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VIDEO: Indians 'fly' for less than a dollar September 21, 2015
Indians who have never flown can pay less than a dollar to experience what it's like to be on a plane and learn the etiquette of flying - without leaving the ground.
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VIDEO: Game of Thrones, Veep win big at Emmys September 21, 2015
HBO programmes Games of Thrones and Veep dominate the 67th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.
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VIDEO: Peston: How will China cope with slowdown? September 21, 2015
With China facing an economic slowdown, economics editor Robert Peston asks whether the government will let market forces work or go back to its old habit of intervening?
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VIDEO: Lebanon government urged to quit over rubbish September 21, 2015
There are calls for changes in the Lebanese government after a failure to find a solution to the rubbish crisis.
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VIDEO: Pope and Fidel Castro exchange books September 21, 2015
Pope Francis meets Fidel Castro, exchanging books with the former president, as part of his visit to Cuba.
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VIDEO: Hajj in numbers - in 60 seconds September 21, 2015
Numbers involved with this year's Hajj pilgrimage - in 60 seconds.
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VIDEO: Pants flown over Czech presidential palace September 21, 2015
Protesters have replaced the presidential flag, which flies over the palace in Prague, with a pair of giant red underpants.
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VIDEO: The man who makes art from rubbish September 20, 2015
Ishmael Mhike, who was left paralysed after a robbery, now makes amazing artworks from rubbish.
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VIDEO: The men behind the mobs in Pakistan September 20, 2015
BBC Urdu reporter Saba Eitizaz investigates the men running the mobs in Pakistan who say anything is available at the right price.
– MOHAMMED SADDIQ ODEH
After his studies Mohammed Saddiq Odeh went to Afghanistan in the post war with Russians and joined a training camp of one of the Islamic groups. He became an explosives expert. Mohammed Saddiq Odeh was one of the first devoted followers of Osama Bin Laden since he left for Sudan in late 1991.
In 1993 Mohammed Saddiq Odeh trained Somali militants to oppose U.S. and U.N. forces in the country in the time of USA led operation “Restore Hope” (12/1992-05/1993) where he got associated to Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri and Mohammed Atef , both future senior Al Qaeda leaders.
In late 1993 Mohammed Saddiq Odeh moved to join the Abu Sayyaf group in South Philippines. Philippines intelligence managed to photograph him, at some point, in front of his house in the southern city of Davao in 1993. He was suspected of having a role in a 1993 bombing of a cathedral in Davao that killed 7 and was carried out by Abu Sayyaf. In 1995, Philippine authorities arrested him for possession of explosive devices and then let him go. He left the Philippines to Pakistan (and probably to Afghanistan too), after that arrest, in late 1995.
Mohammed Saddiq Odeh arrived to East Afirca in 1996, with a forge passport provided by Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, probably in a recruiting mission, and managed to recruit to Al Qaeda Fahid Ally Msalam from Mombasa.
Mohammed Saddiq Odeh was in Al Qaeda’s team that assembled in Runda Estate, a quiet farm near Nairobi, the car bomb designated for the USA embassy in Kenya on the 08/07/1998 attack. Shortly before the 08/07/1998 attack Mohammed Saddiq Odeh flew to Karachi, Pakistan, where he was arrested by the local immigration authorities and deported to Kenya a week later. In Kenya Mohammed Saddiq Odeh was handed over to USA authorities.
Mohammed Saddiq Odeh was indicted in New York, US on 11/04/1998 and put on trial in New York, in 01/2001, alongside Wadih el Hage, Khalfan Khamis Mohamed and Mohamed al-Owhali.
Mohammed Saddiq Odeh was sentenced 0n 05/29/2001 to life in prison without parole and is today (02/2007) in Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado.
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