Turkish hijacker threatened to blow himself up
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A man who hijacked a Turkish Airlines flight on Tuesday was unarmed and threatened to blow up the plane if the pilot did not divert the flight to Italy, officials and crew said on Wednesday.
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The most senior leader in Iraq's Kurdish region appeared to raise the stakes in the standoff over northern Iraq on Friday, warning Turkey that the region would defend itself against any cross-border military strike on rebel bases.
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A video purportedly posted on the web by Iraqi terrorists shows the beheading of a Turkish driver, world news agencies reported. The video has grabbed the man introducing himself as Durmus Kumderelu, a driver
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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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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 politician was charged Friday with inciting hatred and threatening public safety after suggesting that fellow Kurds would rise against the state and fight if Turkey ever attacked their Kurdish brethren in neighboring Iraq.
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An image from the London bombings European intelligence and security chiefs are said to be on "tenterhooks" over the "extremely high" threat of a Christmas terror attack by Islamic militants.Comment
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A cunning pilot thwarted a hijacking by discreetly warning the passengers in French - a language the gunman didn't speak - that he would knock the attacker off-balance with a rough landing, and that they should ...Comment
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A self-proclaimed member of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network claimed responsibility on Monday for last November's suicide bomb attacks in Istanbul, NTV television reported.
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An Islamic militant sought by Turkey as the suspected mastermind of a plot to crash a plane into a major landmark was flown to Istanbul on Tuesday, hours after a court approved his extradition, a police official said.
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ISTANBUL -- A suspected leader of a cell accused in deadly suicide attacks in Turkey boasted yesterday that he was an ''Al Qaeda warrior&quot; and warned in court of future attacks if Turkey continues to support the United States.
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ATHENS Two gunmen hijacked an Athens-bound commuter bus loaded with passengers early Wednesday, threatening to blow it up unless Greek authorities provided $1 million and a plane to fly them to Russia.
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A Turkish plane was hijacked on Tuesday as it traveled from Tirana, Albania to Istanbul, Turkey, according to a Turkish Airlines spokesman on Turkish television.
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The alleged British terrorist behind a plot to blow up at least 10 transatlantic airliners is on the run
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Both armed hijackers, who threatened to kill the captives and blow the bus up, have surrendered. The two men, believed to be Albanians, exited the bus with their hands on the heads after throwing two shotguns out of the driverâs door.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - An accused bomber threatened witnesses, telling them to keep their mouths shut about his involvement in an airline attack that killed 331 people, a Crown prosecutor said in closing arguments Tuesday.
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A Turkish Kurdish politician is   entitled to challenge the European Union's inclusion of the   Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrilla group on its list of   terrorist organizations, an adviser to the EU's top court said.