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The American Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has warned that home-grown terrorist groups could become as big a danger to the United States as al-Qaeda if left unchecked. Mr. Gonzales was speaking at a news conference where he also detailed the charges against 5 US citizens and 2 Haitians arrested on Thursday in Miami.
The indictment charges 4 counts: conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization namely al-Qaeda, conspiracy to provide material support and resources to terrorists, conspiracy to maliciously damage and destroy buildings by means of explosive device, and conspiracy to levy war against the government of the Unites States.
No attack was imminent and the FBI Deputy Director John Pistole described the plot as more aspirational than operational. But the indictment contains detailed allegations about efforts to obtain money, weapons and uniforms for their mission from a man they thought was an al-Qaeda representative, he was in fact a US government agent.
The United States has confirmed it's been running a secret program to monitor people's international financial transactions as part of its war on terror. The Treasury Department acknowledged that they took and obtained access to a huge financial database in Belgium to track thousands of money transfers. The American Treasury Secretary John Snow said the US has been able to locate terrorists and their financial backers by, as he put it, following the money.
The Brazilian government has opened the first and a new generation of federal high security prisons which it hopes will help stop gang leaders continuing to operate from behind bars. It's part of a long term program but follows an outbreak of violence in Sao Paulo which was ordered by jailed gang commanders and resulted in at least 120 deaths. Here is our America's editor Simon Waltz.
Inmates will be held in individual cells under video surveillance. Guards will wear clip microphones so their conversations with prisoners can be recorded. And X-ray machines will be used to spot guns, explosives and drugs. Brazilian officials will also hope the new prisons help them tackle 2 other problems with the country's jails: riots often between rival gangs and escape bids which frequently get help from guards. But there is one potential problem: the Sao Paulo violence was sparked by dispute over the detention conditions of PCC leaders. It's unlikely that any gang commander would go quietly to the federal government's new jails.
A Brazilian bankruptcy judge has canceled the sale of the country's heavily indebted national airline Varig to a consortium of employees. The judge announced the move after the group failed to make an initial payment of 75 million dollars by Friday. The judge said the airline's future will be decided at a meeting next week with public prosecutors and accountants.
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The Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev has said that counterfeit and illegally brewed alcohol is fatally poisoning more than 100 Russians every day. He said a significant proportion of alcoholic drinks, imported from other parts of the former Soviet Union were fake. Steven Nick has the details.
Food shops and convenience stores in Russian towns frequently offer a dazzling range of alcoholic drinks, sometimes in very elaborate bottles and packages. But as Russia's Interior Minister today pointed out, what they contain is sometimes not vodka, cognac or wine, but any number of potentially fatal substances. Mr. Nurgaliyev also repeated the claims heard from the Russian Health Ministry that much if not most of the wine from Georgia and Moldova is counterfeit and potentially harmful. The governments of both these countries are convinced that the Russian ban on their wine is politically motivated and naturally designed to punish them for pro-Western policies.
The United States has welcomed an agreement reached between the transitional Somali governments and the Union of Islamic Courts militia, the group which has taken control of much of central and southern Somalia. Speaking from Addis Ababa, the US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer told the BBC the deal was a starting point for peace.
We don't have the details but we think it's a step in the right direction. The international community has called on the transitional federal government and the Union of Islamic Courts to open a dialogue and clearly they were in dialogue, so we think it's a very good first step.
Jendayi Frazer also denied that Washington was hostile to the Union of Islamic Courts, saying it' was keen to work with any Somali group that wanted to fight terrorism and create stability.
Football. France and Switzerland have qualified for the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Germany to complete the lineup for the knockout stages. Earlier, Spain and Ukraine also celebrated reaching the last 16 with victories over Saudi Arabia and Tunisia.
. words and expressions
brew: To make (ale or beer) from malt and hops by infusion, boiling, and fermentation. cognac: A brandy distilled from white wine and produced in the vicinity of Cognac. levy: To declare and wage (a war). maliciously:有敌意地
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