Ten years ago, on August 7, 1998 , Al-Qaeda conducted simultaneous car bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania . Over 250 died in these attacks, including 10 Americans at the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, and 6000 were reported injured. The August 7, 2008 East African Standard reports that new intelligence reports show that the Al-Qaeda terrorists planned in Nairobi "to
Indian Bombings - Bomb Blasts In India - Pray For Peace
AHMEDABAD: Investigators scoured Ahmedabad on Sunday, detaining 30 people for questioning in the city that saw 16 bombs blasts around dusk on Saturday, the city’s police commissioner OP Mathur said.
Little-known Islamic militant group the Indian Mujahideen claimed responsibility in an e-mail to a television [...]
As the third anniversary of the botched 7/21 bombings approaches, the NEFA Foundation is releasing a PowerPoint briefing, authored by NEFA Senior Analyst Josh Lefkowitz, titled, "The July 21, 2005 London Transport Bombings: An In-Depth Look at the Planning, Execution, and Failure of the Attack." Drawing on police surveillance photos, extensive CCTV footage, and other exhibits released by the Metro
This column is another in the ongoing series on the terrorist threat to India and the surrounding region by Frank Hyland and Animesh Roul. The near-simultaneous terrorist bombings in the “Pink City” of Jaipur, India, on May 13th - numbering perhaps as many as nine - in retrospect reverberated most loudly, perhaps, in the halls of the Indian Government. In a nation fully 40% the size of
BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide car bomb and another car packed with explosives targeted Iraqi police patrols Saturday on opposite sides of Baghdad, killing at least six people, police said.
The suicide attacker rammed into a police patrol mid-afternoon in Nisoor Square on the capital’s west side, killing a civilian and a policeman, police said. Another [...]
Los siete islamistas del 11-M presos en A Lama piden ayuda al capellán de la cárcel - Galicia - Faro de Vigo, thanks to Alawen:The islamists who are imprisoned in the Galician prison of A Lama after being condemned because of the March 11th bombings, which killed 191 and hurt 1824 people, have asked the Catholic Church for help.The seven imprisoned -sentenced from 12 to 23 years in jail- have in
IHT - One of the seven bombs that blasted this historic city ripped apart Sumana Khan's life, killing her mother and two aunts and leaving the 4-year-old girl with a broken arm, a fractured leg and shrapnel in her back.Most of the bombs were placed in bags left on bicycles that police have traced to two shops in Jaipur's old city, said city Inspector General of Police Pankaj Singh.Nearly a dozen p
IHT - Abdul Hadi criticized such attacks as un-Islamic and un-Afghan during a speech Tuesday in the Archi district of Kunduz province, said Khair Mohammad Subat, the provincial education department director.Hadi spoke at a gathering of about 700 people, including the Kunduz governor, and was on his way home when he was killedIn January, Education Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar said the number of st
Radical Islam has an ugly foothold in many Islamic dominated countries and Afghanistan is right in the middle of it. Does anyone actually believe this part of the world can be reformed by “winning the hearts and minds” of Afghans? I’m not so sure…
AP - Afghan teacher killed after speech condemning suicide bombings
KABUL, Afghanistan: A [...]
*update* death toll over 80
Seven bombs kill 80 in Indian tourist city
The religion of “pleasing Allah with more bombs” has struck India today…
AP
AIPUR, India - Five bombs ripped through crowded parts of an ancient city in western India on Tuesday, killing at least 30 people and wounding 100 others, police said.
AFP on twitter is now [...]
This week's edition of the NEFA Foundation's TerrorWatch cybercast takes an inside look at "Operation Theseus": a series of ongoing criminal investigations and trials in the United Kingdom involving a network of alleged accomplices in the July 7, 2005 suicide bombings in London. In the Spring of 2007, British police arrested four men: Waheed Ali, Mohammed Shakil, Sadeer Saleem, and Khalid Khaliq&#
1983 Beirut suicide bombing that left 241 people dead.When one considers the insanity of US foreign policy in which successive White House administrations employ the same failing strategies and tactics in combating terrorism, efforts by former President Jimmy Carter to reach out to Hamas seem rather reasonable and sober-minded. The irony is that critics are quick to label Carter as naive. And that is a mild criticism compared to others bandied about this past week. But perhaps those critics should examine their support of US foreign policy a bit closer. It seems to me that marching in lockstep with counterterrorism policies that have colossally failed over nearly three decades at the cost of countless lives is simply beyond naive in itself and just plain stupid.Since 2001, A Dramatic Incre
It has been another deadly day in Baghdad as a bomb has exploded killing many innocent civilians near the Green Zone.
A parked car bomb exploded in a commercial district of central Baghdad Thursday, killing 18 people and wounding dozens more.
The bombing took place off a bridge in Tahrir Square, a district of clothing shops just outside the heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses the U.S. Embassy and much of the Iraqi government, a police official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information. The policeman and a hospital official said 18 people died. The hospital official said 57 others were injured.
The attack is the latest in a string of violence to grip Iraq's capital after several months of relative calm that followed
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Two mentally retarded women strapped with remote-control explosives - and possibly used as unwitting suicide bombers - brought carnage Friday to two pet bazaars, killing at 73 people in the deadliest day since Washington flooded the capital with extra troops last spring. The coordinated blasts - coming 20 minutes apart in different parts of the city - appeared to reinforce U.S. claims al-Qaida in Iraq may be increasingly desperate and running short of able-bodied men willing or available for such missions. But they also served as a reminder that Iraqi insurgents are constantly shifting their strategies in attempts to unravel recent security gains around the country. Women have been used in ever greater frequency in suicide attacks. The twin attacks at the pet markets, howe
Here are few remarks about the bombings in Algeria today: An Al Qaeda link? Most experts in Algeria and the Arab world believe this terror campaign is either inspired or ordered by al Qaeda in the Maghreb. Even if the execution is perpetrated by local Jihadist groups it is part of the Salafist general offensive against Algeria's Government and an extension to the North African operations by al Qaeda Maghreb in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mauritania and possibly later Libya. This attack in Algeria...(read more)
The latest reports on the suicide bombings in Algeria today indicate that over 60 died and scores were injured (you can see photos of the destruction ). We have reported more often than any other website on the development of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in Algeria and northern Africa, and we will cover this event in depth. Here is a sample of CT Blog posts by Olivier Guitta , Evan Kohlmann , Walid Phares , and Jeffrey Imm , in chronological order starting with the most recent: New worrying signs...(read more)
World tourism is far from worried about the political noise and the bombings in Metro Manila, according to Ho Kwon Ping, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Banyan Tree Group, one of the world’s leading resort chain owners.
In assessing the impact of the Batasan and Glorietta 2 bombings on the local tourism industry, Ho said, “we are not particularly worried.”
The Banyan Tree Group executive made the comment during a press briefing in Malacanang after his courtesy call on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. (more…)
Fox and Friends’ Brian Kilmeade openly calls for US support for acts of terrorism—such as car bombings—in Tehran. His criminal remarks are a direct offense to victims of terrorism all around the world and render Kilmeade morally equivalent to terrorist groups like al Qaeda which he ostensibly denounces.read more | digg story
Iran backs Hezbollah, which committed the bombing. Now, they're about to get a notice on the case in which 85 people were murdered in Buenos Aires in 1994 (via Hot Air): Iran's top diplomat says the U.S. and Israel are pressuring Interpol to put five Iranians and one Lebanese on its most wanted list next week for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center that killed 85 people.
But the lead
Jenin, West Bank (SatireWire.com) — Having nearly exhausted its supply of young martyrs, the militant group Hamas today asked a Palestinian court to approve of physician-assisted suicide bombing, arguing that the elderly and terminally ill should be allowed to end their lives with dignity, respect, and catastrophic destruction. The request, which would permit doctors to prescribe explosives-laden vests for their patients, horrified most Palestinians, and also drew criticism from the West Bank Martyrs Local 572, which objected to the use of non-union personnel.
But family members of the old and infirm supported the proposal.
“My mother is 82, she is not well, and I don’t want her to end her days in some flea-bitten hospital,” said Jamal Hawari of Hebron. “I want her to die gloriously in, say, a mall, or on a bus.”
yes kiddies, that was a joke
A Spanish judge has given guilty verdicts on some of the 28 people accused in the trial over the 2004 Madrid train bombings, which killed 191 people and injured 1,800.
One of the convicted includes Jamal Zougam, one of the alleged surviving ringleaders.
Four people have been convicted of murder among other offences. Three were sentenced to 30 years in prison for each of the 191 people who died and 20 years each for each of the 1,800 injured. That is around 41730 years in prison. Among the convicted is Spaniard Emilio Suarez Trashorras who was found guilty of supplying explosives.
A reporter for Sky News has said,
“These are the sort of sentences that the prosecution has been pushing for, although we know that under Spanish law no one can serve more than 40 years.”
In total there were 21 people convicted of offences relating to the bombings. Seven others were acquitted. These included alleged ringleader Rabei Osman, who is already serving a 10-year sentence for terror offe
The death toll for the bombing in Pakistan yesterday now stands at 134.
Joe Torre has ended his 12 year association with the New York Yankees, preferring to walk away rather than take a pay cut.
More evidence that the GOP is in a weird way, religious conservatives are having a hard time deciding who to support in 2008.
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Chris Dodd says he will filibuster the Senate FISA bill if it includes telcom immunity. Go Dodd!
More on telco immunity: Guess what, the guy who’s writing the bill (Jay Rockefeller) just came into some serious telco lobbying cash. No wonder the Senate bill includes immunity.
Chris Bowers (and I) ask, “Why Not Colbert?”
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At least 28 people have died in multiple suicide bombings in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, and additional 68 have been wounded. Authorities have indirectly confirmed that the victims were government workers and military personnel. Although no one has yet claimed responsibility, jugging by the method and the targets, it's almost certain that Islamic militant groups are behind these bombings. Read more about the bombings and other developments in Pakistan in the AP article.
*Owners of Target franchises make plans to open stores back up again.*Instead of saying, “We are under attack, please take shelter,” citizens are now told, “Here we go again, you know the drill.”*Everyone wears sunglasses all the time.*Sarcastic giggling heard just behind live CNN reporters.*Yesterday’s lead headline in most Iraqi newspapers was “NBA Lockout Continues.”*Instead of running for cover at the sound of the air raid sirens, the Iraqis do the “Tomahawk Chop.”*Hussein’s latest address to the nation included the line, “We must resist the Great Satan, yadda yadda yadda…”*Christiane Amanpour is being invited to rooftop bomb watching parties all over Baghdad.*Baghdad High’s senior class has playfully painted a bull’s-eye on the roof of the school.*Iraqi Television Network preempts Hussein’s speech to show “Baywatch.”*Maps of Baghdad being divided into numbered grids and sold on street corners to play “Cruise Missile Bingo.”*Baghdad weather g
“Available information points to the involvement of terrorist organisations based in Bangladesh and Pakistan,”: Bombing in India has killed 46 individuals; forensic teams continue to look for evidence, but “terrorist” involvement is suspected according to India’s home minister Shivraj Patil Vineet.
“All of the Peloponnese is destroyed. This is an environmental disaster. All down to the sea, it’s destroyed.”: Greece has been hit with some of the worst forest fires it has experienced since the mid-nineteenth century. A reward has been offered to help catch suspected arsonists.
“We congratulate Iraq’s leaders on the important agreement reached today in Baghdad…. (and) their commitment to work together for the benefit of all Iraqis,” President Bush announced today after leaders in Iraq signed an agreement aimed at ending sectarian violence.
However, dissatisfaction with Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, continues t
The 2007 Pew Global Attitudes survey, released July 24, reports a substantial decrease in Muslim support of suicide bombings and Osama bin Laden."The marked decline in the acceptance of suicide bombing is one of several findings that suggest a possible broader rejection of extremist tactics among many in the Muslim world," said the report, according to a July 24 Reuters article. The numbers are remarkable. Support for bombings and terror tactics has dropped in seven of eight countries where data were available, according to AP.In Lebanon, Muslims who believe suicide bombings are justified some or all of the time plummeted from 79 percent in 2002 to 34 percent.In Pakistan, the percentage dropped from 41 percent in 2004 to 9 percent. Among Jordanian Muslims, 56 percent had confidence in Osama bin Laden as a world leader in 2003; the number has dropped to 20 percent. Incredibly, none of the major television networks mentioned this survey during the July 24 evening newscasts. So why isn
A leftist guerrilla group claimed responsibility Tuesday for a series of bombings of pipelines operated by Pemex, Mexico's national oil company, and authorities moved quickly to protect the nation's oil and gas industry from further attacks. The Popular Revolutionary Army, or EPR, said in a communique that it would continue its bombing campaign until the government disclosed the whereabouts of two EPR members said to have disappeared last year in the southern state of Oaxaca.Mexican oil, gas pipelines attacked A spokesman for President Felipe Calderon said the government would "punish those responsible" for the attacks that began Thursday. Founded a decade ago, the EPR is a small group based largely in the southern state of Guerrero. Officials were taking steps to increase security at the country's "strategic installations," Calderon's office said in a statement.Explosions sent flames nearly 1,000 feet into the air before dawn Tuesday outside the city of Corregidora, in the centr
A leftist guerrilla group claimed responsibility Tuesday for a series of bombings of pipelines operated by Pemex, Mexico's national oil company, and authorities moved quickly to protect the nation's oil and gas industry from further attacks. The Popular Revolutionary Army, or EPR, said in a communique that it would continue its bombing campaign until the government disclosed the whereabouts of two EPR members said to have disappeared last year in the southern state of Oaxaca.Mexican oil, gas pipelines attacked A spokesman for President Felipe Calderon said the government would "punish those responsible" for the attacks that began Thursday. Founded a decade ago, the EPR is a small group based largely in the southern state of Guerrero. Officials were taking steps to increase security at the country's "strategic installations," Calderon's office said in a statement.Explosions sent flames nearly 1,000 feet into the air before dawn Tuesday outside the city of Corregidora, in the centr
PLANS TO MARK THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE LONDON BOMBINGS The second anniversary of the attacks will be marked by a public act of remembrance and opportunities for private reflection. Tessa Jowell, the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone and Transport Commissioner Peter Hendy will formally mark the second anniversary of the atrocity by laying flowers at Kings Cross station at the time of the bombings. 7th July Assistance Site There will be no national 2 minutes silence this year, but that shouldn't stop each one of us from reflecting on past events and ensuring that we do something to help prevent this from happening again.
PLANS TO MARK THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE LONDON BOMBINGS The second anniversary of the attacks will be marked by a public act of remembrance and opportunities for private reflection. Tessa Jowell, the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone and Transport Commissioner Peter Hendy will formally mark the second anniversary of the atrocity by laying flowers at Kings Cross station at the time of the bombings. 7th July Assistance Site There will be no national 2 minutes silence this year, but that shouldn't stop each one of us from reflecting on past events and ensuring that we do something to help prevent this from happening again.
It's the sort of headline usually reserved for the red tops but the events of Saturday and Sunday make you wonder. Glasgow airport is a target like all other air gateways but I doubt many put it high up the terrorists' list. The same applies to the London scene. Basically, any target will do if it creates fear and chaos. So just look at Crewe station and imagine what disruption and carnage a device could cause on the busy platforms! It hits home hard when you consider the impact on people and places that we see each week. As we drove back from Lymm on Sunday morning we heard about the chase and arrest near junction 17 of the M6 at Sandbach. I'd fancied a quick trip down memory lane and asked Mrs Crewe blog to exit at junction 18 so I could take a look at some bit of Holmes Chapel where I spend a few of my formative years. Normally, we would have gone on to either the Sandbach or Crewe exits. You never know what might happen! It's important that we all try to carry on as normal. Be
In Light of the London Bombing
June 29, 2007
In light of the London Bombing, I think we would all do good to remember that we are still vulnerable to attack. Furthermore, we should remember that the enemy attacks symbols of American dominance or during symbolic times.
We are coming up on the Fourth of July next week and people will be gathering in mass to celebrate the birthday of this wonderful nation. And although the Terror Threat still remains at Elevated, the government is urging Americans to be vigilant about suspicious activity in light of the London bombings. The fact is, a terrorist or enemy really wouldn’t care about when they attack, they simple want an easier target. So keep your head straight this next week and look out for one another.
The London bombing is only a reminder to us. It’s just a thought to you right now. But this war with terrorism is far from over and we would all do well to remember that. Before 9/11, no one could have imagined t
1 In 4 Young Adult American MuslimsBelieve Bombing Civilians Can Be JustifiedFacts about the religion of peace... About 1 in 4 young adult American Muslims says suicide bombings against civilian targets "to defend Islam" can be justified rarely, sometimes or often, according to a new Pew Research Center poll -- a finding that disturbed American Muslim leaders and thinkers across the country."It's something that the Muslim community should be aware of -- it's a phenomenon we should be concerned about," said Farid Senzai, a Fremont resident and director of research for the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, which helped shape the questions on the survey. "It is very troubling."At the same time, the poll of 1,050 people across the country found that 78 percent of U.S. Muslims reject suicide bombings entirely.Pew's survey provides a groundbreaking look at American Muslims, one of the nation's highest-profile and least understood groups. Its findings include responses from A
To me a top element of fascism;When the people disagree with you, control what they hear and see until you can shape a story that wlll turn public opinion your way."We do not want evidence to be disturbed before the arrival of detectives, theministry must respect human rights and does not want to expose victims and doesnot want to give terrorists information that they achieved their goals."Oh what crap, you don't want the PEOPLE to see the terrorists achieved their goals, let's be honest and stop playing PR Games.
A television shows the word "terrorists," in a small museum dedicated to evidence that Cuban authorities said they found against Luis Posada Carriles and others in Havana, Thursday, May 10, 2007. For Cuban officials enraged by a U.S. judge's decision to release their archenemy, the evidence collected after numerous 1997 Havana hotel bombings is a stinging reminder that the 79-year-old militant has never been tried in those attacks or other violent acts he's accused of. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) ***************************** HAVANA -- The plastic explosives were smuggled in bottles of White Rain and Prell shampoo, and in the soles of a pair of black leather boots. Fixed to Casio digital clocks and 9-volt batteries with black adhesive tape, they became powerful bombs.
Some of them never detonated, and are now on public display in Havana as part of what Cuba calls a wealth of evidence against Fidel Castro's archenemy, Luis Posada Carriles, in a string of 1997 bombings targeting Hava
and what is Iraq's fledging democractic government going to do about it?Take a two month vacation while they're protected by the best soliders in the world.Life is good for a member of Iraq's parliament, isn't it?
While the Algerian Army killed GSPC #2 today, the future remains quite bleak for Algeria.
From The Croissant comes this story:
Chronology of the GSPC – Al Qaeda strategy:
PAST:
1- [in the nineties]: Afghan Arabs:
According to security forces sources involved in counterterrorism:
a) When Afghans Arabs were kicked out of Bosnia, some of them settled in Algeria, via Morocco
b) [...]
A string of suicide attacks on April 18 and April 19, including what appears to be the single most deadly bombing in Baghdad since the beginning of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, highlights the lack of security in Iraq and the ongoing rift between Shia and Sunnis in Iraq. Together, Wednesday’s and [...]
International Herald Tribune: Algeria bombings accentuate terror fears heading into French presidential electionExcerpt:"For France, nervous about the possibility that Islamic terrorists may target its presidential election next weekend, the al-Qaida-claimed suicide bombings in its former colony Algeria struck too close to home.Mindful of Spain's experience in 2004, when Islamic terrorists bombed trains just three days before parliamentary elections, anti-terrorism officials in France have for months factored in the risk of terror attacks in the policing plans for the April 22-May 6 two-round vote."We are being extremely vigilant. France faces a real, varied, multiple terrorist threat," said Interior Minister Francois Baroin after the car bombings of the prime minister's office and a police station in Algeria's capital on Wednesday killed 33 people and injured more than 200."http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/12/europe/EU-GEN-France-Election-Terror.phpAlex
Indonesian police may have captured one of Indonesia's prime terror suspects, wanted for helping protect Bali bombings mastermind Noordin Mohammed Top. Indonesian officers from the Detachment 88 anti-terror squad, which Australia helped set up after the Bali bombings, killed one terror suspect and injured another during the ambush on a Yogyakarta street last night. The men are believed to be members of the network of prime terror suspect Abu Dujanah, wanted for helping protect Noordin Top - Indonesia's most wanted terrorist.It was unclear whether Dujanah, also known as Ainul Bahri, was among those involved in the shootout in front of a shop in the Depok sub-district of Yogyakarta, about 7pm (2300 AEDT) yesterday. However, Indonesia's Metro TV reported Dujanah, from west Java, was one of six people were arrested.
Six arrested for Lebanon bus bombings
Members of al Qaeda-linked group accused of bombings, planning attacks against UN force.
BEIRUT - Members of an Al-Qaeda-linked group have admitted carrying out last month's deadly Lebanon bus bombings, a government official said Tuesday.
Six members of the group are in custody, some of them nationals of once-dominant neighbour Syria, and all have confessed to their part in the February 13 bombings which killed three people and wounded 18 in a mountainous area northeast of Beirut, the official said.
Another two members of the cell of the Fatah-Islam group are still at large, the official added, asking not to be identified.
It was the first time a Lebanese official had spoken of the arrest of suspects in the bombings.
The detained suspects confessed to carrying out the bombings from a rented flat in the Ashrafiyeh area of east Beirut. The rental was made in the name of Syrian Mustafa Shiyo, the official said.
The suspects said they h
Indonesia's resort island of Bali has banned screenings of a film on the 2002 bombings there because it could "reopen old wounds", a provincial film board official said.Long Road to Heaven, Indonesia's first film on the bombings that killed 202 people, had a high-profile release in Jakarta last month.The movie looks at the tragedy from different points of view, including those of a Balinese taxi driver who lost a relative in the blast, an American surfer searching for peace after the September 11 attacks and Muslim militants who were blamed for the bombs. "If this movie is allowed to be screened in Bali, we fear people who do not understand it would trigger conflict and direct hatred at a certain group," said I Gusti Ngurah Gde, head of Bali's provincial film body.
I was reading the news this morning when I came across an article saying that in Hilla, Iraq two suicide bombers detonated their bombs in busy marketplaces yesterday. At least 73 people died and more than 163 people were injured in the bombings. I am sure that virtually all of those people were just innocent civilians out doing a little shopping at the market. It is the same as in all wars past...the real victims are the civilians. For some reason when I was reading this article a song popped in my head, so I posted a few lines from it below.There's somethin' happening here, What it is ain't exactly clear. There's a man with a gun over there, Tellin' me I gotta beware. I think it's time we stop, Hey, what's that sound, Everybody look what's going down.- For What It's Worth, Stephen Stills, 1966
{mosgoogle right}A chilly rain was falling on Nagasaki on Feb. 3 when Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 92, received word of his friend's death. Kuniyoshi Sato had passed away months before at age 87. The two men had not seen each other in 40 years.They had worked together as engineers at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' Nagasaki shipyard. On Aug. 6, 1945, they were in Hiroshima together on business. They returned to Nagasaki and thus became double hibakusha, atomic bomb victims twice over.
