Car bomb kills 2 near Iran embassy
Baghdad – June 1, 2008 – A police official said at least two civilians were killed and five wounded when a car bomb exploded near the Iranian Embassy. The bombing underscores military warnings that insurgents remain a dangerous threat despite recent security gains that have pushed the number of Iraqi civilian casualties to their lowest level.
AP
The Asian Age – June 2, 2008.
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Suicide blast kills eight – Car bomb blows up outside Danish embassy in Islamabad
Karachi – June 2, 2008 – Eight people were killed and about 25 seriously wounded when a high-intensity car bomb exploded outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad on Monday afternoon. Some eyewitnesses say the blast occurred in a car that was parked within the embassy grounds. The embassies of Denmark and Norway were under threat following the publication of cartoon that many Muslims found offensive.
Kamal Siddiqi & Agencies
Hindustan Times – June 3, 2008.
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Colombo rail blast injures 18 people
Colombo – The Sri Lankan capital was rocked by an explosion along the Galle railway station on Wednesday even as the Air Force claimed to have bombed three “key positions” of the LTTE in Killinochchi. The police said a suspected LTTE cadre detonated an improvised explosive device (IED), “slightly damaging” the track between Wellawata and Dehiwala. Eighteen civilians were injured.
Muralidhar Reddy
The Hindu – June 5, 2008.
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6 injured in Colombo train explosion
Colombo – At least six people were wounded on Wednesday in a bomb attack on a packed train just outside Sri Lanka’s capital, officials said. The bomb exploded between Colombo Wellawattre and Dehiwela area.
Hindustan Times – June 5, 2008.
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Al-Qaeda urges Palestinians to carry out more attacks on Israel
Dubai – In an Internet audio message, Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri urged Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip to escalate attacks on Israel over its crippling siege of the territory. “To those who try to make you despair, tell them….America is being defeated by our brothers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why should we despair?” said Zawahiri.
AFP
The Hindu – June 6, 2008.
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Algeria: Soldiers killed in bomb attack
Algiers, 6 June (AKI) - At least six Algerian soldiers were killed and four others injured in a bomb attack in the coastal village of Cap Djinet, east of the capital Algiers. Reports say that local authorities have blamed al-Qaeda's north African wing, the Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, for the incident which took place on Thursday. The soldiers were returning to their barracks when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb. The attack occurred just two days after a suicide bomber blew himself up in front of an army barrack in Burj al-Kiffan, on the outskirts of Algiers, killing one person and injuring six others.
Email dated 7.6.2008 from Mr. Mayer Nudell, USA.
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Two bus blasts kill 23 in Lanka
Colombo – June 6, 2008 – Suspected LTTE terrorists struck twice on Friday, targeting public transport buses, which left at least 23 dead and 75 injured. At 7.35 a.m., an exploding mine killed 21 people and injured more than 60 in a bus in the Katubedda area, about 12 kms from Colombo. Around 4.10 p.m., a second bomb went off inside another bus near the Mahaweli National College of Education kin Kandy, 100 kms from the capital.
Sutirtho Patnanobis
Hindustan Times – June 7, 2008.
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Pro-Khalistan slogans raised
Chandigarh – June 6, 2008 – Nearly a quarter century after Indian army troops killed the Sikh separatist leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and scores of his heavily armed followers, inside the holy precincts of Amritsar’s Golden Temple, a handful of radicals continuing to cling to the radical ideology, carrying unleashed swords, raised the almost customary slogans to mark the 24th anniversary of his death. They held the annual function to commemorate Operation Bluestar inside the Golden Temple Complex on Friday morning.
Asit Jolly
The Asian Age – June 7, 2008.
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5 killed in NWFP blast
Peshawar – June 7, 2008 – Five people including three policemen were killed when a bomb apparently targeting a police party exploded in northwestern Pakistan, the police said on Saturday. The remote-controlled device, planted on a bicycle detonated on Friday in Dera Ismail Khan town.
AFP
The Asian Age – June 8, 2008.
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Wave of bomb attacks kills 12
Baghdad – June 8, 208 – A wave of bomb and mortar attacks, including a strike on Baghdad’s heavily fortified government and embassy compound, killed at least 12 people in Iraq on Sunday, officials said. At least four civilians were killed and 23 wounded in the deadliest attack at a police centre in the Al-Yarmuk district of west Baghdad. Another three people were killed and seven wounded today in a mortar attack on the Green Zone, which houses the US embassy as well as Iraqi government offices.
Agence Ferance-Presse
The Statesman – June 9, 2008.
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BBC scribe killed in Afghanistan
Kabul – June 8, 2008 – An Afghan journalist working for the BBC was found dead today, a day after gunmen abducted him in the volatile southern province of Helmand, an Afghan media union said.
AFP
The Statesman – June 9, 2008.
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No letup in ISI ops: report
New Delhi – An internal 68-page document of the government, meant for restricted circulation, has painted a worrying security scenario with no let up in threats to India expected till at least 2025. It warns not only against ISI’s plans to keep terrorism in Kashmir alive and stoke fundamentalism but also against the increasing belligerence of leftwing extremists. Despite recent efforts at peace, there is no change in ISI’s objectives, which include the “liberation” of Kashmir, revival of militancy in Punjab; use of Bihar-Nepal border for smuggling arms, explosives and fake currency; cooperation with ULFA; control of insurgent networks from Bangladesh and using certain madrasas in border states like West Bengal. The overview of internal security challenges in “perspective plan of training in CRPF” provides a hard-headed analysis of the emerging challenges to the security establishment. It argues that big changes in demographics in terms of an illegal influx from Bangladesh cannot be ignored. The document speaks of the continuing influence of two major covert operations – operation Topac and Operation Pin code – launched by ISI to destabilize India which the Pakistani establishment still holds valid.
Vishwa Mohan/TNN
The Times of India – June 9, 2008.
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Five BRO workers killed in ambush in Jammu
Jammu – June 13, 2008 – Armed militants believed to be of the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba killed five officials of the Border Road Organization in Sinthan Top in Kishtwar district, Jammu, on Friday. A team of officials associated with the BRO’s Project Beacon was returning after a road inspection when they were ambushed and all the five officers were killed in the ambush.
Zorawar Singh Jamwal
Hindustan Times – June 14, 2008.
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Maoists’ new blueprint to terror
Raipur – Emboldened by an effete administration and their own increased firepower for a war of attrition against the Indian state, Maoist rebels are now beginning to show flexibility in strategy – from striking against police and paramilitary forces in dense forests, they are now targeting infrastructure around urban areas to cripple Chhattisgarh’s economy. In May last year, the Maoists struck vital power infrastructure in the state’s tribal region of Bastar for the first time that left it in darkness for a fortnight. This year too, the red brigade has struck in the same manner, blasting high tension power transmission towers and uprooting poles, causing losses worth crores of rupees to the state government. Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board (CSEB), whose towers and transmission lines have been targeted by the Maoists, maintains that it is losing around Rs.2 crore a week because of power failures, apart from other costs involved in restoring towers and transmission lines. The Director of Institute of Conflict Management, New Delhi, said, “The Maoists’ real aim is to carry out such operations nearer India’s economic and political hubs – like Mumbai and Delhi – to spread panic and create an impression of lawlessness and anarchy.”
Amitabh Tiwari/TNN
Sunday Times of India – June 15, 2008.
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Taliban storm jail in Kandahar, free 1,100
Kandahar – June 14, 2008 – Taliban militants attacked the main prison in southern Afghanistan late on Friday, blowing up the gate and helping over 1,100 prisoners flee, officials said. Many police officers were reported killed. A Taliban spokesperson said 30 insurgents on motorbikes and two suicide bombers attacked Sarposa Prison and freed about 400 Taliban members.
Sunday Hindustan Times – June 15, 2008.
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Blasts in Srinagar
Srinagar – June 14, 2008 – Three grenade blasts rocked Srinagar on Saturday, injuring a CRPF head constable and two civilians. One grenade exploded near the civil secretariat. In another incident, militants hurled a hand grenade towards an under construction house, housing a platoon of 158 battalion CRPF at Botshah Mohallah Lal Bazar in the city, but the grenade missed its target, the police said. The militants threw another hand grenade at Firdous.
Rashid Ahmad
Sunday Hindustan Times – June 15, 2008.
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Iran says gunmen kidnap 16 police officers
Tehran - June 14 (Reuters) - Armed bandits kidnapped 16 Iranian police and took them to Pakistan, an Iranian news agency reported on Saturday. Iranian media said they attacked a police station on Friday in the border town of Saravan in the volatile province of Sistan-Baluchestan, notorious for frequent clashes between security forces and drug smugglers.
Email dated June 15, 2008 from Mr. Mayer Nudell, USA.
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Kurdish rebels escalate bomb attacks in southeast Turkey
The Associated Press
Saturday, June 14, 2008
ANKARA, Turkey: Kurdish rebels detonated three remote-controlled bombs on Saturday in southeast Turkey, wounding three soldiers in an attack against a military vehicle and damaging a freight train in a separate assault, authorities said. The escalation attacks followed a rebel rocket attack on an apartment building housing police families in Yuksekova the region that wounded five people late Friday.
International Herald Tribune
Email dated June 15, 2008 from Mr. Mayer Nudell, USA.
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Afghan cop killed in bomb blast
Kandahar – A police chief was killed and a governor injured in a bomb blast in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, the police said on Sunday. The officials were preparing for the religious ritual ablution on a river bank when the bomb exploded in Marja district on Saturday.
AFP
The Asian Age – June 16, 2008.
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Suicide blast kills 12 Lanka cops
Colombo – June 16, 2008 – A suspected LTTE suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up in front of heavily guarded police complex in the strategically located Vavuniya town about 250 kms north of Colombo on Monday morning, killing 12 police personnel and inuring more than 20.
Sutirtho Patranobis
Hindustan Times – June 17, 2008.
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Taliban fighters take over villages outside Kandahar
Islamabad – June 17, 2008 – Hundreds of Taliban fighters have swarmed into a strategically important district just outside Kandahar in Afghanistan, in an apparent push for control just days after 400 Taliban members escaped in a spectacular breakout from the Kandahar prison, officials said on Monday.
Caarlotta Gall/The New York Times
Hindustan Times – June 18, 2008.
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Lanka kills 11 Tigers after blast
Colombo – Security forces shot dead at least 11 Tamil Tiger rebels in northern Sri Lanka shortly after the guerrillas staged a suicide bombing against police, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. Troops in Mannar district attacked three bunkers of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on Monday, killing at least 11 and wounding two more, said the ministry, which put its losses at two soldiers. A Tiger suicide bomber hit a police complex in Kvavuniya district and killed 12 police.
AFP
The Asian Age – June 18, 2008.
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Baghdad Bombing Death Toll Mounts to 63
The death toll from a devastating truck bombing in Baghdad rose to 63 on Wednesday and US forces blamed a rogue Shia militia for the attack. Another 75 people were hurt in the deadliest bombing in the Iraqi capital for three months.
Hindustan Times – June 19, 2008.
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Italy nabs 33 Tamils for suspected LTTE links
Rome – Italian police on Wednesday arrested 33 Sri Lankan Tamils charged with belonging to the LTTE, an official said. Twenty-eight were held in a series of raids on the mainland, suspected of being members of the LTTE and of providing funding, and five other Tamils were detained by authorities in Palermo, Sicily, also on suspicion of belonging to LTTE.
Hindustan Times – June 19, 2008.
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Woman bomber kills 15 in Baghdad
Baghdad – A female suicide bomber struck near a government compound northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 35, the police said. The bomber detonated her explosives in front of a heavily guarded area that includes the court house, the post office and the government’s offices in the city.
Hindustan Times – June 23, 2008.
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4 LeT militants, jawan killed in J&K encounters
Srinagar – Four Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists and a Central Reserve Police Force jawan were killed and three security men injured in two encounters in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday. Two LeT terrorists and the CRPF jawan were killed and two policemen and a CRPF jawan injured in a five-hour-long gunbattle in Chaterhama-Burzahama area on the Srinagar-Ganderbal road, the police said. Two LeT terrorists were killed in a separate encounter at Narwan Sadhav forest area in South Kashmir’s Shopian district.
TNN
The Times of India – June 23, 2008.
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Chinese govt demolishes mosque over Olympic row
Beijing – Chinese authorities in Xinjiang have demolished a mosque for refusing to put up signs in support of this August’s Beijing Olympics, an exiled group said on Monday. The mosque was in Kalpin country near Aksu city in Xinjiang’s rugged southwest, the World Uyghur Congress said. “China is forcing mosques in East Turkistan to publicise the Beijing Olympics to get the Ulghur people to support the Games (but) this has been resisted by the Ulghurs,” World Uyghur Congress spokesman said. Beijing says al-Qaeda is working with militants in Xinjiang to use terror to establish an independent state called East Turkistan.
Reuters
The Times of India – June 24, 2008
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Rebels kill four Bihar migrants in Imphal
Rebels shot dead four migrant workers and injured two others in Manipur’s Imphal valley on Tuesday. At Natam Chingkhong in Imphal East district, rebels gunned down 15 Hindi-speaking people in the state. Rebels also kidnapped two migrants and shot them after tying their hands with ropes, at Natum Chingkhong in Imphal East district, the police said.
TNN
The Times of India – June 25, 2008.
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19 killed in clashes in Pakistan
Islamabad – June 24, 2008 – Nineteen people, including a top Taliban commander, were killed in incidents of violence and clashes between security forces and militants in Pakistan’s North Frontier Province and the adjoining tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, officials said on Tuesday. Pakistani Taliban commander Khan Agha was killed and two militants were injured when retaliated against an attack on them by militants in the restive Swat valley in NWFP early on Tuesday.
The Asian Age – June 25, 2008.
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Pak Taliban militants kill 28 tribesmen
Islamabad – June 25, 2008 – The Pakistan Taliban have executed at least 28 tribal elders of a pro-Government peace committee abducted two days ago from North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Members of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, led by Baitullah Mehsud, kidnapped 30 members of the peace committee two days ago from Kariwam and Jandola in Tank district, they were kept hostage and later killed.
Agencies
The Indian Express – June 26, 2008.
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Baghdad bombing kills 3 US soldiers
Baghdad – A roadside bomb killed three American soldiers and an interpreter in north of Baghdad, Iraqi police said. 14 Shia gunmen were arrested after fighting in south of Baghdad. The roadside bomb occurred at about 10.45 p.m. on Tuesday in Nineveh province, where Al-Qaeda and other Sunnni extremist groups remain active.
Sinan Salaheddin/AP
The Asian Age – June 26, 2008.
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Taliban torch Pak’s only ski resort, kill 3
Islamabad – Pakistani Taliban militants torched the country’s only resort and killed three people in northwestern tourist valley, despite a recent truce with security forces, officials said. The attack on the government-run hotel happened at Malama Jabba. Residents said a large portion of the resort had been reduced to ashes and the militants also damaged chairlifts and a tower belonging to the meteorological department.
AFP
The Times of India – June 27, 2008.
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At least 33 killed in two Iraq bombings
At least 33 people were killed in two massive attacks in Iraq, including 18 people who died when a car bomb ripped through the northern city of Mosul, Iraq and US officials said. 71 civilians and nine policemen were wounded in the car bomb attack.
The Times of India – June 27, 2008.
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Car bomb kills 7 Iraqi policemen
Baghdad – A car bomb in the central Iraqi town of Dhuluiya on Sunday killed at least seven policemen and wounded two more, the police said. The explosion occurred at about 7.30 A.M. The latest attack came as the Salaheddin authorities gave insurgents until July 8 to surrender to US and Iraqi forces.
AFP
The Asian Age – June 30, 2008.
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11 killed in Afghan violence
Heart (Afghanistan) – About 150 Taliban militants stormed a government building in southwestern Afghanistan on early Sunday, killing at least four policemen and losing seven of their own fighters, officials said. The rebels stormed the building in Farah province in an attempt to capture a remote town, the deputy provincial governor said.
AP
The Asian Age – June 30, 2008.
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Maoists sink Greyhounds motorboat in Orissa, 40 feared drowned
Bhubaneswar – June 29, 2008 – Maoists in Orissa’s Malkangirii district today attacked and sank a motorboat carrying mostly personnel of the Greyhounds, the elite anti-Naxalite force of Andhra Pradesh. At least 40 people were feared dead. The motorboat carrying 62 policemen and two boat operators, was on its way across the Balimela reservoir from Chitrakonda for a joint operation against the Maoists when it came under heavy gunfire from atop a nearby hill in Alampeta village.
Debabrata Mohanty
The Indian Express – June 29, 2008.
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Food for Thought
Use what talents you have. The woods would be silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke
He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
- Anonymous
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain
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