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How al Libi trial may help al Qaeda
Abu Anas al Libi, a key al Qaeda operative wanted for his role in the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, has been captured in a U.S. special operations forces raid in Tripoli, Libya, U.S. officials told CNN on Saturday, October 5. 
The blast on August 7, 1998 at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, killed more than 200 people. Kenyan security guards keep watch on August 8, 1998, at the scene of explosion. 
A guard looks over the site of the bomb blast on August 8, 1998, in Nairobi, Kenya. 
Rescuers help move survivors from the explosion site in Nairobi, Kenya, on August 7, 1998. 
The Tanzania blast went off nearly simultaneously, to the one in Kenya on August 7, 1998, leaving 11 people dead. Here, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright talks with a member of the FBI at the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam on August 18, 1998. Visible in the background is the tanker that was used to create the explosion. 
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Abu Anas al Libi, seized in Tripoli and brought to the U.S., denies involvement in terrorist bombings of U.S. embassies
- Al Qaeda has strengthened its position in Libya since the overthrow of Moammar Gadhafi, says Nic Robertson
- Now al Qaeda will try to exploit the trial to convince Libyans that America is interfering in their country
(CNN) — Alleged al Qaeda operative Abu Anas al Libi, accused of playing a role in the deadly bombings of the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, denied terrorism charges when he appeared in federal court in New York Tuesday.
He told the judge he played no role in al Qaeda’s 1998 attacks.
We can expect the prosecution to lay out his alleged involvement in detail, provide evidence of his close ties to Osama Bin Laden, detail his computer skills and, crucially, present information about photographs of the U.S. embassy in Nairobi he is alleged to have taken before the attack.
What we won’t hear is how his trial may benefit al Qaeda today.
Libya has oil and is one of Africa’s richest nations. In the two years since dictator Moammar Gadhafi was overthrown, Al Qaeda and its Islamist allies have become stronger there.
U.S. Army Delta Force soldiers seized al Libi on October 5 from outside his house in the Libyan capital Tripoli.
His arrest was followed by the kidnapping and subsequent release of Libya’s Prime Minister Ali Zeidan — an incident he called an attempted coup. The country, according to the justice minister, is on the edge of becoming a failed state. There is no national army or police. Militias like the one that took the prime minister hold sway.
Who calls the shots?
Who has the real power? It appears that is being determined not through politics but by confrontation; and right now in some parts of the country the Islamists have a strong hand.
Al Libi’s trial in New York will influence events inside Libya and may provide ammunition to the Islamists.
Libya’s Justice Minister Salah Marghani says he trusts the U.S. justice system, that al Libi is innocent until proven guilty. But that’s the rub. Such a statement angers Libya’s Islamists, who are implacably hostile to the U.S. and will use the Libyan government’s relationship with Washington as a stick with which to beat it.
Most Libyans like the United States and are grateful to it and NATO for help in overthrowing Gadhafi. But in today’s increasingly lawless Libya, they are often powerless to speak up.
And what does that lawlessness in Libya look like?
I found out first hand a few days ago. Filming a huge fire at Libya’s foreign ministry, yards from my hotel, we were surrounded by thuggish vigilantes. The man with the longest beard, whom they called “Sheikh”, was in charge. They had no uniforms or IDs and tried to take us away, even wrestling the car keys from the ignition as we tried to drive away. For a while it felt like a kidnapping.
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Eventually an educated passer-by stepped in. A few hours later my camera was returned by the man I’d interviewed the night before. He controls Tripoli’s militias and freed the prime minister from his kidnapping just a few days earlier.
Within sight of my hotel we’d almost been hauled off and it was a militia, not the government, that had the power to save us. That same militia, I later learned, had a representative in an office at our hotel, a young man with a wispy beard called Sheikh Hamza, who kept a pump action shotgun under his desk.
So how does al Libi’s New York trial play in to this mess?
When al Libi was captured, al Qaeda threatened to kidnap Americans in Libya and target western interests. In the east of the country around Benghazi, where al Qaeda and the Islamists are strongest, and where U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens was killed last year, security for westerners has deteriorated.
In the past week the Swedish consulate in Benghazi has been attacked and Malta’s diplomat, one of the last in the city, has been forced to leave. Al Qaeda is doing everything it can to use al Libi’s case to leverage support. They will be watching his trial intently.
What do Libyans think about al Libi? Most Libyans I met can’t understand why America picked up al Libi when they did. They know just how fragile security is in the country and fear the repercussions. Most assume his arrest had more to do with U.S. politics than benefiting Libya.
They’ve heard what his family has said — that he was out of al Qaeda and living an open life in the capital. Short of evidence to contrary, they will believe that for now. They want him to get a fair trial. But if he is guilty they want him punished — and they certainly don’t want him back if he is still with al Qaeda. They fear the growth of the Islamist factions and frankly wish America would do more to help on that count.
What is Al Qaeda’s game plan?
Judging by past performance, al Qaeda will try to use al Libi’s trial to convince as many Libyans as possible that America is interfering in their country. Both al Libi’s son and Libya’s justice minister have said he should have a Libyan lawyer on his defense team. Such public pronouncements potentially set themselves up for failure that al Qaeda will gleefully exploit.
Al Qaeda and its supporters have been establishing training camps in the east of the country for the past two years. They want to turn Libya into an Islamic state and have threatened to destroy European and American interests in Libya as well as develop it as a base for terrorist attacks in Europe.
According to one official, such is al Qaeda’s ease of operations in eastern Libya, that hundreds of Islamists from neighboring north African nations are gravitating to the area.
Libya is unpredictable; anyone who tells you they know what will happen is wrong. The current trend is towards instability and ultimately a showdown between Islamists and more moderate factions. Al Libi’s capture has accelerated that process; his trial could bring it still closer.
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Kassel. Ein gewonnener Punkt für Fußball-Verbandsligist KSV Hessen Kassel II, zwei verlorene Punkte für den OSC Vellmar II. Nach einer 2:0-Führung für die Mannschaft von OSC-Trainer Rainer Rethemeier retteten die Junglöwen des Trainergespanns Sven Hoffmeister und Marco Althans beim 2:2 (0:1) im Derby in Unterzahl noch einen Zähler. Am Ende haderten die Klubs mit zwei unterschiedlichen Situationen, die aus ihrer Sicht spielentscheidend waren.
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Pokalspiele haben ihre eigenen Gesetzte. Das zeigte sich auch auf Kreis- ebene in der Hauptrunde im Wettbewerb um den Pokal des Landrats, in der es einige kleine Überraschungen gab. Halberstadt l Sieben Begegnungen mit höherklassigen Mannschaften des Harzkreises aus der Landesklasse und der Harzoberliga wurden am Sonnabend ausgetragen, zwei Spiele werden am 12. Oktober nachgeholt. Fünf der
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Suspect: LA dry ice blasts a ‘joke’
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- NEW: Police interview co-workers and arrest baggage handler Dicarlo Bennett, 28
- NEW: He was “playing around” when he allegedly detonated a dry ice bomb, police say
- NEW: “He thought it was funny,” police say, and “had no intent to attack innocent victims”
- NEW: He works with Servisair, officials say; deputy police chief says he’s jailed on $1 million bail
Los Angeles (CNN) — The man arrested in the dry ice explosions at Los Angeles International Airport is a baggage handler who thought the simple bombs were “a game” and “a funny kind of joke,” police said Wednesday.
The explosions didn’t cause any injuries, but one did cause a temporary shutdown of a terminal. Both explosions raise questions, however, about the airport’s vulnerability and security, authorities say.
“This guy was playing around. It was kind of a game to him. He thought it was funny. He had no intent to attack innocent victims. There was no political motive or agenda,” Los Angeles police Deputy Chief Michael Downing said.
“But I think he was surprised because now he is in jail on a million dollars bail. But this is serious. And when you place a destructive device near an airplane, it bumps up the seriousness,” Downing added.
“There was nothing to worry about in terms of safety at LAX. This was not a criminal enterprise. He thought it was a funny kind of joke. But we take it seriously. He was surprised when he got arrested,” Downing said. “I think he was kind of proud, thought it was funny.”
The arrest comes on the heels of two incidents at the airport on Sunday and Monday. The suspect, identified as Dicarlo Bennett, 28, was charged in the Sunday incident, according to a Los Angeles Police Department statement.
He was arrested after police interviewed his co-workers, Downing said.
LAX dry ice explosions ‘an internal job, maybe a labor dispute or prank’
Though he was arrested in connection with both incidents, charges have been filed for only one.
“We want to reassure the traveling public, visitors and employees that LAX is safe and secure,” Los Angeles Airport Police Chief Patrick Gannon said.
The suspect is being held in lieu of $1 million bail and faces a charge of possession of an explosive or destructive device near an aircraft.
Bennett is an employee of Servisair, a leading global provider of aviation ground services, the company said.
“We are aware of the arrest of Dicarlo Bennett as a suspect in the recent incidents at LAX,” the company said in a prepared statement. “We’re cooperating with authorities and will continue to monitor the situation closely. It is important at this early stage to allow law enforcement to continue their investigation, and we do not have any further comment at this time.”
The company provides aviation ground services at 118 locations worldwide, including 31 locations in the United States.
An employee badge is required to get access to where the dry ice explosions occurred, said Nancy Suey Castles, an airport spokeswoman.
On Sunday, dry ice in a plastic bottle exploded in an employee restroom, causing a brief shutdown of Terminal 2, the FBI said. No injuries were reported, and the terminal resumed operations after a brief evacuation.
The other incident occurred about 8:30 p.m. Monday at the Tom Bradley International Terminal, airport police said,
Three plastic bottles containing dry ice were found, but only one had exploded, police said.
CNN affiliate KCAL said the blast took place in an employee restroom, inaccessible to nonemployees. Nobody was injured in that incident.
Dry ice, which is carbon dioxide in solid form, is used as a refrigerant for meats and ice cream, especially when shipped in a box. When dry ice becomes warm, it transforms into vapor.
CNN’s Dave Alsup contributed from Atlanta.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Indonesian tycoon buys Inter Milan
Indonesian Erick Thohir takes over at Inter Milan
October 16, 2013 — Updated 0858 GMT (1658 HKT)
Inter Milan fans will see a foreign owner at the San Siro for the first time in the club’s history.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Inter Milan purchased by Indonesian billionaire Erick Thohir
- Thorir also owns stakes in the Philadelphia 69ers and soccer’s DC United
- Inter become just the second Italian team to come under foreign ownership
- A U.S. consortium purchased a controlling stake in Roma in 2011
(CNN) — One of European football’s grandest clubs has a new owner, with an Indonesian billionaire shaking up the established order in Italy’s Serie A.
Tycoon Erick Thohir is only the second foreign owner in the Italian first division after acquiring a 70% stake in three-time European champions Inter Milan.
He has added Inter to what is fast become a comprehensive sporting profile after becoming the first Asian to own a stake in an NBA team as part of a consortium which purchased the Philadelphia 76ers in 2011.
Sami Khedira gave Germany an early lead against the Republic of Ireland as they booked their passage to the 2014 World Cup finals. 
Romelu Lukaku scored both Belgium’s goals in the 2-1 away win over Croatia which ensured their qualification for Brazil 2014. 
Switzerland’s Michael Lang scored the crucial second goal in their 2-1 win in Albania to clinch qualification for football’s global showcase. 
Ukraine’s Andriy Yarmolenko celebrates his crucial goal as they beat Poland 1-0 in Kharkiv to keep alive their hopes of qualification from Group H. 
Wayne Rooney made the much needed breakthrough for England against Montenegro at Wembley as they remained top of Group H with a 4-1 victory. 
Alexander Samedov was on target for Russia as they boosted their qualification hopes with a 4-0 victory against minnows Luxembourg. 
Robin van Persie scored a hat-trick in an 8-1 thrashing of Hungary by his Dutch team who have topped Group D. German joy
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From Burundi to the big leagues Thohir is also one of three partners who own Washington’s Major League Soccer franchise DC United and has now followed in the footsteps of the American consortium, led by Thomas DiBenedetto, which broke new ground by purchasing Roma in 2011.
“Today is a truly special day in my life,” the 43-year-old Thohir said in a statement.
“I am an entrepreneur, but first of all I am a supporter and a sports lover. I cannot wait to put our passion and international experience at the service of this fantastic club and its supporters.”
Inter hope the ownership change will give the club “a global footprint.”
While a new phenomenon in Italy, foreign ownership is more prevalent in the rest of Europe.
The English Premier League has 11 foreign-owned clubs, including Americans in charge at Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool and Qatari money funding Manchester City’s continued growth.
Behold the “Zlatan burger”, a mountain of meat dedicated to Paris Saint-Germain’s star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The $41 monster is the brainchild of French cafe manager Jean-Philippe Grandin. 
The mercurial striker arrived at the Parc des Princes in 2012. His career has seen him play for some of Europe’s biggest clubs, including Ajax, Inter Milan and Barcelona, winning eight league titles in four different countries. 
PSG fanatic Grandin wanted a burger worthy of his team’s towering forward. It weighs over one kilogram, including a 600 gram burger, three different types of cheese and a custom-made bun. 
Ibrahimovic’s first season in Paris ended in glory. The Swede scored 30 league goals as PSG stormed to the French First Division title. 
As this picture shows “Le Zlatan” towers over other burgers on the menu at Doddy’s Cafe. “We have a lot of homemade burgers on the menu, I wanted to invent an extraordinary burger,” declared Grandin. ‘Le Zlatan’
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Qatar also has interests at the top of the French league, with reigning champions Paris Saint-Germain bankrolled by Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani.
PSG’s rivals Monaco are controlled by Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev.
Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Abdullah Al Ahmed Al Thani at Malaga is the only foreign owner in Spain’s top flight, while there is no overseas ownership in Germany’s Bundesliga.
However, there will still be an Italian influence in the corridors of power at Inter’s San Siro stadium with former president Massimo Moratti staying on as a member of the board.
“I think Inter’s history is going to be enriched by a new season thanks to our new international partners who, I am sure, will contribute to a continued string of successes,” said Moratti, who has seen the team win 23 trophies under his family’s stewardship.
“The new partners’ enthusiasm and pragmatism are certainly a guarantee for the future.”
The takeover reflects Asia’s growing influence in world football, particularly in Indonesia.
English clubs Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal all play matches in the country during preseason tours, while the Chinese Super League now boasts Italian World Cup winning coach Marcello Lippi, who is in place at Guangzhou Evergrande.
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France’s multicultural stars shone brightest at the World Cup 15 years ago — now could it be Belgium’s turn to do the same in Brazil next year?
Adnan Januzaj and Diego Costa have highlighted a major dilemma for international football, says CNN’s John Sinnott.
CNN’s Alex Thomas reports from FIFA HQ after the ruling body delayed its decision on the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
FIFA’s credibility rides on finding a solution to the Qatar World Cup controversy, says CNN’s Ben Wyatt.
October 2, 2013 — Updated 1534 GMT (2334 HKT)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic may have cost Paris Saint-Germain $30 million, but you can get your own chunk of the Swedish striker for just $41.
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Anton Hysen is a football player. He is also gay. “We can run, we can play, we can score. So what’s the problem?” he says.
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Did Chelsea make the wrong move in reappointing Jose Mourinho as manager? Or is it okay to get back with an ex?
Tottenham’s chairman played the European transfer market with all the strategic flair of a chess Grandmaster, says CNN’s Don Riddell.
When the English Premier League kicks off this weekend all eyes will be on Alex Ferguson’s successor, says CNN’s Ben Wyatt.
August 9, 2013 — Updated 1117 GMT (1917 HKT)
“We are women and we have to be proud of that,” Brazil star Marta tells CNN’s “An Uneven Playing Field” documentary.
CNN’s John Sinnott examines the complex relationship between football managers and their number twos.
July 4, 2013 — Updated 1326 GMT (2126 HKT)
Fast cars, fast women and fast on their way to court — it would seem some footballers are renowned for flouting the rules when it comes to the need to speed.
July 24, 2013 — Updated 1519 GMT (2319 HKT)
Brazil’s 3-0 win over Spain in the Confederations Cup final brought to an end an event that was designed as a test run for the 2014 World Cup hosts.
June 19, 2013 — Updated 1231 GMT (2031 HKT)
In Brazil many believe the World Cup has seen the rich line their pockets, while the poor make do with crumbling public services.
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