Manipur IGP killed in ambush
Imphal – December 31, 2005 – In a sudden militant strike on the convoy of the Manipur Police, the Inspector General of Police (Intelligence) and his driver were killed and four others injured in Bishnupur district on Saturday morning. Armed insurgents came in a Tata truck and fired indiscriminately at the police convey at 9.15 a.m. in the morning, sources said.
Sobhapati Samom
Hindustan Times – January 1, 2006.
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Blast in Indonesia kills eight
Palu – December 31, 2005 – Suspected militants detonated a powerful bomb in a Christian market in Indonesia on Saturday, killing eight people and wounding 45 others as they bought pork for New Year’s Eve celebrations. There were repeated warnings that militants belonging to the Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror network were planning fresh attacks over the holiday season. The market sold only pig and dog meat, both forbidden under Islam.
AP
Hindustan Times – January 1, 2006.
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CPI (M) leader, wife killed in Maoist attack
Purulia (West Bengal) Rabindranath Kar, CPI (M) leader and former zilla president, and his wife were killed when Maoists attacked and set their residence on fire at Bhomragarh in Purulia district on the Bengal-Jharkhand border on Saturday. According to the District Magistrate, more than 40 Maoists forced their way into Mr. Kar’s house and opened fire injuring him, and then they set the house on fire in which both husband and wife were charred to death.
The Hindu – January 1, 2006.
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20 wounded in a series of 12 car blasts across Iraq
Baghdad (Iraq) – January 1, 2006 – Twelve-car bombs exploded in different areas in Iraq on Sunday, including eight in Baghdad, that detonated within about a two-hour window, as insurgents continued their attacks in the New Year. The bombs injured at least 20 people but killed no one, the police said. One suicide attacker died. The police explosives experts later detonated a ninth car bomb in a controlled explosion. Two more car bombs also exploded in Kirkuk, including one that targeted an American convoy.
Jason Straziuso
The Asian Age – January 2, 2006.
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Nepal on edge, India worried
New Delhi – January 2, 2006 – Announcing the end of a four-month-long truce, Maoist chief Prachanda said he was forced to do so since the government did not reciprocate to their four-month-long cease-fire. A unilateral cease-fire was announced by the rebels on September 3, 2005, for three months. In December they extended it by one month, but the truce expired on Monday night. India, which has high stakes in maintaining peace in Nepal, finds itself in an awkward situation. It cannot assist the RNA with “lethal” weapons because of King Gyanendra’s decision to assume absolute power in February 2005, nor can it allow the Maoists to take control. India has called the withdrawal of cease-fire by the Maoists as “unfortunate”, and urged the insurgents to shun violence and work for a political settlement.
Nilova Roy Chaudhury
Hindustan Times – January 3, 2006.
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Terror plot foiled in Hyderabad
Hyderabad – The police here on Monday foiled a plan by Pakistan-based terror group, Jaish-e-Mohammed, to trigger New Delhi-like serial blasts in the city by arresting two suspects and recovering a huge quantity of explosives from them. The suspects allegedly planned to blow up the city police commissionerate, the office of the director-general of police and the Hitec city complex at Madhapur. Intelligence agencies had alerted the Hyderabad police a few days ago about possible terror attack on IT facilities in the city.
Ashok Das
Hindustan Times – January 3, 2005.
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Blasts rock Nepal as truce ends
Kathmandu – January 3, 2006 – A series of overnight blasts rocked Nepal with one erupting in Pokhara town, just hours after Maosit rebels called off the four-month truce. No one was hurt in the blast in Pokhara. In its first reaction to the end of the truce, Nepal’s royalist government said it stood ready to protect the country. The United Nations expressed its concern over the prospect of an escalation in fighting.
Reuters
Hindustan Times – January 4, 2006.
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Tigers planning to kill leaders
Columbia – January 3, 2006 – Sri Lankan police fears that LTTE may be lurking in Colombo to assassinate top political leaders including President Mahinda Rajapaksa. “We have had intelligence reports to this effect for sometime now,” DIG Colombo District told Hindustan Times on Tuesday. He added that among the leaders targeted by the LTTE were senior ministers and leaders of political parties like Deouglas Devanda of the Eelam Peoples’ Democratic Party (EPDP), and Rauff Hakeem of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress.
P.K.Balachandran
Hindustan Times – January 4, 2006.
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32 mourners killed in suicide attack on funeral in Iraq
Baghdad – A suicide bomber killed 32 mourners and injured dozens at a funeral for the nephew of Shia politician. In other violence on Wednesday, a car bomb exploded near an outdoor market in Baghdad’s southern Dora district, killing seven people and wounding 15, the police said. Another car bomb targeting a US patrol in Kirkuk, hit a civilian car, killing three persons. On Wednesday, in all, 53 people were killed in Iraq in different insurgent attacks.
AP
The Times of India – January 5, 2006.
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Suicide bombers wreak havoc in Iraq: 120 dead
Kerbala/Ramadi – January 5, 2006 – Two suicide bombers killed 120 people and wounded more than 200 in the Iraqi cities of Kerbala and Ramadi on Thursday in Iraq’s bloodiest day for four months. Seven soldiers were also blown up in two separate attacks, another three bombs exploded in Baghdad, two of them detonated by suicide bombers. Kerbala is one of Shia Islam’s holiest cities while Ramadi is a Sunni Arab stronghold and a hotbed of the insurgency.
Hindustan Times – January 5, 2006.
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Al Qaeda to recruit in Iraq and Australia
Sydney – Supporters of Al Qaeda’s leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, are attempting to recruit followers in Australia, Baghdad’s ambassador in Canberra said on Saturday. Ambassador Ghanim Ta al-Shibi said, “Those people are recruiting your people and soliciting money and sending those people to Iraq and that’s not a secret, you know.”
(AFP)
The Asian Age – January 7, 2006.
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LTTE kills 15 navy men
Colombo – January 7, 2006 – 15 Navy personnel were killed when an LTTE suicide boat rammed a naval vessel outside the Trincomalee harbour on Saturday. Military sources said two Israeli-made Fast Attack Craft (FAC) of the navy had set out of the Tricnomalee naval base on routine patrol early in the morning when an LTTE suicide boat emerged from a group of fishing boats and rammed one of the FAC, blowing it up. Fifteen men, including two officers, were killed.
P.K. Balachandran
Sunday Hindustan Times – January 8, 2006.
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LTTE blows up convoy, eight sailors killed
Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels triggered a powerful anti-powerful anti-personnel mine against a government navy convoy in northern Sri Lanka at Chettiukulam in Vavuniya district on Thursday, killing at least eight sailors and injuring eight others, an official said.
The Times of India – January 13, 2006.
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Big Maoist attack in Nepal
In the biggest attack against the government since the withdrawal of unilateral ceasefire by Maoists, more than a thousand armed rebels stormed over half a dozen government offices, including an army barrack and police post in western Nepal. The offensive continued till late in the night, in Dhangadhi municipality area of Kailali district, 650 km west of Kathmandu.
PTI, Kathmandu
The Times of India – January 13, 2006.
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14 cops killed in Kathmandu
Kathmandu – Fourteen policemen were killed in a series of bomb attacks by suspected Maoist rebels on the outskirts of the Nepalese capital, the police said on Saturday. Five separate attacks began on police targets in the Kathmandu valley around 6.25 p.m. Eleven officers were killed in a blast at a police station south of Kathmandu while three were killed in the capital’s eastern outskirts.
AFP, Kathmandu
Sunday Hindustan Times - January 15, 2006.
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Imam held in Mumbai for terror links
Mumbai – The police have arrested Maulana Ghulam Yahya Baksh, a 44-year-old Imam of the Haj House Masjid, late on Friday night from a prestigious Mumbai mosque on charges of being linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group which has emerged as the biggest threat in southern and western India. He is likely to lead the police to a politician based in south Mumbai, who was reportedly a key financier of terror operations. Baksh is the fourth alleged LeT member to be arrested in Mumbai since a crackdown which began after a suspected Lashkar gunman sprayed bullets at a gathering of scientists in Bangalore, killing a former IIT professor.
Somit Sen/TNN
Sunday Times of India - January 15, 2006.
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J-K cops sound alarm: some politicians are acting as ears, eyes of militants
Srinagar – January 15, 2006 – The J-K police today said that “foreign militants have got mainstream politicians involved in their nexus, who are acting like their eyes and ears”, thus turning the “elaborate security set-up into a joke”. The police said that the fidayeen strikes in Srinagar recently were attacks planned by people in the government and aimed at the government, thus exposing a change in the very dynamic of militancy. The police have busted a major Lashkar module and arrested a PDP councillor Abdul Waheed Dar and two of his accomplices including the husband of a Congress councillor, who had made two unsuccessful assassination attempts on former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and planned, executed several other fidayeen attacks. SSP Khan said mainstream politicians were “misusing their position, official vehicles and everything else to take around and help the fidayeen.”
Muzamil Jaleel
The Indian Express - January 16, 2006.
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Six security-men killed in Iraq, 2 engineers missing
Baghdad – Gunmen killed at least six Iraqi security personnel and two engineers from Malawi and Madagascar went missing following an attack on Wednesday on a mobile phone firm’s convoy in Baghdad. Iraqna, a cellphone company owner said that their convoy was attacked at about 8.00 A.M. in Nafaq al-Shurta area and that the fate of the missing engineers was unknown. There was confusion about the number of dead. Police Captain Qassim Hussein said at least 10 security personnel were killed in the attack, and hospital officials put the death toll at nine.
AP
The Times of India – January 19, 2006.
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Al-Qaeda issues warning, offers truce
Dubai – Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden warned that new attacks are being prepared on the United States, according to an audiotape attributed to him and broadcast on Al-Jazeera television on Thursday. “The delay in (attacks) is not because of security measures taken….These operations are being prepared and you will see their results,” he said, addressing the American people. A Washington report said, the White House on Thursday flatly rejected the truce offer and said that the US intelligence was trying to verify the recording’s authenticity. “We do not negotiate with terrorists. We put them out of business,” said spokesman Scott McClellan.
AFP
The Hindu – January 20, 2006.
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Security Stepped Up After Bin Laden Threat
ABC News (01/20/06)
Another tape from Al Qaeda is about to be released on the heels of the new recording from Osama bin Laden, according to messages posted on Al Qaeda Web sites. Only this tape will be from bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who appears to have survived a U.S. airstrike in Pakistan last week. The U.S. government does not plan to raise the national terrorism alert level from its current status of Yellow in response to the new audio recording from bin Laden, but security is nonetheless being increased across the country. The Homeland Security Department is issuing a bulletin to police agencies across the country, warning them to review all of their intelligence. In particular, the bulletin warns local authorities to focus their attention on mass transit, airports, chemical plants, water-treatment plants, and places where radioactive material is stored.
Security Management Daily – January 20, 2006
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Blasts in Baghdad kill 23
Baghdad – A suicide attacker detonated an explosive vest inside a crowded downtown coffee shop on Thursday and seconds later another bomb exploded under a nearby car, killing at least 23 persons and wounding 26, police officials said. The blasts occurred as the mother of abducted American reporter Jill Carroll appealed for her daughter’s release after her captors threatened to kill her if US authorities did not release all Iraqi women in military custody. Iraqi authorities said six of the eight detained Iraqi females are expected to be released by US military next week, but not as part of a bid to free Ms. Carroll. The suicide bombing killed 16 persons and wounded 21, police said. In other incidents, militants also opened fire on a convoy of the mobile telephone company Iraqna, killing six security guards and three drivers in western Baghdad.
AP
The Hindu – January 20, 2006.
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Four killed in Sri Lanka blasts
Colombo – At least four people were killed and 40 injured in three bomb attacks triggered by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels in eastern Sri Lanka today. A bicycle bomb exploded as an army truck passed by it in the town of Batticaloa, killing three policemen and a civilian, the police said.
Agencies
The Indian Express – January 20, 2006.
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Maoists attack kills 4 cops
Kathmandu – January 20 – Maoist rebels attacked a security check-point in west Nepal today, killing four policemen and injuring four officers, Radio Nepal said. They fled with weapons and ammunition taken from the police post.
Agencies
The Indian Express – January 21, 2006.
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Bombings scare Nato
Kabul – Twenty suicide attacks have rocked Afghanistan since late September, compared with just four in the first nine months of 2005, according to figures compiled by the Associated Press, signaling as tactical shift by Taliban and Al Qaeda militants. The US military calls it a sign of desperation, but the attacks are spooking Nato countries as they prepare to deploy thousands of troops to Afghanistan’s volatile south, taking over from US. On the Afghan-Pakistan border in Afghanistan’s deadliest suicide attack since the Taliban regime’s ouster in 2001, Mr. Bashir Jan, who suffered cuts to his face and hand, said the turban-wearing bomber parked by a police vehicle and blew himself up as about 100 mostly young men were starting to disperse after the last bout of wrestling. The blast left 21 dead.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – January 22, 2006.
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Terror strikes surge in Valley ahead of R-Day
Srinagar –Ahead of R-Day, terror strikes have increased in Kashmir Valley. On Saturday, five people were injured in an attack on a security picket at Srinagar’s Budshah Chowk. A CRPF jawan, a policeman and three civilians were injured when terrorists lobbed a grenade at the picket. There are intelligence inputs that militants may try to show their presence in the valley, particularly in Srinagar, said IG K. Rajendra Kumar.
M. Saleem Pandit/TNN
Sunday Times of India – January 22, 2006.
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23 killed in clash with Nepal Maoists
Kathmandu – Seventeen Maoist guerrillas and six security personnel were killed in the gun battle in restive Nepal since the rebels ended four-month-old deadlock truce three weeks ago, an army officer said. The seven-party alliance called for a nationwide general strike on Thursday. The army officer said the bodies of 17 dead Maoists and some of their weapons had been recovered from the site of the overnight clash at a remote village in Makawanpur district.
Reuters
The Times of India – January 23, 2006.
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Insurgents kill 13 in attacks across Iraq
Baghdad – Bomb blasts, shootings and rocket-propelled grenade attacks killed at least 13 people throughout Iraq, including a policeman’s four children, officials said on Sunday. Insurgents fired rocket propelled grenades at the home of an Iraqi police officer in Balad Ruz, 45 miles northeast of Baghdad.
AP
The Times of India – January 23, 2006.
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Blasts in restive Iranian city kill 6
Six people were killed in double bomb attack on Tuesday in the restive southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz. The first bomb in Ahvaz – dominated by ethnic minority Arabs and capital of the oil-rich Khuzestan province - exploded in front of a privately-run bank, killing six people and injuring more than 40. The second blast in front of a government office for natural resources, injured nine people.
AFP, Tehran
Hindustan Times – January 25, 2006.
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Filipino rebel poses threat to US troops
Manila – January 23, 2006 – The leader of an Al-Qaeda-linked terror group may be hiding out on a violent southern Philippine island and pose a threat when US troops hold joint military exercises with Filipino soldiers there next month, officials said on Monday. Abu Sayyaf, leader Khaddafy Janjalani, a wanted terrorist by USA, may have fled to Jolo island with his men late last year to escape a months-long military offensive in nearby Maguindanao province, according to security officials monitoring his movement.
AP
Hindustan Times – January 25, 2006.
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3 Sri Lankan soldiers killed in LTTE attack
Colombo – January 23, 2006 – Three Sri Lankan soldiers were killed and three were injured in a claymore mine blast set off by the LTTE at Oorani on the Batticaloa-Valachenai road early on Monday. Meanwhile, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said he had rejected the Muslims’ demand that they be given separate representation at the talks with the LTTE on the Ceasefire Agreement which the Norwegian peace brokers are trying to organize.
P.K. Balachandran
Hindustan Times – January 25, 2006.
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CIA Director tenet: No Saddam Link to Atta
In our judgment, the Sept. 11 plot was complex in its orchestration but simple in its basic conception. We believe that the factors vital to success of the plot were all easily within al-Qaeda’s means without resort to Iraqi expertise: shrewd selection of operatives, training in hijacking aircraft, a mastermind and pilots well-versed in the procedures and behavior needed to blend in with U.S. society, long experience in moving money to support operations, and the openness and tolerance of U.S. society as well as the ready availability of important information about targets, flight schools, and airport and airline security practices.
(This was the July 1, 2005, response of Director of CIA George Tenet to Sen. Carl Levin’s question.)
EIR December 9, 2005.
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Food for Thought
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
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