Bomb kills 25 on day US pulls out of Iraqi cities
Baghdad – A car bomb exploded in a crowded outdoor market in the northern city of Kirkuk on Tuesday, killing at least 25 people, the police said. The bombing marred what had otherwise been a festive day as Iraqis marked what the government decreed National Sovereignty Day. The withdrawal, which was completed on Monday, was part of a US-Iraqi security pact and marks the first major step toward withdrawing all American forces from the country by December 31, 2011.
AP
The Times of India – July 1, 2009.
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4 of family killed in Assam attack
Guwahati – June 30, 2009 – Four persons, all members of a Hindi-speaking family, were killed when suspected militants belonging to the anti-talk faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) attacked a cluster of houses in a village in Sonitpur district in northern Assam last night.
Samudra Gupta Kashya
The Indian Express – July 1, 2009.
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6 killed, 12 injured in Pakistan suicide blast
Islamabad – July 2, 2009 – At least six persons were killed and 12 others injured today when a motorcycle-borne suicide bomber struck a bus carrying government employees in the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi near here.
Tushar Srivastava
Hindustan Times – July 2, 2009.
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Suicide attack on nuclear plant staff in Pakistan kills 1
Islamabad – A motorcycle-borne suicide bomber on Thursday struck a bus carrying employees of a top Pakistani nuclear facility in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, killing one persons and injuring 35 others, officials said.
PTI
The Times of India – July 3, 2009.
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Blast near Peshawar leaves 2 cops dead
Police say a roadside bomb exploded near a vehicle carrying police in northwest Pakistan, killing at least two offices and wounding five others. The attack happened on the outskirts of Peshawar.
AP
The Times of India – July 3, 2009.
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Centre bans Black Widow group
New Delhi – July 2, 2009 – The Centre on Thursday banned the dreaded Jewel Garlossa faction of Dima Halam Daogah (DHD-J), also known as Black Widow, under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Last month, the Assam Police had arrested the group’s top commander Jewel Garlossa in Bangalore, and the deputy commander-in-chief Partha Warisa from the city. The DHD-J will become the 36th entity in the list of terrorist organisations banned by the Centre under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
Express News Service
The Indian Express – July 3, 2009.
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Maoists detonate IED near Police Station
Kolkata – The Maoists announced their presence in Lalgarh on Thursday by exploding a powerful IED near the Block Development Office, close to the Lalgarh Police Station, where government secretaries were stationed. DIG Midnapore said: “The mine was already there but it was exploded today. We have recovered long wires used to detonate it. However, no one was injured.”
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The Indian Express – July 3, 2009.
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Two US troops die in attack on base in Afghanistan
Kabui – July 4, 2009 – Taliban militants fired rockets and mortars at a US base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing two American troops and wounding several more in a two-hour battle, officials said. During the clash, a suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden truck toward the base’s gates. It blew up when American troops fired on it.
The Sunday Express – July 5, 2009.
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Pak terrorists fire rockets at Punjab border villages
Amritsar – Pakistan-based terrorists attacked two villages, Dhandae and Baherwal, in Attari block in Amritsar with rockets late on Saturday night, injuring one youth and spreading panic in the region. One of the three rockets fell within Pakistani territory. “On Saturday, around 9.50 p.m., three rockets were fired from the Pakistani side of which two landed in Dhandae and Baherwal,” said BSF IG Himmat Singh.
Yudhvir Rana/TNN
The Times of India – July 6, 2009.
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‘UK terror group plans coup in Pak’
London – July 5, 2009 – An Islamic militant group based in Britain plans to overthrow the Pakistani government, a British media report said on Sunday. Followers of the fundamentalist group Hizb ut-Tahrir have called for a “bloodless military coup” in Islamabad and the creation of a caliphate in which strict Islamic laws would be rigorously enforced, The Sunday Times reported. Members of the group, which is banned in Pakistan and calls itself the Liberation Party in Britain, said last week that it planned to make Pakistan a base to spread Islamic rule across the world.
IANS
Hindustan Times – July 6, 2009.
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2 NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Kabul – A roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan killed two NATO soldiers, while gunmen in the east abducted 16 mine-clearing personnel working for the United Nations, officials said. The blast that killed the troops came as thousands of US Marines pour into the Taliban’s southern heartland.
Hindustan Times – July 6, 2009.
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Seven US troops killed in Afghanistan
Kabul – Bombs and bullets killed seven American troops on Monday. Four of the deaths came in an attack on a team of US military trainers in the north, two Americans were killed in a roadside blast in southern Afghanistan, Naranjo said.
Agencies
The Indian Express – July 7, 2009.
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11 NATO troops killed in 24 hours
Kabul – A soldier in the US-led forces in Afghanistan succumbed to injuries suffered in a bomb attack on Tuesday, taking to 11 the number of Western soldier killed in the country in the past 24 hours. On Monday, attacks killed seven NATO soldiers. Two Canadians and a British soldier also died when their helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing.
AFP
Hindustan Times – July 8, 2009.
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ULFA revamps outfit, introduces new strike force Arakan
Guwahati – July 8, 2009 – The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has restructured the outfit by changing the name of its strike force, earlier known as the B-company of 28th Battalion, to Arakan Group. Disclosing that outfit was making organizational changes at various levels, security sources said that ULFA chief Paresh Baruah has appointed a central committee headed by Apurba Baruah to look after the collection of fund. The lower and middle rank field cadre have been asked to send the list of business houses and individuals who can be “asked or forced” to contribute fund for the organisation.
Manoj Anand
The Asian Age – July 9, 2009.
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Blast near schools kills 13 Afghan kids
Kabul – In central Afghanistan, on Thursday, a massive bomb blast killed 25 people, including 13 primary school students, destroying shops vehicles, the police said. Another bombing in the south killed two Nato soldiers. The central Afghanistan bomb was detonated in an over-turned truck carrying timber, killing 21 civilians and four policemen in Logar province, south of Kabul. At least 13 of those killed were children fromm nearby schools.
AP
Hindustan Times – July 10, 2009.
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Explosions rock Iraq, 41 dead
Baghdad – Two suicide bombers on Thursday killed at least 34 people and injured 70 in an attack on the house of an anti-terrorism officer in northern Iraq, while three roadside bombs in Baghdad killed seven others, authorities said. The attacks came one day after car bombs in two Shia villages near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul killed l16 civilians and injured more than two dozen, in a surge of violence in Iraq’s troubled north following the withdrawal of US combat forces form cities to bases outside urban centers at the end of June.
AP
Hindustan Times – July 10, 2009.
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Libya militants cut ties with Qaeda over excessive violence
London – The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) has decided to sever its ties with Osama bin Laden saying that the “indiscriminate bombings” and the “targeting of civilians” were not in accordance to its objectives. This is the first such instance when an ally of al-Qaeda has parted with it due to its policy of “indiscriminate violence”. The LIFG criticized al-Qaeda for carrying out attacks on innocent civilians and said that such violent activities did not achieve the “aim of the group in removing oppression”. A statement issued by he LIFG claimed that the group had no link with al-Qaeda in the past.
ANI
The Times of India – July 11, 2009.
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Maoists strike again, kill two CPM workers
Midnapore/Kolkata – Maoists killed two CPM members – ration shop owner Barendranath Mahato and his relative and another trader, Gurcharan Mahato – in retaliation to security forces’ recent Lalgarh operation in Jangalmahal, on Friday night. Maoists had abducted six people, including CPM branch secretary Akshay Mahato and Gurcharan’s wife Sulekha from the village. The party office was ransacked.
Sukumar Mahato/TNN
Sunday Times – July 12, 2009.
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Naxals kill 36 cops, just 68km from Raipur
Bhopal/Raipur – The Naxalites delivered one of their most crippling blows ever, killing 36 security personnel, including an SP, in two incidents in Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, on Sunday. First, they killed policemen n a CRPF camp in Kerkata village and then, they targeted the SP when he arrived with reinforcements.
Suchandana Gupta/TNN
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3 soldiers, 6 Taliban killed in offensive
Peshawar – Three government soldiers and six Taliban fighters were killed as Islamabad pushed its offensive against the insurgents in northwest Pakistan, officials said on Sunday. Pakistani artillery targeted two Taliban hideouts in Lower Dir District’s Kashmir village, killing five rebels and injuring five others, the police said. A militant was killed and another arrested during a search operation in Swat valley by the army.
AFPMbr>The Asian Age – July 13, 2009.
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Iraq blasts: Ten killed, many hurt
Baghdad – July 12, 2009 – A car bomb exploded in an alley on Saturday in a village in northern Iraq, killing at least four people, wounding others and destroying eight houses, the police said. Another six people died in bombings in Baghdad. Thirty-eight people were wounded in an explosion in the northern village of Kugjeli.
AP
The Asian Age – July 13, 2009.
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7 injured in Iraq church bombings
Baghdad – Bombs exploded outside three Christian churches across Baghdad on Sunday and one wounded seven people, the Iraqi police said. The bombs, placed in cardboard boxes, went off near the gates of the churches in Ghadir and Karrada districts of central and eastern Baghdad. In two of the attacks, no one was wounded.
Reuters
The Asian Age – July 13, 2009.
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Colonel and jawan slain in Assam
Guwahati – July 13, 2009 – An Army colonel and a jawan were killed in a powerful landmine explosion in central Assam’s Sonitpur district on Monday. Col. S.M. Parimal, commanding officer of the Army’s 405 Field Hospital, and his driver were travelling to Tenga valley in Arunachal Pradesh from Tezpur in a Gypsy that hit a landmine at about 5 am near a place called “Eleven Mile” about 50 km form Tezpur, the district headquarters. Both of them died on the spot.
Manoj Anand
The Asian Age – July 14, 2009.
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16 killed, 120 hurt in Pak madrasa blast
Islamabad – July 13, 2009 – At least 16 people, including several children, were killed and 120 others injured on Monday when a powerful explosion on Monday when a powerful explosion in a small village in Pakistan’s Punjab province flattened a madrasa, which was being used to make bombs, officials said. The blast occurred in the village near Mian Channu in southern Punjab was caused by explosives stored in the house of madrasa teacher Riaz Ali, local residents said.
Rezaul H. Laskar/PTI
The Asian Age – July 14, 2009.
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China on Al Qaeda radar
Beijing – Al-Qaeda north-African wing has threatened to target Chinese workers and projects in the region in retaliation for Muslim deaths in Urumqi last week. It is the first time that Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network has directly targeted Chinese interests, according to experts at a London-based risk analysis firm. Stirling Assynt’s report says that al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) – based in Algeria – has issued a call for vengeance, basing its statement on information from people who have seen the instruction.
Guardian
Hindustan Times – July 15. 2009.
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Maoists kill 2 in Lalgarh, set off mine
11 hours ago
Lalgarh – Suspected Maoists killed two Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) activists here on Tuesday and triggered a landmine blast. The ultras also detonated a landmine that damaged an under-construction community hall in neighbouring Purulia district.
IANS
Hindustan Times – July 15, 2009.
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Somali gunmen abduct two French officials
Mogadishu – July 14, 2009 – Somali gunmen stored into a Mogadishu hotel on Tuesday and kidnapped two French officials working as security advisers for the Somali government. Several gunmen, some in uniform, entered the Sahafi Hotel, threatened the guards and led the two men away from their rooms, the hotel manager said. The French Foreign Ministry confirmed that two French officials working as security advisers to the Somali government had been kidnapped.
Reuters
The Indian Express – July 15, 2009.
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Qaeda Message to Pak
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Ala Qaeda number two, has asked Pakistanis to support insurgents in their battle against a US-led “crusade” which he said threatened the country’s existence. In the 8-minute, 49-second English-language video called My Muslim Brothers and Sisters in Pakistan, Zawahiri said US intervention in Pakistan’s military and politics could break-up the nuclear-armed nation. “The American crusader manipulation of Pakistan’s destiny has reached such an extent that it now poses a grave danger to Pakistan’s future and very existence,” Zawahiri said.
PTI
Hindustan Times – July 16, 2009.
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Maoist cashflow from barrel of gun: Rs.150cr
New Delhi – July 14, 2009 – The banned CPI (Maoist) is spending Rs.92.5 lakhs to equip just one company (about 60 persons) and Rs.35 lakhs to equip one platoon (at least 21-strong) with purchased weaponry. The banned outfit is filling its coffers by extorting about “Rs.150 crores per year” to augment the strength of its guerrillas, who carry out precision attacks on security forces, a recent report by the security agencies has noted. The document reveals that the outfit charges a seven per cent levy on the construction of anganwadis, community centres and big buildings and a 10 per cent levy on the construction of major roads connecting PCC roads while extorting Rs.1 lakh per annum for grants of hill leases in states like Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. The Maoists have fixed a five per cent levy for laying down railway tracks and repairs while setting up petrol pumps fetches the Maoists Rs.25,000 in extortion money per pump per annum. The report further adds “collections through extortion and levies in these states have reached unprecedented levels”.
Namrata Biji Ahuja
The Asian Age – July 15, 2009.
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Suicide car bomb kills 6 in Iraq
Baghdad – July 15, 2009 – A suicide car bomb killed six people and wounded 16 others on Wednesday in Iraq’s western Anbar province, the police said. Two traffic police were among those killed in the attack near an Iraqi police checkpoint in Ramadi, a city 100 km west of Baghdad, the police said. The police were checking cars at the checkpoint when a car at the end of the queue exploded.
Reuters The Asian Age – July 16, 2009.
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Global pirate attacks have more than doubled in ’09
Kuala Lumpur – Pirate attacks worldwide more than doubled in the first half of 2009 in the Gulf of Aden and the east coast of Somalia, an international maritime watchdog said on Wednesday. According to a report released by the International Maritime Bureau’s piracy reporting centre in Kuala Lumpur, the number of attacks rose to 240 between January and June, upto from 114 incidents in the same period a year ago. Ships were boarded in 78 cases and 31 vessels were hijacked, with 561 crew taken hostage, 19 injured and six killed, the bureau said.
AP
The Times of India – July 16, 2009.
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Maoist gadget haul form AI Ranchi office
Ranchi – In a joint operation, the Ranchi police, Palamu district police and Delhi police seized a consignment of sophisticated gadgets meant for Maoists operating in Jharkhand. The consignment – which included wireless sets, walkie-talkies, cellphones, transistors and bullet-proof jackets – was allegedly sent to Ranchi from New Delhi by an Air India cargo plane a few days back. The Special Cell of the Delhi police arrested an electronics foods trader Praveen Sharma from Palika Bazar, New Delhi, who supplied electronic gizmos and bulletproof jackets to Naxalite leaders.
Madan Kumar & Anurag Thakur
Hindustan Times – July 16, 2009.
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Lashkar may target India, warns UN
New York – Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) is still active and there is a “real risk” that the terror group may target India again to increase tensions between the two neighbours, said Richard Barrett, Coordinator of the UN Security Council’s Al Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Monitoring Committee. “The Pakistan-Afghan border and North Africa were the main contributors to the sanctions list for Al Qaeda and Taliban operatives.”
Agencies
Hindustan Times – July 16, 2009.
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Car bomb kills 2 in restive southern Thailand
PATTANI, Thailand — A car bomb exploded Friday in restive southern Thailand, killing two soldiers and wounding five other people, an army official said. Suspected Muslim insurgents detonated the bomb that was hidden inside a parked pick-up truck in Yala province, said Lt. Col. Suwat Thongbai. The explosion destroyed the truck and sent debris flying about 100 yards (meters), he said.
Email dated July 17, 2009 from Mr. Mayer Nudell, CSC, USA.
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Bombers Strike during High-Powered Biz Meet
Jakarta – Bombs ripped through two luxury hotels in the heart of Indonesia’s capital on Friday, killing eight people and wounding dozens in an attack, the president said would damage confidence in Southeast Asia’s biggest economy. Suicide bombers struck the JW Mariott hotel and close-by Ritz-Carlton, both popular with visiting international businessmen and boasting some of the tightest security in Jakarta, as guests sat down for a breakfast power meeting. The police said two suicide bombers were killed in the blasts.
Reuters
The Times of India – July 18, 2009.
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11 killed in Afghan bombing
Kandahar (Afghanistan) – July 17, 2009 – A bomb planted by rebels killed 11 civilians and wounded three women who were going to a shrine on Friday, the police said. The explosives ripped through a civilian pick-up vehicle taking a group of men, women and children to visit the holy site in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar. “Today, at around 9.00 a.m., a mini-van struck a roadside bomb in the Wanaki area of Spin Boldak,” General Abdul Raziq said.
Nasrat Shoib/AFP
The Asian Age – July 18, 2009.
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Maoists kill SI in Orissa; CRPF jawan dies in blast
Bhubaneswar – July 17, 2009 – In the northern district of Sundergarh, Maoists killed a police officer they had abducted, while a CRPF jawan died in a landmine explosion during a combing operation launched to rescue him. The body of 30 year old Sub Inspector Ajit Bardhan was recovered during the combing operation at Jharbeda in a dense forest of Chandiposh on Friday morning, said Sundergarh SP. He had been abducted by 50 Maoists on Thursday when he was on his way to Koid police station in a jeep.
Debabrata Mohanty
The Indian Express – July 18, 2009.
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Maoists’ posters threaten to behead 9 CPM leaders
Jhargram – A Maoists ‘people’s court’ on Saturday announced that nine CPM members, including a prominent local leader, will be beheaded causing panic across Jhargram town in troubled West Midnapore district of West Bengal. Posters were allegedly pasted by Maoists on shops at Ramkrishna Bazar, which read: “CPM netader shighrol oabtga boli dewa hobe (Leaders will be beheaded soon)”. The names of CPM’s West Midnapore district committee member Hiralal Mahato and Manikparaaaaaaa Mahato figures in the ‘death warrant’.
Sukumar Mahato/TNN
The Times of India – July 19, 2009.
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Kandhamal: Maoists blow up police post
Bhubaneswar – July 18, 2009 – Suspected Maoists blew up a police outpost at Katingia in the riot-hit Kandhamal district of Orissa by triggering landmine explosion late on Friday night. According to the police, a large number of Left-wing ultras, including women, raided the Katingia police outpost and destroyed communication gadgets, furniture, documents and set on fire the building.
Age Correspondence
The Asian Age – July 19, 2009.
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Cop falls to Naxal fire, saves 4 civilians
Rourkela / Bhubaneswar – Ajit Bardhwan, a 30-year-old sub-inspector, who was shot dead by Maoists on Thursday night, had sacrificed his own life to save four civilians who were travelling with him. He had reportedly told the 50-odd Maoists who had ambushed his Bolero that except him, the rest of the occupants of the jeep were civilians, and had requested the Maoists not to harm them. After thoroughly checking the vehicle, they allowed the civilians to go.
HTC and PTI
Hindustan Times – July 19, 2009.
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3 hurt in rebel mortar attack in Turkey
(AP) — ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's state-run news agency says three people, including a soldier, were wounded when Kurdish rebels fired a mortar round from Iraqi territory. The Anatolia news agency said Sunday that Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq fired on a battalion in Hakkari province, which borders Iraq. The attack occurred late Saturday. Kurdish rebels have been fighting for autonomy in the region since 1984. Tens of thousands of people have been killed since then.
Email dated July 20, 2009, from Mr. Mayer Nudell, CSC, USA.
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Taliban behead civilian in Swat
Kabul – July 20, 2009 – The Taliban beheaded an employee of the police department in Pakistan’s northwestern Swat valley.
Rezaul H. Laskar/PTI
The Asian Age – July 21, 2009.
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11 civilians killed in blast, shooting
Kabul – July 20, 2009 – Eleven civilians, including a woman and a child, were killed in a bomb blast in south-western Afghanistan while Nato-led German forces killed three civilians after mistaking them for Taliban militants in the northern region, officials said on Monday. The 11 civilians were travelling in a mini-bus in Gulistan district of Farah province on Sunday when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb, the police said.
DPA
The Asian Age – July 21, 2009.
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Lalgarh on the boil, Maoists resurfacing
Kolkata – July 20, 2009 – Lalgarh and the adjoining tribal in West Midnapore are once again on the boil. A landmine blast at Bakishole was followed by a fierce gunbattle between Maoists and the security forces near Ramgarh. The police used teargas and lathicharged tribals after members of the People’s Committee against Police Atrocities along with crowd of about 6000 people gathered near the police camp at Gohmidanga High School on Monday morning, demanding its “immediate removal”. Twelve people, including some women and children, were injured.
Monalisa Chaudhuri
The Asian Age – July 21, 2009.
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Drive-by shootings kill 3 in Thailand
PATTANI, Thailand — Drive-by shootings blamed on Muslim rebels killed three civilians in southern Thailand, where an insurgency has left thousands dead in the past five years, an army spokesman said Monday. Two assailants on a motorcycle shot and killed a Buddhist man who was traveling on a road in Pattani province Monday, and in neighboring Yala province Sunday, a 48-year-old rubber plantation owner was shot dead in a drive-by shooting as he returned home by motorcycle, Parinya said. In a separate attack Sunday, a gold shopkeeper was killed after suspect insurgents fired assault rifles into his shop in Narathiwat province before fleeing on a motorcycle, Parinya said.
Email dated July 20, 2009 from Mr. Mayer Nudell, CSC, USA.
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Maoist threat to PM, Sonia
Ranchi – Emboldened by killing more than 50 paramilitary and police personnel in Jharkhand in the past six months, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) on Monday threatened Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Home Minister P. Chidambaram and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. Anupji, party commander for Jharkhand, issued a communiqué to the media in Garhwa district, 300 km west of state capital of Ranchi. The press release, issued late on Monday, warned Jharkhand-based Congress leaders to quit the party or face the consequences. “Both Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi will meet the same fate as the former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi,” said the release.
Akshay Kumar
Hindustan Times – July 22, 2009.
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16 killed in Iraq bomb attacks
Baghdad – Sixteen people were killed in a spate of bomb attacks, across Iraq on Tuesday, one of the worst days of violence in the country since US troops left its cities three weeks ago. Nearly 100 people were wounded in the attacks in Baghdad, Baquba to the north of capital and Rumadi to the west, just a day after seven police officers and a soldier died.
Hindustan Times – July 22, 2009.
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Six killed as suicide bombers attack Afghan cities
Khost – Taliban suicide bombers, most of them disguised as women, tried to storm government buildings and a military base in two Afghan cities of Gardez and Jalalabad, on Tuesday, killing six people. Armed kidnapped 13 Afghan road construction workers in Paktia.
AFP
Hindustan Times – July 22, 2009.
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Terrorists attack police camp in Shopian
In the first terrorist attack in Kashmir valley after the rape and murder of two women in Shopian in May led to a 48-hour-long protest, a sub-inspector was killed and four policemen were injured in a grenade attack on the Kashmir town on Tuesday.
The Times of India – July 22, 2009
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Terrorists kill 3-yr-old in J&K
Srinagar – Terrorists killed a civilian and his three-year-old son late on Wednesday. A police officer said the two were killed after militants fired indiscriminately at them after barging into their house at Pahlipora Denaroo village.
M. Saleem Pandit/TNN
The Times of India – July 24, 2009.
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Naga rebels gun down two Dimasa students
Naga militants on Thursday gunned down two Dimasa boys in Assam’s North Cachar Hills where clashes between the two communities are on for some time.
The Times of India – July 24, 2009.
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2 killed in shootout near Manipur Assembly
A PLA militant and a housewife were killed in a shootout between police and rebels near Manipur Assembly on Thursday. Five others were wounded in the firing that started around 10.30 A.M.
The Times of India – July 24, 2009.
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Militants kill father, son in Kashmir
Srinagar – Militants shot dead 30-year-old Mohammad Aslam Awan and his 3-yeare-old son in Shopian district on Wednesday night.
Hindustan Times – July 24, 2009.
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Lalgarh violence continues
Kolkata – Violence continued to trouble the Lalgarh region in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur district on Thursday. Armed with traditional weapons, the Police Birodhi Janashadharaner Committee (PSBJC) supporters ransacked the house of a local committee member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) at Pirakhulli, 10 km from Lalgarh, for allegedly informing the police about the Committee, but he fled from his house before the attackers came. Another CPI(M) activist was killed by suspected Maoists at Madhupur, 20 km from Lalgarh, on Wednesday for his political connections.
Staff Reporter
The Hindu – July 24, 2009.
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'Dozens die' in Nigeria clashes
At least 32 people have been killed in a gun battle between security forces and a radical Islamist group in north-east Nigeria, reports say. Dozens of people attacked a police station in Bauchi city. AFP news agency quoted a hospital nurse, Awwal Isa, as saying that as many as 42 people had been killed in Sunday's clashes. In February, Bauchi was the scene of clashes between Muslim and Christian communities, which left four people dead. Nigeria's 140 million people are split almost equally between Muslims and Christians and the two groups generally live peacefully side by side.
Email dated July 26, 2009 from Mr. Mayer Nudell, CSC, USA.
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Suicide squad hits Afghan city
Khost – Seven suicide bombers tried to storm state targets in an Afghan city on Saturday, killing one civilian and wounding others in the third Taliban commando raid in a week, authorities said. Officials said most of the attackers, armed with machine guns and rocket launchers, blew themselves up before reaching their targets in different parts of the eastern city of Khost, close to the border with Pakistan. Before detonating they had exchanged fire with security forces.
AFP
The Hindu – July 26, 2009.
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Chechnya blast kills at least five: report
GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - At least five people were killed Sunday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd next to a concert hall in the capital of Russia's province of Chechnya, news agencies said. "The suicide bomber triggered his explosive device when he was stopped by policemen outside the Grozny concert hall at a security checkpoint," said a senior city official. ITAR-TASS news agency quoted a senior security official in Grozny as saying four policemen who tried to stop the suicide bomber were killed on the spot and one more person died on the way to hospital. a serious condition.
Email dated July 27, 2009 from Mr. Mayer Nudell, CSC, USA.
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Two CRPF men killed in Dantewada blast
Raipur – Two CRPF personnel were killed and four others were injured when Maoist rebels triggered a landmine blast, targeting their vehicle on Geedam-Barsoor main Road in Dantewada district in South Bastar region of Chhattisgarh. Eight personnel of 11th battalion of CRPF were on a mini truck when the Naxalites blew it up.
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The Indian Express – July 27, 2009.
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Bomb Kills 8 Afghans Escorting NATO Convoy
By TAIMOOR SHAH and http://www.ieidsc.org, http://www.sqepf.orgALAN COWELL
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A remote-controlled bomb exploded in the troubled southern province of Helmand and killed eight Afghan contractors escorting a NATO supply convoy on Tuesday, officials said. The Interior Ministry in Kabul said four other guards were wounded when the explosives detonated close to Gereshk in the northern part of Helmand Province. The security guards were in two vehicles on the main highway between Herat and Kandahar.
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150 killed as Nigeria Taliban go on rampage Bomb Kills 8 Afghans Escorting NATO Convoy
Kano – Radical Islamists torched a police headquarters, a church and a customs office, residents said on Monday, as the death toll in weekend religious clashes climbed to 150. A BBC reporter counted 100 bodies, mostly of the Taliban styled militants, near the police headquarters in Maiduguri, Borno state. Nigerian police chief said earlier that five of his officers and 65 of the militants had been killed in the states of Bauchi and Yobe.
AFP
The Times of India – July 28, 2009.
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Gunmen raid Baghdad bank, kill 8, rob $7 m
Baghdad – July 28, 2009 – July 28, 2009 – Gunmen killed eight security men and made off with nearly $ 7 million on Tuesday during an early morning robbery at a bank in central Baghdad that police say is the work of insurgents attempting to finance their operations. The gunmen broke into the state-run Rafidain Bank around 4 a.m, killing three guards and five others on the premises.
AP
The Indian Express – July 29, 2009.
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Taliban carry out suicide attack in Waziristan
Islamabad – Taliban on Tuesday carried out a brazen suicide car attack on a police checkpoint killing two policemen and wounding five others. Taliban also carried out retaliation against security forces by carrying out a gruesome beheading of a police constable in Pakistan’s restive northwest. The police constable was kidnapped a week ago by militants. His body was found with his head severed about four kilometers from swat’s main town Mingora.
PTI
The Indian Express – July 29, 2009.
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Insurgent bomb kills 8 Afghan guards
Kabul – An insurgent bomb killed 8 Afghan security guards, in restive southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the government said. The remote-controlled blast in the province of Helmand ripped through two vehicles from a private Afghan security company, the interior ministry said. /p>
AFP
The Asian Age – July 29, 2009.
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Taliban kill tribal leader in Pakistan
Peshawar – July 29, 2009 – Taliban militants stormed the home of a pro-government militia leader and shot him dead on Wednesday as troops continued a cleanup operation in north-west Pakistan, officials said. More than 50 Taliban raided the residence of Khalilur Rehman and killed him in Shangla district near Burne4r where the Army was engaged in an anti-militant operation, the police said.
AFP
The Times of India – July 30, 2009.
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12 killed in bombing in Iraq
Baghdad – Twelve people were killed by bombings in northern and western Baghdad on Thursday, the police said.
Hindustan Times – July 31, 2009.
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Militants kill 4 civilians in Pakistan
Islamabad – July 30, 2009 – The militants killed at least four people on Thursday in Pakistan’s tribal Khyber Agency, security officials said. “Militants opened fire on the passers-by and killed four of them. Several others were injured. However, the militants managed to escape,” a security official said.
Age Correspondent
The Asian Age – July 31, 2009.
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Algeria ambush kills 11 soldiers
Algiers - July 30, 2009 – At least 11 soldiers were killed in an ambush of a military convoy by Islamic extremists outside the Mediterranean coastal town of Damous, west of Tipaza, about 100 km from Algiers, news media in the Algerian capital reports on Thursday.
AFP
The Asian Age – July 31, 2009.
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Food for Thought
Wife : You always carry my photo in your handbag to the office. Why?
Hubby : When there is a problem, no matter how impossible, I look at your picture and the problem disappears.
Wife : You see, how miraculous and powerful I am for you?
Hubby : Yes, I see your picture and say to myself, “What other problem can there be greater than this one?”
Email dated July 1, 2009 from Mr. Rakesh Goyal.
"The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement." Make room in your life for improvement. And if you think you are already very good, look closely. You might still want to tweak a few things to make you better.
Email dated July 20, 2009 from Mr. Mayer Nudell, CSC, USA.
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