Low-intensity explosion outside NEW Delhi HIGH COURT; none injured 25/05/2011

NEW DELHI: A minor explosion outside Delhi high court on Wednesday shattered the lull in the capital for over eight months when a low intensity explosive went off without causing any damage.
The explosion prompted Delhi Police to sound an alert in the city and strengthen security by deploying more personnel on streets and crowded places like markets and to intensify checking of vehicles.

The explosive kept in a white polythene bag near a lawyer's car parked at Gate No 7 on Service Road went off at around 1.25 pm causing panic and three minutes later, police received the call regarding the blast.

Police was groping for clues in the blast and were hesitant to hazard a guess about who was behind it.

"It was not an accident. There was a minor explosion. A packet containing explosives kept in a plastic bag near the car's right side exploded. There were minor damages to the car. There was no casualty or injuries," Dharmendra Kumar, Special Commissioner (Law and Order), told reporters.

Today's blast was the second in the last eight months, the previous one being a blast in car on September 19 last year near Jama Masjid for which terror outfit Indian Mujahideen took responsibility. That blast took place after two unidentified men opened fire at a Taiwanese media crew ahead of the Commonwealth Games.

Noting that the nature of the explosives is yet to be ascertained, he said the car owner has nothing to do with the incident. He said lawyer Rajat Jain had parked his car and had gone to the canteen to have food.

"There was a sudden blast in the parking lot. We rushed to the spot and found a black bag burning beside the car," said parking attendant Dharamvir.

Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice GS Sistani as also Delhi Police chief BK Gupta visited the spot.

Lawyers having refreshment in a canteen inside the court complex and near the parking lot rushed outside after they heard a loud explosion.

"I was in canteen having a soft drink. At around 1:25 pm I heard a loud explosion outside gate no 7. I rushed outside and saw a burning plastic bag near a car. It was just below the bonnet," a lawyer Safroz said.

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Rahul Vallamber

Suicide car bomb razes Pakistan police station on 25/05/2011

Four people have been killed and 22 others wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on a police station in Peshawar, in north-west Pakistan.

A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a police building in Peshawar in northwest Pakistan today, killing at least two policemen and injuring 22 other people, officials said.

The building on University Road, which houses the office of the Criminal Investigation Department, was destroyed by the powerful blast. Senior Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Minister Bashir Bilour confirmed that the attack was carried out by a suicide car bomber.

"About 300 kg of explosives was used in the attack. The engine of the bomber's car landed 350 feet away and his body was blown to bits. Only one finger of the bomber has been found," Bilour told reporters after visiting the site of the attack.

Officials said two policemen were killed by the powerful blast, which occurred at 4.45 am local time. Eighteen people, including a child, were injured and were taken to two nearby hospitals. Doctors described the condition of the two injured policemen as serious.

Police and rescue workers said several policemen could be buried in the rubble of the building, whose walls and ceiling collapsed after the blast. Army soldiers and policemen cordoned off the area and sealed the University Road. Footage on television channels showed heavy machinery being used to remove the debris of the police building.

No group claimed responsibility for the attack, which came barely three days after a group of Taliban fighters sneaked into a naval airbase in the southern port city of Karachi and killed 10 security personnel and destroyed two maritime surveillance aircraft.

The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan said it had attacked the naval airbase to avenge the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a US raid in Pakistan on May 2.

The police building targeted today is located about a kilometre from the US consulate. Last week, a US Consulate vehicle convoy was targeted with a car bomb. One person was killed and over a dozen were injured though Americans were not among the dead or seriously wounded.

Nearly 90 people, most of them paramilitary recruits, were killed when two suicide bombers struck a Frontier Constabulary training centre in northwest Pakistan on May 13. The Taliban claimed responsibility for that attack too, saying it was carried out to take revenge for bin Laden's killing.

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Attack on navel base, KARACHI, Pakistan on 23/05/2011

On May 23, this year, six terrorists who were equipped with heavy weapons attacked Pakistan Navy’s airbase, PNS Mehran in Karachi. They also destroyed two P-3C Orion aircraft, detonating explosives at the naval base. Afterwards, an intense gunfight broke out between the attackers and the security forces including naval commandos. But after 16 hours, the PNS Mehran base was cleared from the terrorists. Spokesman Navy said that 10 security personnel were martyred in the operation, while four terrorists were killed, and two escaped. It is mentionable that unlike the past wars, being fought between two sovereign state actors, in the present era, non-state actors employ lethal weapons such as suicide attacks, bomb blasts, targeted killings and similar other tactics of guerilla warfare which can be more harmful in damaging the interest of a target-country. As part of the new warfare, these tactics are being employed by the foreign elements inside Pakistan.In this connection, Pakistan has become special target of the new warfare being waged by external powers such as the US, India and Israel through their secret agencies like CIA, RAW and Mossad which have also availed the services of foreigners and some Pakistani nationals in order to conduct subversive acts in Pakistan. In this regard, although terrorist events such as suicide attacks, bomb blasts and targeted killings have been conducted by these foreign elements intermittently in the last 10 years, yet such incidents have accelerated in the two years. In this respect, more than 30 people had been killed when an explosive loaded car exploded near the main gate of a sensitive agency in Faisalabad. According to reports, the occupants of the vehicle parked it near a barrier erected in front of the main gate of the office and left it. On March 9 this year, more than 35 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up at funeral prayers in Peshawar.

As regards Karachi, in the past few months, a fresh wave of violence sparked by the killings of several political activists has swept the city with the terror-events of targeted killings, burning of vehicles and firings between two groups. Especially, on April 28, 2011, a blast had hit a bus carrying Pakistani navy officials in Karachi, killing five people, while that blast occurred two days after two other navy buses were attacked in the city, killing four people. Similar wave of terrorism continues in other form in Balochistan, particularly targeting the Punjabis. If we witness the previous terrorist attacks, we can easily analyse that our foreign enemies have been applying various tactics of subversion inside Pakistan. In this context, in the past, massive explosion destroyed the Pearl Continental hotel in Peshawar, killing, more than 15 persons in a suicide attack. Sources said that the gunman, sitting in one car, first started firing at the security persons and then exploded their first vehicle to give a safe-passage to other truck which was carrying 500 kilograms of explosives and stormed into the heavily secured hotel.It is notable that on October 15, 2009, at least 16 people including 12 personnel of the security forces had been martyred in foiling three separate terrorist attacks by killing 9 terrorists at FIA Building, Manawan Police Training Centre and Bedian Elite Police Training Centre in Lahore. Four days before that event, nine militants targeted the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi where in a successful operation of 18-hour, Pak army foiled a major tragedy by rescuing 39 hostages and killing eight terrorists. In the event, 12 soldiers, a Brigadier and a Lt. Colonel had also been martyred. In a similar type of terror-attack which had targeted the bus of Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore on March 3, 2009 had killed 8 persons in wake of a continuous gunfire by the militants. Pakistani officials confirmed that “grenades and rocket launchers had been recovered” which were of foreign origin. Afterwards, official inquiry disclosed that RAW was behind that terror incident.However, besides other previous suicide attacks, conducted in the Marriot Hotel at Islamabad, Rescue 15 building at Lahore which also damaged other buildings of the Lahore Capital City Police Office (CCPO) and Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) which was the main target, but could not be hit due to heavy firing by the security guards on the terrorists who came along with the vehicle and arms—were some of the other events of the same war against Pakistan. Nevertheless, the terror-incidents, especially at Naval Base in Karachi, at GHQ in Rawalpindi and in Lahore at FIA Building, Manawan Police Training Centre and Bedian Elite Police Training Centre which had involved gun battles between the terrorists and the security forces along with pattern of subversive acts through suicide attacks and bomb blasts which have also been intensified in the past few days—clearly show that secret CIA, RAW and Mossad have been waging a new style war against Pakistan, which also includes tactics of guerilla warfare—through their well-trained insurgents who could conduct attacks in major cities despite Pakistan’s successful military operations against the militants and the death of the renowned militant commanders.
While, a perennial wave of these attacks clearly proves that foreign intelligence agencies have modified their tactics of subversion in Pakistan. Apart from direct suicide events, militants, armed with hand grenades, machine guns and other latest weapons also come to help the explosive-laden vehicles so as to penetrate the security at the target points and to clear the way for the blast. Sometimes, exchange of fire takes place between the saboteurs and the security guards, and sometimes, purpose is directly to kill the security personnel. In this regard, in most of the terror-tragedies, huge quantity of explosives is also being used. Another technique of the foreign-trained terrorists is that they camouflage themselves by wearing the uniform of Pakistani security forces so as to deceive the security guards and to get inside the targeted point for conducting their assigned task. In 2009, U.N.’s World Food Program in Islamabad was attacked by a suicide bomber who was wearing an official uniform. Again, the militants who attacked the GHQ were also wearing army uniforms.

Notably, on January 27, 2011, in Lahore, an American national, David Raymond shot dead two Pakistani youths, while a third was crushed by the driver of a Parado jeep, who was called by him for help. David and persons, sitting in the jeep were also carrying weapons. Police arrested David Raymond and registered a case, while loaded weapons, a GPS satellite tracking device, photographs of Pakistan’s defence installations including tribal areas were also discovered from him. Pakistan’s sources and some American media indicated that David Raymond including his companions were agents of the American CIA and were on an anti-Pakistan mission. In fact, he is part of the illegal activities of the Blackwater whose employees entered Pakistan in the guise of diplomats.

It is of particular attention that a few days before the arrest of David, Pakistani security officials foiled an attempt by the Indian intelligence agency to enact a fake encounter for implicating Pakistan in incidents of cross border terrorism. The plan was unearthed when a suspect, working for the Indian RAW was apprehended at Sialkot border area, while attempting to cross over to India through the border security fence. Entrance points on the fence are locked and controlled by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF). The suspect has confessed to work as an Indian spy who was tasked to recruit agents from Pakistan to work for Indian intelligence. On March 2 this year, the cold-blooded murder of the Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti distorted the image of the country abroad. It is another tactic of the foreign elements who wanted to show that religious minorities are not safe in Pakistan.

Particularly in the last three years, a number of times, arms and guns were also captured from Americans traveling in vehicles in various cities of Pakistan, camouflaged with dark mirrors. In fact, in the past 12 months, Pakistan’s security forces and ISI have broken the backbone of the suicide bombers by arresting most of their commanders and insurgents, while thwarting a number of suicide missions through pre-arrests. But RAW, CIA and Mossad have succeeded in training the new culprits who are regularly being sent to Pakistan with a view to destablising our country. Now, this fact is known to everyone that Pakistan is the only nuclear country in the Islamic world. Hence, US, Israel and India are in collusion to weaken it by creating lawlessness for achieving their secret strategic interests. For this purpose, they are waging a new style guerrilla warfare against Pakistan. Without any doubt these foreign elements are behind the Naval Base attack in Karachi.

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Rahul Vallamber

1 killed and 11 injured Blast in Peshawar, Pakistan on 20/05/2011

ISLAMABAD: US diplomats escaped death when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle in Pakistan's north western city of Peshawar on Friday, killing a passerby and wounding two American nationals and nine locals.

The bomb went off as two armoured US vehicles were traveling in a convoy towards the consulate on the University Road in the city.
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the attack. The TTP spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan said that it was a planted bomb and the target was the US. "Our first target is Pakistan, then US and NATO countries. We have sent people to every corner of the country to avenge bin Laden's killing," the spokesman said.

Alberto Rodriguez, the US embassy spokesperson in Islamabad said the diplomats were travelling in armoured cars."The attack was deliberately targeted against consulate vehicles," he said.

"It was a bomb blast. It may have been a suicide attack. We are still investigating."

The US maintains a significant presence in Peshawar, a city close to the Afghan border. In August 2008, Lynne Tracy, a US diplomat at the consulate survived an attack on her armoured vehicle. Last year in April, militants attacked the US consulate, killing eight people. None of the dead were US citizens, but several were security guards working for the consulate.

Pakistan has seen an upsurge in violence since the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad. This is, however, the first attack against westerners in the country after bin Laden's killing.

Al-Qaida and its Pakistani Taliban allies have threatened to avenge the May 2 killing of Osama bin Laden by US commandos. On Wednesday, swarms of militants attacked a police checkpoint just outside the city, killing two officers and 15 attackers died in a fire fight that lasted hours through the night.

Last Friday, a double suicide bombing killed more than 100 people in Shabqadar town, 35 km north of Peshawar. Seventy eight of the dead were cadets of Frontier Constabulary, a police force mostly deployed in the semi-autonomous tribal regions.

Pakistan has made clear its displeasure that US did not warn it in advance about the offensive against bin Laden's, and has insisted that it had no idea of the terror mastermind hiding in Abbottabad.

US officials have recently visited Pakistan to try and mend ties, and assure Pakistan's continued cooperation in the war against terror.

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ABOUT AL-QAEDA NEW CHIEF-SAIF AL-ADEL 18/05/2011

Who is Saif al-Adel, the new Al-Qaeda chief?

According to various media a former Egyptian military officer turne

d al-Qaeda militant has been chosen to head Osama bin Laden's terror network temporarily until the slain leader's successor is officially named.

Al-Qeda leader Osama Bin Laden was killed by the US forces on May 1, leaving the top job vacant. Terrorism experts across the world are offering their predictions as to who will take over the terrorist outfit's top job.

Saif Al-Adel, who has been named to head the terror outift for now, is believed to have served as a member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the group responsible for the assassination of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in 1981 and is also believed to have fought Soviet forces in Afghanistan. He is reportedly under house arrest, but may have been released.

"Al-Qaeda's interim leader is Saif al-Adel, who has long played a prominent role in the group," CNN said citing Noman Benotman, who has known the al-Qaeda leadership for more than two decades.

Remarks: Al-Adel is thought to be affiliated with the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), and is believed to be a high-ranking member of the Al-Qaeda organization.

CAUTION: Saif Al-Adel is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya.

REWARD: The Rewards for Justice Program, United States Department of State, is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading directly to the apprehension or conviction of Saif Al-Adel.

Saif al-Adel. Aliases: Muhamad Ibrahim Makkawi, Seif Al Adel, Ibrahim Al-Madani. Date(s) of Birth Used: April 11, 1963; April 11, 1960.Birth Place: EGYPT and he speaks arabic.

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AL-QAEDA NEW CHIEF: SAIF AL-ADEL, EQYPTIAN. 18/05/2011

Al-Qaeda has chosen a former Egyptian Special Forces officer as interim leader in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death earlier this month, CNN reports.

Saif al-Adel, a top al-Qaeda strategist and senior military leader, has been tapped as "caretaker" chief of the group, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing former Libyan militant Noman Benotman, who has renounced al-Qaeda's ideology.

Pakistan's The News newspaper corroborated the claim, citing unnamed sources in an article datelined Rawalpindi, a city home to the military headquarters of the Pakistani Armed Forces near the capital Islamabad.

The decision to chose Adel, also known as Muhamad Ibrahim Makkawi, came as militants grew increasingly re

stive over the lack of a formal successor to bin Laden, who was killed in a dramatic US commando raid deep in Pakistan on May 2, Benotman told CNN.

Bin Laden's long-time deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, another Egyptian, is considered to be his presumed successor.

Benotman said the appointment of Adel on a temporary basis may be a way for the group to gauge reaction to having someone outside the Muslim holy region of the Arabian Peninsula at the helm.

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After affect of osama death: Suicide bomber rams Iraq police station, kills 20 on 5/05/11

BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber driving an explosives-packed vehicle rammed his way into a barricaded police compound Thursday and killed 20 police officers in the second major deadly blast in Iraq this week.

Iraqi officials have been scrambling to show they're in control of security in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death on Monday, but the uptick of bombings suggests that al-Qaida-linked groups in Iraq remain a threat despite the death of their ideological patron.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for this bombing

or for another on Tuesday that killed nine people in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad. But the types of targets — Iraqi security forces and Shiite Muslims — indicate al-Qaida in Iraq's involvement.

"The attack bears the hallmark of al-Qaida which is renewing its efforts to dest

abilize the country," said a member of the region's provincial council, Hamid al-Milli.

The blast in the mainly Shiite city of Hillah, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) south of the capital Baghdad also underscores Iraq's fragile security at a time when U.S. forces are preparing to leave the country.

Violence in Iraq has dropped dramatically since just a few years ago, and Iraqi forces have firmly taken over security responsibilities from American troops. But many Iraqis and U.S. officials worry question whether the departure of the roughly 46,000 American soldiers still here will leave their country more vulnerable to violence.

Al-Milli said 20 policemen were killed and 40 more were wounded in the Hillah bombing. He said the car was believed to have been loaded with about 330 pounds (150 kilograms) of explosives. The attacker sped toward the police building and the guards did not have a chance to shoot and stop him, he said.

The suicide bomber plowed his way into a metal barrier designed to keep vehicles ou

t of the police compound, leaving behind a crater a meter (yard) deep and three meters (yards) wide, said a police official in Hillah.

The reception building and a security tower near the entrance were leveled, and pieces of the damaged vehicles were flung around the compound.

The police officers were assembled for their morning shift ch

ange when the outgoing officers hand over equipment and weapons to the da

y shift, said the police official. About 60 or 70 policemen would have been in attendance, he said.

AP television footage showed ambulances and police vehicles with blaring sirens racing to and from the blast sight. A bulldozer moved debris from the scene, where twisted metal, spots of blood and piles of bricks and rubble lay. Emergency teams lifted bricks and iron bars from the debris, while shards of glass littered the site.

The fact that the bomber was able to wipe out so many policemen in one blast immediately raised questions about security at the building.

The head of the Babil Provincial Council, Kadim Tuman, said he was holding officials at the building and at the central government accountable.

"This building was not well fortified and the changing of policemen's shifts was exposed to the enemy," he said. The central government had also failed to provide extra police and explosive detection equipment, he said.

Hillah's proximity to a mainly Sunni area at one time referred to as the Triangle of Death has made Hillah a frequent target of Sunni extremists. In 2005, a suicide car bombing targeted at security recruits killed 125 people in the city. Last year, 45 people were killed outside a textile factory when two parked car bombs exploded.

Iraqi officials said in the immediate wake of bin Laden's death that they were beefing up security around the country amid fears that insurgent groups would try to carry out strikes to demonstrate their continued strength despite the al-Qaida leader's killing.

Iraqi security forces have taken steps to show they're in control. On Wednesday, Iraqi security officials showed confessions of what they said were al-Qaida members who had killed a journalist from a Shiite TV station. On Thursday, the Interior Ministry displayed a cache of rockets and other munitions that had been seized this week.

The head of the ministry's intelligence department, Maj. Gen. Mahdi Hadi al-Fikkaiki, defended the government's ability to protect Iraq, and said his department had foiled many terror attacks before they'd been carried out. But he acknowledged that there was no way to make the country 100 percent safe.

Fawaz A. Gerges, a London-based expert on al-Qaida, said offshoots like al-Qaida in Iraq may try to carry out terror attacks as a way to show the American government and local authorities that they still exist and remain dangerous.

"I think Iraqis should brace themselves for more insidious attacks in the next few days and the next few weeks," he said.

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Rahul Vallamber

osama bin laden dead photo leaked 3/05/2011

osama"s dead body first photo

osama bin ladens first dead body photo leaked.

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OSAMA Died and First Reaction In Pakistan with a bomb Blast 2/05/2011

AFTER EFFECT OF OSAMA DIED

4 killed, 10 injured in mosque blast in Charsadda, NW Pakistan

At least four people including three children and one woman were killed and 11 others were injured in a blast that ripped through a mosque Monday afternoon in northwest Pakistan, local television channels reported.According to local Urdu channel Geo News, the roadside explosion went off near the mosque in the limits of a police station in Charsadda, a city about 40 km northeast of Peshawar. Six to seven policemen were among the injured, some in critical condition.Security agencies cordoned off the area and the injured were shifted to the hospital where emergency was imposed. A bomb disposal squad was sent to the site and rescue operations were launched.The mosque was damaged in the blast. The wall of the nearby police station was also severely damaged.This area had earlier came under attack last month when the convoy of JUI-F party chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman was targeted.Security in the area was beefed up earlier in the morning when news about al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden's death spread out. Local media reports said the al-Qaida-linked Taliban have vowed more suicide attacks across Pakistan, even against the country's president Asif Ali Zardari.

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Rahul Vallamber

osama bin laden died

U.S. President Barack Obama was preparing to announce Osama bin Laden was dead when word got out and crowds started gathering late Sunday outside the White House in Washington and at Ground Zero in New York City.
From Times Square to Ground Zero to the White House, the familiar chant of "USA , USA" resonated as citizens learned that the Osama bin Laden was dead.

The announcement sparked immediate jubilation. In Time Square, people gathered around giant news tickers to see the latest updates. Pam Sather recalls the moment she heard the world's most wanted terrorist was dead.

"It is just amazing, we were just walking out of a pizza joint," she said. "And, all the sudden we saw in the bar on the television. We were just glued." A firefighter waves to the crowd as people celebrate after Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan, during a spontaneous celebration in New York's Times Square, May 2, 2011

At the White House, young Americans climbed trees, climbed light posts, donned American flags and sang the national anthem.

The feeling was euphoric as thousands of Americans gathered in front of the White House just hours after U.S. President Barack Obama made the announcement that Osama bin Laden was dead.

For many, including student Kathryn Costello, it became a moment of reflection, thinking back to the nearly 3,000 lives lost on September 11, 2001, an act of terror Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for.

"I think a lot of us have grown up with the memory of 9/11 and sort of this constant notion of a threat and the danger of terrorism," said Costello. "So this is a triumphant moment for all of us."

For many U.S. soldiers, including U.S. Marine Jake Diliberto, this is a day they have been fighting for.

"We feel really really vindicated that we finally got him," he said. "This is our generation's VE, VJ. This is our generation's victory and enduring freedom day."

Patriotism filled the air outside the White House into the early hours Monday.

Two hours after the announcement, with celebrations still roaring, the U.S. Secret Service brought in barriers to push back revelers from the White House.

International student Sunny Shih said the importance of the historical moment reaches beyond the gates of the White House.
"This is a very important moment for not only the U.S.A., but for the entire world," said Shih.

Many world leaders are praising the achievement of U.S. military forces Sunday in Pakistan, who killed Osama bin Laden, captured his body and buried it at sea. But they are cautioning bin Laden's death elevates security risks around the world.

Back at the White House, the focus remains on the justice the president said was delivered.

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Rahul Vallamber