An unidentified object spread fear in the Ersboda part of Umeå on Sunday - until police blew it up in a forest, suspecting that it was a bomb. The object was found in an apartment during an ongoing police investigation, said Umeå police spokesman John Forsberg. According to newspaper Västerbottens-Kuriren police have been interested in the property for some time.
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Arabian ministers escape a bomb explodes at a Thai southern Islamic college
January 29, 2007
A bomb was detonated near an Islamic college in Thailand's southern province Pattani Sunday morning shortly after a group of ministers from Arab countries visited the college, Thailand's news network The Nation reported.
Police said the bomb hidden inside a construction site at the mouth of the road leading to the Yala Islamic College (Pattani campus) in Yarang district, Pattani province was detonated at 10 a. m. Sunday, the report on The Nation's English news website said. Three border patrol policemen were slightly injured by the bomb.
The bomb exploded just 15 minutes after the visiting Islamic affairs ministers from Qatar, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia, accompanied by Thai Interior Minister Aree Wongaraya, finished the visit at the campus.
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AUSTRALIA will send troops to strife-torn central Mindanao in the southern Philippines under a landmark defence agreement designed to upgrade Canberra's role in the regional fight against Islamist terrorism.
As US-backed Philippines forces close in on Bali bombers and Jemaah Islamiah kingpins Dulmatin and Omar Patek, on southern Jolo island, Australian defence forces are planning military exercises with their Philippines counterparts in the Mindanao heartland of local and foreign al-Qaeda-linked terrorists.
Major-General Nehemias Pajarito, commander of the Philippine army's 6th infantry division, said he would meet with Australian ambassador to The Philippines Tony Hely and his defence attache Chris Burns tomorrow at military headquarters outside Cotabato City to discuss the details of the escalated defence co-operation program. Talks would centre on how the forces, in their joint exercises, would monitor al-Qaeda-linked terror cells and training camps.
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Call to gag Muslim radicals (Australia)
January 29, 2007
NSW Jewish leaders want the state's anti-vilification laws applied to a radical Muslim group that has sparked outrage by bringing to Australia its call for an Islamic superstate. But they have stopped short of joining the Federal Opposition and NSW Government in demanding an outright ban on the extremist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir, a move that Prime Minister John Howard today reiterated that cannot occur until it is proven that anti-terrorism laws have been broken.
Indonesian cleric Ismail Yusanto yesterday outlined his vision for an Islamic utopia before a crowd of about 500 Muslims at Lakemba, in Sydney's south-west. Dr Yusanto and fellow members of Hizb ut-Tahrir said it could ease suffering around the world by creating an Islamic superstate - ruled by Sharia law - through jihad, or holy war.
The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Vic Alhadeff today said Hizb ut-Tahrir's language - particularly in relation to Jews - overstepped the legal mark. But it was up to the authorities whether an outright ban should be slapped on the group. "Any ban is a matter for the Government to make a decision," Mr Alhadeff said. "
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