Part III: Some CAIR Officials Convicted of Crimes, More Tied to Extremist Groups

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(Gaza) Attack from Gaza kills 1, Israeli retaliation kills 5

(Sri Lanka) Update: Sri Lanka cafe bomb kills 11 ahead of elections. Also UK will not charge ex-S.Lanka Tiger with war crimes

(India/Pakistan) Pakistan's infiltration bid foiled

Cease-fire in Pakistan's Swat Valley Also Roadside bomb blast Pakistan

Two foreign soldiers, dozen rebels killed in Afghanistan

(Iraq/Turkey) Kurds dispute toll in Turkey's airstrikes in Iraq

(Iraq) Update: U.S.: Man Held is Not Leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq

(Lebanon) Hezbollah gunmen seize control of Beirut neighborhoods -- routs government forces -- see Walid Phares' May 8 posting

(Lebanon) CNN: At least 11 people have been killed and 44 wounded since Wednesday - pro-govt militia surrender to Hezbollah -- MSNBC reports -- London Times report -- Naharnet Lebanese News -- Daily Star Lebanese News

Lebanon: Militants launch rockets at pro-government newspaper building - al-Mustaqbal

(Lebanon) Hezbollah cannot dictate on Lebanese -- Walid Jumblatt -- and -- Lebanese Chrisitian leader says citizens in Beirut will not be "suppressed"

(Lebanon) Report: "Al-Qaeda 'declares war on Hezbollah'" -- allegedly to defend Sunni portions of country

(Iraq) U.S. forces say kill 14 militants in Baghdad - in Sadr City

(Iraq) Four killed in Baghdad Shiite militia bastion - 51 wounded - in Sadr City

Iraqi Shiite militants fire rockets at Green Zone

(Iraq) US military denies Iraq report of al-Qaida arrest of Abu Ayyub al-Masri -- says arrested had "similar name"

(Iraq) Mortar bomb slams into BBC office in Baghdad

(Afghanistan) US: Several militants killed in Afghanistan clash -- Garmser district of Helmand province

(Pakistan) Rocket attack kills Pakistani police: official - in Swat's Kabbal town -- and -- Explosions in northern Pakistan kill one, wound two -- Jihadists also use remote-controlled bomb to attack government girls' college in Bannu district

(Pakistan) Taliban attack Frontier Constabulary (FC) convoy in Bajaur Agency, kidnap 30 troops -- Troops block road to South Waziristan -- and -- FC man killed in another militant attack in Swat

Pakistan: Oil trader kidnapped by militants in Karachi

Pakistan new govt. opposed to U.S. action on its soil -- and -- Call in Pakistan Senate for change in pro-US foreign policy

'Pakistan has receievd $1 billion a year since 9/11' -- and -- Pakistan Reiterates: Comprehensive Policy to Fight Terrorism

(U.S.) Gates: 'A lot' pose threat if freed from Gitmo -- and -- U.S. says 5-10 percent of Guantanamo inmates fight again

U.S. man jailed for 20 years for eco-bombing plot -- Eric McDavid

(U.S.) Toledo trial: Michigan man distanced self from accused -- and -- FBI agents and analysts testify on tactics at Toledo terror trial

(U.S.) Orlando: No bail for veteran accused of trying to carry pipe-bomb parts onto plane in Orlando -- CMC report -- and -- Sentinel story coverage

(U.S.) State Dept. loses, then recovers, anti-terrorism computers worth $30 M

(U.S.) FBI is called slow to join the terrorism fight -- Senate Intelligence Committee

(U.S.) Influential Muslim Cleric Fights Deportation in New Jersey -- Imam Mohammad Qatanan arrested and pled guilty to Hamas membership

(U.S.) Top Expert on Al Qaeda Victim of Budget Cuts -- regional specialists at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

(U.S.) F.B.I. Says the Military Had Bogus Computer Gear

(U.S.) Judge orders CIA to turn over "torture" memo: ACLU

(UK) Former Iraq hostage Norman Kember puts up bail money to free firebrand preacher Abu Qatada

(India) 41 rebels from banned group surrender in NE India

(India J&K) Firing along LoC: India to lodge protest with Pakistan -- initial reports that militants sought to infiltrate into Jammu region

(Iran) Big powers say nuclear treaty at risk, cite Iran -- and -- US will not send envoy to Iran with nuclear offer

Iran accuses US, Israel of provoking Lebanon violence

Iran: European leaders 'a threat', says website

(Syria) 'We won't cut Iran or Hizbullah ties'

(Gaza) Advisor to US general visited Gaza: Palestinians -- unnamed Canadian colonel

(Israel) Palestinian Islamic Jihad launches Quds missiles at Israeli town of Miftahem

(Israel) Ariel pastor troubled by lack of police progress over Purim parcel bomb that wounded his son

Somali police fortify headquarters after raid by Islamists

Nigeria: Bomb Rocks PDP Secretariat in Bayelsa -- and -- Militants List Conditions for Niger Delta Summit

(Tunisia) Lawyer: Tunisia jails 14 in hydrogen bomb case

(Sudan) Darfur rebels infiltrate Sudan -- army

(Turkey) Land mine explosion kills 3 in southeast Turkey

(Netherlands) Dutch drop case against 3 suspected of attack plan -- insufficient evidence of attack plot by two Moroccans and one Sudanese

(Thailand) Police seize 21,000 fake passports -- gang leader charged with smuggling weapons to Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels

(Philippines) Muslim militants-linked extortion gang says it caused Philippine bus bomb that wounded 5

Sri Lankan military: 8 killed in a bomb blast in the east -- Tamil Tiger bomb cafe in eastern Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka military captures town, 31 rebels dead - update

(North Korea) US diplomat receives key North Korean nuclear documents

(North Korea/Pakistan) Report: 'Benazir personally gave N-technology to North Korea' -- book "Goodbye Shahzadi"

China to modernize nuclear weapons capability

Colombian police arrest senior FARC member -- Gustavo Alvarez aka "Santiago"

(Venezuela) US calls computer files linking Chavez to FARC authentic: report

(U.S.) Representative Hoekstra Sponsors Amendment to Intelligence Bill - to prohibit intelligence community from adopting "speech codes" that encumber accurately describing jihadists - See Jeffrey Imm's May 8 post

(U.S.)Grand jury charges Yemeni trio with money-laundering

(Iraq) 25 killed in Iraq as rockets shatter Basra calm

(Afghanistan) Suicide bomber in car blows himself up and wounds 3 in Kabul. Also KUNA Report: "Blast injures five in Kabul

(Afghanistan) Taliban governor killed in raid: Afghan ministry -- Mullah Sarajuddin killed in Ghor province

(U.S.) Guantanamo judge may suspend trial for Canadian detainee

(U.S.) House votes to ask US to take the African National Congress off terrorism no-entry lists

U.S. National Drill: U.S. Tests Response To Set of Calamities -- Executive Branch 'Runs' Government From Outside D.C. as Mock Crises Moun

(UK) Osama bin Laden's 'right-hand man' Abu Qatada wins bail fight -- Islamic preacher Abu Qatada described as "Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe" bailed by immigration commission -- Background on Abu Qatada

(Lebanon) Fighting rocks Beirut, five die, Hezbollah defiant

(Lebanon) Hizbullah Chief Hassan Nasrallah: 'Lebanese gov't has declared war on us'

Lebanon: Armed clashes erupt after Hezbollah chief's warning

(Lebanon) US: Hezbollah must stop 'disruptive' acts

Update: Iran 'blames monarchists for mosque blast'

Iranian President Ahmadinejad: Israel is a 'stinking corpse'

(Israel) Palestinians fire Kassam rocket at western Negev

(Saudi Arabia) Those who go to fight in Iraq 'are preachers of evil'

(Somalia) Islamist fighters reportedly seize police headquarters in Mogadishu

(Canada) Tories stick to their guns in letting U.S. government deal with terrorism suspects

Sri Lanka military says it captured small territory in battle that killed 10 rebels

U.S. Urged: Fight Terror On Web -- Security Panel Finds Internet Being Used To Recruit, Train Terrorists -- growing use of Internet to recruit terrorists in U.S. -- Senate Homeland Security Committee report "Violent Islamist Extremism, the Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorist Threat" (Acrobat PDF file)

MEMRI: Islamist Forums Teach Mujahideen How to Manufacture and Use Explosives, Weapons, and Poisons

(Iraq) Seven killed in Baghdad battles - between Shiite fighters and US forces - in Sadr City

(Iraq) Rocket kills 2 civilians in Baghdad park - in Sadr City

(Iraq) Residents says Iraqi soldiers warn them to leave Sadr City

(Iraq) Ex-Qaeda leader wounded in Iraq suicide bombing

(Iraq) US: Former Gitmo prisoner carries out recent attack in Iraq - update -- see also Washington Times report

(Iraq) MEMRI: New Iranian Surface-To-Surface Missile Found In Basra

(Afghanistan) Six Taliban killed in fighting with Afghan police -- clash in remote Ghor province

(Afghanistan) Twelve dead in Afghanistan violence - in Laghman province's Alishing area, and in Khost

(Afghanistan) 2 police killed in roadside blast in eastern Afghanistan -- and -- 6 police killed in clashes, bombing in Afghanistan - in Muqur district of central Ghazni province

(Afghanistan) Taliban return to attacking girls' schools in Afghanistan -- in Kandahar

(Pakistan) Militants raze second Swat girls' school - in Pakistan - Swat's Matta tehsil

(Pakistan) 2 police among 4 killed in Quetta - update

(Pakistan) Govt aware of foreigners joining 'unwanted' groups: Qureshi

(Pakistan) Jirga to negotiate 7 abducted troops' release with Taliban

(Pakistan) 'Mix of force and opportunity the answer to FATA extremism'

'Pakistan's radical groups facilitating Arab funding to Taliban, Al Qaeda'

'Pakistan may be launching point of future Al Qaeda strikes' -- U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Howard L. Berman

Pakistan tests nuclear-capable cruise missile

(Pakistan) Award-winning Pakistani reporter braves attacks, arrest

(U.S.) Technical flaws mar hearing in new Guantanamo court

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