Arrests in US, Pakistan Following Times Square Bomb Plot
04 May 2010
Suspect Admitted Role in Times Square Plot, Holder Says, CNN, 4 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Investigators in Pakistan have arrested a number of suspects in the probe into the failed car bombing in Times Square, a Pakistani intelligence source said Tuesday. They arrested two or three people after raiding a house where the Times Square bombing suspect, Faisal Shahzad, is believed to have stayed during a recent visit to Pakistan, the source said....
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Suspected German Terrorist Killed in Pakistan
04 May 2010
German Jihadist Eric Breininger Killed in Pakistan, Group Claims, Spiegel Online, 3 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Eric Breininger, one of Germany's most wanted suspected terrorists, has been killed in a battle with Pakistani troops in the Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan, according to an unconfirmed statement by a jihadist group. Breininger had appeared in several Internet videos trying to recruit terrorists in Germany. Eric Breininger,...
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Conviction in Mumbai Case, Death Sentence Sought
04 May 2010
Mumbai Sentence Hearing Begins, Al Jazeera, 4 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Arguments for the sentencing of the only surviving person who took part in the deadly November 2008 Mumbai attacks have been put to an Indian court. The hearing comes a day after Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the Pakistani man, was convicted in the court for his role in the attacks that killed 166 people and injured hundreds of others. Kasab, 22, was found guilty of murder,...
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Pakistani Smugglers Supply Afghan Bombmakers
04 May 2010
Pakistani Smugglers Supplying Afghan Bombmakers, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Twice a week, a caravan of trucks lumbers out of this volatile northwest Pakistan city in the dead of night and makes its way toward Afghanistan, loaded with one of the most coveted substances in a Taliban bombmaker's arsenal: ammonium nitrate fertilizer. Every time the illicit caravan makes its trip, it moves unhindered past a gantlet of Pakistani...
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Drones Kill Low-level Militants, Few Civilians: US
04 May 2010
, Reuters, 3 May 2010
EXCERPT: "U.S. estimates show CIA drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas over the last two years have killed more than 500 militants - a fraction of whom are considered top-tier leaders -- and fewer than 30 civilians, officials said on Monday. The number of so-called combatant and noncombatant casualties in the U.S. government tally is sharply lower than some...
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