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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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 man has attacked two pilots and a passenger with an axe on a domestic Norwegian flight. The pilots, who witnesses said were covered in blood, managed to land the 18-seat Kato Air flight
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Algerian pilot wrongly accused of training 9/11 hijackers is allowed to claim damages, court rules
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At least 16 people have been killed by suspected militants near the southern city of Medea in Algeria. The attack is the first and the most serious against civilians since the
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An Algerian-born man attacked two pilots and a passenger with an axe on a domestic Norwegian flight Wednesday in an unexplained assault that police said could be linked to his asylum status.
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A Moroccan accused of helping the Sept. 11 suicide hijackers was part of a group that raged against the United States &quot;because it defends Israel&quot; and himself approved of Hitler&#39;s extermination of the Jews, witnesses testified Wednesday.
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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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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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The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (SGPC) claimed an anti-US bombing attack that left one dead and nine wounded, including eight foreigners, at Bouchaoui west of Algiers on Sunday.
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An Islamist group has claimed that it hijacked two Russian planes that crashed this week, killing at least 89 people, and threatened more attacks, according to an Internet statement posted on Friday.
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An Islamist group has claimed that it  hijacked two Russian planes that crashed this week, killing at  least 89 people, and threatened more attacks, according to an  Internet statement posted on Friday.
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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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Guinea-Bissau extradited five suspected members of al Qaeda to Mauritania on Saturday, a day after they were arrested in connection with the killing of four French tourists in Mauritania on Christmas Eve.
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Four French tourists are killed by gunmen in an attack in the west African country of Mauritania, police say.
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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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LAS PALMAS, Spain - Spanish police arrested the suspected hijacker of a Mauritanian plane who was knocked over by a hard landing and overpowered by passengers on Thursday, a source close to the ...Comment