Report: Zarqawi Said To Have Targeted Germany

Oct. 7, 2004 — -- Top terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi has called for attacks to be carried out in Germany against Jewish institutions and a disco, a report said Wednesday citing telephone calls intercepted by intelligence services, news wires reported Thursday.

And Iraqi insurgents from Fallujah are in intense negotiations with the country's interim government to hand over control of the city to Iraqi troops, according to representatives of both sides.

Al Qaeda Bomb Plot Trial Begins
Ten alleged members of an al Qaeda cell, including a man believed to be a senior lieutenant of Osama bin Laden and a suspect being held in a British jail, went on trial in France yesterday accused of plotting a bomb attack on Strasbourg's Christmas market. (The Guardian)

U.S. Grand Jury Indicts a Briton, Charging He Supported Terrorists
Babar Ahmad, a British citizen arrested in London last summer at the request of the United States government, which charged that he ran an Internet site that supported terrorist causes, also arranged for the purchase of gas masks, camouflage suits, night-vision goggles and other possible terrorist tools, according to a grand jury indictment released on Wednesday. (NY Times)