Terror tales from UK,US

Man who urged Blair,Brown deaths admits terror charges: A man accused of calling for the deaths of Gordon Brown and Tony Blair,and who claimed to be the head of al-Qaeda in Britain admitted a series of offences under anti-terrorism laws on Monday. Ishaq Kanmi,23,who called for the deaths on a jihadist website,was arrested at Manchester airport en route to Helsinki in 2008,carrying violent extremist material which he allegedly meant to distribute. At Manchester Crown Court he admitted professing to belong to al-Qaeda and inviting support for the group.

Taliban told Shahzad not to leave paper trail: Pakistani-American terror suspect Faisal Shahzad,arrested for the Times Square bombing plot,had been instructed by the Tehrik-e-Talibanto always pay cash and not to leave a paper trail in transactions,The Los Angeles Times reported on Monday. He was told to be very careful about not letting anything track back to him. No receipts,and no paper. No nothing, an official source close to the investigation was quoted as saying by the paper. The Taliban had instructed Shahzad to always pay cash and never ask for or receive receipts for his transactions.

Briton convicted for Twitter bomb threat: A British man was convicted on Monday of sending a threatening message on Twitter saying that he would blow up an airport. Paul Chambers,26,insisted his post on the micro-blogging site was a joke. District Judge Jonathan Bennett said the message was of a menacing nature in the context of the times in which we live. He ordered Chambers to pay 1,000 in a fine and costs. Chambers was arrested in January after he posted a tweet saying he would blow Robin Hood Airport near Doncaster sky high if his flight was delayed.