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Al-Qaida plot to attack 2010 football World Cup foiled in South Africa |
South African security
forces have reportedly foiled an Al-Qaida plot to carry out a terrorist attack
during the 2010 football World Cup. According to reports, South Africa's National
Intelligence Agency, senior police forces and American agents jointly conducted
the operation, during which they arrested militants linked to extremists in Somalia
and Mozambique, who were hatching plans to carry out bomb attacks during the mega
event. The forces nabbed the militants after they intercepted a call made to the
Al-Qaida-linked Al-Shabaab group in Somalia discussing setting off bombs. They
also seized mobile phones and SIM cards from the suspects. "The interception revealed
that these people planned to move en masse from Mozambique to here in 2010," The
Daily Star quoted a source, as saying. Police also claimed that the network has
links with Al-Qaida's henchmen in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The World Cup will
be the first to be held in Africa, and US President Barack Obama among many other
leaders are expected to attend the opening ceremony in Johannesburg on June 11. |
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