| RECENT TERRORIST ATTACKS |
| DATE |
LOCATION |
DESCRIPTION |
| Mar 18, 2008 |
Yemen |
The Yemen Soldiers Brigades, an Al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group in Yemen, claimed responsibility for a failed mortar attack against the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa that killed a security guard, a schoolgirl and wounded 19 others. |
| Mar 11, 2008 |
Pakistan |
Two bombs exploded at the regional office of the Federal Investigation Agency in Lahore, killing at least 24 people and wounding at least 170 others. |
| Mar 4, 2008 |
Pakistan |
Two suicide bombers killed at least four people and injured 16 other in an attack at the Pakistani Navy War College in Lahore. |
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| TERRORISM-RELATED ARRESTS AND CONVICTIONS |
| DATE |
LOCATION |
DESCRIPTION |
| Mar 26, 2008 |
Mauritania |
Haround Ould Habib was sentenced to five years in prison for his alleged affiliation with Al Qaeda in Islamic North Africa. |
| Mar 10, 2008 |
United Kingdom |
Khalid Khaliq pleaded guilty in a London court to possessing an Al Qaeda manual, and two other terrorist manuals, in violation of the nation’s anti-terrorism law, and was sentenced to 16 months in prison. Khaliq was originally arrested in connection with the investigation into the July 2005 London subway bombings. |
| Mar 7, 2008 |
United Kingdom |
Mohammed Hamid, from east London, was sentenced by a London court to over seven years in prison for setting up Al Qaeda-style training camps at Baysbrown Farm, in the Cumbria county of North West England. |
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