All three, however—two American citizens and the third a legal permanent resident—were secretly part of a homegrown terror cell conspiring to recruit and train insurgents to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq. (Also part of the cell—two Chicago cousins named in a superseding indictment who were sentenced earlier this month after being recruited by one of the Toledo defendants.)

How did he end up in an American courtroom? Because U.S. law says that if human rights violators are U.S. nationals, commit offenses against U.S. citizens, or are present in this country, they can be charged here. In Taylor’s case, he was born in America, and he was arrested in 2006 while trying to enter the country illegally.

What the men didn’t realize was that we knew all about it—thanks to a cooperating witness who helped our investigation from start to finish, and testified at trial.

The case was opened in 2004 by our Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) in our Toledo Resident Agency. Also pitching in were JTTFs in our Cleveland and Chicago Divisions, as well as a host of local, federal, and international partners.

Our cooperating witness, who began working for us after 9/11, was actually a decorated veteran of the U.S. Army’s Special Forces, specifically playing the part of an ex-soldier, only with a twist—he’d grown disenchanted with U.S. policies, become a radical convert to Islam, and was willing to provide training for violent jihad.

For two years, during the operational phase of the investigation, our witness met with the three men—Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan El-Hindi, and Wassim Mazloum—and made more than 100 secret (and fully lawful) recordings of those meetings, giving us a real-time view into the activities of the cell. At the same time, we were able to control what the trio obtained from our witness—for example, he didn’t give them actual explosives training.

Because of his military expertise, our witness gained the trust of all three men—crucial in such an operation. He even took a trip overseas to Jordan with Amawi, where he was introduced to Amawi’s family.

The recordings revealed a litany of activities and support in the name of terror. Working together or separately, the three men:

Taught themselves how to make and use explosives;
Conducted their own training exercises;
Looked at and shared often graphic jihadist videos and materials on the Internet, including on how to make a suicide bomber’s vest;
Tried to provide computers and explosives to mujahideen fighters overseas and attempted to set up a false company that would funnel money; and
Discussed possible targets for their violent jihad, ultimately agreeing that they should go after U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
In February 2006—because of mounting concern about the intentions of Amawi, who was in Jordan at the time—we shut the operation down and took all three suspects into custody. All were found guilty at trial in June 2008, becoming the first members of a homegrown terror cell since 9/11 to be convicted at trial on terrorism-related charges. And the three men were sentenced last fall to prison terms ranging from eight to 20 years.

In the end, the success of the investigation was the result of both time-tested law enforcement techniques and our growing post-9/11 partnerships and intelligence-gathering/analysis capabilities.

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Dominique Cottrez, a nursing assistant in her forties, was charged with the murder of the babies and her husband Pierre-Marie Cottrez with failure to report a crime and illegally hiding corpses.

The mother admitted suffocating the infants and insisted her husband knew nothing about the pregnancies nor the killings, according to an official close to the investigations. She faces life imprisonment.

Her husband denied any knowledge of the deaths, the official said.

Stunned residents of the pair’s quiet village of Villers-au-Tertre in northern France put flowers and candles outside the two houses where police had found the skeletal remains over the previous few days.

Prosecutors described it as the worst case of infanticide in recent French history, following a string of similar cases in which isolated and troubled mothers disposed of their newborns.

The suspects were brought before a magistrate in the nearby town of Douai to hear the charges. They were remanded in custody and prosecutors promised to hold a news conference to explain the charges.

Pierre-Marie Cottrez worked as a carpenter and was a respected member of the council in Villers-au-Tertre, a 620-strong community.

“He’s on his third term in office. He used to volunteer in the community. He’s a respectable man,” local mayor Patrick Mercier told reporters.

Mercier said the councillor’s wife was a more withdrawn person who rarely took part in village life. He said she had a weight problem which might be the reason why any pregnancies had passed unnoticed.

“No-one was aware of anything at all,” said the shocked mayor.

The pair were arrested on Tuesday and questioned all day Wednesday while police used sniffer dogs to search two addresses after the new owners of a home found the bones of two infants while digging in their garden.

The house previously belonged to the parents of the arrested woman.

Search teams then headed on to the couple’s current home in another part of the village, where six more sets of remains were found, a local councillor told reporters.

Gendarmes were deployed outside one of the houses where the babies’ bodies were found, and sealed off the entrance to the macabre scene with plastic sheeting.

“I’m thinking of all the children in the world. I’m thinking of all the children who didn’t ask to be born and were thrown out a few hours later,” said local priest Father Robert Meignotte.

“I’m very upset. I baptise five children every Sunday in the 17 villages of the parish. You don’t just throw children out like that in a big bag. It’s incomprehensible,” he said.

“I’m still in shock,” said a former mayor of Villers-au-Tertre, Daniel Collignon, describing the village as a very calm and rural place.

Neighbours reacted with astonishment. “They are normal people, who even have a role in the community,” said one. “It’s incredible.”

Another neighbour, a man in his 50s, added: “These are attractive, helpful, polite and courteous people, who did nothing to make you think them capable of anything abnormal.

The couple had lived in the village for 15 years and had two grown-up daughters who have children themselves, local residents said.

The incident is the latest in a string of similar cases in France.

Earlier this year a mother was convicted of killing six of her newborn children and hiding them in the cellar of her house in northwestern France.

Another notorious recent case was Veronique Courjault, who in June 2009 was jailed for eight years by a court in Tours, central France.

She admitted to having smothered two baby boys born in secret at her expatriate home in South Korea in 2002 and 2003, and a third child born in France in 1999, and hidden them in a freezer.

She was freed in May 2010, having served four years in jail after the time she spent in remand since her arrest
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Lucknow, Jul 28: A man allegedly stabbed his 50-plus father to death over the suspicion that his father was trying to seduce his wife. Besides killing his father, the man also stabbed his mother and his brother when they tried to intervene, reported Times of India.

The incident reportedly took place on Monday, Jul 26 in Jyotibaphule Nagar in Uttar Pradesh under Amroha police station limits.

Quoting police, the newspaper reported on Wednesday, Jul 28 that Rishipal had reservation over the manner in which his father behaved with his wife.

The situation went out of control when the father, Mukhram, offered mangoes to Rishipal’s wife. Enraged by this act, which added to his suspicion that his father was trying to establish sexual relationship with his wife, heavily drunk Rishipal stabbed his father.

He later stabbed his 48-year-old mother Gyanwati and his younger brother.

After killing them, Rishipal yet again stabbed their bodies leaving them in a pool of blood.

The only witness to his gruesome crime is Deepak, Rishipal’s 12-year-old son. The boy has narrated the whole incident to the police and has informed them that his father left the house with his mother after the incident.

The police have launched a hunt for Rishipal.
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Mumbai: The family of the girl who was allegedly raped by her Facebook friend is ruing the day she took the decision of going to the boy’s home. “My daughter made one wrong decision and now she will not be able to sleep for the rest of her life. Her life has been ruined by the boy she went home with on that fateful night,” said the father of the girl.

MiD DAY visited the home of the 17-year-old student from Swami Vivekanand College, Chembur, who was allegedly raped by Pankaj Mishra, a management student from the same college. The duo had become friends on Facebook. (Read: Mumbai college students met on Facebook, then he allegedly raped her)

The family said the girl had barely spoken since the incident and refuses to step out of the house. “I trusted him and went with him for the project, but he ruined my life,” she told MiD DAY.

When asked whether they wanted the boy to get the strictest punishment, the father pointed to an idol and said, “We believe in God and want Him and the law to punish the boy. But, at the moment, we are just concerned about our daughter and her future.”

The rape took place on July 21, but the family filed the police complaint only on Sunday. “We got delayed because of the college principal. She had assured us that she will take necessary action against the boy but it never happened,” said the girl’s mother.

“It was only when we came to know that his father works in the college that we filed a police complaint. When the boy was brought to the police station, he said that he had never met the girl. The principal did not take any action and delayed the case,” she added.

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At least 36 members of the Sahwa militia were killed Sunday in a suicide bomb explosion believed to have been carried out by a pair of attackers with Down Syndrome, security sources told DPA.

If confirmed, that would mark a new low in Iraq’s recent bloody history. Security sources said the two bombers set off their own explosive belts.

The attack – which left a further 28 people injured – took place in the Sunni-dominated area of al-Radwaniya in southwestern Baghdad, where Sahwa members were gathered to collect their salaries.

The leader of Sahwa in al-Radwaniya, al-Haj Abd, and four of his brothers are among those killed, the security sources told DPA.

Separately, in Baghdad’s Abu Ghreib area, one Sahwa leader, Amer al-Tamimi was killed when a bomb attached to his car went off.

Al-Tamimi is the brother of the government advisor to the Awakening Councils Abu Azzam Al-Tamimi.

In Anbar province, four Sahwa fighters were killed, including Sahwa leader in the area Khelief Ahmed, were killed in a suicide bombing.

Six people were injured in the attack on meeting for Sahwa in al-Qaem area, some 500 km west of Baghdad, police said.

The Sahwa tribal security forces, or Awakening Councils, are made up of former Sunni insurgents who have been supporting the government in its fight against Al Qaeda and helping restore order in the country.

Mohammad al-Anbari, leader of Sahwa fighters in Abu Ghreib, told DPA that the attacks are to ‘revenge from the tribal forces after they have helped in achieving security and stability in areas that were controlled by Al Qaeda’.

Although the level of sectarian violence in the aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion has fallen sharply in the past two years, political tensions continue amid the unresolved problem of forming a new government after the March parliamentary elections.
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Shobha was found inside a black Santro car used by her brother Mandeep, a suspect in the earlier twin murder of Kuldeep and Monica who were found killed Sunday.

Police are now linking Mandeep to Shobha’s killing too.

Like Kuldeep, Shobha too was found dead in a parked car, also in Ashok Vihar in north Delhi.

Police discovered Shobha’s body after getting a telephone call Tuesday morning. ‘A used cartridge has been recovered from the spot,’ an officer said.

‘We think Shobha was killed the same day (Sunday) as there was a foul smell in the car,’ he added.

The police have identified three suspects — Monica’s brother Ankit, Rahul and Mandeep. All the three are absconding.

‘Apart from these three, we are questioning the family and friends of the murdered woman,’ the officer said.

Kuldeep, 26, and his wife Monica, 23, were found killed in Ashok Vihar Sunday. They had married in 2006. Monica’s parents were bitterly against the alliance as the couple belonged to different castes.

Kuldeep’s relatives are blaming Monica’s family for the couple’s death.

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