Category Archives: Terrorism

At least 3 Russian servicemen killed, another 3 wounded by suicide bomber in Chechen capital

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Calgary Herald:

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUGUST 6, 2012 10:10 AM

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia – At least three Russian servicemen were killed and another three wounded when a suicide bomber detonated outside a Chechen department store on Monday, officials said.

The Investigative Committee said the attack took place in Chechnya’s provincial capital, Grozny, and the attacker also died in the explosion.

Chechnya’s branch of the Russian Interior Ministry said in a statement that it appeared that two suicide bombers took part in the attack and four Russian servicemen were killed. There was no explanation for the discrepancy in the two accounts.

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Militants attack Egyptian border post

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CBC:

Assault on checkpoint kills 15 guards

The Associated Press

Posted: Aug 5, 2012 4:36 PM ET

Last Updated: Aug 5, 2012 5:35 PM ET

State TV said the attack was carried out by Islamist militants.

A security official said seven other guards were wounded in the attack, which took place around sunset, when the troops were having the traditional meal at the end of the daily Ramadan fast.

The official said the attackers seized an armoured vehicle before driving away. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to speak to reporters.

The Israeli military said two vehicles were commandeered by the attackers, including one that crashed into Israel, where it blew up.

In a statement, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said Israel’s military and the internal security agency “thwarted an attack that could have injured many. The militants’ attack methods again raise the need for determined Egyptian action to enforce security and prevent terror in the Sinai.”

Initial reports said seven guards were killed in the attack, but emergency services official Ahmed el-Ansari later told Egypt’s news agency that 15 had been killed. He said seven had been wounded by gunfire.

President Mohammed Morsi called for an emergency meeting with the military following the attack, State TV said.

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New York Daily News actually bothers to mention the motive, which was a plot to kidnap an israeli soldier.

 

Mass shooting at Sikh temple. Gunman dead and so-far, un-named

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as of this moment there is no news published as to who the murderer is in this horrible and senseless slaughter. However I am going to stick my neck out and say it was a Sikh male from another competing temple as part of an ongoing dispute over religious observances, or a disaffected member of that temple. In either case, a Sikh.

We shall likely know soon.

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Yemen suicide bomber kills 45 in Abyan

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5 August 2012 Last updated at 10:47 ET

Yemen suicide bomber kills 45 in Abyan

Men looking at blast site
The group had gathered for a funeral when the suicide bomber struck

The Yemeni government has blamed al-Qaeda for a suicide bombing that has killed at least 45 people in the southern province of Abyan.

Dozens more were wounded in the attack on a funeral in the city of Jaar.

The bomber is said to have detonated an explosive belt during the service held by a tribal militia that supported the army during recent fighting.

Earlier, five alleged al-Qaeda militants were killed in a suspected US drone strike, Yemeni officials said.

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Syria conflict: Photographers’ UK jihadist claim considered

Jeroen Oerlemans (left), Shane Bell from the New York Times and John Cantlie

John Cantlie (right) and fellow photographer Jeroen Oerlemans (left) were threatened with death

Reports that Britons were among Islamist militants who kidnapped and wounded two photographers in Syria are being taken “very seriously” by ministers, the Foreign Office has said.

The claims were made by photographers John Cantlie and Jeroen Oerlemans, who were held at a camp for a week in July.

The Foreign Office said it was closely “monitoring the situation”.

The Free Syrian Army group, which is part of the opposition trying to oust Bashar al-Assad, helped them to escape.

Mr Cantlie, who is British, and his Dutch colleague, Mr Oerlemans, were both wounded in a “shooting gallery” as their thwarted captors fired after the fleeing men.

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One of the suspected members of Al Qaeda had been living for 6 years in Gibraltar

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Hermes updates us on the muslims arrested with explosives and intent in Spain:

From Politics in The Nation:

 

  • Turkish national C. Y. was very well regarded in the construction industry
  • The police believes that he was the „facilitator” for the other two detainees

C. Y. was detained last Wednesday by the National Police for being an alleged member of Al Qaeda

Turkish national Cengiz Yalcin, who was arrested by the National Police during an operation against three alleged members of Al Qaeda, had been living in Cádiz and Gibraltar for at least 6 years. As newspaper El País reported yesterday, last time he had been working with the Gibraltar-based Profield Contractors construction and real state development company. This firm confirmed that the detainee began his work in the company in 2008 as a civil engineer, and before this, he had been working in the construction industry in Gibraltar for at least two years. “He arrived with very good references from some sectors or the construction industry”, the company stated in a communiqué issued this morning, in which it also declared that “the recent happenings related to his detention came as a surprise to the company management”,

This company has among its main clients the Government of the (English) colony, for which it was currently working on the renovation of a block of flats ant the removal of debris from the construction of the dam which is currently being built in that territory to reclaim land from the sea

“During his working period in the company, his behavior was absolutely normal and he gave no reason to suspect that he could have been involved in the alleged terrorist activities for which he has now been arrested”. Profield Contractors declared that it will collaborate with the police of Gibraltar in whatever needed. The company was searched yesterday evening, and the police seized documents related to the detainee.

The three alleged members of Al Qaeda were arrested last Thursday and Wednesday in Cádiz and Ciudad Real. The police operation was carried out at a faster pace due to the possibility that two of them, who are already under custody in the general police station, could leave the country. A. A. A. y M. A, who according to their own declaration came from Chechnya, but whose nationalities are still to be determined – although the investigators believe that one of them is Russian ant the other from an ex-soviet republic – had taken a bus traveling from Cádiz to Irún (Gipuzkoa), probably in order to cross the border to France, where it is suspected that they had already lived before. They were caught in Almuradiel (Ciudad Real) on Thursday at 00:35 a.m., and after showing an enormous resistance, they were detained by the GEO (special operative forces of the police). C.Y., a Turkish national married with a Moroccan, and who according to the police had allegedly acted as a “facilitator” for the two members of Al Qaeda, had hours before been arrested in La Línea de la Concepción – Cádiz.

CTB: Israelis should leave Sinai at once

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Counter-Terrorism Bureau issues repeated warning against travel to Sinai Peninsula, citing concrete info on terror groups’ intention to carry out attacks against Israeli citizens

Attila Somfalvi

Published:08.02.12, 19:55 / Israel News

The Counter-Terrorism Bureau at the National Security Council on Thursday issued a repeated travel warning to the Sinai Peninsula, calling on all Israelis who are planning to travel to or who are currently staying in Sinai to return to Israel immediately.

 

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A travel warning to the area has been in place for a long time, however the Bureau is now reiterating its call, citing terror groups’ intention to carry out attacks against Israeli citizens.

 

YNET NEWS:

The Bureau stated that it has obtained concrete information on terror organizations in Gaza Strip and other elements that are planning terror attacks and abductions of Israeli tourists in Sinai.
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Not safe for Israelis. Sinai Peninsula (Photo: Avigail Uzi)

 

The statement also requested that relatives of Israelis who are currently in Sinai to inform them about the travel warning.

 

In recent weeks, a number of attempts to carry out attacks against Israeli citizens and soldiers near the Egypt border have been thwarted.

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Synchronized Bomb blasts in India Aug 1 2012

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NDTV.Com

Four Pune blasts, one injured, on a night when Sushil Shinde was expected

Pune: Pune this evening saw four low-intensity blasts in a span of nearly 40 minutes on its busy Junglee Maharaj Road in the heart of the city. Two other bombs have been defused by the Anti-Terror Squad. All the bombs were placed within a kilometre. At least one person has been injured. He has been taken into custody.

Home Secretary RK Singh told NDTV that the injured person is being treated as suspect and questioned by the police. Mr Singh also said that a terror angle cannot be ruled out as it appears to be a planned attack.

Sushil Kumar Shinde, who took over today as India’s Home Minister, was scheduled to be in the city tonight to preside over a prize-giving ceremony. He cancelled his plans at the last minute. “The blasts were of low-intensity. I was supposed to be at the Tilak Theatre, very near to where one of the blasts took place. At this moment, I cannot say anything more. It is now a matter of inquiry, ” he told reporters in Delhi.

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Identical twins facing up to 14 years in prison after admitting funding terrorism in Somalia

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Pay special attention to where they work

Daily Mail:

  • Shafiq Ali works for Carlyle Security, a firm which has a contract with Transport for London

By Paul Milligan

PUBLISHED: 14:55 EST, 31 July 2012 | UPDATED: 15:41 EST, 31 July 2012

  • Banned: Police discovered a copy of 44 Ways to Support Jihad' by the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki at the home of the twins

Banned: Police discovered a copy of 44 Ways to Support Jihad’ by the radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki at the home of the twins

Twin brothers from east London are facing up to 14 years in prison after admitting fundraising for extreme Islamic groups.

Mohammed Shabir Ali and Mohammed Shafiq Ali, 25, admitted at the Old Bailey knowing the money they raised would be sent abroad to be used for terrorism.

The identical twins, from Tower Hamlets, raised the money between August 2008 and June 2011.

Shafik Ali works for Carlyle Security, a firm which has a contract with Transport for London, his brother Shabir is unemployed.

They were arrested at their home in Stepney, east London, last June and found to be in possession of ’44 Ways to Support Jihad,’ written by radical cleric Anwar Al Awlaki, who died last year in a drone strike after leading al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Previously the court has heard the identical pair raised cash through a ‘Dawah’ religious stall to send to their brother Mohammed Shamim who is believed to have travelled to Somalia in 2008 to carry out martyrdom atrocities.

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Iran accuses Israel of plotting Bulgaria bus attack

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Swiss Info:

A bus that was damaged in a bomb blast on Wednesday is seen outside Burgas Airport

A bus that was damaged in a bomb blast on Wednesday is seen outside Burgas Airport (reuters_tickers)

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Iran’s U.N. envoy accused Israel on Wednesday of plotting and carrying out a suicide bomb attack on a bus in Bulgaria a week ago in which five Israeli tourists were killed.

A suicide bomber blew up the bus in a car park at Burgas airport, a popular gateway for tourists visiting Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, killing himself, the Israeli tourists and the Bulgarian bus driver and wounding more than 30 people.

Israel has accused Iran and the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah of the bombing. Iran has denied the accusations.

“It’s amazing that just a few minutes after the terrorist attack, Israeli officials announced that Iran was behind it,” Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Mohammad Khazaee told a U.N. Security Council debate on the Middle East. “We have never and will not engage in such a despicable attempt on … innocent people.”

“Such terrorist operation could only be planned and carried out by the same regime whose short history is full of state terrorism operations and assassinations aimed implicating others for narrow political gains,” Khazaee said. “I could provide … many examples showing that this regime killed its own citizens and innocent Jewish people during the last couple of decades.

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London 2012: Israel fears an Iranian act of terrorism

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ANSAMED:

Mossad is hunting suspects, tensions on Munich’s commemoration

23 July, 18:18

(ANSAmed) – Rome, 24 July – His name is David Jefferson, he travels on a U.S.A. passport, and he has an incredibly potent explosive device. Fearing a repeat of the 1972 Munich disaster, in which 11 athletes lost their lives, israel has unleash Mossad on this suspect, Forty years later, terrorism returns to the Olympics.

Yesterday, the Sunday Times wrote: “the Israeli government fears an Iranian cell in Europe planning an attack on the anniversary of the 1972 Olimpics, against the 38 israeli athletes.”We are on alert” Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed to the American CBS, without giving details on the “specific information we have on the Games”, which are for authorized eyes only.

Fear of a Munich II is in the air, while the Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, supported by American President Barack Obama refuses to commemorate the attack of the 1972 during the Opening Cerimonies, or on the sites of the Olympics. If the Olympic Committee doesn’t do it, both Israel and Scotland yard fear terrorists might commemorate that bloodbath , when the Black September Palestinians climbed the walls of the Olympic Village kidnapping the Israeli athletes, and requesting the release of 234 prisoners from Israeli jails. This time, a steel ring has been set up around the Olympic park, and in the centre bunkers have been organized, so that V.I.P.’s can be locked in for their own safety in the event of an attack.

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Bulgaria blast: Burgas bus bomber ‘part of group’

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Israeli Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov (right) pays his respects to the five Israeli victims of a suicide blast which targeted a bus of Israeli tourists, during a commemoration ceremony at the site of the blast at Burgas airport in Bulgaria on TuesdayIsrael’s tourism minister paid his respects to the bomb victims at the site of the blast on Tuesday

The suicide bomber who killed six people in Bulgaria last week was part of a sophisticated group of conspirators, Prime Minister Boiko Borisov has said.

He said the group had arrived in Bulgaria a month before the attack.

But he declined to back Israeli claims that Iran and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah played a role.

Five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver died in last Wednesday’s bombing in Burgas on the Black Sea.

The identity of the man who carried out the bombing remains unclear.

As well as those killed, dozens of people were wounded in the blast.

Israeli Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov laid a wreath at the bomb site during a memorial ceremony on Tuesday.

‘Exceptionally skilled’

Mr Borisov, who was speaking in Sofia alongside White House counter-terrorism chief John Brennan, said the US was supporting Bulgaria’s investigation into the attack.

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Olympic ‘terror visas’ racket

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This is the story of how a little British tabloid actually had the audacity to actually do journalism, while the rest of the official English media does propaganda for political correctness.

The story is staggering, but equally so, its good to know there is someone in England actually protecting British interests. For you people living in the UK, go out and buy a copy of the SUN. They deserve it.

H/T Barron Bodissey

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Terrorist fear over uniforms

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 SUN.UK

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By NICK PARKER
Published: 20th July 2012

THE security crisis deepened yesterday amid fears terrorists could use uniforms and passes supplied to missing guards.

A G4S staff trainer said hundreds of yellow ‘Games Time’ outfits and post-training documents had vanished with the staff who have failed to show at Games venues.

He said: “Anyone in a G4S uniform would have a clear advantage if they tried to breach security. They’re not the sort of items you’d want in the hands of terrorists.”

One recruit said she was invited by G4S to pick up her official uniform six months after she FAILED the vetting process.

She added: “It’s a dangerous mistake. It means people who are genuine terror threats may have been issued uniforms.”

But G4S insist even staff with a uniform would not get on a site without first reporting to an on-site supervisor who would issue them with a “venue access pass”.

Another 1,200 troops have been put on standby to guard venues, joining the 3,500 already called up.

Soldiers preparing accommodation for military helpers in Wapping, East London, were having to pay £1 for a shower at a leisure centre. The MoD said they will be reimbursed.

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Ramadan starts with a blast in Thailand

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The real story is how ABC’s headline is about bombs going off but the entire 2 page article is nothing more than a puff piece on the wonders and magic of peaceful happy joy joy Ramadan and how hard it is to calculate the start and how its all about fasting, piety and good deeds. ABC is disgusting.

Below, is a much more accurate and dare I say even academic analysis of Ramadan:

ABC News:

Ramadan’s Start Marred by Bomb Blasts in Thailand

By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press
JAKARTA, Indonesia July 20, 2012 (AP)

 

Millions of Muslims began fasting Friday at the start of the holy month of Ramadan in Indonesia and Thailand, where the somber occasion was marred by two bomb blasts that killed one person and injured seven, officials said.

The Muhammadiyah group, Indonesia’s second-largest Muslim organization, told its 30 million followers that Ramadan starts Friday. The government, however, declared the official start as Saturday when most of the remaining 190 million Indonesians will begin the annual dawn-to-dusk fasting for a month.

Muslims in the Buddhist dominated Thailand also began Ramadan on Friday, while India, Pakistan, Malaysia and Bangladesh will start Saturday or Sunday.

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