Maoists are hounding out Indians
New Delhi – Indians are being hounded out of Nepal by the Maoists. Death threats and 24-hour deadlines for leaving Nepal bag and baggage have been received by Indian hospitality sector employees and businessmen, creating a sense of deep fear in the community.
Himanshi Dhawan & Indrani Bagchi / TNN
The Times of India – August 1, 2006.
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US has proof of Terrorist Camps in Pakistan
Washington – In an unprecedented development, the US department of justice and FBI earlier this year took the help of a satellite imagery expert from the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) to nail the existence of terrorist camps in a case involving a Pakistani father-and-son duo. As part of the evidence at the trial, the US government expert testified that jehadi camps existed and operated in various parts of Pakistan from 2000 to 2005, and specifically said that a series of camps, including a well-known Jaish-e-Mohammed camp, were located in the Balakot area of Pakistan.
Chidanand Rajghata/TNN
The Times of India – August 1, 2006.
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Bangla: new terror route?
New Delhi – Intelligence agencies have mapped the new terror route along the Indo-Bangladesh border where all such activities are controlled from Dubai through operatives in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Mumbai. Sources said Barak Valley and Karimganj in Assam and Kailasahar and Dharam Nagar in north Tripura are the new terror outposts where contraband is dumped, and then taken to cities. This is currently the main route for smuggling fake currency, an official said.
Pradeep Thakur / TNN
The Times of India – August 1, 2006.
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Valley siege: 5 security jawans killed
Srinagar – August 1, 2006 – Five security jawans and four militants were among 10 people killed in separate incidents while a self-styled divisional commander of Hizbul Mujahideen and the longest surviving militant was arrested in Jammu and Kashmir since Monday night. In the first incident, militants opened fire on a patrol party of the CRPF at Dal Gate area at around 11.35 a.m. A constable was killed on the spot and two others were injured in the incident. Militants again appeared in Kak Sarai chowk near Karan Nagar at 3.00 p.m. and shot dead two BSF personnel outside the SMHS hospital. A caller identified himself as Abu Qadama – spokesperson of JeM – claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Rashid Ahmad
Hindustan Times – August 2, 2006.
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55 killed in Iraq violence
Baghdad – Bombings and shootings killed 55 persons on Tuesday, including at least 23 Iraqi soldiers. A roadside bomb attack on a bus filled with troops on a road between Tikrit and Baiji, north of Baghdad, killed at least 23, the army said. A British soldier was killed in a mortar attack on an army base in the southern city of Basra, a British military spokesman said. In Baghdad, a suicide bomber in a car targeted soldiers collecting their salaries from a bank and at least 10 persons died, the police said.
Reuters
The Times of India – August 2, 2006.
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21 killed in Iraq fighting
Baghdad – August 4, 2006 – Insurgent fighters killed at least 21 Iraqis, mostly police personnel, in a wave of bombings across the country on Friday. The northern city of Mosul woke to a dawn blitz of six bombs and a hail of mortars, which killed at least nine police officers and triggered a six-hour gunbattle in which an unknown number of insurgents were killed. In the town of Al-Hadrah, a suicide bomber ploughed an explosives-laden car into a group of police protecting a football match, killing three officers and seven civilians, the police said. In the early hours of the morning, a roadside bomb killed a pregnant Iraqi woman and her husband.
(AFP)
The Asian Age – August 5, 2006.
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Islamic Group: 200 Militants Sent to Bomb 'Israel's Vital Interests
A Southeast Asian-based Islamic terrorist group based in Jakarta, Indonesia, claims to have sent a force of 217 suicide bombers overseas, hailing from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, to attack Israel's "vital interests," as well as countries like the United States, United Kingdom, and other Western countries because they support Israel. Chairman of the terrorist group, Suaib Didu, warned the Australian leader John Howard not to make any public statement supporting Israel unless he wanted Australia to become a target. Didu claims that more than 3,000 people have registered to join the suicide bombing missions.
Security Management Weekly – August 4, 2006.
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Al-Qaeda Welcomes New Egyptian Group
USA Today (08/05/06)
On Saturday, Al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri released his second video within a week, which was broadcast by Al-Jazeera. Zawahri claims that the Egyptian terrorist group Gamaa Islamiya, which has been responsible for the 1997 attack in Luxor, Egypt, killing 62 people, has been resurrected and has joined Al Qaeda.
Security Management Daily – August 7, 2006.
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Iraq barbershop becomes butchery
Baghdad – August 7, 2006 – Gunmen travelling in two cars sprayed a barbershop in Baghdad with gunfire on Monday, killing five people, while two policemen were killed in the northern city of Mosul in a similar drive by shooting, the police said. Two bombs exploded in another part of Baghdad on Monday, injuring 10 people, including a senior police officer. Two bodies, handcuffed and shot in the head, were also found in western Baghdad on Monday, said a senior police officer.
AP
Hindustan Times – August 8, 2006.
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3 Army jawans among 5 killed in J&K
Five people, including three jawans and two terrorists, were killed in two separate encounters involving security forces and Hizbul Mujahideen militants at Shirpora village in Anantnag district of Kashmir on Monday.
The Times of India – August 8, 2006.
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Car bomb kills three in SriLanka capital
Colombo – August 8, 2006 – A car bomb exploded in Colombo on Tuesday, killing three people. The military said the three were killed when a minivan blew up in a residential quarter of the capital. Tamil politician Sivardasan, a senior member of a minority Tamil group opposed to Tamil Tigers, was wounded and one of his bodyguards was killed.
Ranga Sirilal
The Indian Express – August 9, 2006.
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Bombs kill 19 in Baghdad
Jakarta – August 8, 2006 – Separate roadside bomb attacks killed at least 19 people in Baghdad on Tuesday, the police sources said. The deadly bombing killed at least 10 people and wounded 69 in the al-Shorja market in central Baghdad. Earlier, two blasts targeting police and another aimed at one of Baghdad’s bus stations killed a total of nine people. Eight people were wounded in those attacks. Two people were killed and 18 wounded in the operation in Sadr City, a stronghold of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose supporters are part of Maliki’s ruling coalition.
Reuters
Hindustan Times – August 9, 2006.
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Terror is in the air
London – On August 10, British police and intelligence foiled a suspected al-Qaeda plot to blow up 10 US-bound flights from here in three simultaneous waves using liquid explosives smuggled in handbags. The plot triggered an extreme worldwide security alert and chaos at airports on Thursday. British authorities said the terrorists planned to blow up the aircraft in mid-air by detonating explosives leading to “mass murder on an unimaginable scale”, worse than even 9/11. The plotters had targeted United, American and Continental airlines, US counter-terrorism officials said. Police arrested 21 people in London, Birmingham and Thames Valley overnight during raids on neighborhoods with sizeable South Asian populations. Many reports said the suspects were British citizens of Pakistani origin.
The Times of India – August 11, 2006.
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33 die in Iraq suicide attack
Baghdad – August 10, 2006 – A suicide bomber detonated a belt of explosives on his body near a highly revered Shiite shrine in southern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 33 people and injuring 108, an official said. The bomber blew himself up while being patted down by policemen near the Imam Ali mosque in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, said the Head of Health Directorate. In other acts of violence on Thursday, 16 people were killed across the country, including three policemen. Five bodies were also found on Thursday.
AP
Hindustan Times – August 11, 2006.
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Kashmir blasts
Baramulla – Twenty-five people were injured in two grenade blasts in north Kashmir on Friday. A grenade hurled towards a security force vehicle at Main chowk in Sopore missed the intended target and exploded on the roadside, injuring 20 persons.
UNI
The Hindu – August 11, 2006.
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LeT: Do not attack PoK camps – Indian PM Will discover The Cost Of Such Adventure, Says Lashkar Chief
New Delhi – Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Muhammad Sayeed, who was allegedly put under house-arrest at his Lahore residence on Thursday, has warned India against attempting any strike on jehadi camps located in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. In a statement he said: “The Indian Prime Minister has threatened to attack the offices and camps of jehadi organisations in Pakistan. We invite Manmohan to try and fulfill his wishes; he will find out the cost of such an adventure.”
Times News Network
The Times of India – August 12, 2006.
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Osama CD in Jammu
Jammu – “Motivational CDs“ featuring Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden have been found from a LeT commander killed in Jammu and Kashmir, depicting close links between the terror groups, say army officials. “We recovered 10 CDs of bin Laden from an encounter site at Gursia in Poonch, where LeT district commander Abu Katal was killed along with another militant by the troops on Friday,“ an army official said.
HTC and Agencies
Hindustan Times – August 14, 2006.
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‘Dawood still working out of Pakistan’
New Delhi - Police. During interrogation, Rehman, already arrested by Delhi police, disclosed information about the D Company, its key men and even the location of its hideouts in Pakistan. He further said Dawood often visited Dubai with his security guards. It was in Dubai that they had last met in 2002.
Tushar Srivastava
Hindustan Times – August 14, 2006.
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Osama’s men seen and heard in J&K
Jammu – August 13, 2006 – Recent reports of all men speaking an alien language and demanding food and shelter through gestures in Lolab (Kupwara), Bandipore (Baramullah), Rajouri and Poonch seem to confirm that the Al Qaeda has arrived in J&K. Intelligence sources said Al Qaeda had apparently been roped in by the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) to step up militancy in the Valley. A police officer said: “Our investigations have revealed that the LeT is playing host to Al Qaeda in J&K. All new arrivals are being guided to LeT hideouts.”
Arun Joshi
Hindustan Times – August 14, 2006.
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Close call for Pak envoy in Colombo blast, Tigers say 61 girls killed in air strikes
Colombo – August 14, 2006 – Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers killed seven people in an attack on a Pakistan embassy convoy today, hours after a suspected rebel front threatened to bomb civilians in the capital and an air raid killed dozens. The blast came hours after the Air Force bombed the grounds of a former orphange in the North-East, which the rebels said, killed 61 school girls and injured 155. “Definitely it’s an LTTE attack on the Pakistan ambassador’s car but they missed and the backup vehicle got caught,” a military spokesman said. The High Commission told Reuters it could be because Islamabad backed Sri Lanka diplomatically.
Simon Gardner (Reuters)
The Indian Express – August 15, 2006.
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Pak funds fuelled UK plot
Charity funds sent to PoK banks for aircraft plot: UK report
New Delhi – Investigators probing the UK terror plot have found that huge wire transfers took place from Pakistan to the UK to low-income customers whose families were immigrants from that country. The finding highlights the role alert financial institutions can play in blocking the flow of clandestine money for possible use by terror networks. The probe suggests that those behind the air terror plot successfully worked their way around the filters put in place in the aftermath of the 2001 attacks in New York by using Jamaat ud Dawa, the charity cover used by Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Pradeep Thakur/LTNN
The Times of India – August 16, 2006.
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Baghdad car bombings kill 22
Baghdad – August 16, 2006 – Three car bombs hit commercial district of downtown Baghdad today, killing at least 22 people and wounding 93, defence and security officials said. A bomb blast near the city’s main bus station killed at least eight people and wounded 28, hitting a street market popular with Iraqi shiites travelling by road to southern cities. Later, two more bombs went off in rapid succession, killing 14 more people and wounding 65, according to an interior Ministry official.
Agence France Presse
The Indian Express – August 17, 2006.
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‘Pak-based terrorists were preparing to attack Indian metros’
Kolkata - On the eve of the Independence Day, Mohammed Zubair and Mohammed Sohall were arrested in Hingalganj, North 24-Parganas. They were trained in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir for one year and were preparing for a fidayeen attack in one of the Metro cities of India, officials said on Wednesday. Documents seized from their possession have revealed a number of names and addresses – some of them in Bengal, and a map, which is being studied in detail by security agencies. .“Both are members of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) while Zubair also has links with the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT),” said a senior BSF officer.
Times News Network
The Times of India – August 17, 2006.
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Australia warns of terror attack
Sydney – Terrorists in Indonesia may be in the “advanced stages” of planning an attack on Western interests, Australia’s foreign affairs department warned on Friday. In an updated travel advisory posted on its website, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade urged its citizens to steer clear of Indonesia “due to the very high threat of terrorist attack.” The attacks could hit a “range of targets frequented by foreigners,” the department said.
AP
Hindustan Times – August 19, 2006.
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16 pilgrims killed in Baghdad
Baghdad – August 20, 2006 – Gunmen ambushed Shiite pilgrims as they marched through Baghdad on Sunday, killing 16 and wounding 40 more. Bursts of gunfire and explosions rocked the Iraqi capital as hundreds of thousands of Shiites headed to the mausoleum of Imam Musa Kadhim.
AFP
Hindustan Times – August 21, 2006
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Blast at police station in Iraq
Baghdad – August 23, 2006 – A suicide bomber blew himself up outside police headquarters in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least one person, British officials said. The suicide bomber in the northern city of Mosul, 360 kms northwest of Baghdad, detonated his explosives belt at a checkpoint when he tried to enter the police building, the city police chief said. One woman was killed and 10 people were injured in the blast.
Qais Al-Bashir / (AP)
The Asian Age – August 24, 2006.
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Bomb kills 5 in Baghdad
Baghdad – August 27, 2006 – A string of attacks killed at least 16 people across Iraq on Sunday in the latest challenge to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s attempts to bring peace to the bitterly divided country. A bomb killed at least five people and wounded 15 near central Baghdad’s Palestine Hotel, a security official said. A suicide bomber in a van also targeted the Iraqi state-owned daily Al-Sabah by blowing up the vehicle, killing at least two people and wounding 25, an employee said. In the northern oil city of Kirkuk, four Kurdish policemen were killed by alleged Sunni extremists.
Ammar Karim (AFP)
The Asian Age – August 28, 2006.
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Four bomb blasts target Turkish tourist sites
Marmaris – August 28, 2006 – Four bombs at a popular Turkish seaside resort and in Istanbul wounded 27 people, including 10 British tourists, authorities said on Monday. Ten Britons and six Turks were wounded when their minibus blew up on a main street packed with bars and restaurants in Marmaris on the Mediterranean coast. There were no immediate claims of responsibility. A Marmaris police official said 21 people were injured in the busy tourist town, 16 people inside the minibus and five who were hurt by two other bombs. He further added the outlawed separatist Kurdistan Workers Party was suspected of carrying out the attacks.
Reuters
Hindustan Times – August 28, 2006.
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7 die in Afghan suicide attack
Kabul: A suicide blast tore through a crowded bazaar in a southern Afghanistan town on Monday, killing 17 people and injuring nearly 50, a government spokesman said. Witnesses of the blast in the Helmand province capital of Lashkar Gah said a man with bombs strapped to his body got hold of a businessman, who was a former police chief, and detonated the explosives.
The Times of India – August 29, 2006.
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‘UK the biggest threat to US’ – Leading American Magazine Attacks Britain For Becoming ‘Kashmir on Thames’
London – Amid growing consternation in British diplomatic circles and with all the signs of a new trans-Atlantic rift opening up, a leading American magazine has attacked the UK for allowing itself to become “Kashmir on Thames” and a breeding ground for violent extremism. The latest issue of The New Republic magazine said the UK, America’s “closest ally”, now presents a greater threat to the US than Iran, Iraq or Afghanistan. The magazine added that Al—Qaeda, which simply “reconstituted” itself in Pakistan in the years since American troops deposed the Taliban, had found the “perfect recruits (in) ethnic Pakistanis living in the United Kingdom….since they speak English and can travel on British passports”. British passport-holders are allowed visa-free entry into the US under a visa-waiver scheme supposed to symbolise the cherished “special relationship” between the US and the UK.
Rashmee Roshan Lall/TNN
The Times of India – August 30, 2006.
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14 killed in fresh bombings in Iraq
Baghdad – August 30, 2006 – An explosives-rigged bicycle detonated near an Army recruiting centre in a city south of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 28, the police said. A bomb exploded near the Shurja commercial centre, killing 12 people and wounding 21. In central Hillah, about 95 kms south of Baghdad, a man posing as a potential Army recruit planted the explosives-rigged bicycle early in the morning outside the recruiting centre. The man walked off as volunteers gathered outside to sign up for the Army, and the bomb exploded at about 8.00 a.m., the police official added.
(AP)
The Asian Age – August 31, 2006.
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Food for Thought
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contended mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
- Akhenaton
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
- Jane Austen
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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