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ANAS EL ABBOUDI ARRESTED OVER TERROR IN ITALY
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ASHRAF ISLAM THREATENS TO KILL PRINCE HARRY
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ANOTHER HIZBULLAH LINEUP UNCOVERED IN NIGERIA
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FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBER IN DAGESTAN INJURED 18
A female suicide bomber, Madina Alieva, blew herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Saturday 05/25/2013, injuring at least 18, including two children and five police officers, police said.
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FRENCH SOLDIER STABBED IN PARIS METRO
An unidentified man tabbed a French soldier on patrol with two colleagues in the La Defense business district of Paris, on Saturday 05/25/2013 evening.
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IBRAHIM TODASHEV SHOT AND KILLED BY FBI IN FLORIDA
Ibragim Todashev shot dead by an FBI agent at an apartment complex near Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, early on 05/22/2013, was "about to sign a statement" about an unsolved triple murder in Waltham, Massachusetts, on 09/11/2011
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3 ISLAMIC MILITANTS ARRESTED IN GADIZ, SPAIN
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3 ISLAMIC MILITANTS ARRESTED IN
GADIZ, SPAIN
 Spanish police have arrested, on Thursday 08/02/2012, three suspected members of Al Qaeda in the southern province of Cadiz, a judicial source has told the AFP news agency.Spanish radio station Cadena Ser on Thursday cited police sources that said the suspects were two Chechens and a Turk and were in the possession of explosives and poison when they were arrested.Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz in a news conference said: "There is a clear indication that those arrested could have been planning an attack in Spain or in Europe".Fernandez Diaz did not disclose the identities of the three, but said two were suspected Al Qaeda operatives while the Turk was a facilitator. He described one operative as a key member of the terror network, and said both operatives had practiced flying in light aircraft. One was an expert in explosives and poisonous substances, he said.Two of the suspects were travelling in a bus towards France when they were arrested in a lay-by at Valdepenas by a police special operations group near Almuradiel, according to El Pais. The Turkish man was reportedly arrested in a flat near La Linea de la Conception, in San Roque, where the group was storing explosives. It is reportedly the first time such suspects have been found with explosives.Police suspect at least one of those arrested has attended training camps in Pakistan, reports say. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula - AQAP had issued a message at the beginning of July looking for Spanish-speaking "lone wolves" as operatives, according to Spain's El Pais newspaper.
The judge, on Friday 08/03/2012, jailed the Turk suspect, identified as Cengiz Yalcin, (No' 2) accused of being an Al Qaeda operative for "possession of explosive substances and devices with terrorist aims", but did not agree with prosecutors that the man belonged to a terrorist group, the source said.The Turkish man's lawyer said his client, who denied all charges against him, is an engineer for a multinational company who has lived in Gibraltar for seven years and has legal residence in UK.The two Chechen suspects also accused of belonging to Al Qaeda are currently being held for questioning while police continue their investigation.
The Spanish Interior Minister told reporters on Friday that the Turk Cengiz Yalcin had befriended the two Chechen suspects in Turkey and that they had come to Spain for the purpose of seeking asylum, the Spanish El Pais newspaper reported.
The two Russian suspects from Chechen descent Eldar Magomedov, who also goes by the name Ahmad Avar (No' 1), and Mohamed Ankari Adamov (No' 3), suspected of plotting a terror attack in Europe have been charged in Spain, on Monday 08/06/2012, with belonging to an unnamed terror organisation and possession of explosives, and placed under indefinite detention (see also - Maryam Magomedov).
Authorities in Spain released a video, on Saturday 08/11/2012, that they claim shows suspected al-Qaida members training for a bombing raid using a model plane, the latest development in a case that has led to the arrests.
The two Russian Chechens took paragliding lessons this year in a southern Spanish region renowned for the sport, authorities said over the weekend. A Turkish engineer also under arrest paid for the lessons. Spain's Interior Ministry declined comment on whether investigators believe Eldar Magomedov and Mohamed Ankari Adamov were using the paragliding lessons to train for an attack. But analysts said the allegation in court paperwork that they took the lessons is almost certainly a key line of investigation.
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* Paragliding did feature in one recent stunt by an environmentalist that must have given chills to authorities.
The activist was arrested in May after dropping a billowing smoke bomb onto the roof of a French nuclear reactor. Video footage captured the airborne activist on a motorized paraglider after he dropped the smoke bomb, circling the reactor before making a wobbly descent to the ground with his glider's parachute-like wing emblazoned with "Greenpeace."
Paragliding was banned in and around New Delhi during the 2010 Commonwealth Games "to provide security against any sort of terror attacks," said police spokesman Rajan Bhagat. And authorities in Denmark banned allowing paragliders from flying above Copenhagen in 2009 when the International Olympic Committee met to pick the winner of the 2016 Summer Games.
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