Tiger bomber blows up himself
Colombo – February 29, 2008 – A suspected LTTE suicide bomber blew himself up when a police team on a cordon and search operation knocked on his door in a lodge at Modara in a Tamil residential area on Friday, defenfce officials said. At least seven people, including three police-women, a policeman and three civilians were injured in the explosion.
Fazeena Saleem
The Asian Age – March 1, 2008.
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Spanish PM office damaged in blast
Bilbao (Spain) – A bomb damaged an office of Spanish Prime Minister’s Socialist Party in Basque town of Derioi. An anonymous caller, speaking in the name of ETA, warned an emergency service that the bomb would explode, giving police time to evacuate the area. The bomb caused damage to the building.
Fazeena Saleem
The Asian Age – March 1, 2008.
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Roadside blast kills 3 cops in NWFP
Peshawar – A roadside bomb planted by suspected militants blew up a police vehicle in north-western Pakistan on Friday, killing three policemen, in Lakki Marwat town bordering North Waziristan tribal district. Three policemen were also wounded.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – March 1, 2008.
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27 killed in suicide blast in NW Pak
Islamabad – At least 27 people were killed and nearly 40 injured in a suicide attack during the funeral prayers of a police officer in northwestern Pakistan on Friday. The bomber blew himself in the midst of a large number of people attending the funeral prayer.
PTI
The Indian Express – March 1, 2008.
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‘Pak enters into secret deal with militants’
London – March 1, 2008 – Pakistan has entered into a secret peace deal with militants in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, a report said on Sunday. The deal was agreed between the government and more than 280 tribal elders and militants in North Waziristan in February, the Daily Telegraph reported, quoting a government officials in Pehsawar.
(PTI)
The Asian Age – March 2, 2008.
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11 injured in suicide blast in Pak
Islamabad – At least 11 people were injured on Saturday when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a security check post in Pakistan’s tribal belt bordering Afghanistan
(PTI)
The Asian Age – March 2, 2008.
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Bomb kills 3 Afghan civilians
Kabul – A roadside bomb struck a tractor in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing three people, and wounding seven others, an official said. A woman and 7-year-old child were among those killed.
(AP)
The Asian Age – March 2, 2008.
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Five killed in Iraq road blast
Baquba – Five people were killed and four wounded when a roadside bomb ripped into a passing minibus in Iraq’s troubled Diyala province on Sunday, the police said. Separately, a police officer was killed in a roadside bomb attack while on patrol in Buhruz region, south of Baquba.
Hindustan Times – March 3, 2008
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Blast at Pak tribal meet claims 40
Peshawar – March 2, 2008 – A suicide bomber blew himself up at a peacemaking meeting of tribal elders in North-western Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 40 people and injuring more than 100, witnesses and officials said. Alam Khan, a tribesman said a young man walked up to a group of elders and blew himself up.
AP
Hindustan Times – March 3, 2008.
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Militants Strike Again in Port-Harcourt, Raze Police Station
Vanguard (Lagos), By George Onah, Port Harcourt
Militants struck again, yesterday, in Bonny Island of Rivers State when they invaded the Marine Police Station and razed a part of the station during an early morning attack.
Email dated 3.3.3008 from Mr. Mayer Nudell.
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Blasts in Lahore claim four lives
Lahore – March 4, 2008 – A suicide attack at a naval college killed four people and injured another 14 on Thursday, officials said. The attack occurred when two bombers rode up to the gate of the parking lot at the Pakistan Navy War College on a motorcycle.
AP
Hindustan Times – March 5, 2008.
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Militants attack 3rd mobile telecom signal tower in S. Afghanistan
KABUL, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Taliban militants attacked a signal tower of a mobile telecommunication service company in Zabul province of southern Afghanistan, destroying a guards room near the tower, the police said Thursday. It is the third time over the past two weeks that the anti-government insurgents have attacked mobile phone towers in south Afghanistan since giving ultimatum to shut down signaling during nighttime.
Email dated 7.3.2008 from Mr. Mayer Nudell, CSC, USA.
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Times Square blast creates panic in NY
New York – A “low-order” explosive device went off in Times Square here on Thursday morning, damaging an empty military-recruiting station and shaking guests in hotel rooms high above. There were no reports of injuries. The White House said the explosion “doesn’t appear to be terrorism.”
Agencies
The Times of India – March 7, 2008.
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Militants’ grenade kills 3 in Kashmir
Srinagar – March 7, 2008 – Suspected militants tossed a handgrenade in a village house at Sonitopo in remote Arnas area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district late Thursday night, killing a man and his two grand-daughters and wounding five other members of the family.
Special Correspondent
The Asian Age – March 8, 2008.
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Pak soldier dies in blast
Quetta – A Pakistani soldier was killed and two others were wounded when a landmine blew up their vehicle in the south-western province of Baluchistan early on Thursday, officials said. The blast happened near a gas field in Nasirabad district of the region, a security official said.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – March 7, 2008.
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Crew foils terror attack aboard flight in China
Beijing – March 9, 2008 – A China Southern flight was forced to make an emergency landing last week after an attempt to “cause an air disaster”, the governor of China’s restive northwestern region of Xinjiang said on Sunday. It landed in the northwestern city of Lanzhou on Friday after the crew discovered and foiled the attempt to “cause an air disaster,” XinjiangGovernor Nuer Baikeli told reporters.
Reuters
Hindustan Times – March 10, 2008.
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Al-Qaeda Group Says It Kidnapped Austrian Tourists in Tunisia
By Ed Johnson
March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Al-Qaeda's North African wing said it had kidnapped two Austrian tourists in Tunisia and threatened to attack Westerners visiting the country to avenge the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza. The group threatened tourists who visit Tunisia “seeking enjoyment at a time when our brothers are being slaughtered in Gaza by the Jews with the complicity of the Western states,'' according to SITE.
Email dated 12.3.3008 from Mayer Nudell, CSC, USA
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Suicide bomber kills 5 US soldiers in Iraq
Baghdad – A suicide bomber blew himself up among American soldiers in central Baghdad on Monday, killing five and wounding three in the Iraqi capital. The US military said in a statement the blast hit the soldiers while they were on patrol on foot.
Hindustan Times – March 11,2008.
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Iraq bus bomb kills 16, clashes claim 14
Baghdad – At least 16 civilians were killed and 22 wounded when their passenger bus was hit by a roadside bomb in southern Iraq on Tuesday, the police said. Elsewhere 14 people were killed in clashes between militants and security forces.
Hindustan Times – March 12, 2008
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Lahore blast claims 25 lives
Karachi – March 11, 2008 – Over 25 people were killed in twin suicide bomb attacks in Lahore, most of them policemen belonging to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). As many as 200 persons were injured in the attacks. A suicide bomber is believed to have caused the first blast. The second blast was also caused by a suicide car bomber hit an advertising agency, killing another four people, the police said.
Kamal Siddiqi
Hindustan Times – March 12, 2008.
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2 Bangla terrorists killed in
Mumbai – In its first encounter this year, the anti-terrorism squad (ATS) intercepted and killed two alleged Bangladeshi terrorists in Kashimira in Thane district on Tuesday, who were carrying firearms, Rs.2 lakhs fake currency and a power-like substance suspected to be RDX. The ATS has also seized a passport form the encounter site.
Times News Network
The Times of India – March 12, 2008
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One killed 15 injured in Assam blast
Guwahati – One person was killed and 16 others injured inn a bomb blast at Doomdooma area in Tinsukia district on Tuesday. SP Tinsukia said a bomb kept in a rickshaw went off at the Daily Bazar area, killing the rickshaw puller and injuring others.
Hindustan Times – March 12, 2008.
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Taliban blasts cell phone mast
Heart (Afghanistan) – Taliban militants have destroyed another cell phone mast in Afghanistan, the police said on Wednesday. Phone users reported interrupted services in some areas. Seven Taliban activists used explosives to destroy a fuel tanker for the generators and also hit the antenna with a rocket-propelled grenade.
AFP
The Hindu – March 13, 2008.
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Car bomb claims 18 lives in Iraq
Baghdad – A bomber detonated his explosives-laden car in central Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 18 people. The bomber blew up his BMW car in the Iraqi capital’s Bab al-Sharji area in the afternoon, security officials said.
Hindustan Times – March 14, 2008.
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2 killed, 15 injured in Pakistan blast
Islamabad – A blast at an Italian restaurant in the Pakistani capital on Saturday killed two persons and injured 15, said Geo T.V. The explosion occurred around 8.40 P.M. when the restaurant was crowded with American and Chinese citizens.
Hindustan Times – March 16, 2008.
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Lt. Colonel, jawan killed in J-K gunbattle
Srinagar – A Lieutenant Colonel and a jawan were killed and three others injured in a gunbattle with militants in Jammu and Kashmir. The gunbattle took place during a routine operation in Dangiwacha area of Baramulla district, sources said.
Hindustan Times – March 17, 2008.
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Missile strike in Pak tribal area leaves 20 dead
Islamabad – At least 20 people were killed and several others injured on Sunday in a missile strike on a home in Pakistan’s restive South Waziristan tribal area. At least seven missiles hit the residential compound at Shahnawaz Kot village, two kms from Wana, the headquarters of south Waziristan.
PTI
The Times of India – March 17, 2008.
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Attempt on Putin’s life
Moscow – March 16, 2008 – Russian security forces filed an attempt to murder President Putin and president-elect Dmitri Medvedev when both attended an election night rock concert on Red Square, a Russian newspaper has reported. On election night, Russian security agents stormed a downtown Moscow apartment building, with a view on Red Square, where they seized “an arsenal of weapons” and arrested a 24-year-old man from former Soviet Central Asia, three hours before Putin and Medvedev appeared together on an open stage on Red Square.
Fred Weir
Hindustan Times – March 17, 2008.
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Suicide attack kills 36 in Iraq
Karbala – A suicide attack near a Shiite shrine killed at least 36 persons in the central Iraqi city of Karbala, a health official told AFP. The attack came as US Vice-President Dick Cheney arrived in Baghdad on a surprise visit and met several US and Iraqi leaders to discuss recent improvements in security across the country. At least 50 people were wounded in the blast which occurred near the revered Imam Hussein shrine.
AFP
The Hindu – March 18, 2008.
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Seven killed in car attack in Afghanistan
Kandahar – A suicide car bomber attacked a group of international troops in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing three NATO soldiers and four Afghans, the police said.
Agencies
Hindustan Times – March 18, 2008.
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Karbala suicide bomber kills 52
Baghdad – A female suicide bomber struck Shia worshippers in the holy city of Karbala, killing at least 52 people, an official said. The blast on Monday was the deadliest in a series of attacks that left at least 78 Iraqis dead. Two US soldiers were also killed in a roadside bombing north of Baghdad.
Hindustan Times – March 19, 2008.
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BKI men arrested
New Delhi – March 20, 2008 – The Delhi police claimed to have arrested two Babbar Khalsa Internationa (BKI) terrorists from Jallandhar on Wednesday, who wanted to ”revive militancy in Punab by killing a few religious leaders.” The Special Cell police said the miliitants were carrying two firearms that were made in Pakistan, which clearly indicates that Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) was facilitating attempt to create unrest in India. Both of them had been abscondng for more than two months. They revealed in their interrogation that the ISI and the BKI have made substantial inroads in Punjab and are setting up infrastructure to spread terror in the state, said an officer.
Ravi Bajpai
Hindustan Times – March 21, 2008.
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Militants overrun govt bases, 7 killed
Mogadishu – March 20, 2008 – Somali insurgents briefly overran two government bases on Thursday after hours of fighting and killed at least seven people, witnesses said. “Insurgents were firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, and the soldiers were using mortars and heavy artillery,” said a resident of Mogadishu. In recent weeks, the insurgents have taken over government positions, marched into towns and even released prisoners from jail before retreating.
(AP)
The Asian Age – March 21, 2008.
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Bloodshed in J&K again: 5 securitymen, 1 terrorist die
Srinagar – Five security personnel and a terrorist were killed in an encounter on Sunday, which took place after police raided a terrorist hideout at Telbal on the banks of the Dal Lake following specific information about the presence of terrorists. “When asked to surrender, two terrorists fired, killed four policemen,” a police spokesman said. He added, LeT’s divisional commander, Faisal, a Pakistani national, was shot dead in the encounter, while his injured associate managed to escape.
Times News Network
The Times of India – March 24, 2008.
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47 killed in Iraq Bloodshed
Baghdad – March 23, 2008 – A wave of attacks across Iran on Sunday killed 47 people. Insurgents fired a barrage of mortars at Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone on Sunday, sending US embassy staff scurrying into bunkers. The deadliest attack was in the main northern city of Mosul where a suicide bomber crashed an explosives-laden truck into an Iraqi Army base, triggering a blast that killed 10 soldiers and wounded 30 other people, an army officer said. In a brutal attack in the south of Baghdad, armed men travelling in three cars opened fire on crowds in a local market in the mixed Zafaraniyah neighbourhood, killing seven people and wounding 16. In another attack in the Iraqi capital, a Katyusha rocket struck a residential building in largely Shia eastern Al-Kamaliyah neighbourhood, killing at least five people and wounding eight. A car bomb near a bus stop in Baghdad’s Shiv Al-Shuala neighbourhood killed five people and wounded eight others. A roadside bomb near the town of Al-Tuz, 75 km south of Kirkuk, killed four Iraqi Army personnel.
Salam Faraj
The Asian Age – March 24, 2008.
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ETA bombs police barracks in northern Spain: authorities
CALAHORRA, Spain (AFP) — A car bomb exploded Friday at a police barrack in northern Spain's Rioja region following a warning from the Basque separatist organisation ETA, injuring one person, authorities said. ETA's last deadly attack was the assassination of a local councillor in the Basque town of Mondragon on March 7, two days before the general elections. The group had called on Basques to boycott the elections. It had officially called off its ceasefire in June 2007 and since then Spanish authorities have adopted a hard line against it, arresting dozens of members of both ETA and its banned political wing, Batasuna. Analysts say the group has been considerably weakened and isolated by the crackdown, but may be all the more dangerous because of that.
Email dated 22.3.2008 from Mr. Mayer Nudell, CSC, USA.
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3 killed as militants strike at rail station
Guwahati – Militants of Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel faction) gunned down three persons, including two employees of the Northeast Frontier Railway at the Harangajao station in southern Assam’s North Cachar Hills district on Monday night. A passenger and a vendor were injured in the attack. The police recovered grenade shells, 80 empty cases of AK assault rifle ammunition and a bomb from the spot.
Special Correspondent
The Hindu – March 26, 2008.
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Top SIMI leadership in cop net
Indore/New Delhi – March 27, 2008 – In one of the biggest terrorist catches in recent times, the Indore Police in a pre-dawn operation on Thursday picked up almost the entire leadership of the banned Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) from a Indore hideout. Those arrested included Safdar Nagori, SIMI’s national general secretary and one of India’s most wanted terror masterminds who is believed to have planned the July 2006 Mumbai train blasts that killed 187 people. Twelve of his men, including chiefs of several state units, were also arrested.
Hindustan Times – March 28, 2008.
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2 bomb explosions in Spain, none hurt
Madrid – March 30, 2008 – Two small bombs exploded on Sunday near the town of Azpeitia in Spain’s northern Basque region, causing minor damage near a television transmitter, regional police said. No injuries were reported. A telephone warning claiming to come from the Basque separatist group ETA was received at 11.00 am by a road emergency service saying an explosive device had been placed near the transmitter.
Harold Heckle/(AP)
The Asian Age – March 31, 2008.
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Food for Thought
The roots of the true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
- Harold Taylor
All achievement is the triumph of experience.
- John Rennie
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
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