Twin Brothers Indicted in Mail Bombing of Arizona Diversity Office

Twin brothers have been indicted in a 2004 mail bombing that injured the diversity director of the Arizona city of Scottsville.

Dennis and Daniel Mahon are charged with conspiracy to damage buildings and property by means of explosive, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday and filed June 16 in federal court.

The indictment says the brothers, who live in Illinois, intended to “promote racial discord” on behalf of the White Aryan Resistance.

The package detonated in Don Logan’s hands on Feb. 26, 2004, in the city’s Human Resources Complex. Logan oversaw diversity issues for city employees and citizens, including racial and sex discrimination. The blast injured Logan’s hand and arm. A secretary also was injured, and both spent about a week in the hospital.

Authorities arrested the brothers in their Davis Junction, Illinois, home and say they had assault weapons, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and white supremacist material.

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Pakistan – Scores Killed In Bombing of Police Offices

A suicide car bomber targeted buildings housing police and intelligence agency offices in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing about 30 and wounding nearly 150 in one of the deadliest such blasts in the country this year, officials said.

The attack, which was followed by gunfire, was the third major strike in the city of Lahore in recent months, and it came amid worries of retaliation from Taliban militants facing a major Pakistani military offensive in the northwest.

Lahore is a major cultural metropolis near the Indian border, and assaults there have heightened fears that militancy in Pakistan is spreading well beyond the northwest region bordering Afghanistan.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s bombing.

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Top Iraq Al-Qaeda Boss Abu Omar al-Baghdadi Captured

Iraqi forces said today that they had arrested one of the most wanted al-Qaeda leaders in Iraq, even as his suicide bombers killed more than 70 people in attacks in and around Baghdad.

Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, a leader of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq, was held in the capital after a tip-off, said Major General Qasim Atta, Baghdad’s security spokesman.

The Islamic State of Iraq is a shadowy, al-Qaeda-linked, Islamist umbrella group that in 2006 declared an independent caliphate in mainly Sunni West Baghdad, as well as in areas to the north and west. Modelled on the Taleban in Afghanistan, it murdered and intimidated anyone who did not adhere to its strict Islamist rulings.

Iraqi security forces have reported al-Baghdadi’s death and capture on several different occasions in the past, as well as claiming to have captured the man believed to be al-Qaeda’s overall leader in the country, Abu Ayyub al-Masri. Some intelligence sources have denied that either man even exists, claiming that they are fronts either to throw the security forces off the scent or, in the case of al-Baghdadi, to give the terrorist network an Iraqi face.

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Marriott Hotel, Pakistan – Several Killed, Injured After Huge Explosion

A huge explosion ripped through part of the heavily guarded Marriott Hotel in Pakistan’s capital Saturday, damaging buildings in a wide radius, killing at least two people and wounding at least 25.

The Marriott in Islamabad is a favorite place for foreigners to stay and gather, and it has previously been targeted by militants. Read more

Daniel Andreas San Diego Wanted For Eco-Terror Bombings

Daniel Andreas San Diego grew up in a safe and quiet suburb of San Francisco, the son of a city manager in California’s affluent Marin County. Now 30, he swore off drugs and drink as a young man — and even milk and meat — but the straight-edge San Diego was no straight shooter.

“He looks like a personable young man,” says David Strange, the FBI agent who’s been following San Diego’s case for five years. But San Diego’s bespectacled face masks a violent hate that authorities say turned him into an eco-terrorist, a vicious vegan with an ax to grind. Read more

Terrorism Expert Escapes Bomb Attack – India

Former CID SSP and Lyari Town SSP Raja Umer Khattab narrowly escaped but with neck injuries a bicycle bomb that went off near Saddar police station on the main artery of Shahrah-e-Faisal on Saturday. The banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) was behind the target, CID sources told Daily Times.

Almost two kilogrammes of the C-4 explosive packed with half a kilogramme of pellets and nuts were planted on a bicycle, said the Bomb Disposal Squad’s (BDS) Munir Sheikh, adding that it had a range of up to 2km. The bomb was remote-controlled and locally made; it was planted at the chain cover. The explosion took place outside Khattab’s residence in Saddar Police Lines at around 11:36 a.m. when he was on his way to office.

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