Seized Mauritanian plane in Canaries, hijacker held
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LAS PALMAS, Spain  - An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane was hijacked on an internal flight on Thursday and flew to the Spanish Canary Islands where the hijacker was arrested, Spanish officials and media said.
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Police arrested four suspected members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA in south-west France on Saturday, believed to be linked to the deadly Madrid airport bomb in December, Spain's Interior Ministry said.
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Anti-terrorist police arrested the political leader of Spain's armed Basque separatist group ETA in raids in France and Spain that resulted in arms caches and other suspected members being seized, officials said.
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PARIS - A young man who stole a plane and took a joyride in the night sky over France then slipped from the grasp of police has been found and detained for questioning, police said Thursday.    Despite strict anti-terrorism measures at airports all over the country, a young man in a "visible state of drunkenness" broke into an airport terminal in Coulommiers, east of Paris, at about 2:00 a.m...
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Spanish police have arrested an Algerian suspected of being a member of a terrorist organization, a spokesman said Wednesday.
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ALGIERS -- One of North Africa's most wanted Islamic militant leaders, accused in the kidnapping of 32 European tourists last year, has been taken into custody in Algeria, authorities said yesterday.
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THE suspected leader of Basque terror group ETA&#39;s political wing was arrested in France yesterday. Mikel Iriarte, 43, had been on the run since 1993.
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Police have arrested the suspected political leader of the Basque guerrilla group ETA, detained 20 other people and seized weapons in a swoop on the outlawed group in France and Spain, officials say.
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BAYONNE, France Two of Spain&#39;s most wanted terrorism suspects and at least 16 others suspected of being members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA were captured Sunday in a French-Spanish police operation, the authorities said.
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LAS PALMAS, Spain  - Passengers overpowered a suspected armed hijacker who had commandeered a Mauritanian plane on Thursday when he was knocked off his feet during a hard landing, a source close to the Mauritanian presidency said.
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Two Mauritanians suspected of involvement in the killings of four French tourists were arrested Friday and officials said they are believed to belong to an Algerian-based terror cell affiliated with al-Qaida.
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Anti-terrorist police have arrested the leader of Spain&#39;s Basque separatist group ETA, in co-ordinated raids in France and Spain.
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Two of Spain's most wanted alleged terrorists and at least 16 other suspected members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA were captured Sunday in a vast French-Spanish police operation, authorities said.
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MADRID: Spanish police suspect that one of four Moroccans arrested in the Canary Islands is a leader of a Moroccan Islamist group that is believed to have ties to Al-Qaeda, two daily newspapers said on Sunday.
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Mauritania's authorities say they have arrested nine people over the shooting of four French tourists last month.
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BORDEAUX, France  - Police arrested the suspected  political leader of the Basque guerrilla group ETA, detained 20  others, and seized explosives, grenades and other weapons in a  series of raids on Sunday, officials said.
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BORDEAUX, France : Anti-terrorist police arrested the political leader of Spain&#39;s armed Basque separatist group ETA in raids in France and Spain that resulted in arms caches and other suspected members being seized, officials said.