Paris: Shoe bomb suspect sent e-mails before boarding
The man accused of trying to blow up an American Airlines plane with bombs hidden in his sneakers spent hours sending e-mails before leaving Paris, the manager of a cybercafaid Monday.
Richard C. Reid, 28, visited the Happy Call cybercafwice on Dec. 20, two days before boarding a Paris-Miami flight, the manager told The Associated Press.
Reid, a British citizen, allegedly used e-mails to contact numerous people, including his mother and people at mosques in Europe. He sent out a final message in which he said he was a "martyr for the Islamic cause," according to reports in the French press. Police would not confirm the reports.
Philippines: Suspected Muslim extremist with al-Qaida link arrested
A man was arrested in the southern Philippines Monday for allegedly belonging to an al-Qaida-linked group accused of plotting terror attacks in Southeast Asia.
Mohammad Kiram was arrested in the predominantly Muslim city of Marawi, the latest of five suspected members of Jemaah Islamiyah to be arrested in the Philippines.
The Muslim extremist group is accused of planning attacks on Western embassies and the U.S. military in Singapore with the help of cells in Indonesia and Malaysia as well as the Philippines.
Dagudag said Kiram was found based on information from an Indonesian man believed to be have been a key leader of the group. The man, Fathur Rohman Al-Ghozi, was arrested last Tuesday in Manila.
JERUSALEM: Sharon considers reopening Temple Mount to Israelis
Sixteen months after the Temple Mount was closed to Jews because of intifada violence, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon wants to reopen it to non-Muslims "at the first opportunity," arousing fears of further escalating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Shin Bet, Israel's secret service, is said to concur, warning that the longer the site remains closed, the harder it will be to reopen.
The security service is also worried that a continuation of the present ban on non-Muslims runs the risk that a Jewish or Christian extremist might decide to change the situation himself through violence.
Yemen: FBI director says new leads uncovered in Cole bombing
The United States and Yemen have uncovered new leads into the 2000 bomb attack that killed 17 American sailors aboard the USS Cole in Yemen, FBI director Robert Mueller said Monday. He declined to give specifics about the new leads.
Two suicide bombers drew up alongside the destroyer Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden in October 2000, detonating explosives that blew a hole in its hull, killed 17 sailors and wounded 37 others.
The United States blames the attack on Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network.
Yemen has been under pressure at home to set a trial date for suspects in the bombing, some of whom have been held as long as 11 months.
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