Scent of a women’s wing in SIMI: Cops
Ujjain – March 31, 2008 – Five activists of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) were arrested on Monday from a house in Unhel town, 20 km from here. IGP, Ujjain, said the police. They had the information that a women’s wing of SIMI, christened the Shahin Force, had been launched in the region.
Sandeep Vatsa
Hindustan Times – March 31, 2008.
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2 killed in rebels attack in Pakistan
Mingora (Pakistan) – April 1, 2008 – Pakistani Taliban militants ambushed a van carrying pro-government tribal elders in a northwestern region, killing two tribal leaders and wounding seven others on Tuesday the police said. “The militants were unhappy with the efforts of the tribal elders to recover stolen official vehicles through a jirga (council)”, the police said.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – April 2, 2008.
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Militants shoot engineer in Manipur
Imphal – Militants of Manipur-based Kangleipak Communist Party (City Meitei) gunned down a Public Works Department engineer on Monday night at his Utlou Mamang Leikai residence in Bishnupur.
Hindustan Times – April 2, 2008
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Would-be ‘Assassin’ of Algeria President Killed
Written by The Media Line Staff
Published Monday, March 31, 2008
Algerian security forces have killed a man who was planning to assassinate Algerian Prime Minister ‘Abd Al-‘Aziz Bouteflika. The man was a member of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and was killed on Saturday in the Wahran province. Al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb is a reincarnation of the local Salafist Group for Call and Combat. It changed its name in January 2007, with the approval of international Al-Qa'ida. The group has taken responsibility for several deadly attacks in Algeria over the past year. Algeria is an important ally of the United States in its war against terrorism.
Email dated 1.4.2008 from Mr. Mayer Nudell, USA.
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FBI: Eco-Terrorism Remains No. 1 Domestic Terror Threat
Fox News (03/31/08)
The FBI considers eco-terrorism to be the main domestic terror threat facing the United States. Organizations such as the Earth Liberation Front have successfully carried out a variety of attacks for environmental-political reasons. The ELF has been blamed for a string of arsons in the Pacific Northwest, causing damages of over $100 million. Officials find it difficult to stop eco-terrorism because they often operate in small groups, making them difficult to find and infiltrate. The attacks are generally carried out by well-educated college students who were urged to commit the crime by an organization recruiter. The FBI currently has approximately 180 open eco-terror investigations.
Security Management Daily April 1, 2008.
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Two terror suspects arrested in Spain
Melilla (Spain) – April 2,2008 – The Spanish Police has arrested two Islamic terror suspects wanted by Morocco, including one sought over a string of suicide attacks that killed 45 people in Casablanca in May 2003, officials said. The arrested terrorist El Bay had the mission of establishing ties with traffickers in Central Europe in order to obtain weapons and explosives, the Civil Guard said.
(AP)
The Asian Age – April 3, 2008.
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Police bust SIMI camp in MP
Bhopal – Within months of reports that Karnataka’s jungles were being used as a training base by Pakistan-based terrorists, a similar training camp has been found at a popular holiday spot, 35 KMs from Indore. The camp was located following interrogation by Madhya Pradesh Police of 13 arrested SIMI leaders. The police have also discovered the existence of SIMI’s women’s wing called Shaheen Force.
Suchandana Gupta/TNN
The Times of India – April 3, 2008.
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Maoists threaten to storm palace
Kathmandu – April 3, 2008 – Nepal Maoist supremo Prachanda has threatened to storm the royal palace in Kathmandu if the “feudal elements” tried to meddle with the poll process in the country. He warned that he would not accept the poll result if the former rebels were defeated through “conspiracy”.
(PTI)
The Asian Age – April 4, 2008.
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Suicide truck blast kills seven in Iraq
Baghdad – At least seven civilians were killed in an attack by a suicide truck bomber on an Iraqi Army checkpoint near the northern city of Mosul, an Iraqi military official said on Wednesday. “Seven civilians were killed and 12 people were wounded, many of them soldiers,” a spokesman for the Iraqi Army said. The US military had earlier reported five people dead in what it said was a car bomb explosion.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – April 4, 2008.
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1 injured in Nepal blast ahead of elections
Kathmandu – A bomb explosion in the Nepalese capital has left a civilian injured, just a week before the Himalayan country held the crucial Constitutional Assembly polls. The explosion occurred near Gongabu Bus Park on Wednesday night. No one claimed responsibility for the blast.
(PTI)
The Asian Age – April 4, 2008.
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Militants kill two policemen in J&K
Srinagar – April 4, 2008 – Two Muslim policemen were seized at gunpoint and subsequently murdered in Jammu and Kashmir’s frontier district of Kupwara. Both the policemen posted at Sogam police station were abducted by gunmen on Thursday afternoon and on Friday morning, a police search party found their corpses lying near Sogam.
Special Correspondent
The Asian Age – April 5, 2008.
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3 blasts in Nepal, security tightened
Kathmandu – April 5, 2008 – Security was tightened in Nepal’s capital on Saturday after three near-simultaneous bombs exploded in an apparent attempt to disrupt upcoming elections, the police said. There were no reports of casualties or serious damage following the blasts late on Friday, and no claims of responsibility. The explosions on Friday went off near an election office, a traffic police post and a government development centre.
Binaj Gurubacharya/(AP)
The Asian Age – April 6, 2008.
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Pirates storm French yacht, crew is hostage (p.14)
Paris – April 5, 2008 – Pirates have seized control of a French luxury yacht carrying 30 crew members in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia’s coast, the French government and the ship’s owner said. Attackers stormed the 88-metre (288-foot) Le Ponant on Friday as it returned without passengers from the Seychelles, in the Indian Ocean, towards the Mediterranean Sea, said officials with French maritime transport company CMA-CGM.
Jamey Keaten/(AP)
The Asian Age – April 6, 2008.
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3 killed, 18 injured in Pak attack
Islamabad – Three people were killed and 18 injured when a convoy of vehicles was attacked with a bomb in Pakistan’s restive north-western Kurram Agency. A convoy of 20 vehicles travelling from Parachinar, the headquarters of Kurram Agency, to Peshawar was targeted with a bomb by unidentified assailants in the Sada area.
Jamey Keaten / (AP)
The Asian Age – April 6, 2008.
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Lanka minister, 13 others killed in suicide attack
Colombo – A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed Sri Lanka’s highways minister and at least 13 other people attending a marathon race near the capital on Sunday. About 100 people were wounded. The attack took place in the town of Weliveriya, 30 km from Colombo. Authorities blamed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
Reuters
The Times of India – April 7, 2008.
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Seventeen Afghan road workers killed
Kabul – Seventeen Afghan road workers were killed, and sixteen others wounded in an insurgent attack in the southern province of Zabul on Tuesday, the interior ministry said. The Taliban have vowed to step up their war to expel foreign troops and bring down the Western-backed government and intermittent fighting has been picking up in recent days.
Hindustan Times – April 9, 2008.
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Militants use Pak mobile networks in J&K
Srinagar – April 9, 2008 – Militants operating in close vicinity of the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir’s twin district of Poonch and Rajouri are posing a high-tech challenge to the security forces combating insurgency in the state. The militants have lately been using services provided by Pakistani mobile networks to communicate with each other, reports said. PK: UFONE and Telenor PK, two major mobile networks in Pakistan and PoK, are well functional in Rajouri and Poonch, reports said.
Yusuf Jameel
The Asian Age – April 10, 2008.
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Two Indians killed in Afghan suicide attack
New Delhi / Kabul – April 12, 2008 – Suicide bombers killed two Border Roads Organisation (BRO) engineers (Indians) and injured five others in southern Afghanistan on Saturday morning. The attack against Indian road construction workers took place in Khasrod district. Two men with explosives strapped to their bodies jumped in front of the road construction convoy engaged in building the road.
Rahul Singh and Agencies
Sunday Hindustan Times – April 13, 2008.
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Militants bomb bank, cathedral
Manaila – Suspected Al Qaeda-linked militants bombed a Roman catholic cathedral compound and a bank on Sunday in the southern Philippines, the police said. No one was injured.
(AP)
The Asian Age – April 14, 2008.
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11 killed in Iran blast
Dubai – Mystery surrounds a massive explosion at a mosque in Iran’s southern city of Shiraz, which killed 11 persons and wounded 191. The blast took place on a Saturday when crowds of worshippers had assembled in the mosque to attend a sermon delivered by a prominent Shia cleric.
Atul Aneja
The Hindu – April 14, 2008.
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Taliban kills 11 cops in Afghanistan
Kandahar – Dozens of armed Taliban militants stormed a police post in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar overnight, killing at least 11 policemen, officials said on Monday. The insurgents were disguised in police uniforms and there were indications that the attack was an inside job, deputy provincial police chief said.
Hindustan Times – April 15, 2008.
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Iraq blasts claim 60
Baghdad – Car bombs ripped through crowded areas in Baghdad and former insurgent strongholds to the north and west of the capital on Tuesday, killing nearly 60 people. The first blast occurred in Baqouba, 60 km northeast of Baghdad, when a car parked in front of a restaurant exploded, killing 40 people, and wounding 70 others. Another parked car bomb exploded near a ketab restaurant in Ramadi, killing at least 13 people, and wounding 20 others.
AP
Hindustan Times – April 16, 2008.
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Taliban men vow to ‘hang Pervez to death’
Islamabad – April 14, 2008 – Pakistani Taliban are not ready to forgive President Pervez Musharraf and will “hang him to death very shortly”, a Taliban spokesperson said. “The list, carrying sins of Musharraf, is so long that he deserves to be hanged. Musharraf being the powerful person till yesterday has turned out to be the weakest person today, and the change has occurred with the blessing of Allah Almighty. The day is not far when Musharraf would be hanged to death,” Maulvi Umer said.
Shafqat Ali
The Asian Age – April 15, 2008.
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Kerala breeding ground for SIMI recruitment
Kozhikode – April 16, 2008 – The Students’ Islamic Movement of India may have been banned eight years ago, but front organisations and sleeper cells have kept the group alive in Kerala. At least half a dozen organisations in the guise of counseling centres operate in the Malabar region and they change their names periodically. They successfully market religion as an answer to all problems faced by the youth. The get uninterrupted supply of money from West Asia. Additional Director General of Police said recently that Rs.10,000 crore hawala money was pumped into the state every year.
Ramesh Babu
Hindustan Times – April 17, 2008
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Blast in Afghanistan kills 2 NATO soldiers
Kabul – An explosion in southern Afghanistan killed two NATO soldiers, and wounded two others on Wednesday, the alliance said. Separately, militants abducted and beheaded two Afghan men in the eastern Kunar province.
Hindustan Times – April 17, 2008.
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49 die in Iraq suicide attack
Baghdad – April 17, 2008 – A suicide bomber struck a funeral in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing 49 mourners and wounding 55 in an attack that suggests militants have launched a new campaign of violence in the north. Police said the bomber detonated a suicide vest after entering the funeral tent in a Sunni Arab village near the town of Adhaim in Diyala province.
Reuters
Hindustan Times – April 18, 2008.
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17 killed in fresh fighting in Lanka
Colombo – April 17, 2008 – New fighting between Tamil separatist and government forces across Sri Lanka’s northern region killed 16 rebels and one soldier, while Air Force jets bombed a rebel supply base, the military said on Thursday. In infantry clashes on Wednesday, soldiers killed six rebels and wounded nine others in the northern Vavnuniya district, Brig. Nanayakkara said.
Bharatha Mallawarachi/(AP)
The Asian Age – April 18, 2008.
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Afghan suicide blast kills 24
Kabul – April 18, 2008 – A suicide attack in front of a mosque in southwestern Afghanistan killed 24 people and wounded more than 30 others. The attack took place on Thursday as men were getting ready for the evening prayer at the mosque. In central Ghazni province, militants ambushed a patrol of Afghan and foreign troops on Thursday in Gilan district, and the ensuing clash left nine Taliban fighters dead, said district chief.
AP
Hindustan Times – April 19, 2008.
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3 civilians killed in Afghan car blast
Kandahar – A bomb blew up a car in Afghanistan on Saturday, killing three me, while another blast struck a convoy of civilian security contractors but caused little damage, officials said. Three civilians were killed and another injured after their vehicle hit a roadside bomb,” said Qayoum Khan. In the adjoining province of Kandahar, a bomb struck a convoy of civilians security contractors near the Pakistan boarder, said the International Security Assistance Force, but no damage was caused.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – April 20, 2008.
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Twin bomb explosions hit Yangon, none injured: report
Yangon (Myanmar) – April 20, 2008 – Two bombs exploded on Sunday in Yangon city, witnesses said. No causalities were immediately reported. The first bomb occurred on a downtown Yangon street around 8 p.m., and the second took place an hour later on another downtown street, the witnesses said.
Associated Press
The Indian Express – April 21, 2008.
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Blast rocks Socialist party office in Spain
Elgoibar (Spain) – April 20, 2008 – A bomb exploded outside the offices of Spain’s ruling Socialist party in a Basque town in northern Spain early on Sunday, causing considerable damage. No one was injured.
(AP)
The Asian Age – April 21, 2008.
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Bomb blast in Thailand, 13 injured
Yala, Thailand – A bomb exploded on Sunday near a busy market in Thailand’s insurgency-wrecked south, wounding 13 people, the police said. Suspected Muslim insurgents planted the homemade bomb in a metal garbage can in front of a security check-point near the outdoor market in Yala province’s downtown area, the police said.
(AP)
The Asian Age – April 21, 2008.
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Blast kills 23 passengers in Lanka
Colombo – April 25, 2008 – A bomb blast hidden in the over-head rack of a bus in a Colombo suburb exploded on Friday evening, killing 24 civilians and wounding 40 others. The military blamed Tamil rebels for the blast. The explosion took place about 6.45 p.m. while the vehicle was at a bus stand in the town of Piliyandaja just south of the capital, said military spokesman.
Ravi Nessman/(AP)
The Asian Age – April 26, 2008.
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Car bomb blast in Pakistan kills 3 injures 26
Islamabad – April 25, 2008 – A powerful bomb planted in motorcar ripped through a busy market in Mardan district on Friday, killing three persons, and wounding 26 others, the police said. More than 20 shops were destroyed. No body has claimed responsibility for the blast.
Pakistan Correspondent
The Asian Age – April 26, 2008.
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20 die in Taliban-style bombings in Afghan
Kabul – April 26, 2008 – Taliban-style bombings killed three Afghan policemen on Saturday, officials said, also reporting that 17 other people died in unrest on Friday. Two police officers were killed when a bomb planted in a road blew up their vehicle in the southern province of Ghazni. A third police officer was killed and another wounded in a similar blast in southwestern province of Farah, regional police commander said. In another attack blamed on Taliban, a district director for the census was killed in ambush, in the eastern province of Pakia on Friday, a provincial spokesman said.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – April 27, 2008.
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LTTE strikes again from the skies
The LTTE launched an air-strike on an army defence line on northern Sri Lanka early on Sunday, hours after fierce clashes killed 42 combatants. According to the Lankan military, the Liberation of Tamil Tigers Eelam (LTTE) used light aircraft to drop three bombs in the Welloya region. No soldier was hurt in the bombing.
Mall Today – April 28, 2008.
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3 cops among 24 killed in Afghan blasts
Kabul – Bomb blasts killed three Afghan policemen and four suspected Taliban on Saturday, officials said. 17 other people died in unrest a day earlier. Two police officers were killed when a bomb planted in a road blew up their vehicle in the southern province of Ghazni, provincial spokesman told AFP, blaming the attack on Taliban. Three others were wounded, he said.
Hindustan Times – April 27, 2008.
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Hamid Karzai survives bid on life
Kabul – April 27, 2008 – Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped unhurt on Sunday from an assassination attempt by Taliban fighters who fired guns and rockets at an official celebration near the presidential palace in Kabul. Three people were killed and 10 were wounded, officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
Reuters
The Hindustan Times – April 28, 2008.
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Blasts at LeT ammo depot nail Pak lies
New Delhi – Exposing Pakistan’s claims of dismantling terrorist infrastructure in PoK as hollow, an ammunition depot of Lashkar-e-Taiba’s terrorist camp caught fire, leading to several blasts in Muzaffarabad on Sunday evening. The president of Jammu and Kashmir National Students Federation said the terrorist camp was located inside the limits of Muzaffarabad Municipal Corporation at Chila Bandi near Shaive canal. Another top-ranking Muzaffarabad based JKNSF leader said Pakistani authorities were unlikely to ever accept that the blasts actually took place, as it would expose the Pakistan government’s lies about the non-existence of terrorist camps in Muzaffarabad.
Sameer Arshad/TNN
The Times of India – April 28, 2008.
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Two dozen killed in Iraq violence
Baghdad – April 29, 2008 – More than two dozen people were killed when Shia militants ambushed a US patrol in Baghdad’s embattled Sadr City district, bringing the death toll in area on Tuesday to more than 30, a US military spokesman said.
The Asian Age – April 30, 2008.
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Food for Thought
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
(1915-1990, Author)
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
- Albert Einstein
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