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29 killed in wave of bombings at Iraq mosques

By Assad Abboud (AFP) – 22 hours ago BAGHDAD — A wave of bombs targeting Shiite Muslim worshippers at mosques across Baghdad killed 29 people and wounded more than 136 on Friday a month after US troops withdrew from Iraq's main urban centres. Security officials said the six apparently coordinated blasts, which were condemned by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, occurred outside mosques and prayer centres in and around the capital, including one frequented by followers of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The most devastating attack was in the northeastern district of Al-Shaab, where a car bombing killed 23 people and wounded 107 others, an interior ministry official said. The mosque itself is occupied by Iraqi special forces, and before the bomb exploded worshippers, many of them loyal to Sadr, were praying between the building itself and the parking lot. Witnesses said worshippers had told local police of their suspicions regarding a 1980s Volkswagen Passat, but they wer

Noordin’s target the Red Devils

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So here is the villian that has been wrecking havoc in south east asia. MMAIL Submitted by pekwan on Friday, July 31st, 2009 Blast at Jakarta’s Ritz Carlton took place a day before team’s arrival Frankie D'Cruz Friday, July 31st, 2009 04:41:00 TERRORIST Noordin Mat Top targeted Manchester United in the recent twin hotel suicide bombings in Jakarta. Noordin, a Malaysian, took responsibility for the carnage two weeks ago in an Internet message, the origin of which is being investigated by the police. The blast at the Ritz Carlton occurred a day before Alex Ferguson and his squad were due to check in ahead of a friendly match during their Asian tour. It is unknown whether the terrorists knew the team was arriving a day after the blasts. T

Jakarta blast blog condemned

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Well thats the common man speaking against terror, Iraq, afghan, USA, India or anyother part of the world. Thats from TVNZ Reuters A policeman walks in front of the damaged Ritz-Ca A blog that claims responsibility for the Jakarta hotel bombings has been inundated with messages from ordinary Indonesians condemning the attacks and the alleged mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top. Nine people, including New Zealand businessman Tim Mackay, were killed in the attacks on the Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in the Indonesian capital on July 17. Nine days later a statement appeared online, purportedly from Top, who leads a violent splinter group of terrorist outfit Jemaah Islamiah. Police are investigating the authenticity of the statement, posted on Blogspot, which says the attacks were directed at American business interests and the Manchester United soccer team, which had planned to stay at the Ritz-Carlton. Real or not, the statement has attracted tens of thousands of visitors, almost 2

Intelligence experts: Indonesia should take new measures to tackle changing terrorism pattern

Xinhua reports By Cundoko Aprilianto     JAKARTA, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Bomb attacks that have been terrorizing Indonesia since 2002 underlined the fact that the country needs a terrorism mapping to trace terrorists and to counter-attack them, intelligence experts told Xinhua in an exclusive interview on Thursday.     They also said that the recent attack on two luxurious hotels in south Jakarta, JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels, suggested that the terrorists were getting more professional.     "Since Bali bombings in 2002, I have been telling the police to make a terrorism mapping so we could trace them. We could also recognize whether they work separately or in group, so we could tackle the next terrorist act," said Suripto, a senior intelligence observer.     He suspected that the terrorists were already controlled by bigger powers in spreading terror.     "I suspect that several agencies with high-skilled intelligence power are controlling them

Police find second bomb in Majorca after fatal blast

Rian.ru reports MOSCOW, July 30 (RIA Novosti) - Police in the Spanish resort of Majorca have deactivated a second bomb close to the site of a blast at a police barracks that killed two officers earlier on Thursday on the island, Sky News said. The device was placed under a car, the news channel reported a police officer at the scene as saying. A bomb attached to the underside of a police patrol car went off outside police barracks in the town of Palma Nova at 2:00 p.m. (13:00 GMT). Spanish security services closed down the airport and all sea ports in Majorca on Thursday following the attack. The site of the blast is located 10 kilometers from the summer residence of the Spanish royal family, the Marivent Palace. King Juan Carlos was scheduled to arrive at the palace on August 1. Spanish authorities say the militant Basque separatist organization ETA is likely to be behind the bombing, as well as Wednesday's attack in northern Spain. Sixty-five people, including two pregnant wome

After Majorca bomb: Your stories

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The Spanish separatist group seems not tired of things. The police have found an unexploded bomb too. BBC Report Security has been stepped up on Majorca since the bombing Police across Spain are on a state of high alert after two bombings in as many days, blamed on the Basque separatist group Eta. Two Civil Guard officers were killed when a car bomb exploded in Palmanova, Majorca on Thursday. A blast on Wednesday tore the front off a police barracks in the northern city of Burgos and wounded more than 50 people. Here, residents and holidaymakers on the island of Majorca describe the mood now among locals and tourists. RENE SHADES, PALMANOVA, MAJORCA, SPAIN There is a very strange mood here just a day after the bomb blast. I own a shop just 300 metres from the site of the blast and things are very quiet now - in contrast to Thursday when there was a lot of commotion around here. Police have still got the area surrounding the bomb site seal

Islamist death 'good for Nigeria'

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The death of this man Mohammed Yusuf a sect leader sectarian enough to divide people and pit them against each other is turning out to be a boon for the Govt. Or so the Govt of Nigeria feels. BBC reports The BBC has seen the dead body of Mohammed Yusuf. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT In pictures A Nigerian government minister has expressed relief at the death of an Islamic sect leader, Mohammed Yusuf. Yusuf's body was shown to journalists on Thursday just hours after police said they had captured him. Human rights campaigners alleged he had been executed, but police said on Friday that he died in a shoot-out following days of bloody fighting. Information Minister Dora Akunyili told the BBC that the government "does not condone extra-judicial killings". The militant group led by Yusuf has been blamed for days of violent unrest in which hundreds of people died in clashes between his followers and security forces.

Joint forces, Maoists exchange fire in Lalgarh

Well the Lalgarh Fiasco for the Govt troops and the Naxal separatists seems to be costing abomb. Well the Cost of lives lost is much more than anything. TOI PTI 31 July 2009, 04:38pm IST LALGARH (WB): There was an exchange of fire on Friday between joint forces and Maoists at Dharampur near here in West Midnapore district in which some people were injured, police said. "The Maoist opened fire at our camp at Dhulaberia in Dharmapur and forces retaliated," Superintendent of Police (West Midnapore) Manoj Verma said. "The firing continued for nearly an hour before the Maoists fled," Verma said. He said some persons were injured in the firing. The police also arrested a Maoist 'action squad' member, Aditya Rao, from Sitalkuchi near Jhargram for a mine blast on March 28 near Lalgarh. Meanwhile, People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA) Convenor Chatradhar Mahato alleged that the security personnel fired on villagers leaving four injured. The two as

Naxal violence has claimed 455 lives this year

The Naxal violence has been a perinial problem, and it shall be one as long as there is the disparity (vast) between the haves and havenots. The Naxals are no robinhoods to be supported but they are inevitable part of the solution that the systems create. As many as 455 people (255 civilians and 200 security personnel) have been killed in Naxal violence this year, reveal figures released by the Home Ministry. The Naxal-infested states of Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand account for 60 per cent of the total deaths in the country in this period. While Chhattisgarh topped the list with 148 deaths, Jharkhand recorded 122 deaths. On the other hand, of the 107 Naxals killed in the same period, 63 were in Chhattisgarh. The figures also reveal that Chhattisgarh is the state worst-hit by Naxal violence. In the last three years, the state had topped the list. In 2008, 242 of the total 721 Naxal-related deaths in the country were reported from the state. In 2007, 369 out of 1,565 Naxal-related dea

Terrorists always work in groups, says analyst

Yeah they do! hello yes so whatelse, well a very insightful article but a bad title. Dont go by my sarcasm read on. well written and researched. JAKARTA POST Dicky Christanto ,  The Jakarta Post ,  Jakarta   |  Wed, 07/29/2009 8:46 AM  |  National An intelligence analyst says that terrorists always work in groups when executing their goals, and are tasked to make sure the effects of what they do meet all their expectations.     “They don’t tolerate failure, especially in relation to their goals. So everything must be well prepared. “The team is meant to make sure that everything runs according to plan,” Dino Chrisbon told The Jakarta Post in Jakarta, on Tuesday. He said the groups usually coordinated with suicide bombers by providing data from day-to-day surveillance. The data is very significant as it helps the suicide bombers formulate and plan their attack. Usually, he added, it would take three to six months for group members to study everything t

Web claim of 'Jakarta bombers'

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The twist in the story of terror attack in Jakarta is a splintergroup unknown surfaced with a statement online. WOW using the net as a publicity tool and globalised. Hell man cant we do something. Track n hack their sites and catch them. Well may be easier said than done. Stuff INSIDE THE MARRIOTT: Guests at a breakfast meeting at the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta were killed by a suicide bomber. Police are investigating the origin of an Internet message claiming responsibility for twin hotel bombings in Indonesia's capital nearly two weeks ago. The group calling itself al-Qaeda Indonesia said the attacks, which killed seven people including New Zealander Timothy Mackay, targetted the American business community. The message surfaced on Wednesday and was purportedly signed by Noordin Mohammed Top, a key terrorist suspect in Southeast Asia. It said the attacks were carried out by a splinter faction of the al-Qaeda-linked regional militant group Jemaah Islamiyah. An expert on regi

Spain blames ETA as car bomb injures 64

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Well after jakarta and apart from the routine Afghan and Iraq (look at the easyness with which it comes when it is iraq / afghanistan seems like we have got used to it as a natural thing to happen heavens save us) now it seems the ETA in spain is making all bad news. The bombs wereso powerful that even the 14th floor has been affected. nineMSN The Spanish government has held ETA responsible for a bomb attack that has injured 64 people. The Spanish government accused the Basque separatist group ETA of trying to kill women and children on Wednesday in a car bombing outside a police barracks in northern Spain which wounded more than 60 people. About 120 people, one-third of them children, were sleeping inside the barracks in Burgos when the bomb went off at around 4:00 am (1200 AEST), blowing off most of its facade, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said. The blast left a big crater in the street outside the barracks while the walls of several rooms were blasted off with damage

Random carnage or surgical strike?

This analysis from Agence france is interesting in more ways than one. Starting off with the twin blasts in Jakarta it questions the existing theories and the JI ofcourse is the principal accused, no questions. But what is more of concern is the way in which theattackers gathered intelligence of the happenings and this can be a security threat says the security analysts. HT Agence France-Presse Jakarta, July 23, 2009 The suicide bombings which rocked the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Indonesia last Friday pose frightening questions for business leaders in the mainly Muslim country, analysts say. The attacks, especially the bombing at the Marriott, showed a higher level of sophistication than previous hits by Indonesian-based extremists and may have been carefully planned to strike high-value targets, they said. Previous attacks blamed on the Jemaah Islamiyah regional terror group -- such as the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings which killed 202 people, mostly tourists -- were d

Taliban training children for suicide bombings

Terrorism still a threat to Australians: ASIO chief

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Well ofcourse and noplace on earth is safe with these mad psycopath brainwashed with donno wot. Probably they will come to terms and live / co-exist peacefully. By national security correspondent Matt Brown Posted 1 hour 8 minutes ago Updated 57 minutes ago Jakarta attacks ... ASIO chief says Australia and Indonesia need to cooperate closely. (Reuters: Dita Alangkara) The head of Australia's domestic spy agency ASIO says the recent bombings in Jakarta show that Australians are at risk. David Irvine has broken his silence after four months in the job and says Australia and Indonesia continue to cooperate closely on counter-terrorism, especially in the wake of the Jakarta bombings. "I can put it no more starkly than to say that the potential continues for serious threats to Australia and Australians abroad and at home," he said. In the wake of the bombings, Australian agencies checked to see if it inspired any copycats here. Mr Irvine says in the past year ASIO

UK hostages 'likely to be dead'

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A ploy to gain maximum coverage and spread terror by the Islamic militants has been kidnapping of the Europeans or whites and publicising their terror with the cuttings and killings or sometimes the gratefuls giveup in return for some dollars. Either way the hostages in Iraq BBC NEWs says have little or no hope they are alive. The five hostages were taken in May 2007 Two more of the British hostages held in Iraq are now thought "very likely" to be dead, the BBC has learned. Security guards Alan McMenemy, from Glasgow, and Alec Maclachlan, from south Wales, were kidnapped in 2007 along with three other Britons. The bodies of two of the other men were found last month with gunshot wounds. The condition of the fifth man, Peter Moore, is not known. The Foreign Office says all efforts are being made to secure the hostages' release. Mr Moore had been working for American management consultancy Bearingpoint in Iraq, while the other men were security contractors emp

Four Indians held in Spain for suspected terror links

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Iam hurt that there were Idnians in the suspicion for the Spain blasts. Now even Indians are either wrongly accused coz of asian tag or there might even be a possibility of some mischevous elements involved. Either way the news is hurting. Barcelona: Police in Spain have reportedly arrested 15 people, including at least four Indians and one Pakistani for alleged links with the al-Qaeda. Reports say the men are suspected of forging passports and other documents for an Islamic terror organisation. The Indian embassy in Madrid has neither confirmed nor denied the news. According to police four Indians and one Pakistani were arrested in the eastern town of Mislata as part of same operation in which 10 people were arrested from Barcelona. Dozens of suspected radical Islamic militants have been arrested in Spain since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in US and the commuter train bombings in 2004 in Madrid. All those arrested are reportedly from North African countries. This is not

Minn. Somali pleads guilty to terrorism charge

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Now thats what happens with a single super power, Say iam not supporting the Militants but any aggressor be it US or otherwise recieves the same influx of anger. But good that the Islamic millitant was caught and hopefully now US will do something about the African nation and atleast minimise the anger. associated press By AMY FORLITI (AP) – 8 hours ago In a July 13, 2009 booking photo provided by the Anoka Couty Sheriff, Salah Osman Ahmed is shown. Ahmed is one of two men accused of supporting terrorism in a grand jury indictment unsealed Monday in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Anoka County Sheriff,ho) MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota man who helped build a training camp for a group of Islamic militants in his homeland of Somalia told a federal judge Tuesday that he had attended secret meetings in Minneapolis before he went back to East Africa. Salah Osman Ahmed, 26, pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court to one count of providing material support to terrorists. Ahmed told U.S. Distric

Car bomb blast hits Spanish city

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The Car bombs are now everywhere, earlier known to be in baghdad or some parts of Afghan now they are in news in Spain and all over. This news Story from BBC shows the latest. This is separatism and fighting for a seperate state on the borders of France - spain. A car bomb has exploded in the northern Spanish city of Burgos. The blast occurred outside a barracks of the paramilitary Civil Guard, smashing all the windows in its facade and slightly injuring dozens. Police blamed the attack, which took place at around 0430 local time (0230 GMT) on Basque separatist group, Eta. Eta has fought for an independent state in northern Spain and south-western France since 1968, in a campaign that has cost more than 800 lives. Most of the 46 people who were injured were hit by flying glass when the windows smashed, officials said. "All the windows are broken. It's very damaged so it's almost a miracle no one was hurt more seriously," an emergency services spokes

US charges seven with terrorism

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Well this BBC report shows the clear cut way the US intelligence and political administration works, atleast they are not sleeping or want the world to believe and blame each other. Well done. May be India learns a bit from them. Mr Boyd, officials say, encouraged his two sons to fight violent jihad Seven people in the US state of North Carolina have been charged with plotting terror attacks in foreign countries, including Israel and Jordan. Prosecutors say the alleged ringleader Daniel Boyd, 39, trained in Afghanistan and fought there between 1989 and 1992. They say he then set up his own training and fundraising organisation, and even recruited his own two sons. The seven are accused of conspiring to kill, kidnap and maim, but not of carrying out actual attacks. There has been no reported response from the defendants. Mr Boyd lived in a lakeside home near Raleigh, North Carolina, from where he ran a dry-stone walling business. His sons, aged 20 and 22, a

Islamabad allegations baseless, says Kabul

The Afghan Foreign Ministers rubbishing the charges by pakistani Military and political administration that India is aiding and abetting terror in Pak / Balochistan is a clear sign of what and where the relations stand. Pak is losing but as history sows it wants to fight a 100 year war.   Times Of India 29 Jul 2009, 0208 hrs IST, ET Bureau NEW DELHI: Afghanistan has rubbished Pakistan’s claims of India’s alleged backing of insurgents in Balochistan and has vowed to step up counter-terrorism cooperation with India. Afghan foreign minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta, who held talks with the Indian leadership on Monday, rubbished Islamabad’s allegation that India was backing the Balochistan insurgency in Pakistan. “This is not a new claim by Pakistan,” Mr Spanta was quoted as saying. He added: “Afghanistan never allowed other countries’ interference in domestic issue of Pakistan and India has never used Afghan territory against Pakistan. This is only an empty claim.” Islamabad has accu

Chechen suicide bomber identified

Russia has this unhealed wound called Chechenya which is suffering agauin from the Unhealed past dangling Political Islam addicted separatists. Can the russians do what they have done to their economy rework the equations and stand up. But meanwhile the bomb blasts are a menance. 11:3828/07/2009 GROZNY, July 28 (RIA Novosti) - The suicide bomber who set off an explosive device in Chechnya's capital on Sunday, killing six people, has been identified, a police spokesman said on Tuesday. "During the course of the investigation experts established the identity of the bomber, who set off the explosion near the concert hall. He was Rustam Mukhadiev, a resident of Argun [a town in Chechnya's Shalinsky District] born in 1988," the spokesman said. According to the police, Mukhadiev had been a member of armed opposition groups since 2007. "He joined the militant group headed by Muncigov, also known as 'Shatral,'" the spokesman added. According to the

Exclusive: Islamists on the Rampage in Nigeria Adrian Morgan

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The bloodbath in the African Union seems to be like forever. Looking at the Gore and bloodspilled bodies one gets the feeling if there is any heaven / hell they are no where but here. And Iam sorry to say that even here it is the Islamists that created the havoc, hell. Family security July 28, 2009 On Sunday, July 26th , in the northern Nigerian city of Bauchi, violence erupted between Islamists and police. The conflict arose after a dawn raid by Islamic militants upon a police station. Thirty-nine people were killed, and 176 people were arrested. A curfew was imposed but even though there were no reports of violence in Bauchi city (in Bauchi state) on Monday, reports came in of other attacks in other towns which had been staged simultaneously.   The death toll in the conflict was raised to 65. Five of the dead were policemen.   In Gamboro-Ngalu in Borno state, Islamists went on an offensive, burning down a church, a customs post and a police station. According