Paul R. Hall, who has apparently changed his name to Hassan Abu-Jihaad, was arrested in Phoenix in 2007 and charged with terrorism- and espionage-related crimes. Hall/Abu-Jihaad was convicted a year ago, but in early March a judge dropped the terrorism charge, delaying his sentencing.Hall was a bona fide rat in the grain house -- the kind of spy Americans can only hope rank in small numbers. While serving on the U.S.S. Benfold in 2000, the former sailor e-mailed detailed instructions on how jihadists could launch an attack similar to the one of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen. At the other end of the e-mails was Ahmad Babar, a Pakistani man who moved to London in the 1960s and has a master's degree in engineering. Babar, who ran Web sites for an Al-Qaeda propaganda group, was supposedly in on the scheme to use the the details for an actual attack. He's fighting extradition to the United States.

Basma Awad al-Nabari, from the Beduin town of Hura, near Beersheba, arrived at the base's entrance around 1:45 p.m. Saturday, carrying a black backpack and concealing an FN Herstal handgun. The base guard asked the girl what she was doing at the base. She then pulled out the gun and attempted to open fire. The base guard pushed the weapon away, but she managed to fire several shots before seeking cover under a nearby fence.
Speaking in Arabic, the base guard attempted to talk the girl into surrendering and promised her safety, but got no response. After a call for back up was issued, the guard's commanding officer, Ch.-Insp. Ophir Yabarkan arrived on the scene and spotted the girl crouching and firing at the base. Yabarkan proceeded to shoot and kill her. A police bomb squad, assisted by a robot, searched her corpse for explosives, while police officers backed by a helicopter scanned the area for further attackers. The Border Police's response to the attack was praised by Israel Police Insp.-Gen. David Cohen and Border Police head Cmdr. Yisrael Yitzhak, both of whom arrived at the scene. A police source told The Jerusalem Post on Saturday that a search of the girl's "personal equipment" recovered evidence "showing that this is a terror attack. We are checking the possibility that she had collaborators, and that someone may have driven her to the scene of the attack."
"According to what we have found, this was a well-planned attack. The gun was carefully concealed. A big attack was averted here," the source added. The investigation is being led by the Negev Police's Central Unit and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency).
The source said the Nabari clan was "notorious" to police due to a string of previous offenses, including an arson attack on a plot of land owned by the Jewish National Fund near Hura, and an assault "in broad daylight" on a JNF employee. The clan was also involved in illegal construction on JNF land, the police source said. Beduin in the South were being incited to jihad and racist violence, the source said. "Most Beduin have relatives in Gaza, the family connections are well known. But we don't expect an Israeli citizen to carry out such an attack. We don't seek to blame an entire community, but this population is being exposed to incitement." Police have kept a watchful eye on attempts by Palestinian and global al-Qaida terrorist elements to infiltrate the Beduin community, arresting two men from Rahat last May for plotting terrorist attacks via the Internet with al-Qaida members overseas and choosing civilian and military sites as targets.
The men were charged with membership in a terrorist organization, aiding the enemy during a time of war and transferring information to the enemy with intent to harm national security. Elsewhere Saturday, IDF soldiers from the Golani Brigade fired at a cell of Palestinian terrorists who were attempting to plant explosive devices on the border with Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Two of the terrorists were killed in the gunfire, the army said. One was identified as Jamil Kouffa of Global Islamic Jihad. Kouffa had been involved in previous attempts to place explosives on the border, including some that killed IDF soldiers. According to Palestinian sources, a small number of IDF troops entered northern Gaza and fired several times. The soldiers recovered a bomb the terrorists had attempted to plant. Teenage Bedouin girl opened fire Saturday afternoon on Border Guard officers stationed at the Shoket Junction in southern Israel.
At around 2 pm the assailant, later identified as 16-year-old Basma Awad al-Nabari from the Bedouin village of Hura, arrived at the entrance to the base and began to fire a handgun. The guard at the entrance averted her arm, and she fired into the air before taking cover near the guard's post. A Border Guard officer who arrived at the scene shot and killed her, according to police.Police said the attack was nationalistically-motivated and that the teenager acted alone, adding that officers were searching her home for any evidence that may shed light on the incident. Hura Council Head Mohamed al-Nabari dismissed the police's claim that the attack was nationalistically-motivated, and said residents of the village were shocked upon receiving word of the incident. "The girl came from a stable family and was an outstanding and responsible student at the local high school," he said, "I don’t understand what happened."

Murder of Sulim B. Yamadayev, a former Chechen general, had been planned by a member of Russia’s lower house of Parliament who is awell-known ally of the Chechen president. At a news conference, Dubai’s chief of police, Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan bin Tamim, said that he would ask Interpol to arrest the member of Parliament, Adam S. Delimkhanov, and that it was “Russia’s responsibility in front of the world to control these killers from Chechnya.”General Tamim’s allegation was striking because Mr. Delimkhanov is so close to Ramzan A. Kadyrov, Chechnya’s Kremlin-backed president. Mr. Yamadayev, who was shot in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, on March 31, was the latest in a series of Chechen figures to be killed after challenging Mr. Kadyrov.Though the recent murders of Chechen dissidents have attracted wide attention, investigators had identified only low-level suspects — until Sunday, said Grigory Shvedov, the editor of the Web-based news service Caucasian Knot.
“Those were people no one knew,” Mr. Shvedov said of the suspects. “Today, we are talking about a person who is very well known, with a key position in the regional government and a very high position on the federal level.”A person in the Russian prosecutor general’s office told the Interfax news agency that Mr. Delimkhanov could not be extradited under Russian law, but that prosecutors would consider pressing charges if they saw convincing evidence.

Mr. Delimkhanov vigorously denied the accusation, saying it was “a provocation and an attempt to destabilize conditions in the Chechen Republic.”

“I am a politician who has dedicated most of my life to the war against terrorism, and even in this case I am ready to help any justice system, among them Dubai’s,” Mr. Delimkhanov said in a statement released by his spokesman. He also criticized the United Arab Emirates for giving an entry visa to Mr. Yamadayev, “a criminal who ran from the judicial system in his own country.”“As regards the dead man, he had enemies all around the world,” the statement said. Authorities in Dubai released new details about the murder.General Tamim said the killer had surprised Mr. Yamadayev outside the Jumeirah Beach apartment complex and shot him in the head, then threw away the weapon not far from the crime scene. He said the weapon resembled guns carried by Mr. Delimkhanov’s bodyguards, and that a witness in police custody had said the weapon was given to assassins hired to kill Mr. Yamadayev.
The general was scathing about the spillover of violence outside Russia’s borders.“Russia must take a strong and powerful step to stop this, to make sure that Chechen dirty payback doesn’t spread outside,” General Tamim said. “We will give Russian authorities the case file. It is up to Russia whether or not to hand” Mr. Delimkhanov to authorities in Dubai, he said. The police arrested two suspects, an Iranian and a Tajik, shortly after the murder, and four other suspects were in Russia, General Tamim said.Mr. Delimkhanov, 39, rose under Mr. Kadyrov to become a top Chechen official. After heading the police division that protected Chechen oil facilities, he was appointed deputy prime minister overseeing security forces in 2006. The next year he was appointed to the Russian Parliament as a representative of United Russia, the party headed by Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin. A spokesman for Mr. Delimkhanov described him as “a friend” of the Chechen president.
His name arose in written legal complaints by a Chechen exile, Umar S. Israilov, who was shot to death in Vienna in January. Mr. Israilov described a scene in which Mr. Delimkhanov beat him with a shovel handle in Mr. Kadyrov’s presence. Mr. Delimkhanov declined requests for comment on the allegation.