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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An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane was hijacked on Thursday to Western Sahara, Mauritanian police said.
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Mauritania blasted fellow West African country Burkina Faso as &quot;evil&quot; on Friday for allegedly plotting to destabilise the potentially oil-rich Islamic republic.
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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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ALEG, Mauritania  - By a sand-swept road in southern Mauritania a monument to four French tourists shot dead by suspected Islamic militants lies smashed into concrete shards.
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pee writes &quot;A passenger on a commuter plane in northern Norway attacked both pilots and at least one passenger with an axe as the aircraft was coming in to land.
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Exiled Mauritanians living in New York filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing the Northwest African nation's former President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of torture and  crimes against humanity.
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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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TENERIFE, Canary Islands, Feb. 16 -- A fast-thinking pilot with passengers in cahoots fooled a hijacker by braking hard upon landing, then accelerating to knock the man down. When he fell, flight attendants threw boiling water in his face, and about 10 people pounced on him, Spanish officials 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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A Moroccan accused of helping the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers introduced a Sudanese student to a group around alleged lead hijacker Mohammed Atta, and the group criticized the United States "because it defends Israel," the student testified Wednesday.
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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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OSLO - An axe-wielding passenger on a small commuter plane in northern Norway attacked two pilots and a passenger as the aircraft was landing Wednesday, police said.
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A passenger used an axe to attack two pilots aboard a Norwegian passenger plane, but the craft was later able to land.
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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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U.S. officials said a name on the passenger list matched that of a suspected member of a Moroccan militant group.
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MADRID, Feb. 15 -- An armed man who hijacked a Mauritanian plane Thursday was overpowered by passengers and crew members before he was arrested by police who boarded the plane shortly after it landed in Spain's Canary Islands, government and airline officials said.