Blasts in Bangladesh
Dhaka – One person was killed and five others were injured when two powerful bombs exploded at District Judge Court building in Chandpur district in south-eastern Chittagong division, private news agency UNB reported on Monday. Another blast occurred at about 11.55 a.m. at Chitagong magistrate court in the south-eastern port city, leaving one person injured.
The Hindu – October 4, 2005.
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Attack on Canadian convoy
Kandhar – A suicide bomber in a pick-up truck blew himself up near a Canadian military convoy in volatile southern Afghanistan today, killing an Afghan child, a provincial governor said.
AFP, Kandhar
Hindustan Times – October 5, 2005.
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Suicide bomb kills 14 in Hilla
Hilla – A suicide car bomber killed 14 people and wounded 42 outside a mosque in Hilla, south of Baghdad, on Wednesday. People were crowding round the entrance to the mosque when the car drove up and exploded, one senior police officer said.
The Times of India – October 6, 2005.
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Car bombs kill 112 in Iraq
Baghdad – September 30, 2005 – Three suicide attackers exploded near simultaneous car bombs in the Shia town on Thursday and Friday, killing at least 112 people and wounding 124. Al-Qaeda in Iraq has declared ”all-out war” on the Shia majority that dominates Iraq’s government, and moderate Sunni Arab leaders called on their community to reject the Constitution.
(AP)
The Asian Age – October 1, 2005.
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U.P. alert after fresh Al Qaeda threat – Railways receives yet another letter threatening to blow up Charbagh station by RDX
Lucknow – The Uttar Pradesh Government has sounded a red alert at all major railway stations following fresh threats within a month by international terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda to blow Charbagh railway station here by RDX. Two letters have been received by the railways here in the last two days, taking the total number of such threats to three within a span of 25 days, Principal Secretary (Home) Alok Sinha said here on Friday.
UNI
The Hindu – October 1, 2005.
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Qaeda threat to Gulf countries real: UAE
Dubai – The al-Qaeda poses a real danger to the free-wheeling countries of the Persian Gulf, which may be its next target, and must be tackled seriously, a government-run think tank warns. The report, published by the government-run Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, said Osama bin Laden’s terror network is busy recruiting and sinking roots in the region. Terror attacks in the gulf region have been concentrated in Saudi Arabia, which launched an aggressive anti-terror campaign in 2003.
A.P.
The Times of India – October 1, 2005.
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Zarqawi sending his fighters back home
Amman – October 2, 2005 – In an interview, Interior Minister of Iraq said, “We got hold of a very important letter from Abu Azzam to Zarqawi asking him to begin to move a number of Arab fighters to the countries they came from to transfer their experience in car bombings in Iraq.”
Reuters
Hindustan – October 3, 2005.
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Thinktanks to draw concepts on anti-terror warfare in built-up areas
New Delhi – October 2, 2005 - The government has decided to experiment with using air power as a preemptive force in the state, following a sudden spurt in infiltration attempts and encounters. The Air HQ has constituted thinktanks to draw up concept on counter-insurgency warfare in built-up areas, to give the IAF’s new role a detailed operational profile.
The Indian Express – October 3, 2005.
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Militants blow up bank vehicle
Srinagar – Four persons including a National Conference activist, were killed and six others injured as militants blew up a vehicle of SBI with an IED in Jammu and Kashmir, a police spokesman said on Thursday. The vehicle was on way back from Verinag to Anantnag after delivering cash.
PTI
The Hindu – October 7, 2005.
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12 killed in two car bomb attacks in Baghdad
Baghdad – Two suicide car bomb attacks in eastern Baghdad on Thursday killed a total of 12 Iraqis and wounded 15, the police said. The deadliest one hit a police patrol near the Old Ministry, killing nine Iraqis and wounding nine. Earlier on Thursday, in another part of eastern Baghdad, a suicide car bomb exploded near a convoy of private security contractors, killing three bystanders and wounding six others.
A.P.
The Hindu – October 7, 2005.
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Al-Qaeda puts job ads on Net: Arabic paper
Al-Qaeda has put job advertisements on the internent asking for supporters to help put together its web statements and video montages, an Arabic newspaper reported. The London-based Asharq al-Awsat said on its website that al-Qaeda had “vacant positions” for video production and editing statements and international media coverage about militants in Iraq, the Palestinian territories, Chechnya and other conflict zones.
Reuters
The Times of India – October 7, 2005.
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Fresh attacks kill 16 in Iraq
Baghdad – Iraqi insurgents killed at least 16 people in two strikes on Thursday, sending a suicide bomber to blow up a bus near the oil ministry in Baghdad and shooting oil ministry guards in the north.
Reuters
The Times of India – October 7, 2005.
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Terror threat to New York subway system
New York – The authorities warned that the mass transit system had come under most specific terrorist threat ever. Uniformed police stepped up searches of bags and increased their presence at subway stations following Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s plea to commuters to leave their luggage, briefcases and baby strollers at home.
Agencies
Hindustan Times – October , 2005.
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Zarqawi backs killing infidel civilians
Dubai – October 7, 2005 – Iraq’s Al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi said militants were justified under Islam in killing civilians as long as they are infidels, according to an audio tape attributed to him on Friday. “Islam does not differentiate between civilians and military (targets) but rather distinguishes between Muslims and infidels,” said the man on the tape posted on the Internet, who sounded like Zarqawi.
Reuters
Hindustan Times – October 8, 2005.
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2 bombs kill 46 before vote
Baghdad – Two bomb attacks killed nearly 46 Iraqis in the northern town of Tal Afar and in Baghdad on Tuesday, four days before a referendum on a draft constitution that has divided Iraq’s main communities. A car bomb blew up in a market in Tal Afar, killing at least 41 people and wounding 36 and a suicide car bomber attacked an Iraqi army convoy in a part of western Baghdad killing five people.
A.P.
The Times of India – October 12, 2005.
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Al Qaeda to use Iraq to create Caliphate
Jerusalem – October 8, 2005 – Osama bin Laden’s deputy Ayman Al Zawahri, in a detailed letter to Iraq’s insurgency leader Abu Musab Kal Zarqawi, has called for the creation of a Caliphate in Iraq and expanding jihad to neighbouring countries to prevent “secularists and traitors govern us”. “The mujahideen must not be allowed to end their mission with the expulsion of the Americans from Iraq, and then lay down their weapons,” reports quoted the letter as saying. The 13-page document provides a thorough outline of Al-Qaeda’s strategies in Iraq and beyond.
Agencies
Sunday Hindustan Times – October 9, 2005.
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Suicide bomber wounds four Britons in Afghanistan
Kandhar – A suicide bomber rammed a car laden with explosives into a vehicle carrying British Government officials in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, wounding four of them, a US-led coalition commander said.
A.P.
The Hindu – October 10, 2005.
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Belgium caught in a terror web
Brussels – October 10, 2005 – In March 2004, the Dutch traffic police stopped a Belgian-born driver, Khalid Bouloudo, for a broken headlight and accidentally stumbled onto a major investigation of Islamic radicals. During a routine check, his name turned up on an Interpol watch list, for an international arrest warrant from Morocco charging him with links to a terrorist organization based in Morocco and involvement in suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003. Fearing that Buloudo’s contacts would go underground or flee, counter-terrorism forces immediately carried out a series of raids throughout the country, dismantling over the next few months what they believed was a sophisticated network that supported the bombings in Casablanca and in Madrid in 2004 and that is also suspected of trying to recruit fighters for the insurgency in Iraq.
New York Times
Hindustan Times – October 11, 2005.
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Terror follows quake: 11 killed in Rajouri
Tandhar – October 10, 2005 – On Sunday, terrorists killed 11 people of three families in Rajouri district’s Budhal area. They barged into the houses of Munshi Ram, Kartar Chand and Nazir Mohammad and slit the throats of their victims. According to police, the motive behind the killings could be to terrorize the people at the time when the security forces were engaged in rescue and relief operations.
Sutirtho Patranobis
Hindustan Times – October 11, 2005.
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Taliban killed 19 Afghan policemen
Kabul – October 11, 2005 – Suspected Taliban rebels ambushed a police convoy travelling on a mountain road in southern Afghanisitan, killing 19 officers, police officials said on Tuesday. Security forces rushed reinforcements to the area and have secured the region. A US soldier was wounded when militants opened fire on Tuesday on his vehicle near Kandhar city.
AP
Hindustan Times – October 12, 2005.
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Attacks by insurgents kill 45
Baghdad – October 11, 2005 – Insurgents killed nearly 50 people and wounded dozens in a series of attacks on Tuesday, including a suicide car bomb that ripped apart a crowded market in a town near the Syrian border, police said. A suicide car bomb exploded in a crowded open market in the northwestern town of Tal Afar, killing 30 Iraqis and wounding 45. Insurgents also used two suicide car bombs, three roadside bombs and five drive-by shootings and a mortar attack on a used-clothes market in the capital on Tuesday, killing 15 and wounding 29 others.
AP
Hindustan Times – October 12, 2005.
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Suicide bomber kills 30
A suicide bomber blew himself up at an Iraqi army recruitment center on Wednesday, killing 30 people in a crowd of people waiting outside the center in the northwestern Iraqi town of Tal Afar. In other violence, six people were injured in a bomb attack against the convoy of Saad Naif al-Hardan.
AFP, Baghdad
Hindustan Times – October 13, 2005.
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Al Qaeda outlines its global agenda
Washington – October 12, 2005 – A senior American intelligence official said on Tuesday that a document obtained this summer by American forces in Iraq had provided the United States with “a comprehensive view of Al-Qaeda strategy in Iraq and beyond” and a revealing glimpse into “the intentions of the enemy.” A complete version of the 6,000 word document, a letter in Arabic from Ayman al Zawahiri, the No.2 leader in Al-Qaeda.
USA Today
Hindustan Times – October 13, 2005.
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J&K’s first woman fidayeen
Srinagar – October 13,, 2005 – A woman militant blew herself up in the south Kashmir town of Awantipora on Thursday and became the Valley’s first female suicide bomber. The bomber, who the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba and Jaish-e-Mohammad claimed was their supporter, exploded 50 yards away from the State Bank of India. “This is for the first time in 16 years of violence in J&K that a woman human bomber has surfaced,” said a senior police official.
HT Correspondent
Hindustan Times – October 13, 2005.
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Massive terror strike in Russia
Moscow – October 13, 2005 -. Authorities blamed Islamic extremists allied to Chechen terrorist leader Shamil Basayev for the assault on Nalchik, capital of the republic of Kabardino-Bulkaria, in which 70 people were killed. Around 300 militants launched simultaneous early morning attacks on three police stations, the airport and the headquarters of the Interior Ministry and local FSB security service. A Chechen website that claims to speak for Basayev took responsibility for the raid.
Fred Weir
Hindustan Times – October 13, 2005.
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2 killed, 8 hurt in Kashmir ambush
Srinagar – October 15, 2005 – At least two soldiers were killed and eight others wounded in a militant ambush in a remote village of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district on Saturday. The police said that an Army column came under the sneak attack at Kali Bari.
The Asian Age – October 16, 2005.
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Soldier, militant killed in Kashmir
Srinagar – October 21, 2005 – One soldier and a militant were killed and five jawans injured in a clash between rebels and security forces in Sopore town of north Kashmir. In a separate incident, militants tossed a hand-grenade on a CRPF party at Batamaloo in Srinagar injuring five security men, two local policemen, seven civilians.
Rashid Ahmed
Hindustan Times – October 22, 2005.
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Yangon rattled by bomb blast
Yangon – October 21, 2005 – A small bomb went off outside the upmarket Traders Hotel on Friday evening in Yengon, but no casualty was caused. “There was a small bomb explosion near the hotel, but there was not much damage,” a security officer said.
AP
Hindustan Times – October 22, 2005.
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Now, A Terror Temblor
Srinagar – Terrorists armed with AK-47 assault rifles, an IED and a bagful of hand grenades barged into the house of state education minister Ghulam Nabi Lone early Tuesday, killing him. Lone’s neighbour, CPM ML from Kulgam, Mohammad Yusuf Tarigami, narrowly escaped unhurt. Two security men were killed in the exchange of fire. One of the two terrorist was shot dead, and the other managed to escape.
Saleem Pandit/Times News Network
The Times of India – October 19, 2005.
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Islamist militants regrouping in Bangladesh
Dhaka – A good number of Islamist militants are regrouping in the Tangail district, which has already stood out as a hotbed of militants. Hundreds of members of the ban`ned Islamic outfit, the Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladlesh (JMB), who planned the August 17 blasts, which left 3 people killed and 150 injured, have been arrested across the country and they confessed that they took military training in the isolated hilly areas and in a number of madrasas (Islamic schools) in Tangail.
The Hindu – October 23, 2005.
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Multan paper claims Bin Laden is dead
New Delhi – October 22, 2005 – Newspaper Ausaf published from Multan has reported that Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden died four months ago in a village near Kandhar of severe illness. He was buried in the “shada graveyard in the shadow of a mountain.” Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf told reporters from CBS News last month, “he has become a cult, I think.” Ausf has reported that he died of heart and kidney disorders. American and Pakistani leaders have suggested that he was one, killed in the US bombing of Afghanistan, died of illness later, or just died.
Seema Mustafa
The Asian Age – October 23, 2005.
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Car bombs kill 15 in Iraq
Baghdad - Three suicide bombers staged a coordinated attack on a Baghdad hotel complex used by foreign journalists on Monday, killing at least 15 people and ending a lull in violence in front of the world media. There were no initial reports of US military casualties.
Reuters, Baghdad
Hindustan Times – October 25, 2005.
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Islamists threaten more attacks in Bangladesh
REUTERS
Posted online: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 0024 hours IST
DHAKA, OCTOBER 24: Islamist militants blamed for a wave of bomb attacks across Bangladesh over the past two months have threatened more attacks on government sites in the next fortnight, a government official said on Monday.
S.M. Faisal Alam, deputy commissioner of northeastern Sylhet district, 350 km from the capital Dhaka, said he had received a letter on Sunday, purportedly from the outlawed Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen group, carrying the threat of more bombings. "More simultaneous attacks will be launched to blow off government installations in the next 15 days," Alam quoted the letter, signed by a commander of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen.
On Sunday, a local leader of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party was killed in a bomb attack in southwestern Khulna district. No one has claimed responsibility for the killing.
Courtesy Mr. Mayer Nudell, USA.
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Suicide bomber kills five in Israel
Hadera – A Palestinian suicide bomber killed five people in a market in an Israeli coastal city in the first such attack since Israel’s pullout from Gaza. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the bombing, saying it was avenging Israel’s killing of la top West Bank commander on Monday.
The Indian Express – October 27, 2005.
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BSF jawan killed, 7 hurt in bus blast
Militants blew up a BSF bus outside Srinagar on Wednesday, killing one jawan and injuring 21. About two dozen houses, shops and other structures were damaged. Hizb-ul-Mujahideen owned responsibility for the explosion.
HTC
Hindustan Times – October 27, 2005.
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At least 26 killed in Iraq explosion
Baquba: At least 20 people were killed on Saturday evening when a car bomb exploded in the middle of a village market near Baquba, north of Baghdad, hospital officials said.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – October 30, 2005.
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Intelligence official killed
The head of a Sri Lankan military intelligence unit was shot dead on Sunday by unidentified assailants, police said. Major T.M. Meedin, heading the First Military Intelligence corps was found shot dead in his vehicle near his home.
PTI, Colombo
Hindustan Times – October 31, 2005.
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Serial blasts kill 70 persons in Delhi
New Delhi – At least 70 persons were killed and several injured in three powerful serial explosions here on Saturday evening. Following the explosions, suspected to have been caused by Improvised Explosives Devices, a country-wide red alert was sounded. At Sarojini Nagar, it is suspected that the bomb was planted inside a Maruti van parked near shops. At least 40 persons died in the blast there, and scores were injured. The bomb that rocked the Paharganj main bazaar is suspectd to have been planted in a motorcycle or a rickshaw parked near a jewellery shop. People scattered in panic as smoke swirled form the blast site. According to police, 25 persons were killed and over 45 injured. The explosion in the DTC bus near the Kalkaji Depot injured six persons, including the driver and the conductor.
Staff Reporter
The Hindu – October 30, 2005.
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UK police empowered, can shoot-to-kill even in domestic cases
London – Octoebr 25, 2005 – Scotland Yard’s “shoot to kill” strategy has been widened to include other offences, such as, kidnapping, stalking and domestic violence. However, the decision to shoot a suspect in the head without the marksman giving a warning would only be used under exceptional circumstances, one of the country’s most senior police chiefs said.
Jason Bennetto in London – The Independent
The Statesman, World Focus – October 26, 2005.
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Another al-Qaeda group formed in Saudi Arabia
By Stephen Ulph
A new al-Qaeda affiliate in Saudi Arabia announced its presence via the jihadi forums on October 13. A declaration by the "Echo of Tuwayq Brigades in al-Zulfa," dated October 9, was released on the al-Tajdeed forum, announcing that the Brigades were subordinated to the Organization of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The group declared its allegiance to Mulla Omar, Osama bin Laden and Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, and pledged its loyalty to the 36 members of the latest "most wanted" list issued by the Saudi authorities on June 29. The news of this new formation was welcomed.
Courtesy: Email from Mr. Mayer Nudell, USA.
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Food for Thought
$5.6 billion is the monthly cost of military operations in Iraq, which is $500 million more than the real monthly cost of the war in Vietnam
Mark Hosenball
Newsweek – September 12, 2005.
“Visualise your dreams. Life is purposeless without dreams,” says President A.P.J. Kalam. “When dreams are intense and pure, they possess electromagnetic energy. Desire and dreams together create a new energy every night, as the mind falls into the sleep state. Each morning, dreams return to the conscious state reinforced with the cosmic currents. Dreams help you choose your mission in life. But the realization of the mission requires hard work and perseverance.”
Sunday Times of India – September 4, 2005.
If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.
- Jean Piaget
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