Anti-terrorism operation of Italian police to nab bodyguards of Osama bin Laden

Italy has undertaken a massive anti-terrorism operation to arrest members of an armed terror group inspired by al-Qaeda. The group claims it was ready to carry out attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 24 April 2015.

The ongoing series of raids is targeting the autonomous island of Sardinia and, on the wanted list are 18 people – two of them are believed to be bodyguards for Osama bin Laden.
It has been revealed by investigators that some of those being tracked by police have already been arrested in Italy. These include an imam suspected of being the group's spiritual leader. However, it is doubted that the others might have already fled abroad.
It seems the group was in possession of plenty of weapons and also had numerous faithful people who were willing to carry out acts of terrorism in Pakistan and Afghanistan before coming back to Italy. Incidentally, all the suspects are believed to be from Pakistan or Afghanistan.

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Two women of New York planned to carry out a Boston style bombing in NYC

#FBI #HeraldSquare #NYC #BostonBombing #terrorists FBI has arrested a team of two women of New York who had planned a terrorist attack on NYC on the lines of the Boston bombings – they had conspired to use weapons of mass destruction. One of these women was apparently in possession of a number of gas tanks and instructions on turning them into bombs.
This has been reported in bbc.com dated 3 April 2015.
A Brooklyn court has charged both the women who are US citizens. They have said that they understood the charges.
As per court documents, they had referred to themselves as "citizens of the Islamic State" and one of them had been in regular contact with members of the foreign terrorist organization al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Her accomplice referred to Osama Bin Laden as a hero.

It seems the two of them had plotted to unleash terror by creating explosive devices. They had even researched the pressure cooker bombs used during the Boston Marathon bombing. This has been revealed by the FBI.
The women had been plotting to build an explosive device since at least August of last year and had, accordingly, studied chemistry and electricity. They did not have any specific target in mind but had considered Herald Square in Manhattan as a target.
Interestingly, one of the women had criticized a US Air Force veteran who was arrested for trying to go to Syria engage in violent jihad. Her logic is – why go to Syria when there were targets in the US that could be put to use.

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Al-Qaeda leader who killed 224 people in US Embassy bombing weeps in court

An Egyptian man 54-year-old Adel Abdul Bary has pleaded guilty to charges relating to the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people and wept in court.
He has confessed in a federal court in Manhattan that he had acted as an al-Qaeda spokesman after the attacks. He has also admitted three lesser counts that include threatening to kill, injure or destroy property by means of an explosive and conspiring to murder US citizens abroad news.sky.com.
Bary had been was extradited from Britain to the US in 2012, along with radical cleric Abu Hamza who has been found guilty in the US on terrorism charges. Bary has reportedly told the judge that he had contacted the media to claim responsibility for the embassy blasts. Another of his revelations was that he had put journalists in touch with al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri.
Obviously, he is trying to win the sympathies of the court.
If his plea goes through, he would face a maximum 25 years in prison and the 14 years that he has already spent in jail in the UK could be discounted from his sentence.
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