BSF jawans, civilians hurt in Srinagar blast
Srinagar – Five Border Security Force jawans and seven civilians were injured when suspected Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militants blew up an explosive-laden car in the Hyderpora locality here on Saturday evening.
PTI
The Hindu – September 2, 2007.
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Taliban take 156 Pak soldiers hostage
New Delhi – A much graver crisis threatens Pakistan than the decision on Musharraf’s uniform with 156 Pakistani soldiers being taken hostage by Taliban militants in the Wana area in north-western Pakistan. According to Pakistani media reports, the soldiers and officers “surrendered without firing a shot”, in a development that underscores the growing strength of the Taliban militants and their new-found willingness to turn the tables on their mentors if the latter sought to hinder their agenda.
Indrani Bagchi/TNN
Sunday Times of India – September 2, 2007.
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Terror groups sneaking in cadre as ‘students’ via Indo-Bangla border
Kolkata – September 2, 2007 – They come in as students from Bangladesh to a convenient double-life in India. With “student” stamped on their papers, they don’t have to worry about the law enforcement agencies for the duration of their visa. And then they seem to carry on as illegals at a variety of “Islamic” study centres, from Lucknow to Hyderabad. Osama Goni is an example, who entered India with a valid Bangladesh passport and an endorsed student visa from Indian authorities for a period of 30 days (Oct.17 to Nov.16, 2006). His arrest at Haridaspur check post on August 22, 2007 revealed that he had been in India for well over a year. He had procured a student identity card for Jamia Anwar-ul-Huda in Hyderabad. His photo on the passport and those on the student cards vary widely.
Subrata Nagchoudhury
The Indian express – September 3, 2007.
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Taliban drive out Afghan police
Kandahar – September 2, 2007 – Over the past six weeks, the Taliban have driven government forces out of roughly half of a strategic area in southern Afghanistan, by adopting new tactics. Carrying out guerrilla attacks after NATO troops partly withdrew in July, they overran isolated police posts and are now operating in areas where they can mount attacks on Kandahar. NATO and Afghan Army soldiers can push the Taliban out of rural areas, but the Afghan police are too weak to hold on to the territory after they withdrew.
David Rihode/The New York Times.
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Four blasts rock Kathmandu, 2 killed
Kathmandu – September 2,2007 – Four bombs exploded almost simultaneously on Sunday in and around the capital, two of them near the army headquarters, killing at least two persons and wounding 13, the police said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blasts. One of the bombs exploded inside a moving bus near army headquarters in Kathmandu. Minutes later, another explosion occurred at a nearby roadside. The other two blasts took place on the outskirts of the city.
AP
Hindustan Times – September 4, 2007.
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8 Qaeda suspects held in Denmark
Copenhagen – September 4,2007 – Denmark’s intelligence agency arrested eight militant Islamists with connections to “a leading Al Qaeda person” in overnight raids in the Danish capital, the head of the agency said on Tuesday. The suspects, between ages 19 and 21, were allegedly preparing a terror act involving explosives, said Jakaob Scharf, the head of the PET intelligence service.
(AP)
The Asian Age – September 5, 2007.
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25 killed in blasts near Pak Army HQ
Islamabad – Two suicide bombings in Rawalpindi on Tuesday morning killed at least 25 people and left over 70 others injured, all were Pakistanis. An explosion tore through an Army bus ferrying Atomic Energy Commission employees to work at around 7.20 A.M., completely destroying the vehicle. Less than 15 minutes later, a second bomb planted on a motorcycle went off one and a half km away in the crowded R.A. Bazar near Army Headquarters, a police officer said. The militants linked to the recent Lal Masjid standoff claimed responsibility for the twin blasts.
Shafqat Ali
The Asian Age – September 5, 2007.
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Lanka PM: LTTE ready to use chemical weapons
Colombo – September 4, 2007 – Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers (LTTE) are bracing to use chemical weapons against government troops, Prime Minister told Parliament on Tuesday. He said the rebels’ action was a violation of the international law governing military warfare. There was no immediate response from the LTTE regarding the accusation.
(Xinhua)
The Asian Age – September 5, 2007.
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Executive Injured When Letter Bomb Explodes
Agence France Presse (09/06/07)
A manager in the technical department of Nestle's offices near Buenos Aires was seriously wounded when a letter bomb exploded in his hands. The explosion was triggered when he tried to open a package mailed to him.
Security Management Daily – September 6, 2007.
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Terror Arrested – Pak-trained jihadis plotting huge strikes held in Germany
London – September 5, 2007 – Three men, two German nationals and one Turk, suspected of plotting “massive bomb attacks” on American facilities and linked to a domestic cell of the Islamic jihad militant group have been arrested on Wednesday. German officials said they had been reported trained in Pakistani terrorist camps.
Vijay Dutt & Agencies
Hindustan Times – September 6, 2007.
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19 civilians, four US troops killed in Iraq
Baghdad – Three separate attacks in Baghdad killed four US soldiers and at least 11 civilians, US and Iraqi officials said on Wednesday. Three of the soldiers died after their Humvee was hit with an explosively formed penetrator, a type of bomb that the US alleges Iran has been supplying to Shiite militants. Iran denies the accusation.
AP
Hindustan Times – September 6, 2007.
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Algeria blast aimed at prez leaves 22 dead, 107 injured
Algeria – An Algerian town was hit by a suicide bomber who killed at least 22 people and wounded 107 at Bunta near a mosque where crowd was waiting to receive President Abdelaziz Boutefika. The President, who had stayed on in Bunta after the blast, attended the city’s mosque where the prayer for the dead was said and expressed his condolences to the families of the victims.
AFP
The Times of India – September 8, 2007.
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Turkish Bomb ‘catastrophe’ Foiled
BBC News (9/11/07)
Police in Turkey’s capital successfully diffused a bomb early in the morning of September 11. Ankara police and sniffer dogs found the explosives in a van located in a multi-storey garage in a densely populated part of the city. Because today marks the sixth anniversary of 9/11, police are on heightened security in all areas of the country, seeking to thwart terrorist attacks like those that ripped through Istanbul in 2003, killing 58 people.
Security Management Daily – September 11, 2007
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Al-Qaeda planning fresh attacks on US - warns CIA chief
New York – September 8, 2007 – CIA director Michael Hayden warned today that al-Qaeda was plotting fresh attacks on the United States aimed at sowing death and destruction on a massive scale. “Our analysts assess with high confidence that al-Qaeda’s central leadership is planning high impact plots against the American homeland,” Hayden told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He added, “I want to be as clear as I can about the threat we face.” The Central Intelligence Agency would use “every inch we’re given” by the US Government to wage the “war on terror” and hunt down militants.
Agence France Presse
Sunday Express – September 9, 2007.
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Al Qaeda-linked network busted
Kabul – September 8, 2007 – Afghan police said on Sunday they had busted an Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist network organizing suicide bombings in the capital, Kabul. The network included six militants some of whom were foreigners, who were arrested this week in Logar Province, counter-terrorism police chief told reporters here. He further said rebels had been building car bombs and helping would-be suicide bombers to come to Kabul from neighbouring Pakistan where they were being trained.
The Asian Age – September 9, 2007.
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Car bomb kills 28 in Algeria
Algiers (Algeria) –September 8, 2007 – A booby-trapped car exploded at a barracks housing coast guard officials on Saturday, killing at least 28 coast guard officials, hospital officials said. The explosion ripped through the northern coastal town of Dellys, about 30 miles from Algiers. There was widespread speculation that President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was the intended target of the bombing attack of last week in which 22 people had been killed.
Associated Press
Sunday Express – September 9, 2007.
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Suicide bomber kills 19 in Pakistan
Islamabad – September 11, 2007 – A suicide bomber killed 19 people and injured several others on Tuesday near Dera Ismail Khan district. “The suicide bomber blew himself up near a bus stand. This killed at least 19 people, including some police officers and injured several others,” a police official said.
Pakistan Correspondent
The Asian Age – September 12, 2007.
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Turkey foils bomb plot on 9/11 anniversary
Ankara – September 11, 2007 – Turkish police foiled a bomb attack in Ankara on Tuesday after finding a van packed with explosives near a multi-storeyed car park, the capital’s governor Kemal Onal said. He added September 11 and 12 were particularly sensitive days. The world commemorates the sixth anniversary of the Al Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington on Tuesday and Turkey marks the anniversary of its 1980 military coup on Wednesday.
AP
Hindustan Times – September 12, 2007.
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Rocket attack on Israel wounds 30
Zikkim (Israel) – September 11, 2007 – A rocket launched by Palestinian militants in Gaza on Tuesday wounded 30 soldiers in Israel. The Popular Resistance Committees and Islamic Jihad groups jointly claimed responsibility for the strike on Zikkim training base for new conscripts just north of the border. Hamas spokesman said the group ‘blessed’ the rocket attack ‘which brought pride to Palestine’. Hours after the predawn salvo, a missile fired by Israeli forces hit a home in Beit Lahiayha, a Palestinian town in northern Gaze, in which a woman and her daughter were wounded, locals said.
Ron Mana/IANS
Hindustan Times – September 12,2007.
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15 soldiers killed in Pakistan
Islamabad – An explosion ripped through the dining hall of an elite military commando base in the North-West Frontier Province on Thursday evening, killing at least 15 soldiers and wounding many. The explosion took place at about 7.30 p.m. in the mess of the Special Services Group at Tarbela, 100 km from the capital.
Nirupama Subramanian
The Hindu – September 14, 2007.
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Militants kidnap 6 soldiers
Islamabad – September 14, 2007 – Pro-Taliban militants on Friday kidnapped six Pakistani paramilitary soldiers amid clashes between the security forces and the rebels, officials said. A military spokesman said that more than 80 militants were killed in three days of clashes with the security forces in North and South Waziristan.
Pakistan Correspondent
The Asian Age – September 15, 2007.
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Cops wake up to letter-bomb threat
Mumbai – In a tender floated on Wednesday for new equipment for its Bomb Disposal Squad, the police have asked for not just protective gear for its officers but also special devices that can scan bombs sent to unsuspecting receivers disguised as ordinary mail. The move also suggests that all large offices, both government and corporate, that receive bulk mails during the ordinary transaction of their daily, may be facing such bomb threats. Joint Commissioner of Police (Law and Order), Mumbai, admitted that the Bomb Disposal Squad did not have any letter-bomb detectors. He further said, “These things are sensitive and I cannot share much information.”
Kartikeya/TNN
The Times of India – September 15, 2007.
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Lanka violence kills 29
Colombo – September 15, 2007 – A roadside bomb blast and clashes between soldiers and secessionist Tamil Tiger rebels across Sri Lanka’s volatile north have killed 29 people, the military said on Saturday. A bus with soldiers was hit by a bomb planted by the Tigers on Friday night in the northern Jaffna peninsula, killed two soldiers, and wounded seven others, an official of defence ministry said. Earlier, six Tamil Tigers and three soldiers were killed in a clash in the Vavuniya district south of Jaffna, and eight rebels were killed in two separate battles reported there, an official said.
Krishan Francis / (AP)
The Asian Age – September 16, 2007.
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Militants attack security convoys
Srinagar – Militants ambushed security convoys at two places and made an abortive bid to blow up a CRPF picket on Sunday, official sources said. The convoy was on its way to a forward area from Baramulla.
PTI
The Hindu – September 17, 2007.
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Make terror a part of West’s life: Qaeda tape
Dubai – Al Qaeda called on Islamists to sow terror in the West to create a climate of fear, in a third video-marking the 9/11 attacks on the US which was posted on the Internet on Monday. “We must take Islamist terrorism to Western countries so that it becomes a normal part of life like natural disasters,” a voiceover says.
AP
The Times of India – September 18, 2007.
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Car Bomb in Lebanon Kills Lawmaker
Los Angeles Times (09/20/07); Rafei, Raed
A prominent Christian lawmaker was killed in Lebanon on the afternoon of Sept. 18, in an assassination bid, authorities say was politically motivated. Antoine Ghanem, a member of the U.S.-supported parliamentary majority, was killed immediately when a car strapped with over 44 pounds of explosives detonated close to the politician's car during rush hour traffic.
Security Management Daily – September 20, 2007
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Bomb Blast Outside Pakistan Hotel; 1 Dead, 4 Hurt
Associated Press (09/20/07)
A police officer was killed and four security guards were injured when a bomb exploded outside a Pakistani hotel on Thursday. The attack was the latest terrorist plot in the Swat valley, where the Pakistani army is engaging members of the Taliban hiding near the Afghan border. Earlier this month, terrorists attempted to blow up a statue of Buddha that is carved into the side of a mountain. No hotel guests were injured in the attack and police officials would not speculate who might be responsible for the bombing.
Security Management Daily – September 20, 2007
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Militants kill 18 Pak soldiers in Waziristan
Miranshah – Islamist militants have killed 18 Pakistani soldiers in the restive North Waziristan tribal region, intelligence officials said on Tuesday. The soldiers were killed on Sunday night in the same area near the Afghan border where officials said 16 militants were killed in fighting.
Reuters
The Times of India – September 19, 2007.
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Militants capture 7 Pak soldiers
Islamabad – September 19, 2007 – Pro-Taliban militants attacked a military checkpost in Tall town near North Waziristan on Wednesday and captured seven Pakistani soldiers. In a separate incident, two paramilitary soldiers were captured late on Tuesday in a region of North Waziristan. The pro-Taliban militants are demanding that security forces pull out of the area immediately and release some captured comrades.
Pakistan Correspondent
The Asian Age – September 20, 2007.
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8 policemen hurt in Afghan blast
Kandahar – September 19, 2007 – A suicide bomber on foot blew himself up next to a police vehicle on Wednesday in the volatile south, wounding eight policemen, an official said. The incident took place in the Garmsir district of Helm and province.
(AP)
The Asian Age – September 20, 2007.
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Osama “declares war” on Pakistan
Dubai – Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden declares “war” on Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf in a message to be released by the network, according to an Islamist website on Thursday. “Al-Qaeda will declare war on the tyrant Pervez Musharraf and his apostate army through the voice of the lion, Sheikh Osama bin Laden, God protect him,” according to the site. The threat was dismissed by Pakistan. In another video, Osama’s deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri also warned that Gen. Musharraf would be “punished” over the killing of a Pakistani cleric in the storming of the Red Mosque in Islamabad in July.
AFP
The Hindu – September 21, 2007.
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Legislator killed in blast
Beirut – September 20, 2007 – A powerful bomb killed an anti-Syria legislator and six others in a Christian neighbourhood of Beirut, threatening to derail an effort by an already deeply divided Parliament to elect Lebanon’s next President in voting to begin next week. Damascus denied involvement on Wednesday. Security officials said at least 67 people were wounded in Wednesday’s blast.
Scheherezade Faramarzi and Zeina Karam/(AP)
The Asian Age – September 21, 2007.
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Taliban attack in Afghanistan leaves 24 dead
HEART – A Taliban attack on a police post in western Afghanistan sparked a battle that left at least 20 militants and four police dead, a provincial governor said on Thursday. Dozens of Islamic fighters attacked a police position in Badghis province yesterday, setting off a three-hour gunfight, governor Mohammad Ashraf Nasiri told AFP.
The Indian Express – September 21, 2007.
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RAW to SEBI: Beware Qaeda funds
New Delhi – At an international conference, when national security adviser M.K. Narayanan spoke of terror syndicates investigating in Indian stock markets, it was dismissed as a paranoid policeman ringing alarm bells. A few months down the line, sleuths from intelligence agencies like Research & Analysis Wing have alerted the government and Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) about investment by Khalid bin Mahfouz – a prominent Saudi businessman alleged to have links with Osama bin Laden – in Indian companies through the stock market, who has aggressively denied any links with Osama in the past. But, he has not been able to shake off the suspicion of intelligence agencies that he could be raising funds for Al-Qaeda and Taliban. Khalid first came under the scanner following strong suspicion that he was siphoning off money form National Commercial Bank and transferring it to trusts engaged in funding terror outfits. Intelligence agencies have often expressed fears of terror outfits investing in India through a web of transactions, using instruments like participatory notes, to conceal the identity of investors.
Sidhartha/TNN
The Times of India – September 22, 2007.
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Soldier killed in Baghdad
Baghdad – September 23, 2007 – A soldier was killed and another wounded when a roadside bomb hit their patrol in eastern Baghdad, the US military announced in a statement on Sunday. It said the incident took place on Saturday and identified the roadside bomb as an explosive-formed penetrator, the term used by the US military to refer to a particularly deadly type of roadside bomb.
(AP)
The Asian Age – September 24, 2007.
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Pak soldier injured in suicide attack
A suicide bomber blew up his car near a Pakistani paramilitary convoy on Saturday, wounding a soldier in the latest attack on security forces battling militants, officials said. The convoy was heading from the northwestern city of Tank to Jandola town when the bomber detonated the explosives.
AFP
Sunday Hindustan Times, September 23, 2007.
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Experts fear new terror attacks on space assets
Hyderabad – September 24, 2007 – There are fears that after creating mayhem on earth, terrorists might target the final frontier, space. Astrophysicists and strategic experts around the world are afraid that terrorist outfits and rogue nations may start hitting space assets and even orbiting satellites. This would cripple vital services, such as, telecommunications, water supply, electricity, banking and oil supplies, causing widespread chaos. The most alarming thing is that terrorists can use low-technology tools to disrupt and destroy ground equipment linked with satellites. Experts attending the 58th International Astronautical Congress at Hyderabad also pointed out that ground-based lasers could be used to damage thermal control, electro-optical, structural land power generation components on low-earth-orbit satellites.
Special Correspondent
The Asian Age – September 25, 2007.
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Ambush, clashes kill 26 in Afghan
Kabul – September 24, 2007 – Ambushes and gunbattles around Afghanistan killed at least 26 people, including 12 government employees and unarmed police killed by gunmen in the relatively calm north, officials said on Monday.
(AP)
The Asian Age – September 25, 2007.
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37 killed, 74 hurt in Iraq violence
Baghdad – September 25, 2007 - A spate of powerful car and suicide bombings has killed 37 people and wounded 74 in less than 24 hours across Iraq. The police in the restive city of Baquba north of Baghdad on Tuesday revised the toll from a devastating suicide attack on Monday evening in a village mosque to 28 killed and 34 wounded. Security officials said a double car bombing on Tuesday morning killed six people and wounded at least 20, while a suicide car bomber in the southern city of Basra killed three people.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – September 26, 2007.
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16 dead, dozens hurt in Lanka violence
Colombo – Sixteen people were killed and 39 others injured as security forces clashed with Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka’s embattled north and east, the two sides reported on Tuesday. Four soldiers died in the northern district of Mannar early Tuesday when the rebels tried to breach a security line, the military said placing guerrilla losses at nine killed and 36 injured. A roadside bomb killed a university lecturer and a civil servant in the northern district of Jaffna also on Tuesday, the defence ministry said. A farmer was shot dead by unknown gunmen late Monday in the eastern town of Akkaraipattu.
AFP
The Times of India – September 26, 2007.
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30 killed in Kabul suicide attack
Kabul – September 29, 2007 – A suicide bomber wearing an Afghan army uniform set off a huge explosion early on Saturday while trying to board a military bus on the capital, killing 30 and wounding 30, officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility. The blast ripped off the roof of the bus and tore out its sides. President Hamid Karzai said 30 people were killed. The Health Ministry said another 30 were wounded.
Amir Shah / AP
Sunday Hindustan Times – September 30, 2007.
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12 tourists injured
Male – Twelve tourists – two British nationals, two Japanese and eight Chinese – were injured in a bomb explosion in the Maldive’s capital on Saturday, the government said. The blast occurred near a mosque at Sultan Park.
Reuters
The Hindu – September 30, 2007.
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6 Algerian security force officers killed in attacks by Islamic militants
The Associated Press
ALGIERS, Algeria - Six members of Algeria's security forces were killed in violence by a militant group that claims to be the north African affiliate of al-Qaida, officials said Friday. The separate attacks came in a particularly violent September in Algeria, where government efforts to end a long-running insurgency have increasingly faced setbacks.
Email dated 29.9.2007 from Mr. Mayer Nudell, A.
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Alert Over Nuclear Theft
Gulf Daily News (Bahrain) (09/28/07)
A study commissioned by the Nuclear Threat Initiative found that "the threat of nuclear theft and terrorism remains high in many parts of the world," especially in Russia and Pakistan. Although the report acknowledged that nuclear security has improved in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union, it also said that terrorists have been monitoring nuclear warhead storage sites. Pakistan has a smaller nuclear arsenal than Russia. However the report raised questions over the reliability of several military officers who aided Al Qaeda in two assassination plots. The report also cited highly-enriched uranium-fuelled research reactors as a possible terrorist target.
Security Management Daily – September 28, 2007.
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2 Nato soldiers killed in Afghan
Kabul – September 27, 2007 – Two Nato soldiers were killed and two others wounded when militants attacked their base in southern Afghanistan, the force said on Thursday.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – September 28, 2007.
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Bomber attacks police HQ in Basra
Baghdad – September 26, 2007 – A suicide car bomber attacked a police headquarters in Basra, killing at least three policemen, wounding 20 people. The police chief of Baqouba was amongst at least 24 people killed when a suicide bomber attacked a Sunni-Shia reconciliation meeting late on Monday. An Al-Qaeda front group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the attack in Baqouba.
The Asian Age – September 27, 2007.
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UK to raise terror detention limit
London – September 26, 2007 – British home secretary, Jacqui Smith, has indicated that the Labour government would be pushing for an increase in the 28 days maximum limit on questioning terror suspects. She said that she had ruled out extending the controversial maximum limit on questioning terror suspects to 90 days. “We are not talking about a 90 day period, although I do not believe it is right for Parliament to set a maximum time period for which somebody can be detained without charge. We are not arguing indefinite detention and no limit,” Ms Smith added.
London Correspondent
The Asian Age – September 27, 2007.
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Food for Thought
Remember not only to say the right thing at the right place, far more difficult still to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Benjamin Franklin
Holding on to anger is like grasping on to a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.
- Buddha
Don’t simply retire form something, have something to retire to.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
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