Bangladesh rail blasts carry ‘Qaeda’ imprint
Three simultaneous bomb blasts rocked separate railway terminals in Bangladesh on Tuesday, with militant slogans claiming to be from Al Qaeda found at two of the sites. One person was hurt.
The Times of India – May 2, 2007.
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Militants Kidnap Six Foreign Oil Workers Off Nigeria
Reuters (05/02/07) ; Ahemba, Tume
American energy firm Chevron has shut down a small oilfield off the coast of Nigeria after armed militants attacked a Chevron-operated oil ship Tuesday and kidnapped six foreign oil workers, including an American and four Italians. "The hostages will be released unconditionally on May 30, 2007," the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) militant group said in a statement, adding that the hostages will only be released if the oil companies and government make no attempts to win their release. The militants killed at least one Nigerian during the attack on the Oloibiri ship. A security source says that the gunmen "compelled the crew to throw a rope down to give them access by using dynamite." MEND says that it kidnapped the oil workers as a warning to oil firm Shell and to show that it does not support Nigeria's president-elect.
Security Management Daily – May 2, 2007.
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Militants blow up Pak music shops – Army camp attacked in Waziristan
Peshawar – May 4 – Suspected Islamic militants targeted music shops with explosive devices in the town of Charsada, in North-West Frontier Province, bordering Afghanistan, damaging a dozen outlets, the police said on Friday. A Pakistani Army camp in North Waziistan tribal region was attacked by firing 10 rockets by suspected Taliban militants, sparking off a massive retaliatory fire by the military, a news report said. Three rockets were fired on a military check post in Miranshah 24 hours after the explosion.
(PTI,AFP, AP)
The Asian Age – May 5, 2007.
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21 Kidnapped in Nigerian Oil Region
Houston Chronicle (05/03/07) ; Udoh, Dan
Militants in Nigeria's Delta region have struck again, kidnapping a total of 21 oil workers on Thursday. One of the attacks was on a boat operated by a subsidiary of Italian oil firm Eni SpA, while another attack targeted South Korean company Daewoo Engineering and Construction's power plant construction site. Most of the kidnapped workers are of foreign origin, and they include several Europeans and Asians.
Security Management Daily – May 4, 2007.
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Taliban behead policeman in Afghanistan
Kandahar – Taliban militants on Tuesday beheaded an 18-year-old policeman in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, the local governor said. Abdul Rahim was returning to duty from holidays when he was captured by the insurgents and beheaded at Mushan village in Panjwayi district. Yousuf Ahmadi, a purported Taliban spokesman, claimed responsibility for the killing in a telephone call from an unknown location.
AFP
Hindustan Times – May 2, 2007.
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Jaish pumping real estate cash into terror: US
New Delhi – May 1, 2007 – The US State Department has said Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad was making money off commodity exchanges and real estate to fund its terror activities. The annual Country Reports on Terrorism 2006 voice suspect that the JeM had received funding from al-Qaeda. The State Department report alleges that prior to an anticipated crackdown by the Pakistani government, the JeM withdrew funds from its accounts, which it invested “in legal business such as commodity market, real estate and production of consumer goods”.
Madhur Singh
Hindustan Times – May 2, 2007
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Car bomb kills 35, wounds 80 in Baghdad
Baghdad – May 6, 2007 – A car bomb killed at least 35 and wounded 80 on Sunday in a Shia district of Baghdad which has been a repeated target of attacks by Sunni Islamist Al Qaeda. The car bomb exploded next to a crowded market in the Baiyaa district. North of the capital, two suicide car bombers attacked police positions in Samarra, killing eight people. US forces also killed 10 militants.
Aseel Kami / Reuters.
Hindustan Times – May 7, 2007.
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Militants crack down on music shops
Islamic militants are confiscating music cassettes from public buses and ordering shops to only sell CDs promoting jihad in the latest push to Talibanize a lawless Pakistani frontier region, residents said on Tuesday.
The Times of India – May 9, 2007.
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Two suicide bombs kill 20 in Iraq
Two suicide car bombers attacked a market and a police checkpoint on the outskirts to Ramdi, killing at least 20 people and dealing a blow to recent US success in reclaiming the Sunni city from insurgents. A mortar attack also killed five people and wounded two others in Baiyaa.
The Times of India – May 9, 2007.
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Gunmen Dressed as Cops Kill Police Chief in Mexico
Reuters
May 09, 2007
CHILPANCINGO, Mexico—Gunmen disguised as federal agents shot dead the head of police in a state capital near Mexico's Acapulco beach resort on Wednesday, the third killing of a senior cop in five days.
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Presumed drug gang members in black fatigues shot police chief Artemio Mejia in the back in the dusty town of Chilpancingo after he got out of his pickup truck to question them, town spokesman Reemberto Valdez said.
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7 militants and 2 security men killed in Kupwara gunbattles
Srinagar – At least seven suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba militants and two security personnel were killed as gunbattles rocked various parts of Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir for the second day on Wednesday, the police said. Five militants were killed in an encounter at Sangranapati and Dardhare village of Trehgam, Senior Superintendent of Police told PTI.
The Hindu – May 10, 2007.
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Cheney lands in Baghdad, bomb kills 14
Baghdad – US Vice-president Dick Cheney met Iraqi leaders in Baghdad on Wednesday and was expected to press for more progress in meeting political benchmarks aimed at ending sectarian violence. In Kurdistdan, a suicide truck bomb killed 14 people and wounded 87 in the northern city of Arbil, a Kurdish official said.
Reuters
The Times of India – May 10, 2007.
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Militants kill, burn policemen in Thailand
Narathiwat – Separatist militants killed two policemen in a raid on a checkpost, before setting it ablaze, with the victims inside, the police said. The militants took the policemen’s M16 rifles. Almost simultaneously, militants gunned down a local government official, injuring two others.
AFP
The Hindu – May 10, 2007.
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‘Taliban’ men blow up NWFP music shops
Islamabad – May 10, 2007 – Suspected local Taliban blew up four music and video shops in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province as part of their terror campaign to impose strict Islamic law in the tribal area bordering Afghanistan. A police officer said that an abandoned explosive-laden motorcycle was also seized from the site. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
(PTI)
The Asian Age – May 11, 2007.
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23 killed in Baghdad
Baghdad – May 12, 2007 - Twin suicide car bombers struck police checkpoints at bridges in a predominantly Shia area of Baghdad, killing at least 23 people just hours after a series of US raids on car bomb networks around the capital killed four suspected insurgents. Also on Friday the military announced that two US soldiers were killed in separate bombings the day before.
Ravi Nessman / (AP)
The Asian Age – May 13, 2007.
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Bomb attacks kill 87 Iraqis; Qaeda says US ‘crusaders’ captured
Baghdad – A suicide truck bomber crashed into the offices of a Kurdish political party on Sunday, killing at least 50 people and wounding scores. A parked car bomb also exploded near a market in central Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 17 Iraqis, wounding 46 and damaging shops, the police said. Meanwhile, an Al Qaeda front group said on Sunday that it had captured several US soldiers in the attacks a day earlier south of Baghdad that killed five and left three missing.
AP
The Times of India – May 14, 2007.
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Seven hurt in Afghanistan blast
Heart – A roadside bomb ripped through a vehicle in a convoy of Western troops as it passed over a bridge outside the Afghan city of Heart on Monday, wounding several soldiers, witnesses said. One vehicle was badly damaged in the blast.
The Indian Express – May 15, 2007.
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13 killed in Hyderabad mosque blast, clashes
Hyderabad – A bomb blast in the 400-year-old Mecca Masjid during Friday prayers and a clash with the police left at least 13 people dead and 58 injured in Hyderabad. Angry mob pelted stones at shops and manhandled some politicians and police officers. Police opened fire to control the mob and shot dead at least three people. Police said the bomb was placed under a white marble bench on the left of the main courtyard of the mosque. Two other bombs were detected and defused soon.
Times News Network
The Times of India – May 19, 2007.
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Five US soldiers killed in Baghdad
Baghdad – May 15, 2007 – Five United States troops were killed in separate attacks in Baghdad and surrounding areas on Monday, while another died of non-combat related cause, the United Sates military said in a statement on Tuesday.
(AP)
The Asian Age – May 16, 2007.
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Ambush on camp kills 8 in Gaza
Gaza City – May 15, 2007 – Eight Palestinians were killed on Tuesday in an ambush on a presidential guard training camp. The Hamas were blamed as deadly factional fighting threatened to spiral out of control in the Gaza Strip. Eight security officers in Abbas-controlled and Fatfah-dominated security services were killed in the fighting near Karni, a medical source said. Earlier on Tuesday, a fighter from Ezzedine al-Qassam brigades was shot dead and another Hamas supporter wounded in Gaza city.
Adel Zaanoun / (AFP)
The Asian Age – May 16, 2007.
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Suicide bomber kills 25 in Peshawar
Peshawar – May 15, 2007 – A suicide attacker detonated a bomb that ripped through a crowded hotel restaurant in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing at least 25 people and wounding 25, the police said. The bomb went off in the ground-floor of the four-story Marhaba Hotel in Peshawar city.
Riaz Khan /Agencies
Hindustan Times – May 16, 2007
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Hamas-Fatah fighting erupts again, 10 dead
Gaza – May 15, 2007 – At least 10 Palestinians were killed on Tuesday – eight in one incident – in the fighting between Hamas and Fatah since the rivals formed a unity government to end bloodshed threatening to spill into civil war. In an attack near Karni Crossing, Gaza’s main commercial lifeline with Israel, Hamas gunmen killed eight members of Mahmoud Abbas’s Presidential guard, a Fatah spokesman said.
Nidal al-Mughrabi / Reuters
Hindustan Times – May 16, 2007.
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41 Iraqis killed, 50 hurt in fresh violence
Baghdad – A parked car bomb exploded near a market in a Shia enclave north-east of Baghdad, killing at least 32 people and wounding 50, the police said on Wednesday. Clashes also broke out in the mostly Shia city of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq on Wednesday when a militant fought with police there after they arrested two wanted militia members. Nine Iraqis were killed and 75 wounded, a police spokesman said.
AP
Hindustan Times – May 17, 2007
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Suicide bomb kills 10 in Afghanistan
Kabal – A suicide attacker detonated himself next to German soldiers shopping in a crowded market in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing 10 people and wounding 16, officials said. Three Germans were killed and two wounded in the attack, said the deputy provincial police chief. Seven civilians were killed and 15 wounded, the Interior Ministry said.
AP
Sunday Hindustan Times of India – May 20,2007.
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Gunmen massacre 15 Iraqi villagers
Sulaimaniyah (Iraq) – May 19, 2007 – Gunmen wearing Iraqi military uniforms slaughtered 16 Kurdish villagers on Saturday, officials said, blaming Al Qaeda for the massacre. Brig. Gen. Sharif said the gunmen arrived at 6.00 A.M. and went house to house, masquerading as security forces on a legitimate mission.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – May 20, 2007.
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Militants kidnap 8 officials in Pak
Miran Shah (Pakistan) – May 19, 2007 – Dozens of suspected Islamic militants ambushed a vehicle carrying eight government officials and kidnapped them in a troubled northwestern tribal region of Pakistan, the officials said on Saturday. The officials, including five women, were abducted on late Friday, believed to be by local militants, as they travelled to the North Waziristan tribal region border Afghanistan sites for development projects.
Bashirullah Khan / (AP)
The Asian Age – May 20, 2007.
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Suicide bomb kills l4, hurts 35
Gardez (Afghanistan) – May 20, 2007 – A suicide bomber on foot blew himself up in a crowded market in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 14 people and wounding 31, officials and witnesses said. Three vehicles and 30 shops were damaged.
(AP)
The Asian Age – May 21, 2007
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6 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq blast
Baghdad – Six U.S. soldiers and an interpreter were killed by a roadside bomb in western Baghdad on Saturday, said the US military.
The soldiers and their interpreter had been uncovering caches of weapons, including grenades and small arms, as well as bomb-making equipment here over the past week.
Reuters
The Hindu – May 21, 2007.
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Lunch-box bombs rock Gorakhpur, five injured
Gorakhpur/Lucknow/New Delhi – May 22, 2007 – Gorakhpur was rocked by three bomb blasts on Tuesday evening in which five persons were injured, but there was no loss of life . The bombs were concealed in lunch boxes stored in three separate bicycles. DGP, UP, said that it could either be the handiwork of terrorists or anti-social elements.
Abdur Rehman and M. Hassan
Hindustan Times – May 23,, 2007.
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Car bomb in Baghdad leaves 25 dead
A parked car bomb ripped through a crowded outdoor market in southwestern Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 25 people. At least 60 people were wounded in the 10.00 A.M. blast in the Shia-dominated neighbourhood of Amil.
The Times of India – May 23, 2007.
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Suicide blast, says Turkey
Aankara – A Turkish official said on Wednesday a suicide bomber suspected of belonging to a separatist Kurdish rebel group was behind a powerful explosion in downtown Ankara that killed six others. Police arrested another suspected suicide bomber with 11.3 kg of plastic explosives in the southern city of Adana. Tuesday’s blast in Ankara ripped through the busy commercial district of Ulus, injuring 121 persons.
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The Hindu – May 24, 2007.
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Blast kills 6 Afghan policemen, district chief
Khost – A roadside bomb killed six policemen and a district chief in Afghanistan’s southeastern province of Paktika on Thursday, the provincial governor said. He blamed Taliban guerrillas for the attack, who claim responsibility for most such raids.
Reuters
The Asian Age – May 24, 2007.
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Blast at funeral kills 25 in Iraq
Baghdad – May 24, 2007 – A car bomb exploded at the funeral of a murdered local leader in the western Iraqi city of Fallujah on Thursday, killing 25 people, the state television reported. Fallujah residents said that the bomb attack hit mourners paying their respects to Ali Ahmed Zuwail, the nephew of tribal leader Abdel Razeq al-Issawi. Meanwhile, insurgents blew up an oil well near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – May 24, 2007.
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Suicide car bomber kills 21
Baghdad – May 28, 2007 – A suicide car bomber struck at 2.00 P.M. on Monday in the Sinak commercial district on the east side of the Tigris River, near the Abdul-Qadir al-Gailani mosque, in central Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 21 people and wounding 66, the police officials said. In another incident, the police said that a roadside bomb killed two people and injured another nine when it detonated under a parked car in the central Baghdad district of Bab al-Mudham.
Sinan Salaheddin/(AP)
The Asian Age – May 29, 2007.
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15 held in Spain for recruiting jihadis
Madrid – May 28, 2007 – Spanish Police said on Monday they had arrested 15 people suspecting of recruiting Islamic fighters for Iraq and North Africa. The 13 Moroccans and two Algerians were alleged to have indoctrinated others with radical Islamic teachings and glorified “jihad”, or holy war, the ministry said in a statement. Documents, diaries, computers, mobile telephones and papers related to jihad were seized, in an operation that police said was connected to the arrest of 22 jihadis in January.
Ben Harding/Reuters
Hindustan Times – May 29, 2007.
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4 dead as more bombs hit southern Thailand
Bangkok – An explosion at a market in southern Thailand on Monday killed four people and wounded 23, the police said, a day after blasts hit a popular tourist town in the restive region. A senior police officer said the blast hit a market in Saba Yoi district in Songkhla province at about 3.40 p.m.
Reuters
Hindustan Times – May 29, 2007.
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Bomb blast in Nepal kills l0, creates panic
Kathmandu – May 29, 2007 – Ten people died on Tuesday in a bomb explosion at Bhutuke village in central western Nepal’s Palpa district. A Ministry of Home Affairs spokesperson said the bomb exploded in the house of Tara Bahadur Khandamagar, at Bhutuke village. The house was completely destroyed. The Superintendent of Police of Palpa district said the bomb was believed to be one among the many others hidden in Khandamagar’s house when the Maoists were fighting a bush war against the King of Nepal. The explosion has created panic in the area.
Anirban Roy
Hindustan Times – May 30, 2007.
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Bombing in central Baghdad kills 23
Baghdad – May 29, 2007 – A parked minibus packed with explosives blew up on Tuesday afternoon in a busy section of central Baghdad, killing 23 people and injuring 68 others, the police said. A second car bombing in the Amil district in western Baghdad killed 15 people land wounded 36, the police said. Meanwhile, eight US soldiers were killed in roadside bombings and a helicopter crash in the restive Diyala province north of Baghdad, the military reported on Tuesday.
(AP)
The Asian Age – May 30, 2007.
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Blasts rock Balochistan, rail link cut
Quetta (Pakistan) – May 29, 2007 – Around a dozen blasts rocked Pakistan’s insurgency-hit southwestern province of Balochistan, cutting the lone rail link with Iran and injuring four people, the police said on Tuesday. The outlawed Balochistan Liberation Army, an autonomy-seeking tribal group, claimed responsibility for the overnight bombings in the provincial capital Quetta.
The Asian Age – May 30, 2007.
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Food for Thought
We’re a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
- Gamal Abdel Naser
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willingness is not enough; we must do.
- Johann W. Goethe
Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time.
- Arnold H. Glasow
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