WASHINGTON (Reuters) - British intelligence played a central role in the undercover operation to foil an underwear bomb plot involving al Qaeda's Yemeni offshoot, counterterrorism sources told Reuters. The undercover informant in the plot linked to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, was a British citizen, possibly of Saudi origin, the sources said on condition of anonymity. The informant was working in cooperation with Britain's two... full story ![]()
Three men have been arrested after police foiled what is believed to be a planned bomb attack by dissident republicans.
independent.co.uk (2 months and 22 days ago)
TWO men have been charged over a foiled mortar bomb attack on a Northern Ireland police station in Londonderry
news.com.au (2 months and 20 days ago)
Three young British Muslims were convicted Thursday of plotting terrorist bomb attacks that prosecutors said were intended to be bigger than the 2005 London transit bombings.A London jury found 27-year-old Irfan Khalid, 31-year-old Irfan Naseer and Ashik Ali, 27, guilty of being central figures in the foiled plot to explode knapsack bombs in crowded areas - attacks...
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Treatment of the informant is a key issue in ongoing U.S. probe of alleged jail abuses. Federal prosecutors will interview Baca on Friday. They called it Operation Pandora's Box.
latimes.com (1 month and 11 days ago)
Three suspected Irish Republican Army dissidents have been arrested in what police call a foiled bomb plot targeting a police station in Northern Ireland, authorities said Monday.
cnn.com (2 months and 22 days ago)

POLICE in Northern Ireland say they have foiled a mortar bomb attack on a police station just minutes before paramilitaries were about to fire.
news.com.au (2 months and 21 days ago)
West Central TribuneWASHINGTON (AP) - The Treasury Department's No. 2 official told Congress on Wednesday that his agency played no role in the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups.
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Constantinos Alexandrou, of Walthamstow, played a part in foiling the 2006 bomb plot but claims he was later wrongfully arrested twice and falsely imprisoned.
dailymail.co.uk (3 months and 4 days ago)
A former barge worker from southern Illinois has received the maximum sentence of 20 years for his role in a foiled plot to abduct, extort and electrocute a wealthy Granite…Click to Continue »
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AP sources: Boston bomb suspects from Russia region near Chechnya, lived in US at least one year. Three law enforcement sources and the uncle of the Boston Marathon bomb suspects confirm the men were brothers.
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