Philippines asks court to outlaw Abu Sayyaf
(AP)
AP - The Philippine government has asked a court to outlaw the Abu Sayyaf as a terrorist group and blacklist more than 200 of its Islamic fighters blamed for two decades of bombings, kidnappings and beheadings, officials said Monday.
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Blair warns over deep-rooted radical Islam
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 AFP - Former prime minister Tony Blair warned on Sunday that the roots of radical Islam were far deeper than we think and said Al-Qaeda would have killed 300,000 on September 11, 2001 if they could.
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Police on alert as Pakistan suicide attack victims buried
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 AFP - Anti-terror police were on high alert in Pakistan on Saturday as mass burials took place for the victims of a suicide bomber who killed at least 59 people at a Shiite Muslim rally.
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Indonesian Muslims protest plan to burn Quran
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AP - Thousands of Indonesian Muslims rallied outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta on Saturday to denounce an American church's plan to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by burning copies of the Quran.
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Pakistan Taliban threaten attacks in U.S., Europe
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Reuters - Pakistan's Taliban on Friday threatened to launch attacks in the United States and Europe "very soon" and dismissed a move by Washington to add the group to its terrorism blacklist.
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9/11 groups split on mosque rallies on anniversary
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AP - Both supporters and opponents of a proposed Islamic cultural center should stand against rallies planned for the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, groups representing some relatives of attack victims said Thursday.
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Farrakhan supports planned mosque near ground zero
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AP - Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Thursday an Islamic community center and mosque planned near ground zero should be built because Muslims were among those of many faiths who died in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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US officers take up posts at Paris airport
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AP - American officers are taking up posts at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport to help identify potential terrorists or other high-risk passengers heading to the United States.
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Jordan's king: Terrorists want to derail talks
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 AP - Jordan's King Abdullah II suggests that failure of new peace talks between Isarel and the Palestinians would be a victory for terrorists seeking to derail the process.
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AP - Obama: `I am hopeful, cautiously hopeful, but hopeful' about achieving peace.
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Leader of Pakistan Taliban charged in CIA bombing
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AP - U.S. officials launched a broad legal offensive against Pakistan's Taliban on Wednesday, placing the group on its international terrorism blacklist and charging its leader with planning last year's suicide bombing in Afghanistan that killed seven CIA employees.
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Dutch authorities release Yemeni suspects
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 AFP - Two Yemenis arrested in Amsterdam on suspicion of terrorism have been released for lack of evidence, the Dutch prosecuting authority said Wednesday as a lawyer called the case "disgraceful".
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Dutch prosecutors say Yemenis freed
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 AP - Two Yemeni men arrested on arrival from the United States on suspicion they may have been conducting a dry run for an airline terror attack were released without charge Wednesday after investigations turned up no evidence to link them to a terror plot, Dutch prosecutors said.
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Interview: UK Islamist says like-minded U.S. groups expanding
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Reuters - Radical U.S. Muslim discussion groups are growing in influence much as similar forums did in 1990s Britain, a hardline British preacher said on Wednesday, referring to a period when London was Europe's Islamist hub.
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Lahore blasts deepen threat to foreign aid workers in Pakistan
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The Christian Science Monitor - A series of suicide bombings targeting Shiite religious processions in Lahore, Pakistan killed at least 25 people and injured up to 180 on Wednesday night, according to the city's administrative chief. It marks the first large-scale terror attack since flooding devastated Pakistan four weeks ago.
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Dutch free two Yemenis arrested as terror suspects
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 Reuters - Dutch authorities said on Wednesday they had freed two Yemeni men held on suspicion of terrorism at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, after finding no evidence of wrongdoing despite a transatlantic security scare.
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US adds Pakistani Taliban to terrorism blacklist
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AP - The Obama administration on Wednesday added the Pakistani Taliban to its international terrorism blacklist, targeting the group blamed for the failed car bombing in New York's Times Square and its leaders with financial and travel sanctions.
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UK jury: bomb expert died in flawed secret tests
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AP - A jury says a British government scientist died during secret anti-terrorism experiments that were not properly planned or organized.
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New York imam: Mosque fight about Muslim role
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 AP - The imam leading plans for an Islamic center near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York said the fight is over more than "a piece of real estate" and could shape the future of Muslim relations in America.
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Amsterdam Arrests: Terrorism Trial Run for Yemeni Men?
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Time.com - Were al Soofi and al Murisi, the two U.S. residents of Yemeni origin who were apprehended in Amsterdam on Monday, performing a trial run for a terrorism attack?
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