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Judge calls Molotov cocktail attack racist, hateful act of terrorism

A Montreal man accused of firebombing two Jewish institutions was sentenced to four years in prison for what a judge described as a terrorist act.

Azim Ibragimov, 25, pleaded guilty earlier this year to firebombing the Skver-Toldos Orthodox Jewish Boys School in Outremont in 2006, and attempting to attack the Snowdon YM-YWHA the following year.

He also pleaded guilty to uttering threats in the form of letters that claimed the crimes were committed in the name of Islamic Jihad, a militant group that vows to destroy Israel and set up an Islamic Palestinian state.

Ibragimov and Omar Bulphred were arrested in April 2007 after the incidents and have remained in detention since their arrests.

Bulphred has opted for a trial and is due back in court on Dec. 16.

The arson attack was racist and hateful, and amounted to terrorism, Quebec Judge Gilles Cadieux said in his long ruling issued Monday at the Montreal courthouse.

Pakistan denied on Monday a U.S. media report that it had given tacit approval to the United States to carry out missile strikes by pilotless drones against al Qaeda and Taliban targets on its soil.

The Roman Catholic archbishop of San Salvador opposes reopening the prosecution of Salvadoran officials in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests, the cleric said Sunday.

A Gurkha soldier has been killed by an explosive device that struck a Warrior armoured vehicle, the first fatal attack in Afghanistan on such a relatively robust troop carrier, defence officials said yesterday.

Some 300,000 people have already been approved to travel to the United States through a new online security screening system that becomes mandatory for all visa-free visitors from January 12, 2009, US officials ...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast Sunday that since terrorists might try to attack the U.S. during the White House transition, selecting his national security team is one ...

An IRA informer convicted of two murders may be called to give evidence at the Omagh bomb civil trial.

In recent months, the U.S. drones have fired missiles at Pakistani soil at an average rate of once every four or five days.

Pakistan said Saturday it had agreed to borrow $7.6 billion from the International Monetary Fund in an effort to stabilize the economy of this strategically important U.S. ally on the front lines of the battle ...

Published November 16, 2008 at 12:05 a.m. It appears that Barack Obama will make closing the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay an early order of business for his administration.

Because of the conviction, he could no longer possess a firearm and lost his job.

The United States and Pakistan reached tacit agreement in September on a don't-ask-don't-tell policy that allows unmanned Predator aircraft to attack suspected terrorist targets in rugged western Pakistan, ...

A radical Islamic group has seized another Somali port town, consolidating its control over a southwestern region that borders the Somali capital.

George W Bush is considering issuing pardons for US spies embroiled in allegations of torture just before he leaves the White House.

Sri Lanka's military said troops seized the entire western coast of the Indian Ocean island Saturday, capturing the key Pooneryn area where Tamil Tiger rebel artillery had kept soldiers at bay since 1993.

Pakistan said Saturday it had agreed to borrow $7.6 billion from the International Monetary Fund in an effort to stabilize the economy of this strategically important U.S. ally on the front lines of the battle ...

Security Scare Forces the Singer to Cancel Rihanna was scheduled to perform her 'Good Girl Gone Bad' show to a sold-out crowd of 6,000 in Jakarta, Indonesia on Friday, but cancelled due to a security scare, TMZ ...

Former Deputy Speaker Punjab Assembly and PML MPA Sardar Shaukat Hussain Mazari breathed his last due to cardiac arrest on the floor of the Assembly, here on Friday.

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... in Pakistan's borderlands aimed to put al Qaeda "off balance," and said the region represented the greatest terrorism threat to the United States. WEDDING GIFT The latest missile strike hit a house in a remote village on the border between North and ...