Terrorism Watch

Source:  www.chinaview.cn  2009-11-05 18:33:52 DHAKA, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- At least three people, including two political leaders, were injured in a bomb explosion in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka on Thursday afternoon, police said. Officer-in-charge of Shahbagh Police station in Dhaka Md. Rezaul Karim told Xinhua on Thursday, "The small bomb exploded near the office of the country's ruling party Bangladesh Awami League (AL) at around 2 p.m." All the three injured, including two district level leaders of the AL and a pedestrian, sustained minor injuries and have been rushed to a city hospital. "There is so far no information in our hands who, why exploded the bomb in Gulistan, one of the city's main commercial hubs," Karim said, adding they will investigate to find out the culprits responsible for bomb explosion. Earlier, two anonymous callers last Thursday afternoon threatened to blow off Bangladesh's National Board of Revenue (NBR), saying that five b

Source: IBNLIVE Tue, Nov 17, 2009  Guwahati:  At least 20 wagons were damaged in Assam when a goods train carrying petroleum products went up in flames. Authorities have not ruled out the possibility of a bomb blast. The train with 48 wagons of high speed diesel and petrol from the Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL) in Assam caught fire late Monday near Changpool in Golaghat district, about 270 km from Guwahati, a railway spokesperson said. "The fire is still raging and it is too early to say if the accident took place due to an explosion or other reasons," chief spokesperson of the Northeast Frontier Railways, S Hajong, told IANS. The train was bound for Uttar Pradesh from the NRL. Locals in the area said they heard the sound of a big explosion and saw the train up in flames. "There was a big sound like that of a bomb blast and then the train derailed and caught fire," said a local resident, Mahmod Ali. NRL authorities said about 10 wagons containing diesel cau

Source: NDTV 2009-11-20 10:55   E-MAIL THIS   On Thursday suspected militants threw a grenade at an Indian army convoy in Manipur state, injuring two soldiers. The attack took place at a market in Imphal at around 5:30 in the evening. The convoy of four vehicles was traveling from Imphal to Thoubal when the attack took place near the busy market. Officials say the two soldiers belong to the Assam Rifles, one of the country's oldest anti-insurgency paramilitary forces. One of the injured was taken to a local hospital and the other to an army hospital. [I. Hemochandra Singh, State Legislator, Manipur]: "I am told that he (the injured) belongs to Assam Rifles. One rifleman is here. I am told that the other army man who has been injured has been rushed to an army hospital, which we are trying to confirm." Two civilians also received minor injuries in the attack. "Around 5:30 p.m. the bomb blast took place. At that time I was on a rickshaw. I saw a convo

Source: Earth Times Posted : Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:10:28 GMT Nairobi/Juba, Southern Sudan - At least 47 people have died in a clash between the Mundari and Dinka tribes in Southern Sudan - the latest in a series of cattle raids that is threatening a fragile peace. Army spokesman Kuol Deim Kuol said late Wednesday that the Mundari attacked a Dinka village on Monday in order to steal cattle, but that the villagers fought back and killed over 30 attackers. Tribal disputes, mainly over cattle, have long been common in autonomous Southern Sudan but easy access to weapons left over from the civil war between the Muslim north and Christian and animist south has helped ramp up the body count. A shift in the nature of the violence this year - which usually claims the lives of men guarding their cattle - has seen more women and children killed. The United Nations says around 2,000 people have been killed in raids and hundreds of thousands displaced this year. Many in Southern Sudan believe that K

Source: Earth times Posted : Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:10:24 GMT Maputo - Three children were killed and two seriously injured in northern Mozambique after accidently exploding a mortar bomb left over from the country's past wars, a local newspaper reported Friday. Noticias daily reported that the children in Niassa province found the explosive while they were playing on Tuesday and threw it against a tree, causing the device to explode. Three children died instantly and two others were still being treated for their injuries at a hospital. Parts of the south-east African country are still littered with buried explosives, most of which date to the country's 1976-1992 civil war. Others were planted by former colonial power Portugal. Over 1 million people were killed in the civil war, which broke out after independence between the ruling Marxist Liberation Front of Mozambique, or Frelimo, and Mozambican Resistance rebels, known as Renamo and back by apartheid South Africa and Rhodesia.

Source: Africa News Posted on Thursday 19 November 2009 - 12:00 Muhyadin Ahmed Roble, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Somalia Photo: Guled Hussein A bomb explosion in North Galka'yo town of semi-autonomous town of Puntland in northeastern Somalia wounded five people on Wednesday night, causing unrest in a relatively calm neighborhood. A Puntland police officer was among the wounded, a local journalist who pleaded anonymity told AfricaNews on Thursday. No group has claimed responsibility for the blast. Residents said a hand bomb had targeted the checkpoint of Puntland security forces near the centre of Mudug province in north-central Somalia on Wednesday night. The Police chief of Mudug, Muse Ahmed, told the local media that they are investigating the event. Ahmed served notice that the police was poised to fight its enemies. AfricaNews reporter said over the last weeks, the relatively calm Mudug province and its neighboring Puntland region have become the scene of deadly attacks an

Source: PTI S TAFF WRITER  23:3 HRS IST Raipur, Nov 18 (PTI) Three persons were killed and two injured in a bomb blast at a village in Naxal-hit Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh tonight. A group of five villagers were going to a paddy field when they found a container on the way. As they tried to open it, the explosion took place, leaving three of them dead, Rajnandgaon range DIG A D Gautam told PTI over phone. Gautam did not rule out the possibility of Maoists behind the blast.

A suicide bomber has struck the north western Pakistani city of Peshawar outside a crowded courthouse. The strike comes 24 hours after the Taliban's spokesman in Pakistan's South Waziristan area delivered a message criticising the government.

Source: AP on Google By RIAZ KHAN (AP) –  31 minutes ago PESHAWAR, Pakistan — An explosion struck the office of an aid organization in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on Saturday, wounding a security guard, police said. It was the ninth attack in two weeks in and around Peshawar, the largest city in the northwest and the main gateway to the al-Qaida and Taliban-infested frontier region. The area has been increasingly targeted as militants retaliate against an army offensive aimed at routing Taliban militants from a nearby region. The bomb was set off with a timer at about 7 a.m. near the office's perimeter wall, said Liaquat Ali Khan, the police chief in Peshawar. The building belonging to Shift International, a group helping handicapped people, was damaged, he said. The blast came a day after two police officers were killed and four others were wounded in a roadside bombing in Peshawar. A suicide bomber also killed 19 people in the city on Thursday. Pakistan expresse

 Source: boulder weekly Tuesday, November 17,2009 By McClatchy-Tribune News Service SAN'A, Yemen — A Japanese technician and his Yemeni driver were abducted Sunday by a tribal group in Yemen, according to the Japanese Embassy in Yemen. The two were abducted in Arhab, a city close to the nation's capital, San'a. They are said to be in good physical condition, and the Yemeni government has began negotiations with the group for their release, the embassy said. According to a Japanese government source, the 63-year-old technician, works for an architectural design office in Tokyo. The man and the driver were abducted Sunday afternoon while on their way to a school construction site located northeast of the capital. Later in the day, the embassy received a phone call from the man saying he had been abducted. The embassy is able to contact the man via cell phone, the embassy said. There has been no ransom demand. However, according to Agence France Presse, local sou

Monday, November 16,2009 Source: Boulder weekly By McClatchy-Tribune News Service BAGHDAD — In a massacre that revived memories of Iraq's worst years of sectarian bloodshed, assailants dressed in Iraqi army uniforms savagely killed 13 men and boys late Sunday near the restive city of Abu Ghraib, according to Iraqi officials and villagers. Most of the victims — some of whom reportedly were beheaded, while others were shot and then mutilated — were members of the Awakening, a Sunni Muslim movement that with U.S. backing and funding has fought the terrorist group al-Qaida in Iraq. Residents and security officials said that shortly before midnight, armed men in civilian vehicles raided two villages near Abu Ghraib — a city to the west of Baghdad that houses a major prison — took captives to a nearby cemetery named Seyid Mhimmed and killed them. "I believe they were targeted because they formed Sahwas (Awakening councils) in the area and fought back al-Qaida,"

Source: daily news 19 November 2009, 13:45 The wives of four South African men abducted on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, nearly three years ago have made an emotional plea for help to President Jacob Zuma. Speaking to the media in Pretoria on Thursday the women cried as they spoke of their sadness and hope that they might one day find out what had happened to their husbands - whether they were dead or alive. "As the wives, we are here to plead for help. Would someone out there please show compassion and human kindness," said Marie Enslin, whose husband Johann was kidnapped on December 10 2006 along with Hardus Greef, Callie Scheepers and Andre Durant. "We are sincerely appealing to our new leader Mr Jacob Zuma to assist us and our children." Referring to the Koran, Enslin said it read that husbands and wives were each other's garments and in the Bible they were each other's convents. "Our garments and our convents have been missing for 1 07

Source: Reuters (2009-11-16) (Reuters) - KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in a crowded market place in northern Kirkuk on Monday, killing at least six people and wounding six others, Iraqi police and hospital sources said. "Many cars were set ablaze and many shops heavily damaged due to the powerful explosion," said police Major General Torhan Abdul-Rahman, deputy police chief for the city. Violence has dipped sharply in Iraq over the past 18 months but attacks remain common in volatile areas like the oil city of Kirkuk, the northern city of Mosul and in Baghdad. Kirkuk is one of several flashpoints between Iraq's Arab-led government in Baghdad and minority Kurds that U.S. officials fear could lead to renewed conflict in Iraq. Kurds see the city and surrounding province, which lies over one of Iraq's longest producing oilfields, as their ancestral home and want it wrapped into their semi-autonomous enclave. The

 Source: Express on Yahoo Fri, Nov 20 05:31 AM Maoists bombed a major railway line in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district late Thursday evening, derailing the engine and several coaches of a passenger train going from Jamshedpur in Jharkhand to Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh. Helpline numbers: The railway authorities tonight announced helpline numbers following the derailment of Tata-Bilaspur passenger train in Jharkhand''s West Singhbhum district. The telephone helpline numbers are: 06587-238072, 06572290324 and 0661-2570680. Unconfirmed reports said between six and eight coaches of the 321 Tatanagar-Bilaspur Passenger had gone off the tracks. According to a PTI report, the derailed coaches were believed to be carrying CRPF personnel. At least seven people were feared dead and an estimated 4 5 injured. The explosion occurred near Pasaita village, 5 km before Manoharpur in the Manoharpur-Pasaita section of South Eastern Railway's Chakradharpur division at around

An explosion outside a court building in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar is the latest in a series of attacks in the country.

Source: TOI A suicide bomber struck outside a Pakistan court, killing 16 people in the sixth attack on Peshawar in 11 days. (AFP) PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber struck a court in Peshawar on Thursday killing 19 people, the sixth attack on the northwestern city in 11 days as Pakistan presses a major offensive against the Taliban. The bomber hit at the main gate of the building, near the five-star Pearl Continental Hotel, where at least nine people were killed when attackers shot their way through a security checkpost and blew up a truck bomb in June. Blood, flesh and shattered window glass littered the ground outside the court building, whose main gate was uprooted and where an old man who used to repair spectacles and fountain pens was killed, a reporter said. Thursday's attack showed the militants' ability to strike in the city of 2.5 million people, which lies on the edge of Pakistan's lawless tribal belt, where US officials say al-Qaida militants are plotting

source: NYTIMES WASHINGTON — In nearly a dozen recent terrorism cases in the United States, Britain and Canada, investigators discovered the suspects had something in common: a devotion to the message   of Anwar al-Awlaki , an eloquent Muslim cleric who has turned the Web into a tool for extremist indoctrination. Enlarge This Image Site Intelligence Group Anwar al-Awlaki Mr. Awlaki, 38, the son of a former agriculture minister and university president in Yemen, has never been accused of planting explosives himself. But experts on terrorism believe his persuasive endorsement of violence as a religious duty, in colloquial, American-accented English, has helped push a series of Western Muslims into terrorism. Maj.  Nidal Malik Hasan , the  Army  psychiatrist charged with killing 13 people at  Fort Hood , Tex., on Nov. 5, is only the latest suspect accused of perpetrating or plotting violence to be linked to the cleric. In 2006, for example, a group of Canadian Muslims listened to Mr. Aw

Source: silive By  Michael W. Dominowski November 18, 2009, 1:09PM Associated Press/Dan Loh THE CRIME: The Statue of Liberty is silhouetted against smoke and dust from the destruction of the World Trade Center towers. The fires burned for 100 days. The attacks there, and at the Pentagon and aboard the four hijacked airliners left 2,976 innocent people dead. Wednesday, November 25, marks the 96th anniversary of the founding of the Irish Republican Army. The occurrence, on that Tuesday afternoon in 1913, was, in simplified terms, a Catholic response to the yoke of British and Protestant dominance. Known then as the “Irish Volunteers,” the group trained itself in military matters in preparation for the Easter Rising, three years later. The rising was an insurrection aimed at ending British rule and establishing an independent Irish republic. The rebellion was put down after a week of warfare and its leaders were hanged. That was hardly the end of the matter. The Irish Republican Army wo