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Terror plot in Europe prompted drone strikes (AP)

September 29th, 2010

**CORRECTS DATE OF STATEMENT BY EUROPEAN OFFICIALS** FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2010 file photo, a U.S. Predator drone flies over the moon above Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan. European security officials said Wednesday Sept. 29, 2010, a terror plot to wage Mumbai-style shooting sprees or other low-budget attacks in Britain, France and Germany is still active and that sites in Pakistan — where the threat was intercepted — are being targeted for al-Qaida operatives. The Obama administration intensified the use of drone-fired missiles in Pakistan's border area, but this month there have been at least 21 attacks — more than double the highest number fired in any other single month. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)AP - Security officials said Wednesday a terror plot to wage Mumbai-style shooting sprees or other attacks in Britain, France and Germany is still active and that recent CIA strikes…

Gunmen kill 5 in Baghdad checkpoint shooting spree (AP)

August 14th, 2010

Security personnel gather at the site of a bomb attack in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, August 13, 2010. 18 people were wounded, including three policemen, when three bombs, targeting the house of a government Sunni militia leader and the houses of two police officers, exploded in central Samarra, police said. REUTERS/Sabah al-Bazee (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST)AP - Authorities say gunmen have killed five Iraqi security officials in a half-hour shooting spree targeting checkpoints in Shiite-dominated neighborhoods around Baghdad.


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Suicide car bomber kills soldier in NW Pakistan (AP)

July 5th, 2010

A Pakistani police officer stands guard at the shrine of popular sufi Data Ganj Baksh in Lahore, Pakistan on Friday, July 2, 2010. Two suicide bombings that killed 42 Thursday night at the popular shrine stirred outrage in this terror-scarred nation Friday. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)AP - A suicide car bomber shot at guards and detonated his explosives at the gate of a paramilitary base in northwestern Pakistan before dawn Monday, killing one soldier and…

Yemeni militants kill 11 in brazen jailbreak (AP)

June 19th, 2010

Yemeni security forces patrol outside a courthouse where the trial of two al-Qaida suspects accused of being behind the November 2009 ambush on a government convoy in Hadramut province that killed 5, including three high officers, started in San'a, Yemen Tuesday, June 15, 2010. (AP Photo)AP - Heavily armed militants wearing military uniforms on Saturday stormed the Yemeni intelligence service’s southern headquarters, killing at least 11 people, security officials said.


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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…

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