Mexican People Smuggler Admits Boston Terror Hoax
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - A "dirty bomb" alert in  Boston last week was caused by a Mexican hoaxer trying to take  revenge on Chinese immigrants who did not pay him for smuggling  them across the U.S. border, Mexican prosecutors said on  Wednesday.
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A Department of Homeland Security supervisor pleaded guilty yesterday to pocketing more than $600,000 in bribes in exchange for falsifying immigration documents to help Asian immigrants obtain U.S. citizenship.
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Authorities are concerned al-Qaida or other terrorist groups could conspire with smuggling organizations to bring weapons of mass destruction into Arizona from Mexico, an immigration official said Thursday.
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ALBANY, New York  - A Muslim accused of helping an   FBI informant in a fake plot to kill a diplomat has associated   with known Islamist militants and sympathized with their   violent causes, a terrorism expert testified at his trial on   Wednesday.
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ALTAR, Mexico  - Between mouthfuls of beef tacos, Guatemalan people-smuggler Carlos sits at a road side restaurant in Mexico casually drawing routes on a napkin for illegal immigrants to walk the desert into the United States.
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A fourth suspect in what U.S. authorities said was a plot to blow up New York's JFK International Airport surrendered to police on Tuesday, proclaiming his innocence.
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Convicted terrorism conspirator was once accused of plotting a "dirty bomb" attack in a major city.
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REYNOSA, Mexico  - Ecuadorean computer technician Agustina Herrera paid people smugglers $14,000 to slip into the United States illegally two years ago, swimming the Rio Grande, tramping through swamps and nearly dying from snake bites.
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A South African woman originally  suspected of having links to terrorist groups but in the end  charged only with being an illegal immigrant pleaded innocent  in federal court on Friday.
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A former U.S. border agent who allowed hundreds of illegal immigrants to cross from Mexico in return for $120,000 in cash was sentenced on Thursday to five years in federal prison.
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A woman pleaded guilty Monday to her role in the nation's deadliest human smuggling case &#151; the deaths of 19 illegal immigrants crammed into a sweltering trailer.
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One of seven men accused of plotting to blow up the Sears Tower has admitted swearing allegiance to al-Qaida and told investigators he and the others planned to bomb five FBI buildings, a prosecutor said Thursday.
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A man who misled federal authorities into thinking that a Muslim student he met on a social networking Web site planned a terrorist attack on the Sears Tower in Chicago pleaded guilty to the hoax.
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A Lebanese man on trial over a failed plot to bomb two German trains admitted Wednesday that he was one of the men seen on security cameras placing suspect suitcases in rail cars.
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The first person extradited by Britain to the United States on terrorism charges pleaded not guilty to supporting al Qaeda in federal court on Tuesday.
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Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, the most powerful Colombian drug trafficker ever extradited to the United States, said he was innocent in an interview made shortly before he was flown to Miami over ther weekend.
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Third British-based man pleads guilty to using internet to spread extremist propaganda.