Philippines to deport U.S. brothers

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines said Tuesday it will deport two American brothers arrested two weeks ago for suspected links to local Muslim militants and al-Qaida-linked charities, one of whom is a former technician at a U.S. nuclear weapons lab.

A spokeswoman at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, outside San Francisco, said Michael Ray Stubbs, 55, who was arrested with his brother James on Dec. 13 southwest of Manila, worked at the lab as a heating and air conditioning technician for about 10 years ending in 2000. She said the FBI was looking into whether he had access to sensitive information.

The brothers, born in Missouri, will be deported to the United States as "undesirable aliens . . . based on intelligence reports that they were seen meeting with known leaders of various terrorist cells in the country with links to al-Qaida," the immigration bureau said.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Investigators zeroed in on an Italian anarchist group Tuesday as the likely source of four small bombs mailed to prominent European organizations in recent days.

The letter bombs have caused no injuries but they revived memories of Europe before Sept. 11, when political radicals were more feared than Islamic militants.

The latest package was intercepted in The Hague on Tuesday at Eurojust, a European law enforcement group. Eurojust and nearby offices were evacuated while a bomb squad was called in to disarm the explosive. The mailroom of the International Criminal Court, located in the same building, was also searched.

BERLIN - A German military hospital in Hamburg that has treated American soldiers was sealed Tuesday after German officials received a tip from U.S. intelligence that radical group Islamic Ansar al-Islam was planning a car bomb attack on the facility, according to local officials in Hamburg.

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