US Has Authority To Hit Al Qaeda Leaders in Pakistan
July 4, 2008
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America’s top military official said on Wednesday that he has all the authority he needed for targeting senior Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders in Pakistan’s tribal areas but refused to say if US troops were also allowed to operate inside the Pakistani territory.
“I’m comfortable, as the military leader, that I have all the authorities I need,” said Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, when asked if he had the authority to target key terrorist leaders hiding in Fata. Read more
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Terror On The Streets of Israel - Palestinian Goes On Rampage With Frontloader
July 2, 2008
A Palestinian driving an enormous construction vehicle went on a deadly rampage on a busy Jerusalem street Wednesday, plowing into a string of cars, buses and pedestrians, killing at least three people and wounding at least 45 before he was shot dead by security officers.
The violence, the first major attack in Jerusalem since March, wreaked havoc and left a large swath of damage in the heart of downtown Jerusalem. Traffic was halted, and hundreds of people fled through the streets in panic as medics treated the wounded. Read more
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Woman Arrested Smuggling C-4 Explosives Inside Coconuts - Sri Lanka
July 2, 2008
A woman was arrested in Vavuniya yesterday (June 1) at a Police roadblock, while clandestinely transporting C-4 high explosives concealed in coconut nuts at around 5.15p.m.
According to the Vavuniya Police, the woman had been traveling in a bus plying towards Siddambarapuram, along the Vavuniya - Horowpotana main road when the bus was stopped at a Police roadblock at the Cemetery junction in Vavuniya. Read more
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Pentagon Official Tells ABC News Israel May Attack Iran
July 2, 2008
Israel is increasingly likely to attack Iranian nuclear facilities this year, a U.S. Defense Department official told ABC News.
Iran’s government dismissed as propaganda the ABC report on the unidentified Pentagon official’s comments. Israeli government officials declined to comment on the report.
In the U.S., Pentagon spokesmen Bryan Whitman declined to address the report. “I don’t comment for Israel,” he said. State Department spokesman Tom Casey said he had “no information that would substantiate” the ABC report and criticized the official for not speaking publicly. Read more
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Two Arrested For Carrying Bullets At Airport - India
July 2, 2008
Two men were detained at Indira Gandhi International Airport for carrying live cartridges on Tuesday morning. One of them was identified was Shiv Vardhan Singh, who is a nephew of an Uttar Pradesh minister.
Singh was to board an Air India flight for Mumbai when officials at the X-ray counter stopped him after they found a strip of 10 bullets of .32 bore in his hand baggage, said an officer. Read more
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Britain Worried Terrorists Might Launch Surprise Attack Using Private Jets
June 28, 2008
As for the origins of the cargo, there was dispute even among the best-informed rumour-mongers of Waziristan.
Some said the uranium had come from the Iranian nuclear plant at Natanz. Others believed it was from North Korea, or even dissident elements in the Russian Federation.
Whatever the source, though, the outcome was the same. Read more
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Iraq - Police Say al-Qaeda Has Infiltrated Force
June 27, 2008
Police in the Iraqi city of Falluja have said that al-Qaeda members have infiltrated the country’s security forces.
“Now we have the proof that al-Qaeda terrorists have managed to infiltrate the Iraqi security forces,” said the head of police in Falluja, Faysal al-Zubei in an interview with the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper. Read more
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Saudi Arabia Disrupts Planned Terror Attacks on Oil Facilities - Arrests Hundreds
June 26, 2008
During the last six months, Saudi security forces have arrested 701 militants for allegedly plotting to carry out terrorist attacks on oil facilities and other vital installations across the Kingdom, the Interior Ministry announced yesterday.
“Some of the arrested suspects were planning to stage terrorist attacks on oil fields and installations,” Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, spokesman for the ministry told Arab News. Read more
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Government Offices Threatened With 1080 Poison - New Zealand
June 25, 2008
Three letters sent to Government buildings have claimed they contain the poison 1080 in the last 24 hours.
The Reserve Bank, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and Parliament Buildings have been targeted.
Detective senior sergeant Paul Borrell said he believed the three letters were linked because in all three letters the sender had said the letters contained the poison used in pest control.
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Islamic Jihad Terror Suspects Killed Prior To Attack
June 23, 2008
A senior commander of the Islamic Jihad and an additional gunman belonging to the group were killed in the early hours of Tuesday morning in the West Bank city of Nablus.
The two were killed in an exchange of fire with IDF and Shin Bet forces who had entered the city to arrest several wanted Palestinians. Read more
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