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Last Updated: Wednesday, 2 January 2008, 05:47 GMT

“Deadly bomb blast strikes Colombo”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “”There was a Claymore (landmine) attack targeting an army bus carrying troops,” a military official at the scene told Reuters.

The official said there were “about 11 soldiers” on board the bus.

Most of the victims were civilians while a few soldiers were also admitted with shrapnel injuries, news agency AFP quoted hospital director Hector Weerasinghe as saying.”

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“’Sudden jihad syndrome’ poses domestic risk”
By Sara A. Carter
January 2, 2008

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The Dec. 6 report by the Texas Public Safety Department’s Bureau of Information Analysis warns officials not to dismiss individual or homegrown terror cells as “wannabes,” saying they pose a credible threat to homeland security.

“Oftentimes, these attackers are dismissed as suffering from mental health issues, but their own words and writings reveal an affiliation with Islamic supremacy or an affinity for Islamic extremism,” said the report, which was distributed to federal, state and local law enforcement in Texas. “As a result, law enforcement should not be too quick to judge their attacks as having no nexus to terrorism.”

It said they might act with the intention of eventually joining al Qaeda or the jihad movement overseas.”