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Friday, August 13, 2004

# Posted 7:32 AM by Patrick Belton  

ROUND-UP OF THE COUNTERTERROR NEWS: So in the newspapers today, a 29-year old Pakistani-American has pled guilty in New York District Court to providing Al-Qa'eda with money, night-vision goggles, and other equipment to be used against US forces in Afghanistan. The government has indicated that it is close to releasing Yaser Esam Hamdi from custody after two years in a Navy brig. Pakistan has arrested five more Al Qa'eda suspects within the past fourty-eight hours. A group calling itself Islamic Tawid is threatening to launch terrorist attacks in El Salvador if the nation carries through its current plans to send troops to Iraq. And the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades have declared war on Turkey in a statement claiming responsibility for the explosion of three bombs in Istanbul on Tuesday.

In other defence news, Israel is testing its Arrow II anti-missile system, designed to counteract the Iranian Shahab-3 ballistic missile which Tehran announced its had successfully tested on Wednesday. Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Wednesday for consultations on a new counternarcotics initiative, as drug income is being used to fund insurgency and terrorism in the country.
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