Two killed as rocket hits hotel in Pakistan
Miran Shah (Pakistan), October 31: A rocket hit a small hotel during a battle between security forces and pro-Taliban militants in volatile northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing two people, officials said.
(AP)
The Asian Age – November 1, 2007.
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Major, two jawans killed in Manipur ambush
Imphal, October 31: Three Assam Rifles personnel, including a Major, were killed and seven injured when their convoy was ambushed by militants in interior Ukhrul District on Wednesday.
Express News Service
The Indian Express - November 1, 2007.
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‘Terror’ attack on Russian bus kills 8
Moscow: At least eight people were killed and 56 were injured on Wednesday in an explosion on a bus in the Russian city of Togliatti. The authorities said they were treating the suspected bombing as a terrorist act.
The Times of India – November 1, 2007.
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Baghdad bombs leave 16 dead
Baghdad: Bombs killed at least 16 people on Thursday in attacks across the Iraqi capital and its northern suburbs, but many here are increasingly concerned about the threat of attacks by Turkey against the country’s northern Kurdish areas. Iraqis worry that a Turkish cross-border campaign, provoked by Kurdish rebel attacks, would spread disorder in one of the few relatively stable areas in Iraq.
Bushra Juhi / AP
Hindustan Times – November 2, 2007.
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9 Pak air force men killed in suicide attack
Karachi: A suicide bomber rammed his explosive laden motorbike into a bus carrying Pakistani air force officials on Thursday, killing at least nine people and wounding 40 others, 21 of them seriously. “The bus was carrying trainee flying officers when it was attacked by the suicide bomber in the Sargodha district of central Punjab province,” Brigadier Javed Ceema, interior ministry spokesman said in Islamabad.
Kamal Siddiqi
Hindustan Times – November 2, 2007.
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Italian Police Arrest 20 Across Europe in Suspected Suicide Bomb Plots in Iraq, Afghanistan
Italian police publicized the arrests of 20 suspected terrorists with ties to an Islamic cell that recruits and trains suicide bombers for attacks in Afghanistan and Iraq. Italian police apprehended 11 suspects in northern Italy, while nine others were arrested in France, Britain and Portugal. Most of the suspects are Tunisians. Several of those apprehended were in possession of al-Qaeda training manuals for crafting explosives and poisons. Before the Europe-wide sweep, Italian investigators had intercepted phone calls from some of the suspects, who discussed sending suicide bombers to Iraq. The phone calls also included directions for the jihadist fighters to shave off their beards prior to travelling.
Seattle Times (11/06/07); Barry, Colleen
Security Management Daily – November 7, 2007.
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50 dead in Afghan blast
A suicide attack on a parliamentary delegation killed at least 50 people in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a provincial official said, in the worst such blast in the country’s history. Five members of the Afghan parliament were among the dead and the toll was expected to rise among the delegates and schoolchildren who were among the victims. The attack took place as the parliamentary delegation was visiting a sugar factory in the town of Baghlan.
Tahir Qadiry
Hindustan Times, November 7, 2007
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Three soldiers, two militants killed in Pattan encounter
Srinagar, November 7 - Three soldiers and two militants were killed in an encounter at Sadhapora village in Pattan. The police said initial investigation reveal the militants belonged to Lashkar-e-Toiba.
Express News Service, Srinagar
The Indian Express, November 8, 2007
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Twin bomb attack kills four in Thailand
Bangkok – Two bombs killed four people in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south on Wednesday, as school in the area mourned the loss of two teachers targeted by suspected Muslim rebels, officials said. One powerful explosion took place as a police bomb squad inspected a suspicious object buried near a bridge in Pattani province. The blast killed three policemen, blowing two of them into a canal. Another officer was seriously wounded.
Hindustan Times Wire Service
Hindustan Times, November 8, 2007
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Militants kill 3 abducted Pak soldiers
Miran Shah (Pakistan), November 08: Pro-Taliban militants killed three Pakistani paramilitary soldiers, two days after they were abducted from a restive tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday. The kidnapped soldiers were executed by a militant firing squad and their bodies dumped near a military check post close to the town of Razmak in North Waziristan early on Thursday.
(AFP)
The Asian Age, November 9, 2007
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Militants storm CRPF camp, jawan killed
Srinagar – Suspected LeT terrorist stormed a hotel housing a CRPF camp in Sopore, north Kashmir, on Thursday, triggering an exchange of fire with troops and forching evacuation of guests. A paramilitary jawan was killed in the gunbattle.
M Saleem Pandit (TNN)
The Times of India, November 9, 2007
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Six US soldiers, three Afghans killed
Kabul: Six US troops and three Afghan soldiers were killed when insurgents ambushed their foot patrol in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, the deadliest attack in American forces this year, officials said on Saturday. The troops were returning from a meeting with village elders on Friday afternoon in Nuristan province when militants attacked them with rocket-propelled grenades and gunfire.
Hindustan Times, November 11, 2007
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Militants take 7 Pak soldiers as hostages
Islamabad, November 11 – Seven Pakistan Army personnel, including two officers, were taken hostage by militants led by a pro-Taliban cleric in the troubled Swat region of northwestern Pakistan. Meanwhile, the Pakistan government is all set to kick off a massive military operation in tribal areas to “root out militants,” officials said. A formal decision to counter extremist forces was reached on Friday during the National Security Council meeting in Islamabad, and the decision to act was approved by top military commanders.
Pakistan Correspondent with Agency inputs
The Asian Age, November 12, 2007
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Attacks in Baghdad, 3 American troops killed
Baghdad November 14 – Three US soldiers were killed in separate attacks north of Baghdad, the military said on Wednesday. Two soldiers died on Tuesday in an explosion in Diyala province. Four other soldiers were wounded in the blast and evacuated to a US combat hospital. Diyala is a dangerous area known to have a strong Al Qaeda presence, northeast of Baghdad. Another soldier was mortally wounded by gunfire on Wednesday while providing security during a training mission for the Iraqi police near Musul, 260 km northwest of Baghdad.
(AP)
The Asian Age, November 15, 2007
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Six people killed in Iraq suicide attack
Baghdad – A suicide car bomber killed six people on Thursday in northern Iraq, the police said. The blast occurred in Kirkuk, a mixed city 290 kms north of Baghdad. Three police officers were among those killed, and at least 21 total people were injured.
Hindustan Times, November 16, 2007
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J&K terrorists get anti-tank weaponry
Kashmiri terrorists have acquired tripod-mounted anti-tank guns, a scenario, the Army said, was “disturbing.” One of these guns was found in an underground storage area in a forest at Handwara in Kupuwara district of Jammu and Kashmir.
(TNN)
The Times of India, November 17, 2007
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2 soldiers, six militants killed in Kupwara encounter
Srinagar, November 16: The Army claimed to have killed six militants including a divisional commander of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen in an operation in Kupwara forests. Two armymen of 18 Rashtriya Rifles were also killed in the encounter.
Express News Service
The Indian Express, November17, 2007
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US freezes assets of LTTE front
Colombo, November 16: The United States on Thursday dealt a major blow to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by freezing the assets of Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) on the charge that it had been raising funds in the US for the LTTE to buy arms.
PK Balachandran
Hindustan Times, November 17, 2007
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Plot to kidnap UP leader foiled
Lucknow, November 16 – In a major breakthrough, Uttar Pradesh STF sleuths arrested three Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militants of Pakistani origin from Lucknow on Friday. A-K series rifles, grenades, Chinese pistols and a cache of ammunition were also recovered from their possession, the police said. UP Director General of Police (DGP) Vikram Singh said the militants had planned to kidnap a top UP politician and in exchange to demand the release of 42 key JeM militants lodged in various jails across the country.
Bhupendra Pandey
Hindustan Times, November 17, 2007
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Governor’s son, six others killed in Kabul
Kandahar – A suicide attack outside the office of the governor of western Afghanistan’s Nimroz Province on Monday killed six of his bodyguards and one of his sons, the governor said.
Hindustan times, November 20, 2007
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Qaeda men attack two villages in Iraq, 22 die
Baghdad – Suspected Al Qaeda fighters attacked two Iraqi villages on Thursday, killing at least 22 people, including 10 members of a group fighting the jihadist militants, Iraqi officials said.
AFP
The Asian Age, November 23, 2007
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8 music shops in Pak hit by blast
Peshawar, November 22 – At least eight video and music shops were badly damaged by a powerful blast that ripped through a market in northwestern Pakistan early on Thursday. The bomb was planted in Punjab Regimental Centre market in Mardan, a town about 60 km northeast of the provincial capital of Peshawar, said a local police officer.
(AP)
The Asian Age, November 23, 2007
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Bomb hits Baghdad pet market, 13 killed
Baghdad, November 23 – A bomb exploded in a pet market in central Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 13 people and wounding dozens, the Iraqi police said. The blast occurred just before 9 am at the al-Ghazl market, shattering the festive atmosphere, as people strolled past the animal stalls.
(AP)
The Asian Age, November 24, 2007
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Serial blasts rock UP courts, 14 killed
New Delhi, November 23: An email warning television news channels of serial bomb blasts in three cities of Uttar Pradesh on Friday was sent from a cyber cafe in east Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar area, the police and intelligence sources told the Hindustan Times. The mail with the header ‘Indian Mujahideen,’ was sent from the ID guru_alhindi@yahoo.fr. It said “within minutes” lawyers would be attacked. The near-simultaneous blasts in court premises in Varanasi, Faizabad and Lucknow, that killed 14 people and injured over 50 others, targeted lawyers, on November 17, Lawyers of the session court in Lucknow beat up three Jaish-e-Mohammad militants who had planned to kidnap Rahul Gandhi. Lawyers of the state had also refused to represent Wali Ullah, the mastermind of the March 2006 blasts at the Sankat Mochan temple in Banaras as also Jalaluddin Molla, a key harkat-ul-Jahed-e-Islami militant arrested in the state in June.
Tushar Srivastava
Hindustan Times, November 24, 2007
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Suicide bomber kills 9 in Kabul
A suicide bomber on the outskirts of the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed 9 civilians, four of them children, and an Italian soldier, the Italian army said. The hardline Islamist Taliban have killed at least 200 civilians in more than 140 suicide attacks so far this year in their campaign to oust the pro-Western Afghan government and eject the more than 50,000 foreign troops from the country.
The Hindustan times, November 25, 2007
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Suicide blast kill 35 as jehadis target ISI, Pak army again
Islamabad – Pro-Taliban and Al Qaeda-linked terrorists struck at the heart of Pakistan’s military establishment on Saturday, killing at least 35 people in suicide attacks on a checkpoint outside army headquarters and a bus carrying employees of the Inter-Services Intelligence, the dirty tricks agency which ironically created and nurtured Taliban for decades. The attack was the second major strike against ISI in recent months.
Agencies
Sunday Times of India, November 25, 2007
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More attacks coming: Email
New Delhi – A fresh “terror” email on Saturday threatening to target the Pakistani cricket team if it did not withdraw from the current test series and also claiming that plans were afoot to carry out strikes in Delhi, Islamabad, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Ghaziabad kept security agencies on tenterhooks.
Time News Network
Sunday Times of India, November 25, 2007
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Goa governor escapes another attack on life
Kohima/Dimapur – Goa Governor S C Jamir survived a bid his life on Saturday when his convoy was attacked with IED blasts in Nagaland’s Mokokchung district. Two security personnel were injured in the attack, which was the fourth attempt on the life of the former Nagaland chief minister.
Time News Network
Sunday Times Of India, November 25, 2007
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9 killed in Baghdad car bombing
Baghdad – Nine people were killed and 15 wounded when a car bomb and two roadside bomb attacks rocked Baghdad in Sunday, the Interior Ministry said. In another incident, a road side bomb went off near a US patrol in eastern Baghdad.
HT Newsroom and Agencies
Hindustan Times, November 26, 2007
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2 killed in Kabul suicide attack
Kabul – A suicide bomb aimed at US-led coalition soldiers exploded in Tuesday in an up market Kabul area that is home to foreign embassies and aid agencies, killing at least two Afghans, the police said.
Agencies
Hindustan Times, November 27, 2007
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Gunmen kill 11 of Iraqi editor’s family
Baghdad – Unidentified gunmen have murdered 11 members of an Iraqi journalist’s family in east Baghdad, independent Voices of Iraqi reported, citing a statement by the Iraqi committee to protect journalists. About seven armed men in a civilian car broke into the house of Diyaa al-Wakaz on Sunday, shooting dead all members of his family including his wife and children.
Hindustan Times, November 28, 2007
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18 killed in Colombo blast
Colombo – Eighteen people were killed in a parcel bomb explosion triggered by suspected LTTE cadres in an apparel shop at a crowded junction just outside the Colombo municipal limits on Wednesday.
B. Muralidhar Reddy
The Hindustan Times, November 29, 2007
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Female bomber hurts 7 troops
Baghdad, November 28 - A woman wearing an explosives belt blew herself up near an American patrol northeast of Baghdad, a rare female suicide bombing that wounded seven US troops and five Iraqis, the US military said in Wednesday.
Lori Hinnant (AP)
The Asian Age, November 29, 2007
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‘Bra bomber tries to kill Sri Lanka minister’
Colombo – A disabled Tamil Tiger suicide bomber with explosives hidden in her bra blew herself up outside the office of a Tamil minister in Wednesday, killing his secretary, the Sri Lankan military said.
AFP
The Time of India, November 29, 2007
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Food for Thought
Man is what he reads.
- Joseph Brodsky
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by the sun by scribbling the world “darkness” on the walls of his cell.
- C.S. Lewis
Always render more and better services than is expected of you, no matter what your task.
- Og Mandino
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