21 July bombs were 'just hoaxes'
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The 21 July terror attacks were just a hoax designed to frighten people, a court hears.
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The Omagh trial hears telephoned warnings ahead of the bombing were deliberately vague and misleading.
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Investigators said Friday that they believed the deadly bombing of the Australian Embassy was carried out by suicide attackers who had eluded a manhunt after fellow militants were captured during raids in July and August.
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One version of the story said the gunfire was an assassination attempt aimed at interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. Another dismissed it as a misunderstanding that erupted in gunfire simply because there were too many weapons around.
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To subscribe to The Register's weekly newsletter - seven days of IT in a single hit - click here Yes, thereâs only been story in the news this week. Rogue Russian agents have apparently been racing around the UK, knocking off ex-KGB spies, and endangering sushi chefs, flight attendants and Italian Academics, using rare radioactive isotopes. The fact that it was Polonium 210 that was used to permanently shut-up former KGB man Alexander Litvinenko was taken as proof of Russian state involvement. Only past poison experts such as the KGB had access to such a devastating material, it was reasoned. Well, only them and anyone with a web connection, a credit card and the web address for United Nuclear. So, beware come office party season. If the cocktails look a little more lurid than usual, someone may well be settling scores.â¦
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LONDON The BBC has apologized for falling victim to a hoax involving the deadly 19-84 cyanide gas leak at a Union Carbide subsidiary in India.
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Israeli fighter planes escorted a German airliner bound for the Jewish state to Cyprus after a bomb threat on Tuesday in the latest of a string of such scares in Europe that turn out to be hoaxes.
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A series of letter bombs sent in Britain over the past three weeks contained pyrotechnic charges, not conventional explosives, and appear intended to shock not kill, police said on Wednesday.
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Police have issued a public warning after the latest in a series of letter bombs took the number of people injured to seven in five days, fueling fears of a concerted bombing campaign.
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A bomb threat that saw a Virgin Atlantic airliner diverted to Stansted has been branded a hoax by police.
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Real Madrid&#39;s home match yesterday against Real Sociedad was abandoned in the 87th minute after a bomb hoax, the Spanish soccer club said.
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LONDON, July 9 -- Four immigrant men were convicted Monday of conspiring to bomb London's public transit system on July 21, 2005, in a failed attempt to duplicate an attack two weeks earlier by four suicide bombers who killed 52 bus and train passengers.
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Indian police release sketches of two men sought over bomb attacks which killed at least 37 people.
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Britain said it had thwarted &quot;at least&quot; four major terror attacks since the July 7 bombings in London last year, as police probed the latest alleged plot to blow up US-bound passenger jets.
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ALL Australians known to be in Iraq have been accounted for as Prime Minister Mr John Howard said yesterday he was cautiously hopeful that a claim terrorists had taken two Australians hostage was a hoax.
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"There were various blips on the radar, but nothing that would ... put Ibrahim above a threshold for investigation"  By Michael HoldenLONDON  - British police and security services were accused on Tuesday of "systematic" failings in connection with attempted suicide bombings in 2005 whose leader had several times crossed their radar.Opposition politicians demanded a public inquiry, saying the failure to latch on to plot leader Muktah Said Ibrahim was more evidence that lax border controls were leaving Britain at risk.Ibrahim and three other Muslims of African origin -- Yassin Hassan Omar, Ramzi Mohammed and Hussein Osman -- were found guilty on Monday of conspiracy to murder in connection with the failed attacks of July 21, 2005. Read more
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Four bombs that went off simultaneously in separate Turkish cities targeting British and US interests caused material damage and left one man slightly injured, Anatolia news agency reported.