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MANAMA (AFP) — Police in Bahrain said on Saturday one man was arrested and another freed on bail after they were accused of cooperating with and funding a foreign terrorist group, a reference to Al-Qaeda. One suspect had delivered funds "to a foreign group that uses terrorism to reach its aims" and that his beliefs "could affect security," according to a public prosecution statement. "The first suspect has admitted delivering money to that group abroad, while the second has denied it... Both suspects have been accused of cooperating with a terrorist group abroad and financing a terrorist group."

"Tony McDonald, a member of the University of Texas Young Conservatives, sets up a protest anti- American Civil Liberties Union nativity scene, dubbed a 'solstice barn,' on the university's campus in Austin December 4, 2006. The display features a 'Nancy Pelosi' angel, a 'suicide bomber' shepherd, and Marx, Lenin and Stalin as the Three Wise Men." "Josh Perry, a member of the University of Texas Young Conservatives, spreads hay as he sets up a protest anti-American Civil Liberties Union nativity scene, dubbed a 'solstice barn,' on the university's campus in Austin, Texas December 4, 2006. The display features a...

More indictments are expected in the probe, which has centered on L.A.'s garment district. A dozen people were arrested Tuesday on charges of narcotics trafficking, money laundering and selling counterfeit goods after a two-year counter-terrorism and drug investigation centered in Los Angeles' downtown garment district. The focus of the federal investigation was Ali Khalil Elreda, 32, who was detained at Los Angeles International Airport last year, accused of trying to smuggle $120,000 in money orders and cashier's checks, hidden in a child's toy, to Lebanon, according to an indictment and an affidavit filed in the case. In 2005, a Los...

NAIROBI: The Kenyan police have arrested a man they believe to be a key Al Qaeda suspect who tried to shoot down an Israeli airliner and helped plan the simultaneous bombing of a hotel in 2002 that killed 15 people, officials said. The man's identity was not immediately confirmed, but investigators said they believe he is Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a senior official in Kenya's security services told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the matter was classified. Nabhan is wanted for questioning by the FBI and the Kenyan police for the 2002 attacks and the 1998 bombings...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A 32-year-old woman wielding a machete was arrested Sunday outside the White House, the Secret Service said. Spokeswoman Kim Bruce said Ashwak Saleh was taken into custody and charged with possession of a prohibited weapon after she displayed a 13-inch machete on the sidewalk outside the White House. Saleh was arrested at 2:20 p.m. and taken to Washington Metro Police Department 3rd district for processing. Witnesses said Saleh was sitting on the sidewalk when she pulled the machete out of a leather sleeve and began sharpening it on the edge of the sidewalk. The witnesses said passersby...

<p>CINCINNATI -- A local money-laundering operation that allegedly shipped millions of dollars to the Middle East has been stopped with the arrest of the group's alleged ringleader and more than 20 other people, officials announced Thursday.</p> <p>Omran Saleh (pictured, below) was among 23 people arrested, most of whom are of Palestinian descent, Thursday, WLWT Eyewitness News 5's Brian Hamrick reported.</p>

Albania Seizes Assets Of Bin Laden Associate TIRANA (AP)--The Albanian government has seized the assets and bank accounts of a man who allegedly worked with Osama bin Laden and others to provide support to terror networks in Albania, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday. Abdul Latif Saleh, who holds Jordanian and Albanian citizenship, was placed on a U.N. sanctions list in September, requiring all U.N. members to impose a travel ban on him and block his assets. Albania earlier had blocked 33 bank accounts in three commercial banks as well as assets and investments in Saleh's businesses and civic organizations he...

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is scheduled to visit the United States in November for a round of meetings with President Bush and other high ranking US officials. As the representative of the Yemeni people, Saleh deserves a great deal of respect and hospitality. Yet it has become increasingly apparent that the regime, under the total domination of President Saleh, is engaged in a wide variety of criminal activities to the detriment of regional stability and the Yemeni people themselves. Drug Smuggling: One regionally destabilizing regime activity is drug smuggling. A variety of illegal drugs are smuggled via the Indian...

The U.S. government has moved to financially isolate a man who allegedly worked with Osama bin Laden and other terror leaders to finance jihadist groups in Albania. Monday's order from the Treasury Department prohibits Americans from doing business with Abdul Latif Saleh, 48. It also freezes any assets Mr. Saleh may have within U.S. jurisdiction. The Treasury says Mr. Saleh received $600,000 dollars from Osama bin Laden to "encourage the establishment" of Albanian extremist groups. It says Mr. Saleh founded and organized an organization that seeks to destabilize Albania by fomenting conflict among the country's religious groups. The Treasury says...

Italy probes possible CIA role in abduction By John Crewdson (Chicago) Tribune senior correspondent An Italian prosecutor investigating the apparent kidnapping of a suspected Islamic militant in the streets of Milan served military authorities this week with a demand for records of flights into and out of a joint U.S.-Italian air base in northern Italy. Italian newspapers have reported that the prosecutor, Armando Spataro, is investigating the possible role of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in the disappearance of Osama Nasr Mostafa Hassan, better known as Abu Omar, a popular figure in Milan's Islamic community who vanished Feb. 17, 2003....

One year ago, I wrote a piece exposing radical Islam within Florida Atlantic University (FAU). My goal was twofold: [1] to bring awareness concerning a growing problem within FAU [2] to push the university to take action so that this problem ceases to exist. Unfortunately, only the first part of my goal was accomplished, as FAU is continuing to allow radicals on its campus, the latest being this Saturday'S (Jan.22, 2005) return engagement of potential co-conspirator to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, Siraj Wahhaj. The Enemy Thrives at FAU In recent times, a fairly large list of...

More evidence of Saudi doubletalk?Judge caught on tape encouraging Saudis to fight in IraqBy Lisa Myers & the NBC Investigative UnitUpdated: 7:28 p.m. ET April 26, 2005WASHINGTON - Sheik Saleh Al Luhaidan, seen in video seated to the right of the crown prince, is chief justice of Saudi Arabia's Supreme Judicial Council. His sermons and words carry great significance.In an audiotape secretly recorded at a government mosque last October and obtained by NBC News, Luhaidan encourages young Saudis to go to Iraq to wage war against Americans."If someone knows that he is capable of entering Iraq in order to join...

SALEH, EX-COP, NEW AL-QAEDA LEADER IN SAUDI MIL Date : JUN 22, 2004 Riyadh – Al-Qaeda leader Abdul Aziz al-Muqrin, who was killed in Riyadh in a gunshoot by the Security Forces, has been replaced by an ex-Saudi Police Officer Saleh Mohammad al-Oufi. He shall be the new chief of Al-Qaeda network on the Arabian Peninsula according to Arab Media. Saleh is within 36-38 and holds the position as number 4 among the most wanted militants in Saudi Arabia. He was once Police Officer, born in Medina and joined the terrorist group in Afghanistan. Since he was wounded in Bosnia,...

Escape from Chelmby Daniel Sargis05 May 2004Appointing a former member of the Republican Guard to a command position in Fallujah is like smothering a fire with more logs.    The good news is that Thomas Hamill, the American civilian held hostage in Iraq since April 9, has escaped.  In spite of the best efforts of terrorists and liberals alike, Hamill did something very American...with faith in God, he took responsibility for himself.  Hamill saw his opportunity; kicked open a door; and ran into the open arms of an American patrol.  The bad news?  The town of Chelm still flourishes...

The general selected by the US marines to command a new Iraqi force in Fallujah has been abruptly replaced after he denied that there were foreign fighters in the insurgent city and blamed America for fomenting the bloody rebellion there.Maj Gen Jassim Mohammed Saleh, a former member of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard, was trumpeted by local US commanders as the type of strong man who could pacify the 2,000 gunmen in Fallujah.   Gen Saleh: appointment angered Iraqi politicians But in an indication of American desperation, it emerged that Gen Saleh had been selected even though little was known about...

FALLUJA, Iraq, May 2 — A little over a week ago, 7,000 marines backed by artillery, tanks and deadly AC-130 gunships were poised for an all-out attack to rid this city of a stubborn insurgency, including an estimated force of several hundred foreign fighters. Instead, apparently at the behest of political leaders and top commanders concerned about the consequences of such an assault on a town of 300,000 people, the marines entered an odd alliance with a former commander of the feared Republican Guard and his somewhat amorphous army. The marines' hope is to put an Iraqi face on control...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A former general from Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard has not been given command of an Iraqi force that entered Fallujah after Marines ended a three-week siege, the U.S. military chief said Sunday. Gen. Richard Myers said news media were "very, very inaccurate" in their reporting about Maj. Gen. Jassim Mohammed Saleh, who was said to have had a major role in organizing the "Fallujah Brigade" and the lifting of the siege. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said officials in Baghdad were checking into Saleh's background. "There are people that know his record, know what...

General Richard Meyers just emphasized to Chris Wallace that General Saleh, former Republican Guard Commander, who has been announced by the international media as the commander of an Iraqi force inserted into Fallujah to quell the violence is, in fact, not in command of anything in Fallujah and has not been vetted by our forces in theater.Meyers , in fact, left me with the impression that he was distancing himself from Saleh. Meyers seemed to backtrack emphatically when Wallace mentioned the rumors that Saleh had command troops that persecuted the Kurds in northern Iraq. Prevous reports posted on this forum...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gen. Jasim Mohamed Saleh, a former general in Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s elite Republican Guard, is not likely to take charge in the volatile Iraqi city of Falluja and is still being vetted for a possible peacekeeping role, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Sunday. "There's another general they're looking at," Myers told ABC's This Week. "My guess is, it will not be General Saleh. It will not -- he will not be their leader. ... He may have a role to play, but that vetting has yet to take...

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Soldiers of the old Iraqi army led by one of Saddam Hussein's generals patrolled the city of Falluja on Saturday, a year after George W. Bush declared the U.S. "mission accomplished" in ousting the Iraqi regime. Cries of "victory over the Americans" echoed from minarets and guerrilla gunmen celebrated in the streets under the green banner of Islam and Saddam-era Iraqi flags. Thousands who had fled a month of heavy fighting streamed back to their homes after U.S. Marines pulled back from their siege positions. Mired in a confrontation that spilled blood on both sides and...

WASHINGTON - U.S. military commanders won't wait forever for local political efforts to quell the insurgency in Fallujah, U.S. officials said Friday as they laid out in greater detail the Bush administration's evolving strategy to deal with one of the trickiest standoffs of the war. Their words foreshadow the possibility of a "strong fight" to gain control of the city, if joint Iraqi-American efforts fail to halt the violence. Military leaders acknowledge the situation remains delicate as local leaders in Fallujah try different ways to resolve the insurgency. The situation has commanded the daily — sometimes hourly — attention of...

  1st Marine Expeditionary Force Creating 'Fallujah Brigade' By John D. BanusiewiczAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, April 30, 2004 – The 1st Marine Expeditionary Force is putting together the first battalion of a new Iraqi brigade being formed to restore and maintain order in the western city of Fallujah, a coalition military spokesman announced at a Baghdad news conference today. An officer from the former Iraqi army will command the unit, which will be an interim organization under 1st MEF command, said Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy operations director for Combined Joint Task Force 7. Kimmitt said the...

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, under its new chairman, Richard Lugar, should make its first order of business an inquiry into President Bush's maladroit and shortsighted decision-making in the So San affair. Our National Security Agency, to its credit, spotted the movement of 15 Scud missiles and 85 drums of chemicals from a factory in North Korea to its secret loading aboard the freighter So San, and tracked the unflagged ship around the world to the Arabian Sea. The C.I.A. was unable to determine the customer of these offensive weapons, unreliable in military combat but useful in striking terror into...

SAN'A, Yemen, Nov. 16 ? Yemen's government on Sunday freed 92 followers of the al-Qaida terrorist network who have repented, a Yemeni judge responsible for dialogue with suspected terrorists said. They were freed along with 1,500 other inmates as part of an amnesty during the Ramadan holy month, said the judge, Hammoud al-Hitar. He added that 65 detainees suspected of terror-related crimes, including suspects in the bombing of the USS Cole in October 2000, would be put on trial after Ramadan. Al-Hitar heads a committee that encourages terrorists to renounce violence. He told The Associated Press that the 92 al-Qaida...

Holding up an American soldier's multi-coloured shorts that he had taken from the wreckage of the helicopter, the dancing Iraqi could scarcely contain his jubilation."Tonight we will have a double feast," shouted Mohammed Saleh, an unshaven, well-built man in his 40s, as he hopped from foot to foot in front of 100 joyous villagers."The first feast will be when we will break our fast for Ramadan. The second will be in praise of those who struck down our American enemies," he told the crowd.Behind them, among the fields and palm trees, lay the twisted, blackened debris of the Chinook along...

ROME, May 8 — Investigators analyzing computers seized from an Italian mosque say they have uncovered images of the twin towers that were downloaded just days before the 9/11 attacks, as well as a trove of pornographic photos they believe were used to conceal coded messages. On Sept. 4, 2001, according to investigators, pictures of the World Trade Center were saved as temporary files on one of the computers at the Via Quaranta mosque in Milan — the mosque frequented by Abdelkader Mahmoud Es Sayed, also known as Abu Saleh, an Egyptian currently on trial in absentia in Milan on...

MILAN, Italy — Italian anti-terrorism investigators, poring over hundreds of hours of surreptitiously recorded conversations among members of Europe's most important al-Qaida outpost, say they are convinced a cell in Milan supplied false passports and other bogus documents to al-Qaida operatives who may have succeeded in entering the United States. The absence of any apparent contact between the Milan al-Qaida operation and the Sept. 11 hijackers, who spawned their deadly plot in Hamburg, Germany, could mean that other potential al-Qaida terrorists managed to take up residence in the United States before Sept. 11 and may still be there awaiting a...

Hundreds of U.S. soldiers are said to have arrived in Yemen to help in a search-and-destroy operation against Al Qaida insurgents. The U.S. troops are said to have arrived over the last two weeks. Arab diplomatic sources said 200 to 400 American soldiers flew to Sanaa and are taking up positions in the northern and eastern parts of the country. The London-based Al Hayat daily reported that most of the U.S. troops are under the supervision of the CIA. The newspaper said the U.S. military force is meant to help Yemen track and capture Al Qaida insurgents. The regime of...