Bomber kills 12 in Iraq
Baghdad – December 31, 20007 – A suicide bomber drove a truck rigged with explosives into a checkpoint manned by members of a US-backed security volunteer group in a town north of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 12 people. Another three people were missing, believed blown up in the explosion in the town of Mishada, 30 kms north of the capital, according to a police officer.
(AP)
The Asian Age – January 2, 2008.
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Lanka leader shot dead
An opposition lawmaker was assassinated at a New Year’s religious service near Sri Lanka’s capital Tuesday. Ten other people were injured in the incident.
Bharatha Mallawarachi / AP
Hindustan Times – January 2, 2008.
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Militants abduct four Pak troops
Dera Ismail Khan (Pakistan) – January 1, 2008 – Security forces fought with suspected Islamic militants on Tuesday in a northwestern Pakistan tribal region after militants kidnapped four paramilitary troops, an intelligence official said. Mortar shells hit the school, but it was not known whether there were any casualties.
(AP)
The Asian Age – January 2, 2008.
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Militants kidnap govt official in Manipur
Imphal – Militants have kidnapped an assistant engineer of Manipur Educational Department, official sources said on Monday. He was taken at gunpoint from a place near his office and his whereabouts were still unknown.
The Indian Express – January 2, 2008.
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Jihadis raid CRPF camp in UP, kill 8
Lucknow/Meerut/New Delhi – January 1, 2008 – Suspected jihadi terrorists served up a chilling reminder of the threats to India within hours of the beginning of 2008, killing eight people in an attack on a CRPF centre in Uttar Pradesh. Four terrorists, dressed in CRPF uniforms, stormed the group centre of the CRPF in Rampur at around 3.00 A.M. Seven personnel and a civilian were killed and six others injured.
HT Correspondent
Hindustan Times – January 2, 2008.
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Powerful blast kills 5 in Lanka
Colombo – January 2, 2008 – Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a powerful roadside bomb in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on Wednesday, killing five people and wounding 28 others, the police said. “It appears to be an explosive device weighing six to seven kilos and set off by remote control,” a police official said.
AFP
Hindustan Times – January 3, 2008.
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13 killed, 24 hurt in Lanka blast
Colombo – At least 13 people, including a woman and two school children, were killed and 24 (14 civilians and 10 soldiers) injured in a landmine attack on an army bus by suspected LTTE rebels in the heart of the Sri Lankan capital on Wednesday. The explosion took place at 9.30 A.M. in front of the Nippon Hotel at Slave Island.
PTI
The Indian Express – January 3, 2008.
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Suicide attack on police station kills four
Algiers – A suicide car bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a police station in Naciria, east of the Algerian capital on Wednesday, killing at least four persons and wounding 12 others, including nine police officers, the state radio said. Al-Qaeda’s Branch in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for twin suicide car bomb attacks in the capital Algiers on December 11, in which 41 persons were killed.
AFP
The Hindu – January 3, 2008.
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Israel Taking Bin Laden's Threats Seriously
Agence France Presse (12/31/07)
Israeli officials will step up security and vigilance in the light of recent al-Qaeda activity in nearby Lebanon, Jordan, the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, and Palestinian territories. Areas in Turkey dominated by Americans, Israelis, and other groups unsympathetic to Palestine are especially vulnerable to attacks from insurgents, according to recent Israeli intelligence reports in the influential newspaper Yediot Aharonot. In a Dec. 29, 2007, audiotape, Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden calls for his followers to enact "jihad from river to sea…blood for blood and destruction for destruction," a threat Israel takes very seriously, according to government spokesman Mark Regev.
Security Management Daily – January 2, 2008.
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30 people injured by car bomb in Turkey
Ankara – January 3, 2008 – A car bomb exploded in the Kurdish-dominated southeastern city of Diyarbakir on Thursday wounding around 30 people, including military personnel, news reports said. A bus reportedly was passing by a five-star hotel when the bomb exploded. Around 30 people were hospitalised.
(AP)
The Asian Age – January 4, 2008.
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5 killed in Baghdad attacks
Baghdad – January 3, 2008 – At least five people killed in two separate attacks in Baghdad on Thursday. Three people were killed and 11 injured when a bomb planted at the house of a local member of the Dawa party detonated at dawn in a Shia-dominated area of southeastern Baghdad.
(AP)
The Asian Age – January 4, 2008.
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Taliban group issues ultimatum to Pak govt
Islamabad – The Tehrik Taliban-e-Pakistan, the Taliban faction led by Baitullah Mehsud, which has been blamed by the Pakistan government for Benazir Bhutto’ assassination, has warned that it will carry out attacks across the country if the military is not withdrawn from the restive northwestern Swat alley in two days. It would expand its actions from Waziristan to Kohistan.
The Hindustan Times – January 4, 2008.
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Afghan bomber kills two Indians
New Delhi – In the first-ever suicide attack on Indian nationals in Afghanistan, two Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) men were killed and five others wounded in Raza village, in the southwest province of Nimroz, on Thursday. The suicide bomber struck minutes after an Afghan police convoy was hit by a roadside motorcycle bomb on the Zaranj-Delaram road being constructed by the ITPB, officials said. At least six Afghan police personnel were killed.
The Hindustan Times – January 4, 2008.
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Female fidayeens join Qaeda in Iraq
According to military records, the female suicide attacks come as US-led coalition forces are increasingly catching insurgents suspected of training women to become human bombs or finding evidence of efforts by Al-Qaeda in Iraq to recruit women. Female suicide bombers are a small part of the insurgents’ battle to force US troops out of Iraq. On December 31, 2007, a female detonated explosives in Baqouba.
Mail Today, Sunday, January 6, 2008.
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US Qaeda militant urges attack on Prez Bush
Dubai - US al-Qaeda militant Adm Gadahn urged Islamist militants to welcome US president George Bush with bombs when he visited the Middle East this week. “Welcome him not with flowers and applause but with bombs and traps,” he said in a 50-minute video posted on the internet on Sunday.
Reuters
The Times of India – January 7, 2008.
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Militants kill 8 tribal leader in Pakistan
Islamabad – January 7, 2008 – Suspected Islamic militants fatally shot eight tribal leaders involved in efforts to broker a ceasefire between security forces and insurgents in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, authorities said on Monday. The tribal leaders were killed in separate attacks on Sunday and early Monday in South Waziristan where Al Qaeda and Taliban militants are known to operate. The suspected insurgents killed three of the men in a market in Wana while the other five were killed in attacks on their homes. Also on Monday, a suicide attacker detonated a bomb near a guesthouse where military officers were staying, wounding one person.
Sadaqat Jan / (AP)
The Asian Age – January 8, 2008.
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Roadside blast kills Lanka minister
Colombo – January 8, 2008 – Sri Lankan Government minister was killed on Tuesday in a roadside bombing blamed on the LTTE, the first successful assassination of a top Sri Lankan official in 19 months. The bomb tore through the car carrying Nation Building Minister D.M. Dassanayake as he travelled through the Ja-Ela area, said a military spokesman. Another man was also killed in the explosion.
Bharatha Mallawarachi / AP
The Indian Express – January 9, 2008.
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Algeria militants kill 5 soldiers
Algiers – Suspected Islamist rebels killed five soldiers in an ambush on a military convoy east of Algiers on Wednesday, a security source said. The attack occurred near the town of Tizi Ouzou, 120 kms east of the capital, the sources said.
Agencies
Hindustan Times – January 10, 2008.
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26 killed in suicide attack on Pak police
Lahore – At least 22 police and four civilians were killed on Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the high court in the commercial heart of Lahore. The blast ripped through a busy square in the city centre as dozens of riot police gathered ahead of a protest by lawyers against the rule of President Pervez Musharraf. Up to 60 people, including police officers, were rushed to hospital.
AFP
The Times of India – January 11, 2008.
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Rebels gun down three in Thailand
Yala – Three persons were shot dead by suspected Islamic rebels and seven others were injured in a string of shootings in Thailand’s restive south, the police said on Thursday. A 34-year-old government official was gunned down on Wednesday in a drive-by shooting in Yala, one of three insurgency-torn provinces bordering Malaysia. Later in the day, gunmen opened fire on five others who were sitting outside a house, killing one and wounding four.
Hindustan Times – January 11, 2008.
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Militants attack Pak army base
Wana – Pakistani troops defeated an attack by hundreds of Islamic militants in a restive tribal region this week, inflicting heavy casualties, officials said on Friday. The attack came hours after thousands of armed tribesmen met at Wana in South Waziristan on Wednesday, vowing to organize a Lashkar (legion) to hunt down Al Qaeda-linked militants blamed for killing eight of their kinsmen.
Hindustan Times – January 12, 2008.
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10 killed as blast rocks Karachi
Karachi – January 14, 2008 – At least 10 people, including two children, were killed and 45 others injured in a powerful bomb blast in an industrial area on Monday. The blast occurred at the busy Gul Ahmed roundabout at Landhi Industrial Area in Qaidabad at about 8.30 p.m. Police said the bomb had been hidden in a motorcycle that was blown to bits.
Press Trust of India
The Indian Express – January 15, 2008.
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Blast, gunfire at Kabul’s luxury hotel
Kabul – January 14, 2008 – An explosion and several rounds of gunfire went off Monday at a luxury Kabul hotel frequented by foreigners, and a Taliban spokesman said one suicide bomber and three militants with grenades and gunfire attacked the hotel.
AP
Hindustan Times – January 15, 2008.
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Eight Thai soldiers killed
Bangkok - January 14, 2008 – Eight soldiers were killed on Monday when separatist rebels ambushed their vehicle in Thailand’s Muslim majority South. They were returning after escorting a group of teachers.
AFP
Hindustan Times – January 15, 2008.
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Gunmen kill judge in Baghdad
Baghdad – Gunmen killed an appeals court judge as he headed to work in the western Baghdad district of Mansour on Monday, the police said. He was ambushed by gunmen in two cars as he was being driven to work from his home in Mansour, the police said.
(AP)
The Asian Age –January 15, 2008.
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14 injured in Assam blast
Guwahati – At least 14 people, including a child and a CRPF jawan, were injured in an explosion triggered by suspected ULFA rebels near the Guwahati railway station on Sunday evening. Earlier in the morning, Guwahati was rocked by another explosion in an abandoned house though no casualty was reported. Suspected rebels hurled a hand grenade into the crowded Paltanbazar area, which is in the vicinity of Guwahati railway station. Almost simultaneously, a group of ULFA rebels lobbed two hand grenades and fired several rounds from their automatic weapons at the camp of 44th Field Regiment at Halowa village in Upper Assam’s Sivasagar district. No casualty was reported.
Times News Network
The Times of India – January 14, 2008.
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Pak forces targeted by suicide bomber
Islamabad – January 15, 2008 – In a fresh attack on the Pakistani security forces, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a paramilitary post in the tribal Mohamand Agency near the Afghan border on Tuesday, the army said. Three militants approached the post at Kapakh Kandao in Mohmand Agency and one detonated a device without causing damage or any casualties to the security forces.
Pakistan Correspondent
The Asian Age – January 16, 2008.
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Attack on US mission in Beirut kills three
Beirut – January 16, 2008 – The US embassy restricted the movement of its staff on Wednesday and urged Americans to be vigilant a day after a bomb hit one of its vehicles, killing three passers-by.
Sam F. Ghattas / (AP)
The Asian Age – January 17, 2008.
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7 killed as Taliban takes Pakistan fort
Islamabad – At least seven Pakistani para-military personnel were killed after Taliban militants captured a fort in South Waziristan. Whereabouts of over 20 are not known.
Nirupama Subramanian
The Hindu – January 17, 2008.
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Sri Lanka bus blast kills 25 as truce is scrapped
Colombo – A roadside bomb tore through a Sri Lankan bus killing 25 people and wounding dozens on Wednesday. The blast occurred in the central district of Moneragala, around 240 kms east of Colombo. A second blast targeted an army armoured personnel carrier 12 miles south of the first attack, wounding three soldiers, the military said.
Reuters
Hindustan Times – January 17, 2008.
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Female suicide bomber kills 8 in Iraq
Baquba – A female suicide bomber blew herself up in a marketplace in a small town north of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, a local military commander said. The incident took place in the Shiite town of Khan Bani Saad, 50 kms north of Baghdad.
Hindustan Times – January 17, 2008.
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Bomb blast kills five
Peshawar – A bomb exploded in a crowded Shia Muslim prayer hall in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Thursday, killing five people and wounding several, a government spokesman said.
Hindustan Times – January 18, 2008.
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"Bomb Next to U.S. Vehicle Kills 3 Civilians Near Beirut"
New York Times (01/16/08) ; Bakri, Nada
A bomb blast in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Jan. 15 killed at least three civilians and injured dozens of bystanders outside the American Embassy. The attack marks the first time in 25 years that terrorists have attacked U.S. interests in Beirut.
Security Management – 16.1.2008
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Tigers shot dead 10 civilians
Colombo – January 18, 2008 – Suspected T1amil Tigers shot dead ten civilians in Sinhala south on Friday, the military said. The incidents took place in the same area where a clagmore mine allegedly triggered by the LTTE blew up a civilian bus killing 26 of the passengers on Wednesday.
Fazeena Saleem
The Asian Age – January 19, 2008.
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Tamil Nadu police bust LTTE cell, murder plot in India
Chennai – January 18, 2008 – The Tamil Nadu police have claimed to have thwarted an assassination bid on Indian soil, arresting eight Sri Lankan nationals, including a key member of the LTTE’S INTELLIGENCE WING, from suburban Madipakkam. Their target was the rival group member and Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front leader, Varadaraja Perumal who has been living incognito in India since the Tigers put him high on the hit list.
Jaya Menon
The Indian Express – January 19, 2008.
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Four Belgian tourists killed in Yemen
Sanaa – Two Belgian women tourists were among four people killed, and four more Belgians were wounded, when gunmen opened fire on them in Yemen’s Hadramut province on Friday, a local official said. Provincial Governor blamed the local branch of al Qaeda for the attack.
Hindustan Times – January 19, 2008.
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14 suspected Islamists held in Spain
Madrid – January 19, 2008 – Spanish police found material for making explosives and bombs in raids on Saturday in Barcelona, which also led to the arrest of 14 people, most of them believed to be Pakistanis, in connection with a suspected radical Islamist terror network, the Interior Minister said.
Agencies
Sunday Hindustan Times – January 20, 2008.
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Serial blasts rock Bhutan, woman injured
Siliguri – January 20, 2008 – The Dragon kingdom of Bhutan was rocked by four powerful bomb blasts on Sunday in four different districts. No one was killed, only one woman was injured in the blasts. The first bomb went off at 11.15 A.M. near a vegetable market in Samste. The second went off at 11.45 A.M. in Thimpu town near SNS Market. The third blast in which a woman was injured occurred at 1.25 P.M. near the gate of the Tata guest House at Gedu in Chukha district. The fourth one struck at 2.05 P.M. in Dagapela, in Dagana district.
Pramod Giri
Hindustan Times – January 21, 2008.
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Suicide bomber kills six in Iraq
Falluja – A suicide bomber killed six people in Iraq’s Anbar province on Sunday, mounting the second deadly bombing in as many days in a region where violence has plunged since local tribes rebelled against al Qaeda. The attack took place in a town south of the city of Falluja where people were celebrating the release of a man from US military custody. The bomber walked into the man’s house and blew himself up.
Hindustan Times – January 21, 2008.
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Two US troops killed in Baghdad
Baghdad – January 21, 2008 – Two US troops were killed in separate attacks while conducting combat operations in Iraq at the weekend, the US military announced on Monday. A marine was killed in western Anbar province on Saturday, a military statement said. A separate statement said a soldier was killed in a roadside bomb attack in the Arab Jabour area on the southern outskirts of Baghdad, also on Saturday.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – January 22, 2008.
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5 militants, cop killed in J-K
Srinagar – Five militants and a policeman were killed in three shootouts in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara and Shopian districts, the police said. A policeman and a militant were killed in a fierce gunfight in Kupwara. Two more militants were killed in retaliatory fire at Alaypore village in Shopian on Monday morning. In the third gunfight that began on Sunday night, two militants were killed at Mandigam village in Kupwara on Monday.
The Indian Express – January 22, 2008.
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Militants attack Pak Base: 1 soldier killed, 2 injured
Islamabad – January 23, 2008 – Islamic militants fired rockets at a military base in north-western Pakistan on Wednesday, killing one soldier and injuring two others as President Pervez Musharraf dismissed rising attacks in the region as “pinpricks”. The attack followed fighting on Tuesday that left seven troops and 37 militants dead in the mountainous area close to the border with Afghanistan.
Munir Ahmed / (AP)
The Asian Age – January 24, 2008.
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Mosul blasts kill police chief, 18 more
Baghdad – January 24, 2008 – A suicide bomber killed an Iraqi police chief and two other officers on Thursday as they fled an ambush at the site of the wreckage of another blast a day earlier that killed at least 18 civilians and wounded nearly 150-, the US military and Iraqi officials said. The attacker was wearing an explosives vest under an Iraqi police uniform when he struck, killing Brig. Gen. Saleh Mohammed Hassan, the director of police for Ninevah province, the United States military said in a statement.
Kim Gamel / (AP)
The Asian Age – January 25, 2008.
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Top officer, 9 more killed in Beirut
Beirut – January 25, 2008 – A senior intelligence officer investigating killings largely blamed on Syria was slain with nine other people in a bombing in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Friday, army and security officials said. An army officer said that Captain Wissam Eid, a member of the International Security Forces (ISF) was among the dead.
AFP
Hindustan Times – January26, 2008.
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Suicide bomber helps Spain cops nab terrorists
A man who helped Spanish security forces dismantle a suspected terror cell in Barcelona has admitted he was a suicide bomber of the group preparing attacks in Barcelona and other European cities, EFE news agency reported on Sunday. According to him, one of the chosen targets of their attacks was the Barcelona metro, used by thousands of people every day.
IANS
The Times of India – January 28, 2008.
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3 killed in Algeria blast
Algiers, Algeria – A car bomb exploded on Tuesday outside a police station in northern Algeria, killing at least three people and wounding several others, security officials said. The explosion was the latest in a wave of attacks signaling that Islamic fighters are regrouping in Algeria.
(AP)
The Asian Age – January 30, 2008.
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LTTE mine blast kills 11 schoolkids
Colombo – January 30, 2008 – Eleven schoolchildren and three teachers were among the 18 people killed when their bus hit a claymore mine in the Madu area of Mannar district in the LTTE-controlled area of north Sri Lanka on Tuesday afternoon. While the Tigers have accused the Army of planting the mine, the latter alleged it as the work of the rebels seeking to discredit the government.
Fazeena Saleem
The Asian Age – January 30, 2008
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2 Pak troops die in attack
Miranshah (Pakistan) – Two Pakistani soldiers were killed and another injured on Wednesday after militants launched rockets at their positions in a tribal area bordering Afghanistan.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – January 30, 2008
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Dozens wounded in Nepal blast
Kathmandu – January 30, 2008 – At least 27 people were wounded when a powerful explosion rocked the venue of a joint election meeting organized by the seven-party ruling alliance at Birgunj, about 200 kms from here, on Wednesday.
Yubaraj Ghimire
The Indian Express – January 31, 2008.
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Algeria: Car Bomb Blast Kills at Least 3
By AOMAR OUALI
Algeria has been battling an Islamic insurgency that broke out in the early 1990s, when the army canceled the second round of the country's first multiparty elections to prevent likely victory by an Islamic fundamentalist party.
Email dated 29.1.2008 from Mr. Mayer Nudell, CSC, USA.
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Three killed, 27 hurt in Philippine blast
Manila – Three people were killed and 27 injured on Wednesday in a bomb blast in the southern Philippine city of General Santos, the police said. The bomb exploded outside the main gates of a tuna canning factory just after 7.00 p.m. when the workers were leaving for their homes.
Hindustan Times – January 31, 2008.
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Food for Thought
“Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about the one's who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.”
-Michael Gartner, 1997 Pulitzer Prize winner,
editor of newspapers large and small and president of NBC News.
If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.
- Swami Vivekananda
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
- Swami Vivekananda
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