Mauritania plane passengers beat up hijacker
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Passengers on a hijacked Air Mauritania  plane ended the ordeal when they stormed the cockpit and beat  up the lone gunman after the aircraft landed in Spain's Canary  Islands on Thursday night, Spanish police said.
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Security agents broke up a group planning terrorist attacks on tourist sites and government facilities, arresting 56 people who included soldiers and the wives of two pilots at the state airline, the Interior Ministry said yesterday. The sweep was the latest by Morocco's government in an antiterror campaign that began after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in ...
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The crew of a ship hijacked from Somalia overpowered their attackers Tuesday and regained control of the vessel
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Yemeni security forces battled Islamic fundamentalists Thursday during raids in search of suspects in a suicide bombing that killed seven Spanish tourists, a security official said.
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A hijacked Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane has landed on Spain's Canary Islands after making a fuel stop in Western Sahara, officials in Mauritania said on Thursday.
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MADRID, Spain An armed man who hijacked a Mauritanian plane to Spain's Canary Islands Thursday was overpowered by passengers and crew before he was arrested by police who boarded the plane shortly after ...Comment
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An Algerian-born man attacked two pilots  and a passenger with an axe on a domestic Norwegian flight on  Wednesday in an unexplained assault that police said could be  linked to his asylum status.
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A passenger attacked two pilots aboard a Norwegian passenger plane with an axe but the craft was later able to land, police said, amidst concerns over lax security on the country's local flights and at regional airports.
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An Air Mauritania passenger plane that was hijacked after it left the Mauritanian capital has landed in Spain's Canary Islands, according to Spanisn media reports.
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An Air Mauritania passenger plane that was hijacked after it left the Mauritanian capital has landed in Spain's Canary Islands, according to Spanisn media reports.Comment
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An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane on an internal flight from the capital Nouakchott to the northern port of Nouadhibou was hijacked on Thursday to Western Sahara, Mauritanian police said.
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US warplanes today pounded a suspected hideout of al-Qaida-linked militants in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, killing at least 16 people and wounding 12, officials and witnesses said.
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AN axe-wielding passenger has attacked two pilots aboard a Norwegian passenger plane in an apparent but failed bid to crash it. Police said the man had been taken to a psychiatric unit.
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A Chadian rebel group claims to have shot down a military plane which was bombing their positions.
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An Air Mauritania passenger jet is hijacked after taking off from the capital, Nouakchott, officials say.
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Men suspected of killing French tourists in Mauritania belong to an al-Qaeda-linked group, prosecutors say.
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Algerian pilot wrongly accused of training 9/11 hijackers is allowed to claim damages, court rules