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VIDEO: A history of calling Obama a Muslim September 18, 2015
After Donald Trump fails to correct one of his supporters calling Barack Obama a Muslim, we look back on the history of this phenomenon.
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VIDEO: Stars of the Frankfurt Motor Show September 18, 2015
As the Frankfurt Motor Show draws to a close, Theo Leggett looks at what you could be driving away after that big lottery win.
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VIDEO: Pianist of Yarmouk's journey to Europe September 18, 2015
Ayham al-Ahmad, the pianist of Yarmouk, records his journey, as he leaves Syria for Europe.
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VIDEO: Pressure on Zagreb reception centres September 18, 2015
The BBC's Christian reports from one of the registration centres in and around the Croatia capital Zagreb.
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VIDEO: Trump laughs off Obama 'Muslim' question September 18, 2015
Donald Trump is criticised for failing to correct a supporter who said US President Barack Obama was a Muslim and "not even an American".
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VIDEO: Turkey-PKK conflict 'escalating fast' September 18, 2015
The number of policemen and soldiers who have been killed in Turkey since a ceasefire with Kurdish militant group the PKK broke down in July, has risen to more than 120.
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VIDEO: German town 'running out of room' for migrants September 18, 2015
The BBC's Jenny Hill reports from the town of Rosenheim in Germany, where giant tents are being constructed to accommodate asylum seekers.
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VIDEO: Waxworks unveiled of F1 stars Vettel and Hamilton September 18, 2015
As Singapore's Formula 1 Grand Prix gets into gear, the BBC's Rico Hizon meets two of the top challengers, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel - in waxwork form.
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VIDEO: Motor racing hopeful, but no driving licence September 17, 2015
Kenyan Tejas Hirani has won 48 motor-racing championships despite being just 17 and not yet having a driving licence.
– THE SWISS CELL
On 01/09/2004, the Swiss police arrested 10 suspects related to the financing of the Riyadh Suicide Attacks in Saudi Arabia, on 05/12/2003. They were arrested after one of the suspects in the devastating Riyadh bombing had a cell phone with 36 Swiss mobile-telephone numbers recorded in its memory. Following up on those numbers, Swiss police over the next nine months arrested 10 suspect, smostly Yemeni and Somali natives, who were found to have been engaging in mostly low-level criminal activity including forging documents and human trafficking. Five suspects have been released but remain under investigation.
The cell was led by a Yemeni exile named Abdelhamid al-Fayek, 56, a Bern
Resident, who was allegedly the ringleader of the group. In the house of Abdelhamid al-Fayek police found incriminating documents, which linked the suspect to terror finance and recruitment, pictures of David Courtailler and phone numbers of suspects related to the logistic backup of The 9/11 (probably the cell in Spain – see AQ-Logistic).
Abdelhamid al-Fayek and another suspect named Jabr Rajeh Hassan al-Said, 34, who arrived to Switzerland as a political asylum seeker in 1995, were in close connections with the Yemeni citizen Abdallah al-Kini (from Kenya where a large group of Yemenis is living), also known as Owaiss. Abdallah al-Kini, whose real name is Abdullah Ahmed al-Raimi, was arrested in Qatar, UAE, on 07/20/2003, and then extradited, in 05/2004, to Yemen, where he appears to be cooperating with authorities. (One indicator: Owaiss identified a picture of one of the Swiss suspects as somebody he had known who had undergone training in explosives at Al Qaeda’s al-Farouq training camp in Afghanistan). He was officially charged in Yemen, on 08/24/2004, and sentenced to four years in jail. Abdullah Ahmed al-Raimi took part in the Sanaa Escape, on 02/03/2006.
The Swiss report of the country’s chief deputy federal prosecutor, Claude Nicati (Nicati’s Report) described Abdallah al-Kini (Abdullah Ahmed al-Raimi) as an “operational Al Qaeda agent” involved in the October 2000 attack on the destroyer USS Cole off Yemen, which killed 17 American sailors, and a close associate of Saif al-Adel.
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