BANGKOK, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- A roadside bomb blast in Thai southern border province of Narathiwat wounded two soldiers on duty Wednesday, Thai News Agency reported.
The mobile phone-detonated bomb estimated at five kilograms went off as a patrol squad of 16 soldiers were escorting a medical unit to Banbukaet among School in Narathiwat's Cho Ai Rong district to offer villagers clinic service.
The blast wounded two soldiers, Private Korday Mantad and Private Sanya Daoruang, who were rushed to the hospital. In nearby province Yala, a bomb was hidden under a pick-up truck belonging to Boontham Bupphachart, a provincial electricity authority official in Yarang district. No one was wounded in the explosion but the vehicle was damaged.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/17/content_5618529.htm
Suspicious Package Shuts Down New Haven Roads
January 16, 2007
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The discovery of a suspicious-looking box shut down several roads in New Haven on Tuesday morning. The box was found on a sidewalk on Whalley Avenue, outside the Westville Bakery near the Amity line.
Police set up a perimeter around the area, and X-rayed the case to see what was inside. Whalley Avenue and the exit ramp of exit 59 northbound on the Merrit Parkway were closed.
http://www.nbc30.com/news/10760735/detail.html
Think our enemies are confined to the Middle East? Think again. Jim Kouri explains. Terrorists Training in South America Threaten US National Security
As Americans remember the horror of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington more than five years ago, the U.S. borders are practically as porous as ever. Yet Americans get few answers during the heated debate. What many hear are abstractions about tightening border security with no mention of how that is to be achieved.
According to testimony given to the US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee by General Peter Pace, then Vice Chairman, now Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Hamas has joined Hezbollah and al Qaeda in the Triple Frontier Zone in Latin America where the borders of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay converge.
There the Islamic terror groups train recruits, gather intelligence on targets, launder money and sell drugs. There is evidence that these terrorists and narco-terrorists will soon migrate north into the United States. He cited terrorism reports indicating terrorist groups are active in Canada and Central-South America.
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http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/terrorism.php?id=609380
Alarm over how-to internet bomb videos
16 January 2007
AMSTERDAM — The Dutch national counter-terrorism chief has raised concern about the rise of so-called virtual terrorist training camps on the internet. Tjibbe Joustra — the chief of the anti-terrorism co-ordination point NTCb — said radical Muslim organisations operate between 100 and 200 websites. He said the websites offer written bomb-making manuals and step-by-step video instructions.
Currently, the websites are in Arabic but Joustra said in the television programme NOVA that he expects Dutch-language versions will soon be able. Written bomb instructions have been circulating around the internet for years. But there are now accompanying pictures and footage to show people exactly how they could make a bomb belt, for example. Joustra said the internet enables radical groups to aim their propaganda at target audiences in Dutch society.
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=19&story_id=35594