Terrorism Watch

Moscow says it has found new evidence that proves anti President Vladimir Putin activists have been involved in a riot plot to overthrow the Russian government with the help of foreigners. The federal Investigative Committee (SK) spokesman Vladimir Markin said on Friday that the agency had gathered new evidence confirming earlier allegations that opposition supporters had been conspiring with “foreign citizens” to overthrow the president in a coup. Markin added the activists traveled to other countries to get training for “organizing and conducting mass riots with the purpose of overthrowing the government.” The SK formally charged leftist opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov, Leonid Razvozzhayev and Konstantin Lebedev last month with plotting mass disorder. The charges were brought against them after Russia's NTV broadcast what it said was hidden-camera footage of Udaltsov meeting officials from Georgia in Minsk to discuss mounting a coup in Russia. The three men reject th

Protesters have clashed with riot police in Slovenia's capital, Ljubljana, during a rally against budget cuts and alleged corruption. Just two days ahead of a presidential election, at least 5,000 protesters gathered outside the parliament on Friday and threw stones and bottles as they tried to push through a police cordon. The demonstrators called on Prime Minister Danilo Turk to resign while chanting "You are finished!" and "Thieves!" "I'm protesting against the government because they are destroying our state, our educational, health and social systems. We have to show that we are against them and that they are not untouchable," a protester said. Police fired water cannon and tear gas canisters to disperse the angry demonstrators who were attempting to storm the parliament. At least 30 people were arrested and nearly 50 others sustained injuries during clashes. Slovenia became a eurozone nation in 2007 when it was one of the most pr

Around 30,000 people were kidnapped, tortured and killed during Argentina’s Dirty War from 1976 to 1983. Thu Nov 29, 2012 2:1AM GMT 1 [The trial in Buenos Aires] was, is and will be the largest trial of crimes against humanity [in Argentina]. " Human rights attorney Rodolfo Yanzon A court in Argentina has begun a large trial of the so-called Dirty War crimes that were committed during the country’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship. The trial of 68 former officials, who are facing some 800 charges of kidnap, torture and murder associated with an elite naval college, began on Wednesday in the capital Buenos Aires, AFP reported. During the seven-year junta period, almost 5,000 people were sent to the infamous Naval School of Mechanics (ESMA), which served as a secret detention camp in Buenos Aires. Only a fraction survived the camp’s horrors, and most of the bodies of those who perished have never been recovered. Other victims were sedated, put on airplanes and tossed int

Sanaa: Security forces in southern Yemen have reportedly arrested a “dangerous” al Qaeda chief who took part in several attacks. According to the state-run media, police said Sulaiman Hassan Mohammad Morshad Awadh, also known as Abu Osama Al Abiye, was “one of the most dangerous members of al Qaeda and involved in several terrorist operations.” Police said that Awadh, whose name figured on a wanted list, was arrested in Zinjibar, capital of Abyan province, Gulf News reports. Before a counter-offensive by the army earlier this year, al Qaeda held large swathes of southern Yemen, the report said. But since its loss of a string of towns near the port city of Aden in June, most have fled into desert regions farther east, it added. According to the report, Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), regarded as al Qaeda’s strongest regional wing, has mounted operations in Saudi Arabia and tried to launch attacks against the US. Restoring stability in Yemen is a priori

Source http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/curfew-lifted-in-srinagar-as-peace-returns-299704 Press Trust of India | Updated: December 01, 2012 11:43 IST Srinagar: A three-day-old curfew imposed in parts of Srinagar following sectarian clashes was lifted today. "Curfew has been lifted from all nine police station areas of Srinagar city as the situation is peaceful," a police spokesperson said. With the lifting of the curfew, normal life resumed in all parts of the city. Schools, colleges, shops, offices and business establishments opened. Examinations being conducted by the University of Kashmir were also held today after two days. Exams scheduled for Thursday and Friday had been cancelled and will be held at a later date. Curfew was declared in Nowhatta, MR Gunj, Safakadal, Khanyar, Rainawari, Nigeen, Lal Bazaar, Zadibal and Parimpora police station limits on Wednesday after sectarian clashes broke out in Hawal area of the city. Hawal, Gojwara and adjoining areas

Havana: The first round of talks here between the Colombian government and FARC rebels has ended with progress on mechanisms for incorporating civil society into the process, which is aimed at bringing an end to a decades-long armed conflict. Negotiators representing President Juan Manuel Santos' administration and the guerrillas will resume talks Dec 5 after the two sides agreed to organize a citizens' forum on agrarian policy and launch a web page for receiving proposals from the general public. "We've made the progress we expected," former Colombian vice president Humberto de la Calle, head of the team of government negotiators, said Thursday in his first remarks to reporters since the initial phase of the talks focusing on the five-point agenda began on Nov 19. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, also has reached the end of this first round of talks with "great optimism and hope", the guerrilla group's No.2 and leader of i

Sydney: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has vowed to keep exposing secret documents and defended his whistle blowing website, two years after it published sensitive US diplomatic cables. Marking the anniversary of "cablegate", Assange said his anti-secrecy website had uncovered US attempts to hide atrocities, coerce other governments and dominate the global economy. "Since 2010, Western governments have tried to portray WikiLeaks as a terrorist organisation, enabling a disproportionate response from both political figures and private institutions,” he wrote in The Huffington Post. "It is the case that WikiLeaks'' publications can and have changed the world, but that change has clearly been for the better," he said. “Two years on, no claim of individual harm has been presented, and the examples (cables) above clearly show precisely who has blood on their hands,” he added. According to News.com.au, Assange's commentary appeared as the army

A new attack has targeted Iranian media outlets in Damascus. At midnight, two young men approached to the SNG vehicle which provides services to Press TV and al-Alam offices in al-Mezzeh area. One of them quickly attached an explosive device underneath it and ran away. Security personnel saw them coming close to the vehicle on cameras but the explosion happened before they could prevent it. The device was remotely detonated. No one was hurt as result of the blast. However, the vehicle and the devices inside it were destroyed. Several other vehicles surrounding the residential area were also damaged. Nevertheless, security personnel dismantled another explosive device planted on the entrance of the building weighing about 10 kilograms of highly explosive material. The attack came following a series of death threats to head of Press TV and al-Alam offices in Damascus Hosein Mortada who said such acts would never stop conveying the reality of events on ground. On the 26th of Se

29 oct Kabul: Two roadside bombs exploded on Thursday in eastern and southern Afghanistan, killing at least 12 people and injuring 16 others, officials said. Militants regularly plant roadside bombs to target Afghan and NATO forces, but the devices often kill civilians. Bombs like the ones in Khost and Uruzgan province have killed a total of 16 people since Tuesday. A bomb blast killed two civilians at a park in Khost, about 150 kilometers south of the capital, Kabul, said Jabar Nahimi, governor of Khost province in eastern Afghanistan. Eight others were wounded in the blast, including four women and a child, he said. Earlier, a minivan traveling in a remote part of Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan struck a roadside bomb, killing at least 10 people and wounding eight others, said Nayamatullah Khaliqi, the top government official in Dehra Wood district. He said most of the dead were women and children. The United Nations has called on the Taliban leadership to stop usi

Fri Nov 30, 2012 7:20AM GMT A roadside bomb has killed at least four civilians in Afghanistan’s southeastern province of Ghazni, Press TV reports. Local police officials said that the blast took place on Thursday in an area near Ghazni city, after a roadside bomb struck a car carrying civilians. Reports say that the car was completely destroyed in the blast and another civilian was injured. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks. However, the Taliban has almost regularly been blamed for such instances of violence. Earlier on Thursday, ten Afghan civilians were killed and eight others wounded in a bomb attack in the southern province of Uruzgan. On Wednesday, a similar attack killed four Afghan civilians in Nozad district of the southern province of Helmand. The militants use improvised explosive devices, including roadside bombs, against Afghan forces, foreign troops, and civilians. In the first six months of 2012, over 1,140 Afghan civilians were killed and

Saturday, December 01, 2012 QUETTA: Two children have been injured in a toy bomb blast on Shah Wakshah road in the provincial capital on Friday.Police sources said that unknown men had placed a toy bomb on Shah Wakshah road that exploded when two passersby children touch it. Resultantly, both the children received serious injuries.The rescue teams rushed to the site and shifted the wounded children to Civil Hospital where they were identified as Muhammad Hussain and Sanaullah. Police cordoned off the entire area to trace the suspects. Source http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-19192-Two-children-injured-in-Quetta-toy-bomb-blast

Turkey condemned the bomb attacks perpetrated in the cities of Mosul, Hilla, Karbala and Fallujah in Iraq leaving 38 people dead and injured others, Anadolu Agency reported. In a statement released on Friday, Turkish Foreign Ministry said that their sorrow was further increased by these terrorist attacks perpetrated during the holy month of Muharram and offered its condolences to relatives of those who were killed in this attack. "It is our most sincere wish that the fraternal bloodshed in our neighbor Iraq will finally come to an end and that stability, peace and reconciliation will prevail in the country. In this framework, Turkey will continue to support by every means possible the efforts aimed at establishing long-awaited security, peace and stability in neighboring and friendly Iraq and to be in solidarity with our Iraqi brothers in their combat against terrorism" the statement said. Source http://en.trend.az/regions/met/turkey/2094138.html

Back-to-back explosions tore through tents housing Shiite pilgrims in southern Iraq Thursday, the deadliest in a wave of bombings that killed at least 43 people nationwide, officials said. The attacks in Hillah began with a roadside bombing near tents set up for Shiites commemorating the 17th century death of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein. That was quickly followed by a car bomb targeting emergency response teams. The explosions, which occurred in a busy commercial area, killed at least 29 people and wounded as many as 90, a police officer said, making it the deadliest attack in the city this year. Twisted and charred vehicles were left outside damaged stores as shopkeepers collected their strewn merchandise from the bloodstained pavement. Hillah is 95 kilometers (60 miles) south of Baghdad... Just hours earlier, a parked car exploded near the shrine of Imam Hussein in the Shiite city of Karbala, killing six people and wounding 20, another police officer said.

ANBAR, Iraq | Fri Nov 30, 2012 1:07pm EST (Reuters) - Masked gunmen hijacked a bus carrying 20 police recruits in northern Iraq on Friday and took them to a remote area bordering Syria where al-Qaeda operates, police sources said. The kidnappers, armed with machineguns and rocket propelled grenades, seized the vehicle on the road from Mosul to the capital Baghdad and took the recruits to Anbar province, said officers. "There were 20 volunteers coming from Mosul on their way to Baghdad. They stopped in a restaurant to get lunch in Baiji and when they left, gunmen kidnapped them," said a senior police officer from the area who declined to be named. Anbar was almost entirely controlled by al Qaeda during the height of Iraq's insurgency from 2005-07, until most of the militants were pushed out by local tribesmen and U.S. forces. The group has kept hold of pockets of land in the rugged region, using its caves and valleys as hideouts. The Sunni Islamist organization

Agence France-Presse | Updated: November 30, 2012 23:38 IST Fort Meade, Maryland: The army private accused of the biggest leak of official secrets in US history admitted on Friday he had turned a prison bed sheet into a makeshift noose he could have used to kill himself. Bradley Manning, 24, has been in military custody since his arrest in Iraq more than two years ago on accusations that he leaked hundreds of thousands of confidential documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. He faces life imprisonment if he is convicted of the most serious charge that he "aided the enemy," but his defense team argues that the case should be thrown out because of Manning's unduly harsh treatment in jail. The soldier, who broke his silence in the case on Thursday by testifying at a pre-trial hearing near the US capital, was being cross-examined by military prosecutors. "Yes, sir," Manning said, after Major Ashden Fein showed him the sheet, which had been rolled

Surbhi Chawla | November 30, 2012 14:12 IST The website of India's Union Minister for Communication, Information and Technology has reportedly been hacked. Notorious hacking group Anonymous claimed responsibility for the attack. In their latest attack on Friday, the hacking group managed to hijack Kapil Sibal's official website kapilsibalmp.com. The about page of the website was hacked to read: "Kapil Sibal is the world's biggest retard. Born with a below 60 IQ he thought he could mess with the Internet and let the elite of his party suppress freedom of speech." While the Constituency page of this website has a picture of Kapil Sibal playing the popular television game 'Kaun Banega Crorepati' (KBC). The question reads as 'Which of these things can be harmful for the country?' And the four options listed are Me, Freedom, Me and Me. Freedom amongst these four options has been highlighted as in the game to connote the right answer. Anonymous

By Gustavo Palencia TEGUCIGALPA | Sun Nov 25, 2012 11:59pm GMT (Reuters) - Honduran anti-drug agents on Saturday broke up an alleged gang of synthetic drug producers and seized $100 million (62 million pounds) in assets, a government spokesman said. Anti-drug trafficking agents carried out raids on 24 sites in the northern part of the country, seizing 700 heads of cattle and 150 vehicles in one of the biggest organized crime seizures in the last decade, spokesman Carlos Vallecillo said. Vallecillo said the group laundered money through companies and property, but did not specify which drug cartel the group belonged to. The agents detained a local police official, a Honduran civilian, and two Colombian pilots, he added. The Mexican government's campaign to tame its drug cartels has driven Mexican drug traffickers to set up shop in Honduras. Colombian Cartels also operate in the country. Criminal violence in the Central American nation has escalated thanks in part to t

A U.S. citizen who allegedly joined a terrorist group in Somalia and a man from the Philippines accused of kidnapping an American in 1993 are the newest additions to the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists. Alabama native Omar Shafik Hammami eluded law enforcement authorities, who issued a warrant for his arrest on terrorism charges in 2007. The FBI claims that as early as 2006 Hammami, 28, provided assistance to al-Shabaab, a militant group that the Department of State calls a terrorist organization. He reportedly went to Somalia in 2007 to fight invading Ethiopian forces. It's believed that Hammami -- who uses the alias Abu Mansour al-Amriki -- remains in Somalia as a leader in al-Shabaab. To some, Hammami is the rapping jihadi who's released six hip hop songs with extremist lyrics, according to ABC News. He released two a cappella tunes in 2011, including "Send Me A Cruise," in which he begs to be killed by a cruise missile or other attack like some of hi

A spokesman for Mexico’s ambassador to the United States, Arturo Sarukhán, told The Daily Caller his country’s government disputes a recent House GOP report alleging that Iranian and Hezbollah terror operatives are using Mexican drug cartels as a conduit to infiltrate the United States. Last week, the House Homeland Security Committee Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Management released a report titled “A Line in the Sand: Countering Crime, Violence and Terror at the Southwest Border.” The report found that the “Southwest border has now become the greatest threat of terrorist infiltration into the United States.” It specifically cited a “growing influence” from Iranian and Hezbollah terror forces in Latin America. The Mexican government disagreed with that assessment. “The Government of Mexico, as it has done in the past, reiterates that no such relationship or presence exists,” Ricardo Alday, a spokesman for Mexico’s ambassador to the United States, wrote in a le

Alaska News & Features Two decades ago, security forces captured the Shining Path's messianic leader, precipitating the group's rapid military decline. Now, supporters of the Maoist insurgent group that once bathed Peru in blood are attempting a comeback. Pushing the group’s fundamentalist agenda and calling for the release of those convicted of terrorism, the Movement for Amnesty and Fundamental Rights (MOVADEF, as it is known here) is winning adherents among a new generation with no memories of the horrors of the 1980s and early 1990s. The movement started in 2009, claiming to be against “globalization” and “imperialism” and seeking to take advantage of unrest among the poor. It is now increasingly drawing support from those who believe that President Ollanta Humala, elected in 2011, has betrayed campaign promises to help them. It has made inroads in Peru’s universities and unions, most notably SUTEP, the teachers’ union. This year it attempted to register as a

At least three Shi'ite Muslims were killed on Saturday in a bomb attack targeting the first public commemoration of the anniversary of the death of a grandson of the Prophet Mohammad in the Yemeni capital in half a century. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but al Qaeda and its affiliates, comprising Sunni Muslim militants, have targeted Shi'ites in the past. Medics and local officials said 13 other people were also wounded in the attack on a hall where the Shi'ites were leaving the ceremony in Sanaa after the Ashura rituals which recall the death of Imam Hussein in Iraq in the year 680 AD. Fourteen people were brought to hospital, and three of them have died, one medic at the Saudi German Hospital told Reuters. A statement issued by the Houthis, a Shi'ite armed group based in northern Yemen, said the attackers also sprayed the crowd with gunfire and fled. We condemn this attack and consider the safety of Yemeni citizens the responsibility of the

In what looks like a major achievement of the peace accord, altogether 1,531 Maoist combatants became part of the Nepal Army trainees on Sunday awaiting their absorption on their completing the prescribed training. These include 71 trainees selected to join the army at officer’s level. While those selected for officer level recruitment reported to training centre of the Nepal Army in Kharipati, remaining 1,460 were dispatched to seven different training centres in the country. The former will go for nine-month long “officer cadet basic training” course where as the others will be undergoing 7-month long “basic military special training”. Source http://www.indianexpress.com/news/nepal-inducts-1500-maoists-into-army/1036254/

MONDAY, 26 NOVEMBER 2012 01:12 ASHIS SINHA | DHANBAD/BOKAR As the State police headquarters sounds a high alert, Maoists have begun preparations to make their ‘Martyr Week’ a grand success from Saturday, coinciding with Kishenji’s death anniversary. Other than nocturnal meetings in the rural segment in Topchanchi and Tundi blocks of Dhanbad district, the rebels are reported to have grand plans for impressive flag marches as well, to openly display their arsenal. Sources revealed that at several villages coming under Topchanchi police station, Maoist cadre have been seen singing songs in honour of Kishenji, alias Koteshwar Rao, on Saturday. In covert meetings held a couple of days ago, a decision has also been taken to perpetrate some overt act against the police in Bokaro, Giridih or Hazaribagh, according to sources. Earlier, the Centre had asked all Naxal-affected States, including Jharkhand, to step up operations as the rebels were planning to intensify their offensive thi

MONDAY, 26 NOVEMBER 2012 01:11 PNS | JEYPORe The Koraput police on Sunday arrested two hardcore Maoists from the Dumbaguda area in Koraput district and forwarded them to court. According to the Koraput SP Avinash Kumar, the duo is identified as identified as Habika Lingama and Habika Tamaya, who were involved in various crimes, including murder. “They were the key strategists in the abduction of Laxmipur MLA Jhina Hikaka in March 24 this year. While 12 cases have been pending against Lingama, nine cases have been registered against Tamaya in different police stations in the district,” the SP said. Source http://www.dailypioneer.com/nation/111246-two-maoists-held-in-koraput.html

NEW DELHI: Intelligence Bureau has alerted the special cell of Delhi Police about at least three suspected terrorists having entered the capital to carry out blasts. The confidential note from IB describes them as "deadly" and the biggest threat to Delhi at present. The note identifies the terrorists as Rafluddin alias Faisal, Shafiuddin alias Mashasl and Raju alias Aftab, who were associated with the banned outfit SIMI, said sources. The terrorists, who are probably from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, are said to be hiding in an unconventional part of the capital, they added. The mention of Raju has put the special cell on its toes. A man named Raju, better known in intercepts as Raju Bhai, had figured in the cell's investigations into the Pune serial blast carried out by Indian Mujahideen (IM). He had allegedly assisted Asad and Imran, arrested from Pul Prahladpur, southeast Delhi, in getting a flat at a monthly rent of Rs 6,000. Cops raided several suspected hideouts

JHARGRAM: The Maoists seem to have learnt a lesson from their past mistakes. Sources said that Maoists in Bengal are planning to bring major organizational changes. They also claimed that Martyrs' Week had not been preponed to commemorate their politburo member Kishenji's encounter death. "Like other years, we will observe Martyrs' Week from December 2 to 8," said a Maoist source. He said that their party observed Kishenji's death anniversary as a "black day". On that day, armed Maoists reportedly secretly met at Loboni, Sakhabhanga, Patharchakli in Binpur-II block on the Jharkhand border at night and led a torch rally. Sources admitted that they had done some major tactical mistakes during the Lalgarh movement. "Indefinite bandhs, road blockade and killing created a terror among the common people and damaged our acceptance among villagers," said a Maoist source. Keeping this in mind, the rebels are now focused to strengthen their politic

KOLKATA: In a recent missive, the Centre has proposed a volley of measures to curb the rising Maoist menace in the state. Apart from stressing on poverty alleviation, it has asked the Bengal government to carefully handle issues related to land acquisition and use of forests and mines as the Red rebels often play on such topics to fan the sentiments of villagers. The Centre suggested the need for effective implementation of forest act along with the panchayat schemes to nip the problems at the grass-root level. "There should be renewed impetus to land reforms like redistribution of surplus land, vesting title in tenants and carrying forward consolidation of land holdings for maintaining and promoting sustainability of agriculture," it said. Moreover, the Centre wants an improved banking system for farmers in the rural areas and investment in non-farm activitieswhich would boost the agrarian sector . The missive said that the state should provide necessary support to

By Ivy C. Tejano Sunday, November 25, 2012 A TOTAL of 17 lumad families have been evacuated after receiving threats from the New People's Army (NPA) in Marilog, Davao City, the military said. Lieutenant Colonel Edgar Nigos, chief of the Philippine Army's 84th Infantry Battalion, said lumad families from Purok 26 at Sitio Alon in Malabog were transferred to Barangay Marilog since last November 6 due to fear the NPA rebels will harm them. According to Datu Tresio Lumuyok, a tribal chieftain in the area, the NPA is allegedly eyeing their village as site for the upcoming 44th anniversary celebration of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) next month. Lumuyok said they learned that Leoncio Pitao, alias Ka Parago, is planning to make their village as their next venue for the communist party's anniversary on December 27. Because of this, Lumuyok said he led his people in moving to a place where they are secured. Parago is recognized as head of the NPA operating

By NDF - Eastern Visayas The National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas today said orders have been issued to all units under the Rodante Urtal Command of the New People's Army in Northern Samar to dismantle the Dazas' private army as well as their anti-people projects. “Cong. Raul Daza and his son, Northern Samar Gov. Paul Daza, are rabid supporters of the Aquino regime's Oplan Bayanihan to consolidate their political power,” said NDF-EV spokesperson Fr. Santiago Salas. “Gov. Daza, who also chairs the Regional Peace and Order Council, has been pushing for the setting up of Barangay Peacekeeping Action Teams (BPATs) in support of “counterinsurgency.” Moreover, the NPA has found the BPATs in Northern Samar to be actually a front for the Dazas' private army in recruiting goons for the 2013 elections. Even the local government units in the province also balk at setting up BPATs – about 400-strong already with more to be added – because they are obliged to spend for th

MALAYBALAY CITY, Bukidnon, Nov 26 (PIA)—Force, guns and weapons could not solve insurgency. But peace and development could be achieved by joining hands with the community and other stakeholders, said Army’s Brig. Gen. Pedro P. Biasbas, Regiment Commander of 10th Field Artillery Battalion-Assault Armored Battalion (10FAB-AAR), in the course of its free Medical Civic Action Program (Medcap) in the province. Medcap is part of the Army’s Internal Peace and Security Plan “Bayanihan” (IPSP-Bayanihan), which focuses on a more humane and non-traditional approach in taming the decades-old insurgency in the country. “It is wholeheartedly offered to the Filipino people who are ultimate beneficiaries of the government’s peace efforts. It seeks to bring a combined effort among stakeholders to help alleviate poverty and address some root causes of insurgency,” Biasbas said. The Medcap Services The Army’s 10FAB-AAR has increased cooperation among stakeholders since it acknowledged the contr

ISMAILIA, Egypt — Militants bombed security bases being built in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, injuring three people, authorities said, as the state tries to reassert control over territory that slipped from its grip after the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak. A massive explosion partly destroyed the wall of a security base being built for border guards in the town of Rafah at the border with the Gaza Strip overnight, but without causing injuries. Further south, three workers were injured by a separate blast that damaged a compound being built in Quseima for a different security agency responsible for guarding a pipeline that exports gas to Jordan, security sources said. Hardline groups have expanded into a vacuum left by the collapse of state control in North Sinai during the uprising that overthrew Mubarak in February, 2011. The state launched a concerted effort to reestablish control following an Aug. 5 attack in which 16 border guards were killed. But a Nov. 3 gun attack in

Unidentified gunmen on Sunday attacked a Divisional Police Station in Isa local government area of Sokoto state. According to eyewitnesses, several armed men stormed the police station early Sunday morning. The gunmen reportedly shot into the air for several minutes while the attack lasted. It is however not clear if there was any resistance by the police, neither has there been any confirmation of casualties. Law enforcement agencies and military officers have been targets of attacks by gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram sect in the northern parts of the country. Source http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/11/25/gunmen-attack-police-station-in-sokoto/

The military Joint Task force (JTF) in Borno state has placed a reward of N290 million for anybody with useful information that will lead to the arrest of the Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau; 14 sect commanders and four others in connection with terrorists activities in the North East geo political zone of the country. The declaration of the Boko Haram sect members on the wanted lists is contained in a statement signed by the spokesman of the JTF in Borno State; Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa and made available to news men in Maiduguri the Borno state capital. The JTF placed a bounty of N50 million on the head of Mr Shekau and N10 million each for the 14 commanders. According to the statement, the sect leader and his commanders are wanted in connection with terrorist activities particularly in the North-East zone of the country that led to series of killings, bombings, assassination of some traditional and religious leaders, business men, civil servants, politicians, securit

Source: Hueiyen News Service Imphal, November 25 2012: Unidentified miscreants triggered a bomb at Tonsem Leikai Phura Makhong near a 27 AR post under Sugnu Police Station in Thoubal district yesterday. The incident occurred at around 5:50 am just 400 metres away from the AR post located along Imphal-Sugnu Road. No casualty has been reported in the blast. Source http://e-pao.net/GP.asp?src=Snipp11..261112.nov12 S

UPDATED: Military authorities have confirmed that two suicide bombs hit a church inside a military barracks of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, in Jaji, Kaduna state, killing 11 people and injuring 30 others. A military source confirmed that a bus entered the barracks and was driven into the wall of the Saint Andrews Protestant Church, where it exploded and ten minutes later another car blew up outside the church. Though the first blast caused no casualties, the second blast however did as curious worshippers gathered around the scene of the first blast looking at the debris of the initial explosion. The area has since been cordoned off. No one or group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Northern state Governors The Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF) has commiserated with the Nigerian military over Sunday’s bomb blast which killed some worshippers at the Saint Andrews Protestant Church, describing the attack as “cruel and wicked.” Chairman of the

One of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives was arrested in Mexico and returned to Los Angeles Friday night to face charges of murder, kidnapping and rape, U.S. officials said. One of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives was arrested in Mexico and returned to Los Angeles Friday night to face charges of murder, kidnapping and rape, U.S. officials said. Reputed Los Angeles gang member Joe Luis Saenz was taken into custody in Guadalajara late Thursday following a joint operation with the Mexican government, said Bill Lewis, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles office. Investigators said Saenz shot and killed two rival gang members in July 1998 to retaliate for an assault on one of his associates. Saenz suspected Sigrieta Hernandez, his girlfriend and the mother of his daughter, was going to tell police about the slayings, investigators said. He is accused of kidnapping, raping and killing her less than two weeks later. Saenz also is believe

The Cyber Corps program has funneled most of its graduates to the CIA and the Pentagon's National Security Agency; other graduates have taken positions with the FBI, NASA and the Department of Homeland Security. TULSA, Okla. — Jim Thavisay is secretly stalking a classmate, and one classmate is spying on him. "I have an idea who it is, but I'm not 100 percent sure yet," said Thavisay, 25, a former casino blackjack dealer. Stalking is part of the curriculum in the Cyber Corps, a two-year program at the University of Tulsa that teaches students how to spy in cyberspace, the latest frontier in espionage. Students learn how to rifle through trash, sneak a tracking device on cars and plant false information on Facebook. They also are taught to write computer viruses, hack digital networks, crack passwords, plant listening devices and mine data from broken cellphones and flash drives. It may sound like a Jason Bourne movie, but the little-known

COMPUTER students are being taught about online security in a new initiative at Nottingham Trent University. The university has teamed up with network security firm Stonesoft to work with students in the School of Computing and Informatics. The deal will involve the company providing the university with information on cyber security and associated threats, such as computer hacking. Visiting professor John Walker said: "The cyber-security landscape is constantly evolving, and the current day-to-day risk is extremely high. "We must help students achieve a better understanding of the threats, which are targeting companies and governments around the world today." Ash Patel, of Stonesoft, said: "Nottingham Trent is already well-known for its involvement in the cyber security world and we are happy to have them on-board to enhance the understanding of cyber threats. This is our second partnership and it will help drive furthe

Spain's wealthy region of Catalonia votes today in an election that could determine whether it eventually breaks away from the rest of the country. The region must choose a new assembly, after a campaign dominated by the issue of independence from Spain and financial woes. Opinion polls show that most voters will cast ballots for pro-independence parties, with Catalan President Artur Mas expected to win re-election. Mr Mas has advocated independence despite strong resistance from Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, who has been fighting deep recession in his country. "I hope to be the last president of a Catalonia that the Spanish state is trying to destroy," Mr Mas told a recent campaign rally for his conservative Convergence and Union Party. "The next one will not depend on the Spanish state and they will no longer be able to destroy it," he told supporters, who chanted back to him: "Independence! Independence!" I

(Reuters) - Israel eased restrictions on Gaza fishermen and farmers on Saturday, Palestinian officials said, advancing a three-day-old truce brokered by Egypt after a week of fierce fighting. Gaza's children also headed back to school in their hundreds of thousands, in another indication normal life was returning after eight days of fierce cross-border fighting in which 166 Palestinians and six Israelis were killed. Nonetheless, senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar showed how fragile the ceasefire remained, with defiant remarks to reporters of how the Islamists would go on smuggling in weapons "by all possible means", including via Israel's arch-foe Iran. A statement from the office of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Egypt had notified them that "Israel has allowed Palestinian fishermen to fish in Gaza's waters at a distance of 6 miles (10 km), up from 3 miles". The Egyptian-brokered truce deal agreed on Wednesday calls o