Irish Viking Trade Centre Unearthed
Monday 6th of February 2012 01:04:56 AM
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| Irish Viking trade centre unearthed Almost 6,000 artefacts and a Viking chieftain's grave have been discovered One of the Vikings' most important trading centres has been discovered in Ireland. The settlement at Woodstown in County Waterford is estimated to be about 1,200 years old. It was discovered during archaeological excavations for a road by-pass for Waterford city, which was founded by the Vikings. The Irish government said the settlement was one of the most important early Viking age trading centres discovered in the country. Its working group, which includes archaeologists from Ireland's museum and monuments service, said it was of... |
UK Is Europe's Top Terror Centre, Arrests Show
Monday 6th of February 2012 01:04:56 AM
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| UK is Europe's top terror centre, arrests show Last Updated: 10:55pm BST 26/04/2008 Britain has become the main focus of Islamist terror in Europe, according to official figures. More Muslim extremists were detained in Britain last year on terror-related charges than in the rest of Europe added together. The number of arrests rose steeply and involved "young, radicalised British citizens", sparking fears that the threat of an attack is growing. The report by Europol, the European police force, said that terrorist plots linked to groups in Pakistan had been "almost exclusively focused on the UK". It comes following the disclosure... |
UK: Manhunt after illegal immigrant centre break-out
Monday 6th of February 2012 01:04:56 AM
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| LONDON (AFP) - Authorities were still hunting Monday for 14 illegal immigrants, all convicted criminals, who escaped from a detention centre. Twenty-six men went on the run from the Campsfield House Immigration Detention Centre in Oxfordshire, southern England, on Saturday after detainees started fires and broke out. Police officers in riot gear were called in to deal with the blaze, while helicopters and dogs have been used in the hunt for those still at large. Police have rounded up 12 of those who fled, but 14 remain on the run and the Home Office has warned that they are all... |
Muslim hub of Russia wants to become second Mecca
Monday 6th of February 2012 01:04:56 AM
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| Administration of the city Kazan, which is considered the Muslim hub of Russia, has extensive plans of turning the city into an influential centre of business and religious tourism and to attract pilgrims from around the world, like Mecca. |
University Students At Centre Of Terror Plots (UK)
Monday 6th of February 2012 01:04:56 AM
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| University students at centre of terror plots By Roya Nikkhah, Andrew Alderson and Julie Henry (Filed: 13/08/2006) The recruitment of Muslim students at British universities to take part in terrorist attacks is at the heart of the alleged plot to blow up passenger jets, it is feared. A dossier of extremist Islamic literature has been uncovered by The Sunday Telegraph on the campus of a north London university, one of whose students has suspected links to the alleged terrorist attack. A tape produced by al-Muhajiroun Waheed Zaman, 22, a bio-chemistry student and the president of the Islamic Society at London... |




