Real IRA member Sean Gerard Hoey faces 61 new charges connected to the 1998 Omagh bombing which killed 29 people and injured over 300. Hoey was already faced murder charges for his involvement in the bombing, the worst single atrocity in all of Northern Ireland's "troubles". The crime had remained largely unsolved due to the [...]

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Anti-Castro Cuban exile militant Luis Posada Carriles was been charged by US immigration officials Thursday with illegally entering the country. Carriles, wanted in Venezuela and Cuba for his alleged connection to a 1976 bombing of a Cuban airline bounds for Caracas, could potentially be deported from the US. Venezuela's Vice-President assured the US Wednesday that [...]

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Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia Thursday announced their opposition to a provisional release of Kosovo's former prime minister, Ramush Haradinaj, pending trial. Albanian Haradinaj, who had pleaded not guilty on 37 counts of war crimes , was a former senior commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army alleged to have committed [...]

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Lawyers Thursday finalized a pool of 12 jurors and 10 alternates for the trial of former University of South Florida computer science professor and Palestinian human right activist Sami Al-Arian on charges that he financed terrorism . The defense had originally asked for a change of venue from Tampa, claiming that local media coverage and [...]

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Testifying before the US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee , FBI Deputy Assistant Director for Counterterrorism John Lewis said at a hearing Wednesday that environmental and animal rights groups that have turned to arson and explosives are the nation's top domestic terrorism threat . He mentioned the Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front, [...]

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