Blast in Baghdad, Iraq - 132 killed and 520 injured.

At least 132 people have been killed and 520 injured in two car bomb attacks in Baghdad, Iraqi officials say.
The blasts hit the ministry of justice and a provincial government office near the heavily fortified Green Zone.
They came in quick succession at 1030 (0730 GMT) as people headed to work during the morning rush hour.
This is the deadliest attack in Iraq since August 2007 and comes three months after the US handed security control of cities to local forces
The attacks have drawn comparison with those of 19 August, when truck bombs hit two ministry buildings and killed at least 100 people.
Iraq then blamed foreign fighters and accused Syria of involvement, demanding a UN investigation.
The US condemned the latest attacks as "hateful".
'Destructive agenda'
Prime Minister Nouri Maliki visited the site of Sunday's provincial government office attack near Haifa Street and later issued a statement blaming al-Qaeda and supporters of former president Saddam Hussein.
"These cowardly terrorist attacks must not affect the determination of the Iraqi people to continue their struggle against the remnants of the dismantled regime and al-Qaeda terrorists, who committed a brutal crime against civilians," he said.
"They want to cause chaos in the nation, hinder the political process and prevent the parliamentary election."
President Jalal Talabani said: "The perpetrators of these treacherous and despicable acts are no longer hiding their objective... they publicly declare that they are targeting the state."
The White House said President Barack Obama had spoken to Mr Maliki and Mr Talabani to pledge his support.
Mr Obama said the attacks were an attempt to derail the peace process.
"These bombings serve no purpose other than the murder of innocent men, women and children, and they only reveal the hateful and destructive agenda of those who would deny the Iraqi people the future that they deserve," Mr Obama said in a statement.
The UK's Foreign Secretary David Miliband said "such acts of terrorism can have no justification, and must be condemned without reservation".
Plumes of smoke were seen rising in Baghdad on Sunday morning after two vehicles packed with explosives blew up just outside the International Zone, or Green Zone, the administrative heart of the capital.
The Iraqi authorities said the attackers were suicide bombers.
Their vehicles were driven into parking bays and detonated, officials said.
A number of workers for Baghdad's provincial council, which runs the city, were thought to be among the dead.
"I don't know how I'm still alive," local shop owner, Hamid Saadi, told Reuters by telephone from near the justice ministry.
"The explosion destroyed everything... it's like it was an earthquake, nothing is still in its place."
A number of bystanders blamed the security forces and politicians for failing to keep order.
Ambulance driver Adil Sami told Agence France-Presse: "We don't want the parliament any more - let them leave us alone, we can live in peace and solve problems ourselves."
Baghdad provincial council member Mohammed al-Rubaiey said: "This is a political struggle... Every politician is responsible and the government is responsible, as well as security leaders."
The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse in Baghdad said he felt the force of the explosions, even though he was several miles away.
He says the finger of blame is likely to point to insurgents or foreign fighters trying to destabilise the security situation ahead of Iraqi elections in mid-January.
Overall, violence has dropped dramatically in Iraq compared to a year ago, but sporadic attacks still continue in several parts of the country.

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Blast in Peshawar (Pakistan) Today 17-08-09

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb planted in a vehicle killed six people in northwestern Pakistan on Monday as soldiers killed 13 militants in fresh clashes in the Swat valley where the army has made gains in a three-month offensive.
There has been a lull in militant violence in Pakistan in recent weeks after security forces pushed back Taliban insurgents in their bastion of Swat and stepped up attacks on Pakistani Taliban in the South Waziristan region.
But Monday's blast and the clashes in Swat, which followed two suicide bombings there on the weekend that killed five soldiers, will raise fears that the militants are re-organising.
Three women and two children were among those killed when the bomb hidden in a box of medicine given to the vehicle's driver to deliver went off, police officer Sifwat Ghayyur told reporters at the site of the blast in Charssada town.
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Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was killed

ISLAMABAD: There is a strong likelihood that Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was killed along with his wife and bodyguards in a missile attack two days ago, Interior Minister Rehman Malik told Reuters.
‘We suspect he was killed in the missile strike,’ Malik said on Friday. ‘We have some information, but we don't have material evidence to confirm it.’
Meanwhile, Director General ISPR Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas cautioned that the reports of Mehsud's death are still unconfirmed. ‘We are receiving reports and probing,’ he said.
ABC News cited a senior US official as saying there was a 95 per cent chance that Mehsud was among those killed in the missile strike.
US officials have visual and other indicators it was Mehsud and Pakistanis are now trying to collect physical evidence to be certain, ABC reported.
A US official also told Reuters that there was reason to believe Mehsud was dead.
‘There is reason to believe that reports of his death may be true, but it can't be confirmed at this time,’ said the official, providing the information on condition of anonymity.
The official would not comment on the circumstances surrounding Mehsud's possible death.
RUMOURS PERSISTEDA relative of Mehsud's dead wife had initially said the Taliban leader wasn't present when the missiles struck, but rumours that he had either been wounded or killed refused to die down.
The stricken house is some two hours' walk from Makeen, and Taliban fighters had cordoned off the area, refusing to let people enter, according to villagers.
A senior Pakistani security official said that aside from Mehsud's wife, one of Mehsud's brothers and seven of his bodyguards perished in the attack.
The official said intelligence services were trying to discover the identity of another victim, and there was a good chance it was Mehsud.
Intelligence agents had also picked up signs that leaders of various Taliban factions planned to gather for a shura, or council meeting, somewhere in Waziristan later on Friday.

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Who Are Naxalite?

Naxalite or Naxalism is an informal name given to communist groups that were born out of the Sino-Soviet split in the communist movement in India. Ideologically they belong to various trends of Maoism. Initially the movement had its centre in West Bengal. In recent years, they have spread into less developed areas of rural central and eastern India, such as Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh through the activities of underground groups like the Communist Party of India (Maoist) They are conducting an insurgency, typically called the Naxalite-Maoist insurgency. They now have a presence in 40 percent of India's geographical area, and are especially concentrated in an area known as the "Naxal Belt," comprising 92,000 square kilometers. According to India's intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, 20,000 insurgents are currently in operation, and their growing influence prompted Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to declare them as the most serious threat to India's national security.
The CPI (Maoist) and some other Naxal factions are now considered terrorists by the Government of India. In February 2009, Central government announced its plans for simultaneous, co-ordinated counter-operations in all Left-wing extremism-hit states—Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal, to plug all possible escape routes of Naxalites.

History of Naxalite.
The term Naxalites comes from Naxalbari, a small village in West Bengal, where a section of Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) led by Charu Majumdar and Kanu Sanyal led a violent uprising in 1967, trying to develop a "revolutionary opposition" in opposition to the CPI(M) leadership. The insurrection started on May 25, 1967 in Naxalbari village when a peasant was attacked by hired hands over a land dispute. Local peasants retaliated by attacking the local landlords and the violence escalated. Majumdar greatly admired Mao Zedong of China and advocated that Indian peasants and lower classes must follow in his footsteps and overthrow the government and upper classes whom he held responsible for their plight He engendered the Naxalite movement through his writings, the most famous being the 'Historic Eight Documents' which formed the basis of Naxalite ideology. In 1967 'Naxalites' organized the All India Coordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries (AICCCR), and later broke away from CPI(M). Uprisings were organized in several parts of the country. In 1969 AICCCR gave birth to Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist).
Practically all Naxalite groups trace their origin to the CPI(ML). A separate tendency from the beginning was the Maoist Communist Centre, which evolved out of the Dakshin Desh-group. MCC later fused with People's War Group to form Communist Party of India (Maoist). A third tendency is that of the Andhra revolutionary communists, which was mainly presented by UCCRI(ML), following the mass line legacy of T. Nagi Reddy. That tendency broke with AICCCR at an early stage.
During the 1970s the movement was fragmented into several disputing factions. By 1980 it was estimated that around 30 Naxalite groups were active, with a combined membership of 30 000. A 2004 home ministry estimate puts numbers at that time as "9,300 hardcore underground cadre… [holding] around 6,500 regular weapons beside a large number of unlicensed country-made arms". According to Judith Vidal-Hall (2006), "More recent figures put the strength of the movement at 15,000, and claim the guerrillas control an estimated one fifth of India's forests, as well as being active in 160 of the country's 604 administrative districts." India's Research and Analysis Wing, believed in 2006 that 20,000 Naxals are currently involved in the growing insurgency
Today some groups have become legal organisations participating in parliamentary elections, such as Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation. Others, such as Communist Party of India (Maoist) and Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Janashakti, are engaged in armed guerrilla struggle


Deaths related to violence by Naxalite
Violence has peaked in India from Maoist or Naxalite separatist violence being more dangerous to India's national security than either Pakistan, or insurgents in Kashmir and north-east states.
From the Ministry of Home Affairs it has been stated that:
1996: 156 deaths
1997: 428 deaths
1998: 270 deaths
1999: 363 deaths
2000: 50 deaths
2001: 100+ deaths
2002: 140 deaths
2003: 451 deaths
2004: 500+ deaths
2005: 892 deaths
2006: 749 deaths
2007: (as of September 30, 2007) 384 deaths
(related to Naxalite insurgency)
2008: 938 casualties including (38 Maoists).

2009: Naxalites separatists struck at the first phase of elections on 16 April, 2009 in Bihar, Chattisgarh and Jharkhand killing 18 civilians and security forces. Later, on 23 April, 2009, they also struck in the second phase of polling in Jamshedpur and surrounding areas in Jharkhand injuring several member of the polling party. May 2009: 16 police die in suspected Maoist attack
The BBC maintains that upwards of 6,000 people have died in the Naxal uprising.

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Rahul Vallamber

Blast In Rawalpindi

7 hurt in Rawalpindi blast

Updated at: 1644 PST, Thursday, July 02, 2009

RAWALPINDI: At least seven people were critically injured, when a powerful explosion occurred in Chauhar Chowk of Rawalpindi, Geo News reported Thursday.The ambulances and relief teams are rushing the injured to the nearby hospitals.The blast occurred at a time when the market was overcrowded and people were leaving for their houses.According to preliminary reports, a motorists ran into the bus near a petrol pump, blowing himself up, injuring various passengers.This is mainly a crowded commercial areas, where buses are routed from here to Peshawar.

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Hyderabad In High Alert

Terror threat sparks high alert in Hyderabad HYDERABAD: A high alert was sounded on Thursday across Andhra Pradesh after the Intelligence Bureau warned the state authorities about a terror threat.
Hyderabad police commissioner B. Prasada Rao told reporters that there were intelligence reports of three terrorists planning to carry out attacks in south India. “Since Hyderabad is the target of terrorists, we are taking all security measures,” he said.
Security was heightened in this state capital and other major towns as police rounded up 15 suspects at different places and launched checking of vehicles and frisking of people.
Security was beefed up at information technology companies, bus and railway stations, shopping malls, theatres and defence establishments here, in the coastal city of Visakhapatnam and at the famous Lord Venkateswara temple in Tirupati.
State Home Minister P. Sabita Indra Reddy said police were ready to deal with any situation. She said police were on high alert and had taken all necessary precautionary measures.
She said the intelligence reports have warned of possible attacks in southern cities. “They have not specifically pointed out Hyderabad but we are taking all precautions.”
The home minister asked people not to panic but be alert about their surroundings and report to police about any suspicious person or activity.
Meanwhile, police picked up 13 suspects travelling in the Hyderabad-New Delhi Andhra Pradesh Express at the Kazipet railway station in Warangal district. The youth are in the age group of 20-30 years. The suspects were being questioned.
Police also picked up four suspects in Hyderabad during massive checking operations. Special police teams were checking hotels and lodges.
Security has also been tightened around the famous Hindu temple at Tirupati. Police set up barricades at several places in the town and were checking all vehicles going towards hill shrine.

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Non Stop Attack On indians In Australia

Hunt for robbery gang after student bashed

Police believe a violent robbery that left an Indian university student badly injured may be the latest in a string of vicious assaults - including five in one day - by a gang operating in Melbourne's northern suburbs.
Six people have been robbed in the past fortnight by a group of up to four men, described as Caucasian and in their late teens or early 20s. The victims were walking on their own after 10pm.
A 21-year-old man, who wanted to be known only as David, is the latest victim, knocked out in a vicious attack on Monday night.
The student, who has been in Australia for just two-and-a-half months, was walking home from Pascoe Vale station through a Railway Parade park at about 10pm when four men stopped him to ask for a cigarette.
"The four people surrounded me from the four corners and went behind me, they smashed a bottle on my head and I became unconscious and after that I don't know what happened. They were beating me a lot," he said. "They punched me, kicked me."
"I asked people driving on the other side 'help, help', they don't listen to me."
David, who was hospitalised for 10 hours, received stitches to his head and treatment for severe facial swelling, a black eye and broken nose.
His wallet - containing $10 - phone and backpack were stolen during the attack.
Senior Detective Steve Signorini, from the Broadmeadows robbery taskforce, said he was unsure if the robberies were being carried out by one group or separate gangs.
He said the victims were male and female and of different cultural backgrounds.
Five of the robberies happened on Saturday, April 26, in Coburg, Strathmore and Glenroy.
"The victims have stated that some of the offenders were wearing either white or dark-coloured bandannas or hankies over their faces to obviously hide their identity," he said.
Senior Detective Signorini urged people in those areas to be aware of their surroundings when walking alone and to walk through well-lit areas.

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