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TERROR TIMES

Covering 11 June 2007 – 17 June 2007Collated by Tim ANDERSON, Intelligence

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TOP STORIES THIS WEEKUK: Libyan terror support cell jailed - 12 Jun 2007: Three men who supported the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) from their base in the UK were jailed for a total of more than seven years. Ismail Kamoka, 41, Abdul Bourouag, 44, and Khaled Abusalama, 36, pleaded guilty at Kingston Crown Court to providing funds and false passports to an armed group plotting to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi. INDONESIA: Indonesia Arrests Leading Terror Suspect - June 13, 2007 JAKARTA: Abu Dujana Indonesia's most-wanted terrorist who allegedly leads the Southeast Asian militant group Jemaah Islamiyah was being interrogated Wednesday following his weekend arrest on suspicion of involvement in the 2002 Bali bombings and several other deadly strikes.

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TRINIDAD: Guyana judge denies bail for 2 sons of suspect in alleged JFK plot - June 13, 2007 GEORGETOWN: A Guyanese judge denied bail Wednesday for Kareem and Iqra Kadir two sons of Abdul Kadir, 55 accused of plotting to bomb New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, ordering the pair to remain in jail on charges of illegal possession of ammunition. LEBANON: Anti-Syrian MP among 10 killed in Beirut bombing - June 14, 2007: An anti-Syrian Lebanese MP was assassinated in an attack which also killed nine others when a car bomb exploded in Beirut on Wednesday night. Walid Eido was killed as a car exploded near the seafront in the Lebanese capital. UK: Britons jailed over al Qaeda plot to bomb NYSE - Jun 15, 2007 LONDON: Seven Britons linked to a plot to blow up U.S. financial institutions including the New York Stock Exchange and carry out a series of attacks in Britain were jailed for a total of 136 years by a London court on Friday.

GENERAL, INTERNATIONAL & INTERNETFBI Plans Huge Anti-Terror Data-MiningTuesday, June 12, 2007 WASHINGTON: The FBI wants to compile a massive computer database and analyze it for clues to unmask terrorist sleeper cells. Two congressmen are worried about whether the bureau will protect the privacy of U.S. citizens. Reps. Brad Miller, D-N.C., and James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., the chairman and ranking Republican on the House Science and Technology investigations subcommittee, asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate the proposal. Miller and Sensenbrenner questioned both the FBI's ability to properly manage such a large trove of data and whether predictive data-mining even works or just falsely casts suspicion on innocent people. The FBI is seeking $12 million in the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 for its Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force to set up a National Security Branch Analysis Center, with 59 employees, including 23 contractors and five FBI agents. Justice Department budget documents submitted to Congress predict the center will hold 6 billion records by 2012 and "the universe of subjects will expand exponentially." That would equal "20 separate 'records' for each man, woman and child in the United States," the congressmen wrote. The center "will leverage existing data-mining tools to help identify relationships between individuals, locations and events that may be indicators of terrorist or other activities of interest," the Justice documents said, and these efforts "will improve efforts to identify 'sleeper cells.'" Eleven workers in a Proactive Data Exploitation unit will be assigned to ferret out patterns of suspicious behaviour in the data, the congressmen wrote. They said the program resembles the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness anti-terror data-mining research program. Congress ended TIA in 2003 out of privacy concerns, but much of its research was transferred to secret accounts in other agencies. Miller and Sensenbrenner quoted Jeff Jonas, a data-mining expert and IBM Distinguished Engineer, as saying "data-mining for terrorism discovery ... would waste taxpayer dollars, needlessly infringe on privacy and civil liberties and misdirect the valuable time and energy of the men and women in the national security community." Jonas recently wrote that because there are so few known terrorist patterns of behaviour, this kind of search would "flood the national security system with false positives - suspects who are truly innocent." The congressmen asked the GAO to determine what records will be acquired, from which agencies or commercial entities, who will be granted access to them and under what restrictions. GAO also was asked to learn whether the center will contain records on U.S. citizens and what the bureau has done to guarantee those are accurate and protected from misuse and how they will be used.Source: http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jun12/0,4670,FBIDataMining,00.html

U.S. Treasury names three Libyans for terror tiesWASHINGTON, June 15: The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday imposed economic sanctions on three Libyan individuals for allegedly belonging to terror groups. The department accused the three of belonging to both al Qaeda and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, known as the LIFG, which wants to overthrow Moammar Gaddafi's government and is linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda. "These terrorists execute roles throughout al Qaeda and LIFG, from recruitment to military training to procurement of explosive components," the director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control said in a statement. The department exercised

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an executive order, which freezes the individuals' assets within the United States and prohibits U.S. citizens from doing business with the three. The three are Nur Al-Din Al-Dibiski, Sa'id Yusif Ali Abu Azizah and Ali Sulayman Mas'ud Abd Al-Sayyid, the statement said. All three were born in Tripoli and hold Libyan passports, the department said. Source: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N15278019.htm

UNITED KINGDOMTERROR THREAT ENDS HARRY NIGHTCLUBBING Sunday June 10,2007: The real reason Prince Harry has been told to stay away from nightclubs is because of fears he could be killed by Islamic terrorists. The third in line to the throne was reported to have been banned from clubbing last month after his deployment to Iraq was blocked by the head of the Army, amid fears his presence would put his colleagues in greater danger. At the time it was thought Harry had been asked to lie low so as not to be seen partying while his men served on the front line. But he has been avoiding nightclubs for his own safety. “Al Qaeda feels it has secured a victory in reversing the decision to send Harry to Iraq but now it’s a case of ‘If he won’t come to us, we’ll come to him’.” Although it is thought no specific threats to the 22-year-old Prince have been received, intelligence suggests he is a target of Al Qaeda’s growing network of Algerian terrorists. Fears escalated after three terror suspects under control orders absconded last month. Two of the suspects, Lamine Adam, 26, and Ibrahim Adam, 20, are the Algerian-born brothers of Anthony Garcia, 24, who was among five men jailed for life last month for a bomb plot. The year-long Old Bailey trial heard of plans to bomb a shopping centre and gas network, as well as the Ministry of Sound nightclub in south London. In April, royal protection officers told Harry and his brother William, 24, to rein in their drunken antics amid fears that nightclubs were under increasing threat. Source: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/9412/Terror+threat+ends+Harry+nightclubbing

Court hears of terrorist check-list11/06/2007: Pubs and churches were described as among legitimate targets in a terrorist check-list, a court heard. According to a leading terrorist expert, the check-list was "derived from many years of experience of the Mujahideen, probably in Afghanistan," during the late seventies and eighties. But Professor Clarke of Kings College in London said the mention of "pubs" and "new churches" as targets and repeated references to banned UK based terrorist group Al Ghurabaa showed the document had been adapted. He said the Al Ghurabaa, one of two successor groups to Al Mujaharoon, had been banned in July 2006 after people were seen waving banners saying "behead" or "massacre" those who "insult Islam". The banners formed part of a demonstration after cartoon images of the prophet Mohammed were published in a Dutch newspaper. The check-list and other documents were found on computers found at addresses linked to thirty six-year-old Omar Altimimi, Manchester Crown Court was told. The dad of three from Lansdowne Road, Bolton is accused of a series of charges under the Terrorism Act including possession of instructions on how to make a detonator and explosive devices and instructions on the use of chemicals and bombing strategies. He is also charged with the acquisition of criminal property, namely £3,000. He denies the charges. Giving evidence Professor Clarke told the court the chart had similarities with the "encyclopaedia of Jihad and many of the other terrorist manuals and terrorist videos that circulate in Jihadi groups." He added: "It is more complete than many of them and covers all major aspects of guerrilla and terrorist structure and organisations." He said the check-list which described the organisational structure of terror, "does not tell cells how to go about terrorist operations but it does provide an extensive check-list of what is required to be a successful cell and encourages cells to be aware of the targets that are appropriate." Other targets included members of the establishment, politicians, embassy staff, the military and the media. Referring to the chart, he said: "All of the functions described here despite being generic and derived apparently from a rural guerrilla campaign are intrinsic to successful, prolonged terrorist campaign." Mr Clarke also gave biographical details of people whose writings were found on the two computers. They included Dr Ayman Al Zawahiri, widely thought to be second in command and physician to Osama bin Laden. Another author whose work was found on the computers was Nasser bin Hamad Al-Fahd who said it was legitimate to use weapons of mass destruction against those considered infidels and Sheikh Abu

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Mohammed Almaqdese whose books were found in Hamburg at the address of Mohammed Atta who was involved with the 9/11 suicide bombers. The jury has been told the computers also contained detailed instructions on the ingredients and methods used to create bombs, explosives and poisons from chemicals and household items. Video clips of soldiers being beheaded, shot and assassinated were also found. Altimimi was arrested by police who were initially called in to investigate a complaint from the Yemen Tourist Promotion Board that more than $50,000 had been transferred from their account to the account of another man at the Nationwide Bank in Bolton. Altimimi was arrested when he tried to withdraw £3,000 of the money which had been transferred from the other man's account into his. When he was searched at the police station the investigation was widened when bankcards and an immigration card in different names were found concealed under the insole of his shoe. Anti terror police then searched his home and addresses he was linked to, confiscating the two computers found to contain the terrorist material. Prosecuting Tim Barnes QC has told the jury the crown can prove Altimimi has connections with known and convicted terrorists in Europe and that to suggest he did not know the material was on the computers was "ludicrous". Source: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1008/1008900_court_hears_of_terrorist_checklist.html

Libyan terror support cell jailedTue 12 Jun 2007: Three men who supported a Libyan terrorist group from their base in the UK were yesterday jailed for a total of more than seven years. Ismail Kamoka, 41, Abdul Bourouag, 44, and Khaled Abusalama, 36, pleaded guilty at Kingston Crown Court to providing funds and false passports to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), an armed group plotting to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi. Kamoka, the court heard, was the most active member of the support group, while Bourouag co-ordinated the supply of money and documents and Abusalama was the forger. LIFG was not proscribed as a terrorist organisation until after the three were arrested in October 2005. The men claimed that, while they were interested in the wider jihad, they were not aware their documents and funds were being used to support extremists outside Libya. They said their primary aim was to provide humanitarian help to the families and dependants of LIFG members who were in jail, out of the country, or had been killed. But Mr Justice Mackay said before sentencing the three: "The prosecution are in a position to prove that some of those payments were sent to Islamic activists or their dependants whose interests were not Libyan, they were interested in the wider Islamic jihad." He sentenced Kamoka to three years and nine months, minus 546 days he had already spent on remand, and Bouraoug and Abusalama to three years and eight months, minus the 546 days they had spent on remand. Mr Justice Mackay also recommended the men should be deported after they completed their sentences.Source: http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=915752007

21/7 suspect "going to go guilty"Mon Jun 11, 2007 LONDON: One of six men accused of plotting a second string of bomb attacks in London in July 2005 wants to give evidence against his co-accused and is thinking of changing his plea to guilty, according to media reports. Hussein Osman also told prison officers that his co-defendant, Muktar Said Ibrahim, was the brains behind the plan to carry out suicide bombings on London's transport system two weeks after similar attacks had killed 52 commuters. The evidence emerged on Monday from two prison officers who told the jury at Woolwich Crown Court Osman had spoken to them in his cell at Belmarsh top security prison in the early hours of last Friday. Osman told one, Philip Bell, that he was "going to go guilty" and that he would sue his co-defendant, mouthing the name "Ibrahim". Later, he told another officer, Ben Murray, that Ibrahim was behind the plot "trying to destroy parts of London" on July 21 and had bullied him into taking part. Murray also said that Osman had asked to see someone about giving evidence against his co-accused and that he wanted to see someone from MI5. So far, Osman has not changed his "not guilty" plea.Source: http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL1120642120070611

Woman in July bomb claimsTue 12 Jun 2007: The former wife of a British Islamic extremist claims she was told three weeks before the 7 July attacks that "something big" was going to happen. The woman, who has not been named for security reasons, also alleges that her husband suggested she carry

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out a suicide bombing in the UK. In an interview for BBC2's Newsnight programme, she said the man - who is apparently linked to extremists sympathetic to Osama bin Laden - had asked her to participate in "jihad". "He would tell me how to use a [bomb] belt around the waist," she said. "Whenever he would discuss these matters, I just would ignore him and go to the kitchen. "I told him I'm not interested at all. He was very clever. He told me how the girls tied the suicide belt around their waist and [wore] the hijab over the top." The South Asian woman said her husband had been discussing a forthcoming attack three weeks before the London Underground bombings in 2005. "He said that something would happen and he would flee, but I would be trapped. I told him I'm not going anywhere, I will stay," she said. "He said all his other colleagues are sending their wives away, so I should leave as well. "He doesn't care if British people die. He was so brainwashed by the radicals, he could do anything." Programme editors said they had handed the information from the woman to police because it might help to tackle terrorism. A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said last night: "Any material provided to us will be considered and appropriate action will be taken."Source: http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=916142007

Tooting terror suspect faces extradition13/06/2007: Tooting terror suspect Babar Ahmad has kissed his family goodbye and declared he has been "sold out by his country", following the news his extradition may be just a day away. On Monday the House of Lords refused the 32-year-old computer expert permission to appeal and the European Court of Human Rights is expected to make a similar decision tomorrow. If that happens Mr Ahmad, a British citizen who stands accused of running websites which supported Chechen rebels and the Taliban, would have run out of options and will be sent to America immediately. A second Tooting terror suspect, 27-year-old Syed Talha Ahsan, is still fighting his battle against extradition to America. The former Franciscan Primary School pupil stands accused of being involved with Azzamm Publications, the organisation allegedly headed by Mr Ahmad. Source: http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.1466553.0.tooting_terror_suspect_faces_extradition.php

Chefs in Cornish terror threatJUNE 14, 2007: Tourism chiefs yesterday insisted it was still safe to visit Cornwall - despite TERROR threats from a new group of extremists. The Cornwall National Liberation Army, which wants independence, has warned celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver and Rick Stein face arson attacks because of their businesses in the county. They say the TV cooks’ customers are ALSO on their hitlist, along with anyone who flies the “imperialistic” flag of St George - including tourists and “misguided” Cornish locals. Police are taking the threats seriously and a task force has been assembled to track down the mob. The Cornish activists have issued a directive through an Arabic web hosting service based in Egypt. They claim to have funding from the US and “other Celtic nations” - and say their number includes a former Welsh nationalist who burned English holiday homes in the 1980s. They target Jamie and Rick despite their boosts to the local economy. Cornish political leaders warned the CNLA, whose activists daubed Burn Second Homes graffiti on a local highway, was doing more to harm the county than help it.Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007270511,00.html

Preacher of hake in chippieJune 14, 2007: A hate-filled poster urging Muslims to “rise against British oppression” has been put up in the chippie where a 7/7 bomber worked. Locals were stunned by the leaflet, which advertises a Downing Street demo on Friday. It tells Muslims to visit an anti-cop website that has the logo: “Police Target Muslims. Will You Be Next?” The Ocean Fisheries chippie used to be owned by the family of suicide bomber Shehzad Tanweer, 22. He worked there before he blew himself up on a London Tube - killing seven of the 52 people who died in terror attacks on July 7, 2005. The shop is in Beeston, Leeds, where two other 7/7 bombers - Mohammad Sidique Khan and Hasib Mir Hussain - also grew up. Tanweer’s family is understood to have no connection with the chippie now. The shop’s sign says its owner is Neil Kay, but it is not clear if he still has a connection with it. An Asian man claiming to be the owner refused to give his name. He said of the poster: “I can only read a little. There is nothing wrong with it.” When told about the website he shrugged his shoulders. A colleague said: “I don’t think he’s bothered.” The website initially urges people to “demonstrate

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peacefully” on June 15. However, it then carries a series of inflammatory statements and gives advice on how to react if arrested under the Terrorism Act. It is registered in the name of Faruk Miah but gives a false Manchester address. Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007270503,00.html

Man guilty of helping terror plot Wednesday, 13 June 2007: A man has been found guilty of plotting to murder along with an al-Qaeda operative who planned to kill thousands of people in the UK and the US. Qaisar Shaffi was one of seven men who supported Dhiren Barot, who is now serving a life sentence. Shaffi, 28, of Willesden, north west London, was convicted of conspiracy to murder and is now awaiting sentence. He went to the US with Barot to view possible targets including the New York Stock Exchange and the IMF building. Shaffi's six co-defendants have already pleaded guilty to conspiracy to cause explosions likely to endanger life and are awaiting sentencing. Photographs of the potential targets were used in Barot's plans to attack the US, and would have provided a blueprint for further attacks on buildings in London and the transport system. The jury heard police found pages of the Terrorist Handbook at Shaffi's house after his arrest in August 2004. The book referred to chemicals, explosives and recipes for producing explosions. It also emerged during the one-month trial that Shaffi had been overheard "effectively admitting" his part in the terrorist planning to his father. In a phone call, he was heard to say: "They know I went to America, they know who I met, they know names and say I know people. "Dad, pray for me. I'm sorry for what I have done." The jury was not required to return verdicts on two further charges facing Shaffi - conspiracy to cause an explosion or explosions likely to endanger life, and possessing a record of information for terrorist purposes. Barot, 35, was jailed last November for plotting attacks using explosives-packed limousines and a "dirty" radiation bomb. He had intended a "memorable black day" of terror, Woolwich Crown Court was told.Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6749553.stm

Missing terror suspect identified Thursday, 14 June 2007: A UK terror suspect under a control order who absconded can be named as Zeeshan Siddique, a court has ruled. The BBC won a battle to name the former London Underground worker of Hounslow, west London, who trained with a London suicide bomber in Pakistan. The 26-year-old was subject to a UK control order in 2006, meaning could only be identified as AD. He was one of the first men to abscond from an order, jumping from a window at a mental health unit in September 2006. Mr Siddique was named in court evidence as a member of a British network of men including bomb plotters. Other members of this network were Mohammad Sidique Khan, the London suicide bomber and Omar Khyam, the recently jailed ringleader of a plot to build a massive homemade fertiliser bomb. Mr Siddique associated with these men in Pakistan and attended the same paramilitary training camp as other British extremists. According to evidence heard at the Old Bailey during the fertiliser bomb plot trial, the Hounslow man was proposed as a potential suicide bomber. Papers relating to Mr Siddique released to the BBC as part of the court case, including his diary, indicate he aspired to so-called "jihadi" martyrdom, although they do not detail any clear plan. Evidence during the trial suggested the suicide bomb idea was dropped because he himself did not think it would work. However, the papers also reveal he, along with other British men, met Abd Al Hadi al-Iraqi, a senior al-Qaeda figure now being held by the US military in Guantanamo Bay. Mr Siddique was arrested in Pakistan in May 2005 and questioned for three months, during which time he alleged he was tortured. Later deported to the UK, he worked in customer services for a firm with links to the Euro-Disney resort in Paris. He sought to alter his control order's ban on travel, saying it prevented him attending training at the theme park. Soon after, he was hospitalised suffering hallucinations and flashbacks, saying he had been tortured in Pakistan. The papers also show Mr Siddique rejected allegations in intelligence reports that he was involved in extremism and that he was the victim of "untested allegations". In his witness statement he said he had travelled widely in Pakistan over two years as part of a personal spiritual mission to better understand Islam. He said he ended up carrying out humanitarian work in areas of Pakistan close to the Afghan border where people were fleeing fighting. Some 30 pages of his statement have been blacked out by officials on national security grounds. These pages appear to relate to his time in Pakistani detention and a meeting with British officials after the 7 July suicide bombings.Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6750897.stm

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Britons jailed over al Qaeda plot to bomb NYSEFri Jun 15, 2007 LONDON: Seven Britons linked to a plot to blow up U.S. financial institutions including the New York Stock Exchange and carry out a series of attacks in Britain were jailed for a total of 136 years by a London court on Friday. Prosecutors said the men were part of a group headed by senior al Qaeda operative Dhiren Barot and described as "one of the most dangerous and ambitious terrorist cells ever to operate in this country". Barot is currently serving a life jail term after admitting last year he had planned bomb attacks in Britain and the United States. Six of the men, Mohammed Naveed Bhatti, Junade Feroze, Zia Ul Haq, Abdul Aziz Jalil, Nadeem Tarmohamed and Omar Abdur Rehman pleaded guilty to conspiring with Bharot to cause explosions between 2001 and 2004. The seventh, Qaisar Shaffi, was found guilty on Wednesday. Barot, a Mulsim convert, was considered by some U.S. officials to be either al Qaeda's cell leader in Europe or at least the head of bin Laden's organisation in Britain. In early 2001, he had carried out surveillance on the NYSE, Citigroup, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and Prudential in New York, Washington, and Newark, New Jersey. After the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, he turned his attention to Britain and had plotted coordinated attacks using a radioactive "dirty bomb", gas-filled limousines, and the blowing up of an underground train beneath the River Thames. Had their plans come to fruition, Barot's trial judge said they would have caused "carnage and butchery ... on a colossal and unprecedented scale". His seven accomplices had helped put the plans together and scope out targets. Peter Clarke, head of London's Counter Terrorism Command, said the men were vital to the plots. "They were the planning team and were needed by Barot to contribute expertise in areas that he was lacking," he said."They were the trusted few who researched, carried out reconnaissance and supported Barot." At Woolwich Crown Court in south London, Feroze was jailed for 22 years; Bhatti and Tarmohamed to 20 years; Ul Haq to 18 years; Jalil to 26 years; Rehman and Shaffi to 15 years. Last month, the High Court cut Barot's jail term from 40 to 30 years after it was ruled the initial sentence was too harsh.Source: http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL1576788720070615

Teenager denies terror training plot15/06/2007: A teenager has been accused of plotting a trip to a terrorist training camp in Pakistan. Aitzaz Zafar, 18, also allegedly attempted to recruit another teenager to join Islamic terror fighters. Zafar, of Bishop Street, Rochdale, and Irfan Raja, 18, from London, are on trial at the Old Bailey alongside Bradford students Awaab Iqbal, 19, Usman Malik, 19, and Akbar Butt, 20. They are accused of downloading martyrdom videos, al Qaida instruction manuals and other extremist material which could be used to turn other Muslim youths into terrorists and suicide bombers. Zafar, also a Bradford University student, admitted he had 'some sympathy' with some of the material found on computers belonging to the group. But he denied ever intending to take part in acts of terrorism in Pakistan or Afghanistan. Zafar also denied trying to recruit anybody else to fight or train to fight in Pakistan. Anti-terror police launched an investigation into the five men after Raja went to stay with the other defendants at their student digs in February last year and his parents found an apparent suicide note. They managed to talk Raja into coming home but had already reported him missing to police, the Old Bailey heard. Zafar admitted he invited Raja to stay with him in Bradford while 'chatting' on the internet, but said he had advised the teenager to think before running away from home. Zafar denied inviting Raja to Bradford as part of a plot to train to fight in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He did admit in court to looking at Islamist songs about 'struggle and sacrifice and Jihad' with Raja but said he had no plans to join the Jihad (holy war). The five defendants are all charged with possessing articles that give suspicion that their purpose is connected to the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism between January and March last year, relating to files allegedly discovered on computers and CDs during raids on their homes. All five deny the charges. Source: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1009/1009303_teenager_denies_terror_training_plot.html

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No bail for duo on IRA and guns charges11/06/2007: Two Dublin men charged with firearms offences and membership of an illegal organisation have been remanded in custody following a sitting of the Special Criminal Court Friday. John Brock (34) with an address at Homeland Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24 and 29-year old Thomas Morris, Meadowlands Mews, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin were both charged before the three-judge court with membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the IRA contrary to the Offences Against the State Act. The two were also charged with the unlawful possession of firearms, including a double and a single barrelled sawn-off shotgun, a bolt-action rifle, a telescopic sight for a rifle, and being in possession of a quantity of ammunition, namely shot gun cartages, at Piperstown Hill, Tallaght, Dublin on Wednesday last. The remand in custody followed an application from the DPP.Source: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/no-bail-for-duo-on-ira-and-guns-charges-695090.html

Dublin student has sentence suspended in IRA case12/06/2007: A Dublin student was given a three years suspended sentence by the Special Criminal Court today for IRA membership. Cillian Kelly (aged 24), of Riverwood Grove, Carpenterstown, Dublin 15 admitted membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Oglaigh na hEireann, otherwise the IRA on June 12 last year. Kelly was arrested during an ongoing investigation into the activities of the IRA in Dublin. During interviews with gardaí he admitted membership of the organisation and expressed remorse. Kelly who has just completed his first year as an engineering student at Bolton St had no previous convictions. Source: http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=147613529&p=y476y3998&n=147614028&x=

SWEDENBomb explodes at Gothenburg restaurant16th June 2007: A bomb exploded at a pizzeria in Gothenburg on Friday night, in what police say was a deliberate attack. The restaurant was closed and nobody was hurt in the explosion. "We know that the explosion was caused by an explosive device of unknown material, but we do not know whether it was placed inside or outside the building," said police. Shots have been fired at the same restaurant on two occasions in the past year. The most recent attack was in January of this year. Police say it is not known why the pizzeria has been the subject of attacks, nor is it known who is behind the shootings and bombing. The alert was raised after a passer-by saw smoke coming from the restaurant. No fire broke out, however, and after firefighters had checked the scene they handed over command to the police.Source: http://www.thelocal.se/7626/20070616/

FRANCEFrench judge files preliminary charges against 3 suspected Basque ETA separatistsJune 12, 2007 PARIS: An anti-terrorist judge in Paris has filed preliminary charges against three suspected members of the armed Basque group ETA. The two men and one woman have been placed in provisional detention following their arrest last Thursday in the French town of Bagneres de Bigorre, near the border with Spain. The three, identified as Alaitz Areitio Azpiri, Aitor Lorente Bilbao and Igor Igartua Echevarria, face preliminary charges of "criminal conspiracy in relation with a terrorist enterprise" and "holding false documents" and "concealing and stealing in an organized group," judicial officials said. The three were detained in a joint French-Spanish raid two days after ETA called off a 15-month-long truce, blaming the Spanish government for ruining a once-promising peace process. Areitio Azpiri is suspected of being involved in recruiting ETA members and in their technical and military training, the Spanish Interior Ministry said. She has been a fugitive since 2003 and was involved in a shootout with police when she broke a roadblock in the French pilgrimage town of Lourdes in October 2004. Lorente Bilbao went into hiding after he was released from jail in

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Spain in 2006 after serving seven years for arms possession. Igartua fled Spain in 2000 as police moved to break up ETA's so-called Vizcaya cell.Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/12/europe/EU-GEN-France-Spain-ETA.php

30-kilo (66-pound) bomb destroys movie theatre in northern CorsicaJune 12, 2007 BASTIA, Corsica: Two separate explosions destroyed a movie theatre and an ATM in northeastern Corsica, local security officials said Tuesday. No one was hurt in the attacks. The movie theater, in Ile Rousse, was ravaged after a 30-kilo (66-pound) charge was detonated overnight Monday, sparking a fire that raged through the unoccupied building. About three hours later, a grenade placed on the keypad of an ATM exploded and destroyed the machine at a bank in nearby Calvi. There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attacks. The Mediterranean island is frequently hit by small-scale bombings, often waged by separatists targeting French government buildings and vacation homes. Most attacks target empty buildings at night.Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/12/europe/EU-GEN-Corsica-Violence.php

Three Bosnians, Croat convicted of explosives trafficking in FrancePARIS, June 12, 2007: A Paris court has handed down heavy sentences to three Bosnian nationals and a Croatian for trafficking in explosives from the former Yugoslavia. Bosnians Savo Jungic and Ratko Trivic pleaded guilty to organising the delivery by transport truck of 100 kilos of explosives and were sentenced to eight years in prison on May 31. French authorities believe the stash of explosives discovered on board the truck as it entered France in March 2005 was headed for storage in a Paris suburb. Explosives and heavy weapons from military bases in the former Yugoslavia have been used in holdups in the Paris region over the past years and during a prison break in March 2003, investigators said. Bosnian Branko Zelenika, considered the leader of the trafficking ring, was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison and an international warrant was issued for his arrest. Zelenika was apprehended in the northern Bosnian town of Laktasi last week but he managed to escape detention during his transfer to Sarajevo. The driver of the truck, Croatian national Frano Gavranovic, was sentenced to six years.Source: http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=25&story_id=40801

Eight PKK suspects detained in FrancePARIS, June 12, 2007: Eight suspected members of the Kurdish separatist group PKK were detained in France Tuesday in a criminal investigation into attacks on Turkish interests. The eight, who are believed to be members of the PKK's youth wing, were arrested in the northern Paris suburbs, and near the cities of Bordeaux and Marseille. Police are looking into a series of firebomb attacks against Turkish businesses and associations.Source: http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=25&story_id=40802

ETA developing new bombing techniques in FranceJun 14, 2007: Investigations by the Spanish Guardia Civil have established that ETA have been developing a system to put explosive devices inside car head rests. Detonation by movement or by remote control is also being designed. The Basque Terrorists are thought to have an explosives factory in France and a new military chief, Francisco López Peña, known as ‘Thierry’. The conclusions come thanks to the 95 arrests made during the cease fire, and from documentation seized during the period.Source: http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_10972.shtml

SPAINGRAPO terrorists planned attacks in the Murcia RegionJun 14, 2007: The 20minutos website reports that a revolver found in the GRAPO arms cache discovered in the Valle de Ricote, in Murcia, on Saturday is the gun used in the murder of Ana Isabel Herrero, who was killed by the terrorists in Zaragoza in February 2006. Her husband, the businessman, Francisco Colell, was injured in the attack. The Civil Guard say that documentation found in the cache, and in another in Arenys de Munt, in Cataluña, and in searches in Barcelona, have confirmed that the far left terrorist group planned more attacks. They were also said to be considering ‘express kidnappings’, and had information on

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prosecutors and judges in the Murcia Region. The Director General of the Police and Civil Guard, confirmed on Wednesday that the operation against GRAPO has ‘completely’ broken up the terrorist group. National Court judge, Juan del Olmo, has meanwhile ordered that the six members of GRAPO’s last operational commando arrested in Cataluña last week be imprisoned on remand in solitary confinement.Source: http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_10982.shtml

ITALYItalian terrorist probed in death threats against archbishopGenoa, Jun. 13, 2007: An imprisoned member of a left-wing terrorist group is being investigated by Italian police in connection with a death threat against Genoa's Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco. Nadia Desdemona Lioce, a member of the Red Brigades, is currently jailed on two murder charges. Prison officials recently searched her cell, and found a coded message referring to Archbishop Bagnasco. The local prosecutor in Aquila, Italy, is following up on the evidence that Lioce may be involved in threats against the archbishop. Archbishop Bagnasco, the president of the Italian bishops' conference, has twice received threatening letters, with bullets enclosed in the envelopes. The archbishop has been under constant police guard.Source: http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=51764

SLOVAKIASlovakia detains terrorist11.06/2007: An internationally wanted terrorist with former links to al-Qaeda has been detained in Slovakia. Mustapha Labsi, an Algerian national who underwent terrorist training in Afghanistan, is being held at Bratislava's Justice Palace. Source: http://www.slovakspectator.sk/clanok-27889.html

ROMANIARomania sentences Arab businessman for Iraq kidnapBUCHAREST, June 13: A Romanian court on Wednesday sentenced an Arab businessman in absentia to 20 years in prison after finding him guilty of masterminding the kidnap of three Romanian journalists in Iraq in 2005. Omar Hayssam, a Syrian-Romanian financier, disappeared from Romania last year after a local court let him leave a prison hospital to recover at home following surgery for colon cancer. His escape triggered the resignation of Romania's chief prosecutor and of the heads of the Black Sea state's main secret services last July. The court sentenced Omar Hayssam to 20 years in prison, the toughest sentence possible. The decision can be appealed. Hayssam, who is believed to be hiding in Lebanon or Syria, was also ordered to pay 2 million euros ($2.66 million) in damages to each of the three journalists. In a telephone interview Hayssam said he was innocent. Prima TV reporter Marie Jeanne Ion, cameraman Sorin Miscoci and Ovidiu Ohanesian, a journalist with the newspaper Romania Libera, were abducted in Baghdad on March 28, 2005. They were rescued after 55 days in captivity. Hayssam was arrested in Romania soon after the kidnap and prosecutors charged him and Mohamad Munaf, the journalists' Iraq guide and Hayssam's business partner, with organising the abduction to help Hayssam escape organised crime charges. Romanian media speculated that Hayssam had hoped prosecutors would drop the organised crime charges when he presented himself as a go-between, paying a ransom to the kidnappers and bringing back the journalists.Source: http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?rpc=401&storyId=L13856356

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Bulgarian authorities arrest Islamist sharpshooter ahead of Bush's visit13/06/2007: Bulgaria authorities said Tuesday they had arrested a member of an Islamist group who allegedly tried to approach US President George Bush during his visit to Bulgaria earlier this week. The man is of Arabic origin and a member of an Islamist group. There is also evidence he had trained as a sniper. Police also arrested three other men, aged 24, 33 and 36, and a woman for making anonymous threats against Bush and his Bulgarian counterpart Georgy Parvanov. Source: http://www.makfax.com.mk/look/agencija/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=2&NrArticle=71428&NrIssue=370&NrSection=20

SERBIASerb police finds Kosovo Albanian explosives stashJune 12, 2007: In a raid on an extremist Muslim compound near the administrative border with Kosovo, Serbian police found over 15 kilos of explosives whose origin comes from the Muslim Albanian dominated province of Kosovo. The intelligence on the whereabouts of the explosives comes as a result of recent Serbian crackdown and an arrest of members of a violent Wahhabi sect in southern Serbia. Ammunition and the explosives were smuggled over a longer period of time from the territory of Kosovo and Metohia. Officials believe that it comes from the area of Vucitrn-Pec. It was indicated that this investigation is not exhausted signalling that further arrests are possible. Earlier in April, the leader of the militant Wahhabi sect, Ismail Prentic, was killed during a shoot-out he initiated with the Serbian police. Kosovo is a Serbian province, inhabited by Muslim Albanians that have expelled over two thirds of Christians in a drive to establish religiously and ethnically pure Muslim state.Source: http://www.serbianna.com/news/2007/01815.shtml

RUSSIAHighjacked Planes to be Shot DownJune 13, 2007: As part of a new series of regulations on anti-terrorism procedures, the Russian government announced that planes and ships seized by terrorist groups may be destroyed without warning, the newspaper reported. Some aviation representatives fear that this could have the reverse effect on pilots, who may be tempted to withhold informing authorities of terrorist capture, lest their aircraft be shot out of the sky. The head of the Duma's security committee said that the law is a "mechanism, which allows us to avoid, on the one hand, unacceptable mistakes, and on the other – minimize, when it is necessary, the consequences of terrorism."Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/13/europe/web-0613russiapress.php

Blast injures 2 officers in Russia's ChechnyaJune 13, 2007 ROSTON-ON-DON: A small bomb exploded outside a village in Russia's war-scarred province of Chechnya, injuring two military officers. The incident occurred Tuesday in the region's southwestern Achkhoi-Martan district. Russian forces have fought two wars against separatist rebels in Chechnya over the past dozen years. Large-scale fighting has all but ended, but rebels continue to fight Russian servicemen and forces from the Moscow-backed government.Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/13/europe/EU-GEN-Russia-Chechnya.php

1 police officer, 2 civilians killed in attack in southern RussiaJune 16, 2007 NAZRAN: A police officer and two civilians were killed by unidentified gunmen in a southern Russian region near Chechnya. The attack occurred late Friday near the city of Nazran in the province of Ingushetia west of Chechnya, the local branch of Russia's Interior Ministry said in a statement. A police officer and a civilian were also wounded in the attack.Motives behind the shooting were not immediately clear. Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/16/europe/EU-GEN-Russia-Restive-South.php

Police detain two suspected militants in ChechnyaMOSCOW. June 16: Police have detained two men suspected of membership of illegal armed groups in Prigorodnoye in the Grozny rural district of Chechnya. One of the men is believed to

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have belonged to a militant group led by Sadayev in 2005, and the other is suspected to have been a member of a group led by Patsayev since 2003. A resident of the Sunzha district also surrendered to the police in Grozny's Leningradsky district and confessed to having been a member of an illegal armed unit led by one Agayev in 2001.Source: http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11769732

TURKEYSecurity forces kill four Kurdish terrorists in Southeastern Turkey11/06/2007: Turkish security forces killed four members of the terrorist PKK in operations in the southeastern provinces of Diyarbaki and Bitlis. Three terrorists were killed in a clash between security forces and the group of PKK members in rural area near Kulp town of Diyarbakir. One village guard was killed by the PKK militants in the clash. Meanwhile, security forces killed one PKK member in a counter- terrorism operation launched in Mutki town of Bitlis province. Operations are underway in the region. Turkish troops have launched massive operations in the southeastern region in recent weeks to crack down on the PKK militants, who stage raids in Turkey after crossing over from their bases in northern Iraq's mountains. Source: http://www.dunyagazetesi.com.tr/news_display.asp?upsale_id=316119&dept_id=87

Roadside bomb kills Turkish soldier13 June 2007 Diyarbakir:. A roadside bomb killed a soldier and wounded two others Wednesday in Turkey's increasingly restive southeast. Kurdish rebels set off the explosives by remote control as a patrolling military unit passed by in Hakkari province, which borders Iraq and Iran. The blast was the latest attack blamed on the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has markedly stepped up violence against the security forces this year. The army has launched a large-scale crackdown against the group in the east and southeast and amassed troops at the border with Iraq, where the militants are taking refuge. The PKK, listed as a terrorist organisation by Ankara and much of the international community, took up arms for Kurdish self-rule in the southeast in 1984. The conflict has claimed more than 37,000 lives.Source: http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n114778

Turkish bomb blast hurts six in latest rebel attackFri 15 Jun 2007: A bomb exploded Friday in Turkey injuring six people including a soldier. The bomb exploded near bus stops from where military personnel are picked up in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir. Police believe the bomb was attached to a bicycle carrying newspapers that had been left in the area, and were investigating whether separatist Kurdish rebels were behind the attack. Authorities were also investigating the type of bomb used. One of the injured, a local shop owner, was reportedly in serious condition. Kurdish rebels, who have been fighting for autonomy in the region for more than two decades, have previously carried out bomb attacks in the city. The rebels have stepped up attacks on Turkish troops. Guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, have killed more than two dozen soldiers or pro-government village guards in several attacks since May 24. Turkish troops have killed 25 guerrillas during the same period, Source: http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=939122007

PKK starts using mines detonated with walkie-talkies16/06/2007: More than half the members of the Turkish security forces martyred in the last eight months in attacks carried out by the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) died after stepping on land mines. Bombings, attacks perpetrated with remotely detonated land mines and would-be suicide bombers clearly indicate a change in the terrorist group’s attack methods. Experts on explosives and terrorism from the Police Department stated that the group has started to closely follow advancements in explosives technology. The experts said that the PKK had made important changes in its strategy in order to minimize its casualties. The group has been able to obtain tons of A-4 plastic explosives since the US occupation of Iraq and use them in making roadside mines. The terrorists were being educated about mines and that the group had adopted the strategy of using those among them who had fallen from favour as suicide bombers. A high-ranking expert on explosives stressed that the PKK has been closely following the developing technology of explosives and has started using walkie-

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talkies or mobile phones to set off roadside mines. Until recently they were using handmade bombs with simple mechanisms, small gas bottles, easily found mines and live shells, the expert said, adding, “That’s why for years they weren’t effective, but now they are making use of the latest technology.” Another expert on explosives noted that in the past the group laid any sort of mine they were able to lay their hands on, dressing gas bottles designed for picnicking with plastic explosives or even using donkeys as a means for camouflaging and detonating bombs. According to his determinations, the PKK still employs these methods from time to time, but since the group has become extremely weakened compared to its past, it can no longer afford to lose more members in such risky attacks. Now the roadside mine-traps are camouflaged very well and detonated with remote controls or mobile phones. The mayor of Tunceli province and the police chief were attacked a short while ago, but survived as a result of a timing mistake made by the terrorists, who set off the mine a few seconds late. The police chief of Tunceli stated that it was much easier to camouflage mines on stabilized roads and demanded that the stabilized roads of Tunceli be fully asphalted to prevent terrorists from laying mines easily. Source: http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=114229&bolum=101

LEBANONAnti-Syrian MP among 10 killed in Beirut bombingThursday June 14, 2007: An anti-Syrian Lebanese MP was assassinated in an attack which also killed nine others when a car bomb exploded in Beirut on Wednesday night. In one of the deadliest such attacks since the murder of former prime minister Rafik Hariri more than two years ago, Walid Eido was killed as a car exploded near the seafront in the Lebanese capital. His eldest son, two bodyguards and at least six others were also killed in the explosion, which tore open shop fronts and sent debris raining down on the surrounding area. The other six victims were bystanders, eleven other people were wounded. The bomb was more powerful than devices which have exploded in and around Beirut in recent weeks, attacks that many Lebanese people have blamed on Syrian efforts to destabilise a UN-backed tribunal to investigate the assassination of Mr Hariri. Mr Aido had been an ally of Mr Hariri and a vocal critic of the Assad regime in Damascus, routinely demanding an end to Syrian interference in Lebanese affairs. He is the seventh anti-Syrian politician to have been killed in the past two years, and was a leading figure in the anti-Syrian bloc that controls the government. Internal security force (ISF) troops trawled through the surrounding wreckage, while nervous troops pushed and shoved to keep journalists away from the area. About an hour after the blast dozens of anti-Syrian demonstrators gathered outside Eido's house in Beirut chanting slogans and setting tyres on fire. The ISF confirmed the explosives had been rigged in a car bomb and bore some resemblance to Mr Hariri's killing. The explosion was the latest in a series to hit Lebanon in the last three weeks as Lebanese troops battled Islamic militants in a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern part of the country. It was the sixth blast to hit Beirut and the surrounding areas in less than four weeks. Two people have been killed in five previous bomb blasts. Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/syria/story/0,,2102419,00.html

Booby trap kills 4 soldiers at Lebanon campFri Jun 15, 2007 NAHR AL-BARED: Four Lebanese soldiers were killed on Friday by an explosion in a building booby trapped by Islamist militants at a Palestinian camp in north Lebanon. Six more soldiers were wounded, one seriously, by the blast at the Nahr al-Bared camp, where the army has been fighting the al Qaeda-inspired Fatah al-Islam group for nearly four weeks. The fighting is Lebanon's worst internal violence since the 1975-1990 civil war, killing at least 148 people, including 66 soldiers, more than 50 militants and 32 civilians. The violence has forced thousands of people to flee the camp.Source: http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2007-06-15T162342Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_India-303267-1.xml&archived=False

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Two women would-be suicide bombers caught on way to attack13/06/2007: The Shin Bet security service announced Wednesday that it had successfully foiled a double suicide attack on Tel Aviv and Netanya, planned by the Islamic Jihad. The Shin Bet said they had arrested two women from the Gaza Strip, who were slated to carry out the attacks. The two women, both mothers to young children, were arrested at the Erez crossing from Gaza into Israel on May 20 as they were trying to enter Israel. One of the women, a 30-year-old mother of four, requested the Israeli authorities' permission to travel to Ramallah, falsely claiming she needed medical care. Her aunt, a 39-year-old mother of eight who is also currently pregnant, was supposed to accompany her to the fabricated treatment in Ramallah. The Shin Bet maintains that the two were due to meet with an Islamic Jihad militant in Ramallah, who was supposed to give them explosive belts and take them to the the locations of the planned attacks.Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/870671.html

Bomb in Khan Yunis security building kills oneJun. 13, 2007: A one-ton bomb exploded beneath a security headquarters in southern Gaza on Wednesday, killing at least one person and nearly destroying the building, Palestinian security officials said. The bomb was hidden in a tunnel dug under the Preventive Security headquarters in the town of Khan Yunis. Witnesses said that before the blast, Hamas militants called on the security officers inside the building to come out or they would blow up the place. There were reports that many were killed and injured, but security officers were still sifting through the rubble. Medics said at least one person was killed and eight others injured. Source: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181570265724&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Hamas fighters and looters control Gaza15/06/2007 GAZA: Hamas Islamist fighters and looters ransacked the blood spattered Palestinian presidential compound in Gaza on Friday, rejoicing at the rout of their well-armed, secular rivals from the president's Fatah faction. With Gaza effectively a new independent statelet under Hamas control, Israel and the United States were preparing to ease an embargo on the Palestinian Authority in order to channel funds to President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah-run West Bank administration. Abbas, who decreed a state of emergency on Thursday, was expected to name an emergency government at his West Bank headquarters later on Friday, aides said. Despite firing in the air by Hamas fighters, who paraded captured Fatah vehicles and seized weapons, civilians poured through what had been the last bastion of Western-backed forces in Gaza, hauling away fridges, satellite dishes, even doors. Some chalets in the compound were set on fire. Green Hamas flags flew over the compound as it was stripped of anything moveable following its capture late on Thursday. Source: http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKMAC32084020070615?rpc=401&src=061507_0805_TOPSTORY_hamas_fighters_seize_control_in_gaza

JORDANJordan confirms arrest of seven Islamists over security issuesJun 11, 2007 Amman: The Jordanian government on Monday confirmed that it was still detaining seven Islamists in connection with 'security' charges and promised to reveal the outcome of investigations when they were completed. The government spokesman said that ten members of the Islamic Action Front (IAF) were arrested over the past six weeks in two batches. Three of them were released last week and the remaining seven are still in custody for interrogation. The detainees were arrested for conducting activity that targets the state's security and their detention has nothing to do either with the municipal elections or with their status as IAF members. The IAF is the political arm of the influential Muslim Brotherhood movement. Source: http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1316133.php/Jordan_confirms_arrest_of_seven_Islamists_over_security_issues

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12/06/2007 AMMAN: Jordan's Appeals Court reduced harsh sentences handed down on four al-Qaida-linked militants convicted of a foiled terror plot to attack Americans and Israelis during millennium celebrations in the kingdom, according to a ruling announced Tuesday. The court commuted death sentences issued by a military court in September 2000 against the plot's mastermind, Khader Abu-Hosher, and his co-conspirator Osama Samar. They will instead serve 20 years in prison with hard labour. Two other cell members, Khalid al-Mughames and Sa'ed Hijazi, will also serve 20-year prison sentences with hard labour instead of life sentences, according to the ruling, which was delivered three weeks ago but only released to the press on Tuesday. The court said its decision was final. It said that although it endorsed the military court's decision that the four planned “terrible crimes” in Jordan, “they didn't carry out their illegal actions and they confessed to their plots, which are good reasons to consider commuting their punishment.” The four were among 28 Arab suspects charged with 12 crimes, including conspiracy to carry out terrorist attacks against Israeli and American tourists, illegal possession of arms and explosives and affiliation with an unspecified banned organization. The terror plot was uncovered and foiled in November 1999. The prosecution indictment said all 28 plotters had been collecting explosives since 1996 from various Arab countries, including Syria and Iraq. Many of the suspects were alleged to have received military training in camps in Syria, Lebanon and Afghanistan. Military prosecutors said the group was part of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network, but the military court dismissed that allegation saying there was not enough evidence to substantiate it.Source: http://www.pr-inside.com/jordan-s-appeals-court-commutes-sentences-r150949.htm

IRAQSecurity developments in Iraq, June 11June 11 - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1900 GMT on Monday: DIYALA - A suicide car bomber blew up a major bridge over the Diyala River in the volatile Diyala province. No injuries were reported. BAGHDAD - Seventeen bodies were found with gunshot wounds in different districts of Baghdad in the past 24 hours. MOSUL - Gunmen stormed into a house in central Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, killing four women and a man. MAHMUDIYA - A suicide car bomb attack on a checkpoint near a bridge killed three U.S. soldiers and wounded six more late on Sunday near Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad. An Iraqi translator was also wounded. SAMARRA - A roadside bomb targeting a police station killed two policemen and wounded three in Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad. HAWIJA - Gunmen killed a man and wounded two others in a drive-by shooting in the town of Hawija, 70 km (40 miles) southwest of Kirkuk. BAGHDAD - The bodies of 16 people who had been shot dead were found in the mostly Sunni western Karkh side of Baghdad on Sunday. MOSUL - Gunmen killed Khaireddine Ahmed, the general director of the state-run central bank of Mosul. Two of his guards were also killed. MOSUL - Four people were found shot dead in Mosul on Sunday. TAL AFAR - Two people were killed and five wounded by a Katyusha rocket attack in the town of Tal Afar, 420 km (360 miles) north of Baghdad, on Sunday. TUZ KHURMATO - Two suspected insurgents were killed while trying to plant a roadside bomb in the town of Tuz Khurmato, 70 km (40 miles) south of Kirkuk. ISKANDARIYA - The local office of the Iraqi Islamic Party, the largest Sunni party in parliament, was badly damaged by a bomb on Sunday in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad.Source: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAM134819.htm

Security developments in Iraq, June 12June 12 - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1200 GMT on Tuesday: MOSUL - Gunmen killed a medical student at a college in central Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad.

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HAWIJA - Gunmen killed a policeman in a drive-by shooting on his way home near Hawija, 70 km (43 miles) southwest of Kirkuk. NAJAF - Iraqi security forces arrested a Syrian driving a truck which was carrying a car packed with explosives near Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) southwest of Baghdad, on Monday. SULAIMANIYA - Kurdistan police arrested militants charged with killing a Falluja police commander near the city of Sulaimaniya, 330 km (205 miles) northeast of Baghdad, on Monday. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed two civilians and wounded seven others near al-Resafi square in central Baghdad. ZAAFARANIYA - A roadside bomb wounded three civilians in Zaafaraniya south district of Baghdad. BAGHDAD - Coalition forces detained 11 suspected militants during operations against al Qaeda in Iraq in Baghdad. NEAR RAMADI - A suicide car bomber killed three police officers and wounded 15 other people at a checkpoint west of Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad. HAWIJA - A roadside bomb wounded five policemen near Hawija, 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Kirkuk. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded two civilians in the Mansour neighbourhood of western Baghdad. TIKRIT - Iraqi police found the body of a kidnapped policeman in Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad. He had been shot.Source: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12849306.htm

Booby-Trapped Corpse Injures Iraqi Civilian13/06/2007: An Iraqi soldier was killed and several soldiers and a policeman were wounded in explosions of IEDs and booby-trapped corpses in various areas of Baghdad on Tuesday. At least three corpses rigged with explosives detonated in various areas of western Baghdad on Tuesday, the first in al-Mansour district, which injured a civilian, while two other mined corpses exploded in al-Saydiya, behind the firefighters’ building, without any human casualties. Militants in Iraq are known to use explosives-rigged bodies. In Baghdad’s al-A'dhamiya district, bodies of executed victims have been mined with explosives and left out as a trap for US or Iraqi forces sent to retrieve them. In that area, soldiers are known to fire bullets into the bodies in order to test for booby traps. Snipers are known to take advantage of the delay that the danger of explosives causes to target US and Iraqi forces. Source: http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/3175/_Booby-Trapped_Corpse_Injures_Iraqi_Civilian

Security developments in Iraq, June 13June 13 - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1630 GMT on Wednesday: SAMARRA - Suspected al Qaeda militants blew up the two minarets of a revered Shi'ite shrine in the city of Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad. The Golden Mosque had already been badly damaged in February 2006, triggering a wave of sectarian violence. Curfews were imposed in Samarra and Baghdad. BAGHDAD - Four civilians were killed and 10 wounded when several mortar rounds hit residential areas in south and southwestern districts of Baghdad. TAJI - One Iraqi soldier was killed and four wounded by a roadside bomb attack on their patrol in Taji, 20 km north of Baghdad. MOSUL - Iraqi forces detained 15 suspected al-Qaeda members in western Mosul, 390 km north of Baghdad on Monday. BAGHDAD - U.S. military forces detained 24 suspected insurgents and arrested three others in an operation south of Baghdad on Sunday and Monday. MOSUL - Gunmen killed a college student in central Mosul. RAMADI - Four Iraqi policemen were killed and 11 officers wounded by a suicide car bomber targeting their checkpoint outside Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad. BAGHDAD - A U.S. marine was killed in combat operations on Tuesday in Anbar province, to the west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Wednesday. It earlier reported the death of two soldiers in separate incidents in Baghdad on Monday and early Tuesday morning. MANDILI - A bomb targeting the police chief of the town of Mandili killed three of his bodyguards and wounded five other people, including the police chief. Mandili is in Dilyala Province, near the Iranian border.

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BAQUBA - One person was killed and six wounded by a mortar attack in the city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad. BAGHDAD - The bodies of 26 people were found in different parts of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. They had been shot. KIRKUK - A bridge southwest of Kirkuk connecting this northern city with Tikrit was blown up overnight in a roadside bomb attack. Tikrit is 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad. No casualties were reported. It was the latest of a number of attacks on bridges in recent months. KHAN BANI SAAD - One person was killed and eight wounded on Tuesday when a truck laden with chlorine exploded near an Iraqi army base in the town of Khan Bani Saad, about 30 km (20 miles) northeast of Baghdad. BAGHDAD - Gunmen kidnapped Filaih Wadi Mijthab, managing editor of the state-run al-Sabah daily newspaper, in Habibiya in eastern Baghdad. BAGHDAD - Two people were killed and six wounded by a roadside bomb on Tuesday in Bab al-Muadham in central Baghdad. BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed three policemen and set their vehicle on fire near Baghdad on Tuesday.Source: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BUL336089.htm

US says it found IDs of missing soldiers in al-Qaida hideoutSaturday, June 16th, 2007 BAGHDAD: The US military says it has found the ID cards of two missing soldiers in an al-Qaida safe house north of Baghdad. The military has been searching for weeks for the soldiers, who disappeared in May during an ambush. They also found computers, video production equipment and weapons at the otherwise empty house near Samarra. The body of a third missing soldier was found in the Euphrates River last month. An al-Qaida front group has claimed in a video posted online that all three soldiers have been killed. They offered no proof of the claim.Source: http://www.kxly.com/news/?sect_rank=6&section_id=563&story_id=11980

Another Iraqi mosque is targeted in Basra attack16 June 2007 BAGHDAD: Reprisal attacks between Shias and Sunnis continued Saturday as gunmen dressed as police commandos attacked a Sunni mosque in Basra during the early hours. A witness heard the explosion, and rushed to see the Al Ashra Al Mubashra mosque blown up.’ The mosque, which lies in Al Shamshomiyah area in central Basra, suffered severe damage. A curfew had reportedly been imposed Friday in the predominantly Shia city after the 7th-century tomb of Sahabi (companion of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad) Talha bin Obaid Ellah was bombed. The bombing enraged Sunnis. It destroyed large portions of the holy site which acts as a marqad (holy tomb) and a mosque, in addition to damaging its minaret and four domes. Friday’s and Saturday’s bombings of Sunni mosques were evidently in response to Wednesday’s attack on the minarets of one of the holiest Shia religious sites in the northern city of Samarra. Extremists there blew up the two towers of the Mosque of Imams Hassan Al Askari and Ali Al Hadi, destroying them. Source: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/June/focusoniraq_June68.xml&section=focusoniraq

Kidnapped Iraqi athletes found deadSunday June 17, 2007: The skulls, bones and tattered clothing of a team of Iraqi martial arts experts have been found more than a year after they disappeared, presumed kidnapped, in an al-Qaeda stronghold west of Baghdad. At least 13 bodies were found in a ditch out in the desert about 60 miles west of Ramadi in Anbar province, one of Iraq's most violent areas and where al-Qaeda and Sunni Arab insurgents are battling American and Iraqi forces. Plastic athletic sandals lay scattered on the ground near the bodies. All had been shot. The remains were taken to Imam Ali Hospital in Baghdad's predominantly Shia Sadr City neighbourhood, home to most of the athletes, where they were DNA tested. The men were members of a private sports club that hopes to one day send members to the Olympics. Weeping relatives gathered at the hospital to try to identify the bodies. The 15 tae kwon do experts were abducted in May 2006 as they were travelling by bus through the Anbar desert on their way to a training camp in Jordan. Two of the athletes are unaccounted for although Mudalal suggested partial remains were also recovered. Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2104868,00.html

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TAJIKISTANExplosion breaks windows at Tajik Supreme CourtDUSHANBE, June 16: An explosion broke windows and damaged a fence at the Supreme Court building in the capital of Tajikistan, the city's chief prosecutor said on Saturday. "We believe the explosion was aimed at intimidation," the chief prosecutor told reporters at the scene. He suggested the blast was a terrorist attack. No one was hurt. Tajikistan, a Central Asian Muslim nation of seven million bordering Afghanistan, remains volatile and flooded with weapons after a 1992-97 civil war between Islamist guerrillas and the secular government that killed more than 100,000. Tajikistan has been relatively calm since a peace deal. But its economy is ruined, and poverty and drug trafficking from neighbouring Afghanistan have fuelled discontent. Two blasts rocked the Emergencies Ministry building in January and June of 2005. The government blamed the attack on a group known as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU). Exactly one year ago, on June 16, 2006, three small explosions occurred in different places of the capital but no one was hurt.Source: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L16426841.htm

AFGHANISTANSuicide bombing injures 6 Afghan policemen, 3 civilians KABUL, June 11: A suicide car bombing wounded six policemen and three civilians in Khost province of eastern Afghanistan on Monday. The explosion occurred at 1:30pm (0900 GMT) in Khost city, the provincial capital, when a man drove a car loaded with explosives toward a police post. All the injured were under treatment in the hospital. No one has claimed responsibility, but Taliban rebels have frequently carried out similar attacks. Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-06/11/content_6228404.htm

'Shaped charge' roadside bomb found in AfghanistanJune 11, 2007 KABUL: Afghan security forces found a sophisticated roadside bomb of the type used in Iraq for the first time in the center of the capital, Kabul, and it was primed to hit a convoy of high-ranking Afghan officials. A NATO spokeswoman confirmed that the type of bomb, called an explosively formed projectile, or a shaped charge, was found in Kabul in May. The bomb contained 16 kilos of explosive and was set to be detonated by remote control from up to one kilometer away. The bomb was found in the western part of Kabul, set beside the road probably to target a convoy of Afghan high-ranking officials or international forces. Roadside bombs with deadly shaped charges have been used frequently in Iraq, and military officials there have said the sophisticated bombs have their origin in neighboring Iran. Afghanistan has seen an increase in the use of roadside bombs in the last 18 months but most have been made from remote controlled anti-tank mines laid under or beside the road.It was the second such shaped charge found in Afghanistan, it was a little more sophisticated that the first. The first one was found in April in western Afghanistan, a region that borders on Iran. The bomb had similar characteristics to those found in Iraq, but it was not clear where it came from. Separately on Monday, a suicide car bomb struck a police checkpoint outside the provincial town of Khost in eastern Afghanistan wounding three policemen, one critically, and eight civilians. The bomb exploded as police were checking cars entering the town. The bomb set off a huge fire and most of the victims were injured from the spreading flames.Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/11/asia/afghan.php

Suicide Bomber Kills 4 In Afghan CapitalKABUL, Jun. 16, 2007: A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of American contract workers and military personnel in the Afghan capital on Saturday, killing at least four civilians. A U.S. soldier opened fire afterward, killing one civilian and sparking an angry protest. Saturday's blast killed the bomber, wrecked a taxi and other nearby vehicles, and shattered windows of roadside homes and shops. American contract workers and military personnel were in the convoy. Workers with DynCorp, who are helping train Afghan police, were attacked. Taliban spokesmen have warned Afghan civilians to avoid military convoys, but suicide bombings commonly kill or wound far more civilians than military targets - a fact NATO repeatedly points

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out. The Amerian soldier in a Humvee "mistakenly" opened fire on the crowd after the suicide attack, killing one civilian and wounding three. Afterward, a crowd of 50 to 100 people gathered, with some chanting "Death to America" and jabbing their arms at police.Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/16/ap/world/main2938943.shtml

PAKISTAN3 Al-Qaeda suspects arrested near Iran borderJune 11, 2007: Security forces in Pakistan have nabbed three militants suspected to be Al-Qaeda activists from southwestern Balochistan region bordering Iran. Fake identity cards and passports along with large amount of foreign currency were recovered from the arrested suspects from a checkpoint near the Iranian border from Balochistan's Taftan region on Saturday. The Interior Ministry has confirmed the report of the arrests. The security agencies were investigating the arrested suspects including foreign nationals belonging to Kyrgyzstan and Germany.Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=0e2f8ae9-9145-4e83-8c2f-143632fa405a&&Headline=3+Al-Qaeda+suspects+arrested+near+Iran+border

Over 2,000 activists of banned groups on watch listISLAMABAD, June 12: The government has placed the names of over 2,000 activists of 18 outlawed organisations on a watch list, effectively barring them from leaving their hometowns without permission of the district coordination officers concerned. Security agencies were monitoring the activities of people on the watch list to curb their involvement in anti-state and terrorist activities. People on the watch list have submitted affidavits, giving assurance to limit their involvement in political activities, public meetings, anti-government campaigns and even travel outside their home-towns without prior permission. If they are found to be involved in violating pledges on the affidavits, they can be arrested under the Anti-Terrorism Act. The organisations so far banned by the government include Al Qaeda, Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, Sipah-i-Muhammad Pakistan, Jaish-i-Muhammad, Lashkar-i-Tayyaba, Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan, Tehrik-i-Jafriya, Tehrik Nifaz Shariat-i-Muhammadi, Tehrik-i-Islam (formerly known as Tehrik-i-Jafriya Pakistan), Millat-i-Islamia Pakistan (formerly known as Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan), Islami Tehrik Pakistan, Jamiatul Ansar, Jamiatul Furqan, Hizbul Tehrir, Khair-un-Naas International Trust, Balochitan Liberation Army and Islamic Students Movement of Pakistan. Activists of the Sunni Tehrik and the Jamaat-ul-Dawa are also under strict surveillance. Monitoring of the activists of the banned organisations started after the launching of a campaign against terrorism and extremism in July 2005. The number of activists under surveillance had gone up to 2,000. During the 21-month campaign, the government had focused on six areas - activists of banned organisations, publishing and sale of hate literature, clerics fanning sectarian hatred, misuse of loudspeakers, collection of donations and display of arms.Source: http://www.dawn.com/2007/06/13/top8.htm

4 terrorists arrested in SuiThursday June 14, 2007 SUI: Police Wednesday arrested four terrorists involved in providing arms to Ferrari Camps and involvement in attacks on Government installations. According to a private TV Channel, the culprits who were arrested include Zain Bugti, Muhammad Ali, Murad Ahmed and Younis during various raids in Sui. A huge cache of explosives, rocket, mortal shells and other ammunition were recovered from their possession. Source: http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?181065

Terrorism bid foiled in MardanSunday June 17, 2007 MARDAN: A man was injured while he attempted to throw a grenade in a bid to bomb the Ladies Vocational Training institute in Mardan on Saturday. While throwing hand-grenades at the institute based at Labour Colony Nowshera-Mardan road, the attacker slipped from wall of the institute and one grenade exploded in his hand. The badly injured attacker was taken to Hospital. Identifying the assailant as Imtiaz Ali s/o Noor Muhammad resident of Daman Qila, police said that no more information has been gained so far. The principal of vocational training institute said a month before she received a threatening letter warning her to either close the institute or regulate the female students to

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observe the veil. She said the attack took place right after a month's period she received the letter. There are about 25-30 ladies seeking training in the vocational institute of training.Source: http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?181393

Suicide bomber of 2006 Karachi attack identifiedJune 16th, 2007 Islamabad: Police in Pakistan have identified the terrorist network behind a bomb attack at a religious gathering in the southern city of Karachi last year that killed more than 50 people. The bombing targeted Sunni Muslim worshippers on April 2006 while they were celebrating the birth anniversary of the Prophet Mohammed. Several renowned scholars also died in the incident. The Sindh home department claimed in a statement that the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber, Mohammed Siddiq, a member of a small group linked with banned Islamic terrorist organization, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. Police have arrested three alleged terrorists of the six-member gang, based in the country's troubled North-West Frontier Province, over charges of preparing and brainwashing people for suicide attacks in Pakistan as well as in Afghanistan. The other three are still at large. A DNA test confirmed the identification of the suicide attacker, matching a sample of blood from the bomber's head found at the scene with that of Siddiq's brother. The group was also allegedly involved in several other terrorist attacks in Karachi, which has experienced increasing sectarian violence in recent years. Source: http://www.indianmuslims.info/news/2007/jun/16/suicide_bomber_2006_karachi_attack_identified.html

Explosives seized: Four being interrogatedCHITRAL, June 15: Police have been interrogating four activists of a ‘jihadi’ outfit arrested on Sunday last. Officials said that explosives were also recovered from their possession. The Chitral Scouts had arrested four persons coming from the neighbouring Upper Dir district. The official declined to disclose the name of the alleged ‘jihadi’ outfit to which the arrested men belonged. The men were produced before a civil court judge in Droosh two days back who remanded them in police custody. Paramilitary forces had apprehended the men from a passenger coach at Mirkhani post. Explosive materials, including 50 detonators, 10kg explosive powder, 13 batteries, 200 meters of electric wire, 35kg white powder, one bundle of electric fuse and jackets and a cash amount of Rs274,000 were recovered from their possessions. The arrested persons were identified as Habibur Rehman (hailing from Afghanistan), Mohammad Imran (Karachi), Shabbir Ahmed (Azad Kashmir) and Inayat Khan (Malakand). The arrested men told investigators that they were on way to Afghanistan’s Nooristan province via Arandu and confessed to having received militant training.Source: http://www.chitralnews.com/LN666.htm

INDIASuspected LeT terrorist arrested with 1.5 kg RDX12/6/2007: A suspected Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist was arrested on Monday from a North Delhi area with 1.5 kg RDX. Mukhtiar Ahmed Khan, belonging to Kupwara in Jammu and Kashmir, was arrested at the Azadpur fruit market at around 5 pm. The seizures made from the terrorist include 1.5 kg RDX, two detonators and a timer.Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=f867c5e2-02e7-40cf-9c6d-fb35c9fab9ea&&Headline=Suspected+LeT+man+held+with+1.5+kg+RDX%26nbsp%3b

Five terrorists and three soldiers killed in Jammu and Kashmir13/06/2007: Three terrorists and three soldiers were killed in a gun-battle in the Gagal forest area of Kupwara district on the evening of June 12. Six cadres of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) were present at a jungle hideout. In the ensuing encounter, terrorists killed 2 soldiers and wounded six others. One of the wounded is reported to have later succumbed to his injuries at the Base Hospital in Srinagar. In retaliation, troops shot dead three militants. One of them, according to official sources, had been identified as LeT’s Kupwara "Financial Chief" Abu Moosa, a Pakistani national. Officials informed that Moosa had been continuously operating in Lolab valley since 2002. Three militants of the group managed to escape from the incident site. In another incident, two infiltrating terrorists were killed by the troops near Phoolan Post, close to the Line of Control, in the Gulmarg sector of Baramulla district. Security forces

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arrested six over ground workers (OGW) of the militants from the Thannamandi and Surankote areas of Rajouri and Poonch districts. Three OGWs were arrested from Thannamandi when they were returning from Kashmir valley carrying INR 20,000 cash and ration items for the militants. They were identified as Mohammed Shaffi and Mohammed Alam, both brothers, and Abdul Gani. Three more OGWs, identified as Mushtaq Ahmed and Altaf Hussain, both brothers and their father Talib Hussain, were arrested from Surankote along with 61 AK rounds, one pistol, one tent, four pouches, one stove and some uniforms. Elsewhere in the State, three suspects, Imtiyaz Ahmed Ganai, Sajjad Ahmed Tantray and Akhtar Rasool Tantray, were arrested by the police from Handwara town in the Kupwara district and one hand grenade was recovered from their possession.Source: http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=6/13/2007#1

Cycle bomb rocks holy townGuwahati, June 13: Terror returned to Assam on wheels after barely a fortnight’s break, killing one person and leaving over 40 wounded in a weekly wholesale market at Hajo in Kamrup district. Around 12.30 pm, when the market was just beginning to buzz with activity, a bomb strapped to a bicycle went off killing 1 man and wounding 32 others - mostly vegetable traders and farmers - who were taken to hospital. The list of wounded includes four children and five women. Police believe that the explosion was triggered by either ULFA or a fundamentalist group. Hajo is a popular pilgrimage centre for Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists alike. The choice of venue of the blast bears an uncanny resemblance to some of the outfit’s earlier attacks - usually carried out in crowded market places. Source: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070614/asp/frontpage/story_7920616.asp

Hardcore ULFA militant shot deadWednesday, 13 June 2007 Guwahati: In a major breakthrough, the police shot dead a hardcore ULFA militant, suspected to be involved in the series of recent bomb blasts in the city. The ULFA activist, identified as Dibjyoti Kalita alias Paul, was shot and seriously injured after he hurled a hand grenade at Nabinnagar area in the early hours. Kalita succumbed to injuries on way to hospital. Two IEDs, weighing five kg each, four detonators and several explosive were recovered from the slain ultra. Source: http://www.saharasamay.com/samayhtml/articles.aspx?newsid=77503

Postal staff to track cell usersSilchar, June 13: The mobile phone has turned into a potent weapon in the hands of militants, used for triggering blasts and making extortion calls. To counter this, Assam police have now sought the help of the postal department. As the most preferred provider of the address verification service, the postal department is set to embark on a wide and systematic check on the name and address of subscribers of both prepaid and post-paid mobile phones in Assam, to eliminate the possibility of SIM cards falling into the hands of militants. Top BSNL officials said the campaign is under way on the persistence of the state police headquarters, which had sought foolproof verification of subscribers. Sources said the verification task had got off to a quiet start at least two months back in which, apart from BSNL, private service providers like Reliance, Airtel, Aircel and Hutch have been involved. Service providers have be-en asked to verify the identities and addresses of applicants through driving licences, PAN cards, identity cards, passports, last paid BSNL landline bills or the passbook of a nationalised bank.Source: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070614/asp/northeast/story_7918047.asp

Two killed as terrorists attack convoy in Kashmir15/06/200: Two security personnel were killed and seven people were wounded on Friday when separatist guerrillas ambushed an army convoy near Jammu and Kashmir's Sopore town. Police said heavily armed guerrillas hurled grenades and sprayed bullets at the passing convoy near Bagu village, 60 km from Srinagar on the outskirts of Sopore. An Indian Army soldier and a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed and seven people, including four civilians, were wounded in the militant attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Srinagar-Bandipore highway.In another incident, the police shot dead two suspected guerrillas in Nowgam on the outskirts of Srinagar late on Thursday.

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Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=fe057c41-26aa-448b-903c-8b3cf0a6d603&&Headline=Two+killed+as+terrorists+attack+convoy+in+Kashmir

Terror averted in Tinsukia railway stationGuwahati, June 14: A major terror strike was averted Thursday when security forces recovered a powerful bomb at Tinsukia railway station in upper Asom. Police sources said a powerful IED was found wrapped in a unclaimed bag made of Army fatigue at around 2000 hours. Passengers of the Down Kamrup Express, which was scheduled to leave the station in a short while, were evacuated and were taken out of the station along with other waiting passengers and railway staff of the station. Police suspects the hand of ULFA in the incident. Bomb experts from the Army and police defused the bomb.Source: http://www.newkerala.com/news5.php?action=fullnews&id=39247

12 held for 'telling youth to follow Bin Laden'Raisen (MP), June 16: Twelve people were arrested for allegedly trying to incite religious sentiments and asking youths to support Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden, police said. The arrests were made following information last night that around a dozen persons were preaching the youth to follow Bin Laden and wage a war against the United States at a house in Chopra Mohalla locality. Those arrested were identified as Saeed Ali and Akhtar Ali of Gwalior, Jamal Ahmed and Mohd Shakil (Delhi), Sheikh Javed, Mohd Haneef, Kaleem Khan and Adil Khan (all from Bhopal), Mohd Islam alias Gunjan Gupta of Bina, Ram alias Rahim (Raisen), Raees Ahmad of Dhulia in Maharashtra and Mohd Anees of Agra, Dehria said. However, Bakhtiar Khan, whose house was used for preaching, managed to escape and a hunt is on to nab him.Source: http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200706161757.htm

SRI LANKASmall bomb explodes in Colombo, but no injuries reported; police suspect Tamil rebelsJune 11, 2007 COLOMBO: A bomb planted by suspected Tamil rebels targeting power lines exploded on the outskirts of the Sri Lankan capital Tuesday, as the military said it made a major weapons haul in a former rebel outpost in the east. The small bomb in Orugodawatta, a residential and commercial neighborhood in Colombo, caused no injuries or damage to the electricity lines. He blamed separatist Tamil Tigers for the device. There was no immediate response from the rebels.Meanwhile, Sri Lankan forces recovered 742 mortars and 27,000 rounds of ammunition from a village in eastern Batticaloa district that they had reclaimed from rebels earlier this year, Lt. Col. Upali Rajapakse said. Soldiers found the weaponry in the village of Verugal, the same place where a day earlier they had seized nearly 600 mortar rounds and three anti-tank mines.Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/12/asia/AS-GEN-Sri-Lanka.php

Bomb found in Sri Lanka capital13 June 2007 COLOMBO: Sri Lankan troops on Wednesday found a powerful bomb in the capital Colombo, the defence ministry said. The 10-kilogram (22-pound) Claymore mine was discovered along the beach at Wellawatte, an area where minority Tamils are concentrated, police officials said.Five days ago, police found an identical bomb in another part of the capital and defused it.Wednesday’s discovery was made a day after suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a powerful blast against an electricity pylon in the city. It caused no casualties or disruption to electricity suppliesSource: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2007/June/subcontinent_June520.xml&section=subcontinent&col=

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Islamic militants sued for abortive grenade attack on British envoy13/06/2007: Police in Bangladesh filed a criminal case Saturday against four Islamic militants for a grenade attack on British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury inside the premises of a religious shrine three years ago. The charge sheets against the assailants were submitted to a special court for a speedy trial of the accused, who include a prominent Muslim cleric Mufti Hannan. Choudhury, who was visiting the shrine in the north-eastern city of Sylhet, escaped with minor injuries but several people were killed and hurt in the blasts which occurred on 21 May 2004. Sources in the Home Ministry said the necessary investigations into the explosions had been completed. British police at Scotland Yard had helped in the probe into the attacks at the shrine of a popular Muslim saint Hazrat Shahjalal.Source: http://jurnalo.com/jurnalo/storyPage.do?story_id=40840

Bomb planted by Jadid found in RajshahiFri. June 15, 2007: True to their earlier declaration, the newly emerged Jadid Al Qaeda on Thursday planted another powerful bomb on the campus of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (Ruet) evading tight security. After a tip-off, Motihar police rushed to the campus and recovered the bomb planted in front of the Ruet main gate. Later, bomb experts of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) defused it. An RMP bomb expert said the recovered bomb was similar to five others found earlier on the campus. The first bomb was found on May 22. On the next day, police recovered a sawed off rifle and a bomb from Students' Union Office of Shaheed Selim Hall. On May 24, police recovered two more bombs and found an aluminium sheet carrying a message that Jadid Al Qaeda would plant a total of six bombs on the Ruet campus. On June 2, the joint forces found another bomb at a Ruet dormitory. Thursday's bomb was kept in a plastic container that bore an inscribed message threatening all police stations in the city with bomb attacks if any of the outfit's members is arrested. Senior RMP officials termed the incidents a ploy to create panic.Source: http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/06/15/d70615012313.htm

NEPALBomb explosion at former royal minister Rana's house KATHMANDU, June 14: An unknown group exploded a bomb Wednesday night at former minister Shrish Shamsher Rana's house at Bishalnagar. Rana was minister for information and communication during King's direct rule. According to the police, a motorcycle was damaged and the windowpanes of the ground floor were shattered by the explosion. A socket bomb had been hurled at Rana's house by two youths on a  motorcycle at around 1 Wednesday night. Rana has been living as lessee in the house. No one has taken responsibility for the explosion.Source: http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?nid=112678

JAPANJobless Tokyo man nabbed for producing explosivesJune 12, 2007: An unemployed man has been arrested for manufacturing an explosive often used by international terrorists, Tokyo police said. Officers are at a loss as to why Yoshihiro Terasawa, from Tokyo's Higashikurume, manufactured triacetone triperoxide (TATP), but they suspect that he did it for personal reasons. Terasawa, 38, is suspected of buying chemicals on the Internet, or from a pharmaceutical store, to manufacture 96.7 grams of TATP. TATP was used in a terrorist attack on Bali, Indonesia, in 2005, which killed or injured more than 100 people.Source: http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20070612p2a00m0na006000c.html

Wives of 2 men who hijacked JAL plane in 1970 face arrest for abductionJune 14, 2007: The wives of two men who hijacked a Japan Airlines jetliner in 1970 face arrest for abducting two Japanese men from Europe in 1980, law enforcers said. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has obtained arrest warrants accusing Yoriko Mori, 54, and Sakiko Wakabayashi, 52, who have been living in North Korea, of abducting the two. The MPD has initiated a procedure for placing them on an international wanted list through

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the International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO), and demanded Pyongyang extradite them to Japan. They are already on an international wanted list for violating the Passport Law. The move represents a breakthrough in investigations into the abduction of Kaoru Matsuki and Toru Ishioka. "The arrest warrants are of greater significance than others (we've obtained in connection with the abduction of Japanese nationals to North Korea), a high-ranking police official said. Investigations into the case had been deadlocked because of a lack of evidence in Vienna where they went missing. However, the MPD's Public Security Bureau questioned a Japanese woman who along with her sister had frequently met Matsuki and Ishioka as well as the two suspects in Spain. The woman told investigators during questioning that Mori and Wakabayashi got acquainted with the two abduction victims in a bid to develop mutual trust. The woman and her sister who were invited to an apartment with the two were also urged by the suspects to go to Vienna with them. Police have found a snapshot showing Ishioka and Mori. Moreover, investigators believe that he was highly likely to have been abducted, judging from letters he sent to Japan from Europe and North Korea. In February this year, a woman who was dating Matsuki before he left for Europe testified to police that he had told her to wait until he would come back to Japan a year later. He had also told a professor at the university he attended that he would study abroad for a year. After analyzing these testimonies and other evidence, the MPD's Public Security Bureau concluded that Matsuki and Ishioka were lured by Mori and Wakabayashi into going to North Korea in 1980. At the time, Matsuki was 26 while Ishioka was 22. A group of hijackers who defected to North Korea following the incident as well as the wives of some of them are suspected of involvement in the abduction of Japanese nationals including Keiko Arimoto.Source: http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20070614p2a00m0na003000c.html

THAILANDBomb found in Bangkok BANGKOK, June 12: Bomb experts destroyed a bomb under a security level after it was found near a golf yard in Bangkok early Tuesday. The bomb, which was filled with nails, was found inside a dustbin near a golf yard of Bangkok by a garbo. Local policemen and bomb experts rushed to the site after the garbo called the police. Bomb experts destroyed the bomb with a water gun and started investigating the source of the explosive.Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-06/12/content_6230881.htm

Man beheaded in Thailand13/06/2007 Narathiwat: Suspected Islamic militants beheaded a man after gunning down his two travel companions in southern Thailand, while three more died in other attacks, police said on Wednesday. A headless male body was found inside a fertiliser bag near a bridge late on Tuesday in Narathiwat, one of three provinces roiled by separatist unrest. Authorities found his head, pierced by two bullet wounds, early on Wednesday in a bag about 300m away. The man's wife identified him. Two other people with him were killed when militants ambushed their truck on Tuesday. Meanwhile, a 35-year-old Muslim man was gunned down in a separate drive-by late on Tuesday in Narathiwat, while a 23-year-old soldier was killed on Wednesday when a bomb exploded in front of a school in nearby Pattani province. One soldier was killed and seven others injured by a second roadside bomb in Pattani. More than 2,200 people have been killed and thousands more wounded in separatist violence that erupted in the Muslim-majority south in January 2004. The provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani were once an autonomous sultanate, until the region was annexed by mainly Buddhist Thailand a century ago. Separatist unrest has erupted there periodically ever since.Source: http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2129186,00.html

Soccer match bomb wounds 1414/06/2007: A bomb exploded Thursday during a soccer match in southern Pattani province, wounding 14 police officers who were providing security. Two local teams were playing on a public field in Pattani's Yaring district when the bomb was detonated remotely by a cell phone, apparently by Muslim insurgents. Five policemen were seriously wounded, and the others suffered minor injuries. All were hospitalised.Source: http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=119451

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Bomb kills 7 soldiers in ThailandJune 14, 2007 PATTANI: A roadside bomb killed seven Thai soldiers Friday in one of the deadliest attacks against security forces this year in the country's restive south. The soldiers were on patrol duty in Yala province's Bannang Sata district when a bomb exploded near their vehicle.Source: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4892075.html

INDONESIAIndonesia Arrests Leading Terror SuspectWednesday June 13, 2007 JAKARTA: Indonesia's most-wanted terrorist was being interrogated Wednesday following his weekend arrest on suspicion of involvement in the 2002 Bali bombings and several other deadly strikes. Abu Dujana, who allegedly leads the Southeast Asian militant group Jemaah Islamiyah, speaks Arabic fluently, is a skilled bomb-maker and trained in Afghanistan, where he met Osama bin Laden, said police. The 37-year-old, who went by at least six aliases, was arrested Saturday in one of a series of raids that netted seven other suspects. He was shot in the leg as he tried to flee on a motorbike in Central Java province. Media reports said he was with his young son when anti-terror police closed in on him. It took several days to identify him through DNA tests and fingerprints. Jemaah Islamiyah, which officials say wants to create an Islamic state across much of Southeast Asia, has been blamed for the 2002 bombings on the resort island of Bali, the 2003 and 2004 attacks on the J.W. Marriott Hotel and the Australian Embassy, and the 2005 triple suicide bombings on restaurants in Bali. Together the attacks killed more than 240 people, many of them Western tourists. Jemaah Islamiyah, which police say received funds and direction from al-Qaida in the early 2000s, has also been blamed for attacks in the Philippines, while Malaysia and Singapore have arrested several dozen alleged operatives in recent years. Abu Rusdan, the man police say Dujana replaced as head of the group in 2003, said his former comrade was the last of the old generation of Jemaah Islamiyah still on the run, referring to Afghan veterans who studied under the movement's founder, Abdullah Sangkar, in Malaysia in the 1990s. Rusdan was arrested in 2003 and sentenced to 3 years in prison for hiding one of the militants convicted in the Bali blasts. He said he thought Dujana would likely cooperate with police, speculating the arrests that followed his detention on Saturday were a sign he had already done so. Security experts called Dujana's capture a major breakthrough, saying he was a senior figure in Jemaah Islamiyah and could provide crucial information about its current state. But they played down police claims of his direct involvement in the bombings. Police say Dujana, like most senior members of Jemaah Islamiyah, fled to Malaysia in the 1990s and returned to Indonesia nearly five years ago. He likely avoided arrest as long as he did because he had an extensive network of sympathizers. Anti-terror officers tracked Dujana with information gleaned from suspects arrested in raids in March on Java, where a massive haul of ammunition and bombs was also seized. Dujana and the other suspects were being held at an undisclosed location. Under the country's anti-terror law, police can hold suspects for several weeks without charging them. Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, has not made membership in Jemaah Islamiyah a criminal offence. But the country has prosecuted almost 200 people for terrorist offences since 2002. Five have been sentenced to death, although none have yet been executed.Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6706456,00.html

PHILIPPINESSoldiers defuse car bomb in southern PhilippinesMANILA, June 13: Soldiers defused improvised bombs from a car parked near a town hall in the southern Philippines, raising worries that Islamic militants in the country had learned to assemble car bombs. The police chief of South Cotabato province, said soldiers found a car laden with ten 60mm mortar rounds on a busy road near the town hall of Surallah on the day it was celebrating its 44th founding anniversary. Bomb experts removed the crude bombs and destroyed them in a controlled explosion away from the crowd. Police have been getting intelligence reports about a possible car bomb attack in the south and was alerted by

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residents to the abandoned black car near the town hall. A bomb-sniffing dog confirmed the car was rigged with bombs with an undetermined number of nails used as shrapnel. The car bomb could have killed dozens and levelled the two-storey town hall. Police said the discovery was alarming because it was an indication that Muslim rebels had stepped up their expertise from the usual pipe bombs and crude bombs fashioned from mortar rounds. It was possible Islamic militants belonging to al Qaeda or the regional Jemaah Islamiah network had taught local rebels on how to rig cars with explosives. The Philippines has no reported attacks using car bombs. Source: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAN69666.htm

Bomb explodes on Philippine bus Friday, 15 June 2007 At least five people have been killed and a further five injured when a bomb exploded on a bus in the southern Philippines. The blast was one of two bombs on the island of Mindanao, targeting vehicles run by the Weena Bus Company. The second blast caused no injuries, because the vehicle was empty when the explosion was detonated. Police said the motive was unclear, but added that the company had recently been targeted by criminal groups. On 18 May a bomb exploded on another bus owned by the company. Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6757059.stm

AUSTRALIA4 Christian Activists Charged For Breaking Into Spy-Base16/06/2007: Four Christians from an activist group, Christians Against All Terrorism, were charged by the Northern Territory Supreme Court for breaking into a secret spy base near Alice Spring but have avoided a jail-sentence. The four activists; Adele Goldie, Donna Mulhearn, James Dowling and Bryan Law will be fined instead and ordered to pay $10,000 to the Commonwealth for using bolt cutters to cut through the fence surrounding the base. The Pine Gap Trial Blog reported that the jury members in the trial were visibly ‘distressed’ in giving the verdict. The maximum penalty under the law is the activists can face a maximum jail term of seven years or a maximum fine of $46,200 under the Defence (Special Undertakings) Act. The judge presiding over the trial said that the maximum penalty was severe given that ‘hundreds of people have been charged with minor offences for committing the same act.’ The Crown prosecutor argued the activists’ action in breaking the law resembled, “A strike at the heart of national security and the national interest.” Source: http://au.christiantoday.com/article/4-christian-activists-charged-for-breaking-into-spy-base/2850.htm

Police find 11 pipe bombs in CanberraSunday Jun 17: A 26-year-old Canberra man charged with destroying a letterbox will face fresh charges over his alleged possession of 11 pipe bombs, ACT police say. Police discovered the small home-made explosive devices in a suburban residence in the northern suburb of Charnwood on Saturday. Residents of 17 surrounding homes were evacuated while bomb technicians detonated the devices. A search warrant for the residence was issued after the man was arrested for destroying the letterbox on Friday. The man will face the ACT Magistrates Court on Monday charged with property damage over the letterbox, but police said it was likely further charges would be laid over the explosives.Source: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=273533

Four years' jail over nail bombJune 16, 2007: A man who made a nail bomb and planted it near the Frankston police station has been jailed for four years. The County Court heard the man had a grudge against police for complaints he made to them which he believed had not been properly investigated. His home-made bomb, which contained 145 nails, brake fluid, petrol and chlorine, was left near the police station car park on September 3 last year. The court heard the bomb squad was called and the device did not explode. If it had, the court was told, the bomb lacked the force to blast out the nails. However, Judge Roy Punshon said the use of the nails was disturbing. The Judge said the device had the potential to injure anyone who was standing very close. Police filmed the reconstruction and explosion of a similar bomb. The court heard the man had been diagnosed with schizophrenia and had a fragile mental state. In the days leading up

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to the incident, the man suffered a workplace accident and then resigned after a pay dispute. He then resorted to binge drinking and marijuana use. The man, who has been remanded in custody since his arrest last year, was charged with one count of making an explosive in suspicious circumstances and one count of acting to cause an explosion. He will serve a minimum of two years before being eligible for parole. Source: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21913514-2862,00.html

ALGERIATeen Terror Camp In Algeria DismantledJune 10, 2007: An Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb training camp for minors in the Boumerdes region of Algeria has been dismantled. Following a two-month investigation, 13 youths aged 14-18 have been arrested in the village of Thenia. The teens had already undergone some basic training and had provided logistical aid to the terrorist group. The teens were allegedly recruited by the group for eventual suicide bombings.Source: http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/1829.htm

Bomb defused in Tizi OuzouMonday, June 11: A bomb was defused Sunday in a bus station next to a police station in the wilaya of Tizi Ouzou (northern Algeria). At 10:15am a bus arrived in the station. Once the passengers got out from the bus, the conductor noticed a black bag in the bus. Then, he apprised the Police about the suspicious bag. Later, the Police intervened and defused the bomb. It’s worth mentioning that a hand-made bomb blew up next to a bus station in Tizi Ouzou last week killing a policeman and injuring 8 people. Source: http://www.echoroukonline.com/english/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=6523

Three people injured in bomb blastWednesday, June 13: A hand-made bomb blew up Tuesday at 12:30am in Zemouri in the wilaya (province) of Boumerdes (eastern Algiers) injuring three people. According to official sources, the bomb was hidden in a plastic bag and put next a mobile phone shop. The bomb targeted the shop owner as he used to work with self-defence troops of Boumerdes, said well-informed sources. The 36-year-old man lost his legs and two other people were wounded as they were close to the bomb. Source: http://www.echoroukonline.com/english/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=6544

EGYPTTerror cell planned on 'waging jihad'June 15 2007 Cairo: Security forces are holding a cell of extremists who had been planning to launch attacks inside Egypt, Israel and Sudan, newspaper reports said on Friday. The independent daily Al-Masri Al-Yom said the state security prosecutor's office on Thursday ordered the continuing detention of 14 members of the alleged cell at Tanta in the Nile Delta. They have been kept in custody secretly for three months under the state of emergency in force in Egypt for the past quarter of a century. The paper said the group was headed by a local veterinary surgeon, and that its aim was to wage jihad - holy war - inside Egypt, in the occupied Palestinian territories and also in Sudan. The investigation uncovered a planned attack against the courts in Tanta because Sharia, or Islamic law, was not in force there. Source: http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=85&art_id=nw20070615111321289C934049

SOMALIASomalia Police Intercept Car Filled with ExplosivesJun 12, 2007: Police in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, have intercepted a car loaded with explosives they say was going to be used against the interim government. Police found the car Monday at an intersection in the southern Hodan District of the capital. Two men were standing next to the vehicle, but fled when the police arrived. The police received a tip about a

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suspicious-looking car from people in the neighbourhood, so they went to investigate. In the trunk of the white Toyota Camry, police discovered several sacks of munitions, including 40 80-millimeter mortars, a rocket, a hand grenade, and several other items the police could not identify. The munitions were mostly old and many were rusted. No detonator cords or detonators were found in the car, suggesting that the munitions were not at the stage of being assembled into a bomb. Source: http://www.garoweonline.com/artman2/publish/Somalia_27/Somalia_Police_Intercept_Car_Filled_with_Explosives.shtml

KENYASuspects questioned in Kenyan blastJune 12, 2007 NAIROBI: Police are questioning three suspects in connection with an explosion in the Kenyan capital's packed business district that killed one man and injured 37 people. Investigators have not yet found a motive for Monday's blast outside the Ambassadeur Hotel, said police. Nor have they been able to establish what kind of explosives were used, the explosion was small and did not even burst the tires of a bus six feet (two meters) away. Police initially held six people for questioning but released three Rwandans after establishing that they were in the "normal course of their private affairs." The three suspects are ordinary Kenyans. Investigators are looking for people who may have taught the suspects how to use explosives, initial findings were that the device used on Monday was unconventional. The blast came at a particularly tumultuous time in the Kenyan capital. Gangsters linked to an outlawed sect called the Mungiki have been blamed for a string of beheadings in recent months. More than 30 people were killed by police last week in raids on a Nairobi slum believed to be a stronghold for the gang. The violence has raised fears that Mungiki members are out to disrupt the elections in December. Leaflets allegedly circulated by the group call on Kenyan youth to join up and prepare for an uprising against the government.Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/06/12/kenya.blast.ap/

Police release picture of prime Nairobi blast suspectNAIROBI, June 16: Police have released the picture of one of the prime suspects in the explosion that occurred in the Nairobi City Centre on Monday. Police urged the public to come forward, should they have any information on the man. Police have cause to believe that Farah Ahmed Hirsi has information which can assist in the investigation of this incident. Police had not been able to arraign the above named suspect to record a statement. The identity of the man who died in the blast was yet to be ascertained. Meanwhile, preliminary results of forensic examination carried out on materials lifted from the site have been received by investigators. Source: http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/newsarticle.asp?newsid=2380&newscategoryid=1

CANADAAlleged Basque terrorist arrested in VancouverJun 13, 2007 VANCOUVER: A man once suspected of being a Basque terrorist in Spain is being held in custody in Vancouver by Canadian immigration officials after his arrest in early June. Victor Tejedor Bilbao has been living in Vancouver since the late 1990s, employed as a construction worker and married to a Canadian woman. The 50-year-old was arrested and held by authorities in Spain in the 1990s but was released without charges. The Spanish government has not sought extradition. Bilbao is being held at the Fraser Valley Regional Correctional Centre while awaiting a bail hearing on July 12th before an immigration admissibility hearing in September. A Spanish newspaper, El Pais, has said Bilbao belonged to ETA, which has waged a decades-long war against the Spanish national government to make the Basque region independent. It said he was involved in bombings of power stations in 1981 and was living in Canada illegally.Source: http://www.thestar.com/News/article/225246

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICATrial set for man charged in library explosion12/06/2007: An October trial date has been set for an Illinois man accused in a pipe bomb explosion at the main Salt Lake City library. Thomas Zajac was visibly agitated during Tuesday's scheduling hearing, in part, because the trial's Oct. 1 start date was so far off. Magistrate Judge Samuel Alba set the date to accommodate presiding U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball's calendar as well as allowing time for filing motions and exhibits in the case. Zajac, 53, has changed attorneys five times since he pleaded not guilty in November to charges related to the Sept. 15 explosion of a pipe bomb at the Salt Lake City library. A previous trial date had been set for Jan. 30, 2007. Zajac was arrested at his home in Downers Grove, Ill., in October after investigators said they found his fingerprint on remnants of a rocket igniter at the scene. The blast blew out a window at the library and forced 400 people to evacuate the building. No one was injured and the library reopened the next day. Zajac is charged with carrying a destructive device in relation to a crime of violence, attempted damaging and destroying a building by an explosive device, possession of an unregistered destructive device, possession of a destructive device following a domestic violence conviction, wilfully using the mail to threaten the use of explosives and transportation of explosives in interstate commerce with the intent to damage and destroy a building.Source: http://www.sltrib.com/ci_6123155

Homemade Bomb Lobbed Into Camden Convenience StoreJune 14, 2007 CAMDEN, N.J.: A homemade bomb was thrown inside a Camden convenience store Thursday afternoon. Three employees were all in the back of the store at 26th and Federal streets at the time. They were not hurt and quickly called 911. Store employees said it was the first time they were the targets of such an attack, and they don't know who would want to hurt them. Officers surrounding the business were working Thursday night to figure that out. Police got the call at about 5 p.m. When they arrived, they found a homemade bomb in a soda bottle. One employee told NBC 10 off-camera the bomb made a loud noise when it was thrown into the store. But police said it never actually exploded, although the bottle did leave a stain on the floor. Local residents were outraged. Source: http://www.nbc10.com/news/13507425/detail.html

Clerk Charged With Fixing Terror Suspect's TicketsJun 15, 2007 CHERRY HILL: A municipal court employee charged with a small-time crime has found herself connected to an alleged plot to kill soldiers on a domestic military installation. Authorities announced Friday that Debra H. Benecke, a clerk in the Cherry Hill municipal court, was charged Thursday with fixing two traffic tickets for one of the men accused of plotting an attack, which never happened. Benecke, 48, a Pennsauken resident, knew Dritan Duka because Duka was acquainted with one of her children. On Oct. 16, local police charged Duka with making an illegal U-turn and driving without a license, and he was given a Nov. 9 court date. Authorities say Benecke helped him out of the court date by marking the tickets to make them appear that they had been taken care of when, if fact, they had not been. Neither ticket was ever paid. Cherry Hill checked the status of Duka's tickets after he was charged in the high-profile case - and that there was a clue about it from federal investigators. An automatic computer system audit probably would have revealed the discrepancy within a few months. She is charged with official misconduct and tampering and could be sentenced to 11 1/2 years in prison if she's found guilty on both counts. Authorities said she did not know about the alleged plot. Duka, who lives in Cherry Hill, his brothers Shain and Eljvir Duka and three other men were arrested on May 7 and charged with plotting to raid Fort Dix and kill soldiers there. Dritan Duka, 28, a one-time pizza-shop owner and roofer, and his brothers racked up a combined 50 traffic tickets between 1997 and 2006, according to a report published last month by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Duka faces life in federal prison if he's convicted in the plot case. A judge said this week that a trial could begin in October.Source: http://cbs3.com/topstories/local_story_166175123.html

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Saturday, 16 Jun 2007 LONGMONT Colorado: Longmont police believe they may have solved a year-long investigation into small explosions. Police assisted by the ATF executed a search warrant on this home in the 2400 block of Sunset Drive Friday night. Inside the home they found a large amount of chemicals, explosives and compounds. Saturday there are still more than three dozen people collecting evidence. A man and woman living in the home have been detained, but not arrested. There have been no injuries in the year-long investigation into the explosives. Source: http://www.myfoxcolorado.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=3512372&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1

Bomb Sent to San Francisco LabSaturday, June 16, 2007 KILGORE: Federal agents are investigating the discovery of a pipe bomb that was located underneath a Hawkins man’s pickup after the device partially detonated. Clay Alexander, senior resident agent in charge of the Tyler Bureau of the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Agency, said the car bomb found Friday morning was a “professional device,” that was installed to the vehicle’s chassis underneath the driver’s seat. “Agents have recovered a 16-inch partially detonated pipe bomb that was wired into the vehicle’s ignition,” Alexander said at the scene at Creative Coatings Inc. on Longview Street in Kilgore. “This device was designed to hurt this individual, and it is our belief had the device functioned properly, would have killed this man.” The Hawkins resident was at home when he started his truck this morning. He heard a noise and checked under the vehicle’s hood, but saw nothing amiss. But when he arrived at his job in Kilgore, his boss noticed something hanging underneath the vehicle. They examined it and called authorities. The Chevy emblem was knocked off and the grill was loosened by the blast, but the damage was minor and astounded authorities. A neighbour of the 60-year-old man said the news unnerved her and her family. Alexander said the victim is lucky to be alive. “We aren’t dealing with a novice here and the only reason he (the victim) is alive is because there was a defect in the pipe,” he said. Alexander said the bomb was unlike the more common pipe bomb with a fuse. “This suspect definitely had a knowledge of explosives and electronics to hook this bomb up to the ignition this way,” he said. The device was being sent to the agency’s forensic laboratory in San Francisco to gather more information about the maker of the bomb. Officials believe the bomb was placed sometime during the night at the victim’s Hawkins’ home. Source: http://www.tylerpaper.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070616/NEWS07/70615012

Trio sentenced for bomb, robbery plotFri, Jun. 15, 2007 Texas: Three Tarrant County residents who plotted to blow up police cars and rob three banks in the city of Hamilton were sentenced to prison Friday in federal court.James Edward Geske received the stiffest prison term of almost 12 years. Kevin Michael Smith was sentenced to just over 10 years, and Alicia Nichole Frazier received a sentence of nine years. Geske, Smith and Frazier were found guilty in February of trying to orchestrate the trade of methamphetamine for firearms and military explosives. The C4 explosives would have been used to blow up 15 Hamilton County police cars before the trio, armed with automatic weapons, simultaneously robbed three banks - First State Bank, Extraco Bank and Mills County Bank, authorities said. The plot was foiled when two accomplices recruited by the group turned out to be an undercover Arlington police detective and an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Source: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/138290.html

MEXICOMexico expels alleged member of Basque separatist group ETAJune 12, 2007 MEXICO CITY: Mexican authorities on Tuesday deported a Spanish man who reportedly belongs to the Basque separatist group ETA. Andoni Azpiazu Alcelay was arrested in the tourist city of Cuernavaca, south of the Mexican capital, for being in the country without a visa, Mexico's National Migration Institute said in a news release. Azpiazu was found after an anonymous tip. In Madrid, Europa Press reported that Spain had an arrest warrant for Azpiazu for allegedly financing terrorist activities. It said he was being flown to the capital to face charges. Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/13/america/LA-GEN-Mexico-Spain-ETA.php

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GUYANAGuyana judge denies bail for 2 sons of suspect in alleged JFK plotJune 13, 2007 GEORGETOWN: A Guyanese judge denied bail Wednesday for two sons of a suspect accused of plotting to bomb New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, ordering the pair to remain in jail on charges of illegal possession of ammunition. Kareem and Iqra Kadir, sons of plot suspect Abdul Kadir, 55, a former opposition legislator in Guyana, pleaded not guilty when they made their first court appearance before Magistrate Judge Melissa Robertson-Ogle on the illegal munitions charge. Prosecutors said a single round of ammunition for a high-powered rifle, which the brothers were not licensed to own, was found hidden at their home in the eastern Guyanese city of Linden during a search by local police and FBI agents on Sunday. Defense attorney James Bond told the judge that the Kadir's home in Linden was scoured previously by local police and no illicit material was ever found. After the hearing, Petal Kadir, wife of 29-year-old Kareem, who is an Iranian-trained cleric, alleged the ammunition was planted by authorities. “Our family is not involved in that sort of thing,” she said, visibly distraught. Police said the ammunition “was found after a search was conducted,” and would not provide specifics. The suspects' father, Abdul Kadir, was arrested earlier this month in Trinidad and Tobago and is accused of participating in a Muslim terror cell that planned to blow up a jet fuel artery that feeds the New York airport. The elder Kadir is being held in Trinidad with two other suspects until a hearing on a U.S. request for their extradition. Kadir's sons were not implicated in U.S. court documents filed on the alleged plot.Source: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070613-1351-guyana-us-terrorplot.html

VENEZUELAReports on ETA Radical Groups operating in VenezuelaCaracas, Wednesday June 13, 2007: Basque rebel group ETA has five groups of radical youth who have been trained in Latin America by veteran terrorists of the organization based in countries such as Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia or Dominican Republic, said a report. The Basque rebels have allegedly contacted old members exiled in Latin America for years, according to a classified report prepared by the Spanish military intelligence services supposedly leaked to El Mundo. Based on the document, five such "itinerant commandos" comprise 70 radical youth who are allegedly preparing in Spain an "impending attack" with great "public transcendence," possibly with a car-bomb. José Luis Eziolaza Galán, deemed as the "second in command" of ETA military apparatus, has been leading ETA's ranks in Latin America, known as "Bikingoak". According to the report, ETA activists in the region have not received a very specific training, and therefore they lack sophisticated knowledge on the placing of explosive devices. Their training has focused on the preparation of car bombs and handling of "limpet" bombs, which are attached to the bottoms of cars.Source: http://english.eluniversal.com/2007/06/13/en_pol_art_reports-on-eta-radic_13A884559.shtml

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