A suicide bomber blew up an explosives-filled car near international troops in eastern Afghanistan Saturday, killing two Afghan boys and wounding a NATO soldier, officials said. The bombing just outside the city of Khost was the second suicide attack in Afghanistan since Thursday, when a blast in Kabul killed six civilians and wounded four soldiers deployed as part of a US-led coalition. Taliban militants claimed responsibility for both attacks.
A NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) spokesman who asked not to be identified confirmed one soldier had been hurt in the blast. The alliance force, made up of around 47,000 soldiers from nearly 40 countries, does not release the nationalities of its casualties. However most foreign soldiers in eastern Afghanistan are US nationals.
Khost deputy police chief Mohammad Yaqoub said two children -- both 13 years old -- were killed and at least two civilian men injured in the attack.
Taxi driver Mohammad Ai'waz told AFP from the site soon after the bombing: "I can see a car on fire and another car flipped on its side next to the road. Lots of foreign troops are in the area and have sealed off the bombing site."
Khost, which is located on the border with Pakistan, has seen a spike in Taliban-linked insurgent attacks in recent weeks. Two NATO soldiers and two Afghan workers were killed in a suicide attack which targeted a joint Afghan-NATO outpost in the province's Yaqoubi district on March 4. A policeman was killed in a similar attack a day later elsewhere in the province.
In the southern province of Zabul, Afghan forces on Friday discovered a dozen explosive vests intended for suicide attacks, two car-bombs and dozens of home-made bombs with remote-control devices, an official said. One such bomb tore through a vehicle carrying road construction workers in Kandahar on Friday, killing three labourers, provincial official Niaz Mohammad Sarhadi told AFP.
Last year was the deadliest since the Taliban were toppled from power, with more than 8,000 people killed, according to a report delivered to the UN Security Council this month. About 1,500 were civilians, it said. There were about 160 suicide attacks last year, up from 123 the previous year.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/16/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11129 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
(KUNA) -- The US-led coalition forces said they had detained 11 Taliban militants during a joint operation with Afghan troops in the southeastern zone. A statement released from the coalition forces' Bagram base here on Friday said the suspected militants were captured in Khost province. All those held were accused of having links with foreign fighters and were allegely involved "in improvised explosive devices attacks and weapons facilitations," said the statement.
In a separate operation, the Afghan and coalition troops discovered "a number of improvised explosive device (IED) making materials, several hand-grenades, small-arms, ammunition and ammunition vests", the statement said.
On Thursday, a homicide bomber attacked a two-vehicle convoy of the American forces in Kabul killing six civilians and injuring 15 more. It was learnt later that four soldiers traveling in the convoy were slightly injured. Earlier, a similar attack was carried out on a convoy of Canadian troops in the southern province of Kandahar which also caused civilian casualties. The Thursday suicide attack in Kabul was staged after a lull of more than 20 days.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/16/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
#3
Thanks, Tipper. It will be interesting to see how long up with this the English will put. This could almost make the natives sympathise with the CoE. I can see Ian Paisley getting into the gun running business again at this rate.
#6
They are almost certainly Muslim by family background. But if, as the story suggests, they were drunk and high it's just as likely that they are in a no-man's-zone between their parents' culture and modernity.
#7
"it's just as likely that they are in a no-man's-zone between their parents' culture and modernity"
I. Don't. Care.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
03/16/2008 12:53 Comments ||
Top||
#8
I do. That can be dealt with more easily than the committed jihadi.
Provided Britain is willing to do so. They aren't doing a good job with the ethnically British yobs either. And educated ethnic Britains are emigrating in droves.
Why should I care? Because the UK is a nuclear power and a voting member of the UN security council and NATO, among other reasons. And because they and the Aussies are the closest in culture and values to us among our allies, still.
I still have hopes they can get their house in order. Not high hopes, alas, but hopes nonetheless.
If they don't it's going to be even worse for us than I'm projecting for the next decade or more. And withdrawing from NATO and the UN would do little for us in the short and mid-term, even if it could be done quickly.
#9
Sounds like a couple of "youts" need to do about 150 years' hard time digging a second Channel tunnel - this time to Jersey. For safety equipment, give them a long rubber hose and a cork float.
Of course, the most successful course of action would be to crush their right hand and expel them to Soddy aRabida.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
03/16/2008 13:15 Comments ||
Top||
#10
The attack took place in the early evening after Canon Ainsworth politely asked three Asian youths who had gathered in the churchyard to quieten down.
The Brits are soooo politically correct. Don't want to offend anyone--particularly the mooselimbs. How long must this charade go on before they get medieval?
#13
If a few non-Muslim youths pulled the same stunt at a mosque -- beating up the imam and shouting that it should become a church -- would the Muslim community be passive? I think not. Nor should it be. The infidel Brits are doomed by their own passivity.
And another thing: If I were a non-Muslim "Asian youth" I'd be pissed at the cowardly MSM for libeling me.
#14
Wife Jan insists her husband feared publicity over the attack could lead to racial tension
Er, excuse me maam, please tell Vicar Ainsworth that high tension is already there and it needs publicizing -- including the religion of the offenders.
#15
Darrell is correct about the Brits being doomed by their own passivity; except that it's not the Brits, it's the Christians and their secular fellow travelers. Until someone starts really thundering from the pulpit about what is being done to Christians in Dar es Salaam as well as the middle of Christendom, we should only expect more of the same. Even B-XVI is too muted about this.
#16
They are almost certainly Muslim by family background. But if, as the story suggests, they were drunk and high it's just as likely that they are in a no-man's-zone between their parents' culture and modernity.
#20
Se also BRUSSELS JOURNAL > YOUNG IMMIGRANTS THE GREATES THREAT TO [Danish-EUro] SOCIETY, + NEUTO + WHATS [read - WHOM?] BEHIND THE MEDITERRANEAN UNION?
(KUNA) -- Regular Turkish military forces have stepped up action against die-hard warriors of the rebel Kurdish group, the Workers Party of Kurdistan, in the border southeastern regions.
The "CNN Turk" network quoted a statement by the Turkish Army as saying that the government military forces killed 21 gunmen of the Kurdish group, also known as the PKK, in the frontier areas.
Gunship helicopters were involved in the army's combing operations in the rugged, mountainous regions, and military reinforcements were called in.
The Turkish Army has recently carried out a major mop-up operation against bases and hideouts of the PKK, penetraing deep into northern Iraqi territories. Today's reports indicated that the latest clashes centered in the Sirnak province.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/16/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11124 views]
Top|| File under:
At least four FBI agents were wounded -- none critically -- in a bomb attack on a popular Italian restuarant in Islamabad this weekend. The attacker tossed a small bomb or hand grenade directly into the restuarant courtyard, which is known for serving alcohol to Westerners. Multiple sources said that the attack was under investigation to see whether it was based on the terrorists having learned in advance of the agents' presence.
In Washington, meanwhile, officials downplayed the possibility that the attack specifically targeted the agents based on advance intelligence. They cited the relatively small size of the attack -- one in which injuries to the agent's were relatively minor -- as part of their rationale. Also the explosive does not appear to have been tossed directly at the agents' table. The top agent in the country, U.S. Embassy FBI attache Ray Biteski, suffered serious ear damage, an assistant attache reportedly suffered a concussion and two agents are reported as suffering minor injuries. The two who suffered minor injuries were treated and released. Biteski and a second agent were med-evaced to Europe.
This was the first bomb attack on U.S. citizens or government personnel in Pakistan since a church bombing in 2002.
Posted by: john frum ||
03/16/2008 16:43 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11131 views]
Top|| File under: al-Qaeda
#1
Personally i am surprised that the FBI hasn't rushed out in front of this to declare it 'is not terror related'
Posted by: Abu do you love ||
03/16/2008 19:18 Comments ||
Top||
HT to HotAir At least 20 people were killed in a missile strike near the Afghan border on Sunday, state-run Pakistan Television said. The strike destroyed the house of a suspected militant leader, according to a local tribesman. Seven missiles were fired in the strike in the tribal area of South Waziristan, the television report said. we reaaaalllyy wanted somebody dead
The report did not indicate where the missiles came from, but U.S.-led coalition forces based in neighboring Afghanistan have launched attacks inside the Pakistani border in the past.
On the other hand, they coulda come from Guatamala or Samoa.
Made possible by the new in-air refueling drones from Airbus ...
Pakistan has been battling Islamic militants linked to al-Qaida and the Taliban in its regions bordering Afghanistan. The U.S. considers the country's effort vital to the war on terrorism.
The missiles were fired by an unmanned drone, local tribesman, Rahim Khan, told The Associated Press. At least two hit and destroyed the home of a local militant leader and Taliban sympathizer who goes by the single name Noorullah, Khan said. Do the drones carry seven missiles? I thought was four hellfires, max....
In primitive counting systems I believe it goes "one, two, seven," with "seven" meaning "lotsa."
This article starring:
HAJI NURULLAH
Taliban
NURULLAH
Taliban
Posted by: Frank G ||
03/16/2008 09:48 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11136 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
I was the black djinn. He does stuff like that.
#3
From a Feb 2006 Strategy Page article. The U.S. Air Force has bought another five MQ-9 Predator B UAVs, for $8.3 million each. The original Predator cost $4.5 million each. The B model has less endurance (24 hours compared to 40 hours for the A model), but carries more munitions (1.7 tons). Weapons carried include Hellfire missiles, and 250 or 500 pound smart bombs. Typically, the Predator B will go into action carrying 16 Hellfire missiles. The Predator B is meant to be a hunter-killer UAV. It will go into action looking for targets it can immediately attack. The Predator B has been undergoing tests in combat zones for over five years.
#7
Gosh dang, I wish on veterans day the military would take the day off and hand the controls of these drones in Paki land and a cold six-pack over to us arm chair generals.
He and his crew operated in & out of the Wazoo R & R camps [rest and refit, sic snuggle nanny goat inbetween earnest practice on one's Islamic Scowl].
I'm sure at one time or another they all packed a round or two provided by you, me and my dear mother.
Here is the track that he and his merry band of 300 mixed Jihadis took in the late 80s.
IMPHAL Six paramilitary troopers were killed and four wounded yesterday in an ambush by separatist militants in Manipur, officials said. A police spokesman said militants of the outlawed United National Liberation Front (UNLF) ambushed a post of the paramilitary Assam Rifles at village Minou in Chandel district, about 120 km south-west of capital Imphal.
"Six Assam Rifles soldiers were killed and four injured in the attack with UNLF militants using automatic weapons. The Assam Rifles soldiers were caught unawares with the militants carrying out the strike just before dawn on Saturday," a senior police official said. Four soldiers were wounded in the attack. "The location where the Assam Rifles camp was based is almost on the edge of India's border with Myanmar and the militants may have sneaked back to their bases across the border," the official said.
The UNLF, fighting for an independent homeland for the majority Metei community in the state of 2.4 million people, has claimed responsibility for the attack by calling up local newspaper offices. There are over 19 groups active with demands ranging from secession to greater autonomy. Many militant groups have bases in Myanmar with Manipur sharing an unfenced border with the junta-ruled country.
Posted by: Steve White ||
03/16/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under:
The tribal militia Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) on Saturday arrested a couple who had left the Charsadda district after their court-marriage some two and half years ago. Noorul Amin and Faiza had been living in the Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency for the past year, until their house in the Karigar Ghari area was raided by LI men.
The militia said they were holding the couple after local residents complained about them. However, the detained husband told Daily Times that he and his wife had married in a Nowshera court two and a half years ago, and that after living in Afghan Colony, Peshawar, for one and a half years, they had shifted to Bara. Amin said he was a motorcycle dealer and was not involved in any illegal business, as had been alleged by relatives of his wife.
However, self-proclaimed LI chief Mangal Bagh said the couple was detained after the LI received complaints from local residents. He said his militia was investigating the matter. He said his organisation would contact the womans father, in addition to those who might have any proof of charges against the couple. He said the couple would be provided with protection if they were found not guilty, otherwise the couple would be punished according to local customs and traditions.
This article starring:
MANGAL BAGH
Lashkar-e-Islam
Lashkar-e-Islam
Posted by: Fred ||
03/16/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11123 views]
Top|| File under: Lashkar-e-Islami
The Peshawar-Bara Road was reopened on Saturday after remaining closed for more than ten days, locals and police sources told Daily Times.
The road was opened after tribal militia Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) on Friday released Zar Kamal, one of the ten people it had kidnapped. A local elder, Haji Ataullah, told Daily Times that the Khalil Mohmand tribe had reopened the road after the LI released its last captive.
LI men had kidnapped 10 people on March 3, after its militia stormed the Dani Baba Shrine in Shaikhan village. The LI men destroyed four houses in the area, set the shrine on fire, and killed around 12 villagers.
LI men had kidnapped 10 people on March 3, after its militia stormed the Dani Baba Shrine in Shaikhan village within the jurisdiction of Badabher Police Station.
The LI men destroyed four houses in the area, set the shrine on fire, and killed around 12 villagers. Several other villagers were injured in the attack. Some prisoners were released on March 7 after a jirga held negotiations with Mengal Baghs tribal militia. However, since some of the people were still in the custody of the tribal militia, tribesmen refused to open the road until the militia had released all the prisoners.
The tribesmen had blocked Peshawar-Bara Road and blown up Battatal Bridge near Bara Qadeem check-post on March 6. The police have lodged a case against Mengal Bagh and his 500 militiamen for attacking and killing the villagers. However, so far they have not made any arrests.
Nor will they.
This article starring:
MENGAL BAGH
Lashkar-e-Islam
Lashkar-e-Islam
Posted by: Fred ||
03/16/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11124 views]
Top|| File under: Lashkar-e-Islami
(KUNA) -- As many as three insurgents were killed in separate encounters with security forces in Indias Northeastern state of Assam Saturday. In North Lakhimpur district of Assam, two insurgents were killed in an encounter with Indian Army personnel, news agency Press Trust of India reported, quoting a source in Defence Ministry.
In a separate encounter in Assams Karbi Anglong district, another insurgent was killed, the source said. A .32 bore revolver and five cartridges, a hand grenade and a mobile were recovered from the slain insurgent.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/16/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
A .32 bore revolver and five cartridges,
Now that's scraping the bottom of the barrel, can't even afford a decent weapon.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
03/16/2008 14:34 Comments ||
Top||
(KUNA) -- Security forces Friday in a search operation arrested 31 militants and recovered huge cache of arms and armament in northern Pakistani Sawat valley.
The operation that lasted for more than two hours, was conducted in Charbagh and Baderkaly areas of Sawat valley after a roadside bomb explosion targeted an official vehicle, security sources told KUNA.
They said about 31 militants were rounded up and also huge cache of arms and armament was also recovered.
The operation was launched after a roadside bomb targeted an official vehicle. The explosion damaged the car but did not cause any human loss.
The security forces are deployed in Sawat since November last year when President Musharraf declared emergency rule in the country due to worsening law and order. More than 150 militants, supporters of local extremist militant commander Mullah Fazlullah, have been killed and several arrested in the operation. Though, the operation has been ended but forces are still deployed to maintain the security situation.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/16/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11128 views]
Top|| File under: TNSM
A powerful bomb blast ripped through Italian restaurant Luna Caprese in Islamabad on Saturday, killing a Turkish woman and wounding about 15 other foreigners including US diplomats. A foreigner was killed in the blast at the restaurant, Islamabad police chief Shahid Nadeem Baluch told AFP. We believe its a bomb, there is a crater and all such craters are created by explosives. He told Daily Times that investigations were under way to determine the nature and motive of the blast.
Restaurant manager Shaukat told AFP that a group of about a dozen foreigners were eating in the garden at the back of the restaurant when the explosion happened, blowing human limbs into the air. US embassy personnel were among those wounded, US embassy spokeswoman Kay Mayfield told Reuters.
Federal Government Services Hospital officials said the injured included at least five Americans, a Japanese, a Canadian, a Briton and three Pakistanis. Senior official Dr Iftikhar said two of the three Pakistanis were in critical condition because of severe burn and pellet injures. The foreigners were out of danger, he added.
Foreign medical staff, apparently from the US embassy, rushed to the Federal Government Services Hospital to assist the doctors.
At least three of the injured, including a Japanese, were taken to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, officials said.
Interior Secretary Kamal Shah ruled out a suicide attack. He told reporters it was too early to say what device was used and what the motive was.
Sources close to the initial investigations into the explosion said it was apparently a hand grenade attack carried out by two people, who fled instantly.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Syed Kaleem Imam told Daily Times it someone might have thrown explosives into the restaurant from the adjacent alley, but said the cause of the explosion could only be known after the investigations were complete.
Doctors said the dead woman was Inder Baskar, who worked for a Turkish relief agency. The injured were identified as Earl Camp, Ray Pitesk, Bennet Bruce, Trish Gibbs and Rod Sneider from the US; Keith Pierce from the UK; Adan from Canada, Onaish and Motobo from Japan; and Masood, Zahid, Kamran Abbasi, Ajmal and Liaquat from Pakistan.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/16/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11124 views]
Top|| File under: al-Qaeda
MIRANSHAH: At least five people were killed and another seven wounded as two rival groups traded fire during a local jirga in the Mir Ali subdivision of North Waziristan on Saturday. The elders were holding the jirga in the Spin Wam area on Mir Ali-Tal Road when the clash occurred. Those killed and injured belonged to maliks (tribal elders) and local Taliban, residents said.
The clash resulted in the deaths of four tribesmen and one Taliban. Also, two tribesmen and five Taliban were injured. The locals said the jirga had been called to arrange a compromise between two rival families. While discussing the conditions of a truce, the two sides started fighting, resulting in the casualties.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/16/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11128 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
#1
Wudn't a jirga supposed to be the part where you put the guns aside and, uh, talked things out?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
03/16/2008 8:44 Comments ||
Top||
Iraqi security forces clashed with a breakaway faction of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army again on Saturday, leaving five dead and 15 injured in the latest violence to sweep the country, police said. The fighting between the gunmen and police in Kut, about 160 kilometers southeast of Baghdad, has lasted for several days.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/16/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under: Mahdi Army
(KUNA) -- Tens of militiamen were arrested on Saturday in the Iraqi city of al-Kout, the largest city in the Wasset Province South of Baghdad, due to reoccurrence of clashes between security forces and militias.
Storming operations to track down militiamen took place throughout the city's neighborhoods, which resulted in the arrests, including 25 suspects on the wanted list, an Iraqi police source told KUNA. Huge amount of weapons and explosives were confiscated during the raids, the source added, yet failed to report the exact number of arrests. Two Iraqi policemen were killed and ten others were injured due to clashes that took place yesterday at the city which borders Iran.
Office of Shiite leader Muqtada Al-Sadr plausibly denied relations with perpetrators of the attacks, describing them as a "group of outlaws". The clashes came few days after the Sadr's al-Mahdi Army militia was waived to defend itself against any attacks executed "exclusively" by coalition forces in Iraq.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/16/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under: Mahdi Army
(KUNA) -- A vest-wearing suicide bomber trying to cross the Iraqi and Syrian border killed Friday an interpreter serving with the Multi-National Force. The blast also wounded two Coalition force soldiers, two customs security personnel and two U.S. Department of the Army personnel at the Rabiyah Point of Entry, a US military spokesman said on Saturday. "Insurgents are committed to conducting senseless acts that affect the foundation of freedom every Iraqi citizen deserves. But the resolve and will displayed by the citizens will not be broken," said Major Gary Dangerfield, he said in a statement. The incident is under investigation
Posted by: Fred ||
03/16/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq
The IAF bombed a terrorist cell that was on its way to fire rockets into Israel on Saturday evening. Three gunmen were wounded in the strike.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/16/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under: Hamas
#1
Now, see, this kind of preemptive strike is the cause of all of the violence in the Mideast. How did IAF know they were going to shoot the rockets at Israel? Maybe they were just plumbers with some pipes on their truck. Or an organist on the way to a concert. Or something.
/sarcasm
Posted by: Rambler in California ||
03/16/2008 1:02 Comments ||
Top||
#2
IAF bombs terrorist cell on its way to fire rockets at Israel
poor paleo rocket farmers were just planting rockets and then they were gone..exterminated! awww the poor poor vermin..
Israeli airstrikes killed three Palestinian terrorists and wounded six, Palestinian medical and security officials said. They said the dead and injured were all members of the Islamic Jihad group, hit in three separate raids in central and northern Gaza.
The IDF confirmed two strikes, in which it said five armed men preparing to launch rockets at Israeli targets were hit. Earlier, the military said, three Palestinian rockets fell in Israel but there were no reported casualties. Two of the Islamic Jihad members that Palestinians said were killed in an IAF strike in Gaza were responsible for the rocket attack last month which left Sderot boy Osher Twito with one leg.
Meanwhile, a fake bomb was found on the road to Ma'aleh Adumim near a Border Police base on Saturday with an attached note warning of upcoming terror attacks. The device was stored inside a white bag and contained a cellular phone. The note, signed by Hamas and written in Arabic, "cautioned Israeli governance of terror attacks."
Posted by: Fred ||
03/16/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic Jihad
A huge car bomb at the best-known hotel in the deep South on Saturday evening killed a bystander and injured 15 others including Senator Anusart Suwanmongkol. The bomb went off in the evening at the car park adjacent to CS Pattani Hotel in Pattani. Pournjit Prapinvanich, director of Pattani hospital, said that one person was killed and 15 others were wounded. Ten patients were treated and discharged, Pornjit said.
The dead men was a hotel security guard who was in the parking lot when the bomb went off. A dozen vehicles and the hotel lobby were all damaged. Three of the bomb victims were listed in critical condition. Mr Anusart only suffered minor injuries.
Sen Anusart is among the 74 selected members of the new Senate, and represents the southern business sector. Two members of the Pattani provincial council were among the wounded. "This is a big blow to security," said Col Akra Thiproj, the southern region's army spokesman. "The CS Pattani is the region's most popular hotel among tourists and officials."
Two smaller bombs were detonated at 8:00 pm in the hotel's ground floor restroom, and another outside the coffee shop, but caused little damage and no injuries.
Meanwhile, at about 11:45 pm Saturday suspected separatists burned down a school in Saiburi district of Pattani, and detonated a bomb when security personnel arrived to douse the flame, killing one soldier and injuring another six, Akkara confirmed.
Many glass windows were shattered by the bomb blast at one of the few luxury hotels in the deep South. The 200-room inn is frequently used by government officials. Somchai Kaotong, 40, who was wounded in the head and arm by the car bomb, recalled that the armed vehicle was parked "in a different manner" from other vehicles at the hotel, directed towards the lobby.
Earlier on Saturday, a man was killed when explosives inside his car went off in Yala, police said. Salahuding Pula, the dead man, was believed to be preparing bombs to carry out attacks at the Youth Centre in Yala town. He was the brother of Abduloh Pula, leader of an extremist gang in Than To district of Yala. His body was found near the burned vehicle, in front of the Youth Centre.
(KUNA) -- At least 28 rebels of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have been killed on Friday in separate clashes in the battle fatigued Northern region of Sri Lanka.
At least six LTTE rebels were killed in Vannakulam in Mannar and three others were killed in Nadunkandal, Sri Lanka's Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) said on Thursday in Colombo. In separate incident, one LTTE cadre was killed in Karukkulam and another was shot dead in Illanivan in Mannar, MCNS added. The center also added another LTTE rebel was killed in Nagarkovil in Jaffna. At least, six LTTE rebels were killed in Karampeikulam in Vavuniya and six others were killed in Vilathikulam in the same region yesterday, the MCNS said.
In another incident, three rebels were killed in North of Janakapura in Welioya yesterday, a Sri Lanka Defence Ministry statement said today in Colombo. One more rebel was killed in Eastern Ampara, the Ministry said.
Posted by: Fred ||
03/16/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under:
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A suicide bomber blew up an explosives-filled car near international troops in eastern Afghanistan Saturday, killing two Afghan boys and wounding a NATO soldier, officials said. The bombing just outside the city of Khost was the second suicide attack in Afghanistan since Thursday, when a blast in Kabul killed six civilians and wounded four soldiers deployed as part of a US-led coalition. Taliban militants claimed responsibility for both attacks.
(KUNA) -- The US-led coalition forces said they had detained 11 Taliban militants during a joint operation with Afghan troops in the southeastern zone. A statement released from the coalition forces' Bagram base here on Friday said the suspected militants were captured in Khost province. All those held were accused of having links with foreign fighters and were allegely involved "in improvised explosive devices attacks and weapons facilitations," said the statement.
At least 20 people were killed in a missile strike near the Afghan border on Sunday, state-run Pakistan Television said. The strike destroyed the house of a suspected militant leader, according to a local tribesman. Seven missiles were fired in the strike in the tribal area of South Waziristan, the television report said.
The tribal militia 
MIRANSHAH: At least five people were killed and another seven wounded as two rival groups traded fire during a local jirga in the Mir Ali subdivision of North Waziristan on Saturday. The elders were holding the jirga in the Spin Wam area on Mir Ali-Tal Road when the clash occurred. Those killed and injured belonged to maliks (tribal elders) and local Taliban, residents said. 
Israeli airstrikes killed three Palestinian terrorists and wounded six, Palestinian medical and security officials said. They said the dead and injured were all members of the Islamic Jihad group, hit in three separate raids in central and northern Gaza. 
(KUNA) -- At least 28 rebels of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have been killed on Friday in separate clashes in the battle fatigued Northern region of Sri Lanka.
