wednesday. The aide, identified only as Arshad, was arrested in a raid late Monday on a hideout in Sialkot, a city about 80 miles northwest of Lahore in eastern Pakistan, Sialkot police chief Nisar Saroya said. He said two of Arshad's associates escaped. Police seized 12 rockets, three rocket launchers, two AK-47 assault rifles, three pistols and ammunition. Arshad is believed to be a close aide...

LAHORE: Hyderabad police on Tuesday arrested five suspected men from a house in Qasimabad and seized computers, Pakistani and foreign currency and five mobile phones, according to a news channel. District Police Officer (DPO) Farid Sarhindi told the channel they had been taken to a hitherto secret place. “It is premature to call them Al Qaeda associates. But we tapped their phones,” the DPO was quoted by the channel as saying. daily times monitor

LAHORE, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistani intelligence agents are interrogating three suspected al Qaeda members who were arrested in Lahore. The suspects are Turkish nationals, who have been in contact with colleagues in Turkey, Pakistani intelligence sources told CNN. The arrests early Monday morning are the latest in a series of captures that have came about after Pakistani authorities apprehended a computer expert reportedly linked to al Qaeda.

Senior al-Qaida Operative Captured in UAE 2 hours, 25 minutes ago By PAUL HAVEN, Associated Press Writer ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - In a new blow to al-Qaida, authorities in the United Arab Emirates captured a senior operative in Osama bin Laden's terror network, who trained thousands of militants for combat, and turned him over to Pakistan, the information minister said Sunday. The man, Qari Saifullah Akhtar, was secretly flown to the eastern city of Lahore, where he was being interrogated, a Pakistani intelligence official said on condition of anonymity. Pakistan, a key ally of the United States in its war on...

WASHINGTON (AP) - An al-Qaida terror suspect detained in England was sent to the United States in early 2001 by the principal architect of the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings to perform surveillance on economic targets in New York, according to U.S. officials and government interviews with other captured terror suspects. They said the suspect claimed he has associates in America, possibly in California. Abu Eisa al-Hindi was arrested in a roundup last week in Britain along with 11 others. The disclosure that al-Hindi also was known as Issa al-Britani provides tantalizing details that further link al-Hindi to recent Bush administration...

A senior Pakistani al-Qaida operative who used to run one of the terror group's training camps in Afghanistan has been arrested in the United Arab Emirates and handed over to Pakistani officials, the information minister said Sunday. Qari Saifullah Akhtar is in Pakistani custody, the latest in a string of major breakthroughs against the al-Qaida network, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told The Associated Press. Akhtar ran an al-Qaida training camp in Rishkhor, Afghanistan, where terrorists learned kidnapping and assassination techniques, as well as traditional combat skills used by Taliban fighters in their war to win control of the...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A senior al Qaeda operative who knew Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and was linked to assassination attempts on Pakistan's president has been arrested in Dubai and handed over to Islamabad, Pakistani intelligence sources said Saturday. Qari Saifullah Akhtar, a leader of the radical Islamic group Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami, was arrested by authorities in Dubai Friday after Pakistan had requested his detention, and handed over to Islamabad Saturday. The capture was the latest breakthrough in a broadening offensive against terrorist groups in Pakistan that has netted over 20 suspects in recent weeks including computer engineer Mohammad Naeem...

ISLAMABAD, Aug 6 (Reuters) - U.S. officials revealed the name of captured al Qaeda suspect Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan while he was still cooperating with Pakistani authorities, a Pakistani intelligence source has told Reuters. Khan e-mailed comrades on Sunday and Monday as part of a Pakistani sting operation against Osama bin Laden's network, the source said on Friday. But his name appeared in the New York Times on Monday following anonymous briefings by U.S. officials, raising suggestions their disclosure could have jeopardised the sting. "He was cooperating with interrogators on Sunday and Monday and sent e-mails on both days,"...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani computer expert linked to U.S. security alerts and the arrest of 11 terrorism suspects in Britain was part of an undercover sting operation before Washington revealed his name, a Pakistani intelligence source and British media reports said yesterday. U.S. officials revealed the name of captured al Qaeda suspect Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan while he was still cooperating with Pakistani authorities in a sting operation, an intelligence source told Reuters news agency.

WASHINGTON — A terrorism suspect arrested in Britain this week was in Internet contact with a U.S. Navy reservist and had detailed information about the sailor's San Diego-based battleship carrier group, including its classified travel plans and its vulnerability to attack, British and American prosecutors said Friday.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The trail began with a hunt for the people who ambushed a Pakistani commander as his motorcade tried to cross Karachi's Clifton Bridge in June. It led to a torrent of intelligence and ended with dozens of arrests in Pakistan and Britain and a terror warning in the United States. Along the way, investigators passed through Karachi's teeming streets, to the dusty tribal village of Shakai along the Pakistan-Afghan border, to seemingly placid suburban London, to the world's financial headquarters in New York and to Washington, D.C. The arrests of several senior al-Qaida figures in Pakistan and...

August 7, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - A U.S. sailor aboard one of America's high-tech Navy warships sent e-mails to a suspected London-based al Qaeda terrorist and may have revealed sensitive military secrets, authorities announced yesterday. The traitor sailor, who has not been identified, praised Muslim terror strikes against America and may have turned over detailed plans about the Navy's USS Benfold and more than a dozen other ships in its battle group as they were moving through the Mideast, officials said. The information about the American sailor was disclosed yesterday by federal prosecutors in Connecticut who said he had been...

ISLAMABAD/LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. officials providing justification for anti-terrorism alerts revealed details about a Pakistani secret agent, and confirmed his name while he was working under cover in a sting operation, Pakistani sources said on Friday.A Pakistani intelligence source told Reuters Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, who was arrested in Lahore secretly last month, had been actively cooperating with intelligence agents to help catch al Qaeda operatives when his name appeared in U.S. newspapers."After his capture he admitted being an al Qaeda member and agreed to send e-mails to his contacts," a Pakistani intelligence source told Reuters. "He sent encoded e-mails...

Al-Qaida suspect was secretly cooperating with counterrorist sting ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The al-Qaida suspect named by U.S. officials as the source of information that led to this week’s terrorist alerts was working undercover, Pakistani intelligence sources said Friday, putting an end to the sting operation and forcing Pakistan to hide the man in a secret location. advertisement Under pressure to justify the alerts in three Northeastern cities, U.S. officials confirmed a report by The New York Times that the man, Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, was the source of the intelligence that led to the decision. A Pakistani intelligence source told...

(CBS/AP) Two men were arrested in Albany, N.Y. early Thursday on suspicion of planning to buy shoulder-launched missiles, CBS News has learned. Federal agents and city police picked up the men during an overnight raid on a mosque, with armed officers sealing off a block in downtown for several hours. The men, Yassim Muhhidin Aref, 34 yr, Imam of the Majid Al Salam mosque; and Mohammed Mosharref Hoosain, 49, founder of the mosque, are suspected of ties to the terrorist group Ansar al-Islam, CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin reports. The arrests were the result of a long-running FBI operation....

Mohammed Hossain   Last updated: 9:18 a.m., Thursday, August 5, 2004 Editor's note: As part of its recently published special report on Albany's Central Avenue, the Times Union featured a profile of Mohammed Hossain, one of the suspects arrested Thursday during an FBI raid of the Masjid As-Salam mosque in Albany. Here is the text of that story. Mohammed Hossain's journey to owning Little Italy pizzeria began in an unlikely place: Bangladesh. Hossain and his wife, Mossamat, emigrated with their 1-year-old son, Abuhamza, from Bangladesh in 1985 in search of opportunity to lift themselves out of grinding poverty. Their...

Two Albany, N.Y., Mosque Leaders Arrested 12:54 AM EST - August 06, 2004 The Associated Press WASHINGTON Authorities arrested two leaders of a mosque in Albany, N.Y., early Thursday and charged them with aiding in a purported plot to buy a shoulder-fired grenade launcher to assassinate a Pakistani diplomat.According to an FBI affidavit, the men laundered money for the purchase of the launcher they were told would be used to assassinate the ambassador at the Pakistani consulate across from the United Nations in New York. The murder supposedly was meant to punish the Pakistani government for cooperating with non-Muslims.In fact,...

Albany Mosque Leaders Arrested On Terror Charges AUGUST 05TH, 2004 Two mosque leaders accused of agreeing to help an undercover informant smuggle a shoulder-fired missile to terrorists were arrested in an Albany Thursday. Meanwhile, the FBI says it is keeping a close watch on suspected terrorists in and around New York City. excerpt.... In New York City, several people with links to the terror groups Al Qaeda, Ansar al Islam and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad are under surveillance in New York City, an FBI spokesperson says. The FBI says there is no evidence that the suspects it is monitoring have...

Al-Qaeda ace may have been arrested in UK By Peter Fray, Herald Correspondent in London, and agencies August 6, 2004 British authorities are believed to have foiled a well-developed plot to bomb Heathrow Airport by one of al-Qaeda's most senior operatives in Europe. The agent, known as Abu Eisa al Hindi, is believed to be among 13 men arrested by anti-terrorism police in Britain this week. Twelve of the men, aged 19 to 32, are still being questioned by Scotland Yard detectives on suspicion of being involved in the "preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism". Police have declined to...