Security forces in Pakistan have been put on high alert after intelligence agencies warned of attacks by Al Qaeda and Taliban militants on embassies, consulates and citizens of US and UK. Al Qaeda and the Taliban are planning suicide and rocket attacks on the embassies, consulates, NGOs, firms and citizens of the US and UK in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, intelligence agencies warned in reports submitted to the Interior Ministry.
The Interior Ministry had directed the Home Secretaries and Inspectors General of Police of these provinces and the Islamabad Chief Commissioner to enhance the security for the suspected Al-Qaeda and Taliban targets. They have been directed to ensure regular searches of areas housing the US and UK installations and monitor madrassas, hotels and guesthouses, the Daily Times said, quoting intelligence sources. The Islamabad administration has been directed to ensure daily patrolling of the Diplomatic Enclave besides deployment of extra police force in areas housing diplomats, missions and foreign NGOs, firms and citizens.
http://ia.rediff.com/news/2007/jun/04attack.htm
685 anti-personnel mines, explosives recovered from eastern Sri Lanka
06.04.07
Sri Lankan soldiers have recovered 685 anti-personnel mines, bombs and other explosives during search operations in three eastern Sri Lanka villages, the military said Monday. The explosives, recovered Sunday in Verugal, Pankudaveli and Panichchankerni villages, were seized from separatist Tamil Tiger rebels, an official at Defense Ministry information center said on condition of anonymity, citing policy.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3408285,00.html
04/06/2007 Egyptian police seize 1.5 tonnes of explosives in central Sinai
Jue 4, 2007
Egyptian police seized 1.5 tonnes of explosives in central Sinai on Monday, Egyptian security officials said, adding they suspected the material had been destined to be smuggled into the Gaza Strip.
One Egyptian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that security forces on a routine patrol found the explosives packed in 40 sacks and hidden in a mountainous area. Egyptian police routinely find large quantities of explosives and ammunition in Sinai, sometimes hidden in tunnels near the border with neighbouring Gaza.
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THANK YOU Oorang.
It’s alwyas good to see explosives being recovered.
Unfortunately, it always makes one wonder how much
more explosives need to be recovered.
As for Pakistan, that sure is a hot spot.
Thanks for the heads up.
The FBI says al-Qaida is issuing video messages in English to get Muslim extremists in the United States to carry out terror attacks.
Speaking on C-SPAN Television, FBI Director of Public Affairs John Miller said al-Qaida leaders have stepped up the tempo of their public messages in an effort to inspire others to compensate for their network's reduced ability directly to execute attacks. "You see that they put out more communications than they used to, that they have picked up the tempo and pace a great deal," Miller said. He said al-Qaida's "ability to function as a corporate structure" had been impaired "because of the capture and killing of so many of its key leaders."
As a result, "al-Qaida has tried to put the message out to get others to step forward ... and do things in its name," Miller said. "I think what al-Qaida is counting on now ... is trying to develop and execute the major (attack) plan while at the same time putting out the propaganda fodder and hoping that others will take that ball and run with it. And they're counting on both happening at once."
He said the result was plots like the one foiled at Fort Dix, N.J. -- hatched by "people who not only have no connection to al-Qaida but couldn't contact al-Qaida if they wanted to." "Yet," he added, "they're acting on al-Qaida's propaganda-driven instructions, or at least inspired by al-Qaida." Miller said al-Qaida was issuing more messages in English, or with English subtitles. "They have realized that they are reaching out to a diverse audience of people," he said. "They don't want to discriminate through language."
JFK airport plot suspects appear in Trinidad court
Mon Jun 4 2007
PORT OF SPAIN - Two suspects in a foiled plot to blow up New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport appeared in court in Trinidad and Tobago on Monday and were accused of conspiring to commit terrorism.
Abdul Kadir, a citizen of Guyana and former member of its parliament, and Kareem Ibrahim, a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago, are among four suspects in the case, which has raised the possibility of Islamic radicalism taking root in the Caribbean. They were led into a packed Port of Spain court in handcuffs at about 9:30 a.m. EDT/1330 GMT for a brief initial appearance before Chief Magistrate Sherman McNichols.
"They have been accused of an offense to commit a terrorist act under the laws of the United States," David West, an attorney representing the U.S. government, told the judge. Kadir and Ibrahim, who were bearded and clad in loose-fitting traditional Muslim clothing like many of the courtroom spectators, looked calm and kept mostly silent during the 20-minute hearing. McNichols told them they faced possible extradition to the United States.
McNichols set a hearing on formal extradition proceedings for August 2. There was no request for bail at Monday's hearing and Rajiv Persad, a defense lawyer, said he needed more time to prepare the case.
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Trinidad group denies terror plot link
June 4, 2007
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad - The leader of a radical Trinidadian Muslim organization said Monday his group had no connection to four men accused of planning to attack New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Yasin Abu Bakr, the leader of Jamaat al Muslimeen, told The Associated Press he knew nothing about the alleged plan to bomb a fuel pipeline feeding the airport, a plot authorities say was hatched by a group that included a former opposition member of Guyana's parliament. "I know nothing about these men, and I have nothing to do with whatever they are being charged for," Abu Bakr said in his first public comments since U.S. authorities disclosed the plot on Saturday.
Two of the suspects — Abdul Kadir, the former Guyanese lawmaker, and Kareem Ibrahim of Trinidad — are in custody in Trinidad and Tobago, a Caribbean island nation off the coast of Venezuela. Both were arrested there on Friday. A third suspect, Abdel Nur of Guyana, is believed to be at large in Trinidad where authorities are searching for him. The fourth suspect, Russell Defreitas, is former JFK air cargo employee who was arrested in New York. He is a U.S. citizen native to Guyana, a former Dutch and British colony on the northern coast of South America. U.S. court documents allege the four were plotting to bomb a fuel pipeline feeding the New York airport.
U.S. authorities claim the alleged plotters sought support in Trinidad from Jamaat al Muslimeen, which staged a deadly coup attempt in the Caribbean nation in 1990. The men did not receive such support, according to court documents. But according to the documents, Nur said he met in May with Abu Bakr at his compound in Trinidad and the Islamic leader suggested that he return later with others involved "to discuss the plan in detail."
Nur allegedly said the Jamaat al Muslimeen leader also wanted to do further checks on Defreitas, the 63-year-old alleged mastermind of the plot, and an unidentified confidential informant who had infiltrated the group, according to the documents. Abu Bakr declined to say whether he knew the men and denied any involvement. "I know nothing about these matters," he said in a phone interview.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070604/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/terrorism_plot_trinidad