Police Roadblocks to Halt Petrol Tanker Bombers
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POLICE are stopping and searching petrol tankers coming into London amid concerns they might be used as bombs by terrorists.   A massive "ring of steel" operation involving motorcycle officers is under way to try to block any al Qaeda strike involving hijacked lorries.
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Palestinian police thwarted an attack Sunday on a security commander &amp;#151; the second ally of President Mahmoud Abbas targeted in two days &amp;#151; as the rivalry between his moderate Fatah Party and the Hamas militant group threatened to explode.
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LONDON, June 29 -- British police thwarted a pair of apparent terrorist attacks in central London's crowded theater district Friday, defusing bombs fashioned from gasoline, gas cylinders and nails and hidden inside two parked Mercedes sedans. Police said that if the explosives had detonated, they...
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Police holding four men arrested on suspicion of a terrorist plot to buy radioactive material have been given more time to question them.
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Gasoline tankers and chemical trucks entering London are being stopped at roadblocks to check for bombs, police revealed Wednesday, but officers said the operation is not in response to any indication of a specific plot.
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Police were questioning Monday suspects in three failed terror attacks and hunting for others involved in the Al-Qaeda-linked attempted car bombings that have put the country on maximum alert.
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Police in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore say they have thwarted a number of terrorist attacks by arresting at least four suspected Islamic militants.
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Met anti-terror officers are to stop a search of woods linked with the alleged airliners bomb plot amid a row over funding.
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Police clashed with militants on Monday in the second shootout in as many days in Kuwait, which has been battling a surge in al Qaeda-linked violence.
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It was not clear who was responsible for the bombs, none of which was big enough to cause major damage to the buildings. &quot;The government is asking the people not to touch any packages and to call the police if they find them.
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British police were questioning Monday suspects involved in three failed terror attacks and hunting for others involved in the Al-Qaeda-linked attempted car bombings that have put the country on maximum alert.
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BAGHDAD  - Police stations in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul came under coordinated attack by insurgents, but were successfully repelled by Iraqi police, the US military revealed.
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Anti-terrorism police have been given until Friday to question four men arrested on suspicion of terrorist offences after a newspaper claimed that they were trying to obtain radioactive material for a &quot;dirty bomb&quot;.
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Two Israeli policemen died preventing a female suicide bomber from entering a packed Jerusalem bus shelter yesterday, probably saving many other lives.
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The Iraqi Interior Ministry has ordered police to round up beggars, vagabonds and mentally disabled people from the streets of Baghdad to prevent them from being used by insurgents as suicide bombers, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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Yemen authorities thwarted attempts by suicide bombers to blow up two oil facilities with explosive-laden cars, killing both attackers Friday, an official Yemeni source said, according to the state-run Saba news agency.
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Police have prevented terrorists from launching an attack on London on the scale of the Madrid train bombings, Britain's most senior police officer said Thursday.