Terror Update
London - Plan for X-mas chaos aborted – A suspected terrorist of Asian origin was arrested on Tuesday by armed police in Britain on suspicion that he was part of an attempt by Islamic terrorists to buy arms and missiles for causing chaos during the festive season and to shoot down an airliner. He was thought to be particularly seeking explosives for a Christmas bomb blitz in London. The man is believed to be a British national from London.
Agencies
Hindustan Times – December 1, 2005.
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Pak blast in tribal area kills 5
Miran Shah (Pakistan) – December 1, 2005 – Suspected Islamist militants triggered an explosion while making a bomb inside a home in a tribal region in northwestern Pakistan early on Thursday, killing five people and injuring two others, a government official said. The explosion occurred near Misran Shah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
Bashirullah Khan
The Asian Age – December 2, 2005.
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Iraqi insurgents attack Ramadi
Baghdad – December 1, 2005 – On Thursday, insurgents fired mortar rounds and rockets at a US base and local government buildings. Leaflets were distributed saying that Al Qaeda in Iraq, the group led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, was taking control. After a couple of hours, most of the militants dispersed and the city appeared to return to relative calm.
Reuters
Hindustan Times – December 2, 2005.
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EU adds Hizbul Mujahideen to terror list
The European Union has added the Hizbul Mujahideen to its terror list. The EU began compiling its list of terrorist groups following the 9/11 attacks in the US.
IANS
Hindustan Times – December 2, 2005.
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Fresh bombing kills two in Bangladesh
Dhaka – December 1, 2005 – A second suspected suicide attack in three days near a court building in a Bangladeshi town has killed two people and wounded 25 others during a protest march against violence in the country, police said. On Tuesday, twin suicide bombings in or near court houses in Gazipur and Chittagong killed 11 people and wounded dozens of others. The police believe, the bomber died on way to hospital after the explosion. A policeman later died in the hospital. On Tuesday, a suicide bomber entered the court complex in Gazipur to disguise himself as a lawyer, and set off the bomb strapped to his body. Earlier that day, a bomber attacked a police checkpoint outside a court building in the southern port city of Chittagong. Nearly 100 people had been wounded in blasts in one week.
Reuters
Hindustan Times – December 2, 2005.
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Pak law bans hate lessons in madrassas
Islamabad – Pakistan President has promulgated an ordinance called ‘Societies Registration (second amendment) Ordinance 2005 prohibiting madrassas from teaching or publishing any literature that promotes militancy, spread sectarian and religious hatred. It will be mandatory for all madrassas in Islamabad Capital territory to register with the government and submit audit reports of their accounts as well as educational activities. Also, all madrassas, if not already registered, should do so before the end of this year.
P.T.I.
The Times of India – December 3, 2005.
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10 US Marines killed in Iraq blast
Washington – Ten Marines were killed and 11 wounded by a roadside bomb near Fallujah, Iraq, in one of the deadliest attack on American troops in recent months, the Marine Corps announced on Friday. The Marines were on a foot patrol. Meanwhile, 200 Iraqi Army soldiers and 300 US Marines launched an operation in Ramadi where militants had staged a symbolic attack a day earlier.
Agencies
The Times of India – December 3, 2005.
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Truce in tatters: Tigers bomb troops, 6 killed
Colombo – Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels attacked a military convoy in northern Sri Lanka today, killing six soldiers. Today’s blast was the worst against government troops since they entered a truce with Tamil rebels in February 2002. In the north-eastern town of Muttur district of Trinomalee, police today found three bullet-ridden bodies of Tamil civilians who had been taken away on Saturday night by Tamil rebels.
PTI
The Times of India – December 5, 2005.
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Suicide bomber kills 5 in Israeli mall
Netanya – December 5, 2005 - A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up on Monday among shopkeepers in the central Israeli town of Netanya, killing at least five people and wounding more than 30 others. Islamic Jihad, a militant group that has carried out several suicide bombings in recent months, claimed responsibility for the attack.
AP
Hindustan Times – December 6, 2005.
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Terror build-up triggers Kashmir alarm
Srinagar – A large-scale build-up of Lashkar-e-Taiba cadres in the mountains above the Bandipora area of northern Kashmir has sparked fears of a major escalation in terrorist activities this coming spring Intelligence sources told The Hindu that up to a hundred cadres are thought to have crossed the Line of Control since the October 8 earthquake. Using mountain hideouts along the arc from Bandipora to Kupwara and Handwara as bases, newly arrived cadres have participated in a series of high-profile fidayeen attacks in recent weeks. The renewed Lashkar build-up marks the highest level of cross-border infiltration since 2002.
Praveen Swami
The Hindu.
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Eight killed in suicide attack: Bangladesh
Dhaka – December 8, 2005 – A suicide bomb attack killed lat least eight people in Bangladesh and wounded more than 50 on Thursday in the latest series of deadly blasts blamed on militants seeking Islamic rule in the country. Police said two bombs exploded on a crowded street within the space of a few minutes during the morning rush hour in Netrokona, a town 360 km north of the capital Dhaka. No one claimed responsibility for the blasts, but police blamed Islamist suicide bombers fighting for the introduction of shariat law in this Muslim democracy. The government and opposition blame each other for the emergence of Islamist militancy in Bangladesh, the world’s third most populous Muslim country.
Hindustan Times, December 9, 2005.
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Terror arrests in Spain
Spanish police have arrested at least seven people suspected of financing an Islamic terrorist group with links to Al Qaeda, news reports said on Friday. The arrests began on Thursday night in southern Spain’s Costa del Sol region. The detainees were suspected of raising money for an Algerian-based Islamic extremist organization, the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, news agencies reported.
AP, Madrid
Hindustan Times – December 10, 2005.
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Taliban kill Afghan cop
Suspected Taliban rebels ambushed a police patrol in volatile southern Afghanistan, killing one policeman and injuring two others, an official said. Dozens of the Islamic militants attacked the vehicle which was on a routine operation in insurgency-hit Helmand province on Thursday, an official said.
AFP, Kandhar
Hindustan Times – December 10, 2005.
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12 killed in Pakistan blast
Islamabad – At least 12 persons were killed and over l40 others were injured on Thursday following a powerful explosion in an ammunition shop in Jandola town of North Waziristan bordering Afghanistan. Pakistan has deployed over 70,000 troops to hunt down the militants suspected to be sheltered there and operating in and out of Afghanistan. Militants in North Waziristan hanged the bodies of local bandits in the street after clashes on Tuesday and Wednesday in which up to 15 persons died.
B. Muralidhar Reddy
The Hindu – December 9, 2005.
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Iraq bus blast claims 30 lives
Baghdad – A suicide bomber who jumped on a bus after security checks had been completed detonated an explosives belt among passengers heading to a Shia city on Thursday, killing up to 30 persons and wounding nearly 40. Police said the attackers waited until the bus was slowly pulling away form the station, then jumped on board to avoid security checks.
AP
The Hindu – December 9, 2005.
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Bomb explosion rocks main Athens square
Athens – December 12, 2005 – At Athens, a bomb explosion strayed shattered glass and debris over a wide area on Monday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. The Eleftherotypia newspaper had received an anonymous phone call about a bomb 30 minutes earlier, a police source said. “It was a very strong explosion. I was thrown back by the sound wave,” a delivery truck driver told state television.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – December 13, 2005.
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Editor killed in blast
Beirut – Lebanese Christian MP and prominent newspaper editor Gibran Tueni who was killed in a car bomb attack on Monday, was a vocal anti-Syrian figure. The 48-year-old respected journalist was close to Saad Hariri, son of Lebanon’s former Sunni Muslim Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri who was assassinated in a 2005 Valentine Day’s bomb in Beirut.
The Hindu – December 13, 2005.
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Ten Iraqis killed in attacks
Baghdad – Ten Iraqis including five police officers, have been killed in separate attacks in Baghdad and north of the capital, sources said today. A leader of the Patriotic Union Kurdistan’s relatives were shot in the in Kirkuk, the police said in central Baghdad. Gunmen killed a Shi’te member of the Badr organization. Three policemen were killed when gunmen raided a hair salon. A retired air Force General, Muchref Ibrahim Khalil was shot dead in Saydiyah.
The Indian Express – December 19, 2005.
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Bangla blast kills BNP member
Dhaka – December 8, 2005 – Unidentified assailants hurled three bombs at a remote village tea shop in western Bangladesh, killing a ruling party politician and wounding his three friends, a police officer said. Kajal Mahmud, a local leader of the governing Bangladesh Nationalist Party, along with his friends was taking tea in the shop when about four masked men on two motorbikes threw the bombs at them. The men fled into the darkness.
Agencies
Hindustan Times – December 20, 2005.
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Colombian Governor Escapes Bomb Attack
December 21, 2005 - The governor of Colombia's Arauca state has escaped unharmed from a bomb attack on his motorcade last Tuesday. The governor's armored vehicle was heavily damaged but no one was seriously injured. Governor Bernal has survived eight attacks during his political career.
Email dated December 22, 2005, from Mr. Mayer Nudell, USA.
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Maoists to disrupt polls: Nepal
Kathmandu - Warning of “special action” against candidates and election workers who take part in Municipal elections announced by Nepal King Gyanendra’s Royal Government, Maoist rebels today vowed to hold a week long general strike to disrupt the February 8 polls. The seven-party alliance for restoration of democracy has already announced that it will actively boycott the elections.
PTI
Hindustan Times – December 23, 2005.
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13 Sri Lankan sailors killed in ambush
Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels ambushed and killed 13 Lankan sailors in an attack on a naval convoy in Mannar district in northern Sri Lanka on Friday in the worst breach of a 2002 ceasefire so far. The Sri Lankan government condemned the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam for their alleged ambush. But the Tamil Tiger rebels denied any role in the attack.
Agencies, Colombo
Hindustan Times – December 24, 2005.
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10 killed in Iraq bomb attacks
Baghdad – December 26, 2005 – Insurgents killed at least 10 people, including five police officers, in attacks around Iraq on Monday. Gunmen killed five officers at a police check-point, 45 miles north of Baghdad, an official said. A suicide car bomber slammed into a police patrol in eastern Baghdad, killing three officers and wounding four others, Lt. Col. Hasan said. 15 people were injured. Bloodshed claimed at least 18 lives across Iraq on Sunday.
Jason Sraziuso/AP
The Asian Age – December 27, 2005.
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Aceh ex-rebels dissolve military wing
Former separatist rebels in the Indonesian province of Aceh on Tuesday announced the dissolution of their military wing, which had been fighting for independence in Aceh for nearly 30 years. “On behalf of the GAM (Free Aceh Movement) combatants, I have the honour to announce that the Aceh national armed forces are now demobilized and decommissioned,” Irwandi Yusuf, a GAM representative, said as he read out a statement signed by Muzakir Manaf, the chief of GAM’s military wing, at a press conference here.
DPA, Banda Aceh
Hindustan Times – December 28, 2005.
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200 fighters ready to turn fidayeen: Taliban rebel
Kandhar – A top Taliban commander said more than 200 rebel fighters were willing to become suicide attackers against US forces and their allies – a claim dismissed as propaganda on Monday by Afghanistan’s government, which said the hard-line militia was weakening. Commander Mullah Dadullah, spoke to the AP over satellite phone from an undisclosed location and said he was inside Afghanistan.
AP
The Times of India – December 28, 2005.
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Landmine blast kills 10 Lankan troops
Colombo – December 27, 2005 – Ten Sri Lankan soldiers were killed in north Sri Lanka when a mine went off on the Jaffna-Point Pedro road on Tuesday, police said. The chief of the LTTE’s intelligence wing, Pottu Amman, had told a public function in Elephant Pass that the international community had forsaken the Tamils, thereby hinting that the LTTE could now go ahead and do what it wanted to do, irrespective of the views of the international community.
P.K. Balachandran
Hindustan Times – December 28, 2005.
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Germany bans Islamist group after terror threat
Berlin – Authorities in Germany on Wednesday banned an Islamist group after seizing material allegedly inciting Muslims to kill Jews and Christians and carry out suicide attacks in Iraq. The state of Bavaria said the activities of the Multi-Multur-Haus association threatened the co-existence of Germans and foreigners as well as security in the country. “We will not tolerate organizations that are set up aggressively against the constitutional order and call openly for the use of violence,” state Interior Minister said.
AP
The Hindu – ecember 29, 2005.
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Terror in Bangalore – Delhi IIT Prof. dies, 5 injured
Bangalore – December 28, 2005 – Suspected terrorists on Wednesday barged into an auditorium and opened indiscriminate fire on the delegates, killing retired IIT Delhi professor M.C. Puri on the spot. Among the injured were two more professors. The police said around 7.30 p.m., a white Ambassador reached the JN Tata auditorium on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) campus, where a conference was going on. DGP said two men jumped out of the car and lobbed grenades at the auditorium. One hit the target and the other hit a tree. The duo then entered the conference hall and started firing from automatic rifles.
B.R. Srikanth
Hindustan Times – December 29, 2005.
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Lashkar-linked magazine calls for attacks – Demands ‘retaliation and requital’
New Delhi – The December issue of the Voice of Islam, a Pakistan-based journal closely affiliated to the Lashkar-e-Taiba, has called for “retaliation and requital” of the fall of Dhaka to Indian forces on December 16, 1971. Released in print and on The Internet earlier this month, the aggressive anti-India polemic in the journal has fuelled speculation that its call for retaliatory attacks may have been connected to the timing of Wednesday’s terrorist strike on the India Institute of Science in Bangalore. December 16, it insists, needs to be remembered “not just with grief and frustration,” but as a day “for retaliation and requital.”
Praveen Swami
The Hindu – December 30, 2005.
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Suicide attack leaves Israeli soldier dead
Tulkarem – December 29, 2005 – A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up near an Israeli military checkpoint in the northern West Bank on Thursday, killing one Israeli soldier and two Palestinians. The army said the bomber was travelling in a taxi that was sttoped at the road-block for a security chek. The bomber then exited the vehicle, approached a group of soldiers and detonated explosives on his body. The Arabic satellite station Al Arabiya reported that Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
AP
Hindustan Times – December 30, 2005.
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Islamic Exremism Evaluated
The rise of Islamic extremist is examined in a new GAQ report. The report evaluates what U.S. government agencies are doing to identify monitor, and counter support and funding for the global propagation of Islamic extremist. It also takes a look at what the government and other entities have reported regarding support and funding for the global propagation of Islamic extremism. Also addressed are the efforts taken by the Saudi government to counter Islamic extremism within the borders of its country. (Full details are available via SM Online)
Security Management – December 2005.
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Food for Thought
Civilisation is the process in which one gradually increases the number of people included in the term “we” or “us” and at the same time decreases those labeled “you” or “them” until that category has no one left in it.
- Howard Winters
Who is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
- Hugh White
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