Following the announcement of imposing sharia law in Orakzai Agency, the Taliban on Tuesday occupied the Political Rest House in the agency, locals and political administration sources said.
A political administration official told Daily Times that the Taliban captured the rest house late on Monday.
He said the political authorities had already vacated the premises due to the growing Taliban presence in the area, adding the Taliban had little difficulty in overpowering two Khasadars deployed to guard the rest house. Taliban sources said they would use the building as their office.
Bannu: An official of the Bannu Bomb Disposal Squad was killed when he tried to defuse a bomb in Cantonment police station precincts of Bannu district, police said on Tuesday.
Police official Gul Khan told Daily Times that the bomb was planted in a bazaar close to Peepal Road in Bannu Cantt and exploded as the official, Rehmatullah Marwat, tried to diffuse it.
Meanwhile, unidentified men on Tuesday torched Government Girls' High School in Fatehpur area of Swat district.
Aswat al-Iraq: A civilian was wounded on Tuesday in a roadside bomb explosion, while four bombs were defused in eastern Mosul, an army source said. "An improvised explosive device went off on Tuesday (Jan. 6) in al-Nour neighborhood in eastern Mosul, targeting an Iraqi army vehicle patrol, injuring a passing civilian," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "The wounded was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment," he added. "Anti-bombs squad managed to defuse four bombs in al-Nour, al-Qadissiya and al-Karama neighborhoods in eastern Mosul," he also said.
Aswat al-Iraq: Unidentified gunmen set two communication towers of AsiaCell ablaze in eastern Mosul, a police source said on Tuesday. "Unknown gunmen set fire to two communication towers in al-Quds and al-Taameem neighborhoods in eastern Mosul on Tuesday (Jan.6)," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "They fled to unknown place," he added. Last month, the company urged the Iraqi government to protect it from the armed attacks, which affected its services, according to a company's statement.
Aswat al-Iraq: Police patrols on Tuesday found a body of an element of the oil protection force in southeastern Mosul, a police source said. "Policemen found on Tuesday (Jan. 6) a body of an element of the oil protection force in al-Wehda neighborhood in southeastern Mosul," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "He was choked to death and his body bore no signs of gunshot wounds," he added.
Aswat al-Iraq: A civilian was killed and six others were wounded on Tuesday in a car bomb explosion in southwestern Baghdad, a police source said. "A car crammed with explosives went off near al-Halawani markets in al-Sidiya region in southwestern Baghdad on Tuesday (Jan. 6) while an Iraq army vehicle patrol was passing, killing a citizen and injuring six others, including three soldiers," the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
Aswat al-Iraq: The spokesperson for Baghdad's Operations Command (BOC) on Tuesday said there have been intelligence tips that a male or female bomber was recruited to conduct a suicide attack inside or outside al-Kadhimiya Shrine during the Ashuraa occasion, a matter which has necessitated preventing women from entering Kadhimiya. "The decision is effective on Tuesday and Wednesday," General Qassim Atta told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "Iraqi security forces are currently conducting search and raid operations in certain areas," he added.
(AKI) - An Israeli warplane on Tuesday struck the home of a militant leader from the Islamist group Hamas' rocket division in the Gaza Strip.Ayman Siam is believed to have been killed in the strike against the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces said Siam was at home at the time of the attack.
As well as being the founder of Hamas' rocket launching programme, he headed the group's artillery throughout the territory, the IDF said. Another damaging loss to the Gaza Space Program...
#1: Is there a greater waste of human potential as that which the PLO and now HAMAS has squander? The crap the the toddler Paleos have been feed in cartoons and other indoctrination programs will be the death nail to these people.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the Security Council that the United States, Israel's closest ally, understands "the urgency of an end to the fighting" and is working around the clock to achieve it.
"In this regard, we are pleased by, and wish to commend, the statement of the president of Egypt and to follow up on that initiative," Rice said, referring to a cease-fire plan proposed by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Rice cautioned, however, that any solution must include an end to Hamas rocket and mortar attacks on southern Israel, she should have said all rocket attacks because that wording allows so called splinter groups to fire off rockets
the opening of all borders in Gaza, hope this means border crossings, not borders
and an end to arms smuggling into the Palestinian territory.
(AKI) -- More than 4,000 Indonesians have offered to support Hamas and fight against Israel, a radical Islamist group has told Adnkronos International (AKI). The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) has been mobilising jihadists to support the ruling Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip against the current Israeli offensive.
"We started the list last Friday and more than 4,000 people registered to go and fight Israel," Sobry Lubis, secretary-general of the FPI told AKI.
Sobry said the FPI wanted to send only a thousand jihadists and the group was considering the background of the volunteers. Among the criteria is a willingness to die as a martyr.
"We have a list of ten points that volunteers must endorse for them to be considered. One of the obligations is a willingness to be a martyr."
Sobry did not provide details about finance for the mission, possible departure dates or the group's itinerary.
The FPI is one of several Indonesian groups to have drawn up a recruitment list. Analysts have expressed doubts suggesting that several groups had sought to do something similar in the past but there was no proof that Indonesians had fought in the Middle East.
Nevertheless, many in Indonesia - the world's largest Muslim country - feel strongly about the Palestinian issue. Thousands of people have protested in major cities throughout the archipelago against Israel's offensive over the past ten days.
Jakarta has no diplomatic relations with Israel and the Indonesian government has promised 2 million dollars in humanitarian aid. The Indonesian military has also said it is ready to send troops to Gaza if the United Nations requested members to take part in a peace mission.
An Indonesian humanitarian contingent arrived in Egypt on Monday in a bid to organise a medical aid centre on the border with Gaza.
The FPI is a hardline Islamic group known for conducting annual raids targeting night clubs, bars and venues that failed to observe the holy month of Ramadan.
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Sri Lankan government troops on Tuesday captured a key Tamil Tiger defence line on the Jaffna peninsula, killing scores of rebels, the defence ministry said.
A statement said the rebels were "in total disarray following concentrated armour and infantry assaults backed by heavy artillery attacks".
It said government troops pushing south from the top of the peninsula were able to advance 500 metres into Tamil Tiger territory after breaching the line -- which featured some of the toughest rebel fortifications.
There was no immediate comment from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who appear to be rapidly losing ground in the north in the face of a huge government offensive.
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(AKI) - An Israeli warplane on Tuesday struck the home of a militant leader from the Islamist group Hamas' rocket division in the Gaza Strip.
