Baghdad bomb blasts kill 128 on 08/12/2009

BAGHDAD: A wave of violent chaos engulfed Iraq’s capital yesterday as a series of co-ordinated bombs, including at least two suicide attacks, struck the city, killing at least 128 people and wounding as many as 513 others.



Four explosions hit Baghdad within the space of a few minutes, all close to government buildings. An hour earlier, a suicide car bomb detonated near a police patrol in the southern neighbourhood of Doura.

The attacks, the worst since October 25 when two car bombs killed 155, further called into question the government’s ability to protect its citizens and prompted angry complaints about failures by the police and army.



“We have already sent a formal message to Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki saying that the current security plan has failed,” Hadi al Amri, the head of the Iraqi parliament’s security commission, said. “It is clear that we need a new security plan.

“There have been consistent warnings that government and civilian targets will be increasingly attacked in the run-up to the national elections, but insufficient action has been taken to stop those attacks.”



Rahul Vallamber
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Twin blasts in ISI office in Pakistan's Punjab province (08/12/09)

Islamabad, Dec 8 (PTI) Two blasts ripped through an ISI office within Multan cantonment in Pakistan's Punjab province today, injuring several people.

The first blast occurred shortly before noon and was followed soon by a more powerful explosion, witnesses said.

Military police cordoned off the area and prevented people and the media from approaching the site of the blast.

Zafar Ahir, an editor of Jang newspaper who witnessed the blasts, said the target of the attack was an ISI office.

"More than half of the ISI office has been destroyed.

I saw the building blow up," he told Geo News channel.

Several injured persons were taken by ambulances to nearby hospitals, where authorities declared an emergency.

? ? Geo News aired mobile phone footage shot by a passer-by which showed the facade of one building was completely destroyed by the blasts.

Several nearby buildings were also damaged.


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3 Serial Blast in Assam. 4 died and 25 injured . (22/11/2009)

25 people were injured and 4 died on Sunday when a bomb exploded outside a police station in Assam's Nalbari district, police said.
The bomb was kept on a parked bicycle and it exploded around 10 a.m., an official said.
Police suspect that militants of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) carried out the explosion.
Nalbari district is about 70 km west of Assam's main city of Guwahati.
One more blast happened in GOPAL BAZAR.
With in 15 mints 3 serial blast took place.
Assam is in RED ALEART.

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Eleven Killed In Pakistan Car Bomb Blast

2:54pm UK, Saturday November 14, 2009
Eleven people have been killed by a suicide car bomber in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.
The bomber detonated his device when policemen asked him to stop for a search.
Police official Malik Jehangir, who was in charge of the checkpoint, said his officers were checking vehicles when he saw a suspicious black car across the barrier and he asked one of them to go and check it.
"I saw that there was some argument between the driver and the policeman and suddenly a blast downed me," he said.
Another witness, Akbar Ali, said that he was riding a motorcycle and waiting in the queue at the checkpoint when he saw a scuffle between the bomber and the policeman.
"He was a young man, about 20-years-old with a small beard and wearing a white cap. When I noticed that his body was swollen, I left my bike there and ran away fearing he might be a bomber."
Ali said that seconds after a huge blast threw him to the ground.
Peshawar is near the Afghanistan border and has a massive al Qaeda and Taliban presence.
It has increasingly become the favoured target for attacks by militants, particularly since the Pakistani army launched its offensive in October.
On Friday a suicide attack in Peshawar devastated the three-storey provincial headquarters of the country's Inter Services Intelligence agency.
At least 17 people were killed and 39 others were injured in the bombing. Taliban militants claimed responsibility

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Naxalite Attack on Rajdhani express , passengers safe

In an audacious attack, Maoists on Tuesday took hostage the Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express with nearly 1200 passengers on board.
After nearly five hours of intense drama, the situation was brought under control with joint forces taking over the train and a relief train being deployed to bring the passengers to safety. Till 9 pm, the relief train had yet to reach Banshtala, in West Midnapore of West Bengal, where the attack had taken place.At around 3pm on Tuesday, the train, on its way to New Delhi, was stopped by hundreds of tribals who were supporters of the People's Committee Against Police Atrocities. And while holding one of the most secure trains of India under ransom, they demanded the release of their leader Chattradhar Mahato, who was arrested in September and is under judicial custody till November 5.This incident comes close on the heels after the Maoists had abducted OC of Sankrail, Atindranath Dutta. Dutta was released after two days with the Maoists striking a deal with the West Bengal state government to release some tribal women who had been arrested on charges of having Maoist links.Today, the train was stopped and the driver was abducted and there were reports of alleged firing between the tribals and the state forces. This, however, was later refuted by Home minister P Chidambaram who said there was no exchange of fire.The villagers used the Rajdhani as a message board almost, with bold red letters on the walls of train demanding the release of Chattradhar.

The driver, K Anantha Rao, who was abducted and later released, said he saw red flags being waved and about 400 people running onto the tracks and so he had to stop the train. Assistant driver K J Rao was also taken hostage.The West Bengal Chief Minister said firmly that no way will the demands of the Maoists be accepted but he was worried about the safety of the passengers. It was time for the state government to come down heavily on the Maoists and the operations against them in Jhargram and Jangalmahal area needed to be intensified.Home minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said the train and passengers on board were safe and that the Centre has rushed a relief train to bring back the passengers."The train is safe. All passengers are safe... good news is the train is safe," he told reporters. "CRPF and state police have reached the spot and the area has been secured. There is no sign of any other adversary there," Chidambaram said.Railway minister Mamata Banerjee was monitoring the situation from her office in New Delhi and expressed her concern about getting the passengers to safety first and also stated that the state government must take responsibility and take a tougher stance against such incidents in the state.The Pro-Maoists group PCAPA had claimed responsibility for the attack stating that the train drivers had defied their bandh call.Some men then took him away along with assistant driver K J Rao, the sources said.

Jai Hind

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80 killed, more then 150 hurt in Peshawar blast. (Pakistan) 28/10/2009

At least 80 people were killed and over 150 injured Wednesday when a powerful blast ripped through a crowded market in this Pakistani city.
The blast took place in Peepal Mandi in the old city of Peshawar, which is the capital of the restive North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
50 people were killed and more than 150 injured the bomb blast, Xinhua news agency reported.
Several shops were extensively damaged in the blast. The roofs were blown off and the walls collapsed, just five days after a bombing outside a restaurant in the city.
Panic-stricken shopkeepers rushed to help the injured.
The terror strike came soon after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began a three-day visit to Pakistan Wednesday morning.
Pakistan has been witnessing a string of terror attacks, even as the army continues to assault against the Taliban in South Waziristan.
The latest wave of militant violence started with a suicide bombing at the offices of the UN World Food Programme in Islamabad Oct 5. Five employees of the agency were killed.
The most audacious attack came on Oct 10 when 10 terrorists in military uniform laid siege to the Pakistan Army's General Headquarters in Rawalpindi. At least 19 people, including nine raiders, died in the 22-hour standoff. One militant was arrested.
On Oct 15, gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed two police academies and the offices of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency in Lahore. A car bomber struck at a police station in the northwestern town of Kohat. At least 38 people including 11 insurgents were killed in a single day.
A twin suicide bombing Oct 20 at the International Islamic University here killed seven people.
On Oct 22, Brigadier Moinuddin Ahmed, who was the head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan, was gunned down in Islamabad along with another soldier.
A day later, 25 people were killed and 27 injured in a series of blasts across Pakistan. Eighteen people died in a landmine explosion in Mohmand Agency while seven were killed when a suicide bomber struck at an air force base in Attock district. Eight people were injured in the Peshawar bombing.

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6 killed, Militants attack UN guesthouse in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Kabul has been shaken by intense machinegun fire and explosions as Afghan forces battled a group of militants holed up inside a UN guest house in the centre of the capital.
A UN security officer at the scene said about 10 UN employees, all believed to be foreign nationals, were inside the building. The United Nations said it was "possible" that UN staff were inside the building..
Sporadic gunfire was heard and plumes of black smoke rose above buildings in the Afghan capital.
Early reports said five people had been killed.
"There are five or six terrorists inside," said Waheed Sadiqi, a policeman at the scene.
Automatic weapons fire began around 6:30am, witnesses said.
An Afghan security source said one militant had been killed and three Afghan police officers were wounded.
One policeman on the ground, who did not give his name, said the Bachter Guesthouse had come under attack and that there had been a huge blast inside.
The area around the guesthouse, which appeared to be on fire, has been cordoned off by police.
Police jeeps with mounted machine-guns and fire engines were seen racing through the streets of the capital An increasingly resurgent Taliban have vowed to stage attacks ahead of a second-round run-off in Afghanistan's presidential election on Nov 7.

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