VERO BEACH, Florida — An American suicide bomber who a militant group said detonated 16 tons of explosives at a mountaintop restaurant in Syria last week was remembered in the suburban Florida subdivision where he grew up for a single thing: his love of basketball. The bomber, Moner Mohammad Abusalha, grew up in Lakes at Sandridge, a gated community in Vero Beach, a city about 140 miles north of Miami. He attended local schools and played for a traveling youth basketball team, neighbors said Saturday. Read more here.
TRANS-NATIONAL CRIME AND TERRORISM 