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Arab American News, The - March 28, 2009

Murders at Mieh Meih Palestinian Refugee Camp

MIEH MIEH PALESTINIAN CAMP, Sidon - Yesterday afternoon, Kamal Medhat, 58, known in Lebanon's Palestinian camps affectionately as "Kamal Naji," a senior member of the Palestinian Fatah movement, was killed exiting Mieh Meih Camp by a 25-30 kilogram bomb. The bomb was hidden in a small roadside shed between two checkpoints, one manned by the Lebanese army and the other at the Kifah el Musallah Camp security check point. According to Fatah intelligence sources, a man on a tall building near the...

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Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) - Nbr. 2007, March 2007

Jihad noted in wiretaps; Jurors hear conversations of 2 in charity fraud case.

... Hassoun, Kassem Daher and Mr. Muntasser. Mr. Muntasser mentions ...

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The Columbian - November 24, 2005

U.S. Says Padilla's Group Sought Money, Fighters

WASHINGTON Jose Padilla was recruited into an Islamic terrorist support cell that sought money and fighters for violent struggles abroad, the government says in its indictment. However, over nine years the group raised less than $100,000 and recruited just a handful of people, including Padilla, according to federal prosecutors.

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Augusta Chronicle, The - November 24, 2005

Indictment Shows Terrorist Cell's Problems

WASHINGTON - Jose Padilla was recruited into an Islamic terrorist support cell that sought money and fighters for violent struggles abroad, the government says in its indictment. However, over nine years the group raised less than $100,000 and recruited only a handful of people, including Mr. Padilla, according to federal prosecutors. Held as a suspect in a "dirty bomb" plot for more than three years without charges, Mr. Padilla at one point in 2000 apparently was headed to Chechnya, w...

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La Opinión; Los Angeles, Calif. - November 23, 2005

Presentan 11 Cargos Contra El Puertorriqueño José Padilla

WASHINGTON, D.C.-- José Padilla, el llamado "[Talib]án Boricua" encarcelado por más de tres años como enemigo combatiente de Estados Unidos, fue acusado ayer por un gran jurado federal de 11 cargos por conspirar para asesinar, secuestrar y mutilar individuos en el extranjero y proveer apoyo material a terroristas como parte de una célula de terror en Norteamérica, informó ayer el Departamento de Justicia. De hecho, la presentación de cargos se produce antes de que la Administración Bush respo...

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The Record, Bergen County, NJ - November 23, 2005

U.S. Citizen Was in Terror Cell, Indictment Says ; Charges Don't Mention 'Dirty Bomb' Allegations

WASHINGTON - Officials have described U.S. citizen Jose Padilla in frightening terms: a trained terrorist who met with top al-Qaida leaders in 2001 and 2002 to discuss detonating a nuclear "dirty bomb" in the United States and blowing up high-rise apartments. But none of that was in the federal charges announced Tuesday after Padilla had spent more than three years in a Navy brig. Instead, an indictment unsealed in Miami says Padilla and four other men were members of a North American terror ...

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The New American - December 26, 2005

The Padilla Shuffle: preempting a Supreme Court challenge it couldn't win, the Bush administration has preserved its unconstitutional power to imprison U.S. citizens at presidential whim.

... Wael Jayyousi of San Diego; and Canadian citizen Kassem Daher--as co-conspirators in a North American ...