UK court sentences 3 in 2006 airliner bomb plot to life in prison
The UK Woolwich Crown Court on Monday sentenced three British Muslims charged in connection with a 2006 plot to blow up numerous transatlantic flights to life in prison. Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Waheed Khan and Waheed Zahman [GlobalSecurity...
The UK Woolwich Crown Court on Thursday convicted three British Muslims for attempting to blow up transatlantic planes leaving London's Heathrow Airport in 2006. Ibrahim Savant, Arafat Waheed Khan and Waheed Zahman were...
Obama outlines measures taken following attempted Detroit plane bombing
US President Barack Obama on Monday announced steps the federal government is taking to address air travel security following the Friday attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to detonate an explosive device on Northwest Airlines Flight 253. He said...
US authorities on Saturday filed charges against a Nigerian national for allegedly attempting to set off an explosive device on an airplane bound from Amsterdam to Detroit on Friday. According to an affidavit filed by...
Three men convicted of attempting to smuggle liquid explosives onto airplanes to blow them up were sentenced to life in prison Monday by the Woolwich Crown Court in London. Abdulla Ahmed Ali [GlobalSecurity...
UK jury selection begins in transatlantic airplane bombing plot trial
Jury selection began Wednesday for the UK trial of eight men accused of plotting to blow up US-bound jetliners over the Atlantic. In August 2006, prosecutors charged the eight with conspiracy to commit...
Venezuela lawyer says US obstructing justice for Cuban airplane bomber
A lawyer for the Venezuelan government said Monday that the US is preventing Luis Posada Carriles from being brought to trial for allegations that he plotted the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner [Wikipedia backgrounder;...
UK Lord Chancellor backs expanded police questioning of terror suspects
UK Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer on Wednesday backed a proposal to allow police officers to question terror suspects after they have been formally charged. Following a speech defending the UK Human Rights Act [text; backgrounder; JURIST...
Top UK cleric says longer detention period for terror suspects risks 'police state'
Archbishop of York John Sentamu criticized the British government Monday for its latest effort to extend the current 28-day maximum detention period for terror suspects . UK Home Secretary John Reid said last week...
A British court Wednesday ordered the release of two brothers charged in connection with an alleged plot to blow up commercial planes flying from Great Britain to the US in August. In a hearing at the City...
