Terrorism Watch

ABS-CBNnews.com 03/03/2012 MANILA, Philippines – Another blast rocked Cotabato City Saturday morning, leaving one person injured. Police said 18-year-old Ismael Ebrahim suffered minor shrapnel wounds after a grenade exploded in front of the ARMM Regional Ports Management Authority office past 7 a.m. Ebrahim was rushed to the hospital for treatment. Earlier, an improvised explosive device (IED) made from 81mm mortar was recovered by authorities along Governor Gutierrez Avenue. An IED also exploded in Governor Gutierrez Avenue last Thursday, leaving 3 wounded. Cotabato City Mayor Japal Guiani Jr. said the series of explosions are politically motivated and aim to destroy the image of the city. - Report from Jasper Acosta, ABS-CBN News Central Mindanao Source http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/03/03/12/boy-hurt-cotabato-bomb-blast

Saturday, 03 March 2012 Last Saturday, a suicide car bomb claimed by Qaeda killed at least 26 people outside a presidential palace in southern Yemen, hours after Yemen inaugurated a new president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi with the job of bringing stability to an increasingly chaotic nation. (Reuters) By AL ARABIYA WITH AGENCIES A suicide car bombing ripped through a Republican Guard troops’ camp southwest of the Yemeni capital on Saturday, days after Al-Qaeda claimed a similar attack that killed 26 soldiers, military sources said. The attack by a “bomb-laden car” took place in the city of Bayda 170 kilometers (105 miles) southwest of the capital Sana’a, the sources said adding that there were “casualties.” Witnesses said the camp’s three-storey building was left in ruins after the attack. The explosion was followed by an exchange of fire between gunmen and Republican Guard troops, who are led by Ahmed Saleh, son of veteran strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh, who formally stepped d

PATNA: Kosi Express driver R D Rai sustained splinter injuries on his leg when a countrymade bomb was exploded in front of a Hanuman temple near railway running room of Patna Junction close to road over bridge (ROB) at Mithapur under Jakkanpur police station on Thursday morning. Panic prevailed in the entire locality after the explosion. On getting information, the personnel of the Railway Protection Force ( RPF), Government Railway Police (GRP), Patna Junction, and the police team from Jakkanpur police station rushed to the spot and started investigation into the case. Rai, a native of Barauni, said that the explosion took place at around 6.45 am when he came out of the running room, meant for taking rest for train drivers, and was talking on his cellphone with his family members. "I was talking to my family members with my head down, when I heard an explosion sound nearby and some splinters hit one of my legs," he said and added that he did not see the person who explod

2012-03-01 Xinhua Two NATO soldiers were killed Thursday when two individuals, including a man believed to be Afghan army soldier, opened fire in southern Afghanistan, the NATO- led forces said. "Two individuals, one believed to be an Afghan National Army service member and the other in civilian clothing, turned their weapons indiscriminately against International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Afghan National Security Force service members in southern Afghanistan today, killing two ISAF service members,"the NATO-led ISAF forces said in a press release. However, the brief statement did not provide details and did not disclose the nationalities of the victims, only saying "it is ISAF policy to defer casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities." Troops mainly from the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia have been stationed in the southern region within the framework of ISAF to curb Taliban-linked insurgency ther

2012-03-02 Xinhua A total of 22 Yemeni demonstrators were wounded Friday when a bomb blast hit an anti-U.S. protest staged by Shiite rebels in the group-held northern Saada province, the rebels said in a statement. "The demonstrators were injured in a bomb blast that targeted the protest rally against the U.S. intervene in the Yemeni internal affairs of restructuring the army," said the statement posted on the rebel group's website, referring to the U.S.-backed power transfer deal brokered by neighboring Gulf countries. The Shiite rebels led by Saada-based Abdulmalik al-Houthi opposed the political-settlement deal that swore in the country's consensus President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and ended almost a year of protests against former President Ali Abdullah Saleh. "The United States is standing behind the attack," the statement said, without elaborating further details. The Houthi-led rebels have been engaging in severe sectarian conflicts for seve

NDTV March 02, 2012 New Delhi: Police sources have told NDTV that that hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani had recommended the name of one of the two suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba militants who were arrested in New Delhi on Wednesday for a Pakistani visa. Sources say that papers seized from Ahtesham Malik include a visa recommendation by Mr Geelani. The 24-year-old suspected militant had gone to Pakistan in December last year, police say, for training in explosives and to learn how to assemble Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). The Delhi Police had, on Wednesday, recovered bomb-making material, including wires, flash powder used in crackers and sulphuric acid from Malik. He, along with another man, both of who were nabbed by the police at a railway station, were part of a group that was planning a major attack in Delhi. Home Minister P Chidambaram said the men were planning to bomb a crowded area of Delhi. The police said both men had been trained in Pakistan and wer

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — An army official says radical sect members were killed in a bomb factory blast in Nigeria’s northeast. Lt. Col. Hassan Mohammed said three Boko Haram members died Friday in the blast in a house close to the university in the city of Maiduguri. An Associated Press reporter saw timers attached to undetonated bombs and tools such as remote controls and oil cans in the debris. Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is sacrilege” in the local Hausa language, has carried out a campaign of drive-by killings and bombings, often using homemade bombs. The group wants to implement strict Shariah law and avenge Muslim killings in Nigeria, a nation almost equally divided between Muslims and Christians. The group is held responsible for more than 300 deaths this year alone, according to an AP count. Source http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/official-3-radical-sect-members-killed-in-bomb-blast-in-nigerias-restive-northeast/2012/03/02/gIQATrnemR_story.

A suicide bomber has killed at least 20 people, believed to be militants of the Lashkar-e-Islam group, in north-west Pakistan, officials say. The Taliban said the suicide bombing was a revenge attack. There have been sporadic clashes between the groups. The blast in Khyber tribal agency came hours after 10 soldiers and at least 22 Lashkar-e-Islam militants were killed in clashes in the same area. The military and several militant groups are fighting to control Khyber. None of the reports can be independently confirmed as there is no media access to the area. A spokesman for Lashkar-e-Islam claimed that only six fighters were killed in the suicide blast, which happened in the remote Nahaqai area of Tirah valley in Khyber. A local official told BBC Urdu's Rifatullah Orakzai that the suicide bomber detonated his explosives jacket in the presence of a large number of Lashkar-e-Islam fighters. A spokesman for the local Taliban said the blast was to avenge the killing of t

NDTV March 02, 2012 New Delhi: Police sources have told NDTV that that hardline Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani had recommended the name of one of the two suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba militants who were arrested in New Delhi on Wednesday for a Pakistani visa. Sources say that papers seized from Ahtesham Malik include a visa recommendation by Mr Geelani. The 24-year-old suspected militant had gone to Pakistan in December last year, police say, for training in explosives and to learn how to assemble Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). The Delhi Police had, on Wednesday, recovered bomb-making material, including wires, flash powder used in crackers and sulphuric acid from Malik. He, along with another man, both of who were nabbed by the police at a railway station, were part of a group that was planning a major attack in Delhi. Home Minister P Chidambaram said the men were planning to bomb a crowded area of Delhi. The police said both men had been trained in Pakistan and wer

2 March 2012 Footage on state TV on Thursday and Friday showed snow and destruction in Baba Amr and activists' video showed residents in Bab Sbaa Continue reading the main story Syria Crisis Referendum in media spotlight Syrians flee Tribute to Colvin Guide to opposition The Red Cross has been refused permission to deliver aid to the Baba Amr district of the bombed-out Syrian city of Homs, despite earlier getting the go-ahead from the authorities. ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger said the hold-up was "unacceptable". The delay has given rise to opposition allegations that government forces were trying to get rid of evidence of summary killings. Baba Amr has suffered heavy bombardment by government forces in recent weeks. The rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) said on Thursday it was leaving the district in a "tactical withdrawal". On Friday the UN human rights office said it had received reports of a "particularly grisly set of summary executi

BEIJING: Chinese authorities have put a highly respected Tibetan poetess under house arrest and initiated measures to cut off internet services in Tibet ahead of the annual session of the parliament beginning on Saturday. Sources said authorities are worried that Tibetan rebels may intensify their agitation against the Chinese rule in the region that has witnessed a wave of self-immolation by monks, who spread the word through internet. Poetess Tsering Woeser, blogs about the conditions in Tibet has attracted wide following besides helping her win Holland's Prince Claus award. The award committee said her blogs were the main source of information during the 2008 crackdown. Tibet's political leader Chen Quanguo has called for increased controls over internet and mobile phones arguing that stability in the region was of utmost importance during the National People's Congress session. "Mobile phones, internet and other measures for the management of new media need

Srinagar: Changing its strategy, the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) guerrilla outfit has been trying to engage local boys, holding passports, after its foreign cadres started coming under pressure from the security forces, a senior police official said on Thursday. "After things started becoming hot for the foreign cadres of the LeT in the state, the outfit's changed strategy has been to involve local boys, especially those having passports, to continue its subversive activities," Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, SM Sahai said. Sahai said the arrest of the three people identified as Ahtisham Malik, Tauseef Ahmad Peer and Shafqat Ahmad, all belonging to north Kashmir's Sopore town, by Delhi Police was the result of coordinated pooling of intelligence by police of Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand and Delhi. "One of the three arrested persons, Ahtisham Malik, had been on the radar of the Jammu and Kashmir Police for quite sometime," he said. "He had gone to P

28th February 2012 Pearcemedia Northern Ireland -Mandatory Credit - Photo Mark Pearce Mandatory Credit Photo Mark Pearce Appalling Assault and robbery of elderly brothers in Lurganare, Jimmy (83) (white Jumper) and Paddy (81) Murtagh. the Pensioners where sickly attacked in their own home. Five masked men burst into their house demanding money . 29 February 2012 08:31 TWO elderly brothers have told of their trauma after a masked and armed gang claiming to be from the Continuity IRA robbed them at their home on the outskirts of Newry. Patsy, 81, and Jimmy Murtagh, 83, were attacked after the gang forced their way into the house at Lurganare Cross just after 6.30pm on Monday. The gang made off with the brothers’ pensions in a dark coloured car after ransacking their home. Jimmy Murtagh, who tried to stop one of the men, was struck across the face. A shocked Jimmy told the News Letter: “There was a loud thumping outside. I sensed then I was in trouble because it wasn’t a nice wee

A fraternity ball on Holocaust Day raises old questions 01/03/2012 “Nazis,” a passer-by in his 50s muttered, giving us a sideways glance. Our clothes marked us out: white tie and a shimmery blue ball gown. Not reckoning with the small army of undercover journalists, the consensus seemed that only neo-Nazis would be donning ball regalia that night. It was 27 Jan. – the day that people across the West commemorated the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops. This year, it was also the day that the Wiener Korporationsring (WKR), an association of German-nationalist student fraternities, held its annual ball at the Hofburg, Austria’s historical seat of power. The coincidence, the organisers claimed, was accidental. Indeed, other balls were taking place that night, but received little attention. This was because the WKR Ball is a perverse highlight in Vienna’s ball season, every year attracting scores of protesters opposing the fraternities’ supposedly racist ideals – and their poli

01.03.2012 12:38:32 Prague - There are some 4000 militant neo-Nazis in the Czech Republic, including a 400-strong hard core, and a part of them pose a latent risk of switching to terrorism, experts focusing on extremism say in a study worked out for the Interior Ministry and released on the its website today. The neo-Nazi scene poses a permanent threat in terms of crime, including violent crime. The number of individual attacks on Romanies is expected to rise in the country in the next five years, says the study completed by a team led by political scientist Miroslav Mares. The 50-page study mainly focuses on the threats the neo-Nazi movement poses to the integration of foreigners in the Czech Republic. The study describes the history, development and present of the neo-Nazi scene, as well as potential risks, new streams in the movement, its ideological basis and symbols. The experts also recommend methods with which to prevent neo-Nazism. For example, the work with young people a

On Tuesday, sea pirates attacked a Dutch ship off Nigeria’s coast and took the Captain and Engineer-in-Chief hostage. According to the France Presse news agency, one crewmember was injured. No ransom demands have been reported. Most pirates in the Gulf of Guinea are Nigerian natives. According to the mass media, their ships are inferior to the Somali pirates’ vessels both in size and performance. Source http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_02_29/67142617/

There is good reason to be skeptical about the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia's (FARC's) announcement that it will halt "extortionate" kidnappings and release 10 military officials it is holding. It is, after all, not the first time the guerrilla/terrorist/insurgent/rebel group (whatever you wish to call them) has made similar noises, only to revert to the old tactics once the publicity died down. On the other hand, if the FARC is true to its word and actually follows up with concrete actions, the latest announcement could be a step in the right direction, possibly laying the ground for a settlement to the nearly 50-year conflict. That would be of great benefit to Colombia and the region as a whole, and particularly to industries such as hydrocarbons and mining - where Colombia has huge potential but which have been hurt more than most by the security shortfalls in the country in recent decades. The FARC have all but lost any ideological credibility they

By Sinikka Tarvainen Mar 1, 2012, 2:07 GMT Madrid - 'You stole my adolescence,' an unidentified Spaniard tells an unidentified member of the Basque separatist group ETA. 'Do you know how I was left when you killed my father? You did not only kill him, but you left me completely empty. I was full of life, and now I live without strength. I am no longer myself. I am someone else.' The meeting between the imprisoned separatist and the child of his victim - described by the daily El Mundo without giving the names of the participants - is part of a healing process that Spain is facing after ETA ended its 43-year armed campaign in October. More than 10 such meetings have taken place, partly on the initiative of jailed ETA members trying to face up to the immense pain the group created by killing about 850 people during its campaign for a sovereign Basque state. ETA targeted mainly army and police officers, politicians, judges and others seen as representatives of the Sp

The online hacker group Anonymous is taking up the cause of the Liberal staff member who posted salacious details of Vic Toews’s divorce to protest a bill that would give police greater access to the personal information of Internet users. In a video released Thursday, the day before it promises to reveal more embarrassing information about the Public Safety Minister, Anonymous said the Vikileaks30 Twitter account created by Adam Carroll, a staffer in the Liberal research bureau, exposed what it sees as Mr. Toews’s hypocrisy. The clip, which features a computer-generated woman’s voice dubbed over a dramatic musical score, is one in a series created by Anonymous to protest against Bill C-30, which the government has called the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act, and its champion. The group argues Vikileaks was created to protest legislation that would allow the Canadian government “to spy on its own people.” But, it says, when the Liberal Party found out that one of th

LIMA, Peru (AP) — People identifying themselves as activists in the Anonymous hacker movement said Wednesday it wasn’t technical prowess but police infiltration that yielded 25 arrests in a sweep in Europe and South America. In conversations in an online chat room where Spanish-speaking activists in the Americas and Spain regularly gather, they said nearly all of those arrested had been active on a single website used by the group. Among those detained were a Spaniard known by the online nickname “Pacotron” or “Thunder,” according to Spanish police and a communique issued by Anonymous Iberoamerica, which said he lives in Malaga. The statement by the loosely organized collective’s Spanish-language branch identified another of those arrested as a Spaniard known as “Troy” who it said owned computer servers in “such distant places as Slovakia and Romania.” Interpol, which announced the arrests Tuesday, did not say how it encountered the 25 suspects, who it says were involved in cyb

•4 killed as sect bombs Maiduguri •Nobody died -JTF •NYSC stops posting of corps members to 4 states Thursday, 01 March 2012 OPERATIVES of the dreaded Islamic militant sect, Boko Haram are said to have started combing fertiliser markets in search of materials to be used for bombs following the decision of security agencies to tighten rules on use of dynamites and explosives. Some operatives were said to have broken into the stores of construction companies and quarries last year where they were said to have removed type C4 explosives. The explosives, regarded as very deadly, were said to have been deployed in the recent bomb blasts effected by loyalists of the group. RESIDENTS of Gamboru Junction of Customs Area of the Maiduguri Metropolitan Council (MMC) were on Wednesday thrown into confusion, following an early morning bomb blast detonated by gunmen suspected to be members of the Jamaatul Ahlis Sunnah lid Daawa wal Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram which destroyed kiosks

Knife-wielding men kill 13 before police shoot seven assailants dead March 1, 2012 Beijing Attackers wielding knives killed 13 people in China's Xinjiang region before police shot seven of them dead, the government said, in the latest violence to strike the ethnically divided north-western area. Xinjiang's government said the killings on Tuesday night occurred on a busy pedestrian street in Yecheng County near Kashgar, a city in the south of Xinjiang that has been beset by tension between the mainly Muslim Uighur people and Han Chinese. "Nine violent terrorists suddenly surged into the crowd and stabbed to death innocent people with their knives, causing 13 innocent people to die and injuring many," it said in a statement on official news portal www.tianshannet.com. "Police rushed to the scene, handled the situation with resolution and shot dead seven violent terrorists, capturing two," it added. Disputed region The regional government did not ident

1/03/2012 Two NATO troops were killed Thursday when an Afghan soldier and a civilian turned their weapons against them in southern Afghanistan, the coalition military said. File photo shows US soldiers in Kandahar in January 2012. Two NATO troops were killed Thursday when an Afghan soldier and a civilian turned their weapons against them in southern Afghanistan, the coalition military said. The civilian was a literacy teacher who grabbed a weapon from a soldier and opened fire in a military outpost in troubled Kandahar province, Zhary district chief Niaz Mohammad Sarhadi told AFP. "Two individuals, one believed to be an Afghan National Army service member and the other in civilian clothing, turned their weapons indiscriminately against International Security Assistance Force and Afghan National Security Force service members in southern Afghanistan today, killing two ISAF service members," ISAF said in a statement. The US-led NATO force gave no further details.

1/03/2012 Syrian ground troops launched a ground assault on a rebel-held district of Homs after shelling it for 26 days, said activists, as pressure grew for humanitarian access to besieged protest cities. Image from a video on YouTube shows Syrian artillery purportedly firing towards Zabadani. Syrian ground troops launched a ground assault on a rebel-held district of Homs after shelling it for 26 days, said activists. AFP is using pictures from alternative sources as it was not authorised to cover this event and is not responsible for any alterations which cannot be independently verified. Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, the new international mediator for Syria, said he hoped to be in Damascus "fairly soon" with a "clear" message -- that the deadly violence must end and aid agencies must be allowed to work. A top UN official, political chief B Lynn Pascoe, has said "well over 7,500" people have been killed since President Bashar al-Assad&#

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1 March Al-Shabab militants still control much of central and southern Somalia despite recent losses Somalia - Failed State The al-Shabab fighters used heavy weaponry in the attack on Garbaharey, which it controlled until a year ago. Two senior military officers were killed and several wounded, a Somali MP and other officials told the BBC. This is the first major attack by al-Shabab since it lost control last week of Baidoa, an important stronghold. BBC Somali Service analyst Abdullahi Sheikh says the Garbaharey attack was a major military operation - and a strong indication that the movement's retreat from key positions does not mean it has given up the fight. He says al-Shabab, which recently announced it was joining al-Qaeda, may be weakened - but it is far from a spent force and still controls swathes of territory in south and central Somalia. MP injured Garbaharey has a major presence of heavily armed Ethiopian forces, which are supporting Somali government tr

ABS-CBNnews.com 03/01/2012 10:22 PM MANILA, Philippines – Three people were hurt after an improvised explosive device (IED) went off along Governor Gutierrez Avenue, Cotabato City Thursday night. Authorities identified the victims as 15-year-old fruit vendor Bainot Pasandalan, 15; Pendewata Sandigan; and Joseph Tiongson. The victims were immediately rushed to the hospital. Initial reports said the IED was allegedly placed by an unidentified person in front of the gate of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) regional office. In an exclusive interview with ABS-CBN News, Cotabato City administrator Atty. Cynthia Guiani Sayadi said she may have been the target of the attack. Sayadi said she had just passed by the area minutes before the blast. This is the third attempt on her life, said Sayadi. She said politics could be the motive behind the attack. Her brother, Japal J. Guiani, Jr., is currently mayor of Cotabato. The army's Explosive and Ordnance Dispos

BEIJING: China has stepped up controls on mobile phones and Internet in Tibet in the midst of recurring suicides by Buddhist monks, even as top Chinese Communist Party leaders have called for all out efforts to protect the stability of the sensitive Himalayan region. "Mobile phones, Internet and other measures for the management of new media need to be fully implemented," a report in the Tibet Daily quoted Chen Quanguo, Communist Party head of Tibet as saying. He also asked officials to spread a message that stability meant everything for Tibet and "unstable elements should be nipped in the bud". Meanwhile, one of China's top leaders, Jia Qinglin, stressed efforts to maintain steady and relatively fast economic growth and safeguard social harmony and stability in Tibet and Tibetan-inhabited areas in Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces. Jia, a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ch

BEIJING: China has stepped up controls on mobile phones and Internet in Tibet in the midst of recurring suicides by Buddhist monks, even as top Chinese Communist Party leaders have called for all out efforts to protect the stability of the sensitive Himalayan region. "Mobile phones, Internet and other measures for the management of new media need to be fully implemented," a report in the Tibet Daily quoted Chen Quanguo, Communist Party head of Tibet as saying. He also asked officials to spread a message that stability meant everything for Tibet and "unstable elements should be nipped in the bud". Meanwhile, one of China's top leaders, Jia Qinglin, stressed efforts to maintain steady and relatively fast economic growth and safeguard social harmony and stability in Tibet and Tibetan-inhabited areas in Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces. Jia, a member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ch

1/03/2012 PMOnline news A bomb explosion wounded 10 people in and around a Turkish police bus near the ruling party headquarters in Istanbul early Thursday, Anatolia news agency reported citing police. File picture shows Turkish emergency vehicles during an attack in Ankara last September. A bomb explosion wounded 10 people in and around a Turkish police bus near the ruling party headquarters in Istanbul early Thursday, Anatolia news agency reported citing police. "It appears to be a remote-controlled bomb that went off as a duty vehicle with 21 policemen on board drove by," Istanbul police chief Huseyin Capkin was quoted as saying by the agency. Governor of Istanbul Huseyin Avni Mutlu said the bomb was composed of plastic explosives, according to Anatolia. The blast hit close to the offices of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), said the private NTV news channel. Istanbul police believes the bomb was carried on a motorcycle, it said. The wounded wer

1st Mar : ASSOCIATED PRESS SULAIMANIYAH: An American gym teacher was shot and killed Thursday in an apparent murder-suicide after an argument with a student in a private school in northern Iraq, officials said. The quarrel broke out Thursday morning at the Medya School in Sulaimaniyah between the gym teacher and the student, identified as 18-year old Biyar Sarwar, said city police spokesman Sarkawit Mohammed. During the argument, Mohammed said, Sarwar shot the teacher with a gun he had hidden in his clothes. Mohammed said Sarwar then shot himself, and died of the wounds later at a nearby hospital. Sulaimaniyah health director Retawit Hama Rashid confirmed Sarwar's death. Eyewitnesses described a scene of chaos in the classroom, with several students fainting out of fear. Sulaimaniyah mayor Zana Hama Saleh confirmed the police account but declined to speculate on Sarwar's motive. The Associated Press is withholding the gym teacher's name pending notification of

1st Mar : Kathmandu, Nepal— A powerfull bomb went off in front of the Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) at Babarmahal, just ahead of the Singhdurbar on Monday. Three people were killed - two of them on the spot and one at Bir Hospital while receiving treatment. In the daylight explosion other seven were injured, one of them is reported critical. According to the Bir Hospital, the injured persons, who were admited at the hospital for treatment are Som Bahadur Tamang, 35, of Bara district, Lal Bahadur Tamang, 62, of Dhading district, Bishnu Prasad Pulara, 40, of Dhading district, Raghu Nath Khadka, 45, of Tathali of Bhaktapur district, Man Bahadur Kunwar, 40, and Bhim Bahadur Kunwar, 21, of Achham district and Basu Shrestha, 20, of Lubhu of Lalitpur distrct. The health condition of Som Bahadur Tamang is critical. The decease, who had lost thier lives in the spot were identified as Krishna Bahadur Tamang, 34 and Bishnu Balami of Baireni VDC, Dhading. Balami is minor. The blast was occurre

PTI Feb 29,2012 Garhwa (Jharkhand), Feb 29 (PTI) Five hardcore Maoists, including four accused in the January 21 landmine blast that had killed 13 policemen at Bariganwa forest, were arrested during a three-day anti-naxal operation in Garhwa district, police said today. "They were arrested from Chatania and Parswar villages during the operation that ended yesterday. Four of them were named in the FIR in connection with the Bariganwa landmine blast," Superintendent of Police Michael Raj and Commandant R K Dagar of CRPF's 172nd battalion told reporters. Arjun Yadav alias Arjan, Mohan Yadav, Surendra Prasad, Manish Prasad Gupta were the Maoists who were named in the FIR soon after the Bariganwa landmine blast, they said adding the fifth Maoist, Deb Sagar Yadav, was also allegedly involved in that incident. All of them belong to Garhwa district, "and are wanted in murder and kidnapping incidents in Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh". Their interrogation gave vital informa

It is no coincidence that David Cameron recently hosted a conference about Somalia in London which attracted heads of state and pledges of help from around the world. Estimates of al-Shabaab's size vary, but it is believed to consist of several thousand fighters, including foreigners from Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Gulf region as well as the US and Britain By Aislinn Laing, Johannesburg and Zoe Flood in Nairobi2:49PM GMT 29 Feb 2012 In the eyes of Western intelligence, the growing threat of the country's al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab movement and its British ties makes it the new Afghanistan. Al-Shabaab was formed in 2006 from the ashes of the Islamic Courts Union which had been fighting the Somali transitional government for control of the country. Estimates of al-Shabaab's size vary, but it is believed to consist of several thousand fighters, including foreigners from Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Gulf region as well as the US and Britain. Today, having been fo