Bangladesh – Policeman killed in blast
A policeman was killed and another injured in a blast at Gazipur, 40 km north of Dhaka, a police officer said. Police have arrested 30 suspected Islamist militants and seized large quantities of explosives across the country.
Gaurav Dikshit
Indian Express – February 1, 2007.
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Britain foils terror plot, arrests eight
Birmingham – January 31, 2007 – The British Police arrested eight people in a major anti-terrorism sweep on Wednesday which had thwarted a plot to kidnap a young man and carry out an “Iraq-style” execution.
Darren Staples/Reuters
Hindustan Times – February 1, 2007.
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Bomb kills 7 in east Lanka
Colombo – January 31, 2007 - Six policemen and a civilian were killed in a roadside bomb attack carried out by Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka’s restive east, the defence ministry said on Wednesday. The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) set off the powerful Claymore mine against a bus transporting constables travelling home on leave, a spokesperson said.
(AP, AFP)
The Asian Age – February 1, 2007.
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Car bomb blasts kill 6, injure 15 in Iraq
Baghdad – January 31, 2007 – Two parked car bombs struck simultaneously in separate areas in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding 15, the police said. In the first blast at 12.45 p.m., on Jamhuriyah Street, four people were killed and 12 injured. About the same time, another car packed with explosives blew up in the religiously mixed neighbourhood of Maamoun in western Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding three others
Bushra Juhi/(AP)
The Asian Age – February 1, 2007.
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Suicide bombers kill 45 in Iraq city
Baghdad – Two suicide bombers blew themselves up on Thursday in a crowded outdoor market in Hillah, a Shia city killing 45 people and wounding 150, the police said. The bomber strolled into the market and then detonated his explosives. The second attacker, waling behind him, then set off his own explosives belt.
AP
The Hindu – February 2, 2007.
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Maoists kill 3 forest officials
Bhubaneswar – Suspected Maoists on Thursday killed three forest officials at Kandhar village in Dhenkanal district. According to the police, about 15 extremists raided the forest beat station early in the morning and killed the forest employees by slitting their throats.
The Asian – February 2, 2007.
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1 killed, 2 hurt in Manipur ambush
Imphal – A civilian was killed and two others, including a Border Security Force trooper, were injured in a gunbattle between the BSF and militants in Thoubal district of Manipur, officials said on Friday.
(PTI)
The Asian Age – February 3, 2007.
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10 die before Hamas, Fatah call truce again
Gaza – February 2, 2007 – Hamas and Fatah leaders said after talks on Friday that they agreed to revive a ceasefire deal that felll apart after a day of fierce fighting. Earlier, a new round of heavy fighting throughout Gaza had killed 10 people with mortar shells, rockets and heavy machine guns.
Agencies
Hindustan Times – February 3, 2007.
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Muslim rebels lead Philippines jailbreak
Cotabato – Muslim insurgents using grenade launchers blasted their way into a prison in the southern Philippines early on Friday and freed 49 inmates, prison officials said.
AFP
Hindustan Times – February 3, 2007.
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Suicide bomber kills 135 in Baghdad
Baghdad – A suicide bomber killed 135 people and wounded over 300 here on Saturday by driving a truck packed with a tonne of explosives into a busy market in Shia area. “All Iraqis were shaken today by this crime,” Prime Minister Nuri-kal-Maliki said in a statement.
Reuters
The Hindu – February 4, 2007.
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Car bomber kills two Pak soldiers
Afghanistan - A car bomber rammed a Pakistani military convoy, killing himself and at least two soldiers on Saturday in an area of northwest Pakistan rife with support for the Taliban, the police said. Six other troopers were wounded in the attack in the Barakhel area of Dera Ismail Khan, a district adjoining the tribal region of south Waziristan on the border with Afghanistan.
Reuters
Sunday Hindustan Times – February 4, 007.
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Pakistani mosque grooming jehadi wives: Research scholar
Islamabad – Girl students of a seminary attached to a prominent mosque in Pakistan were being groomed as wives and mothers for jehadis and suicide bombers, a US-based Pakistani research scholar has claimed. “The students and teachers told me the madrasas are grooming wives and mothers for jehadis, female suicide bombers and female foot-soldiers who will clash with the law enforcement agencies of Pakistan, if necessary,” Farhat Taj, a research fellow of the Centre for Women and Gender-Studies, University of Oslo wrote in Daily times.
PTI
Sunday Times of India – February 4, 2007.
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Qaeda orders killings, abductions in Britain
London – Islamic terror cells in Britain have been instructed to carry out a series of kidnappings and beheadings of the kind allegedly planned by the nine terrorist suspects arrested in Birmingham last week. The “strategic” assassination instruction was issued by Al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan and Iraq to dozens of their followers in Britain. It was uncovered by M15 last autumn, senior security sources say.
David Leopard/Sunday Times, London
The Times of India – February 5, 2007.
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Prelude to Terror
Thiruvananthapuram – The spectre of terrorism has finally hit God’s Own Country. Two incidents, one in Kochi and another in Kottayam, within a span of just one week have confirmed the worst of fears. On January 9, customs officials in Kochi found 47 air pistols and 37 air guns in a container originating from Dubai in a Shanghai-registered ship, which was labeled ‘soft furniture’ and addressed to one R.O. Khoya resident of Trisur. On January 15, in Kottayam, the police recovered 158 daggers, swords, ‘Rambo’ knives from a parcel sent to a courier service. On the same day, the police also confiscated similar weapons from a blacksmith in Palakkad.
M.G. Radhakrishnan
INDIA TODAY – February 5, 2007.
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Car bombs leave 24 dead in Baghdad
Baghdad – Three car bombs killed 24 people and wounded scores in Baghdad on Monday, and gunmen attacked two Sunni areas, clashing with residents and setting houses on fire. A car bomb targeting a petrol station in the religiously mixed southern neighbourhood of Saidiya killed 10 people and wounded 62, while eight people were killed and 40 wounded when a car bomb exploded in a garage. Another car bomb exploded near a children’s hospital in Andalus square in central Baghdad, killing six and wounding nine.
Reuters
The Times of India – February 6, 2007.
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Blast kills Pak tribal leaders
Khar (Pakistan) – A remote-controlled bomb killed two pro-government tribal elders and wounded another on Monday near Pakistan’s north-western border with Afghanistan, security officials said.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – February 6, 2007.
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Alarm in UK as second letter bomb injures two
London – February 6, 2007 – With a second letter bomb exploding within 24 hours of the fist on Monday, there is fear that Britain is in the grip of a letter-bombing campaign. In the latest incident, a parcel exploded at the office of a business services firm in Berkshire, southern England, injuring two employees. In Tuesday’s blast, two men suffered injuries to their hands and upper bodies. On Monday a woman was injured at the Victoria Street Office of Capita as she had opened a letter delivered in a jiffy bag.
Vijay Dutt and Agencies
Hindustan Times – February 7, 2007
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Bomber killed, 3 policemen hurt in Islamabad blast
Islamabad – February 6, 2007 – A suicide bomber set off explosives in the car park at Islamabad airport on Tuesday after being challenged by the police. Three policemen were wounded, officials said. The bomber was stopped in a car just outside the airport and ran into the airport’s car park after the police tried to search him. He opened fire at the policemen chasing him before blowing himself up.
Reuters
Hindustan Times – February 7, 2007.
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Third letter bomb in 3 days injures 3 women in Britain
London – A letter bomb exploded at Britain’s vehicle licensing agency on Wednesday, injuring three women. Police said seven devices had been sent through the mail in the last three weeks, including three bombs in the last three days. At least seven people have been injured. Attacks on Monday and Tuesday this week had hit offices linked to companies involved in speed cameras and traffic fees.
Reuters
The Times of India – February 8, 2007.
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Suicide bomber kills 30 in Iraq
A suicide truck bomber slammed into a crowd of police lining up for duty on Sunday near Tikrit, collapsing the station and killing at least 30 people and wounding 50. Minutes later, a roadside bomb struck a car on a highway on the western outskirts of Tikrit, killing two civilians and wounding two others.
The Times of India – February 12, 2007.
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Pipeline blasted
Islamabad – Suspected Baloch nationalists blew up a main gas pipeline in Pakistan’s restive southwestern province late on Friday, disrupting fuel supply to capital Quetta and adjoining areas.
PTI
The Hindu – February 11, 2007.
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6 PPP activists shot dead in Pakistan
Attock – February 10, 2007 – Six activists of the People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) were shot dead and two others injured on the Sanjwal-Attock road on Friday. Eyewitness said a group of PPP activists was going from Badri village to Attock in a wagon when they were intercepted by at least 10 armed men on the Sanjwal-Attock Road.
Yaqoob Malik/Dawn
The Asian Age – February 11, 2007.
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Revenge in air as blasts kill 80 in Iraq
Baghdad – February 12, 2007 – On Monday, three car bombs ripped apart a crowded marketplace in a Shiite neighbourhood, setting off secondary explosions and killing at least 71 people, the police said. A suicide bombing nearby killed at least nine. The suicide bomber detonated an explosives-filled vest in crowd near a restaurant in the Bab al-Sharqi area. About a half-hour later, three parked car bombs exploded within seconds of each other, targeting two buildings about 200 yards apart. 165 wounded were taken to hospitals.
AP
The Indian Express – February 13, 2007.
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Taliban cross Pak border to hit dam
Spin Boldak (Afghanistan) - At least 700 Taliban fighters have crossed from Pakistan into Afghanistan to attack a key dam, a major source of electricity, a provincial governor said on Monday. “We have got confirmed reports that they are Pakistani, Uzbek and Chechen nationals and have sneaked in, and they are planning to destroy the Kajaki dam, Pakistan is supporting them,” Heimand governor Asadullah Wafa said.
Agencies
The Times of India – February 13, 2007.
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Mortars kill 3 in Mogadishu
Mogadishu – Five mortar bombs struck northern Mogadishu (capital of Somalia) on Monday, killing at least three people and wounding several others in the post-war violence, witnesses said.
Reuters
Hindustan Times – February 13, 2007.
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Wave of bombings kills six in Algeria
Algeria – A wave of bombings killed six people, including two police officers, and injured nearly 30 others in Algeria on Tuesday. There were at least seven attacks, some of them car bombings, the APS news agency said. No body has claimed responsibility for the blasts. However, an al-Qaeda-aligned Islamic insurgent group, the Salafist Group of Call and Combat, is active in Algeria.
AP
Hindustan Times – February 14, 2007.
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Lebanon bus bombs kill 3, 20 injured
Ein Alaq (Lebanon) – February 13,2007 – A pair of bombs minutes apart tore through two buses travelling on a busy commuter highway on Tuesday morning near a mountain town northeast of Beirut. At least three people were killed and 20 more wounded, the country’s state-run news agency said.
(AP)
The Asian Age – February 14, 2007.
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Kashmir militants’ Nepal link
Baramulla – February 13, 2007 – The arrest of a Nepali has revealed an arms nexus between Nepali Maoist rebels and Kashmiri militant outfits. This is the first time that a Nepali Maoist has been arrested in Kashmir for having links with Kashmiri militants. Pasang, a resident of Humla district near Kathmandu, was acting as a conduit between Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, Nepali Maoists and insurgents of the North-East, Defence PRO Lt. Col. A.K. Mathur said.
Tejinder Singh Sodhi
Hindustan Times – February 14, 2007.
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18 die in Iraq suicide bombing
Baghdad – February 13, 2007 – A suicide bomber driving a small truck rigged with explosives blew up near a Baghdad college on Tuesday, killing 18 people in an attack.
Reuters
The Indian Express – February 14, 2007.
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Al-Qaeda 'in Plot to Attack France'
Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) (02/11/07)
Al Qaeda is targeting the French presidential elections this spring with a terrorist plot that seeks to replicate the March 2004 Madrid train bombings, according to a French intelligence report and an Arabic-language newspaper. The French presidential elections will be held in April and May. The intelligence report concludes that there are "four sources of threat" to the elections, including Iraqi terrorist networks and North African terror networks linked to the Algerian Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). The Arabic newspaper, al-Hayat, has published a letter that it claims was written by Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
Security Management Daily – February 12, 2007.
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Bomb attack on Iran elite force kills 11
Tehran – February 14, 2007 – Eleven people were killed and 31 wounded on Wednesday when a bomb targeting members of the elite Revolutionary Guards exploded in the south eastern Iranian city of Zahedan, the state agency INRA said.
Agence France Presse
The Indian Express – February 15, 2007.
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Terrorists tap stock markets
New Delhi – Terror groups operating with the support of Pakistan have resorted to carefully charted manipulation of Indian stock exchanges through ghost companies to raise millions of dollars for planning and carrying out strikes against India. Last week, speaking at a conference on international security at Munich last week, M.K. Narayanan, national security adviser, said, “Isolated instances of terrorist outfits manipulating the stock exchanges have been reported….stock exchanges in Mumbai and Chennai have, on occasion, reported that fictitious or notional companies were engaging in stock market operations.” He also spoke of a conspiracy by “official agencies” in Pakistan, a euphemism for ISI, for the plot to carry out “economic subversion.”
Times News Network
The Times of India – February 15, 2007.
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Bomb Explosion Injures Officer
London Free Press (Canada) (02/15/07)
A bomb exploded in downtown Sherbrooke, Quebec, Wednesday, destroying a city police van and wounding a police officer. The blast came after the officer parked the van, left it, and returned several minutes later. Nearby vehicles and windows were damaged by the blast, and police found explosives at the scene of the attack.
Security Management Daily – February 15, 2007
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Suicide attack kills 11 in Iraq
Ramadi (Iraq) – February 15, 2007 – A suicide car bomber attacked an Iraqi police station in the western city of Ramadi, killing 11 people, including four police personnel. Wednesday’s attack also wounded 21 people, a spokesperson said.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – February 16, 2007.
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Al Qaeda targets US oil supply
Dubai – February 15, 2007 – A call by an extremist group linked to Al Qaeda for wider attacks against US oil suppliers has forced Canada, Mexico and Venezuela to review security at oil installations. “Oil interests in all regions from which the United States benefits should be hit, not only in the Middle least,” the group said in the Sawt al-Jihad (the Voice of Jihad) article.
AFP
Hindustan Times – February 16, 2007.
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Taliban mass 10,000 men for offensive
Spin Boldak – February 16, 2007 – The Taliban have deployed 10,000 fighters for a spring offensive of “bloody attacks” against foreign troops in Afghanistan, a rebel commander said on Friday. Mullah Abdul Rahim, the Taliban’s operational commander for southern Helmand province, said militants would step up attacks in spring.
Saeed Ali Achakzai/Reuters
Hindustan Times – February 17, 2007.
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Suicide bomber kills 15 in Pak
QUETTA – February 17, 2007 – A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people, including a senior judge, and dozens were injured, when he blew himself up inside a court in southwest Pakistan on Saturday, the police said. The explosion took place in the compound of district courts in Quetta, capital of Baluchistan province bordering insurgency-plagued southern Afghanistan.
AFP
Sunday Hindustan Times – February 18, 2007.
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LTTE blasts army bus in Jaffna, 3 killed
Colombo – February 17, 2007 – On Sunday, in a daring clandestine operation in a high security zone in the northern town of Jaffna, the LTTE blasted a bus carrying Sri Lankan troops with a claymore mine. While the pro-LTTE Tamilnet website said that two soldiers and a civilian were killed and 12 soldiers were injured in the attack, an army spokesman said no soldiers were killed. “A civilian was killed and five soldiers and a civilian were injured,” Samarasinghe told Hindustan Times.
P.K. Balachandran
Sunday Hindustan Times – February 18, 2007.
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Car blasts kill 56 in Baghdad
Baghdad – February 18, 2007 – A double car bomb attack on a crowded market in east Baghdad killed at least 56 on Sunday. An official at the Kindi Hospital in downtown Baghdad said the emergency room had received 42 corpses and was treating 83 seriously wounded patients.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – February 19, 2007.
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Blast at Russian McDonald’s outlet
Moscow – February 19, 2007 – A shrapnel-filled bomb exploded in a McDonald’s restaurant in St. Petersburg on Sunday night, injuring six people. Police said the bomb, which was carried in a woman’s handbag, went off shattering windows and bringing part of the ceiling crashing down. Six people were hospitalized.
Fred Weir
Hindustan Times – February 20, 2007.
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Samjhauta Express firebombed, 67 killed
Panipat – At least 67 people were killed and 50 injured when two firebombs went off on the New Delhi-Wagha Samjhauta Express on Sunday night. The attack came a day ahead of Pakistan’s Foreign Minister’s three-day official visit to Delhi. Forensic tests will be conducted on the unexploded suitcase-bombs found on the train, but a senior intelligence official told The Hindu that investigators had been able to determine that the devices were cleverly designed to start a fire. “They were incendiary devices,” he said, ”rather than explosive devices.” Bottles filled with kerosene and then packed with cotton-wool were recovered form the three unexploded devices.
Praveen Swami
The Hindu – February 20, 2007.
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Blasts kill 6, injure 50 in Thailand
Bangkok – February 19, 2007 – Suspected Muslim insurgents killed six people and wounded at least 50 in overnight bombings and attacks across four provinces in southern Thailand, officials said on Monday. An army spokesperson said Islamic insurgents were trying to scare ethnic Chinese out of the predominantly Muslim region. The violence continued on Monday as bombs exploded at three locations, killing one Army major, injuring three policemen and wounding seven others
Sutin Wannabovorn / (AP)
The Asian Age – February 20, 2007.
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Suicide attack kills 11 in Iraq
Baghdad – February 21, 2007 – A suicide car bomber struck a police checkpoint on Wednesday in the Shia holy city of Najaf, killing 11 people. At least two of the victims were police and the rest civilians, authorities said. A car bomb in the western Baghdad district of Bayya killed at least two and injured 31, the police said.
Sinan Salaheddin/(AP)
The Asian Age – February 22, 2007.
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2 CRPF jawans shot dead in Anantnag
Srinagar – Suspected militants shot dead two CRPF jawans in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said on Tuesday. The assailants opened fire on the soldiers of a road-opening party at Sangam on Tuesday. No militant outfit has claimed responsibility.
ENS & PTI
The Asian Age – February 21, 2007.
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‘Chemical bomb’ kills 6 in Iraq, scores poisoned
Baghdad – A tanker carrying chlorine gas exploded Tuesday morning outside a restaurant in the Iraqi town of Taji, killing at least six people, an Interior Ministry official said. At least 105 other people were either injured by the blast or poisoned by the flames. A car bomb also exploded outside a fuel station in the Sadiya district, killing six people land wounding 11 more. In southern Baghdad, a second car bomb exploded near a market in the Rashid district, leaving five dead and seven wounded. In Tikrit, a would-be suicide bomber wearing an explosives vest was shot and killed by authorities outside an Iraqi army recruitment center, police said.
Agencies
The Times of India – February 21, 2007.
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Security Professionals Gloomy on Terrorism
Turkish Daily News Online (02/23/07)
The threat of international terrorism is increasing despite better anti-terrorism efforts from law enforcement, according to an informal poll of security professionals and other participants who attended a major security conference in Brussels this week. The security professionals were in town for a three-day conference hosted by the EastWest Institute security think-tank. Participants filled out a "counter-terrorism scorecard" that allowed attendees to share their view of the global terrorism threat. The results of the scorecard show that 82 of those polled believe that the threat of international terrorism has not decreased during the last year, with half of this group "strongly" holding this belief, compared with just 19 who "somewhat" believe that the threat of global terrorism has decreased, and only 1 person who "strongly" believes it has decreased. Of those who filled out the scorecard, 29 said they personally felt more secure from attack than they did one year ago, but 75 said they did not. Other topics at the conference included weapons of mass destruction and cyber-based terrorism. "Terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction in the future is a near to absolute certainty," said EastWest Institute analyst Greg Austin.
Security Management Daily – February 23, 2007
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15 jawans killed in Manipur
Imphal – February 24, 2007 – Fifteen jawans of the Indian Reserve Police (IRP) were killed when militants ambushed their convoy in Manipur’s Bishnupur district. The jawans were on their way to their battalion headquarters in Churachandpur. .
Sobhapati Samom
Hindustan Times – February 25, 2007.
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Deadly weekend claims 96 in Iraq
Baghdad – February 25, 2007 – A suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives killed 40 people in a Baghdad college on Sunday. Guards stopped the bomber in the reception lobby of the Baghdad Economy and Administration College but the man managed to blow himself up, the police said. Among the attacks on Sunday, rockets and mortar bombs crashed into a market in a Shia area in southern Baghdad and there were conflicting reports about casualties. One police source said 10 people were killed in the attack in the Abu Dsher area of Doura neighbourhood. Two other police sources said no more than three people had been wounded. A car bomb also killed one person and wounded four in central Baghdad. A fuel tanker rigged with explosives killed 45 people on Saturday when it blew up near a Sunni mosque in western province of Anbar.
Dean Yates/Reuters
Hindustan Times – February 26, 2007.
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Vice-President injured in blast – 25 die in explosion inside Iraqi Ministry
Dubai – A bomb explosion inside a ministerial building in central Baghdad injured Iraqi Vice-President Adel Abdul Mahdi on Monday when he was visiting Public Works Ministry. Twenty-five persons were killed in the blast. Five policemen died in separate attacks on Monday. A man and woman were also killed when a mortar shell exploded in a central Baghdad street.
Atul Aneja
The Hindu – February 27, 2007.
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Car bomb near park kills 18 boys in Iraq
Baghdad – February 27, 2007 – A car bomb exploded on Tuesday near a park killing at least 18 boys in a city west of Baghdad known as a centre of the Sunni insurgency, the police said.
Sinan Salaheddin/AP
The Indian Express – February 28, 2007.
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Laugh A While
My husband placed a perfectly good set of used tyres outside his garage with a sign that read “Free.” After a few weeks with no takers, he changed the sign to “$20”. The next day, they were stolen.
- Jeannie Cabigting
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Quotable Quote
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Quoted in Reader’s Digest 1 February 2007.
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