Baghdad car bombing kills 66
Baghdad – July 1, 2006 –At least 60 people were killed when a car bomb hit a Baghdad Shite neighbourhood on Saturday, ripping through a massive security crackdown in the Iraqi capital. A Sunni woman MP was also kidnapped in north Baghdad along with eight of her body-guards, a day after Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden vowed the war would go on despite a peace plan launched by Prime Minister. The bomb went off as a police patrol passed through the district’s Al-Ula market, an official said.
AFP
Sunday Hindustan Times – July 2, 2006.
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Lashkar changes recruitment strategy
Srinagar –The Lashkar-e-Taiba has now started to fish for recruits amongst Srinagar’s urban underclass, using cash as bait. An investigation by The Hindu has found that the profiles of the 12 Lashkar operatives arrested for their role in a six-month-long terror campaign here demonstrated a marked change in the Islamist group’s recruitment strategies. None of them received weapons or explosives training at the Lashkar’s camps in Pakistan. There was also no indoctrination at seminaries. The Lashkar drew from the ranks of ill-educated and low-skilled Srinagar artisans and vendors, offering them cash in return for their participation in grenade attacks, assassinations and murderous suicide-squad attacks.
Praveen Swami
The Hindu – July 3, 2006.
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Al Qaeda tried to infiltrate M15
Al-Qaeda sympathizers have been trying to join M15 as the agency recruits more agents from diverse backgrounds in an attempt to bolster its counter-terrorism capability, security sources said. The disclosures come amid a big recruitment drive by M15, with around 100,000 candidates applying for 400 jobs.
The Guardian
Hindustan Times – July 5, 2006
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Maoists abduct five people in Nepal
Kathmandu – Maoists have allegedly abducted at least five people from different places in Nepal in violation of the ceasefire agreement, leading hundreds of locals to protest against the rebels.
PTI
Hindustan Times – July 6, 2006.
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Tigers fete suicide bomb squads
Colombo - July 5, 2006 – Tamil Tiger rebels on Wednesday marked “Black Tiger Day” to honour 261 suicide bombers, forcing security to be stepped up across Sri Lanka amid fears of more bombings, witnesses and officials said. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LLTTE) supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran usually holds a meeting with his elite Black Tiger units at a secret location to commemorate the suicide anniversary. “The Black Tiger Day is only one day but we need to constantly change and update our security measures,” Policy Planning Minister told reporters here.
AFP
Hindustan Times – July 6, 2006.
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UK investigating 70 terror plots
London – July 5, 2006 – Scotland Yard has revealed that it is investigating 70 alleged plots by Al Qaeda-linked extremists. The head of Scotland Yard’s anti-terror unit said that 70 investigations spanned London, the UK and the globe. M15 estimated that there were 1200 people in the UK who were “actively engaged in acts of terror at home and abroad. Nearly 60 people are already awaiting trial for terrorist offences – most of them British Muslims allegedly plotting to kill their fellow countrymen.
Vijay Dutt
Hindustan Times – July 6, 2006.
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FBI ‘foils’ terror plot in NY
New York – July 7, 2006 – Authorities have disrupted planning by foreign terrorists for an attack on New York City tunnels, two law enforcement officials said in Washington on Friday. FBI agents monitoring Internet chat rooms used by extremists learned in recent months of the plot to strike a blow at the city’s economy by destroying vital transportation networks, one official said.
Agencies
The Statesman – July 8, 2006.
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J&K terror – Ex-MLA, 4 more killed
Kulgam – July 8, 2006 – Five persons were killed and 60 others injured when militants lobbed a hand grenade at an NC rally at Kulgam on Saturday. Ghulam Nabi Dar, a former MLA from Kulgam, was killed in the blast. Police personnel present at the scene said the blast injured 65 persons, a dozen of them seriously. One of the injured died instantaneously. The NC blamed the PDP for the attack.
Rashid Ahmad
Hindustan Times –July 9, 2006.
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Baghdad carnage leaves 40 dead
Baghdad – July 9, 2006 – Militia gunmen went on the rampage in a Sunni district of Baghdad on Sunday, killing dozens of people in the bloodiest of many outbreaks of sectarian violence that have raised fears of civil war. An Interior Ministry source said at least 38 people had been killed in Jihad district, while politicians from the Sunny Arab minority put the provisional death toll at least 40.
Reuters
Hindustan Times – July 10, 2006.
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Terror strikes Mumbai, over 147 killed
Mumbai – Seven serial blasts ripped through Mumbai’s suburban railway network at peak hour on Tuesday evening leaving at least 147 dead and 439 injured. The blasts began shortly after 6.20 p.m. when a First Class compartment in a Western Railway suburban train running from Churchgate to Borivali exploded between Khar and Santa Cruz stations. In the next 15 minutes, blasts were reported from near Matunga Road station, Mahim, Bandra, Borivali, Jogeshwari and Mira Road – all on the Western Railway line.
Mumbai Bureau
The Hindu – July 12, 2006.
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Eight killed in grenade attacks in Kashmir
Srinagar – In a series of grenade attacks by militants here on Tuesday, eight persons, including five tourists from West Bengal, were killed and 37 injured. One person was caught while hurling a grenade and handed over to police by civilians. At 11.40 a.m., militants hurled the first grenade into a mini bus near Dalgate, injuring over 15 people. Soon, another grenade was thrown towards a Marti car with Haryana registration number in Regal Chowk. Around 1.10 p.m., in Lal Chowk, another grenade was hurled towards a Sumo van carrying tourists to the city. The vehicle caught fire killing one person on the spot land injuring five.
Shujaat Bukhari
The Hindu – July 12, 2006.
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Naxalites kill police officer
Raipur – Naxalites killed a Special Police Officer on Monday and attacked a police station in separate incidents in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, police said on Tuesday.
PTI
The Hindu – July 15, 2006.
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Bomb kills Sri Lankan soldier
Colombo – A powerful bomb blast killed a Sri Lankan soldier in the northern peninsula of Jafna on Tuesday. The soldier was killed at Kodikamam while on a routine patrol, a military official said, claiming the blast was the work of Tamil Tiger rebels.
PTI
Hindustan Times – July 12,2006.
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2 policemen die in Lanka blast
Sri Lanka – July 12, 2006 – Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels detonated a bomb that killed two policemen and later fatally shot a rival party member in northern Sri Lanka, the military and a party official said. The roadside bomb blast targeted a police vehicle in northern Jafna town, said a military spokesman. Later, Sebastian Iruthayarajan of the People’s Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) was gunned down in the same town, said a top party official of the organization.
(AP)
The Asian Age – July 13, 2006.
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At least 36 die in Iraq violence
Baghdad – July 11, 2006 – At least 36 people were killed across Iraq in bombings, shootings and gunbattles on Tuesday in Baghdad. In Tuesday’s deadliest attack, 10 Shias carrying a coffin in a minibus were ambushed and shot dead by gunmen on a highway near Baghdad’s notorious Sunni neighbourhood of Dura, a defence ministry official said. In Iraq’s northern Salaheddia province a gunbattle between Iraqi troops and villagers left 10 soldiers dead, a security source said. A bomb went off near a restaurant about 100 meters from the Green Zone. Another 11 persons were killed in other attacks in Baghdad and other attacks in Baghdad on Tuesday.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – July 12, 2006.
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20 ‘Shias’ killed in Iraq
Baghdad – July 12, 2006 – Gunmen stormed a bus station on Wednesday northeast of Baghdad, seizing 24 people and killing all but four of them, authorities said. The gunmen arrived in several cars at the bus station in Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles northeast of Baghdad, forced the captives into four vehicles they commandeered at the scene and sped away, officials said.
Sameer N. Yacoub / (AP)
The Asian Age – July 13, 3006.
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Blasts kill 9 as Rumsfeld flies into Iraq
Baghdad – At least nine people were killed in two bombings in Baghdad on Wednesday as US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, arrived to review the security situation in Iraq, security sources said. A suicide bomber walked into a restaurant in Jadida, killing seven people and wounding 20. Two people were killed and two others wounded in a car bomb attack against a police patrol in the Sunni neighbourhood of Adhamiyah.
AFP
The Times of India – July 13, 2006.
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J&K Tourists on target again
Srinagar – Seven tourists were injured when a young boy tossed a grenade at the State Road Transport Corporation (SRTC) bus, which they were boarding at Gulmarg bus stand to return to Srinagar. The local pony riders chased the boy but he made good his escape.
M. Saleem Pandit/TNN
The times of India – July 13, 2006.
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Four Hindus killed in Poonch
Poonch – July 13, 2006 – Terrorists on Thursday night gunned down four members of the minority community in Mangnar, a remote village in Poonch. According to reports, terrorists barged into the houses of Mangat Ram Sharma and Ashok Kumar and opened indiscriminate fire. A few minutes later, the same group of terrorists entered the house of Ashok Sharma, a Village Defence Committee member, and killed his tow sons.
Ajaz Kazmi
Hindustan Times – July 14, 2006.
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Al Qaeda opens shop in J&K
Srinagar/Jammu – July 13, 2006 – On Thursday, a man claiming to be a spokesperson for Al Qaeda, called up a local news agency in Srinagar to announce the arrival of the terror group in Kashmir. “We are here,” the man, who identified himself as Abu al-Hadeed, told Current News Service. He said Abu Abdul Rehman Ansari was the chief of Al Qaeda Jammu and Kashmir. “Al Qaeda starts its operations in Kashmir from today,” he said.
Rashid Ahmad
Hindustan Times – July 14, 2006.
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Al-Qaeda threat mail to German embassy (p.35)
New Delhi – July 14, 2006 – The Dhaka mission of Germany received an e-mail saying that it would target the German embassy in New Delhi. The same message was relayed to the embassy here after which security was tightened. Embassy officials informed security agencies that it had received an e-mail from its mission in Dhaka about the threat form Al-Qaeda, the sources said.
PTI
Hindustan Times – July 15, 2006.
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LTTE kills 22 Lanka troops in gunbattle
Colombo – Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels said on Friday they killed 22 soldiers in a firefight in potentially the worst clash since a 2002 truce, but the army said the number of fatalities would be far lower. The Red Cross said their staff had seen the bodies of 12 soldiers and 4 Tiger fighters. The military confirmed there had been a clash in Batticaloa.
Reuters
The Times of India – July 15, 2006.
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J&K grenade attack: One killed
Srinagar – July 15, 2006 – One person was killed and three others injured in a grenade attack in Ganderbal area on Saturday, officials said. Militants lobbed the grenade towards a bunker manned by security forces at Beehama Chowk, but it missed the target and exploded on the road. One of the injured succumbed to his injuries in the hospital.
HTC
Hindustan Times – July 16, 2006.
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Suicide bomber kills local justice chief
Afghanistan - A suicide attacker detonated an explosives-packed vest inside a local Afghan justice department building on Monday, killing three people, including justice department director, enforcing authorities said. Police said a militant walked into Samad’s office and detonated an explosive device he was wearing under his cloth.
Arup Mathew Das
The Indian Express – July 18, 2006.
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Blast kills soldier, injures 7 Sri Lanka (p.42)
Colombo – Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels on Monday triggered two bombs in north and north-western Sri Lanka, killing one soldier and wounding seven others, the army said. A roadside bomb targeted a group of soldiers who were cleaning a road in Jaffna, killing a soldier and injuring tow other soldiers and four civilians. Earlier, one soldier was wounded in a blast in Manner.
AP
Hindustan Times – July 28, 2006.
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Iraq attack leaves 48 dead
Baghdad – July 17, 2006 – At least 48 people were killed on Monday in a car bomb blast and an assault by gunmen in a market in the town of Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad, security sources said. The sources said 46 others were wounded in the broad day-light attacks.
AFP
Hindustan Times – July 18, 2006.
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Tamil militants kill one, injure 12
Colombo – Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed a civilian and wounded 12 others in mine attacks in Sri Lanka’s north and east on Tuesday on continuing sporadic violence. A claymore fragmentation mine exploded in the army held Jaffna peninsula, killing a civilian as an army patrol scoured roadside scrub for booty-traps and explosives. Six people were wounded.
Hindustan Times – July 19, 2006.
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Suicide bomber kills 59 in Iraq
Kufa – July 18, 2006 – A suicide bomber pulled his minivan into a busy market on Tuesday, lured labourers onboard with the promise of jobs and then blew himself up, killing at least 59 people in one of the bloodiest attacks in Iraq this year. The blast in the Shia city of Kufa wounded 132 people and sparked clashes between police and angry protesters. Police at the scene were pelted with rocks by angry crowd, many of whom demanded that militias loyal to radical Shia cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr take over security in Kufa, near the holy city of Najaf, 160 kms south of Baghdad.
Reuters
Hindustan Times – July 19, 2006.
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More strikes in Delhi, Mumbai, warns ‘Qahar’
Mumbai – A little-known Islamic militant group that had on Saturday claimed responsibility for the 7/11 train blasts in Mumbai, warned on Tuesday that it was planning attacks against government and historic sites in India. The claim as well as the warning came in the form of emails to a national Hindi news channel. Lashkar-e-Qahar was unknown until it claimed responsibility for the March 7 bombings in Varanasi that killed at least 20 people. The police suspect the motive behind the email is to distract investigators. Qahar said in Tuesday’s email that 16 people took part in the July 11 attacks in Mumbai and that one of them was killed, and the remaining 15 were totally safe.
Times News Network & Agencies
The Times of India – July 19, 2006.
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Islamic Militia Takes Control Of Two Towns In Afghanistan – Taliban makes a comeback
Kabul – July 18, 2006 – Afghanistan deputy interior minister accused Pakistani militants of over-running a southern Afghani town, which hundreds of Afghan troops backed by coalition forces, were planning to wrest back. Helmand province’s deputy governor said 300 to 400Afghan soldiers were heading for the southern town of Garmser, near the Pakistani border, which officials said was taken by Taliban forces on Sunday. In Kabul, Deputy Interior Minister accused Pakistan-based Islamic groups Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam of taking over Garmser.
Associated Press
The Statesman – July 19, 2006.
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President receives death threat on e-mail
New Delhi – President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has received an e-mail containing a threat to his life, following which security agencies have swung into action to trace the sender. The email received on Wednesday evening on the President’s official website was sent from the leading web portal Yahoo, informed sources said on Thursday. The cyber cell in the home ministry was handed over the one paragraph email and it was suspected that the sender of the mail could have used a fictitious name.
PTI
The Times of India – July 21, 2006.
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‘Over 1,300 ultras ready to enter Kashmir’
Jammu – July 20, 2006 – More than 1300 militants are currently waiting at launching pads along with the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir and step up militant activities, top security sources said on Thursday. Intelligence inputs and ground reports collected by the various security agencies put the figure of militants at the launch pads at 1300.
The Asian Age – July 21, 2006.
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Five killed in southern Thailand
Bangkok – Five people were killed when Islamic militants staged a daring ambush on a police checkpoint in southern Thailand. Ten militants opened fire on the roadside checkpoint in Pattani province where separatist and other unrest has left more than 1300 people dead since January 2004.
AFP
The Asian Age – July 21, 2006.
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Iraq blasts leave 63 dead
Baghdad – July 23,2006 – Bombers struck a bloody blow against Iraq’s fledgling hopes for peace on Sunday, killing at least 63. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden minibus amid a crowd of day labourers seeking work in a crowded market in Baghdad’s mainly Shia district of Sadr city, killing at least 34. This was followed by a bomb attack in front of the area’s town hall, which killed eight. Three hours later, a car exploded outside a courthouse in the mixed northern city of Kirkuk, leaving at least 21 dead and 92 injured.
AFP
Hindustan Times – July 24, 2006.
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US embassy put on terror alert
New Delhi – A top IB official has sent a letter to security agencies with a chilling message – the American embassy may be targeted any time between now and July 30 by terrorists owing allegiance to an Iranian terror group in what is seen as a bid to extend the conflict in the Middle East. The US embassy has been on an extremely high state of alert and things will remain the same for the next few days. The input has even identified one of the men likely to participate in the attack and efforts are on to establish his presence, said a source. The report goes on to state that Iranians have enlisted a few Afghans and Kashmiris to put together a 20-strong gang which has been on the lookout since June for an opportunity to attack their target.
Sachin Parashar/TNN
Hindustan Times – July 25, 2006.
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Three policemen killed in Afghanistan
Kabul – Suspected Taliban militants in western Afghanistan attacked a police outpost, killing three policemen and wounding seven others, police said on Monday.
AP
The Hindustan Times – July 25, 2006.
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Tamil politician shot dead in Colombo
Colombo - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels shot dead a pro-government Tamil politician in Sri Lanka’s main city of Colombo on Monday, officials said. The victim was a close associate of party leader and Hindu affairs minister. The EPDP is part of Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition and several of its members have been killed by suspected Tiger rebels despite a truce that has been in place since February, 2002.
The Hindustan Times – July 25, 2006.
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Suicide bomb kills 4 in Baghdad and around
A suicide car bomber on Tuesday attacked a joint Iraqi police and army checkpoint in northeastern Baghdad, killing three officers who had been inspecting vehicles, police said. In other violence, a parked car bomb, near a police check-point in southern Baghdad’s Rissala neighbourhood exploded at 4.45 P.M. Five civilians were also killed in the blast.
Hindustan Times – July 26, 2006.
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Insurgents kill senior police officer in Iraq
Baghdad – July 26, 2006 – Iraqi insurgents killed one senior police officer and kidnapped another on Wednesday while sectarian death squads pursued their deadly campaign against civilians, the police said.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – July 27, 2007.
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Explosions in posh Baghdad area kill 27
Baghdad July 27, 2006 – A mortar barrage followed minutes later by a car bomb blasted Baghdad’s upscale Karradah district on Thursday, killing a total of 27 people and wounding 63, police said. The car bomb exploded just blocks away, near a gas station, shattering storefronts and spraying flaming gasoline onto homes and stores. A senior police official put the casualty toll at 27 dead and 63 wounded.
AP
Hindustan Times – July 28, 2006
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Blast at Assam rail station, 3 killed
Three people were killed and four others, including two women and a child, injured on Wednesday when suspected militants hurled a grenade at Maibong railway station in Assam.
The Times of India – July 27, 2006.
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One killed in grenade attack
Jammu – A woman was killed and six persons were injured in grenade attack in Doda district on Wednesday. Police sources said the house of a surrendered militant, Shabbir Ahmed, a former member of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, in the Misri area of Doda district was targeted.
Staff Reporter
The Hindu – July 28, 2006.
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Threat to atomic plant: NSA
New Delhi – July 28, 2006 – The government has information that one of the India’s atomic energy installations could be targeted by Pakistan-based militant outfit Lashkler-e-Tayyeba (LeT), National Security Adviser said on Friday, terming it a “very serious threat”.
PTI
Hindustan Times – July 29, 2006.
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4 killed by car bomb in Kirkuk
Baghdad – July 29, 2006 – A parked car bomb exploded in a residential district of Kirkuk on Saturday, killing four people and injuring another 13, the police said. Also on Saturday, the western regional commander of the Iraqi border protection force was killed in Karbala, the police said. In Baghdad, six day labourers were wounded when a bomb exploded in Tayaran Square, where the workers had gathered to wait for jobs. Three policemen were also wounded when a roadside bomb struck their patrol in northern Baghdad.
(AP)
The Asian Age – July 30, 2006.
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Food for Thought
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
- Arnold Bennett
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.
- Daisy Bates
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed, nothing else can be managed.
- Peter F. Drucker
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