UPDATE (More acts of terrorism):
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018080.php
September 8, 2007
Jihadists blow up 63 “CD and shoe shops” in Pakistan
Following through on an earlier threat against music shops and markets where women shopped. “Militants blow up 63 shops in Swat,” by Saleem Athar for the Daily Times:
MINGORA: Suspected militants on Friday blew up 63 CD and shoe shops in the Mina Bazaar and Ali Plaza and partially damaged 21 nearby shops, but there were no casualties, witnesses said.
In Ali Plaza, the explosion destroyed 19 shops selling shoes and a mobile repairing shop in the basement, while 27 CD shops and a mobile repairing shop were destroyed in the first floor of the plaza.
In Mina Bazaar, the blast destroyed 15 CD shops and partially damaged nine nearby shops. Around 12 mobile repairing shops were partially damaged in Qadria Market. Offices of Daily Times, Aaj TV and Online news agency were also partially damaged due to the Mina Bazaar blasts, which also broke the windowpanes of Lalazaar Hotel, Bolan Hotel and Anwar Hotel.
A few days ago, unidentified people had threatened the owners of these video and CDs shops through letters, warning them to close their “un-Islamic” business or face bomb attacks. The owners of the video centres had started negotiating with the local administration to find alternative businesses. However, the militants bombed the CD shops after the deadline expired.
Posted by Marisol at September 8, 2007 12:19 AM
Thanks to a special freepmailer for pointing to this date:
September 11, 1683.
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http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2006/09/other-september-11th.html
Monday, September 11, 2006
“The Other September 11th”
by Baron Bodissey
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1892876/posts
Lifesaving Surveillance
IBD ^ | September 7, 2007
Posted on 09/07/2007 5:38:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
War On Terror: U.S. interceptions of suspicious communications between Pakistan and Germany prevented car bombings that could have killed hundreds of Americans. Yet some are still worried about terrorists’ privacy
Yet another dazzling victory for law enforcement and intelligence officers over Islamists, thanks to aggressive surveillance tools: The Los Angeles Times reported that last week’s arrest by German police of three suspected Muslim terrorist plotters based in Stuttgart and Saarland, near the French border, was due to U.S. intelligence detecting e-mails between publicly accessible computers in Germany and contacts in Pakistan last year.
The leader of the militants, who were associated with al-Qaida breakaway organization Islamic Jihad Union, received explosives training at a Pakistan camp last year. Their plan was to car-bomb crowded bars, restaurants serving U.S. bases and German airports with what amounted to over 1,000 pounds of TNT.
“It’s not just the military, but Americans in general,” a law enforcement official commented of their intended targets. “If they could have wiped out 1,000 American tourists, they would have been happy.”
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