Qur’an-reading man tries to hijack Turkish plane with 178 passengers aboard

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But he failed. “Turkish commerical plane with 175 passengers hijacked,” from EITB, with thanks to Marked Manner, who has details on the press coverage, via JihadWatch: Police on Tuesday detained a man who tried to hijack a plane and divert it to Iran by threatening to blow it up, CNN-Turk television reported. Turkish authorities on Tuesday detained a man who threatened to blow up a passenger plane to divert it to Iran, officials said. The man, identified as Mehmet Goksen Gol, entered the cockpit and threatened to blow up the plane, claiming to have an explosive device on board, Ankara

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Three Charged in 2005 London Transit Attacks

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From Three Charged in 2005 London Transit Attacks: British authorities charged three Muslim men Thursday with conspiring to help with reconnaissance and planning for the July 2005 suicide-bombing attack on the London transit system, which killed 52 people. The attack, Britain’s deadliest in peacetime, was carried out by four Britons of Pakistani origin. Mohammad Shakil, 30, Sadeer Saleem, 26, and Waheed Ali, 23, are from the Beeston area of Leeds. Three of the four suicide bombers lived nearby.

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Threatens to “Strike at Them with All Our Capabilities”

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VISIT THE NEW MEMRI BLOG AT www.thememriblog.org Special Dispatch – IranMarch 28, 2007No. 1523 Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Threatens to “Strike at Them with All Our Capabilities” If Iran Is Attacked To view this Special Dispatch in HTML, visit:http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD152307. The following are excerpts from a public address delivered by Iranian Leader, Ali Khamenei, which aired on Khorasan TV on March 21, 2007. TO VIEW THIS CLIP: http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1409 Ali Khamenei: “When the president of the Iranian people travels to countries in Asia, Africa, and South America, the peoples cry out slogans in his praise. They demonstrate in support of him.

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Hamas TV: Four-Year-Old Daughter of Suicide Bomber Vows to Follow in Her Footsteps

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From Hamas TV: Four-Year-Old Daughter of Suicide Bomber Vows to Follow in Her Footsteps: Hamas TV on Wednesday broadcast a video of the four-year-old daughter of female suicide bomber Reem Riyashi singing to her dead mother and vowing to follow in her footsteps. The video clip ends as the little girl picks up a stick of explosives from her mother’s drawer. View Video (YouTube)

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Arabs Escalate Attacks

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From IsraelNN.com: Arab terrorists sharply escalated attacks through the country Wednesday, attempting to stab a Jew to death in eastern Jerusalem and hurling firebombs and rocks at several vehicles and soldiers in Judea and Samaria. The attacks continued on Thursday, with a Kassam rocket causing damage to a chicken coop in Kibbutz Alumim in the Negev, and two Arabs were shot and wounded while throwing rocks at a Border Guard patrol near Ramallah.

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Abandoned Synagogues of Gush Katif Used as Bases To Fire on Israel

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From The NY Sun: The ruins of two large synagogues in evacuated Jewish communities of the Gaza Strip have been transformed into military bases used by palestinian Arab groups to fire rockets at Israeli cities, according to a senior leader of a Gaza militant group. When Israel withdrew from the Gaza in August, 2005, it left intact 20 synagogues of the Gush Katif Jewish communities following an Israeli Cabinet decision against demolishing the structures. Immediately after the Israeli evacuation was completed, palestinian Arabs destroyed most of the Gaza synagogues.

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Taliban Muslims target Cheney in Afghan suicide blast

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A Taliban Muslim suicide bomber killed up to 12 people at the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday in an attack the rebels said was aimed at Dick Cheney, but the U.S. vice president was not hurt. An American and South Korea soldier were killed, as well as a U.S. government contractor whose nationality was unknown, NATO and Korean officials said. NATO said 27 people were wounded. A Reuters photographer at the scene at Bagram Airbase, 60 km (40 miles) north of Kabul, saw eight bodies in addition to NATO’s tally of four dead, putting the toll at

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