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"Senate Hs Committee Report Finds Online Jihadist 'Activity' Leads To Violent Islamist Extremism" by Anthony Kimery 02/28/2012 ( 9:12am) SNIPPET: "Violent Islamist extremists use the Internet to recruit, radicalize and mobilize individuals -- including Americans -- and “the threat of violent Islamist extremism has become increasingly decentralized and its messaging has followed that same trajectory,” according to a report issued Monday by both the majority and minority staff of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs." SNIPPET: "The report concluded that “the United States currently has a haphazard approach to dealing with global Internet radicalization and propaganda,” and...

NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR: Said to be one of the brains behind the 2005 serial blasts in Delhi, Abu Huzefa alias Abdullah Wahi was shot dead in an encounter with a joint team of Rashtriya Rifles, J&K Police and Delhi Police in Jammu and Kashmir on Monday morning. Huzefa, district commander of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) in Srinagar, had worked in tandem with Abu Alqama, a Pakistan-based LeT operative, to engineer the blasts which rocked the Capital on October 29 last year. Huzefa belonged to Pakistan and was involved in several sensational encounters with security forces in the past few years. Monday’s encounter, which...

A code-red kind of alert has ripped across the country, bringing scientific installations, borders as well as beach revellers in Kerala and Goa and consulates within its ambit. NEW DELHI: The Bangalore attack has put the fear of Bali into the hearts of India’s security organisations. With the terrorists involved still at large, there is growing apprehension of a Bali-type terrorist attack in the run-up to the New Year. Therefore, a "code-red"kind of terror alert has ripped across the country, bringing scientific and sensitive installations, porous borders as well as beach revellers in Kerala and Goa and consulates within its...

Kuldeep Singh, a bus driver who saved 60 lives when he detected a bomb on the day of the Delhi blasts, has now got a reason to smile. The Delhi blasts hero, who lost partial eyesight, has now become a proud father. On Friday evening, his wife Neelam gave birth to a healthy baby boy who she says looks like his father. Ray of hope Kuldeep desperately wanted to be with his wife but doctors still haven't given him permission to leave the hospital. "Doctors and relatives were around when the delivery took place but I strongly felt Kuldeep's absence,"...

A Delhi bus driver who saved the lives of around 70 passengers when he took a bomb from his vehicle during last month's terror attacks has been speaking of his experience. More than 60 people were killed and hundreds were injured when three bombs exploded in busy shopping districts in the Indian capital on 29 October. Among the wounded was Kuldeep Singh, who carried a bomb off his bus after it was found by one of the passengers. Mindful of the fact that the bus was fuelled by highly-explosive compressed gas, he urged the 70 passengers to flee while he...

India Arrests Militant for Delhi Bombings 2 hours, 1 minute ago NEW DELHI - India has arrested a Kashmiri militant who allegedly planned and funded the triple bombings in New Delhi last month that killed 60 people, police said on Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT Delhi Police commissioner K.K. Paul said Tariq Ahmad Dar, a key member of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba militant group, was arrested Thursday in the Kashmiri city of Srinagar and brought to the capital New Delhi on Friday for interrogation. Paul alleged Dar was the chief conspirator and financier in the attacks though he was not accused of participating in...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Anguished and weary relatives looked for loved ones among rows of charred bodies on Tuesday as Indians marked the biggest Hindu festival of the year clouded by the worst militant attack on the heart of their nation. The sound of firecrackers greeted the day in Delhi as the city began Diwali, the festival of lights marking the triumph of good over evil, days after three bombs killed at least 59 people and wounded 200 more, some still fighting for life. Some worshippers were searched as they arrived at temples for prayers. India is on high alert...

Lashkar-e-Taiba, the primary suspect in the bomb blasts in New Delhi, has close links with the global terrorist outfit al-Qaeda, as well as the Palestinian terrorist outfit Hamas, according to highly-placed sources in India's Intelligence Bureau (IB). LeT set up its base in Jammu and Kashmir in the early 1990s and has succeeded in establishing its modules in all Indian states which have a substantial population of Muslims. These modules comprise well-educated and computer literate Sunni Muslim men, as per IB sources. Only Sunnis are recruited because the group propagates Sunni Wahabism, the pan-Islamic doctrine.

The Front for Islamic Uprising, a little-known group that police said was linked to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, took responsibility Sunday for a series of bombings that killed 59 persons and wounded 210 in New Delhi.

WASHINGTON: Pakistan is under intense international scrutiny over the Delhi bomb blasts with the U.N Security Council passing a strongly worded statement on Monday asking member states to cooperate with India in brining terrorists to justice. Although the statement does not mention Pakistan by name, the inference seems clear, since New Delhi has publicly accused Islamabad of not acting against terrorism directed at India. The operative part of the UN Presidential statement reads: "The Security Council stresses the importance of bringing the perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of these reprehensible acts of violence to justice, and urges all States, in...

India warns Pakistan over Delhi bombs (Filed: 31/10/2005) India suspects "external" forces of carrying out Saturday's bomb attacks in Delhi and Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister, has hinted at Pakistani involvement. New Delhi residents look at bomb-devastated buildings Mr Singh told Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani president, about the "external linkages" when Gen Musharraf telephoned to offer his condolences for the 59 people who died in the bombings. During the phone call, Mr Singh reminded his opposite number of Pakistan's "commitment to ending cross-border terrorism". Up until now, Indian officials have not publicly assigned blame for the bombings. However, Indian...

On Saturday evening at around 6pm several bombs blew up around Delhi killing over 60 people and wounding hundreds more. The first explosion was in Main Bazaar, Pahar Ganj next to a Sabzi Mandi (vegetable market). The bombs were timed for when the market would be most busy with women shopping in the evening. This bomb blast claimed around 15 lives. Minutes later in Sarojini Nagar around 40 people were murdered when a bomb blew up at a snack food place. Another bomb blast on a bus killed a few more civilians and luckily another bus was evacuated when a passenger...

United States President George W Bush has condemned the deadly series of bomb blasts in Delhi and said the "heinous" attacks have yet again showed that terrorists were enemies of humanity. Joining a host of world leaders in deploring the attacks, Bush said, "By targetting innocent civilians making final preparations for holiday celebrations, terrorists have demonstrated yet again that they are enemies of humanity and contemptuous of the values all the civilised world shares. "The United States strongly condemns the heinous terrorist attacks in India," a statement issued by the president's press office Sunday said. "On behalf of the American...

Foreign tourists not perturbed by Delhi blasts Press Trust of India Posted online: Sunday, October 30, 2005 at 1858 hours IST Updated: Sunday, October 30, 2005 at 1925 hours IST New Delhi, October 30: The deadly blasts in the capital appeared to have had a minimal effect on the number of foreign tourists visiting their favourite Paharganj locality, known for budget hotels, with a number of them asserting they are not perturbed by the incident. Foreigners in good numbers were seen moving freely doing shopping and in a jovial mood at the Paharganj main market on Sunday, a day after...

LONDON: The serial blasts in Delhi sent shock waves across the Indian community in Britain and among the many Britons who have fond memories of the sights, sounds and smells of Paharganj, one of the affected areas. Britain was among the first to condemn the three Saturday blasts, with Foreign Secretary Jack Straw saying: "I utterly condemn the appalling attacks which appear to have been targeted at heavily populated areas to produce maximum carnage. "This is yet another example of terrorists' cynical and callous disregard for human life. On behalf of the British government, I would like to offer the...

TEHERAN, October 30 (RIA Novosti) - Iran condemns Saturday's terrorist attacks in Delhi, the official spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry said Sunday. Hamid Reza Asefi said that such acts contradicted human principles and norms. Iran expressed its condolences to the Indian government and the relatives of the victims. According to the latest figures, the three powerful explosions that went off in India's capital Delhi have left 61 people dead and about 188 wounded.

Three distinct periods at Ram Manohar Lohia hospital on Saturday evening. First, chaos. Then calm. Then chaos again, but muted. And through it all, Sanjay Jain searched for his mother, missing from Paharganj. When I got to Lohia at about 7.30 pm, it was even more a scene of confusion and bewilderment and sorrow than Lady Hardinge hospital, where I had come from, had been. I spoke to a young man who was carrying a girl, perhaps 3 and unconscious and bandaged and bleeding. Then some ambulances and rickshaws screeched in, bringing more wounded people. Then, like a ship slicing...

New Delhi, Oct 30. (PTI): Delhi Police today said a single outfit could have been behind the serial bomb blasts here and the 'Inquilab' group which has claimed responsibility for the explosions was connected to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT). The Police also scaled down the number of casualties saying 59 people had been killed and 210 injured. Earlier, police had said 61 people were dead and 188 injured in the Saturday's blasts. "By looking into the timing and process of operation, it seems that the blasts have been trigerred by a single group," Karnal Singh, Joint Commissioner of the Special Cell...

New Delhi (dpa) - Police raided hotels and guesthouses and detained several people on Sunday seeking leads about the serial blasts in New Delhi that claimed 59 lives and triggered panic among thousands ahead of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. India's Home Ministry said 114 people had been injured in the Saturday's blasts. Two bombs exploded at busy marketplaces while another exploded outside a bus in the Indian capital. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh condemned the attacks as "dastardly acts of terrorism" that were meant to create disaffection among communities in the festive season. Diwali is to be celebrated...

NEW DELHI: Four persons were injured in an explosion that took place near a DTC bus, in the third of the serial blasts that rocked the city at 5.45 pm on Saturday, near Kalkaji bus depot. Unconfirmed reports said that a man wearing a red shirt got off at Lal Chowk, leaving a white bag in the bus. The bus staff suspected it to be a bomb and when they opened the bag, they found wires in it. After parking the bus at an isolated spot, the driver was about to throw the bag out of the bus when it...