Five Taliban militants blow themselves up
Kabul – Five Taliban militants blew themselves up in a house in the Afghan capital Kabul after 10 hours of clashes with the sieging Afghan security forces on Wednesday, an Interior Ministry official said.
Hindustan Times – May 1, 2008.
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Baghdad blast kills 9 civilians
Baghdad – May 1, 2008 – A parked car bomb aimed at a US patrol on Thursday in Baghdad, killed at least nine Iraqi civilians and wounded 26, the police said. The explosion occurred about 9.15 a.m. in a crowded commercial area in eastern Baghdad.
Selcan Hacaoglu/(AP)
The Asian Age – May 2, 2008.
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Suicide attack kills 10 in Pak
Islamabad – May 1, 2008 – A suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the madrasa of a radical religious group in the lawless Khyber Agency area near Peshawar on Thursday, killing at least 10 persons and injuring several others, the police said.
Pakistan Correspondent
The Asian Age – May 2, 2008.
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Blast in Yemen mosque kills 15
Sana’a – May 2, 2008 – Around 15 people were killed and around 60 were wounded when a bomb hidden in a motorcycle exploded outside a mosque in Yemen’s volatile northern city of Saada on Friday, a security source said. Seven Yemeni troops were killed late on Tuesday in an ambush by the rebels
Reuters
The Indian Express – May 3, 2008.
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Two jawans killed, 4 injured in ambush
Imphal – Two Assam Rifles personnel were killed and four others injured when insurgents of Manipur People’s Army (MPA), armed wing of United National Liberation Front (UNLF), ambushed an Assam Rifles party at Zoupi area in Chandel district of Manipur, sources said on Friday.
The Indiana Express – May 3, 2008.
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US blames Qaeda for Iraq twin blasts
Baghdad – The US military on Friday blamed Al-Qaeda in Iraq for a double suicide bombing that killed at least 35 people and wounded 65 during a wedding procession through a crowd of bystanders cheering the bride and groom in a town northeast of Baghdad.
(AP)
The Asian Age – May 3, 2008.
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31 LTTE men, nine soldiers killed in battles in the north
Colombo – The Srilankan military on Sunday said that 31 cadres of the LTTE and nine of its troops were killed in continuing battles along the Forward Defence Lines (FDLs) in the north. In a statement, the Defence Ministry also claimed that over 40 LTTE cadres were wounded in Wanni, and nine soldiers died in the clashes in Mannar, Vavuniya and Welioya on Saturday.
B. Muralidhar Reddy.
The Hindu – May 5, 2008.
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Suicide bomber kills five in Pakistan
Peshawar – May 6, 2008 – A suicide bomber riding a rickshaw attacked a police checkpoint and gunmen fired on officers guarding a bank in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing five people. The suicide attacker detonated his explosives at the checkpoint on a bridge in the garrison town of Bannu when officers signaled him to stop. Two civilians and one policeman were killed and four police officers were wounded.
Hindustan Times – May 7, 2008.
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2 cops killed in Quetta
Islamabad – Two policemen, on routine patrol duty, were shot dead by unidentified gunmen on a busy thoroughfare in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta on Wednesday, the police said.
(PTI)
The Asian Age – May 8, 2008.
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Heavy fighting claims 66 lives in Sri Lanka
At least 64 Tamil Tiger rebels and two Sri Lankan soldiers have been killed in the latest battles in the island’s north, according to the defence ministry on Thursday. It said the two days of fighting oin Tuesday and Wednesday occurred in the Vavuniya, Mannar and Weli Oya areas.
The Times of India – May 9, 2008.
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ETA claims responsibility for 4 bombings in Spain
Fri May 9, 2008 5:36am EDT
MADRID, May 9 (Reuters) - Basque separatist rebels ETA claimed responsibility for four bomb attacks over the past two months in a communique received by Basque nationalist newspaper Gara on Friday. The rebels, who have killed more than 800 people in 4 decades of armed struggle for independence for the Basque Country in northern Spain and southwestern France, said they were behind the attacks on two offices run by Spain's governing Socialists and two television transmission stations.
Email dated May 10, 2008, from Mr. Mayer Nudell, CSC, USA.
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Sri Lanka café bomb kills 11 before elections
A bomb went off inside a café in eastern Sri Lanka killing at least 11 people on Friday, the military said, a day before local elections in the region. The military blamed the LTTE for the blast.
The Times of India – May 10, 2008.
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Tigers sink Lankan Navy ship
Colombo – May 10, 2008 – An A-520-class troop carrier-cum-supply ship of the Sir Lankan Navy named Invincible was sunk in a pre-dawn undersea operation by the Sea Tigers in Trincomalee port hours before the controversial regional polls in the island nation began on Saturday, information reaching here revealed. The vessel was loaded with explosives. The Tigers have also claimed killing 30 Army soldiers “after heavy fighting” at Karukkaaykkulam on Friday.
Fazeena Saleem
The Asian Age – May 11, 2008.
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7 killed in attack by militants in Jammu
Srinagar – May 11,2008 – At least seven persons were killed as militants struck in a big way in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday. The militants took six people hostage as they holed up in a house, which was soon surrounded by the security forces, and in the operation the security forces killed two militants.
Yusuf Jameel
The Asian Age – May 12,2008.
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AND NOW, IT’S JAIPUR
Jaipur – Terror struck yet again – this time in Jaipur, at the busiest market, to kill, maim, terrify and cleave the county. At last count, the toll was 80 killed, and with over 150 injured. The first blast took place at 7.20 p.m. on Tuesday in the crowded Johari Bazaar and within 15 minutes seven more blasts occurred in adjoining areas in the walled city. Three unexploded bombs were defused later on in the walled city. Terrorists displaying the telltale tactics of Lashkar-e-Taiba and SIMI struck with bombs planted on cycles and cycle-rickshaws.
Times News Network
The Times of India – May 14, 2008
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Pak Army soldier beheaded
Islamabad – A Pakistan Army soldier was beheaded in the restive North Waziristan tribal region by suspected Taliban militants who put a note on his body saying that he was killed for being an “American spy”. Feroze Khan was kidnapped on April 23 and found dead 15 km east of Miranshah.
The Asian Age – May 16, 2008.
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Burqa-clad Afghan bomber kills 16
Heart – A suicide bomber apparently wearing a burqa detonated himself in a bushy bazaar in south-western Afghanistan on Thursday, killing 16 people including four policemen, a provincial governor said. The Taliban immediately claimed responsibility for the blast.
Hindustan Times – May 16, 2008.
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Suicide bombing kills ten in Colombo
Colombo – May 16, 2008 – A suicide bomber on a motorcycle rammed into a bus carrying riot police in Sri Lanka’s capital on Friday, killing 10 people, including eight policemen, and wounding 85 others.
Associated Press
The Indian Express – May 17, 2008.
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9 killed in Philippines bank heist
Manila – At least eight bank employees and a security guard were lined up and shot dead on Friday in one of the bloodiest bank robberies in the Philippines, the police said.
(AP)
The Asian Age – May 17, 2008.
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Suicide attack kills 13 in NWFP
Islamabad – A suicide bomber killed at least 13 people on Sunday in an attack close to the gates of an army training centre in the northwestern Pakistani town of Mardan, a military official said. The bomber was on foot and blew himself up. Thirteen people, including four soldiers, were killed.
Hindustan Times – May 19, 2008.
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Lanka clashes kill 78 people
Colombo – May 19, 2008 – Military said 61 Tamil Tigers and 17 soldiers were killed in fierce clashes in SriLanka on Monday. Government soldiers and the rebels fought several battles in northern Mannar district on Sunday, killing 40 rebels and 10 soldiers while three other soldiers are reported missing, the military said. A pro-rebel website reported that the rebels had stalled a military advance in Mannar, killing 26 soldiers and wounding more than 50.
(AP)
The Asian Age – May 20, 2008.
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Car blast in Spain, no casualty reported
Madrid – Suspected members of the militant group ETA exploded a car bomb in a northern Basque town on Monday causing considerable damage but no injuries, the police said. The blast followed an ETA attack on Wednesday on a police barracks housing officers and their families, killing one police officer and wounding four others.
Hindustan Times – May 20, 2008.
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Militants attack minister’s house
Imphal – Suspected militants attempted to attack the private house of Manipur Agriculture Minister at Leimapokpam village in Bishenpur district by exploding gas cylinders on Thursday. The minister was not at home at the time of the incident.
PTI
The Indian Express – May 23, 2008.
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Pak bomb attack kills police chief
Peshawar – Separate roadside bomb attacks on Saturday in Pakistan’s volatile north-west killed three people, including a local police chief, a senior police official said. The first bomb went off near a civilian vehicle, killing one person and wounding three others in the town of Bara about 15 km east of Peshawar. About two hours later, a bomb struck a vehicle carrying district police chief Khaista Khan in Peshawar, killing him and his driver. Two policemen were also wounded in the attack.
(AP)
The Asian Age – May 25, 2008.
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‘Jihad in Afghan to continue’
Islamabad – May 25, 2008 – Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud has said any peace deal with the government here would not cover attacks by his fighters against the US-led forces in Afghanistan. “Islam does not recognize any man-made barriers or boundaries. ‘Jehad’ in Afghanistan will continue” he told a news conference at Kotkai in South Waziristan.
The Asian Age – May 26, 2008.
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Seven dead, 70 injured in Colombo train blast
Colombo – May 26, 2008 – A powerful bomb ripped through a packed passenger train on the outskirts of Colombo on Monday evening, killing seven civilians and injuring more than seventy. The blast occurred at about 5.00 p.m. near the suburban Dehiwala railway station, triggered by a parcel bomb kept in the fourth compartment of the train. The government held LTTE responsible for the blast.
Sutirtho Patranobis
Hindustan Times – May 27, 2008.
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Sleeper terror cells active in Bengaluru
Bengaluru – May 26, 2008 – The Karnataka police appears to be blissfully sleeping over an intelligence report which has alerted them to the existence of three terror modules and various sleeper cells in the city.
Chetna Belagere
The Asian Age – May 27, 2008.
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34 LTTE rebels die in Lanka fighting
Colombo – May 26, 2008 – At least 34 LTTE cadres and a soldier were killed at different places in fierce clashes between the security forces and tiger rebels in the embattled northern Sri Lanka, officials said on Monday. “Air-Force this morning launched an attack using Mi-24 fighter helicopters on an LTTE target in the Andankulam front of the Mannar Forward Defence Line,” a defence ministry statement said.
T.V. Sriram / PTI
The Asian Age – May 27, 2008.
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4 civilians, 2 cops killed in Iraq blast
Baghdad – Six people, including two policemen, were killed and 16 others wounded on Monday in a suicide bombing targeting a US-backed militia north of Baghdad, the police said. The bomber rode a motorcycle laden with explosives into the compound of Saeed Jassem al-Mashadanni in the town of Tarmiya, 40 km north of the capital, a police official said.
PTI
The Asian Age – May 27, 2008.
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Bus explosion kills eight in Afghanistan
Heart – A roadside bomb ripped through a bus in southwest Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing eight passengers and wounding several others, a senior provincial official said. The official blamed Taliban militants for the attack.
Hindustan Times – May 28, 2008.
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Pakistan swapped top Taliban leaders for its ambassador
Islamabad – Pakistan swept two senior Taliban leaders for the release of its kidnapped envoy to Afghanistan, a media report said on Wednesday. Quoting sources, the news said the two leaders, identified as Mullah Obaidullah Akhund and Mullah Mansoor Dadullah, were freed along with “hundreds” of other militants to secure the release of Pakistani envoy to Afghanistan Tariq Azizuddin. An eminent jihadi leader from Afghanistan confirmed it, saying the two militant leaders had reached their homeland around two weeks back.
IANS
The Times of India – May 29, 2008.
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20 killed in Iraq suicide attacks
Mosul – May 29, 2008 – Suicide bombers targeted the police in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing 20 people in two attacks. A bomber in an explosives-packed jacket blew himself up at a recruitment centre in the town of Sinjar, on the road to Syria from the main northern city of Mosul. Seventeen people were killed land 30 wounded, hospital sources said.
AFP
The Asian Age – May 30, 2008.
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‘LTTE kills 13 in Navy camp raid’
Colombo – May 29, 2008 – Colombo – May 29, 2008 – Separatist Tamil fighters launched a pre-dawn attack early on Thursday against a naval camp on an island off northern Sri Lanka, killing at least 13 sailors, a pro-rebel website said. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said its Sea Tiger wing also seized weapons, including a radar, form the camp on Chiraththivu islet, close to the Jaffna peninsula. There were no LTTE casualties in he operation, a report said.
AFP
The Asian Age – May 30, 2008.
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Food for Thought
'A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.'
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
Giving someone all your love is never an assurance that they'll love you back! Don't expect love in return, just wait for it to grow in their hearts. But if it doesn't, be content it grew in yours.
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