Lashkar-e-Taiba suspect arrested from West Bengal.

Lashkar-e-Taiba suspect arrested from West Bengal.

Raiganj | 26 Aug 2013 ::  A suspected linkman of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba was arrested from Malda district today and taken to North Dinajpur district for interrogation, a top police official today said.

35-year-old Md Abu Bakkar, owner of a cyber cafe at Shamsi in Malda district's Chanchal police station area, was arrested on information passed by another LeT suspect Md Alauddin who was nabbed a few days back in North Dinajpur district, SP Akhilesh Chaturvedi said.

The North Dinajpur district SP said that the hard discs of the computers at the cyber cafe were seized and brought for examination by the Intelligence Bureau officials from Delhi stationed in Raigunj for the past few days.

With the arrest of Abu Bakkar, three suspected LeT linkmen were thus caught in the police net, the two others being Md Bashir who was arrested from Bihar's Katihar district and Md Alauddin nabbed from Raigunj, the SP said.

According to police sources Md Bashir is the husband of Md Alauddin's sister and was a member of the LeT sleeper cell.

Bashir worked closely with LeT terrorist Abdul Karim Tunda, the mastermind of several blasts across the country, who was picked up from the Indo-Nepal border by the Delhi police, they said.(Courtesy:NDTV)

Al-Qaeda attackers’ shoot dead five Yemeni soldiers before fleeing.

Al-Qaeda attackers’ shoot dead five Yemeni soldiers before fleeing.

A Yemeni soldier stands guard at the Balhaf gas terminal
 on the Gulf of Aden. (File photo: AFP)

Aden | AFP | 11 Aug 2013 :: An attack by “al-Qaeda elements” at a gas terminal in Yemen killed five soldiers on Sunday, a military source said, as Washington kept its embassy in Sana’a closed. 

“The attackers arrived in a car at the army checkpoint near the Balhaf terminal. They opened fire with automatic weapons, killing five soldiers before fleeing,” the source told AFP on condition of anonymity. 

The soldiers belonged to an army unit responsible for security at the Balhaf terminal in Yemen’s Shabwa province, part of which is run by French company Total. 

The terminal, through which the bulk of Yemen’s gas exports pass, was not among the reported targets of a large-scale Al-Qaeda plot that Yemeni authorities say they foiled in recent days.

But a government spokesman said that pipelines leading to the terminal were among the targets. 

Al-Qaeda also plotted to assault the Canadian-run Mina al-Dhaba oil terminal in Hadramawt province further east and take staff hostage, including Western expatriates, spokesman Rajeh Badi told AFP.

A nearby export facility for oil derivatives was also targeted, Badi said.

Sunday’s attack follows a wave of U.S. drone strikes against suspected al-Qaeda militants in Yemen that has killed 38 people since July 28. 

The latest strike hit late on Saturday north of the port city of Aden, killing two people and wounding one. 

The intensification of the U.S. drone war in Yemen came as a security alert prompted Washington to close 19 embassies and consulates in the Middle East and Africa.

Communications intercepts reportedly included an attack order from al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri to Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

AQAP is considered by Washington to be the deadliest branch of the global extremist network.

Both Washington and London pulled out diplomatic personnel from Sana’a on Tuesday, citing intelligence reports of an imminent AQAP attack.

The United States said on Friday that all of the embassies it shut would reopen this week, except the mission in Yemen.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Washington would also keep its consulate in the Pakistani city of Lahore closed, after pulling out staff on Thursday.(Courtesy:Al Arabia)

Two NATO troops, one civilian die in Afghan bomb, shooting attacks.

Two NATO troops, one civilian die in Afghan bomb, shooting attacks.

Two soldiers and a civilian with  the NATO-led military alliance 
in Afghanistan died Saturday in two separate attacks in
 the country's east. Photo: EPA

KABUL | 01 June 2013:: Two soldiers and a civilian with the NATO-led military alliance in Afghanistan died on Saturday in two separate attacks in the country’s east.

The NATO-led International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) in a statement said one soldier and “one ISAF civilian” were killed during a “direct fire attack.” Separately, another soldier was killed in a roadside bomb blast in the same region, according to allied troops.

The NATO troops did not give further details about the incident.

In May, 26 foreign soldiers were killed in Afghanistan, making it the deadliest month since the beginning of this year. [Courtesy: The Hindu and EPA].

Islamic Peace in Peshawar

Blast kills two, injures 17 in Peshawar

An injured of a blast near Imamia Colonly Gulbahar is
being treated at Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar
on Tuesday night. – Photo by Zahir Shah Sherazi

Zahir Shah Sherazi | Peshawar | 28 May 2013::  At least two people were killed and around 17 others injured when a bomb exploded on Tuesday evening in Peshawar – the capital of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan.

The apparent planted explosive device was detonated near Imamia Colony of Peshawar’s Gulbahar Neighbourhood, said a local police official.

ASP Ismael Kharak told Dawn.com that the device was planted in a motorcycle.

Rescue and security agencies are being dispatched to the blast site.

According to the Bomb Disposal Squad officials about three to four kilograms of explosives was used in the remote controlled blast.

SP City Khalid Hamdani also confirmed that two people have been killed and 15 inured in the blast.

He added that it’s not clear what was the target of the blast, however, it occurred near a Shia Imam Bargah in Imamia Colony.

Chief Executive of the Lady Reading Hospital Dr Arshad Javed told Dawn.com that two people have been killed while 17 injured are being treated at the hospital.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast. However, the province has long been plagued by al Qaeda and Taliban linked militancy and the country’s military has staged numerous operations against the insurgents. [Courtesy: Dawn Pakistan]

Islamic Terrorism in Iraq killed more than 500 in a month.

Iraq death toll passes 500 in May.

AFP | MAY 28, 2013 :: Violence in Iraq has killed more than 500 people in May, AFP figures showed on Tuesday, as authorities struggled to contain a wave of unrest that has raised fears of new sectarian conflict.

Meanwhile, the UN envoy urged Iraqi leaders to meet to resolve a long-running political crisis that is often linked to the inability of the country's security forces to reduce levels of violence.

As of Monday, 503 people were killed and 1,273 wounded, making May the deadliest month in at least a year, according to the data, based on reports from security and medical officials.

May is the second month in a row in which more than 400 people have been killed, for a total of 960 people in the two months.

A wave of attacks, including bombings in Baghdad that mainly targeted Shiite areas, killed 58 people on Monday and wounded 187, officials said.

"I once again urge all Iraqi leaders to do everything possible to protect Iraqi civilians. It is their responsibility to stop the bloodshed now," United Nations envoy Martin Kobler said in a statement on Tuesday.

"It is the politicians' responsibility to act immediately and to engage in dialogue to resolve the political impasse and not let terrorists benefit from their political differences," he said.

Iraq is faced with various long-running political crises over issues ranging from power-sharing to territorial boundaries, that have paralyzed the government.

The US embassy in Baghdad also condemned the deadly unrest.

Iraq has seen a heightened level of violence since the beginning of the year, coinciding with rising discontent among Iraqi Sunnis that had erupted into protests in late December.

Members of Iraq's Sunni minority, which ruled the country from its establishment after World War I until Saddam Hussein's overthrow by US-led forces in 2003, accuse the Shiite-led government of marginalizing and targeting their community.

Analysts say government policies that have disenfranchised Sunnis, coupled with Shiite-led authorities' refusal to make any major concessions to the protesters, have given militant groups fuel and room to maneuver among the disillusioned community.

The government has made some concessions aimed at placating protesters and Sunnis in general, such as freeing prisoners and raising the salaries of Sunni anti-Al-Qaeda fighters, but underlying issues have yet to be addressed.

Violence in Iraq has fallen from its peak at the height of the sectarian conflict in 2006 and 2007, but attacks remain common. [Courtesy: AFP]

Angry Allah follower wanted to behead Jail Officer in Britain.

Prison guard rescued after kidnap by terrorist jailed for plot to behead a soldier

By Andy Lines > 28 May 2013 > Courtesy: Daily Record UK > 

WARDER is freed by riot officers but left injured after Al-Qaeda fanatic Parviz Khan and two fellow inmates hold him hostage for five hours.

Parviz Khan was angry at being asked to pray for soldier
Photo Courtesy: AFP/Getty Images

A TERRIFIED prison officer was kidnapped and held hostage by the evil terrorist who inspired the horrific killing of Drummer Lee Rigby.

Al-Qaeda fanatic Parviz Khan was jailed for life for a plot to behead a soldier.

He held the warder captive for almost five hours inside one of Britain’s toughest prisons.

Khan took the officer hostage with two fellow extremists and told him he would be killed. But the warder was freed after an armed riot team was called in to Full Sutton jail and overpowered the men. The officer was left badly injured.

Authorities have linked the attack with Drummer Rigby’s killing in Woolwich last week.

Just 48 hours before the attack, Khan reacted furiously when the prison imam called for inmates to pray for Rigby.

Seething with rage Khan, 41, stood up and insisted the Woolwich murder was justified.

He and two prisoners – an African born fanatic and a white English convert – then plotted to ambush the prison officer.

They seized their chance on Sunday when they bundled him into a cleaning room in the category A part of the jail near York.

They barricaded the door and battered the officer with mop handles.

A source at the jail said: “It was inspired by the terrible death of Lee Rigby.

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