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Bangladeshi held for plot to bomb New York Fed building Docs: Pak activist Malala stable Obama, Romney slug it out on campaign trail |
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9/11 mastermind rails against US at Guantanamo naval base Air strikes kill 44 in Syria
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Bangladeshi held for plot to bomb New York Fed building New York, October 18 Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis (21) faces charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to the Al-Qaida. Nafis was arrested yesterday morning following an extensive undercover operation during which he was closely monitored by the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). The explosives that Nafis allegedly sought and attempted to use had been rendered inoperable by the law enforcement agency. He faces a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, if convicted. Nafis appeared in a federal court in Brooklyn to face charges and was ordered to be held without bail. He did not enter a plea. According to the criminal complaint filed in the Eastern District of New York, Nafis came to the US in January to carry out a terrorist attack on American soil. Nafis allegedly has overseas connections with the Al-Qaida and attempted to recruit individuals to form a terrorist cell in the country. He also actively sought out other Al-Qaida contacts in the US to help him carry out a terror attack. One of the individuals he had attempted to recruit was a source for the FBI and through the investigation, FBI agents and New York Police Department detectives were able to closely monitor Nafis as he attempted to implement his plan. Nafis had zeroed in on several targets for his attack, including a high-ranking US official and the New York Stock Exchange. He finally decided to bomb the New York Federal Reserve Bank in lower Manhattan's financial district. In a written statement intended to claim responsibility for the bombing on behalf of the Al-Qaida, Nafis said he wanted to "destroy America" and believed that the most efficient way to accomplish this goal was to target America's economy. In his statement, he also included quotations from "beloved Sheikh Osama bin Laden" to justify the fact that the attack would involve killing of women and children. — PTI
Bombing plot foiled * Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis (pic) faces charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to the Al-Qaida * Nafis was arrested on Wednesday morning following an extensive undercover operation during which he was closely monitored by the FBI * In a statement, Nafis had said he wanted to "destroy America" and believed that the most efficient way to accomplish this goal was to target America's economy
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Docs: Pak activist Malala stable London, October 18 Various specialist consultants from both the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where 14-year-old Malala is admitted, and Birmingham Children's hospital continue to assess her on a daily basis. "Malala Yousufzai's condition remains stable. She spent a third comfortable night in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and doctors are pleased with her progress so far," the Queen Elizabeth Hospital said in a statement. At this time, Malala's family is in Pakistan, it said. British campaigners are also staging a vigil outside Birmingham Council House in Victoria to show their support for Malala.— PTI
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Obama, Romney slug it out on campaign trail Washington, October 18 An energised Obama, who by most accounts delivered a much improved stronger performance at their second face to face encounter at Hampstead, New York, returned to the debate theme during a campaign stop in Iowa Wednesday. As he had suggested during Tuesday's debate, he again insinuated that Romney's five-point plan to boost the economy is really a one-point plan that offers special benefits to the wealthy. Obama also seized on Romney's comment during the debate that he'd gone through "binders full of women" in recruiting his gubernatorial staff. "I tell you what," Obama told a crowd of 2,000 in Mount Vernon, Iowa. "We don't have to collect a bunch of binders to find qualified, talented, driven young women ready to work and teach in these fields right now." As he did Tuesday night, he linked his appeal to women to other campaign themes, including women's health, reproductive choice and equal pay and funding for planned parenthood. — IANS
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9/11 mastermind rails against US at Guantanamo naval base Guantanamo Bay, Oct 18 The US President "can legislate assassinations under the name of national security for American citizens," the Kuwaiti-born Pakistani said yesterday during the third day of a pre-trial hearing at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Often considered an agitator, Mohammed -- known by his initials KSM -- was allowed to speak with a 40-second time delay that would have enabled his comments to be censored had he touched on sensitive issues. Mohammed was detained in a secret CIA prison from 2002 to 2006, and the government has acknowledged that he was subjected to waterboarding 183 times. "Every dictator can choose" his definition of national security, he said. "Many can kill people under the name of national security, many can torture people under the name of national security and detain children under the name of national security, under-aged children," Mohammed spoke calmly in Arabic and waited until each of his sentences had been translated into English. Having studied in the United States, he sometimes paused to correct the interpreter. — AFP
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Maaret Al-Numan, Oct 18 "We have recovered 44 corpses from under the rubble," one rescue worker said. He said the air force's bombs had destroyed two residential buildings and a mosque, where many women and children were taking refuge. In a makeshift field hospital, 12 corpses were seen wrapped in white sheets, and plastic bags marked "body parts". "At the moment it seems only three persons survived the attack, including a two-year-old child. He survived in the arms of his dead father," said medic Jaffar Sharhoub. A resident said several of the dead had just returned from Kafr Nabal, a town west of Maaret al-Numan. — AFP
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A Bangladeshi man with alleged links to the
Al-Qaida was arrested here after an FBI undercover operation foiled his plot to detonate a 1,000-pound bomb and blow up the city's Federal Reserve Building.
Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis (21) faces charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to the
Al-Qaida.
A day after a feisty encounter on stage, President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney were back on the campaign trail keeping up their fight off stage.
