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China urges Darfur factions to negotiate peace

China competes to make peace and imperialise the world after the west. Will china turn the imperial west. AFP (AFP) – 22 hours ago GENEVA — China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on Wednesday urged the warring parties in the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur to negotiate a peace agreement. In a wide-ranging speech on Chinese foreign policy, Yang highlighted Darfur as one of four "hotspot issues", alongside tensions over North Korea, Iran's nuclear programme and the Middle East. "China supports parallel progress in both the political process of the Darfur issue and the deployment of the peacekeeping operation," Yang said at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations. "We urge the various factions in Darfur to come to the negotiating table and conclude a peace agreement at an early date," he added. China is seen as a key to ending the six-year war between the government in Khartoum and Darfur rebels because it is an ally of the Sud

Terrorists 'have attacked Pakistan nuclear sites three times'

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So how does the World protect itself from the Islamic Bombs, If at all the Pakistani Nuclear devices are gone whom shall we turn to, or who will be the looser. TIME (EPA) Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf poses with nuclear scientists in 2004: terrorists have targeted three of Pakistan's nuclear facilities in the last two years Terrorists have attacked three of Pakistan’s military nuclear facilities in the past two years and there is a serious danger that they will gain access to the country’s atomic arsenal, according to a journal published by the US Military Academy at West Point. The report, written by Professor Shaun Gregory, a security specialist at Bradford University, comes amid mounting fears that the Taleban and al-Qaeda will breach Pakistan’s military nuclear sites – most of which are in or near insurgent strongholds in the north and west of the country. The most serious attack was a strike by two suicide bombers on the Wah Cantonment Ord

Police chief, three bodyguards killed in Afghanistan

Afghan poor Afghan May be this goes on until elections. and on and on.. Blog Taranga KUNDUZ - Taliban militants attacked a district centre in northern Afghanistan, killing four police officers including a police chief, local government officials and a rebel spokesman said Wednesday. Noor Khan, police chief of Dasht Archi district in northern Kunduz province and brother of Mohammad Omar, the provincial governor, was killed along with his three bodyguards in a Taliban attack Tuesday night, said Shaikh Sahdi, administrative chief of Dasht Archi. “Unfortunately our brave officer along with his three loyal bodyguards were killed in the attack, but the Taliban escaped from the area before reinforcements were deployed,” Sahdi told DPA by phone from the district. He said the police also inflicted casualties on the Taliban, but could not provide any figures. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid, claimed that their fighters overran the whole district for a few hours before withdrawing to

Pakistan: Al-Qaida has role in Taliban succession

Oh ! So there is remote controll everywhere. Taliban - Al qaeda remote control. AP By NAHAL TOOSI and KAY JOHNSON (AP) – 2 days ago ISLAMABAD — Al-Qaida wants to choose the next Pakistani Taliban leader to replace Baitullah Mehsud, a top Pakistani official said — a move that could help the terror group maintain its sanctuaries near the Afghan border. New attacks Tuesday underscored the continued militant threat. A barrage of rockets hit the northwestern city of Peshawar before dawn, killing two civilians, police said. Soon after, militants launched an assault on a paramilitary base outside the city, and three insurgents died in the gunbattle, a paramilitary statement said. Pakistani and American officials are confident Mehsud died in a CIA missile strike last Wednesday in the South Waziristan tribal region, despite Taliban denials. Militants are said to have been meeting in recent days to determine Mehsud's successor. One contender, Hakimullah, who uses only one name, phoned The

Eta blasts hit Majorca

Basque separatist group Eta issues a warning call before two bombs explode in Palma de Majorca in Spain.. Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/itn_news

Deadly power struggle follows Mehsud's death

The alleged death of Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud has left the group in disarray, with reports emerging of a gun battle at a meeting to select a new leader. However, confirmation is still being sought that Mehsud is in fact dead.

Global Terror Update: Terrorism Models

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This is I DONT KNOW REPORT Just found it and am posting it. Need a little bit of research, if you have any idea please let me know. August 13th, 2009 Posted at 12:50 AM ET AIR has not implemented major changes to its terrorism model since 2007. In 2008, RMS implemented a number of changes in its Probabilistic Terror Model, PTMv2.7. The latest updates to both AIR and RMS terror models are provided below. AIR U.S. Terrorism Model In September 2007, AIR, updated its damage functions to include the impact of reflected pressure waves following a conventional bomb blast - following two years of research. Earlier models had only taken account of incident pressure waves. Reflected pressure is always greater than incident pressure by a factor of up to 13X, depending on the density of the area in question. In general, this change to include reflective forces has lead to an increase in projected property losses by city. The update to blast building damage functions is also re

Majorca bomb blasts: Eta blasts 'a bid to match Islam terror'

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ufff the Islamic terror has competition so there is competition everywhere, and Heavens we are gonna have hell of a time worth it here. Mirror The bombs may have been Eta's attempt to prove its importance as Europe battles Islamic terror, a UK intelligence expert said last night. The source said: "The fact it happened on an island of such prestigious value to Spain is extremely significant for two reasons. "First, it's a publicity grabber because of its tourism. "This is muscle flexing. It is Eta saying, 'We can carry out an attack there and you cannot stop us'. "But European intelligence services are tied up dealing with Islamic extremism. Advertisement - article continues below » <a href="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/jump/dailymirror.4240/news_mputwo__300x250;sz=300x250;pos=;sect=top-stories;psect=news;zone=news;templ=page;tile=4;ord=180299603?" target="_blank"> <img src="http://ad

Majorca Blasts: British tourists vow not to let terrorists wreck their holidays

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Wow that is something that the world should emmulate. When the civilians and common man reolves to defeat, thee is no terrorist that can defeat the force of the resolve. Mirror Defiant Clyde Lester and his family summed up the mood of thousands of Brits in Majorca yesterday by insisting: "The bombers won't spoil my holiday." Dad-of-four Clyde, speaking after three bombs planted by Eta exploded in the island's capital Palma, said: "We will carry on supporting the island. Of course it is concerning but you just have to be sensible. "I have to say Brits here have not been saying they want to go home. They have just been getting on with things. "They are just being more sensible and more aware." The Association of British Travel Agents said it was not aware of any holiday cancellations in the wake of the Majorca bombings. It added: "British people tend to be very resilient in these circumstances." Thomson and First Choice add

Spain seeks woman in ETA bomb probe

Well no fairer sex, this one is equal for either sexes. Terror has no gender. AFP (AFP) – 2 days ago PALMA DE MAJORCA, Spain — Police in Spain were looking Monday for a woman suspect following a wave of ETA bombings in Majorca where officials downplayed the impact of the attacks on the battered tourism sector. The authorities noted that the three small bombs which went off Sunday at two restaurants and a shopping centre under a major city square in Palma de Majorca were all planted in women's toilets. Several witnesses also told police they saw a suspected female member of ETA near the police barracks on the island where a car bombing killed two policeman on July 30, El Mundo daily reported. A photo of Itziar Moreno was widely distributed by the interior ministry after that attack, along with that of five other suspected members of the armed Basque separatist group. Police were sifting through the debris from Sunday's blasts to determine if the timers used could have allowe

Kuwait 'foils US army base plot'

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Well done, so the al qaeda is in kuwait too. BBC NEWS The Kuwaiti base is a logistics hub for US troops in Iraq Kuwaiti officials say they have arrested six members of a "terrorist network", linked to al-Qaeda, who were planning to attack a US military base. An interior ministry statement said that all six Kuwaitis had confessed to the crimes after they were arrested. The statement said they had also planned to bomb the headquarters of Kuwait's internal security agency. It mentioned other "important facilities" in the oil-rich emirate, but gave no further details. ANALYSIS Frank Gardner, BBC News Kuwaiti opinions are divided when it comes to their country's close alliance with the US. Older Kuwaitis, especially those who lived through the Iraqi invasion of 1990 and seven-month occupation, remain grateful to the US for saving their country. But some younger Kuwa

Car bombs kill eight in Baghdad

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Another bomb another bloody day in Iraq BBC NEWS At least eight people have been killed in two car bomb attacks in east Baghdad, Iraqi police say. The bombs - one near a residential building and one near a cafe - detonated in the Shia district of al-Amin within five minutes of each other. At least 30 people were injured in the blasts, police said. The attacks come a day after 18 people were killed in Baghdad and at least 28 in a Shia village near the northern city of Mosul in bombings. Violence has increased since US troops pulled back from Iraqi cities a month ago, handing over security to Iraqis. On Tuesday, Iraqi security forces discovered a roadside bomb in the same area of al-Amin area of Baghdad and detonated it, according the Reuters news agency.

'Militants hit' Pakistani school

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Schools and children s education are the first casualty. The taliban are hitting at the Schools. BBC NEWS The Taliban have been accused of repeatedly targeting schools Suspected Taliban militants have burnt down nine government-run schools in a series of overnight attacks in north-western Pakistan, officials say. A health building and the home of a local policeman were also set on fire by militants in the district of Buner. Eyewitnesses said the insurgents threw chemicals on the buildings before setting them on fire. This is the first major attack by the insurgents in the district after it was declared safe by the authorities. They said that an army offensive a few months ago had driven militants out of the area. Hundreds of schools in north-western Pakistan have been burnt down in recent years by militants who correspondents say want to enforce strict Islamic law - which prohibits female education. 'Act of terrorism' In a separate development, police sai

Counter Terrorism Unit warns of Sinai threat

Egypt on high alert, India tooo is .... Ynetnews 08.11.09, 14:28 / Israel News The Counter Terrorism Unit has issued its periodical travel alert towards the holidays, and warns of an immediate and concrete threat on Israeli lives in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and India's Cashmere region. The unit stressed that the warning does not refer to new travel alerts but to the current state of affairs. The unit further stated that aside from in Arab countries, there is also a large threat in Colombia, but only on Israelis providing security services to the Colombian administration. (Roni Sofer)

Bombs Kill 9 Civilians in Afghanistan

Well the bomb blasts seem a routine daily affair and the civilians have even got used to it. Newyorktimes KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — Roadside bombs killed nine civilians on Tuesday, officials said, as the numbers of foreign and Afghan soldiers killed continued to rise just ahead of presidential elections that the Taliban have vowed to disrupt. NATO said three Americans had died in separate “hostile fire” episodes over the last several days, but did not disclose the exact locations of the attacks. The first died of wounds from an attack that occurred Saturday, another died Sunday and the third died Monday, a NATO statement said. A Polish soldier was also found dead on Tuesday, and two Afghan soldiers were reported killed. The civilians were killed when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in the Zhari district, in southern Afghanistan, said Daud Farhad, a doctor at Mirwais hospital in Kandahar. Five other civilians were wounded when their vehicle hit a bomb in the Dand dist

Proof the 1st casualty of Pakistani propaganda war

Well written but truth is subjective. AP By KAY JOHNSON (AP) – 9 hours ago ISLAMABAD — Finding and killing Pakistan's most-wanted militant was a difficult task. Proving his death may be even harder. Most indicators point to Baitullah Mehsud's death in a CIA missile strike last week, and the U.S. government says it's "90 percent" sure of it. But the Pakistani and U.S. governments will have a tough time confirming the death because the Taliban control the South Waziristan region, a remote, mountainous tribal area where the drone-fired missile reportedly destroyed the home of Mehsud's father-in-law. While officials initially talked of sending a team to collect DNA from the site, that possibility now looks increasingly dim. "At the moment, it is inaccessible," military spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said Tuesday, adding that a planned ground operation in South Waziristan is still pending while aerial assaults soften up the area by bombing militant t

Indonesia confirms militant alive

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Oh not again, my happiness nowadays seems shortlived. First its the Mehsud and now the Noordin Top. Hell man its back. BBCNEWS The police say these were the men who attacked the two luxury hotels Indonesian police say DNA tests show that a militant killed in a weekend raid was not Noordin Mohammed Top, one of the region's most wanted men. The dead man - killed at the end of a siege at a remote farmhouse in Central Java on Saturday - was named instead as a suspect in two 17 July bomb attacks. Police sources had earlier said they had killed Malaysian-born Noordin. He has been blamed for a number of attacks, including the July hotel bombs in Jakarta and the 2002 Bali attack. "The dead body is Ibrohim... We tried to match the DNA with the sample from Johor [Noordin's son] and it didn't match," police spokesman Nanan Soekarna told a news conference. Florist fixer He said Ibrohim was a florist who had worked at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotel

12 Taliban fighters killed in Afghan clash

Well the war goes on and on.... AP (AP) – 1 hour ago KABUL — An Afghan official says clashes and airstrikes in southern Afghanistan have killed a dozen Taliban fighters. Wazir Khan says the militants were killed late Monday inside a compound in an area bordering Ghazni and Zabul provinces. Khan is an official in the Shamulzai area, where the clash happened. Khan says authorities have recovered the militants' bodies and ammunition. There were no casualties among Afghan or coalition forces. Also in Zabul, a roadside bomb killed two Afghan soldiers. Lt. Gen. Sher Mohammad Zazai says three others were wounded in the explosion Monday. Southern Afghanistan is the center of the Taliban-led insurgency, where thousands of additional U.S. troops have joined the fight to try to reverse the militants' gains.

Taliban leader who was declared dead lays bare Pak Govt’s claims

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wooowww here is the ghost, well he didnot die, and evil lives forever so goes the saying. See he is addressing the media too. so pak got its not a summit with India to hijak deal with he devils you create so they are aware of all the tricks learnt obviously from you. Indian express Hakimullah Mehsud denied Pak claims of his death. Pakistan Government’s claims about the killing of the top Taliban leadership were laid bare when Baitullah Mehsud’s close aide Hakimullah Mehsud, who was declared dead in an intra-group clash, himself told the media he was alive. "Look, I am here, safe and sound,” Hakimullah, 30, said in a telephone call to journalists from an undisclosed location. He reiterated that Pak-Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was alive and a videotape featuring him would be delivered to the media soon. "Amir sahib (Baitullah) is alive. He is healthy and he will come before the media soon. There is no succession. There is no shura (meeting)," The News quoted him, as sa

Reconciliate or risk terrorism

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Well its a warning and a wonderful suggestion, but all depends on the Sinhalese and the Sri lankan govt. Strait times   Tamils stand in their refugee camp Manik Farm in May. Mr Blake said that Sri Lanka should allow more freedom of movement for the Tamils confined to government camps. -- PHOTO: REUTERS   WASHINGTON - THE top US diplomat for South Asia says Sri Lanka's failure to share power with minority Tamils following the end of a bloody 25-year civil war in May could lead to renewed violence. Mr Blake expressed disappointment that President Mahinda Rajapaksa has indicated he will not pursue political reconciliation until after presidential elections are held, probably in January. 'The government needs to find a way to move more quickly than January 2010,' Mr Blake said from his office in the State Departme

Organised crime 'greater threat than terrorism'

well organised crime is a feeder source for terrorism. So the FBI is right. ABC NEWS An FBI conference on the Gold Coast has heard organised crime is a greater threat than terrorism. Interpol's Thomas Fuentes says organised crime does not attract the same headlines as terrorism but it strikes at the heart of nations. "Terrorism for a nation creates a flesh wound, it damages citizens, it kills citizens but organised crime, particularly in fragile democracies, can undermine the entire infrastructure, so it's the difference between a surface wound on the body and cancer," he said. Mr Fuentes says the internet has made the fight against terrorism harder. He says there are more than 10,000 websites specialising in recruiting Jihadists. "Before you would have to go to where others gather that have the similar extremist philosophies and someone would have to personally recruit you to want to join that philosophy and turn into a murderer," he said. "Now

Noordin Followers Ready to Mount Attacks in Indonesia

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So where did I listen to the dialogue DEATH IS NOT THE END ITS A BEGINING seems like Noordin top has died or as claimed by the officers, but his army of brain washed fellaws are in multiplicity trying to havoc. bloomberg By Achmad Sukarsono Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Indonesian police said the country may face further terrorist attacks as they investigate whether Noordin Mohammad Top , Southeast Asia’s most wanted man, was among militants killed in weekend gun battles. Officers are trying to determine whether a man killed in a firefight in Central Java on Aug. 8 is Noordin , and the results of DNA and other tests may be known in two weeks, national police spokesman Nanan Soekarna said yesterday. “If Noordin is dead, there are still many terrorists at large,” Soekarna told reporters in Jakarta. “We have

Jihadist websites make recruiting terrorists easy

Well censorship shouldnt be a problem ! But what about right to expression and right to freedom, hell man when people are dying do we discuss all that. Its war! NEWS A RETIRED FBI boss says that more than 10,000 recruiting websites mean anyone can easily become a radical terrorist. The websites, specialising in recruiting and cultivating Jihadists, made the terror threat more invisible than ever before, Thomas Fuentes said. The retired assistant FBI director – and current member of the Interpol executive – was on the Gold Coast yesterday when more than 250 delegates from 22 countries visited the strip for the FBI National Academy Associates Conference. Mr Fuentes said Australia – with its natural beauty, natural resources and successful economy – would always be a target of terrorist threats. But, he added, the internet – with its ease of anonymous communication and the advent of thousands of Jihadist websites – had created a drastic change in terms of the "ease" of fin

Amartya Sen Interview: Nobel laureate on terrorism

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Well here is an intellectual take by Amartya sen on Terror. Nice reading. IBNLIVE Nobel Laureate, economist and philosopher, Professor Amartya Sen has just published a new book The Idea Of Justice . In the book he argues that central to the pursuit of justice is public reasonable discussion. Professor Amartya Sen spoke to CNN-IBN's senior editor Sagarika Ghose in an exclusive interview. Sagarika Ghose : Professor Amartya Sen, we are living in times of terrorism and the ideologies that spawn terrorism. India is a victim of that. How does your theory of justice, the theory of public reasonableness deliver justice to a terrorist? Amartya Sen: Well, it is not so much about delivering justice to a particular person. That's a legal matter. That language would be legal language. But how do you ensure that we enhance justice rather than reduce it in context of dealing with terrorism. You know, obviously in so far as terrorism gives some reasonable grounds for restrictions on free