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Taliban ambush kills 16 Afghan policemen
Kabul – A Taliban ambush of a police convoy in southern Afghanistan on Thursday left 16 policemen dead, the interior ministry said. The three-vehicle police convoy was on its way from the troubled province of Zabul to the capital, Kabul, when it was ambushed.
AFP
Hindustan Times – June 1, 2007.
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Over 1 lakh suicide bombers in Pak: Lal Masjid cleric
Islamabad – Lal Masjid’s head cleric Abdul Aiziz claimed that more than one lakh suicide bombers, including 10,000 in the two madrasas controlled by him, were present in Pakistan and were ready to explode at the command of their superiors.
PTI
The Times of India – June 1, 2007.
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J&K militants kill 2, hurt 22
Srinagar – June 1, 2007 – Militants killed at least one soldier and a trainee policeman and wounded more than 20 security personnel across the Kashmir Valley on Friday. Six militants were also killed in clashes with security forces during 24 hours. In a bomb explosion inside a camp of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) at Mehama in southern district of Kulgam, two policemen were killed and three more wounded.
Special Correspondent
The Asian Age – June 2, 2007.
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Cops foil New York airport terror plot, three held
New York – June 2, 2007 – Three people were arrested here and another being sought on Saturday in connection with a plot to set off explosives in a fuel line that feeds John KF. Kennedy International Airport and runs through residential neighbourhoods, officials close to the investigation said.
Associated Press
The Indian Express – June 3, 2007.
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Taliban vows to ‘liberate’ Afghanistan
Afghanistan – A man described as the Taliban’s new top field commander has vowed to liberate Afghanistan from “American slavery,” a pro-Taliban cleric said on Saturday. He made the remarks in an audiotape played at a rally at Killi Nalal on Friday
Sunday Times of India – June 3, 2007.
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Suicide blast at Somali Premier’s house
Mogadishu – A suicide bomber in a large-car blew himself up on Sunday in front of Prime Minister’s house, killing an unknown number of persons and injuring others, officials said. Mr. Ankunda, spokesman of the African Union peacekeeping force in Mogadishu, said, “It is a terrorist operation.”
AP
The Hindu – June 4, 2007.
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Las Vegas Airport on List for Studying Counter-Terror Systems
Associated Press (06/03/07)
The Department of Homeland Security has singled out Las Vegas as one of six cities with "airports of interest" for piloting the use of unmanned aircraft to prevent a ground-based missile attack on airliners using a directed-energy weapon like a high-powered laser or microwave system.
Security Management Daily – June 4, 2007.
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15 killed in suicide attack in Iraq
Baghdad – June 7, 2007 – At least 15 people were killed in bomb attacks on Iraqi security forces on Thursday, nine of them in the suicide truck bombing of a police station near the Syrian border in the northwest of the country. At least two civilians were killed in another apparently botched attack on the police in the capital of the restive western province of Al-Anbar, the police said.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – June 8, 2007.
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Islamists may widen attacks in Lebanon
Nahr Al-Bared (Lebanon) – June 7, 2007 – Islamist militants locked in a stand-off with the Lebanese Army threatened on Thursday to widen attacks as tanks and helicopter gunships pounded their strongholds inside an impoverished Palestinian refugee camp. The warning came as troops hit Fatah al-Islam positions in the Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon, shattering a two-hour lull in fighting and adding to fears about the plight of the refugees.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – June 8, 2007.
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Basque group ETA declares war on Spain once more
Madrid – June 5, 2007 – Armed Basque separatist group ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna, or Basque Country and Freedom), fighting for an independent Basque state in northern Spain and southwestern France, said it will end its 15-month-old ceasefire at midnight on Tuesday and warned Spain’s government of new attacks “on all fronts”. In a communiqué sent to Basque media the rebels said they were calling off the truce because of “arrests, tortures and every type of persecution” by the Socialist government. ETA had declared a ceasefire in March 2006.
Jason Webb / Reuters
Hindustan Times – June 6, 2007.
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Nepal – new heaven for ULFA
Guwahati – June 6, 2007 – After Bangladesh and Burma, now Nepal is turning to be one of the safest sanctuaries for the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom having nexus with Maoist militants in the neighbouring country. This was revealed by Ghanakanta Bora and his wife Tulsi, both senior ULFA leaders, who surrendered to army and civil authorities on Tuesday in eastern Assam’s Tinsukia. They added in their interrogation before surrender, “The ULFA has already set up some bases in Nepal with the help of Maoist militants and the outfit was preparing to shift a large number of cadres and leaders to other neighbouring country from their hideouts in Burma and Bangladesh.”
Manoj Anand
The Asian Age – June 7, 2007.
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Baghdad car blast kills 7 - Explosion injures 27
Baghdad – June 6, 2007 – Two car bombs detonated at road intersections in a busy Shia neighbourhood of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least seven people and wounding 27, defence officials said.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – June 7, 2007.
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Double blasts in Iraq kill 35
Baghdad – June 8, 2007 – Two double bomb attacks killed at least 35 people in Iraq on Friday, while gunmen raided the home of a police chief, killing his wife, brother and 12 bodyguards and seizing his children. A twin bomb attack on a Shia mosque near the northern oil city of Kirkuk killed at least 19 people and wounded 22, the police said. In another dual attack, 16 people were killed and 32 wounded. In a separate incident in west of Kirkuk, armed men killed an Iraqi Army officer and his two-year-old daughter, the police said.
Jay Deshmuch/(AFP)
The Asian Age – June 9, 2007.
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Suicide bomber strikes Iraqi army checkpoint
Baghdad – June 9, 2007 – A suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi army checkpoint south of Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least 12 soldiers and wounding 30, the police said.
AP
Sunday Hindustan Times – June 9, 2007.
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Karzai survives assassination bid
Kabul – Taliban militants fired rockets near a school where President Hamid Karzai was meeting local leaders and residents on Sunday, in central Afghanistan, in an apparent assassination attempt, but no one was hurt, officials and witnesses said. Karzai was giving a speech when rockets were fired nearby, said the police.
The Indian Express – June 11, 2007.
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Suicide bomber kills 10 in Iraq
Baghdad – A suicide truck bomber struck an Iraqi police agency in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 10 people, the police said. Clashes between American troops and Shiite militia left at least five people dead, but the military said it was part of an automatic self-defence system.
Agencies
The Indian Express – June 11, 2007.
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Naxals kidnap 12
Maoists kidnapped 12 people, including two women, from Dantewada and Narayanapur districts of Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, the police said on Sunday.
PTI
Hindustan Times – June 11, 2007.
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Blast rocks Kenya capital
Nairobi – June 11, 2007 – The Kenyan capital was rocked on Monday by a blast thought to be the work of a suicide bomber who detonated his explosives while clutching a copy of the Koran, injuring dozens of people.
Agence France Presse
The Indian Express – June 13, 2007.
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22 killed in fierce Gaza clashes
Gaza – June 13, 2007 – Hamas Islamists killed at least nine fighters loyal to Western-backed President Mahmnoud Abbas and blew up a security headquarters on Wednesday in a Palestinian supremacy struggle escalating steadily into a civil war in Gaza. An aide to Abhas said an additional 13 people were killed in the explosion at the Preventive Security building in the town of Khan Younis. Hamas gunmen also attacked an area near the home of a Fatah official, killing six of the group’s men in fighting. Four other Fatah men and one unidentified person were killed in separate clashes. Two United Nations employees were shot dead.
Nidal al-Mughrabi / Reuters
Hindustan Times – June 14, 2007.
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Top Shia mosque takes a hit
Baghdad – Saboteur bombers destroyed the two minarets of Samarra’s Askariya Shia shrine early on Wednesday. Sunni extremists of Al Qaeda were quickly blamed. Arsonists set fire to a Sunni mosque in western Baghdad, and a Shia shrine was blown apart north of Baghdad, the police said.
AP
The Times of India – June 14, 2007.
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4 Sunni mosques hit in reprisals
Four Sunni mosques were attacked on Wednesday in Iraq in apparent tit-for-tat violence after a revered Shia shrine was bombed by insurgents, the police said. Three mosques in the town of Iskandiriyah were bombed in the afternoon. Meanwhile, US forces killed a top militant of Al Qaeda in the restive northern Iraqi city of Mosoul, the US military said on Wednesday.
AFP
The Times of India – June 14, 2007.
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Beirut blast kills anti-Syrian MP
A blast in Beirut on Wednesday killed anti-Syrian parliamentary deputy Walid Eido, one of his sons and at least six others, security sources said. Eido was a member of the majority anti-Syrian bloc of Saad al-Hariri, which controls the Beirut government.
The Times of India – June 14, 2007.
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Two US soldiers killed in Iraq
Baghdad – June 13, 2007 – Roadside bombs killed two US soldiers in separate incidents in Baghdad, and one US Marine was killed in combat in Anvar province, the US military said on Wednesday. One soldier died on Monday when a bomb detonated during combat operations in an eastern section of the capital. Another soldier was killed and two others were wounded when their vehicle struck a bomb in southern Baghdad early on Tuesday.
Qassim Abdul-Zahra / (AP)
The Asian Age – June 14, 2007.
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9 die in Quetta attack
Islamabad – In a forceful demonstration that the crisis triggered by the removal of the Chief Justice is not President Pervez Musharraf’s only problem, a targeted attack on a vehicle in the Balochistan capital Quetta killed nine persons, including 7 belonging to army. The attack took place hours after a visit to Quetta by US Assistant Secretary of State on Thursday.
Nirupama Subnramanian
The Hindu – June 16, 2007.
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Army convoy ambushed
Srinagar – June 15, 2007 – Militants on Friday ambushed an Army convoy in Sopore, 48 km northwest of Srinagar, killing a soldier and a CRPF jawan and injuring four soldiers and five residents. In a separate incident, the police in Srinagar killed two members of a militant suicide squad planning to carry out surprise attacks in and around the city, officials claimed.
Special Correspondent
The Asian Age – June 16, 2007.
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Blast in Iraq Sunni shrine
Basra (Iraq ) – June 15, 2007 – A revered Sunni shrine was destroyed in a bomb attack near the southern Shia city of Basra on Friday by a group pretending they wanted to film the shrine, an Iraqi Army officer said. He added there were two explosions within minutes of each other that destroyed the two domes and a minaret on the mosque which is located near the town of Zubair, west of Basra.
The Asian Age – June 16, 2007.
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5 American soldiers die
Baghdad – June 15, 2007 – Five United States soldiers died in Iraq, the US military announced on Friday. Three of the soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded near their vehicle on Thursday.
(AP)
The Asian Age – June 16, 2007.
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LeT sleeper cell unearthed
New Delhi – The arrest of suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba activist, Mukhtiar Ahmed Khan, on Tuesday, has led to the detection of a sleeper cell of the outfit in Delhi. During interrogation, he revealed the phone number of his Delhi contact whose mobile phone he was using to be in touch with his Pakistani handlers and Lashkar commanders in J&K. He had come to Delhi to activate the LeT sleeper cell which was to be used for terror attacks in the Capital.
Pradeep Thakur / TNN
The Times of India – June 18, 2007.
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Taliban bomb leaves 35 dead in Kabul
Kabul – An enormous bomb ripped through a police academy bus at Kabul’s busiest transportation hub on Sunday, killing at least 35 people. A purported Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said a Taliban suicide bomber named Mullah Asaim Abdul Rahman caused the blast.
AP
The Times of India – June 18, 2007.
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Bomb near Shia shrine kills 75 in Baghdad
Baghdad – June 19, 2007 – A suicide bomber killed 75 people when he rammed his vehicle into a Shia mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday. One witness said the bomber drove his truck into the Khilani mosque, destroying one of its walls. Police said 75 people had been killed and 130 people wounded.
Dean Yates
Hindustan Times – June 20, 2007.
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Militants Hold 27 at Nigerian Oil Facility
Reuters (06/18/07) ; Ashby, Tom
Militants in Nigeria stormed an oil flow station owned by Italian oil company Eni on Sunday. No casualties were reported, but the militants were holding 16 local oil workers and 11 soldiers hostage at the facility as of Monday. Eni said it is working to resolve the crisis. At the time of the attack, 24 workers and 51 soldiers were stationed at the Eni facility, but eight workers and 40 soldiers managed to escape.
Security Management Daily – June 18, 2007
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10 Killed as Bombs Target Buses
Reuters (06/16/07)
Ten people were killed and 18 others were wounded Friday when a bomb exploded aboard a packed commuter bus outside Davos city, the Philippines. Witnesses described seeing two men leaving a backpack on the bus. Authorities blamed members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front for the attack, noting that the terrorist group uses extortion to finance its activities.
Security Management Daily – June 18, 2007
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Suicide bomber kills 15 in Iraq
Kirkuk – At least 15 people were killed on Thursday when a suicide bomber exploded an oil tanker outside police headquarters in a northern Iraqi town, the police said. Another 66 people were wounded in the attack, including local politicians and police, according to an official in a local hospital.
AFP
Hindustan Times – June 22, 2007.
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Blast before athletic meet kills 6
Guwahati – June 23, 2007 – Six people were killed and 20 others injured in a powerful explosion near the Machkhowa vegetable market, suspected to be the handiwork of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), here on Saturday. Over 200 athletes and officials from 19 Asian countries were present there for participation in the second leg of the grand prix meet, organized by the Asian Athletics Association. Four people were killed on the spot and one succumbed to his injuries on the way to the hospital, the police said.
Digambar Patowary
Hindustan Times – June 24, 2007
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Beheaded bodies, bombs in Baghdad
Baghdad – June 28, 2007 – A car bomb killed 25 people on Thursday at a busy intersection in Baghdad, while 20 beheaded bodies were found on a river bank south of the capital, Iraqi police said. Another car bomb in Baghdad targeting motorists queuing for petrol killed five people. Mortar bombs also killed four people in two separate neighbourhoods. In Basra, a roadside bomb killed three British soldiers and seriously wounded another on Thursday, the British military said. The deadliest car bomb in Baghdad exploded in the Shia district of Bayya in which 40 people were wounded and dozens of vehicles were destroyed.
Dean Yates / Reuters
Hindustan Times – June 29, 2007.
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Three suicide attacks kill 31 in Iraq
Baghdad – June 25, 2007 – Suicide bombers struck a Baghdad hotel and police targets on Monday that killed at least 31 people. The three suicide bombings came a day after an Iraqi court sentenced to death Al Hassan al-Majid, widely known as ‘Chemical Ali’, for the slaughter of 182,000 Kurds in 1988. A suicide bomber blew himself up in the lobby of Baghdad’s al-Mansour Melia hotel, killing at least eight people.
AFP
Hindustan Times – June 26, 2007.
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Food for Thought
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
- Samuel Smiles
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
- Dorothy L. Sayers
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
- Beverly Sills
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