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Suspect held in plot to bomb U.S. facilities

By Times staff and wires
Published November 8, 2007

ANKARA, Turkey

Suspect held in plot to bomb U.S. facilities

Turkish police have arrested a suspected al-Qaida militant accused of being part of a plot to carry out massive bomb attacks on U.S.-related targets in Germany, German and Turkish authorities said Wednesday. Attila Selek, a 22-year-old German national, was arrested Tuesday in the central Anatolian city of Konya on charges of membership in a terrorist organization and preparing to carry out bomb attacks. He was arrested on a German warrant and Berlin has asked for his extradition.

OSTUACAN, Mexico

4 dead, 21 missing in mudslide

The death toll from a massive mudslide that destroyed a village in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas rose to four, the governor said Wednesday, as rescue workers searched for another 21 missing villagers. Chiapas Gov. Juan Sabines said three women and a man died in the wave of mud and water late Sunday, and it was unlikely the 21 missing villagers would be found alive.

MARRAKECH, Morocco

Iranians on wanted list in bombing

Interpol put an ex-Iranian intelligence chief, a former leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, three other Iranians and a Lebanese militant on its most-wanted list Wednesday for a 1994 bombing that killed 85 people at a Jewish center in Argentina. The international coordinating agency announced the move after delegates at its general assembly sided with Argentine prosecutors and turned back a lobbying blitz by Iranian envoys trying to avoid having their country linked to Argentina's worst terrorist attack.

BIRJAND, Iran

President boasts of nuclear advance

Iran has reached a milestone in its nuclear program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday. He said the country now has 3,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges fully operating. An official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said it would take years for all the centrifuges to run smoothly without frequent breakdowns.

MOSCOW

Communists feel new ambition

Russia's remaining Communists celebrated the 90th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution on Wednesday with pomp, seizing on a chance to energize supporters ahead of December elections. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union 16 years ago, the Communist Party has seen its support steadily decline, able to count mainly on the loyalty of pensioners and others who were on the losing end of post-Soviet market reforms. But in Dec. 2 parliamentary elections, with Kremlin-controlled United Russia now set to sweep the vote, the Communists are the only other party considered certain to take seats. This has given the Communists new confidence and hope for broadening their support.

Elsewhere

Beijing: China said its lunar probe had entered its final orbit around the moon Wednesday, but an official backed away from reports of launching a space station by 2020.

Mexico: The nation has agreed to extradite a former state governor to the United States to face drug charges, his lawyer said Wednesday. Mario Villanueva, who was governor of the Caribbean state of Quintana Roo from 1993 to 1996, just finished serving six years in prison in Mexico for money laundering.

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