Stop helping US, Osama tells Europe in tape
Cairo – November 30, 2007 – Al Qaeda chief bin Laden called on Europeans to stop helping the US in the war in Afghanistan, according to excerpts of a new audiotape broadcast (Thursday) on Al Jazeera television.
AP
Hindustan Times – December 1, 2007.
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Qaeda attack on Iraq village kills 10
Baquba – Dozens of suspected Al Qaeda fighters raided a Shiite village north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing women and children, said a police officer. He added that 8 people were wounded in the assault. Several houses were burnt by the militants in the village.
Sunday Hindustan Times – December 2, 2007.
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5 Palestine militants killed in Israel raid
Gaza City – An Israeli air-strike killed five Palestinian militants early on Saturday in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian witnesses said. A health ministry spokesman said eight others were wounded in the strike.
Sunday Hindustan Times – December 2, 2007.
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Qaeda raids Shia village, 13 killed
December 1, 2007 – About 50 to 60 suspected Al Qaeda militants stormed a Shia village north of Baghdad on Saturday, resorted to firing, killing at least 13 people and torching homes, the police said. Fourteen villagers were wounded in the attack. Insurgents also killed another local guard in north Baghdad.
Hamid Ahmed/(AP)
The Asian Age – December 2, 2007.
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Three Iraqi soldiers, 3 police killed in attacks
Baghdad – A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol in a Sunni-dominated neighbourhood of Baghdad killed two officers on Sunday, while a third officer in the neighbourhood was shot to death on his way to work, the police said.
Hindustan Times – December 3, 2007.
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22 hurt in suicide attack in Kabul
Kabul – December 4, 2007 – A Taliban suicide car bomber blew himself up near NATO troops in the Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday, wounding 22 civilians as US defence secretary visited to assess the rising violence.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – December 5, 2007.
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One killed in Paris parcel bomb blast
Paris – December 6, 2007 – A parcel bomb killed one person and injured five others on Thursday in a central Paris building housing a law firm partly owned by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. A secretary died and a lawyer seriously injured. A second suspect package was defused in the same building, the police said.
Reuters
Hindustan Times – December 7, 2007.
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16 killed in Lanka bus attack
Colombo – December 6, 2007 – The Sri Lankan government called on Thursday for the destruction of the Tamil Tiger separatist group following a wave of bomb attacks. In the latest attack, a roadside bomb tore through a crowded passenger bus in northern Sri Lanka on Wednesday night, killing 16 people and wounding 22 others, the official said.
Ravi Nessman
The Asian Age – December 7,2007.
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Female bomber kills 16 in Iraq attack
Baghdad – December 7, 2007 – A female suicide bomber attacked the offices of a local anti-Al Qaeda group that has joined forces with the US, killing at least 16 people on Friday, the police said. The explosion occurred about 9.30 A.M. on the outskirts of Muqdadiyah, a majority Sunni city about 90 km north of Baghdad.
Hamid Ahmed/(AP)
The Asian Age – December 8,2007.
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Seven killed in Iraq suicide bombing
Baghdad – A suicide truck bomber attacked a police station in one of Iraq’s major oil hubs on Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring 13 in a neighbourhood home to many refinery workers and engineers, the police said.
The Sunday Express – December 9, 2007.
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Bomb kills provincial police chief in Iraq
Baghdad – A roadside bomb struck a convoy in Hillah, the capital of Shia province Babil, about 90 kilometers south of Baghdad, killing the police chief Brig. Gen. Qais al-Maamouri and two guards.
Hindustan Times Wire Services
Hindustan Times – December 10, 2007.
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Suicide bomber targets children
Kamra – December 10, 2007 – A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden car near a bus carrying children of Pakistan Air Force employees on Monday, killing five of them.
Dilshad Khan / AP
Hindustan Times – December 11, 2007.
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Suicide attack at offices of Iraq ex-PM and legislator
Baghdad – December 11, 2007 – A suicide car bomber targeted offices of Iraq’s former Prime Minister and a Sunni legislator on Tuesday, speeding towards a check-point outside the buildings and killing two guards. Elsewhere in the capital, drive-by gunmen on motorcycles fatally shot the head of Iraq’s largest psychiatric hospital as he was returning home from work, the police said.
Hamid Ahmed / (AP)
The Asian Age – December 12, 2007.
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Twin blasts leave 67 dead in Algeria
Algiers – December 11, 2007 – At least sixty-seven people were killed when two car bombs exploded in upscale districts of Algiers on Tuesday, a security source said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but commentators said it appeared the work of Al Qaeda’s north Africa wing.
Lamine Chikhi/AFP
Hindustan Times – December 12, 2007.
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Bomb kills top Lebanese general
December 12, 2007 – An early morning car bomb attack killed one of Lebanon’s top military generals and at least three others as they drove through a Christian suburb of Beirut, the military and state media said.
Sam K Ghattas/AP
Hindustan Times – December 13, 2007.
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Car bombings leave 27 dead in Iraq
Amara –December 12, 2007 – Triple car bombs killed at least 27 people and wounded 151 in the southern Shia city of Amara on Wednesday.
AFP
Hindustan Times – December 13, 2007.
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Bomb blast near India’s consulate in Jalalabad – Pak warns of threat to Indian missions
New Delhi – December 14, 2007 – A bomb exploded near the Indian consulate at Jalalabad in Afghanistan on Thursday evening, no one was injured. According to a PTI report from Islamabad, the Indian and United States diplomatic missions and VVIPs, including Pervez Musharraf and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto , might be targeted in “a spate of suicide attacks by terrorists” in Pakistan.
The Asian Age – December 15, 2007.
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5 killed in rocket blast in Kabul
Kabul – December 15, 2007 – A rocket landed in a crowd of civilians near Kabul’s police headquarters on Sunday, and a truck full of rockets smuggled into the city under a pile of hay exploded nearby moments later, officials said. At least five people were killed and five wounded. Moments earlier, a rocket was fired, apparently by remote control, towards the police station, but it landed in a crowd of civilians, which killed five civilians and wound five including two police personnel.
(AP)
The Asian Age – December 16, 2007.
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Two killed in Baghdad
Baghdad – December 15, 2007 - Two members of a neighbourhood anti-Al Qaeda group in Baghdad were killed by an explosion on Saturday and 10 others wounded, security forces said. In the Dora district, meanwhile, two members of the self-defence group were wounded by gunfire.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – December 16, 2007.
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5 die in Pak bomb attack
Islamabad – December 15, 2007 – At least five people, including two soldiers, were killed on Saturday when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a military check post in northwestern Pakistan.
The Asian Age – December 16, 2007.
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Six killed in Imphal blast
Imphal – December 16, 2007 – A bomb planted by the roadside in Manipur’ Imphal East district exploded on Sunday evening killing at least six passengers, including five women, of a passing bus. Over 20 people were injured.
HT Correspondent
Hindustan Times – December 17, 2007.
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Militants behead Pakistani soldier
Khar (Pakistan) – December 16, 2007 – Pakistani security forces on Sunday recovered the beheaded body of a soldier from a restive tribal region bordering Afghanistan, local officials said.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – December 17, 2007.
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9 Pak soldiers die in suicide attack
Islamabad – December 17, 2007 – A suicide bomber blew himself up among a group of Pakistani army recruits returning from a game of soccer on Monday, killing nine of them, the army said. On Saturday, a suicide bomber on a bicycle killed tow soldiers and three civilians outside an army camp in the northwestern city of Nowshera.
Stephon Graham/AFP
Hindustan Times – December 18, 2007.
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Lessons on quake safety for builders, at Rs.600 cr.
New Delhi – December 17,2007 – Union Home Minister on Monday cleared the National Disaster Management Authority’s proposal for a National Earthquake Risk Mitigation Project, which seeks to address the risk posed by earthquakes. Over 55 per cent of India’s geographical area is prone to high intensity earthquakes.
Aloke Tikku
Hindustan Times – December 18, 2007.
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Suicide Bomber Rams School in Pakistan, Kids Hurt
Reuters (12/10/07) ; Gardner, Simon (p.51)
A suicide bomber drove a car filled with explosives into a school bus Monday in northwestern Pakistan. The bomber was killed and nine people were injured in the attack, but military officials said that the driver acted quickly to prevent more children from being hurt. The driver and a security guard were seriously injured and up to seven children were also wounded.
Security Management Daily – December 11, 2007.
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French cops arrest suspected Qaeda support group
Paris – December 20, 2007 – French police confirmed on Thursday that they had arrested eight men, seven Algerians and one French, suspected of providing logistical support to Al Qaeda’s North African wing in Algeria, as reported in French newspaper Le Figaro.
Reuters
The Indian Express – December 21, 2007.
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Suicide attack in Pak mosque
Islamabad – December 21, 2007 – At least 54 people were killed and over 190 injured on Friday when a suicide bomber blew himself up during Id prayers in a packed mosque in northwestern Pakistan. The target was former Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, who escaped unhurt. The bomber managed to enter the mosque with almost five to six kgs. of explosives and detonated killing 54 people, police said. President Pervez Musharraf strongly condemned the attack.
Agencies
Hindustan Times – December 22, 2007.
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Belgium police bust al-Qaeda jailbreak plot
Brussels – Belgium stepped up security on Friday against a possible terrorist attack after arresting 14 suspected Islamic militants and thwarted what it said was a plot to free an al-Qaeda suspect from jail. Federal prosecutors said the 14 arrested had been planning an armed attack to free Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisia, who was arrested in September 2001 for plotting attacks on US targets.
Reuters
The Times of India – December 22, 2007.
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9 killed in Pak suicide attack
Mingora – A suicide bomber killed four Pakistani soldiers and five civilians on Sunday in an attack on a military convoy in a valley in the northwest of the country, the police said.
Reuters
The Hindu – December 24, 2007
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13 killed in Afghanistan blast
Kabul – Three Afghan civilians were killed when a bomb hit their vehicle in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, the police said.
Hindustan Times – December 24, 2007.
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Qaeda: Kill Sunnis helping US
Cairo, Egypt – December 23, 2007 – The leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq called on militants in a new audiotape on Saturday to kill Sunnis who had joined forces with the US to battle extremists in the war-torn country.
Omar Sinah
The Asian Age – December 24, 2007.
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Saudi Arabia foils terror plot
Saudi Arabia’s security forces have arrested an al-Qaeda linked group that had planned to carry out terrorist attacks during the annual Haj pilgrimage in Mecca, news reports said on Saturday. The plot was foiled by making arrests. The group aimed to “trouble the security of the pilgrimage”, according to the Arab newspaper.
Sunday Time – December 24, 2007.
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Afghans detain woman with bomb-belt under burqa
Kabul – December 24, 2007 – Afghan Intelligence agents detained a 50-year-old “foreign” woman carrying a suicide vest in eastern Afghanistan , while a roadside explosion killed one policeman and wounded three others, officials said Monday. It appeared the woman was transporting the vest for militants and had not intended to detonate it herself.
AP
Hindustan Times – December 25, 2007.
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Babbar Khalsa’ threat in Shillong
Guwahati – December 24, 2007 – The Babbar Khalsa International has joined the list of homegrown Northeast outfits that keep the region on terror notice. It has vowed to bomb strategic locations and establishments in the Meghalaya capital Shillong. The email threat from Balwinder Singh, who identified himself as the outfit’s Northeast “regional commander”, was apparently to “pay back” for atrocities on Punjabis residing in a locality of the city.
Rahul Karmakar
Hindustan Times – December 25, 2007.
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Mosque siege ends, militants killed – All five hostages freed
Srinagar – December 24, 2007 – Late on Monday, police rescued the civilians held hostage by militants inside a mosque in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district, ending the 24-hour hostage crisis. All three militants, allegedly associated with the Hizb-ul Mujahideen, were killed.
Hindustan Times – December 25, 2007.
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Two suicide bombings kill 29 in Iraq, 85 hurt
Tikrit (Iraq) – December 25, 2007 – Two suicide bombings killed 29 people in Iraq on Tuesday, including 25 who died when a bomber slammed his vehicle into a truck carrying gas cylinders at an Iraqi Army checkpost near Biji. About 85 people were also wounded.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – December 26, 2007.
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Pak’s Darkest Hour: Benazir Bhutto Assassinated (p.71)
Rawalpindi – Benazir Bhutto, 54, chairperson of the Pakistan People’s Party, was killed in a gunfire attack-cum-suicide bombing minutes after she finished addressing an election rally here on Thursday. The vehicle, accompanied by several other escort cars with her supporters and PPP bodyguards, was leaving the venue when the explosion took place, about 5.20 P.M. Two rounds of automatic gunfire were heard. In the next second, a huge ball of flame went up in the air, accompanied by a massive explosion. It was found that she died of bullet wounds from the gunfire. She was rushed to hospital where she was declared dead.
Nurupama Subramanian
The Hindu – December 28, 2007.
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Taliban kill 10 in Afghan
Ghazni (Afghanistan) – December 30, 2007 – Ten people, including two civilians, have been killed in attacks in southern Afghanistan, the police said on Sunday, in the latest Taliban violence. The civilians died on Saturday when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle in the southern province of Helmand, a police commander said. The bomb was laid by the Taliban to target Afghan and Western security forces. Also on Saturday, Taliban militants used rockets to ambush an Afghan private security company vehicle, killing six guards and two police officers in southern Wardak province near Kabul.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – December 31, 2007.
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Food for Thought
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
- Kahlil Gibran
The problem is never how to get new innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
- Dee Hock
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
- Bertrand Russell
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