Security forces smashed two militant hideouts in Doda and Poonch districts of Jammu and Kashmir and recovered a big cache of arms, including 51 explosive devices and 523 rounds of ammunition, official sources said today. Acting on a tip-off, army troops searched Sona-Gali forest belt of Poonch district last night and busted a hideout, they said.
Troops recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition, including 18 improvised explosive devices, 23 Chinese grenades, one AK rifle with its eight magazines and 261 rounds, two pistols with its four magazines and 18 rounds, one wireless set, one rifle belt and one satellite phone, the sources said.
Army and police personnel smashed another hideout in Soil Top area in Doda district and recovered one 12-bore rifle, one double-bore gun, 174 rounds of AK rifle, 70 rounds of self-loading rifle, four magazines of AK and other rifles, one IED and 190 kgs of ration. However, no one was arrested from the two hideouts, they said.
http://www.india-defence.com/reports/2915
LTTE suicide boat suspects reveal mission to attack KKS
3/4/2007
The interrogation of the two Black Tigers- the suicide bombers arrested by the Tamil Nadu police has revealed that they have had the traditional meal with the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) before they set on a journey of suicide mission to blow up Kankesenturai Harbor in Northern Sri Lanka.
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http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20070304_03
Iran has trained secret networks of agents across the Gulf states to attack Western interests and incite civil unrest in the event of a military strike against its nuclear programme, a former Iranian diplomat has told The Sunday Telegraph.
Spies working as teachers, doctors and nurses at Iranian-owned schools and hospitals have formed sleeper cells ready to be "unleashed" at the first sign of any serious threat to Teheran, it is claimed. Trained by Iranian intelligence services, they are also said to be recruiting fellow Shias in the region, whose communities have traditionally been marginalised by the Gulf's ruling Sunni Arab clans.
Were America or Israel to attack Iran, such cells would be instructed to foment long-dormant sectarian grievances and attack the ex-tensive American and European business interests in wealthy states such as Dubai and Saudi Arabia. Such a scenario would bring chaos to the Gulf, one of the few areas of the Middle East that remains prosperous and has largely pro-Western governments.
The claims have been made by Adel Assadinia, a former career diplomat who was Iran's consul-general in Dubai and an adviser to the Iranian foreign ministry. They came as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, made a formal visit to Saudi Arabia yesterday in what was widely seen as an attempt to defuse growing Sunni-Shia tensions in the Middle East.
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US and Pakistani agents interrogate Taliban leader
Sunday, March 04, 2007
ISLAMABAD: US and Pakistani agents were interrogating the Taliban’s former defence minister on Saturday in the hope that he can help them hunt down other militant leaders, security officials said. Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, who had a one-million-dollar bounty on his head posted by the US Central Intelligence Agency, was arrested with four other suspects on Wednesday in Quetta.
Pakistani officials said Akhund, a key aide to Taliban supremo Mullah Mohammad Omar and an insurgent commander in southern Afghanistan, was flown to the capital Islamabad by helicopter after his capture. “He is being interrogated by a joint team of Pakistani and US officials in Islamabad,” a senior security official said on condition of anonymity. He did not specify which US agency the officials were from.
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Snip: They surrounded a house where they thought al-Masri was hiding, captured a guy whom they thought was him and who had singed off his own fingerprints to obscure his identity — and yet it wasn’t him?