Pakistan confirms top al-Qaeda leader killed
One of the top al-Qaeda leaders,Abdul Rahman Khaddar alias Al-Canadi was confirmed on Jan. 24 by Pakistani authority among those eight killed in an operation in Pakistan's tribal area last Oct 2.
Also on same page 7 members of Al-Qaeda, Taliban arrested in Pakistan
Newsman booked for'anti-state' activity
KARACHI, Jan 25: Police on Sunday confirmed that a reporter arrested in December while working with two French journalists had been charged with 'anti-state' activity.
"Three people have been arrested, including Khawar Mehdi Rizvi, for anti-state activity," Balochistan police chief Shoaib Suddle told AFP. Mr Suddle identified the other two detained in Quetta as Allah Noor and Abdullah Shakir.
Pakistani journalist faces trial
However, they were deported a few days later after intense lobbying by French diplomats. Mr Rizvi has remained in custody and his whereabouts are not known. The US-based Human Rights Watch has urged Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to order the immediate release of Mr Rizvi.
Pakistan arrest aide to Mullah Omar
Islamabad, Jan 24 - Pakistani security agencies Saturday arrested a close aide to the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar in the country's southern city of Chaman, bordering Afghanistan.
Reports from Quetta city, capital of Pakistan's southern Balochistan province, said Maulvi Abdul Manan Khuwajazai, a former governor of Afghanistan's western Badghiz province, was detained while trying esence in the border regions with Afghanistan to track down the Taliban and Al-Qaeda operatives who fled the ongoing US hunt across the border.
Pakistan has arrested and handed over more than 500 Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters to the US since December 2001.
Vehicles with tinted glass banned in Balochistan Friday January 23, 2004 (1518 PST)
QUETTA, January 24 (Online): Balochistan Home Minister Mir Shoiab Nowsherwani on Friday imposed a complete ban on vehicles with tinted glass in entire province.
1.6 tonnes of Afghan heroin seized from Chaghai cave
QUETTA: Customs officials seized 1.6 tonnes of heroin worth tens of millions of dollars on the international black market and some heavy ammunition hidden in a cave in Chaghai district near the border with Afghanistan on Thursday, officials said.
Pakistan army suspected of a role in nuclear sales
Friday, January 30, 2004
News of Kermanshah Iran (where Mansoor Ijaz reported that Osama bin Laden had been sighted.
Six Iraqis killed amid escalating violence
20 Iranian pilgrims kidnapped in Iraq
A group of 20 Iranian pilgrims were kidnapped in Iraq by a gang of armed assailants who opened fire to halt their convoy, the official news agency IRNA reported Monday.
However, the student news ISNA quoted a local Iranian official based near the border as well as an Iran-based representative of Iraq's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) as denying the report.
The IRNA report, dated from Baghdad, said the incident took place late on Sunday, some 30 kilometers (20 miles) inside Iraq from the Iranian border crossing of Khosravi. IRNA said the attackers also took the pilgrims' vehicles.
But according to ISNA, the governor of Qasr-e Shirin - where Khosravi is situated - dismissed the report as false. In addition, the PUK's representative in the western Iranian city of Kermanshah told ISNA that his group had investigated but found no reports of the alleged incident.
IRNA did not say if the pilgrims were making a legal journey to Shiite Muslim sites in Iraq. Since the US-led ouster of Saddam Hussein, thousands have made the journey illegally, despite a growing death toll from landmines and bandits and the risk of arrest by US forces on the look-out for infiltrators from a country they accuse of undermining post-war security.
Thread from FreeRepublic (page not found when I clicked on it) Mansoor Ijaz: Bin Laden in Iran
... Just on Geraldo, Mansoor Ijaz just reported that Osama bin Laden is in Kermanshah, Iran and is calling the shots of the jihadist that are entering Iraq. ...
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US rejects Iranian trials for al-Qaeda
AFP - Jan 23 4:33 PM
The United States rejected Iran's plans to prosecute suspected al-Qaeda members, insisting that Tehran turn over any captive followers of Osama bin Laden for trial in their home countries.
Franco Frattani Iran meeting
Italy FM arrives in Iran to discuss bilateral ties
Payvand, Iran - Jan 27, 2004
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini arrived in Tehran Monday night to discuss bilateral relations as well as regional and international issues, IRNA ...
Iranian FM meets Italian counterpart
Briefing his counterpart on Iran's views and fundamental policy on denouncing terrorism, he said, "Iran has proved that it is determined to campaign against terrorism and its priority for the national security.'
Criticizing the dual approach of western countries towards terrorism, he hoped that they would be as serious as Iran in their campaign against the issue.
Pointing to Iran's trend of anti-terrorism campaign, the Italian Minister said that the measures taken to the effect marks the country's serious commitment to fighting it.
Frattini expressed his country's desire that Iran-Italy and Iran-EU cooperation on campaign against terrorism and drug would be expanded and would become more genuine.
Frattini inform Powell on Iran talks
Rome, Jan 29 - Right after leaving Iran, Italy's Minister of Foreign Affairs Franco Frattini on Wednesday informed in detail the US Secretary of State Colin Powell on phone of his Tuesday talks with Iranian officials.
Italy's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, issuing a communique on Wednesday, announced, "Minister of Foreign Affairs Franco Frattini in his Wednesday phone talks with the US Secretary Colin Powell, informed him of Italy's stand on the need to cooperate with Iran in international campaign against terrorism, narcotic drugs trafficking, assistance in reconstruction of Iraq, and power transfer in that country."
However, the communique also bears some comments on the stand taken by Iran regarding the current international affairs, saying "Tehran, aware of the international community's concerns regarding issues such as weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), human rights, and terrorism, has announced its full readiness to cooperate with the west in those fields."
The communique voices a meddling hope for a free and fair parliamentary elections to be held in Iran, a country already witness to dozens of free and fair elections.
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Map showing Quetta Pakistan and Iran
Map of Iran. Mansoor Ijaz has reported that Osama bin Laden had been sighted in the area of Kermanshah, Qom Iran.
