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Two weeks ago, Turkish police arrested an Islamist with ties to many upper tier al-Qaida members. The man not only tried to get asylum in Germany, but claims to have known about the London bombings beforehand and to have helped the 9/11 pilots. The Turkish interrogators in Istanbul's high-security prison wanted to be polite; they wanted to show respect for Islam. They offered their prisoner, an Islamist named Luai Sakra, 31, a chance to pray during a pause in questioning. They'd done the same thing with earlier suspects. The move was supposed to establish trust. But this prisoner reacted a...

Judge's order to explain pursuit of death penalty was ignored: The judge in an upcoming trial involving the deaths of 19 illegal immigrants will tell jurors that prosecutors ignored her order to provide information on whether they are seeking the death penalty because of the defendant's race. In a ruling made public Thursday, U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore said she also will allow attorneys defending truck driver Tyrone Williams to use the government's refusal as evidence during the penalty phase if he is convicted on a death-penalty charge. Some legal experts said the order was a severe blow to prosecutors'...

Sunday morning at around 11:15 a wounded man came panting up to a New York National Guard unit near the Iraqi town of Belad, about 30 miles south of Tikrit. The man said he was an American: Thomas Hamill, a contractor kidnapped last month after insurgents ambushed a convoy in which he'd been driving. He said he'd heard the US patrol pass the building in which he was being held, so he'd pried a door open and chased them half a mile up the road. Other than an old gunshot wound to the arm, Mr. Hamill seemed fine, so the...

<p>A Monroeville bicyclist has been jailed on charges that he tried to kill a pickup truck driver during a road rage incident Saturday afternoon near the entrance to Monroeville Park.</p> <p>The driver, William J. Nicoletti, was shot once in the arm in the confrontation.</p>

Captured al-Qa'eda man was FBI spy By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 23/06/2003) The American al-Qa'eda operative unmasked last week as having planned to bring down the Brooklyn Bridge was first detained in March, and has been used by the FBI for months as a double agent, it was reported yesterday. Iyman Faris US authorities waited until last week to announce a plea bargain struck with Iyman Faris, a Pakistani-born lorry driver ordered to scout out terror targets, including the New York landmark. They did not say that Faris, who was also ordered to study ultralight aircraft, and the possibility...

Truck Driver Modest About Sniper Suspects Capture10-24-2 FREDERICK, Md. (Reuters) - When Ron Lantz pulled his truck into a Maryland rest stop off I-70 early on Thursday, something just clicked. The truck driver spotted a blue Chevrolet Caprice with New Jersey tags in the parking lot off the Maryland interstate highway, and recalled the police news conference he had just heard in the case of the Washington area sniper who has killed 10 and seriously wounded three since Oct. 2. "I pulled in. I'd heard those bozos talking about the description of the car, the make of the car, the...

RICHLAND, Texas (AP) -- Truck driver Cleaster Broadway didn't have much time at home with his 19-month-old son, so he brought the toddler along on road trips when he could. Their shared ride Sunday ended in tragedy after Broadway lost control of his tractor-trailer about 60 miles south of Dallas and slammed into a pillar that supported a highway bridge. The column collapsed, toppling the overpass. Debris rained onto the truck's cab, killing the little boy and trapping his father for eight hours. "He hardly got a chance to see him (the child) because he's always on the road," Broadway's...