A lawyer for the government of Sudan urged the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit brought by families of the 17 sailors killed in the 2000 terrorist attack on the...
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Eighth Yemen prison escapee surrenders; USS Cole mastermind still at large
Yemeni al Qaeda member Khaled Mohammed Abdullah al-Batati, one of the 23 prisoners who escaped from prison in February , has turned himself in to authorities. Al-Batati, the eighth escapee to turn himself in, was serving a three-year...
Interpol issues global alert for escaped USS Cole bomber after Yemen prison break
Interpol Sunday issued an urgent global security alert following the escape from a prison in Yemen of 23 individuals, some of them suspected Al Qaeda members. Among the fugitives is Jamal Ahmed Badawi...
The trial of radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri , charged under the UK Terrorism Act 2000 for inciting racial hatred, began in London on Monday. Hamza was arrested last May on a US extradition warrant, and...
International brief ~ Security Council warns about cease-fire violations in Darfur
Leading Thursday's international brief, the current president of the UN Security Council , Philippine Ambassador Lauro Baja condemned the renewed violence in the Darfur region of Sudan , and warned that the...
A US federal judge has ruled that there is enough evidence for families of the 17 sailors who died in the 2000 terror attack in Yemen on the USS Cole to...
A Yemeni court on Monday sentenced six men to jail for planning to blow up the British and Italian embassies and the French cultural center in Sanaa. The six men, believed to be members of al Qaeda, received sentences...
A Yemeni appeals court Saturday upheld a death sentence against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri , a Saudi militant suspected of being a close associate of Osama Bin Laden. Nashiri and fellow militant Jamal al-Badawi had received death penalties for...
Associate of USS Cole bomber refuses to attend Gitmo status hearing
The suspected roommate of a USS Cole bomber and al-Quaida sympathizer Saturday refused to attend a hearing on his status conducted by the US military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The detainee is accused of traveling to Afghanistan to join...