BANNU/CHAKDARA: A remote control bomb attack on caravan of the security forces injured four security officials near Bannu Airport while the rocket fired on Malakand University in Chakdara suspended the electricity supply.
According to a private TV Channel, four security officials were injured when a caravan of the security officials was going to Bannu from Meeran on Saturday. The remote control bomb was planted alongside the road. The injured were shifted to nearby hospitals and the area was cordoned off by the security officials.
A rocket was also fired on Malakand University in Chakdara which hit the electricity wires and suspended the electricity supply, however no loss of life was reported. The Police, meanwhile after recovered a rocket foiled it.
It may be recalled that the security forces were deployed in the University and the rocket was fired to target Security Forces. Nearly 45 suspected people were arrested. Meanwhile, more contingents of the security forces have been deployed in Sawat and Tank aiming to tackle any expected reaction after Lal Masjid operation . According to a private TV Channel, more 12,000 army personnel have been deployed in Swat, Tank, Dera, Bannu and Laki Marawat on the request of NWFP Government. Besides that a wing of Khyber Rifle constituted of 500 persons has also arrived in the areas.
The Provincial Government in this regard said that additional troops on its request have also been deployed in Tank and Sawat to deal possible reaction after Lal Masjid operation. Head Tank Police, Mumtaz Zareen while talking to a private TV Channel said that the arrival of 4,000 troops in Tank has started which would be completed in the next few days. He said that 600 youth from Masud Barki tribe and Batni tribe have been recruited, among them, 300 Scouts Force and 300 Militia included.
http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?184051
Bomb attacks in northwest Pakistan kill 70 over weekend
July 16, 2007
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Militants in northwest Pakistan tore up a peace pact with the government and launched suicide attacks and bombings that killed at least 70 people, in a dramatic escalation of violence in the al-Qaida infiltrated region.
The weekend attacks followed strident calls by extremists to avenge the government's bloody storming of Islamabad's Red Mosque and a declaration of jihad, or holy war, by at least one pro-Taliban cleric. Termination of the peace treaty, the hopeful handiwork of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, puts even greater pressure on the military leader as he wrestles with both Islamic extremists and a gathering pro-democracy movement.
There is concern in Pakistan that the gathering sense of crisis could prompt Musharraf to cancel elections due later this year and declare a state of emergency - despite his repeated denials.
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http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailgeneral.asp?fileid=20070716032421&irec=0
Glasgow airport bomber had frequent communications with Malta
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Kafeel Ahmed, who suffered 90 per cent burns after driving a blazing Jeep Cherokee into Glasgow airport on 30 June, and also linked to the two unexploded car bombs in central London the previous day, was in frequent contact with Malta in the months leading up to the series of foiled terrorist attacks according to Indian police.
Indian investigators probing the activities of two Indian brothers, Kafeel and Sabeel Ahmed, allegedly at the centre of the recent terrorism plots, say they have found a SIM card used by Kafeel Ahmed when he was last in India between December 2005 and May 2007.
Using mobile phone forensic techniques, Indian police say they have analysed a SIM card and mobile phone line used by Kafeel Ahmed that was registered in his father’s name. The analyses, according to Bangalore police investigators, have revealed what they describe as “frequent communications” with Malta, the UK, Finland, Saudi Arabia and Oman.
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/cgi-bin/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=malta
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RE MALTA...STEPPING BACK IN TIME...
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http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/000918.html
25 July 2003
Tunisians indicted on Italy terror charge
MILAN, Italy - An Italian judge indicted five Tunisians on Thursday for alleged links to al-Qaida, paving the way for Italy’s first trial on charges of international terrorism.
The defendants, suspected of links to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terror network, were arrested in October in as series of raids in Italy - in Milan, Naples and San Remo on the Italian Riviera - and another raid in Malta. Another Tunisian eluded arrest and remains a fugitive. A search in the men’s apartments in Milan turned up camouflage uniforms and forged documents.
The ANSA news agency said prosecutors accuse the suspects of having formed a terror cell that planned to carry out attacks both in and outside Italy. Further details on the accusations were not immediately available.
Posted on 25 July 2003 @ 15:27
http://www.jihadwatch.org/cgi-bin/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=malta
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: “After school, Barot gained a City and Guilds in tourism and worked in travel agencies and hotels before becoming an airline ticket clerk for Air Malta in Piccadilly, London, in 1991. He left after four years “to go travelling”.
He flew to Pakistan then to Kashmir, “witnessing a side of Islam which cannot be found in classrooms”. He took extensive notes about the weapons and explosives training he received and on his return used this knowledge to move to Afghanistan where he spent a year working as a trainer in one of the camps for Islamic fighters.”
stepping back in time...
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013944.php
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November 7, 2006
A quiet, middle-class boy who turned into a jihad warrior bent on killing
More background on Dhiren Barot, by Duncan Gardham in the Telegraph, with thanks to all who sent this in:
Dhiren Barot was the least likely al-Qa’eda chief imaginable, nothing like the perceived picture of a man planning to set off a dirty bomb in London and hoping to rock western society with a series of terrorist atrocities.
Short, quietly spoken and smartly dressed, Barot was born a Hindu and brought up in a north London suburb by middle-class parents before becoming one of the key figures in international Islamic terrorism.
Oh, will the Islamophobia never end?
Family friends told The Daily Telegraph that Barot’s father was a disciplinarian who expected his family to follow traditional Indian values.
Barot left home at 20 after secretly converting to Islam and only returned when his father had a heart operation several years later. By then he had grown a beard and his father told him: “Shave it off, you look like a Muslim.”...
One Muslim school friend said: “I used to go to a community centre across the road for Friday prayers and a few of my Hindu friends used to come along out of curiosity but Dhiren wasn’t one of them.
“A few years later I bumped into him at a prayer meeting with another friend who had converted him.”
The prayer meeting, held at Willesden Library, was run by Abdullah el-Faisal, The Daily Telegraph has learned. El-Faisal, a Jamaican convert, was also preaching to the would-be hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui in Brixton and visiting Leeds to preach to the July 7 bombers. He was jailed in March 2003 for incitement to murder and racial hatred.
After school, Barot gained a City and Guilds in tourism and worked in travel agencies and hotels before becoming an airline ticket clerk for Air Malta in Piccadilly, London, in 1991. He left after four years “to go travelling”.
He flew to Pakistan then to Kashmir, “witnessing a side of Islam which cannot be found in classrooms”. He took extensive notes about the weapons and explosives training he received and on his return used this knowledge to move to Afghanistan where he spent a year working as a trainer in one of the camps for Islamic fighters.
It was probably during this time that he met Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and became involved with al-Qa’eda. He had the nicknames Esa al-Britani and Esa al-Hindi.
Back in Britain he saw that el-Faisal had black bodyguards with relatives in Montana and travelled to the US to try to recruit them for al-Qa’eda.
In 1998 he moved to Thailand where he was married, although nothing is known of his wife. The following September he travelled to the Philippines to be trained in firearms, munitions and explosives handling.
American intelligence sources believe he met the al-Qa’eda planner Hambali in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, just as the September 11 attacks were being finalised.
Barot travelled to Karachi in January 2000 and the Americans say he went from there to Kuala Lumpur with Osama bin Laden’s former bodyguard Walid bin Attash, known as “Khallad”.
It is also possible that he met two of the men who were to become hijackers on September 11, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, who were meeting Hambali in Kuala Lumpur around the same time....
Posted by Robert at November 7, 2006 12:55 PM