British man sentenced to jail on terrorism charges for plan to launch racist attacks

September 14th, 2009 Airline bomb plot ringleader gets 40 years in UKLONDON — A British judge on Monday sentenced the ringleader of a plot to bring down trans-Atlantic planes with liquid explosives to at least 40 years in jail and three fellow British Muslims to long prison sentences. The sentences for the planned suicide bombings were among the longest ever handed out by a British court in a terrorism case.

September 2nd, 2009 Australian terror cell member jailed for 5 yearsMELBOURNE, Australia — The last of eight men convicted of being part of a terrorist cell that planned to kill hundreds of people with a bombing in Australia's second largest city was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison. Shane Kent, a 32-year-old Australian-born convert to Islam, pleaded guilty in the Victoria state Supreme Court in July to charges that he was part of a terrorist organization and made a film in preparation for a terrorist act.

August 6th, 2009 6 suspects in NC terror case moved to Va. jailRALEIGH, N.C.

July 19th, 2009 LONDON - Pakistani students, who were arrested earlier this year on national security grounds in simultaneous raids conducted across Britain, have now decided to launch a legal battle against the British authorities, as they (authorities) have failed to table any substantial evidence against them. One of the two students, Janas Khan, who was released from prison on Saturday after terrorism charges against them were dropped, said he is 'angry and shocked' by the British Government's treatment, and that he would take the concerned authorities to the court of law for arresting him without having enough proof.

July 17th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A murder convict serving life imprisonment in the Lucknow jail committed suicide by hanging himself in the prison premises Friday, police said. Forty-five-year old Badri Prasad Tiwari was lodged in the Lucknow Model Jail since 2002 after he was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his step-mother.

July 8th, 2009 Saudi Arabia convicts 300 al-Qaida suspectsRIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi criminal court has convicted and sentenced an al-Qaida militant to death and given more than 300 others jail terms, fines and travel bans in the country's first known terrorism trials for suspected members of the terror network, officials said Wednesday. A Justice Ministry spokesman said the court looked into 179 cases involving the 330 defendants who were found guilty.

June 22nd, 2009 Man involved in Achille Lauro hijacking diesROME — A Palestinian man who helped plan the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship during which an American passenger was killed has died in an Italian jail. Lawyer Sandro Clementi said Khaled Hussein died of a heart attack early Monday in a jail in Benevento, near Naples.

June 17th, 2009 LONDON - A British mother jailed for adultery in Dubai has been freed and reunited with husband who turned her in. Sally Antia, the British mother-of-two, has reportedly flown to Australia with her husband, Vincent, after serving six weeks of a two-month jail sentence.

June 17th, 2009 NIreland church harbors victims of racist attacksBELFAST, Northern Ireland — More than a 100 Romanian immigrants were taking refuge Wednesday after fleeing their Belfast homes and spending the night in a church following racist attacks. Northern Ireland police helped around 20 families leave their homes Tuesday night for the Belfast church, where they spent the night.

June 3rd, 2009 LONDON - A British couple has been jailed in Dubai for committing adultery. Sally Antia and her lover Mark Hawkins were arrested May 2 after leaving the 5-star Radisson Creek Hotel in Dubai.

April 29th, 2009 Britain jails 2 men linked to 2005 suicide bombersLONDON — Two men cleared of helping to plot the 2005 suicide bombings in London have each been sentenced to seven years in prison on charges connected to terrorism training. Judge Peter Gross sentenced Waheed Ali and Mohammed Shakil on Wednesday after a jury found them guilty of conspiracy to attend a terrorist training camp.

April 28th, 2009 Singaporean gets for 18 yrs jail on terror chargesJAKARTA, Indonesia — An Indonesian court sentenced a Singaporean man to 18 years in prison on terrorism charges Tuesday. Mohammad Hasan bin Saynudin, who claims to have met Osama bin Laden on many occasions, was convicted of plotting to kill a teacher and planning a deadly attack on a bar frequented by Western tourists.

April 10th, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown telephoned President Asif Ali Zardari late on Thursday after the arrest of 10 Pakistani-born nationals on student visas and one UK-born British national on charges of terrorism, to warn him to do more to root out terrorist elements in Pakistan. This is the first time Pakistanis on student visas have been arrested on such serious charges.

April 1st, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh Wednesday that most of the terrorist attacks in Britain have their origins in Pakistan. The British premier made the comments at the fag-end of a meeting lasting over an hour at his office at 10 Downing Street, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon told reporters.

March 23rd, 2009 LONDON - The British government is planning to train around 60,000 people already employed in various positions in how to respond to acts of terrorism, British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said Sunday. Speaking on the BBC, Smith said that the strategy included bringing anti-terrorism into the public arena with the training of people working 'everywhere from our shopping centres to our hotels'.