TALIBAN OVERRUN AFGHAN DISTRICT
Kandahar – May 31, 2006 – Hundreds of Taliban rebels stormed Chora district of restive Uruzgan province late on Tuesday and took over the police command and district headquarters after a battle lasting several hours, the provincial police chief said.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – June 1, 2006.
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LTTE buying arms in SE Asia, says Lanka
Kualalumpur – May 31, 2006 – The Sri Lankan government has claimed that LTTE maintain bank accounts in Malaysia and Singapore in order to buy arms from Southeast Asian nations including Cambodia and Thailand. The funds are collected from Sri Lanka’s Tamilian diaspora in North American and EU nations, on which the LTTE relies heavily, Sri Lankan Foreign Minister told New Straits Times.
Press Trust of India
The Indian Express – June 1, 2006.
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Once again, Terror attack on Tourists
Srinagar – Around 6.30 p.m. on Wednesday, a bunch of terrorists chucked grenades at two buses carrying tourists from West Bengal. At least 35 tourists were reported injured. The two grenade attacks came within five minutes of each other. It was the third attack against tourists in 10 days.
Saleem Pandit/TNN
The Times of India – June 1, 2006.
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2 Die in Party Office Blast
Colombo – June 1, 2006 – An office of a Tamil political party was bombed in Sri Lanka’s restive eastern province and two party activists were gunned down elsewhere on Thursday, the military said. At least four men were wounded in the bombing. The military blamed the bomb attack on the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). In the island’s northern district of Batticaloa, two EPDP men distributing party newspapers were shot dead on Thursday, officials said. The Tigers have accused the EPDP of collaborating with security forces to attack them.
The Asian Age – June 2,2006.
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Terror attack on RSS HQ foiled, 3 LeT men shot
Nagpur/New Delhi – Nagpur police foiled a plot to trigger large-scale communal violence across the country with a terror attack on the RSS headquarters. The police gunned down all the three terrorists, suspected to be members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, who had enough ammunition on them to wipe out the Sangh leadership. The terrorists, who came in a white ambassador car, dressed as sub-inspectors, tried to sneak into the Sangh headquarters in the Mahal locality.
Times News Network
The Times of India – June 2, 2006.
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Canada Spy Warns of Home-Grown Terror"
ISN--Security Watch (05/31/06)
The conditions are ripe for Canada to experience a terrorist attack on a scale similar to the July 7, 2005, London bombings, according to a top Canadian intelligence official. Canadian Security Intelligence Service Deputy Director Jack Hooper warned Canadian lawmakers earlier this week that young, well-assimilated Canadian citizens with immigrant backgrounds are being drawn to radical Islam and have even trained in Al Qaeda terrorist camps. From all appearances, these youths look like other Canadian youths and have successfully blended into Canadian society. These youths are looking to launch terrorist attacks in Canada, Hooper warned.
Security Management Daily dated June 1, 2006.
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J&K terror groups finding new recruits
Srinagar – Evidence has emerged that up to a dozen residents of Maharashtra and Gujarat recruited by Islamist terror groups may be training with the Hizbul Mujahideen in southern Kashmir. On Tuesday, the Jammu and Kashmir police, and troops of the Rashtriya Rifles shot dead Mohammad Irfan, code-named Jambaaz Hizbi, in an encounter near the town of Tral in Pulwama district. Along with him, one Azif Jamil, a Kashmiri Hizb-ul-Muahidieen operative, was also killed. After the discovery of twin Lashkar-e-Taiba cells in Aurangabad and Ahmedabad, Irfan’s elimination suggests that terror groups may now be sending recruits from Maharashtra, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh to Jammu and Kashmir, instead of from bases in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
The Hindu – June 1, 2006.
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Suicide attack kills 4 Pak soldiers
Peshawar – Two suicide attackers rammed an explosives-laden car into a military convoy on a strategic road in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing four Pakistani soldiers and wounding seven. The blast hit the convoy on a key road for troops moving between Bannu and Miran Shah, the main town in restive North Waziristan tribal region.
Hindustan Times – June 3, 2006.
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‘Karuna group is terrorist’
Colombo – June 3, 2006 – To the European Union (EU), there is nothing to choose between the mainstream LTTE group led by Velupillai Prabhakaran and the breakaway group led by Karuna. The Liberation Tigers were not freedom fighters, and the Karuna group was doing precisely what the mainstream LTTE was doing, the Dutch ambassador in Sri Lanka pointed out in his interview to Daily Mirror on Saturday.
P.K. Balachandran
Sunday Hindustan Times l- June 4, 2006.
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Suicide bomber kills 28, hurts 62 in Iraq
Baghdad – A suicide car bomber blew himself up in a crowded market in oil-rich southern Basra on Saturday, killing 62. In Baghdad, a Russian diplomat was killed and four diplomatic employees were kidnapped.
AP
The Times of India – June 5, 2006.
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Swiss foil terror plot
Bern – A terrorist cell plotted to shoot down an EI AI airplane in Switzerland, but was foiled by Swiss intelligence services, the Federal |Prosecutor’s Office said on Thursday. Seven people of North African origin are under arrest in connection with the plan, said a statement from the prosecutor’s office.
Hindustan Times – June 9, 2006.
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Baghdad blasts kill l9
Baghdad – Bombs struck a busy outdoor market and a police patrol in a predominantly Shiite area in Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 19 people and wounding more than 40 others, the police said. The first explosion targeted a police patrol in the New Baghdad area in eastern Baghdad, killing two policemen and four civilians and wounding 11 other people.
Hindustan Times – June 9, 2006.
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16 killed in Lanka before talks in Oslo
Colombo – June 8, 2006 – At least 16 people were reportedly killed in Sri Lanka before talks opened in Oslo between the Colombo government and Tiger rebels on their collapsing truce, officials said. Defence officials said the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) set off a powerful mine in northern Wanni region early on Thursday, killing an Army officer and wounding two others. They said the LTTE had also clalshed with a breakaway faction in the northeastern district of Tricomalee, leaving at least 15 militants dead.
Amal Jayasinghe / (AFP)
The Asian Age – June 9, 2006.
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Report: Terror Preparation at Shopping Centers Inadequate
USA Today (06/08/06) P. 6A ; Johnson, Kevin
ASIS International, the largest association of private security managers in the United States, has helped a law enforcement think tank get funding for a report on the state of security preparations at U.S. shopping malls. The report, which was funded by the Justice Department and produced by the Police Foundation, concludes that although shopping malls are among the top potential targets of terrorism, these facilities have made minimal investments in security and their emergency response planning has been extremely poor. ASIS International's Robert Rowe blames complacency for the report's findings, noting that "security has become a less important priority" because terrorists have not hit the United States since the Sept. 11 attacks. "It's now much more difficult to justify costs for additional security," Rowe says. The report is based on surveys of 33 state homeland security directors and 120 security directors at top U.S. shopping malls, as well as visits to two Israeli shopping malls and eight American shopping malls. The report--the largest of its kind since the Sept. 11 attacks--finds that just 16 percent of U.S. malls have increased their security spending beyond the rate of inflation since September 2001, just one-third of mall security directors rehearse their emergency plans with local law enforcement, and none of the malls visited conduct joint exercises with first responders. In addition, the report finds that far too many mall security guards have nothing more than basic training, and that although more than 50 percent have also received some type of terrorism training, that training was judged inadequate by 62 percent of security managers..
Security Management Delhi – June 9, 2006.
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Islamists declare war on “infidels’ in Somalia
Mogadishu (Somalia) – June 7, 2006 – Islamic forces holding much of the lawless Somalia capital declared war on “infidels” on Wednesday, raising fears of new clashes between their militia and a US-backed warlord alliance. The Islamists and members of the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter Terrorism (ARPCT) showed no signs of backing down from positions that led to four months of deadly battles in the capital, leaving hundreds dead.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – June 8, 2006.
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Terror groups take opium route to funds
New Delhi – Taking a leaf out of the book of fellow jehadis in Afghanistan, terror groups in J&K have diversified into narcotics trade to fund their campaign of death and destruction. Thousands of hectares in the Kashmir valley have been brought under illicit opium cultivation under the patronage of terror groups, who are faced with a fund crunch of sorts since international scrutiny forced the patrons in Pakistan to cut down on lavish funding. On June 1, when a Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) team with the help from the Jammu and Kashmir police was engaged in an operation to destroy a part of this crop in five villages of Sopian in Pulwama district of South Kashmir, they came under fire from a band of suspected jehadis.
Pradeep Thakur/Times News Network
The Times of India – June 9, 2006.
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Four killed in blast at Baghdad market
Baghdad – A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol exploded in an outdoor market in Baghdad on Saturday, killing four people and wounding 27, the police said. The explosion missed the police patrol and civilians were killed in the Al-Sadriya market. A mortar also landed on a house in the capital, seriously wounding a 50-year-old woman and a girl. Elsewhere, a gunfight broke out between Iraqi soldiers and gunmen in the northern city of Mosul, leaving two persons dead. Gunmen in two cars killed three Shia butchers near a central bus station in Mosul.
AP
The Hindu – June 11, 2006.
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Attacks to intensify, say Lanka rebels
Jafna – June 10, 2006 – Suspected Tamil Tiger front organization, The Tamil Resurgence Force, vowed on Saturday to intensify attacks against Sri Lanka’s military among growing fears that the island is sliding back into civil war. The threat comes two days after the rebels plunged diplomatic efforts to salvage the peace process into crisis by refusing to hold talks in Oslo and demanding that truce monitors from E.U. nations withdraw in protest at the LTTE’s inclusion on an EU list of terrorist groups.
Reuters
Sunday Hindustan Times – June 11, 2006.
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LeT terrorists are taking Iran route to visit Pakistan
Ahmedabad – Interrogation of the two Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists, who were earlier arrested from Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station in New Delhi, revealed that they had stayed in Gujarat and also had some associates in Ahmedabad, two of whom were arrested by the Anti-Terrorist Squad on Saturday. Sources said, “Intelligence inputs suggest that some villagers staying close to the Indo-Pak border of Kutch had visited Pakistan by first going to Iran. They were trained by LeT commander, Azam Chima, at Bhawalpur in the Punjab province of Pakistan.”
Sourav Mukherjee/TNN
The Times of India – June 12, 2006.
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5 killed in Pak blast
Quetta – A bomb blast in the Pakistani town of Quetta killed five people and wounded 17 on Monday, and nationalist militants fighting for control of natural resources were the main suspects. No one has claimed responsibility for the bomb which the police said was planted on a bicycle left at the side of the road near a hotel and a police station. The attack bore the hallmark of the Baluch Liberation Army (BLA) nationalist rebel group, the provincial government’s interior minister said.
Reuters
The Times of India – June 13, 2006.
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1 dead, 24 injured in J&K grenade attack
Jammu – On Monday, terrorists lobbed grenades inside a Jammu bus stand teeming with Amarnath pilgrims. One person was killed and 24 injured in the attack. Eyewitnesses said three blasts occurred in quick succession after grenades were hurled at State Road Transport Corporation (SRTC) buses around 8.00 a.m.
Aarti Tikoo Singh/TNN
The Times of India – June 13, 2006.
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Manila police HQ is bombed, no injuries
Manila – June 13, 2006 – The Philippine police were on Tuesday investigating an early-morning blast at the police headquarters in Manila. No one was injured in the explosion which damaged a truck at camp Bagong Diwa, the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) headquarters in Taguig district, the police said. A little known group calling itself Taong Bayan at Kawal, or “Masses And Soldiers”, later claimed responsibility.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – June 14, 2006.
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11 killed in mosque blast
Dubai – A suicide bomber has attacked a key Shia mosque in Baghdad, two days after the Iraqi government launched an offensive to root out violence. At least 11 persons have died and 25 injured in the incident which took place just before the scheduled Friday prayers. The mosque’s Imam was the target but he escaped unhurt. He pointed out that the assailant was a “shoe bomber” as the explosives and the ball bearings, which caused the damage, were hidden inside his shoe.
Atul Aneja
The Hindu – June 17, 2006.
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64 killed in Sri Lanka blast
Colombo –Sixty-four civilians were killed and 86 injured when a state-run passenger bus was destroyed in a powerful claymore explosion in Sri Lanka’s south-central Anuradhapura district on Thursday, the Army said. The blast bore “the hallmarks” of an attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The LTTE, in a statement, denied involvement and blamed the Government for the attack.
V.S. Sambandan
The Hindu – June 16, 2006.
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31 killed in Iraq attacks
Baghdad – Bomb and mortar attacks killed lat least 31 people in and near Baghdad on Saturday in violence that showed no sing of easing despite a crackdown against Al-Qaeda in the capital. A car-bomb targeting Iraqi army and police killed 11 people. Another bomb killed six people and wounded 11 in a crowded market in central Baghdad, and mortar rounds killed two people and wounded 14 in another market inn the Shia district of Kadhimiya. In the town of Mahmudiya just south of the capital, a car bomb targeting an Iraqi army checkpoint killed seven people.
Reuters
Sunday Times of India – June 18, 2006.
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30 killed as Taliban ambush civil convoy
Kandahar – Taliban fighters ambushed two convoys carrying members of the same family in southern Afghanistan, killing 30 people on Sunday in Uruzgan, an Afghan official said. The first attack was on vehicles carrying a former district chief in Helmand province, leaving an official and four of his bodyguards dead, said the governor’s spokesman. The second ambush occurred several hours later when 30 of the slain official’s relatives to collect his body.
Agencies
The Times of India – June 20, 2006.
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Tigers Warm of Suicide Bombers
Kilinochchi (Sri Lanka) – June 21, 2006 – The political chief of the Tamil Tiger rebels said on Wednesday that his group would use all means necessary, including suicide bombers, if full-scale war erupts on this nation. In an interview, S.P. Tamilselvan said, “It is just a piece of paper that has no meaning at all.” However, he said that the Tigers were willing to sit down again for peace talks as long as the government allowed the Tigers’ Central Committee to gather safely from a series of scattered militant bases across the island to talk about the situation.
Matthew Rosenberg/(AP)
Hindustan Times – June 22, 2006.
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Militants kill three Pakistan policemen
Islamabad – June 22, 2006 - Miscreants shot dead three policemen in an ambush near north Waziristan, the police said on Thursday. About a dozen attackers opened fire when a routine police patrol was crossing a bridge outside the garrison town of Bannu, near Waziristan late on Wednesday, a police statement said. The incident came hours after a bomb blast near a military convoy on the road between Bannu and Miranshah in which three soldiers were killed.
Pakistan Correspondent
The Asian Age – June 23, 2006.
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4 US soldiers die in Afghan clashes
Kabul – June 22, 2006 – Four US soldiers were killed and one wounded in clashes with militants in north-eastern Afghanistan, the coalition said on Thursday. They were killed during “combat operation and combat rescue operations” in Nuristan province near the border with Pakistan.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – June 23, 2006.
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Militants attack mystic’s abode, two followers killed
Jammu – June 22, 2006 - At least two persons were killed and 26 injured in a grenade attack at the house of a renowned mystic, Ahad Sahab, in Sopore in north Kashmir on Thursday. The attack follows successive attacks on tourists and pilgrims to Amarnath shrine.
HT Correspondent
Hindustan Times – June 23, 2006.
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Taliban behead 4 Afghans
Kandhar – June 23, 2006 – Taliban militants beheaded four Afghans they accused of spying for the US military in southern Afghanistan, a local government official and the insurgent group said on Friday. The beheaded corpses of the men were found on Thursday in Shajoy district of insurgency-hit Zabul province where the rebels launch almost daily attacks on US troops and government targets, the official said.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – June 24, 2006.
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25 people killed in Mosul gangland-style murders
Baghdad – At least 25 people have been executed gangland style in Iraq’s third-largest city this week, with residents gunned down in ones and twos and bodies found scattered throughout Mosul. Elsewhere, five US troops were killed in operations south and west of Baghdad, the US military said. The outburst of killings was first reported on Tuesday morning when police found the bodies of a husband and his wife shot to death in eastern Mosul, according to police. Before the day was out, 10 people were either killed kin shootings or found dead.
AP
The Times of India – June 24, 2006.
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State of emergency in Baghdad
Baghdad – The Iraqi government declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew on Friday after insurgent gunmen set up road-blocks in central Baghdad and opened fire on US and Iraqi troops just north of the heavily fortified Green Zone. As the state of emergency was announced in the capital, a car bomb ripped through a market and nearby gas station in the increasingly volatile southern city of Basra, killing at least five people and wounding 18, including two policemen, police said. A bomb also struck a Sunni mosque in the town of Hibhib northeast of Baghdad, killing 10 worshippers and wounding 15 in the same town where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was slain earlier this month, police said.
AP
The Times of India – June 24, 2006.
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‘Plot’ to blow up Sears Tower
Miami – United States authorities have arrested at least seven men over an alleged plot to blow up the Sears Tower skyscraper in Chicago and officials said on Friday more arrests were likely. ABC television said the group had been infiltrated by an FBI agent posing as an Islamist radical.
AP
The Hindu – June 24, 2006.
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Pakistan anti-terror judge is shot dead
Islamabad – June 25, 2006 – A gunman killed Jamshed Khan, an anti-terrorism court judge, in a remote northern Pakistan town, about 250 Kms north-east of the capital, Islamabad, a police official said. No one has claimed responsibility or been arrested over the killing of Mr. Khan.
The Asian Age – June 26, 2006.
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Once again, surge of violence in Valley
Srinagar – June 24, 2006 – Militants lobbed a grenade at a CRPF picket near Budshah Chowk, killing a passerby and injuring ten others. Militants in Pahalgam attacked a CRPF convoy. In Ratnipora, one army captain and two militants were killed in an encounter, and one army personnel injured.
Muzamil Jaleel
The Sunday Express – June 25, 2006.
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Somalia goes the Qaeda way
Megadishu – June 25, 2006 – A fundamentalist who is listed by the State Department as a suspected al Qaeda collaborator has been named as the new leader of an Islamic militia that has seized control of Somalia’s capital. The militia said in a statement that it had appointed Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, who the Bush administration says was an associate of Osama bin Laden in the early 1990s. Aweys replaces Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, who is moderate in comparison. The decision to appoint Aweys was an attempt to incorporate “different aspects of the community” into the group, an Islamic officials said on Sunday.
AP
Hindustan Times – June 26, 2006.
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Intelligence fears D-trouble in Bangla
Kolkata – Reports of a recent secret meeting between absconding under-world don Dawood Ibrahim and two high-profile >Bangladeshis in Dubai have sent both Indian and Western intelligence agencies into a tizzy. This is part of a well-concerted move to smuggle in arms consignments to Bangladesh for creating country-wide disturbances well before the next elections. The discussion during the Dubai meeting veered around the urgent need to import small arms and explosives for terrorists enjoying the tacit support of a powerful section of the ruling group. The meeting was reportedly arranged by ISI agents. Bangladesh experts now do not rule out major bloodshed. Intelligence sources suspect that taking advantage of the fragile security network, the Dawood gang is slowly expanding its network in Bangladesh and providing support to terrorist outfits, especially Huji, which has been targeting opposition leaders with precision.
Sumit Sen/TNN
The Times of India – June 26, 2006.
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Suicide bomber kills seven Pak troops
Peshawar – June 26, 2006 – A suicide car bomber rammed a Pakistani paramilitary check-post on Monday, killing seven troopers in a tribal region where the army has been fighting al-Qaeda and pro-Taliban militants for months, officials said. The attack in North Waziristan came a day after a militant commander said a month-long ceasefire had been called to give time for tribal elders to broker a settlement to end the conflict in the region.
Agencies
Express Newsline – June 27, 2006.
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Suicide attack on coalition convoy
Begra - June 26, 2006 – A suicide car bomber targeted a coalition convoy on Monday and wounded two Afghan boys near a US base north of the Afghan capital, Afghan officials said. The suicide car bomb attacker detonated his explosives-packed Toyota Corolla near the convoy, which was heading toward Kabul. The five, two doctors and an employee of the aid agency Swedish Committee for Afghanistan and two local government workers, were kidnapped on Thursday while driving in the eastern Nuristan province, said deputy provincial police chief, but they were released later on Sunday.
AP
Hindustan Times – June 27, 2006.
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Top Lankan general is blown up by suicide killer
Colombo – June 26, 2006 – A suicide bomber on a motorcycle rammed into a car carrying Sri Lanka’s third-highest ranking military officer on Monday and blew himself up, killing the general and three other people, officials said. The authorities immediately blamed the Tamil Tiger rebels, but President Mahindra Rajapakse urged Sri Lankans to remain calm and said, “These killings are further examples of the (Tigers’) concerted efforts to derail the peace process.” The Tigers later denied any role in it.
Krishnan Francis/(AP)
The Asian Age – June 27, 2006.
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Five security men killed in Thai south
Yala – At least five security officers were killed on Tuesday in a series of bombings in Thailand’s restive southern provinces, where the government is battling Islamic insurgents, police said. The victims included a soldier and four volunteer security officers, police said.
AFP
Hindustan Times – June 28, 2006.
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Suicide killer ‘takes out’ 5 Pak soldiers
Miran Shah – A top commander of pro-Taliban Pakistani tribal militants renewed his call for a one-month cease-fire with the army on Tuesday after a suicide car bomber killed five soldiers near the Afghan border. “We don’t know who carried out this attack, but I ask my people to respect a one-month cease-fire to give peace a chance,” Maulvi Sadiq Noor, a top leader of the Islamic militants in North Waziristan, said over telephone from an undisclosed location after presiding over a meeting of militants.
AP
The Times of India – June 28, 2006.
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Food for Thought
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
- Heraclitus
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
- Niels Bohr
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
- Socrates
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