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No proof to link Sarkozy to Karachi bomb probe: source (Reuters)

November 19th, 2010

Reuters - France’s presidential palace said on Friday there was no proof to implicate President Nicolas Sarkozy in an investigation into the circumstances behind a 2002 bomb attack in Pakistan…

9/11 link to militant in Europe terror alert (AP)

October 8th, 2010

A man reads the Quran inside a mosque in Hamburg, northern Germany, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. Hamburg security officials shuttered the al-Quds mosque, later dubbed Taiba mosque, in August, forcing its members to scatter. But authorities insist they have the city's estimated 200 extremist Muslims — including 45 al-Qaida followers — under surveillance and have sought to downplay Hamburg's role in the binternational/b terror scene. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)AP - The Islamic militant whose disclosures under U.S. interrogation in Afghanistan triggered Europe’s terror alert is an old friend of a man convicted in the 9/11 attacks and, as…

Documents suggest Demjanjuk link to 2nd Nazi camp (AP)

August 11th, 2010

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2009 file picture defendant John Demjanjuk lies on a stretcher, prior to the second day of his trial in the country court in Munich, southern Germany. A German judge ordered John Demjanjuk to appear in court on Monday Aug. 9, 2010  for his trial over allegations that he was a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, despite the 90-year-old's complaints about health problems.  The former Ohio auto worker was informed Monday morning that he was being ordered to attend the trial, presiding judge Ralph Alt said.   Demjanjuk is  on trial on charges of being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews at a Nazi death camp.  (AP Photo/Christof Stache,File)AP - A German historian on Wednesday presented evidence at the trial of John Demjanjuk that suggested he worked as a guard at the Nazis’ Flossenbuerg concentration camp.


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BP and the Lockerbie Bomber: Despite Denials, Signs of a Link? (Time.com)

July 20th, 2010

Time.com - A high-level Libyan official says there was no deal for Megrahi’s release but clues abound to the contrary, including intriguing statements by Gaddafi’s son

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Ex-MI5 spy chief: No link between Iraq and 9/11 (AP)

July 20th, 2010

FILE -  This is a Nov. 8, 2004 file photo of  former head of Britain's domestic spy agency MI5 Eliza Manningham-Buller.  Manningham-Buller was testifying Tuesday July 20, 2010 before Britain's inquiry into the conflict as documents were released that showed MI5 believed Saddam Hussein had a limited ability to mount terrorist attacks in Britain before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/David Jones/PA, File) **  UNITED KINGDOM OUT   **AP - The war in Iraq led to a loss of focus on the threat from al-Qaida, emboldened the group’s leader Osama bin Laden, and helped to breed a generation…

Ex-M15 spy chief: No link between Iraq and 9/11 (AP)

July 20th, 2010

FILE -  This is a Nov. 8, 2004 file photo of  former head of Britain's domestic spy agency MI5 Eliza Manningham-Buller.  Manningham-Buller was testifying Tuesday July 20, 2010 before Britain's inquiry into the conflict as documents were released that showed MI5 believed Saddam Hussein had a limited ability to mount terrorist attacks in Britain before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. (AP Photo/David Jones/PA, File) **  UNITED KINGDOM OUT   **AP - The war in Iraq led to a loss of focus on the threat from al-Qaida, emboldened al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and helped to breed a generation of…

US warns of terror link to Pakistan catering firm (AP)

May 21st, 2010

People walk past Hanif Rajput catering services office in Islamabad, Pakistan on Friday, May 21, 2010. The U.S. Embassy warned Friday that terrorist groups may have 'established links' to a high-class catering company in Pakistan that a security official said is owned by a suspect arrested over the failed car bombing in Times Square. In an unusual e-mail message to Americans in Pakistan, the embassy said U.S. government personnel had been instructed to avoid using the Hanif Rajput Catering Service, a well-known firm that has been used by the American embassy and other foreign missions in the capital. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)AP - The U.S. Embassy warned Friday that terrorist groups may have “established links” to a swish catering company in Pakistan that security officials said was owned by a suspect…

Mexican link to Interpol shot in El Salvador (AP)

April 23rd, 2010

AP - Gunmen in El Salvador have shot and seriously wounded a Mexican diplomat who works with the international police agency Interpol. Police say the diplomat’s wife has been killed.

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