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An anti-terror squad raided an Islamic militant stronghold in central Indonesia, touching off a gunbattle that killed nine suspected fighters and one policeman.
The local police chief said security forces arrested 18 other alleged militants and seized a large haul of bombs and weapons in the three-hour exchange, a sharp escalation in the fight against terrorism in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
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Tigers’ explosives-laden boat slams ship
COLOMBO, Jan 21
Tiger rebels rammed an explosives-laden boat against a private merchant vessel operated by foreign crew in Sri Lanka's northern waters on Sunday, sparking a land, sea and air battle, the navy said. The MV City of Liverpool, which is chartered by a Sri Lankan company, was taking in water after the attack and was being towed to the port of Kankesanthurai in the Jaffna peninsula, a navy spokesman said.
He said one Tiger suicide craft exploded against the ship, damaging the hull and one crew member was wounded. Two soldiers on board the ship for security fired at the rebels. The merchant vessel was unloading wheat flour for the half a million civilians living under virtual siege conditions since the only land access to the Jaffna peninsula was cut off due to fighting since August.
The navy deployed 12 Dvora-class fast attack craft to hit the flotilla of 20 rebel boats and two more suicide craft were blown out of the water before they could reach the merchant vessel, spokesman D. K. P. Dassanayake said.
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http://www.dawn.com/2007/01/22/int2.htm
3 Pakistani soldiers die, 9 injured in suicide car bomb attack
Islamabad, Jan 22, 2007
At least three security men were killed and nine others injured when a suicide car bomb exploded near an army convoy in Pakistan's tribal region on Monday, the army said.
The bomber or bombers exploded a white car near the army's administrative convoy in North Waziristan tribal region at 10:30 am, director-general of the army's Inter-Services Public Relations, Major General Shaukat Sultan, said.
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http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0701227072133223.htm