Two ‘Lashkar’ conduits held at railway station
News Delhi – Two alleged conduits of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) have been arrested at the railway station here by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police. Two improvised plastic explosive devices were recovered from them. Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) said the two were planning to plant a bomb in the crowded Paharganj Market near New Delhi Railway Station.
The Hindu – January 1, 2007.
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2 dead, 12 injured in bomb blasts in Bangkok
Bangkok – December 31, 2006 – A series of New Year’s Eve bomb blasts rocked the Thai capital Bangkok on Sunday, killing at least two people and injuring 12, the police said.
Denis D. Gray
The Asian Age – January 1, 2007.
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Blasts rock Brazil police complex
Three blasts have torn through a police warehouse used to store weapons in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, killing one officer and hurting three others.
The explosions were followed by a blaze, which is said to have completely destroyed the building as well as a number of vehicles used by riot police.
Email dated 3.1.2007 from Mr. Mayer Nudell, USA.
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Taliban to step up attacks on foreign troops
Spin Boldak – January 2, 2007 – The Taliban will step up attacks on foreign troops in Afghanistan this year and kill anyone who negotiates with the government, a top rebel commander said on Tuesday. Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah said the new year would see more attacks on NATO and US forces. “Suicide and guerrilla attacks on NATO, American and coalition forces will continue and increase this year. The Taliban will inflict heavy casualties on them,” Dadullah told Reuters.
Saeed Ali Achakzai/Reuters
Hindustan Times – January 3, 2007.
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From Monitoring Teens to Monitoring Terrorists
Washington Post (01/03/07) P. D1 ; Mui, Ylan Q.
The International Council of Shopping Centers and George Washington University's Homeland Security Policy Institute are testing a new 14-hour training programme for the roughly 20,000 security guards that protect U.S. shopping malls. Although no U.S. shopping mall has ever been attacked by terrorists, at least two such plots have been disrupted during the past two years, including one this past Christmas, and the Homeland Security Department has classified shopping malls as "soft targets" for terrorism. The 14-hour training programme which represents the first standardized anti-terrorism curriculum for U.S. mall security guards--teaches guards to identify potential terrorists and to be aware of the effects of terrorist attacks.
Security Management Daily – January 3, 2007.
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At least 13 killed in Baghdad car bombs
Baghdad – January 4, 2007 – Two bombs exploded in Baghdad’s upscale Mansour neighbourhood on Thursday, killing people and wounding at least 25, the police said. An officer of the Mansour Police Station said two parked cars exploded one after another near a fuel station.
Associated Press
Express Newsline – January 5, 2007.
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Plot to hit Infosys foiled
Bangalore – January 5, 2007 - On Friday, the police foiled an attempt by a suspected terrorist to attack IT major Infosys and the HAL airport in the city. The police party intercepted a passenger bus coming from Hospet near Jalahalli on the city’s outskirts and arrested 32-year-old Imran. The police recovered one AK-47, 300 rounds of ammunition, four AK-47 magazines and five hand grenades and some documents from his bag.
Special Correspondent
The Asian Age – January 6, 2007.
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Five killed, 50 hurt in Sri Lanka bus blast
Colombo – At least five persons were killed and 50 others injured as an explosion rocked a passenger bus in which they were travelling from Nitambuwa to Girullah on the Kandy-Colombo highway on Friday evening. According to preliminary reports, the incident occurred around 6.30 p.m. Authorities said the bomb was fixed to a seat in the bus.
B. Muralidhar Reddy
The Hindu -January 6, 2007.
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Egypt mission in Pak gets terror threat
Islamabad – January 8, 2007 – The Egyptian embassy in Pakistan has received a terror threat on telephone, a letter written to the Pakistan foreign ministry here said. The Egyptian diplomats have expressed their apprehension about their security and demanded the Pakistan government to enhance the security for the embassy staff and the office of the embassy.
Pakistan Correspondent
The Asian Age – January 9, 2007.
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Militants shoot schoolboy in J-K
Srinagar – Militants shot dead one Sajjad Ahmad Mir, 17-year- old student of IXth class, in Baramulla district, outside his house on Sunday night, the police said.
Email from Mr. Mayer Nudell, USA – dated December 5, 2006
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U.S. to give $445 million to Protect Transit From Terrorism
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced Tuesday that some $445 million in anti-terrorism funding will be distributed to American cities and regions to prevent attacks on mass transit systems, ports, and chemical plants. Chertoff said that the recipients of the funding will be held accountable for how they use the money – they must create and submit plans showing how the funding will be used to protect critical assets. Of the $445 million, $201 million will go towards protecting railways and ports, $172 million will be used for protecting U.S. transit systems, $48.5 million will go towards protecting chemical plants and other critical facilities,, and $11.6 million apiece will go toward protecting trucking and intercity bus systems.
Security Management Daily – January 10, 2007.
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London man is banker for Al Qaeda: UK
The British and US governments have named a key Al Qaeda suspect in Britain as one of the terror group’s alleged bankers, Mohammed al-Ghabra, whose bank accounts have been frozen by the Bank of England. The American government has issued a statement “designating” al-Ghabra, who lives in east London, as someone “who provides material and logistical support to Al Qaeda and other terrorist organisations”.
David Leppard & Robert Booth/Sunday Times, London
The Times of India – January 8, 2007.
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Bus blast kills 15 in southern Lanka
Colombo – January 6, 2007 – At least 15 people were killed and 40 injured on Saturday, when a powerful blast ripped through a private passenger bus at Seeigama on the Colombo-Galle coastal highway in South West Sri Lanka. On Friday, there was a blast in a bus at Nittambuwa, on the Colombo-Kandy road, which left six dead and wounded 50 others.
P.K. Balachandran
Sunday Hindustan Times – January 7, 2007.
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Two killed in J&K
Two persons have been killed and 24 others, including four army jawans, injured as militants hurled a grenade at security forces at Shopian in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir. No militant outfit has claimed responsibility.
Hindustan Times – January 7, 2007.
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Rocket fired at US embassy in Athens
Athens – January 12, 2007 – Suspected leftist guerrillas fired a rocket at the US embassy in Athens on Friday, but no one was hurt in the blast, the police and government officials said. The small rocket launched from across the street shattered windows and woke up residents in the central Athens area.
Karolos Grohmann/Reuters
Hindustan Times – January 13, 2007.
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65 killed in Baghdad varsity attack
Dubai – Sixty-five people, including women, students and teachers, were killed and 110 injured on Tuesday, in a devastating twin suicide bombing at the gates of a university in Baghdad. The first attack was near the main gate of the Mustansiriya University where a car bomb exploded killing students awaiting buses to go home. A second explosion followed after a suicide bomber on foot detonated his explosives near the second gate, where crowds fleeing the first blast had begun to gather.
Atul Aneja
The Hindu =- January 17, 2007.
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Russia declares terror alert
Moscow – January 17, 2007 – Russia today declared a high alert and tightened security at defence installations and transport networks across the country, after a warning from “foreign sources” of possible terrorist attacks.
Dadan Upadhyay
The Indian Express – January 18, 2007.
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Suicide bomber kills 19 in Baghdad
Baghdad – January 18, 2007 – A suicide car bomber killed 19 Shias at a teeming Sadr City market on Wednesday, while gunmen in a predominantly Sunni neighbourhood of Baghdad shot up a convoy of democracy workers in an ambush that took the lives of an American woman and three bodyguards.
Kim Gamel/(AP)
The Asian Age – January 19, 2007.
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‘Pakistan continues to fuel jehad, terrorism’ – US journalist
Washington –An American foreign correspondent has reported that Islamabad continues to fuel jehad and terror as a state policy. Cariotta Gall, a New York Times was manhandled and punched on December 19, 2006, by Pakistani agents who broke into her hotel room in Quetta. Now, more than a month after the episode, Gall, having returned to the US, reports that there are many signs that Pakistani authorities are encouraging the insurgents, if not sponsoring them. An unnamed Western diplomat in Kabul told Gall that the Pakistanis are actively supporting the Taliban and he had seen an intelligence report of a recent meeting on the Afghan border between a senior Taliban commander and a retired colonel of the Pakistani ISI.
Chidanand Rajghatta/TNN
The Times of India – January 22, 2007.
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20 American troops killed in Iraq
Baghdad – In the deadliest day for US forces in two years, at least 20 American service members were killed in military operations including 13 who died in a helicopter crash and five slain in an attack by militants in the holy city of Karbala, military officials said. Five US soldiers were killed on Saturday night when militants attacked a provincial headquarters in the Shia Muslim holy city of Karbala. Three other soldiers were wounded repelling the attack.
AP
The Times of India – January 22, 2007.
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Militants may use ‘toy planes’ to target VIPs during polls
New Delhi – January 21, 2007 –According to an intercept by intelligence agencies, militants planned to use “remote-controlled airborne aerodynamic modules” (RCAAM) to target the VIPs who would be busy campaigning in during forthcoming state elections. They can hit targets within a range of 300 to 900 metres, the sources added.
Sumir Kaul/PTI
The Asian Age – January 22, 2007.
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Bombings kill 78 in Baghdad
Baghdad – January 22, 2007 – At least 78 people were killed and more than 150 wounded on Monday after two nearly simultaneous bombs struck a predominantly Shia commercial area in central Baghdad. Monday’s first blast, a parked car bomb, tore through stalls of vendors peddling DVDs and second-hand clothes. Seconds later, a suicide car bomber drove into the crowd. Deputy Health Minister said at least 78 people were killed land 156 were wounded.
Sinan Salaheddin/AP
Hindustan Times – laniary 23, 2007.
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16 injured in J&K blast
Srinagar – January 22, 2007 – At least 15 pedestrians and a policeman were injured when militants tossed a hand grenade to target an Army convoy at Pattan along the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road on Monday. The police and witnesses said that the assailants missed the intended target and the grenade fell on the road and exploded, wounding 15 civilians and the policeman.
Special Correspondent
The Asian Age – January 23, 2007.
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Four Pakistan soldiers die in suicide bomb attack
Miran Shah – January 22, 2007 – A suicide car bomber attacked a military convoy in northwestern Pakistan, killing himself and at least four soldiers, an intelligence official said. The attacker had parked his bomb-laden car on the side of the road and detonated it when a patrol convoy passed by, damaging three pickup trucks. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
Bashirullah Khan/AP
The Asian Age – January 23, 2007.
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‘Qaeda men in Iraq planned replay of 9/11’
Washington – In a bid to do a replay of the 9/11 attacks, militants allegedly linked to Al Qaeda in Iraq, planned to ease into the US through student visas, and planned to carry out attacks on American turf. Head of the US Defence Intelligence Agency recently testified that documents captured by coalition forces during a raid of safe house believed to house Iraqi members of Al Qaeda six months ago “revealed (AQI) was planning terrorist operations in the US”.
Agencies
The Times of India – January 24, 2007.
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3 CRPF men killed, 3 hurt in J&K blasts
Srinagar – Three CRPF jawans were killed and two others injured in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast in Pulwlama district of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. In a separate incident, one BSF jawan sustained injury when terrorists hurled a hand grenade towards a BSF bunker.
Times News Network
The Times of India – January 24, 2007.
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Suicide bomber kills 10 people
Kabul – January 23, 2007 – A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a US military base in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing 10 people land wounding 14 others, an Afghan official said.
Amir Shah/(AP)
The Asian Age – January 24, 2007.
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5 LTTE operatives held with bomb-making consignment
Chennai – January 24, 2007 – The ‘Q’ Branch of the Tamil Nadu Police arrested five Sri Lankan Tamils, suspected to be LTTE operatives, while attempting to smuggle a truck with two tones of ball bearings used in the manufacture of explosives. “We believe all of those arrested are LTTE supporters and the ball bearings were meant for making explosives for use by the rebel group,” a senior police officer said.
AP
The Indian Express – January 25, 2007
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Suicide blast at Islamabad venue of India’s R-Day party
`Islamabad – January 26, 2007 – A suspected suicide attacker set off a bomb at the Islamabad’s Marriott Hotel, killing a security guard and himself, and wounding at least seven others, a Pakistani official said.
ENS & Agencies
The Indian Express – January 27, 2007.
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Suicide bomber kills 26 in Baghdad
Baghdad – January 25, 2007 – A suicide car bomber struck a predominantly Shiite neighbourhood in central Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 25 and wounding 54, the police said. At least 3 policemen were there among the dead.
Bassem Mroue/Associated Press
The Indian Express – January 27, 2007.
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16 killed in Iraq blasts
Baghdad – At least 16 Iraqis were killed and over 57 wounded on Friday in violence in Iraq, sources said. An explosive device killed 13 and injured 37 others in Central Baghdad. At least three were killed and 20 wounded in the bombardments of two villages near the city of Muqdadiyah, an Iraqi official said.
DPA
The Hindu – January 27, 2007.
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Afghan MP shot dead
Kabul – An Afghan MP was shot dead in Kabul on Friday, said the Interior Ministry. His body guard was injured in the incident. A suicide bombing targeted another MP on December 22 in Kabul, but he escaped unhurt.
The Hindu – January 27, 2007.
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Now, Al Qaeda in Algeria
London - Algeria’s main Islamist militant group has changed its name to Al Qaeda after getting the approval of Osama bin Laden on the Internet on Friday. Salafist group for Preaching and Combat, which has led an insurgency against Algeria’s secular government, said it was adopting the name Al Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb.
Reuters
Sunday Times of India – January 28, 2007.
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Blast at Peshawar mosque kills l0
Peshawar, January 27 – A bomb exploded near a Shiite Muslim mosque in Peshawar late Saturday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 35, the police said. The blast went off in the Qissakhwani Bazaar area from where the Shiites had been preparing to start their procession.
Associated Press
The Sunday Express – January 28, 2007.
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Philippines clashes kill 5
Cotabato, Philippines – Abut 100 members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) attacked a village in the southern Philippines, triggering fighting that left five dead and forcing hundreds to evacuate, officials said on Sunday.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – January 29, 2007.
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Increased security after blast kills 14 in Pakistan
Peshawar – January 28, 2007 – Pakistan ordered a federal probe and beefed up security on Sunday after a suspected suicide bomber killed 14 people, including two top police officers. On Friday, a suicide bomber blew himself up at the upmarket Marriott hotel in Islamabad, also killing security guard trying to prevent him from entering the building.
Zahid Noor/AFP
Hindustan Times – January 29, 2007.
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Suicide attack targeting Shia procession kills 2 in Pak
Islamabad – A suicide bomber on Monday blew himself up killing two people and injuring seven others in Pakistan’s Northwest frontier province. State run PTV said the suicide bomber intended to target a Shia procession taken out during Muharram. He reportedly refused to be searched and detonated explosives strapped to his body.
PTI
The Times of India – January 30, 2007.
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Suicide bombing returns to Israel
Eilat – January 29, 2007 – Palestinian suicide bomber killed three people in a bakery in the Red Sea resort of Eilat, the police said. Islamic Jihad and the Aqsa brigades said the bombing was a response to Israeli “attempts to defile Al Aqsa mosque” in Jerusalem, a reference to recent archaeological excavations.
Rami Amichal/Reuters
Hindustan Times – January 30, 2007.
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Muslim rebels in Philippines end hostilities
Ctabato – Muslim separatist rebels on Monday said they had agreed to end three days of hostilities in the southern Philippines that have left at least five people dead and hundreds displaced.
AFP
Hindustan Times – January 30, 2007.
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40 Shia pilgrims killed on Ashura
Baghdad – Bombers killed 36 people in attacks on Shia worshippers marking the climax of the religious festival of Ashura near Baghdad on Tuesday and gunmen killed four in Baghdad’s south-western district of Bayaa. In the first blast, 13 people were killed, and 39 injured when a roadside bomb hit a procession of Shiites in the town of Khanaqin northeast of Baghdad, the police said. Shortly afterwards, a suicide bomber blew himself up among worshippers outside a Shia mosque in the town of Balad Ruz, killing 23 people and wounding 57. The gunmen who attacked pilgrims in Bayaa also wounded six.
Reuters
The Times of India – January 31, 2007.
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Laugh A While
A drunkard was brought to court. Just before the trial there was a commotion in the gallery. The judge pounded the gravel on his table and shouted. “Order, order.”
The drunkard immediately responded, “Thank you, your honour, I’ll have a scotch and soda.”
Customer: If I post this letter tonight, will it get to Delhi in two days time?
Post Master: Yes sir, it definitely will.
Customer: I bet you, it won’t.
Post Master: Why not?
Customer: It’s addressed to Mumbai.
Email dated 23.12.2006 from Mr. T.A. Chari, IPS (Retd.), India.
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