[Tolo News] At least, two guards of a private company were killed and one other was wounded on Tuesday in a suicide attack in Kabul, said the spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior Affairs
No Civilians were killed or wounded in the attack, said the spokesman for the Ministry of Interior Affairs, Zemarai Bashari.
Two suicide attackers rushed into a private company and consequently one of them blew himself up and the second suicide attacker was shot dead in the firefight by the company guards, security officials said.
"In the firefight, the suicide bombers were killed, and regretfully two drivers of the company who were civilians and unarmed were killed in the attack too," said Chief of criminal investigation for Kabul police, Abdul Ghafar Sayed Zada.
The Afghan security forces urgently brought the incident area under control and cordoned it off.
A resident in the incident site remarked that private security firms among residential houses form a serious threat to the lives of innocent civilians.
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[Mail and Globe] A Somali militant group with links to al-Qaeda on Monday announced it had banned three Christian aid agencies from its territory, and one aid group said militants had occupied its offices in southern Somalia.
World Vision, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, and Diakonia must immediately leave Somalia because the groups were actively propagating Christianity, the militant group al-Shabaab said in a statement. Somalia is an overwhelmingly Muslim country, and al-Shabaab promotes a particularly hard-line and conservative reading of Islam.
"Acting as missionaries under the guise of humanitarian work, the organisations have been spreading their corrupted ideologies in order to taint the pure creed of the Muslims in Somalia," al-Shabaab said.
World Vision Somalia's spokesperson, Amanda Koech, said that her organisation was surprised to receive al-Shabaab's order to close down. Al-Shabaab militants occupied the group's offices in the southern Somali towns of Duale, Baidoa and Wajid, she said. World Vision has asked its staff to remain at home for now.
"World Vision is a Christian organisation motivated by Christian values to help the needy in the society. While World Vision recognises the need to remain impartial in responding to the needy, by policy World Vision is prohibited to proselytise in its work," Koech said in a statement.
Koech said World Vision does not have any international staff in southern Somalia. All World Vision staff in that part of the Horn of Africa nation are Somalis and primarily Muslim, she said.
Al-Shabaab has also warned other aid agencies against taking up the work of the banned organisations, saying they will face "appropriate disciplinary measures".
The group, which claimed responsibility for twin blasts in Uganda during the World Cup final that killed 76 people, has already banned several UN agencies and aid groups. Together with allied groups, al-Shabaab controls most of southern Somalia, including a large part of Mogadishu.
The ultra-conservative and militant al-Shabaab draws comparisons to Afghanistan's Taliban. Al-Shabaab's accusations that the three groups were proselytising come only days after the killings last Thursday of 10 members of a medical mission in Afghanistan. The Taliban claimed the group were spies and tried to convert Muslims.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced the wife of executed Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) leader Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai and two JMB men to 20 years' rigorous imprisonment each for possessing explosive substances.
The convicts are Fahima alias Farzana, Salahuddin alias Saleheen and Asaduzzaman Chowdhury alias Panir.
Judge Mohammad Rezaul Islam of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 handed down the sentence in presence of the convicts at a packed courtroom.
Earlier, the prosecution and the defence had completed their arguments and the court recorded statements of 16 prosecution witnesses.
According to the prosecution, a team of Rapid Action Battalion on December 18, 2005 raided a residence at Aqua Morolpara under Kotwali Police Station in Mymensingh district.
The elite force recovered 57 items of explosives and arrested Saleheen and Panir from the scene. Farzana was later shown arrested in the case.
The Mymensingh haul includes four grenades, 12 bombs of different sizes including a light-sensitive one, a sub-machine gun, 80 electric detonators, 20kg ammonium nitrate, gun powder, GI wire, lead azide, lead nitrate, electric circuits, batteries, fuses, snail shells and iron balls used in fishing nets.
Two cases -- one under the Arms Act and the other under the Explosive Substances Act -- were filed with Kotwali Police Station of Mymensingh.
JMB chief Shaek Abdur Rahman, its second-in-command Bangla Bhai and its military commander Ataur Rahman Sunny were also accused in the cases, but their names were dropped from the charge sheet as they were earlier executed for killing two judges in Jhalakathi district on November 14, 2005.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A district judge yesterday gave life sentence to five operatives of outlawed militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) for the 2005 Bogra serial blasts.
Bogra Additional District and Sessions Judge Nitai Chandra Saha also fined the Islamist militants Tk 20,000 each in default of which they will have to spend two more years behind bars.
The convicts are Mamun, 28, Sirajul, 27, Abdur Razzak, 25, Golam Kibria, 25, and Waliullah, 22.
According to the case history, the convicts exploded bombs at five different places, including the court premises and Bir Shreshtha Square, Bogra town during the countrywide serial blasts on August 17, 2005.
JMB chief Shaikh Abdur Rahman and his second-in-command Bangla Bhai were dropped from the charge sheet of the case as they had been executed earlier in another serial blast case.
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I'll bet that they'll only stay in prison until the next change in government. After that, they'll be quietly released. Corruption = Bangladesh = Corruption.
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I'll bet that they'll only stay in prison until the next change in government. Yup, they'll probably BE the next government.
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Elements of the Mexican Army operating in Monterrey in the Guadalupe municipality of Nuevo Leon Tuesday morning seized more than $1.3 million USD in cash, quantities of drugs, munitions and other contraband and arrested eight suspects, say Mexican press reports.
Mexican Army personnel observed an armed suspect carrying a firearm in the Riveras de Linda Vista district, who then fled inside a residence on Calle Santa Catarina. Inside the home, soldiers found a large amount of contraband.
A total of eleven individuals lost their lives in ongoing drug and gang related violence in northern Mexico, which included five individuals shot at a wake in Juarez, Chihuahua. For a map, click here.
A young man was shot to death Monday evening in northern Juarez, according to Mexican press reports. Ricardo MartÃnez Duran, 21, was shot by individuals firing from a moving car in the 16 de Septiembre district. He died before he arrived at the hospital.
Five men were shot to death, including a state police agent, in Juarez Tuesday afternoon, according to Mexican press accounts. A wake was being held at the Satellite Funeraria near the intersection of calles Neptuno and Fidel Avila in the Satellite district when armed suspects burst inside and shot the five to death. Gutierrez Nicolas Quintana, owner, and his sons Ivan Quintana and Ramon Quintana Alejandro Gutierrez, as well as ministerial agent Octavio Aragon, and an unidentified employee all died in the assault. National reports say more than 100 rounds were fired. Those same reports also say the attack took place because the owner reported an extortion attempt by criminal gangs.
An unidentified man in his 20s was shot to death Tuesday in Juarez, say Mexican new reports. The attack took place at a rented residence near the intersection of calles Ixcateopan and Tixtla in the Galeana district where armed suspects shot the victim six times. Reports indicate a Ford Explorer stationed outside the residence had discharged armed suspects prior to the murder.
Two unidentified men were shot to death at a residence in Juarez, say Mexican press reports. An unidentified six year old child told authorities that about ten armed suspects riding aboard a couple of vehicles shot the pair with AK-47 assault rifles. The assault took place at the end of Calle ZuvirÃa Facundo in the Villas del Sur district.
[Al Arabiya Latest] The alleged confessions of the last Westerner held at Guantanamo, who was arrested in Afghanistan at age 15, can be heard at trial, a military judge said late Monday, as the trial is scheduled to begin Tuesday with selection of a jury of at least five military officers out of a pool of 15.
Canadian Omar Khadr's lawyer had argued that his statements were made under duress at Bagram Air Base and Guantanamo Bay, as U.S. President Barack Obama's revamped military commissions opened here to consider two terror cases.
Khadr, now 23, appeared in the base's $12-million complex known as "Camp Justice" in the final preliminary hearing before his trial.
Military Judge Patrick Parrish, who decided to allow Khadr's alleged confessions to feature in the trial, had in April heard testimony from federal agents and military interrogators who acknowledged using techniques such as stress positions and sleep deprivation during Khadr's questioning.
One admitted to threatening a rape scenario in order to influence the detainee.
"Judge Parrish should go back to school and learn some of the basic principles of law and some humanity," said Khadr's lawyer Denis Edney after the proceedings. "I guess what he said is that it's okay... to threaten him with sexual abuse. That's disgraceful."
Also appearing in a separate hearing was Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi, 50, who pleaded guilty last month to conspiring to provide material support to terrorism. The former bodyguard of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was expecting to hear his sentence.
The cases are the first to be heard since the tribunals, created by former president George W. Bush, were revamped last year by the Obama administration and Congress to give greater rights to defendants.
Khadr, captured at age 15 by U.S. troops in Afghanistan, is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. soldier during a July 2002 battle. He also is alleged to have been trained by al-Qaeda and joined a network organized by bin Laden to make bombs.
He appeared in the courtroom in a white detainee uniform, his head lowered, and did not address the judge, instead having his newly appointed U.S. military lawyer speak for him.
As recently as last month Khadr, an al-Qaeda operative's son who has denied throwing the grenade that killed an American, said he wanted to represent himself, even expressing his intent to boycott the trial.
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I pray they return him to Afghanistan - from 15,000 feet off the back ramp of a C-130, without a parachute, over the most God-forsaken piece of real estate they can find. They need to do the same with any taliban they catch, also. Ending up as buzzard food would be a great deterrent, I believe.
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There will be no "Welcome Back, Khadr" for him in Canuckistan.
[Geo News] The activists of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) that claims to spearhead the truthfulness, surrounded the offices of Geo News TV Network and Daily Jang situated at II Chundrigar Road, Geo News reported Tuesday. And they called Perv a dictator...
The brownshirts that continued pouring in at the scene since noon today, sustained the siege of the offices and pelted them with stones. The PPP operatives showed shoes to the Geo News workers ... which is even worse than cursing their mustaches...
and uttered abusive words "Sumonarhubarb!"
and set on fire the copies of Daily Jang. Jang has a big-assed Koranic verse on its masthead. Setting fire to it's a no-no...
The PPP workers wielding flags of the party were raising the full-throated slogans in favour of President Asif Ali Zardari. The party workers went on wall chalking spree under police cover writing bad meaning sentences and graffiti against Geo and Jang; however, police and administration kept standing as silent spectators. Allergic to mobs, are they?
The Jialas set on fire the copies of Jang newspaper on the main road. The armed people tortured Geo News' driver and snatched papers from the news stalls with police standing nearby mum on the incident. The PPP's jialas spawned a mess on II Chuandrigar Road, which triggered massive gridlock on the adjacent roads including MA Jinnah Road and Shara-e-Faisal, posing huge hardships for the people.
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Too busy funneling money to union bosses in the guise of "stimulus funds", I guess.
Al-Qaida is attempting to make a comeback in Iraq by enticing scores of former Sunni allies to rejoin the terrorist group by paying them more than the monthly salary they currently receive from the government, two key US-backed militia leaders have told the Guardian.
They said al-Qaida leaders were exploiting the imminent departure of US fighting troops to ramp up a membership drive, in an attempt to show that they are still a powerful force in the country after seven years of war.
Al-Qaida is also thought to be moving to take advantage of a power vacuum created by continuing political instability in Iraq, which remains without a functional government more than five months after a general election.
Sheikh Sabah al-Janabi, a leader of the Awakening Council -- also known as the Sons of Iraq -- based in Hila, 60 miles south of Baghdad, told the Guardian that 100 out of 1,800 rank-and-file members had not collected their salaries for the last two months: a clear sign, he believes, that they are now taking money from their former enemies.
"Al-Qaida has made a big comeback here," he said. "This is my neighbourhood and I know every single person living here. And I know where their allegiances lie now."
The Sons of Iraq grew out of a series of mini-rebellions against militants associated with al-Qaida that started in late 2006. They soon grew into a success story in Iraq, which was capitalised on by the then commanding US general, David Petraeus, who agreed to pay each member a $300 monthly salary and used the rebels as a tool to quell the boiling insurgency.
The US handed over control of the Sons of Iraq to the Iraqi government in late-2008. The programme since has been plagued by complaints about distrust and delays in paying salaries, as well as almost daily bombings or shootings targeting Awakening Council leaders and members across Iraq this year, which have troubled US commanders as their combat troops steadily leave the country.
Sheikh al-Janabi's cousin, Malik Yassin al-Janabi, a joint leader in Hila, became the latest victim today when he was killed by gunmen who shot him dead while he was driving, also wounding two of his guards.
A second Awakening Council leader, Sheikh Moustafa al-Jabouri, said disaffection among his ranks had reached breaking point as US combat forces increasingly depart, with most of his men not having been paid for up to three months and now facing a relentless recruitment drive by local al-Qaida members.
"My people are being offered more money. It has happened throughout Arabi Jabour and Dora," he said of the two south Baghdad suburbs that he controls.
"I warned the Americans and the Iraqi government that if they continue neglecting us, the Awakening Council will become even more desperate and will look for other ways to make money.
"So it is an easy market for al-Qaida now. The Iraqi government has disappointed them and it is an easy choice to rejoin the terrorists."
He said approaches to his rank-and-file membership had become commonplace over the last month.
"They are trying every means they know, by threatening or offering money. Many members have no money or salaries and are living in difficult circumstances."
The director of the Awakening Council project inside the national Reconciliation Commission, Zuheir Chalabi, today dismissed claims that members were defecting in large numbers.
"I think this issue is fabricated and politicised by people who are against the government and are pro-Ba'athist," he said. "We have no indications that large numbers of Sons of Iraq have left their jobs. We are seeing [defections] of around four in 1,000."
However, Sheikh al-Janabi said he would give a list of names of the alleged defectors to both American and Iraqi officials. "He needs to accept the facts," he said.
Two long-term members of the Sons of Iraq revealed to the Guardian that they had been approached in recent weeks by local men whom they knew to be al-Qaida leaders and told they would be paid more to defect.
Both admitted to be entertaining the notion, largely because they feared what would happen if they did not.
Mohammed Hussein al-Jumaili, 25, from Dora, said: "My salary is very low -- it is about $300 per month and sometimes they delay paying me for two months or more.
"Ten days ago, I was in a cafe with another person from my neighbourhood. He was working with us also. Two people came to me. I knew them. They were from my area. They said: 'You know the Sons of Iraq experiment has failed and they will be slaughtered one after the other.
'If you work with us, we will support you. We will give you a good salary and you can do whatever operation you want to do. You will get extra money for anything that you do that hits the Americans, or the Iraqi forces.' "
The second member, Sabah al-Nouri, 32, from west Baghdad, said he too had been approached by Sons of Iraq members who were acting as double agents.
"I am responsible for leading a group in al-Haswa district in Abu Ghraib," he said. "Two months ago, al-Qaida contacted me through people who worked with me. They gave me a good offer, a reward for each operation and a pledge to support me and protect me.
"They said they would give me a weapon, a licence to carry one. There were a lot of promises. They said I would have more authority than I have now. They said: 'We have not hurt you, why are you working against us?' "
Major Mudher al-Mowla, who is in charge of the Sons of Iraq inside the Iraqi reconciliation ministry, said the government had recently learned of the cash offers and coercion. "We have learned about this, especially in Adhamiyeh [in West Baghdad] and we have started investigating. We are waiting for the results."
The US government has granted visas to many Sons of Iraq members and claims that future applications to emigrate to the US from Sons of Iraq leaders would be well received. Both the Pentagon and White House have hailed the Sons of Iraq experience as a triumph during seven difficult years of war.
Some commanders believe Sons of Iraq leaders are overstating an al-Qaida putsch because they fear the unknown once the Americans leave. But they remain warm in their praise of the people they claim helped pave a way for their exit.
"The Sons of Iraq have displayed personal and physical courage on behalf of their country," said Lieutenant Colonel Bob Owen, chief of the media operations centre at the US embassy in Baghdad. "When they partnered with the government of Iraq to counter the insurgency, they played a pivotal role in disrupting al-Qaida and reducing Iraqi civilian deaths.
"The people of Iraq and Iraqi leaders at every level of government are grateful for the courage and personal sacrifices the Sons of Iraq have made and continue to make for the safety, security and future success and prosperity of the country."
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too many damn tribes . to many sets of islam. no wonder they have too have a dictator or "king in every country in the middle east
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And David Cohen from Treasury was telling us that the pressure they had put on Al Qaeda's finances had driven them almost to bankruptcy. Judging from this, "almost" hasn't cut it.
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IRNA > [Iran Armed Forces] MILITARY OFFCIAL: ATTACK ON IRAN WILL BE THE END OF THE US [Iran has been ready for 10 Years = 1990 to defeat US strike, + claims US is not strong enough to defeat Iran's BASIJ forces].
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Two civilians were killed and eight others were wounded in two explosions in southwestern Baghdad, a security source said on Tuesday.
Two bombs went off simultaneously near al-Bayaa-Sidiya intersection, southwestern Baghdad, on Tuesday (Aug. 10) , killing two civilians and injuring eight, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The blasts damaged a number of nearby civilian vehicles and buildings, the source added.
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[Dawn] Explosions and gunmen in Iraq killed six people Tuesday, including two members of an anti-al-Qaida group and two policemen, officials said.
The attacks, which also injured 15 people, reflect the persistent violence directed at people responsible for protecting Iraq as American forces leave. Violence across the country has spiked in the past month as the US moves ahead with a major drawdown of its troops set to be completed by the end of the month.
The most deadly incident happened in the Baghdad neighborhood of Baiyaa in the southwestern part of the city, which was wracked by a series of blasts.
Police and hospital officials said first a pair of bombs exploded on a main street in Baiyaa, without causing any injury. When a police patrol arrived minutes later, a third bomb exploded, killing three people and wounding eleven others. A policeman was among the dead and four were injured.
Staggered explosions to inflict maximum casualties, especially on police and medical personnel, has been a hallmark of insurgents linked to al-Qaida in Iraq.
In a separate incident Baiyaa, a policeman was killed and four others wounded when a roadside bomb hit their patrol, police and medical officials said.
In the town of Jurf al-Sakhr, 40 miles (70 kilometers) south of Baghdad, gunmen at a checkpoint shot dead the local leader of an Awakening Council, one of the anti-al-Qaida groups that helped stabilize Iraq over the past two years.
A roadside bomb killed the bodyguard of another Awakening Council leader, this time in the western Anbar province.
The councils, also known by their Arabic name Sahwa, have been instrumental in fighting insurgents, making them a target of choice for groups such as al-Qaida who want to reverse Iraq's security improvements.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
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Under heavy guard of Israeli soldiers, about 1,000 Israeli settlers entered a village in the northern West Bank in order to pray on Monday night, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
Israeli forces imposed curfew on the village in order to allow the settlers to conduct religious services, the report said. Nearly 1,000 Israeli citizens entered the village at 2:30 a.m., according to the report.
The settlers not only prayed in the village, but they also stood in front of the local mosque and insulted the Muslim prophet Muhammad saying "Muhammad is not a prophet; he's just an Arab," according to the report.
The Israeli military said in response that such visits are conducted with coordination between Palestinian residents and the Civil Administration, which handles non-military matters in the occupied territories.
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"Muhammad is not a prophet; he's just an Arab,"
Well, at least they didn't call him a pedophile. On the plus side, no mosques/weapons depots exploded and no Korans were desecrated by the secondaries.
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If they think thats bad...
I think he's a goat rapping pedophile with delusions of grandeur.
Drag me into the ICC dickwads, I should have it so good.
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I think he's a goat rapping pedophile with delusions of grandeur. Drag me into the ICC dickwads, I should have it so good. Posted by: bigjim-CA 2010-08-11 02:47
Actually, he's the tool of Satan and the instrument by which at least several hundred million "muslims" have been sentenced to HELL during the past 14 centuries, and another 1.6 billion will enter HELL in the next century. Jesus said he would raise up "brother against brother", but Mohamhead has topped him. Jesus did it through peace, Mohamhead through war.
We (the entire world) are bound into a war that will decide whether Good (God, as evidenced through Jesus Christ) or Evil (through the Satanic "religion" Islam) will prevail. Thanks to "progressives", most of the West is abstaining, which is the same as losing. I for one will NEVER live under Islam. I may go down, but I'm da$$$$ determined to go down FIGHTING.
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Please read all about Mohammad and his exploits. Knowledge is power.
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As a Vietnam Era Vet (Era, not In- Country) Veteran with Mil active duty and DC Region DOD Civil Service time exceeding 35 years; I will say this: I've been a daily listener of Rush for over 20 years and have never disagreed with anything, or any position that Rush has espoused. The US Govt civil service workforce (Ex: GS5-GS15)is an awesome bunch of highly-capable, patriotic and well-educated pros. The "recent" fed/private sector misunderstanding/disconnect stems from the ELITE sub-group of Fed workers who are "appointees" by previous administrations, that are above the GS- ratings, that burrow into the workforce and politisize the real estate. They inject EXTREEMLY toxic and disfunctional effects on the existing non-political workforce...These interupters of Federal gency progress and National Defense are Demons. They are Anti-American! They are Anti-Christian! They are satan's spawn.
A bomb hidden inside a sedan parked in from of the Ruesoh branch of Kasikorn Bank in Pattani's Ruesoh district exploded about 8.05am on Wednesday, no one was hurt, deputy police chief of Ruesoh Pol Col Somchai Nopsri said. The car was totally wrecked by the explosion and subsequent fire. The Bank's entrance door and a nearby commercial building were also damaged, he said.
No one was injured by the car bomb because Pol Sgt Maj Surin Siang-on of Ruesoh police station received a tip from villagers that a man had parked the vehicle in front of the bank and then rapidly fled the scene on a waiting motorcycle. Pol Sgt Maj Surin set a security cordon around the sedan and then carefully inspected it. He saw a mobile phone, linked to an electrical circuit on driver's seat. He believed it to be a homemade bomb and immediately called for a bomb clearance team. The team arrived too late as the time bomb was set to explode at 8.05am.
[ADN Kronos] Terrorism suspects arrested in West Java province were brought overnight to police headquarters in Bandung following police raids in the Indonesian province, an official said. It was not immediately clear if the arrests were linked to that of firebrand Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Baasyir on Monday in West Java together with five of his bodyguards.
"They (the suspects) were brought last night to be temporarily detained here...the ongoing investigation process is beung conducted conducted by national police," Bandung police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar told reporters on Tuesday.
He did not state the number of people detained, but reports said that eight suspects were arrested after police raids a number of location in West Java on Monday.
Police said that the suspects were planning to carry out car-bomb attacks.
In August last year, a similar car-bomb attack plan was uncovered when an anti-terror squad raided a house in Jatiasih, Bekasi, West Java. Two suspects were shot dead and several others were arrested during the operation.
Baasyir is suspected of setting up an Islamist militant training camp in Aceh. Police claim the camp, uncovered in February, was Al-Qaeda's regional base.
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I need to have my eyes checked. I kept reading this headline as "FRENCH" anti-terror arrests, and I couldn't figure out what the devil the French had to do with Indonesian terror arrests.
Mystery (of my own creation) solved!
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[Straits Times] THOUSANDS have fled a troubled Muslim town in southern Philippines after violence between separatists erupted days ahead of Islam's holy month of Ramadan, rebel and army officials said on Tuesday.
The army fired artillery rounds and rockets on Monday to separate warring rebel factions fighting for control of a river delta in Datu Piang town, prompting a rebuke from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) that it had breached a ceasefire.
A truce has been holding for about a year on Mindanao island. The rebels have said they are concerned about the the new government's plan to overhaul talks to end the long-running insurgency.
'We filed a protest,' Mohagher Iqbal, the rebels' chief peace negotiator, told reporters from the guerrillas' main base. 'It's a violation of our ceasefire. Even if our men were fighting each other, it does not justify the military's involvement.'
The army said more than 5,000 people had fled their homes and farms since the violence first erupted on Saturday. Major-General Anthony Alcantara, the most senior army commander in central Mindanao region, dismissed accusations that the army had violated the truce.
Philippine governments and the MILF have been in stop-start negotiations since 1997, but an acceptable political deal remain elusive.
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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
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[Bangla Daily Star] A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced the wife of executed Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) leader Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai and two JMB men to 20 years' rigorous imprisonment each for possessing explosive substances.
[Geo News] The activists of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) that claims to spearhead the truthfulness, surrounded the offices of Geo News TV Network and Daily Jang situated at II Chundrigar Road, Geo News reported Tuesday. 
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Two civilians were killed and eight others were wounded in two explosions in southwestern Baghdad, a security source said on Tuesday.
Under heavy guard of Israeli soldiers, about 1,000 Israeli settlers entered a village in the northern West Bank in order to pray on Monday night, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
A bomb hidden inside a sedan parked in from of the Ruesoh branch of Kasikorn Bank in Pattani's Ruesoh district exploded about 8.05am on Wednesday, no one was hurt, deputy police chief of Ruesoh Pol Col Somchai Nopsri said. The car was totally wrecked by the explosion and subsequent fire. The Bank's entrance door and a nearby commercial building were also damaged, he said.
