A key terror suspect who allegedly helped to plan last year's attacks in Mumbai and plotted to strike Europe was an American secret agent who went rogue, Indian officials believe.
American media reports suggested he was likely to have been involved in any plot to strike the US.
A1 2 in Terror Plot Convicted Two Arab immigrants were convicted in federal court in Detroit in a plot to strike American airports, military bases and landmarks like Disneyland.
Intelligence and law-enforcement officials would not say whether they believed either of the arrests had disrupted an active plot to strike targets in the United States.
His latest work, "The Retributionists," a historical examination of violent revenge, is based on a 1946 Jewish plot to strike Germany by a rebel group called the Avengers.
Amid public warnings from the United States and Israel of a possible terrorist attack, Thai officials said Friday that they had arrested a Lebanese man believed to be a member of Hezbollah in connection with a plot to strike tourists in Bangkok.
The episode was pivotal for Mr. Shahzad, setting him on a course to join a militant Pakistani group that would train him in explosives and bankroll his plot to strike at Times Square last month, according to senior American intelligence officials and others who have been briefed on or seen reports of Mr. Shahzad's interrogations.
Page A7 THAILAND DETAINS SUSPECT Amid public warnings from the United States and Israel of a possible terrorist attack, Thai officials said that they have arrested a Lebanese man believed to be a member of Hezbollah in connection with a plot to strike Bangkok.
Mr. Yaacoub's trial, on charges he participated in a Hezbollah plot to strike at Israeli tourists in Cyprus, ended Thursday with written summations and the prosecution and defense sparring over contradictions between his testimony and statements he made in police depositions, some elements of which he now denies.
An Algerian accused in a terrorist plot to strike the Los Angeles airport during millennium celebrations in 1999 brought his trial to a halt yesterday, flailing his arms and banging his head on the counsel table as an old friend and former co-defendant testified against him.
