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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OSLO  - A seemingly unstable passenger attacked two pilots aboard a Norwegian passenger plane with an axe but the aircraft was later able to land, amid concerns over lax security on the country&#39;s local flights and at regional airports.
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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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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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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 ...
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Authorities in Guinea-Bissau arrest two Mauritanian men over the shooting of French tourists in Mauritania last month.
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Spanish police arrested an armed Mauritanian man seeking political asylum in France who had hijacked an Air Mauritania aircraft with 79 people on board and forced it to land in the Canary Islands.
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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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_ Police in Norway say an Algerian asylum seeker used an ax to attack two pilots and a passenger as their plane was attempting to land.
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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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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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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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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 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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SAN`A, Yemen Aug. 28, 2004 - A chaotic three-month trial ended Saturday with 15 militants convicted for roles in terror attacks on a French oil tanker and a helicopter carrying US oil workers, as well as
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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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Guinea-Bissau police say they hold five al-Qaeda members over the killing of French tourists in Mauritania.