British military says it is investigating suspected explosive device found at UK airbase

October 2nd, 2009 Germans arrest suspected al-Qaida supporterBERLIN — German authorities said Friday they arrested a man with dual Turkish-German citizenship suspected of attempting to recruit supporters for al-Qaida and procuring material that could be used to make a bomb. The 24-year-old man, identified only as Adnan V., was arrested Thursday after police searched an apartment in Offenbach and a business in nearby Frankfurt, federal prosecutors said.

September 22nd, 2009 Girls school attacked in PakistanPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Suspected Islamist militants blew up a girls school close to the main city in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, police said. The school on the outskirts of the Peshawar was empty when the explosion took place, police officer Hamdullah Khan said.

September 11th, 2009 UK prosecutors want 3 suspected bombers retriedLONDON — British prosecutors say they plan to seek a retrial of three men suspected of involvement in a plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners. The three men had been found not guilty of plotting the largest terrorist attack since September 11 in a trial that ended earlier this week.

September 8th, 2009 Military reports false alarm at UK air baseLONDON — A busy British air base was briefly subject to a bomb scare Tuesday, but the Ministry of Defense said it turned out to be a false alarm. The military had reported earlier that it was investigating a suspected improvised explosive device at Royal Air Force Lyneham, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) west of London.

September 8th, 2009 Report: Object found at UK air base not suspiciousLONDON — A suspicious object found at a British air base turned out to be safe, the BBC reported Tuesday, after bomb disposal experts had been called to investigate. The BBC report of a false alarm cited the British military as its source, but a Ministry of Defense spokeswoman said she could not immediately comment.

August 17th, 2009 UK authorities evacuate 2 villages after bomb findLONDON — British authorities say they will evacuate two small villages in northern England after a World War II-era bomb was found buried in a nearby field. North Yorkshire Police say that more than 1,000 people will be moved from their homes in the hamlets of Ebberston and Allerston on Tuesday afternoon before the 500 pound (225 kilogram) explosive is made safe.

June 23rd, 2009 Report: US, Kyrgyz deal on airbase useMOSCOW — The United States and Kyrgyzstan have reached a deal for use of a Kyrgyz airport to transport U.S. military supplies to Afghanistan, Russian news agencies reported Tuesday.

May 6th, 2009 LONDON - About 20 top military and intelligence experts of Britain will now advise the Pakistani Amry in fighting against the Taliban and Al Qaeda in the country, the Online news agency has reported. The British advisers will liaise with the Pakistani Army and particularly with the Frontier Corps, an ethnic Pashtun paramilitary force on the frontline of the battle with the Taliban, according to Whitehall officials.

April 25th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Eleven children of the same family were killed and three suffered injuries Saturday when a homemade bomb, which they thought was a toy, exploded inside a house in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP). The children were playing with the explosive device, taking it to be a toy, in Luqman Banda village in Lower Dir of the restive NWFP, the online edition of Dawn newspaper quoted residents as saying.

April 20th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A suspected suicide bomber has been arrested in this Pakistani federal capital, Geo TV reported late Monday. The arrested person has been identified as Khurram Shahzad, it quoted sources as saying.

March 23rd, 2009 LONDON - British security experts were Sunday investigating what was termed a 'suspicious device' aboard an Emirates Airline plane that landed at London's Gatwick airport, the BBC reported. The broadcaster said the flight arrived from Dubai.

February 21st, 2009 BISHKEK - Kyrgyzstan's President Kurmanbek Bakiyev Friday signed a decree to close a US airbase used since 2001 to support NATO operations in neighbouring Afghanistan, his office said in a statement. On Thursday Kyrgyzstan's single-chamber legislature approved the closure.

February 8th, 2009 BISHKEK - The Kyrgyz parliamentary defence and security committee approved closure of the US military airbase in the country Monday. The hearings on the closure of the base will now be assessed by three parliamentary factions before going to a final debate in parliament.

December 27th, 2008 KATHMANDU - A crude explosive device detonated Sunday morning outside a school in the Nepali capital - the third such incident in two days, but there was no report of injury or death in the incident. Kathmandu police chief Nawaraj Silwal told reporters that an improvised explosive device went off at 6.45 a.m.

December 27th, 2008 ISLAMABAD - At least 11 people were killed when an explosive device detonated inside a polling station in northwest Pakistan during polling for an assembly by-election, TV channels reported. The blast took place in Shalbandi town of North West Frontier Province, according to the private news channel Geo TV.