[The News (Pak) Top Stories] The Taliban in Afghanistan accused the South Korean government of breaching the 'clandestine agreement' by sending 500 troops to the war-battered country and warned to start attacks on Koreans and their installations.
Taliban said the South Korean government had agreed to pull out its troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2007 in exchange for safe release of their 19 nationals and had promised not to send more troops to the country in future.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, who called The News from an undisclosed location on Wednesday, said Taliban had freed the 19 Korean nationals in September 2007 after the South Korean government promised to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and would never send more in future.
"It's a sheer violation of the agreement they had made with us. Now under pressure from the United States, the South Korean government has announced to send 500 additional troops to Afghanistan. This means they backtracked on their commitment and will fight against us," explained the Taliban spokes-man.
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ION TOPIX > BANGKOK GOVERNOR: BURMA A THREAT TO THAILAND'S STABILITY [Burma = Myanmar mil modernization vee Thailand, + drug trade].
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ION SAME > GUAM SAYS IT CAN'T TAKE BASE AT CENTER OF JAPAN ROW + GUAM'S GOVERNOR EXPRESSES OPPOSITION TO ACCEPTING BASE MOVE FROM JAPAN + GUAM'S GOVERNOR REJECTS OKINAWA BASE MOVE.
Methinks my former anti-Soviet Afghan War cohort + Whitney fan Osama Bin Laden just got an EARLY XMAS GIFT.
The Terrorist Taliban organization kidnap (and who knows what else) 19 Korean Civilians - a clear and blantant violation of war and the Geneva Convention.
In order to win their release, South Korea agrees to pull their troops and not send any more in the future.
Now the Taliban are accusing the Koreans or violating their agreement? An agreement made under duress?
[Asharq al-Aswat] The confrontation between the ruling National Congress party which is led by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and the Sudanese opposition parties and the SPLM spilled onto the streets of Khartoum last Monday. Clashes also broke out between the police and opposition and SPLM supporters in the city of Omdurman, after police banned an opposition demonstration that intended to march on parliament and hand a letter demanding that the democratization laws be passed quickly to the Sudanese Parliamentary Speaker.
The police detained dozens of demonstrators for several hours including MPs and ministers affiliated to the SPLM. The First Vice President of Sudan and SPLM leader, Salva Kiir, called on the Sudanese people for calm in exercising their constitutional right of freedom of expression and [the right to] peaceful protest, and he denied that his movement is seeking a return to [civil] war. Kiir made these remarks following a telephone conversation with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
The opposition said they would continue the demonstrations in the coming days, and that their ranks would swell to the millions. National Congress officials, on the other hand, insisted that what is happening is an attempt to topple the government by inciting a popular uprising.
General Mohamed al-Hafiz Hassan Attia, Director of the Khartoum State police, said that the police forces "dealt with the political march based on the consideration that it is illegal."
There were conflicting figures surrounding these arrests. Sources that spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat said that around 60 people were arrested in front of parliament in various other locations around the capital, including SPLM Secretary-General Pagan Amum, his deputy Yasir Arman, along with a number of SPLM parliamentary MPs. In addition to this, 22 women, five journalists, and two lawyers were arrested.
A National Congress party official claimed that only 34 people were detained during this incident.
The majority of those who have [political] immunity were released after just a few hours. The police said that they had used their authority to prevent an increase in the size of the crowds in order to avoid a breakdown in security. The police clamed to have used the necessary amount of force [in dealing with the demonstration] and that they arrested a number of those participating in the march, but they were not imprisoned as has been reported in some foreign media.
The opposition parties and the SPLM formed an alliance following the Juba Declaration in October, with all parties agreeing to pressure the Khartoum government to accept democratization.
The demonstrators who were released met at the SPLM headquarters in the Muqrin district in Central Khartoum following their release. SPLM and opposition leaders addressed the crowd that had gathered there following the demonstration.
SPLM Secretary-General Pagan Amum vowed that the demonstrations will continue until the National Congress party responds to their demands. He said "We will put pressure on them to awaken their consciences and hand over power to the people."
The leader of the Islamic Popular National Congress Party, Dr. Hassan al-Turabi was also present. He accused the National Congress party of "stealing the power and wealth of the country." He added "they have no supporters, and they have exploited the poverty stricken police officers and used them against the demonstrators." Al-Turabi told the crowd "we will respond to force with force."
Sources informed Asharq Al-Awsat that the opposition parties met on Monday night in order to evaluate the rally, and to develop a plan to initiate more [political] rallies in the coming days.
Violent clashes occurred between the police and demonstrators outside of parliament, and also in the area around the East Omdurman police station, with demonstrators being subject to police violence. A journalist present at the rally told Asharq Al-Awsat that she was hit in the head by a policeman, and that a number of demonstrators were taken to hospital due to their injuries.
SPLM Secretary-General Pagun Amum claimed that his deputy, Yasir Arman, was beaten whilst in police custody, resulting in him being transferred to hospital for treatment. Amum said that Yasir Arman had been released from hospital, and that he was in "good health."
Yasir Arman described the clampdown on the rally as being "a ridiculous scene that not even the Taliban government would have done." He also confirmed that further rallies will be taking place throughout Sudan.
Meanwhile, Ummah Party member, Dr. Mariam Sadiq al Mahdi told Asharq Al-Awsat that the situation is unfortunate, and that what is happening is a flagrant violation of the interim constitution. She said, "The National Congress party clearly showed that it does not respect the peace agreements and the constitution, and that [it believes] that the entire country belongs to it."
She added "there can be no talk about democratization in light of the National Congress using all elements of the State to suppress the people."
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[Dawn] The spokesman for the European Union's anti-piracy force says Somali pirates have hijacked a Pakistan-flagged fishing vessel.
Cmdr. John Harbour says the pirates seized the MV Shahbaig Tuesday. He says there are 29 crew on board and more details will be available later Wednesday.
Pirates are still holding hundreds of crew and a dozen vessels hostage in Somalia. Piracy has remained at high levels this year despite a growing number of international warships and extra safety precautions taken by merchant vessels.
Somalia does not have a coast guard or navy to stop the pirates because it has not had an effective central government for 18 years.
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Federal prosecutors in Germany have charged a man with aiding a radical Islamist group known for having planned to attack US targets on German soil.
The 24-year-old man, who for legal reasons is identified as Kadir T., has been charged with supporting the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), an organization linked to a militant Islamist movement.
Prosecutors say that Kadir T., who holds dual German-Turkish citizenship, worked with a group known as the "Sauerland cell." They said he had been attending meetings held by Adem Yilmaz, a member of the group, regularly since 2007.
Yilmaz is believed to have used the meetings in order to recruit new fighters for the IJU.
The public prosecutors said that since Kadir T. began attending the meetings on a regular basis, he had become an advocate of the IJU's violent jihad.
Kadir T. also stands accused of having bought a video camera and night vision equipment which he passed on to Yilmaz who in turn sent the equipment first to Turkey. From there, it made its way to the Islamic Jihad Union in Waziristan.
Four members of the Sauerland cell are currently on trial in the city of Dusseldorf. They are facing charges of plotting to target US citizens in deadly bomb attacks in three German cities.
Of the four men, two are German converts to Islam. The Sauerland cell takes its name from the region in Germany where three of those now standing trial were arrested.
If found guilty, they could be looking at up to 20 years in prison.
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[The News (Pak) Top Stories] The city police in a first ever commando action of its style raided a seminary in Hazarkhwani and arrested all the 183 students and academic staff, mostly Afghan nationals, and shifted them to unknown location.
The cops sealed the area and arrested 183 students, teachers, the administrative staff of the Madrassa Hafizia in Hazarkhwani, a village located in the suburbs of the provincial capital near Ring Road. The detained people included around 53 young childre. The spokesman for the city police said they were arrested for illegal stay, adding that 53 of the detained were seminary students while 130 were other refugees who were staying in the country without legal documents.
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#1
be nice if this was a Macro story. Perhaps F4?
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I'd prefer if it were an applied Alt-F4 macro for madrassas, Frank.
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works for me
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[Dawn] Taliban militants on Wednesday dynamited two boys' schools in Pakistan's Khyber district, where troops are pressing an offensive against insurgents, an official said.
The attacks took place in Bara town, about 20 kilometres south of the regional capital Peshawar, with most of the buildings reduced to rubble but no one injured in the blasts in the early hours of the morning.
Pakistan is currently in the grip of a fierce Taliban insurgency, with 68 people killed in bombs across the country in the past three days alone as militants avenge multiple operations against them in the lawless northwest.
'Both main school buildings were completely destroyed,' said Shafeerullah Wazir, the top administrative official of Khyber district, adding that only two classrooms remained standing in the adjacent schools.
Wazir said that militants buried large quantities of dynamite around the outer walls of the government-run high school and primary school.
'Both Taliban and Lashkar-i-Islam people are involved in this act,' he said.
Troops launched an offensive in Khyber district -- which straddles Peshawar and Afghanistan -- in September to try and flush out both the Taliban and home-grown militant group Lashkar-i-Islam (Army of Islam).
Bara is close to Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province, which has been hit by a series of bombings in recent months, with a suicide blast on October 28 killing 125 people in the worst attack in two years.
Militants opposed to co-education have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in the northwest of the country in recent years.
Nearly 200 schools were destroyed in the Swat valley alone during a two-year Taliban uprising to enforce sharia law in a district once favoured by Western tourists for its ski slopes and bracing mountain air.
Pakistan's military is engaged in offensives against fighters across much of the northwest including the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, a region branded by Washington as the most dangerous place on earth.
About 30,000 troops poured into South Waziristan in mid October to try and dismantle the strongholds of the Taliban leadership, enraging militants who have responded with a surge in bomb blasts and attacks.
On Monday, blasts in Peshawar and Lahore killed 59 people, then on Tuesday two suicide attackers detonated a car bomb near the offices of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence in eastern Multan, killing nine.
A fierce insurgency has killed more than 2,670 people in attacks in Pakistan mostly blamed on the Taliban in the last two-and-a-half years.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The Pakistani police have arrested five US nationals, believed to have gone missing in Washington D.C. last month, in a crackdown on militants in the country.
Security forces raided a house in Sargodha area in the eastern Punjab province and managed to arrest some 17 foreigners including five American nationals, a Press TV correspondent quoted Pakistani police officials as saying on Wednesday. The authorities transferred all the suspects to an undisclosed location for further investigation.
Earlier reports suggest that the five Americans were those who went missing in Washington D.C. in late November. Three of them are of Pakistani descent and their relationship to extremism and acts of terrorism is under investigation. The five men in their 20s from northern Virginia are believed to have traveled to Pakistan as a group.
Meanwhile, seven suspects were taken into custody in Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab. One of the detainees is believed to be Saifullah. Saifullah was wanted by police over 29 different cases and he is allegedly the mastermind of the Mian Channu blasts that left 11 people, including eight children, killed.
More, from Dawn.
Security agencies picked up here on Wednesday six people, three foreigners among them, for their alleged links with banned religious outfit Jaish-i-Muhammad and for planning a terrorist attack. Among the suspects were two Egyptians, one Yemeni, two Pakistani-Americans and a local.
According to sources, five men were arrested during a raid on the house of one of the suspects in Aziz Bhatti Town. Two computers and some jihadi literature were seized.
An employee of the highways department, identified as Fahim, was picked up from his office. The Pakistani-Americans were identified as Omer Farooq and Waqar.
Agencies add: A police officer said three of the men were of Pakistani descent, one was of Egyptian descent and the other of Yemeni origin. Another officer said that a Swede was among those arrested.
Regional police chief Mian Javed Islam said the men were between the ages of 18 and 20 and had spent the past few days in the city. 'They are being questioned and it is premature to say whether they are involved in or planned any act of terror,' he added.
But two US officials familiar with the case said the five arrested were believed to be young men from the Washington area who went missing at the end of last month.
According to them, the FBI had been searching for the men since their families reported them missing and expressed fears they may have gone to Pakistan.
One of them was a student at Howard University, according to the US officials. They said one of the men left behind what investigators believed was a video message in which he spoke about defending Muslims and showed images of US casualties.
Police said they had received reports that the group was probably plotting attacks in Pakistan.
A spokesman for the US embassy said he was aware of reports of the arrest, but had not received any information from Pakistani officials. More, from Breitbart.
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Hope N Change bears fruit. Let's pray airport visa officers are on the ball.
And Kudos to the visa official who dug into Daaod Gilani (aka David Coleman Headley).
BTW, Gilani official admits he is related to Headley Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilanis public relations officer on Saturday acknowledged that David Coleman Headley, a terror suspect detained in the US, is his half-brother, but dismissed as incorrect reports that his family is related to the Premier.
The officer, Danyal Gilani,
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Worried parents heart of terror probe When five young American Muslims were arrested in Pakistan over possible links to terrorism, a key break in the case came not from federal agents or spies, but parents worried their sons may have made a terrible decision.
The families, based in the northern Virginia and Washington, D.C., area, were particularly concerned after watching what is described as a disturbing farewell video from the young men, showing scenes of war and casualties and saying Muslims must be defended.
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some of the Paks already feel that the US is responsible for their internal terrorism (others blame India, Israel or Britain).
This will help the 'blame the US' groups.
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These pious lads wanted to go to Afghanistan, probably to shake hands and say how proud they are of the American troops. The market booms they leave to the locals.
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One of them was a student at Howard University, according to the US officials.
Difficult to believe, Howard being such a bastian of conservatism. He was probably forced to take a Gov't scholarship grant, ROTC, College of Meds to become an Army psychiatrist, or something.
The FBI had been searching for the men since their families reported them missing and expressed fears they may have gone to Pakistan. One was a dental student at Howard University in Washington, a traditionally black university.
SLAMABAD, Pakistan The five young American men detained in Pakistan were seeking jihad, or holy war, and were planning a big attack when arrested, local authorities in central Punjab charged Thursday.
Usman Anwar, the chief of police in the town of Sargodha, told McClatchy that the five men, all from the Washington area, were seeking a link to an ultra-radical jihad group, possibly al Qaida.
"It's above Jaish. It's something more serious than that," Anwar said in a telephone interview, referring to Jaish-e-Mohammad, the group that's been implicated in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl.
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In the UK, we have a race of people called " British Muslims " who are anything but British in their outlook on our decadent country, it seems the USA has a variation of them too.
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Something akin to our...Irish-Americans I take it? (tongue firmly planted in cheek)
#10
No one seems to want to discuss they attended the Saudi/Wahabi school in DC prior to college and whether they worshiped at Maj Hasan's mosque. Wonder why?
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Oops - I mean tipover.
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I hope that the Al Shabaab, Al Qaeda, Abu Sayyaf, Hamas, et al, don't find out that 9 out of every 10 Americans trying to jihad with them is a CIA spy. Just saying, cuz it would be bad if they found out. So keep it hush-hush. Just between us. k?
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Al-Qaida's umbrella group in Iraq claimed responsibility Thursday for coordinated Baghdad bombings this week that killed 127 people and wounded more than 500, warning of more strikes to come against the Iraqi government.
The group, known as the Islamic State of Iraq, said in a statement posted on the Internet that the attacks in the Iraqi capital targeted the "bastions of evil and dens of apostates."
Al-Qaida also claimed responsibility Thursday in a separate Internet posting for last week's killing of Ahmed Subhi al-Fahal, known by al-Qaida and the American military as one of central Iraq's top counter-terror officials.
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[Dawn] A bomb hidden in a garbage heap killed two people in northern Baghdad, an Iraqi police official said.
The official said the blast occurred Wednesday at about 8 a.m. as street sweepers were cleaning in the Sunni neighbourhood of Azamiyah. He said two street sweepers were killed and three passers-by were wounded.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to release the information.
The explosion comes a day after a series of bombings targeted government buildings in Baghdad, killing at least 127 people and wounding more than 500.
Lawmakers have called top security officials to appear in parliament to answer questions over security lapses.
Meanwhile, funerals were starting in Baghdad for the bombing victims.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Baghdad's security chief has been sacked over a series of massive bombings in the city which killed over 120 people.
Prime Minister "Nouri al-Maliki, as the commander in chief of the armed forces, ordered the removal of Lieutenant General Abboud Qanbar from his post" on Wednesday, a statement by the Premier's Office said.
Qanbar will be replaced by Lieutenant General Ahmed Hashem Awoudeh.
Al-Maliki reportedly sacked the security chief in response to the lawmakers who demanded an explanation from the country's leaders over Tuesday's blasts.
The explosions also left 448 others wounded.
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IDF and Border Police forces thwarted a potential terror attack in Jerusalem on Wednesday afternoon, when they discovered six pipe bombs in a 20-year-old Palestinian man's bag.
The man arrived at the Kalandiya checkpoint in northern Jerusalem shortly after 3 p.m. Border Police guards stationed at the checkpoint searched the man after he raised their suspicions.
Two small pipe bombs were found in his bag, but more a thorough search revealed four other devices.
The man, who resides in the West Bank, was arrested and transferred for interrogation. During a preliminary interrogation at the scene, he admitted to planning to carry out an attack inside Jerusalem.
Police sappers neutralized the bombs in a controlled environment. There were no casualties reported in the incident.
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Great plan, that. Let me put some bombs in my bag and then try to walk through a checkpoint.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his Malaysian counterpart, Najib Razak, made a historic visit to the southernmost province of Narathiwat to rename a bridge between the two countries. The visit came amid a flurry of bomb attacks in the restive region where nearly 4,000 people have died since January 2004.
The two leaders arrived in a helicopter in Waeng district to commemorate the Thai-Malay Friendship Bridge over the Sungai Kolok River, a natural boundary that cuts through a Malay-speaking region where most people on either side are related.
"With so many people and goods crossing this bridge every day we are strengthening our bonds," Abhisit said at the ceremony. "I have no doubt that this Friendship Bridge will serve its noble purpose," Najib added.
The Malaysian premier's three-day visit to Thailand was billed as a model of how the two countries, despite the security challenges along their common border, could cooperate.
One of the subjects both sides agreed upon was eliminating the dual citizenship held by people along the border by first exchanging personal bio-data of residents, such as fingerprints. The leaders also visited a public school, an Islamic school as well as a handicraft village and a "widows' village" occupied by some 140 families affected by the unrest.
Security forces were mobilised in the thousands in areas visited by the leaders, but the violence-wracked region lived up to its reputation and greeted them with a higher-than-usual spate of violence.
Four bombs went off in Yala's provincial capital yesterday morning, with one killing a forensics police officer and three security officials, while another wounded two soldiers and a policeman assigned to a security detail for teachers. Earlier in the day, Thai marines were wounded in a bomb and gun attack in Narathiwat as they tried to collect banners criticising Abhisit's policies on the South.
Banners posted throughout the three provinces in both Jawi (Arabic script) and Rumi (Roman script) read "Patani sebahagian daripada Malaysia" or "Patani is part of Malaysia".
"They could have been posted with the intention of annoying the delegations," Pattani Senator Worawit Baru said, pointing out that militants often spray-painted "Patani Merdeka" (Free Patani) on building facades.
On Tuesday a bomb killed two soldiers along a road in Narathiwat that Abhisit and Najib were scheduled to travel through.
In a related development, the Patani United Liberation Organisation (Pulo), a long-established group of separatists, said they welcomed the statement from Najib and Abhisit saying the grievances of Malays in the South would be addressed and that a political solution to the conflict would be sought. "It is important for the government to speak to the people of Patani, including the Patani Malay movement that has been forced to resort to armed struggle, to ensure that the voice of the people can be heard and their grievances taken into account," Pulo said in a statement yesterday. Image at link shows many terrorist attacks being carried out in southern Thailand over the last two days
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One of my colleagues just returned from a vacation in southern Thailand. Granted he was at the resorts but said that the place seemed very peaceful. He did a few in-town excursions so he did get around a little.
Also noted that it isn't peak tourist season yet, that every few Euro tourists were there, and that the Thai workers at the resort and in the shops were very attentive and helpful.
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real life vs "it bleeds it leads news" (and that latter is a problem of blogs too, not just the MSM)
My wife and I have quite a number of friends and acquaintances in Israel, whom we keep up with on Facebook. My wife is constantly astounded how much of what they post is the normal day to day aspects of life (like any facebooker) and how little is war, terrorism, and politics (and thats even though a few of them really like to post about politics)
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I've never had any problems when I was in Thailand, or Malaysia, or the Philippines, either (I briefly did ops in P.I. similar to what a couple of other Rantburgers did, except they were 90% up north). Then again I didn't wander off by myself, do anything stupid, or make an effort to alienate the residents. In all places the people were generally friendly.
It also doesn't mean that the "nice and polite" will always be there either. Not because they're Islamic. It's that the various insurrections and movements haven't reached the stage of targeting tourists as what happened in Bali.
[Straits Times] ONE of three Filipino factory workers kidnapped by Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern Philippines last month has been beheaded, a government official said on Wednesday. 'The severed head of the victim was found stuffed inside a plastic bag and abandoned at a park,' said Al Rasheed Sakalahul, vice-governor of Basilan island, where the hostages were snatched.
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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.
[Dawn] The spokesman for the European Union's anti-piracy force says Somali pirates have hijacked a Pakistan-flagged fishing vessel. 
[Iran Press TV Latest] The Pakistani police have arrested five US nationals, believed to have gone missing in Washington D.C. last month, in a crackdown on militants in the country. 
[Straits Times] ONE of three Filipino factory workers kidnapped by Al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern Philippines last month has been beheaded, a government official said on Wednesday. 'The severed head of the victim was found stuffed inside a plastic bag and abandoned at a park,' said Al Rasheed Sakalahul, vice-governor of Basilan island, where the hostages were snatched.
