ISLAMABAD - A suicide bomber aged around 15 years old blew himself up by a crowded minivan in north-western Pakistan Tuesday, killing himself and 18 other people, news reports said. The boy detonated an explosive vest when security forces stopped the vehicle in the town of Dera Ismail Khan and asked him to turn himself into custody.
Two police officers, two soldiers and passengers died in the blast, Pakistan’s Aaj and other news channels reported, while the town’s police chief said the boy was aged 14 or 15.
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Iran asks Germany to explain about terrorist group leader
2007/09/11
Iran asked Germany to explain about presence of leader of a terrorist group in that country, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Tuesday. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of an economic gathering, he said Berlin had to explain about presence in Germany of some elements of the Pejak terrorist group.
According to media reports, the group let leader has recently announced in an interview that he had been in Germany. Mottaki said that Iran has "naturally managed to halt some terrorist moves and tensions in its border areas. "It is necessary to prevent terrorists entry to Iran from Iraqi borders as well as other areas," said the minister.
Stressing that there is no problem in the existing relations between Iran and northern Iraq, Mottaki regretted that "there are always some elements trying to tar bilateral relations." Today, terrorist groups in the region are seeking to damage amicable ties between Iran and northern Iraq, he added.
Despite six years of promises, Saudi Arabia has failed to pursue wealthy individuals identified as sending millions of dollars to al-Qaeda, the US official in charge of tracking terror financing says.
"If I could somehow snap my fingers and cut off the funding from one country, it would be Saudi Arabia," Stuart Levey, the under secretary of the Treasury, told American network ABC. No one identified by the United States and the UN as a terror financier has been prosecuted by the Saudis, Levey said. "When the evidence is clear that these individuals have funded terrorist organisations, and knowingly done so, then that should be prosecuted and treated as real terrorism because it is," Levey said.
Saudi Arabia is a US ally in Washington's campaign to combat terrorism launched after the September 11 attacks carried out by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. Bin Laden, who has eluded capture for six years, is from a wealthy and influential Saudi family.
Yasin al Qadi, a wealthy Saudi businessman named in both the US and UN lists of al-Qaeda financiers one month after the September 11 attacks, is among those identified as donors, ABC reported, citing American officials. Al Qadi has repeatedly denied the allegations. He remains free and is still a prominent figure in Saudi Arabia, ABC said.
His London-based lawyer, Guy Martin, told ABC the United States has never produced any evidence in support of the allegations against his client. "He hasn't been charged or tried anywhere in any jurisdiction in the world," Martin said. "While allegations have been made, there have been no formal criminal proceedings."
The Saudi embassy in Washington had no comment, ABC said.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=93938
Terrorist Heroshima in America?
Ryan Mauro - 9/11/2007
In 2005, the mainstream media seemed shocked when a number of news sources, including WorldNetDaily.com released a report about an "American Hiroshima" plot against the United States by Al-Qaeda The plot calls for Al-Qaeda to detonate nuclear weapons on American soil, having arrived over the Mexican border with the assistance of MS-13 gang members. The report claims Al-Qaeda has already obtained a large number of nuclear weapons currently being maintained by Pakistani and Russian scientists.
Why the shock? In November 2002, this author provided similar and nearly identical information to the American public and intelligence agencies compiled from private and open-sources. The result was a research project of an enormous size, summarily published on this site with the entire version published on WorldThreats.com. Thus, we were quite surprised when this report rocked and shocked the mainstream media over two years after we had already published the same information.
Our original report, entitled "Exposing the Next Wave of Spectacular Terrorism: Terrorist Possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction" seems antiquated as it had been tailored to the address the concerns at the onset of Operation Iraqi Freedom, including the possibility of retaliatory terrorist attacks. Although there were several subsequent updates, we have re-compiled our information, now over two years old, to illustrate we sounded this alarm bell in 2002.
There is a significant amount of intelligence and open-source documentation suggesting that al-Qaeda has obtained and is in possession of nuclear weapons. There is, unfortunately, no way to know for certain the status of these weapons. Have they been destroyed? Do the terrorists lack the expertise to use them? Are the weapons simply old and useless, or are they being kept hidden somewhere for later use? These are the questions the intelligence community needs to be asking, and should have been asking over the last few years.
There is much speculation over the reasons security and intelligence agencies are going to such great lengths to guard against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear terrorism. One of the most recent ones today is that President Bush and Tony Blair were personally advised that al-Qaeda had obtained nuclear weapons through their contact with former KGB agents. Reportedly, during the last week of October 2001, CIA director George Tenet met with the president to discuss fresh intelligence about the nuclear threat. It is said that Bush was startled by the discussion and immediately proceeded to make preparation for nuclear terrorism a top priority despite its expenses. Perhaps this is the meeting that Paul L. Williams refers to in his new book when he says our leadership was informed of the terrorists' nuclear capabilities and "went through the roof."
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http://www.globalpolitician.com/articleshow.asp?ID=3427&cid=11