Hijacker faced arrest in Turkey
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A hijacker who diverted a flight to Italy was a Christian convert facing arrest in Turkey for fleeing the army.
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A leading suspect in the 2004 train bombings in Madrid is arrested in Morocco, where he is expected to go on trial.
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BRINDISI, Italy  - The two hijackers of the Turkish Airlines flight that was forced to land in Italy on Tuesday have surrendered and will ask for political asylum, an Italian police official said.
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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 landing, government and airline officials said.
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Italian officials said Wednesday they intend to prosecute a Turkish man for hijacking an airliner despite his appeal for political asylum on the grounds that he is being persecuted as a Christian in Muslim Turkey.
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A passenger jet was hijacked Thursday shortly after takeoff from Mauritania and flown to the Canary Islands, where security forces raided the plane and arrested a suspect, Spain's Foreign Ministry said.Comment
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Police in the Canary Islands arrest a man as the hijacking of a Mauritanian plane ends safely, officials say.
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Ten people with suspected links to al-Qaeda are arrested in raids across Turkey, police say.
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A Turkish passenger plane flying from  the Albanian capital Tirana to Istanbul was hijacked over  Greece and later landed in Italy, Greek and Italian officials  said on Tuesday.
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Turkish police thwarted a bomb attack in Istanbul on Monday, arresting a 25-year-old man with explosives in his backpack outside a subway station
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A suspect in the 2004 Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people has been arrested in Morocco and will be tried there, judiciary officials said Monday.
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Ekinci said as a Christian he did not want to serve in a Muslim army Human rights and pacifist groups in Turkey have distanced themselves from Tuesday's plane hijack, which was carried out by a Turkish man on ...Comment
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Pakistani authorities have detained  two relatives of a Pakistani-British man suspected of  involvement in an al Qaeda plot to blow up U.S.-bound  airliners, after he escaped from police custody, the man's  lawyer said.
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Authorites on Friday arrested a Syrian-German businessman who is wanted by Spain on charges he helped fund the al-Qaida terrorist network for years and who appeared in a wedding video at a mosque with some of the Sept. 11 hijackers, German officials said.
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A leading Islamic preacher is charged with treason in Turkey after being extradited from Germany.
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Two Turks hijacked a Turkish Airlines passenger plane on Tuesday, the Justice Ministry said on Wednesday.
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Turkish police detained 18 people  suspected of having links to al Qaeda late on Wednesday, but  Istanbul's police chief said the move was unconnected to Pope  Benedict's visit to Turkey, NTV television reported.