Tag: terror

A week ago Norwegian authorities filed further charges against Krekar for making death threats against a politician, after years of attempts to remove him from the country.

In this report he admits to training suicide bombers and founding militant Islamic groups. After the attacks this has intensified: is Norway a shelter for extremism?

Triple bomb attack hits IndiaAt least eight people have been killed and 100 others injured in three blasts that have rocked India's financial capital of Mumbai, according to police. The blasts hit the crowded Dadar neighbourhood, the famed jewellery market Jhaveri Bazaar and the busy business district of Opera House, an official at the city's Police Control Room said.

President Obama praises those Americans who carried out the operation to kill Osama bin Laden, tells the families of the victims of September 11, 2001 that they have never been forgotten, and calls on Americans to remember the unity of that tragic day.

ScienceDaily (Jan. 21, 2010) Scientists at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR) have for the first time developed a highly sensitive means of detecting the seven types of botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) simultaneously.

The BoNT-detecting substances are antibodies -- proteins made by the body to fight diseases -- found in llamas. BoNT are about 100 billion times more toxic than cyanide, and collectively, they are the only toxins in the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 'category A' list of potential bioterror threats alongside anthrax, Ebola virus and other infectious agents.

Thirteen Israeli soldiers were hurt, two of them seriously, when a man drove his car into a crowd in a street yesterday.
Police said the incident was a "terror attack" and that the Palestinian driver, who lived in east Jerusalem, was shot and killed by an army officer in the group.