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Jan 25, 2008 10:44 | Updated Jan 25, 2008 11:26
“At least 10 killed in Beirut blast”
By AP AND JPOST.COM STAFF
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “At least 10 people were killed and an unknown number were wounded in an explosion on a main road in a Christian neighborhood of Beirut on Friday.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Local networks say that the device was a stationary bomb weighing around 40kg.
It is currently thought that the probable target of the attack a senior Lebanese police officer involved in recent clashes with the Palestinian al-Qaeda-linked Fatah Al-Islam group in the northern Lebanon town of Nahr el- Bared.
Lebanese media reported that he was killed in the blast.
Lebanon has been hit by a series of explosions, some of them political assassinations, amid a deepening 14-month political crisis.”
LAHORE: The Interior Ministry has warned the provinces that 13 suicide bombers have entered Islamabad, Karachi and Lahore from the NWFP and may carry out attacks in these cities, reported a private TV channel.
According to Geo News, the ministry revealed in a letter written to the provinces and law-enforcement agencies that terrorists have formed a new organisation by the name of Al-Quds Army and that 13 of its newly trained suicide bombers have entered major cities for their subversive activities.
According to the channel, the ministry has also warned law-enforcement agencies and the provinces that two extremists of Maulana Fazlullah’s Tehreek-e-Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi have entered Sindh and Balochistan.
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Increased Security Threat from Egypt after Border Breach
18 Shevat 5768, January 25, '08
As a result of the demolition of the separation wall between Gaza and Egypt on Wednesday, police and military forces have increased security measures along the Israeli border with Egypt. Israelis visiting the Sinai Peninsula have been instructed to return home immediately.
Hundreds of thousands of Arabs from the Palestinian Authority in Gaza have entered Sinai since Wednesday morning. According to Israeli intelligence assessments, it is likely that PA terrorists have taken advantage of the It is likely that PA terrorists have taken advantage of the border breach.
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