AP: Militants Funding Terror With Heists
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KARACHI, Pakistan - It started with a robbery, but the gang that burst into a branch of Al-Habib Bank in this teeming port city had no interest in striking it rich, and the university graduate driving the getaway car was just getting started on a master plan for terror.    The heist, carried out in daylight and with AK-47 assault rifles, is emblematic of a new brand of Islamic militant - more educated but less established and largely cut off from traditional sources of terror funding, Pakistani police and intelligence officials told The Associated Press...
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Two men were charged in a federal indictment on Thursday with raising money to support terrorists and recruiting would-be terrorists to fight in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Kosovo and Somalia.
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Robbers dressed as police commandos hijacked an armored truck in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday, bound and gagged its guards, and made off with about $550,000 in Iraqi currency, police said.
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It started with a robbery, but the gang that burst into a branch of Al-Habib Bank in this teeming port city had no interest in striking it rich, and the university graduate driving the getaway car was just getting started on a master plan for terror.
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Islamic militants are flouting a recent peace deal and fortifying alliances with Al Qaeda and foreign fighters, creating a virtual Taliban mini-state.
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BELFAST  - Bank robbers in Northern Ireland have made off with as much as 30 million pounds (43.3 million euros, 58 million dollars) in what could be the province&#39;s biggest ever bank heist.
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BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair and Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy have been advised that the IRA was almost certainly responsible for last week&#39;s Â£22 million ($55 million) heist at an Australian-owned bank in Belfast.
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The al-Qaida (website - news) terror network spent less than $50,000 on each of its major attacks except the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings and one of its hallmarks is using readily available
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The United States on Monday offered rewards of up to $5 million each for a member of Lebanese Hezbollah and a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, both of which the United States regards as terrorist groups.
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The robbery of Â£22m from a Belfast bank was a carefully planned heist by professional criminals, say police.
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MILITANTS loyal to al-Qaeda-linked rebel Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claim to have carried out the suspected suicide bombing of an Australian convoy in Baghdad.
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Militants in the country's tribal belt seem to be maneuvering for time and space, analysts say.
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An investigation is launched in France as a man is held on suspicion of faking robbery to fund a terror group.
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Militants launched coordinated car bombings and battled security forces in Riyadh in attacks that killed nine suspects and one bystander, caused oil prices to jump and sent signals that Islamic extremists are keeping up their fight despite the kingdom&#39;s
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The al-Qaida terrorist network spent less than $50,000 on each of its major attacks except for the Sept. 11, 2001, suicide hijackings, and one of its hallmarks is using
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Authorities believed the suspects provided support to the three Islamic militants who were arrested yesterday, an official said.
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Security experts in Belfast estimate that paramilitary groups reap millions each year with a mix of smuggling and counterfeiting, extortion and racketeering and drug trafficking in the British-ruled province.