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Occasionally when viewing this segment, I get that "has it been that long ago feeling?" For example Rosie Carver and "Live and Let Die." For younger people this is a James Bond movie and not a statement about Obama's health care plan for seniors (although it might be). I've got to say GBUSMC does a nice job on this. Thanks for brightening a lot of mornings.
The Centre is considering plans to deploy more Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel in Afghanistan, a move that may see embassy officials, aid agencies and private-sector employees there get personal security.
Security agencies believe that with Pakistan's unease at Indian presence in Afghanistan, terror strikes on Indian establishments may continue. New Delhi hasn't, however, accused Pakistan of engineering Friday's strike in Kabul in which six Indians were killed.
Senior home ministry officials are waiting for the report of the Indian investigators who are now in Kabul to probe last week's attack before chalking out a detailed security plan. National security adviser Shiv Shankar Menon is scheduled to land in the Afghan capital on Friday along with officials of the Intelligence Bureau.
A senior home ministry official said it was now certain that more ITBP personnel would be deployed. Our aid and reconstruction activities in Afghanistan will continue. A team of Indian officials was in Kabul a few months back to assess the situation. Their assessment, along with that of the current team (sent after the terrorist strike on Friday), will help us in formulating a new security plan,' said the official.
There are about 4,000 Indians engaged in projects being funded from India's $1.3-billion assistance to the war-torn nation. The officials are vulnerable as they work in hospitals, schools, power plants and other public places.
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HMMMMM, HMMMM, wehell, yokay dokay PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > NEPAL CAUGHT IN MIDDLE BETWEEN CHINA AND INDIA.
IIUC ARTIC > no matter what, when, or whom, as per INDJUH-VS-CHINA NEPAL, NEPAL + OTHER HIMALAYAN KONGDOMS/STATES LOSE. ONLY REAL QUESTION IS THE MAGNITUDE OF THEIR LOSS.
Somali pirates have captured a small Saudi tanker and its crew, the EU naval force in the Gulf of Aden says. The tanker, travelling from Japan to Jeddah, was empty when pirates hijacked the vessel and took its crew captive. The MT Nisir Al Saudi was outside the shipping lanes patrolled by naval warships, it was reported. Because the most efficient route for it to take to Jeddah was outside the patrol lanes or because the captain felt like doing his own thing?
The captain of the ship is Greek but the nationalities of the rest of the crew are not known.
The latest ship to be captured was taken to the Somali town of Garacad, a known pirate stronghold, said Cmdr John Harbour of the EU Naval Force in the area.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Somali insurgents on Monday barred the World Food Program from the famine and war-plagued Horn of Africa country, where the United Nations says four million people, half the population, needs emergency food aid.
The al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab movement, which controls most of central and southern Somalia, said food distributed by the U.N. agency had undermined local farmers and accused it of acting with a political agenda.
The group accused the Rome-based agency of distributing food that was past its expiry date, which had caused people to fall ill, and alleged that its operations was disguised support for the weak U.N.-backed transitional government.
"Given the problems caused by the food WFP distributed, the movement of Shabaab al-Mujahideen banned the operations of the agency in Somalia generally starting from today," the group said in a statement.
"The contractors working with WFP must avoid collaborating with the agency otherwise anyone working with the agency will be seen as serving the interest of WFP," the group said.
The Shabaab said they had received complaints from Somali farmers that the quantity of the WFP food aid prevented them from selling their own products at a fair price.
WFP Africa spokesman Peter Smerdon said that the organization remained determined to help up to one million people who are in need of food aid in southern Somalia, "as long as it is safe for our staff to do so."
The WFP announced in January that it was suspending its operations in southern Somalia citing months of attacks and extortion by insurgents.
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"...the U.N. agency had undermined local farmers..."
I don't normally defend the UN, but this statement is flat wrong. It is Islam that undermines farmers by charging a 10 percent "ushr" tax ("a relic of barbarism") on crops.
While Shabaab types are skimming off the tops of local farms, the U.S. gives its own farmers crop subsidies.
For a variety of reasons, if you were a farmer who could live in Somalia or America, which would you choose?
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John Currie, who worked for BAE Systems formerly British Aerospace is believed to have been one four cyclists who started being "cut up" by local youths in two cars on a main road on the outskirts of Riyadh, the Saudi capital.
Initially, it is understood that one of the cars clipped a cyclist causing him to fall off his bike. Then, however, one of the drivers is alleged to have turned around and deliberately ploughed his car into the cyclists.
Mr Currie, 54, a human resources worker, is said to have been smashed against the vehicle's windscreen in the incident on Thursday, and later died from his serious injuries. His widow, Pauline, was returning to Britain this weekend.
The couple, from Chester, Cheshire, are believed to have two grown-up children. Mr Currie's body will be flown home for a funeral service.
In the past 15 years, there have been a number of terrorist attacks on British and other western nationals in Saudi Arabia by Muslim extremists. Several westerners have been killed and even more injured in a series of bombs and gun attacks. Radicals are angry that US and British oil companies and their staff are operating on Saudi soil. Except these wasn't your organized "terrorists". These were run of the mill Saudis exhorted from birth to hate and subjugate or murder the infidels and saw a couple of vulnerable, unsubjugated infidels on the side of the road.
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Let's see whether the thugs are punished by the authorities. Or, more likely, feted....
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Reminds me of when we lived in Cairo and a 15 yr old male grabbed my wif'es breast in broad daylight and when I caught up to him and slapped him pretty hard, his coach said, "He couldn't have done such a thing".
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What's with these last two comments. Not the first time I've noticed this gibberish.
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What's with these last two comments.
It's the latest fashion in spam, Whiskey Mike. For some reason this little website has been under pretty heavy attack lately ...I'm on the wrong computer, or I'd poop list the IP myself.
[Al Arabiya Latest] A blast in a suspected dynamite storage depot in the basement of a residential building in Yemen killed up to 19 people as they slept on Tuesday, and reduced their building to rubble, an official said.
"We think it was dynamite," a local official in the southern city of Taiz where the blast took place told Reuters.
The official said the pre-dawn explosion caused the collapse of a three-storey building with six residential apartments, and partly destroyed two adjacent homes. At least nine bodies were pulled from the rubble and rescue workers were looking for 10 more believed buried.
Some 15 people also were injured in the blast but survived.
The official said the dynamite was believed to have belonged to a Yemeni businessman and contractor who used explosives in road building works to flatten hills, but who did not live in the building.
An investigation into the cause of the blast was continuing, but based on initial findings there was no indication it was anything other than an accident, the official said.
Meanwhile, a separatist leader accused of al-Qaeda links, his wife and two children as well as two policemen were killed in a gunbattle in southern Yemen on Monday, officials and his supporters said.
"Ali Saleh al-Yafei, wanted for links with al-Qaeda, was killed as well as some of his followers" in an assault on his hideout, the defense ministry said in a brief statement.
Yemen rose to the forefront of Western security concerns after the Yemeni arm of al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for a failed attempt to bomb a U.S.-bound plane in December.
Western governments and neighboring Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, fear Yemen could become a failed state in which al-Qaeda could exploit instability to recruit and train militants to launch attacks in the region and beyond.
In addition to fighting al-Qaeda, Yemen is also trying to bring an end to a northern Shiite rebellion while also facing simmering separatist sentiment in the south, where tensions have escalated in recent weeks.
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The official said the dynamite was believed to have belonged to a Yemeni businessman and contractor who used explosives in road building works to flatten hills, but who did not live in the building.
London: A key 1993 Surat terror bombing suspect, hunted by police worldwide for over 17 years, was arrested from a north England grocery store.
A city court in London will decide over his extradition to India.
The 49-year-old Mohammed Hanif Umerji Patel alias Tiger Hanif was traced to the grocery store in Bolton by Scotland Yard and later arrested from a house in Astley Street in Halliwell on February 16, a spokesman of the Metropolitan Police said on Wednesday.
Tiger Hanif has been remanded in custody and will appear at City of Westminister Magistrate Court on March 25 where the India government application for his extradition will come up.
Hanif is wanted by the Indian authorities in connection with a terror bombings in Surat in Gujarat which killed an eight-year-old schoolgirl and left 12 others wounded.
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Will be interesting to see how this pans out. No doubt a human rights whine-fest or legal action is already in the pipeline.
A Muslim woman is thought to have become the first passenger to be stopped from boarding a flight after refusing to go through a full body scanner for religious reasons. The passenger was at Manchester Airport for a flight to Islamabad when she was selected at random 'Random'? She should have been put through as a matter of course.
to pass through the security screen. She was warned she would not be allowed to board the Pakistan International Airlines flight if she did not comply with the request but she decided to forfeit her ticket. Her female travelling companion also left the airport after she cited ''medical reasons'' for not wanting to go through the scanner.
More than 15,000 people have already passed through the £80,000 Rapiscan machine at the airport's Terminal 2. The Government introduced the scanner at Heathrow and Manchester airports last month. Security staff use the X-ray machine to check for any concealed weapons or explosives but it has attracted criticism for also showing clear outlines of passengers' genitals. Civil liberties campaigners have criticised the scanners as an invasion of privacy.
Sources at Manchester Airport said the flight to Pakistan about two weeks ago was busy and that no other passengers objected when chosen to go through the full body scanner after check-in. The female passenger who declined on medical grounds was said to be concerned because she had an infection. Uh... riiight...
It is understood the women may be the first passengers in the UK to be barred from taking a flight after refusing to submit to the scan. Heathrow Airport said it could not comment on individual cases. A Manchester Airport spokeswoman said: ''Two female passengers who were booked to fly out of Terminal 2 refused to be scanned for medical and religious reasons. Not the first time 'Islam' has been likened to an infection. Possibly the first time a Muslim has said been reported as saying so though.
"In accordance with the Government directive on scanners, they were not permitted to fly. Body scanning is a big change for customers who are selected under the new rules and we are aware that privacy concerns are on our customers' minds, which is why we have put strict procedures to reassure them that their privacy will be protected."
Last month, Transport Secretary Lord Adonis stressed that an interim code of practice on the use of body scanners stipulated that passengers would not be selected "on the basis of personal characteristics". Morons. Dangerous morons.
He stressed that images captured by body scanners are immediately deleted after the passenger has gone through and that security staff are appropriately trained and supervised.
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Good. Especially since Al Qaeda is training female suicide bombers and sending them out to the West. Refusing to be scanned "due to medical reasons" regarding the second female passenger, I believe those women should be investigated as possible terrorists.
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Refusing the scan should be considered probable cause to suspect possession of contraband or explosives. A strip search should have been the next step, followed by water boarding if the suspicions proved to be true.
Oh, BTW, clean up on aisle #2.
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One can refuse to go through a scanner at an American airport for selected reasons. One then has a pat-down search and is questioned by a TSA worker.
If there is a medical reason why one can't go through the scanner, no problem, I understand that. If there's a religious reason, then don't fly.
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Cant be too careful with these nasty kuffar infidels...
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Someone needs to tell these muzzie ladies that the reason the scanners had to be installed was because of muzzie terrorists. That's the whole point. If muzzies don't like it, they can refuse to travel which would make the rest of us feel a whole lot safer
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For a long time after 9/11, all Chinese Airlines
refused to board men wearing women's dresses...
Of course their leaders did not kiss saudis full on the mouth or bow to their king...
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Hotspur:
Do not mistake snark for wit, snottiness for humor, or a modest measure of intelligence for deep wisdom. Your photos do not add anything of use to the discussion.
Italian police have arrested nine people suspected of trafficking arms to Iran. Iranian secret service agents were allegedly among those arrested by police in the northern city of Milan on Wednesday.
Both Italians and Iranians were detained but none of the nine have so far been identified.
Police said they were accused of illegally exporting arms and armament systems.
Arms exports to Iran are strictly controlled under a United Nations embargo.
Italy is one of Iran's largest trading partners in the European Union.
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Italy is one of Iran's largest trading partners in the European Union.
Game, charged with terrorism for a bomb blast, attended Milan's Viale Jenner Mosque. He also compiled a 'dossier' containing information on Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and other government ministers.
The al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab movement, which controls most of central and southern Somalia, said food distributed by the U.N. agency had undermined local farmers and accused it of acting with a political agenda.
The group accused the Rome-based agency of distributing food that was past its expiry date, which had caused people to fall ill, and alleged that its operations was disguised support for the weak U.N.-backed transitional government.
Italy will be another front on the war on terror if it doesn't get it together. Paying ransoms over the years appeases no one.
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German firms played a major role in constructing the tunnels Iran has been using in its nuclear program. Germans also exported a fair amount of forbidden processing equipment, including centrifuges.
[Dawn] The US Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by Guantanamo inmates from China's Uighur minority to be freed on US soil, in a decision sure to bring relief to the Obama administration.
The Supreme Court had planned on March 23 to hear the men's plea, which had potentially serious implications for President Barack Obama's slow-moving drive to shut down the controversial military prison on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"By now, however, each of the detainees at issue in this case has received at least one offer of resettlement in another country," the top US court said in a brief, unsigned decision Monday.
"This change in the underlying facts may affect the legal issues presented," it said. "No court has yet ruled in this case in light of the new facts, and we decline to be the first to do so."
The Supreme Court sent the case back down to a US appeals court, which will decide the next move. The same court in February 2009 ruled against the inmates, overturning an earlier order to free them in the United States
The Muslim men -- part of a community which has long accused China of discrimination -- have all been cleared of wrongdoing. They are staying in a special, low-security part of the prison with a library and recreational space.
The Obama administration had raced to find homes for the men ahead of the Supreme Court hearing, hoping for an outcome like that on Monday. Albania, Bermuda, Palau and Switzerland all accepted detainees, defying intense pressure by China.
Only seven of the original 22 Uighur men at Guantanamo Bay remain in the prison, including two set to go to Switzerland. Palau has offered to accept the remaining five, although the men have hesitated to go to the Pacific island.
Nury Turkel, a Uighur-American lawyer and activist, said the former inmates would face a precarious existence in Palau as the tiny nation offered no path to become a naturalized citizen.
Rebiya Kadeer, the Washington-based leader of Uighur exiles, said that the Supreme Court decision was "clearly a disappointment" for the inmates.
"Ultimately, my wish is for the Uighurs remaining at Guantanamo to be granted the freedom and justice they so richly deserve -- the freedom and justice embodied by the United States," she said.
"My hope is that these men, who have committed no crime, will be given a new life soon, outside of Guantanamo," she said.
The 22 original detainees had set up a camp in Afghanistan and were seized in the aftermath of the US-led invasion that toppled the Taliban regime in 2001. US authorities soon concluded that the men were the victims of local bounty-seekers.
In principle, the United States would send cleared inmates to their home country. But it has refused China's demands to repatriate them, saying they would face almost certain persecution.
US lawmakers blocked attempts to free the men on US soil, arguing they still pose a security threat despite US authorities' statements to the contrary.
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Pakistan's army on Tuesday revealed a vast Taliban and al-Qaeda hideout dug into mountains near the Afghan border.
Commanders gave journalists a guided tour of the bastion, carved into sheer rock within clear view of the snow-capped mountains of eastern Afghanistan and said by one general to comprise 156 caves developed over five to seven years.
Pakistan seized the complex in its latest offensive against terrorists in its semi-autonomous tribal belt, following U.S. pressure on the country to eliminate Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked groups who attack Western troops in Afghanistan.
Major-General Tariq Khan told journalists on the visit that the warren of caves in the Damadola area had served as a terrorist headquarters until it was overrun by troops in an offensive launched in January.
"It was the main hub of militancy where al-Qaeda operatives had moved freely," he said.
Journalists saw bedding such as pillows and mattresses that suggested the inhabitants had camped out for significant periods.
"Al-Qaeda was there. They had occupied the ridges. There were 156 caves designed as a defensive complex," Maj.-Gen. Khan said.
It is believed the caves at one point sheltered Ayman al-Zawahiri, the second-in-command to Osama bin Laden, and Damadola was the scene of a 2006 U.S. drone strike that unsuccessfully targeted him.
Bobby Wilkes, former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for Central Asia, said the caves would have housed the terrorists permanently.
"They could winter there," he said. "They're huge complexes that are just dug into the mountains. There's nothing extravagant to them, they're just big open holes that would provide shelter from weather and from anybody attacking.
"The entrances are hidden and typically on the steep side of a mountain so they'd be very difficult to spot from overhead. They just climb up the hills, it's like going up into the Rockies in Colorado."
Damadola covers about five square kilometres and is about 20 km from the Afghan border. The village lies in the Bajaur tribal region and has been fought over for 16 months.
The latest fighting saw 75 local and foreign terrorists killed.
"The first Pakistan army uniformed soldiers have arrived in Damadola after a recent operation and the Pakistan flag has been raised for the first time since [independence in] 1947," Maj.-Gen. Khan said.
Damadola is strategically important as a link to Afghanistan, Pakistan's northern district of Chitral, the main highway to China and the northwestern valley of Swat, which has been troubled by the Taliban.
Until 2008 the area was tantamount to an independent state run by an Afghan warrior, Qazi Ziaur Rehman, who was its administrative controller, collecting taxes from local people.
As the journalists visited, hundreds of tribesmen celebrated in front of the television cameras, waving guns in the air and hailing the army and vowed to form pro-government militias -- known locally as lashkars --to prevent the Taliban's return.
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The pictures of 156 caves with tunnels large enough to stand and walk around is quite an impressive compound. Lots of bedding left behind in a hurry--Zawahiri was a resident reportedly but was long gone. Still, impressive work for the Pakistanis.
[Dawn] Military operation against militants was underway in Khyber agency's Bara tehsil, DawnNews reported.
Security forces arrested seven militants in fresh clashes in Bara's Shalober area, FC officials said. FC officials also recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition in the first operation in Bara.
Curfew was still imposed and security forces were pounding militant hideouts in various parts of the agency along with an ongoing search operation.
FC claimed killing over 100 local and foreign militants. They also arrested over 200 militants and destroyed a dozen houses of militant commanders.
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[Dawn] Two children were wounded in "unprovoked firing" by Indian forces across the de facto border dividing the disputed Kashmir region, Pakistani officials said on Tuesday.
An Indian army spokesman said soldiers had retaliated after Pakistani troops opened fire.
Pakistan said the shooting, in the Battal sector of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, known as Azad Kashmir, took place on Monday night, just days after the nuclear-armed neighbours held their first official talks in more than year.
"An innocent boy and a girl were seriously injured due to unprovoked firing by Indian troops across the Line of Control," a military official said, referring to the line dividing the Pakistani and Indian portions of the Himalayan region.
"Pakistani troops responded effectively," he said without giving details.
Indian army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Biplab Nath said Pakistani troops also fired several rocket-propelled grenades.
"We retaliated after 30 minutes, aiming only on Pakistani military posts," Nath said. Both sides routinely blame the other for provoking fire in such incidents.
There has been a spate of clashes in the past few months along the Line of Control and on the border to the south but they are not expected to spark a broader conflict.
Pakistan and India have fought two of their three wars over Muslim-majority Kashmir, which is divided between the South Asian neighbours who both claim it in full.
India suspended a tentative four-year-old peace process with Pakistan after an attack on the Indian city of Mumbai in November 2008 by Pakistan-based militants in which 166 people were killed.
India accuses Pakistan of backing separatist militants fighting its forces in its part of Kashmir. Pakistan says it only offers Kashmiri separatists political backing.
Top diplomats from the two countries met in New Delhi last week in their first officials talks since the Mumbai attack.
They agreed to "keep in touch" but India declined to resume a broad series of talks on outstanding disputes known as the composite dialogue.
The United States wants to see ties between the countries improve so Pakistan can focus on fighting militants on its Afghan border.
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[Dawn] With military officials stating that security forces have taken control of Bajaur agency, an announcement was made by the Frontier Corps commander that an operation was about to be launched in the Orakzai tribal region and the Tirah valley to quash militant hideouts.
FC commander Major General Tariq Khan said security forces were going to launch operations in Orakzai and Tirah very soon.
Militants have been increasingly active in both areas. Recently, militants beheaded a kidnapped Sikh in the Khyber agency's Tirah valley after his relatives failed to pay ransom.
The Orakzai tribal region, meanwhile, is known as the stronghold of Taliban commander Noor Jamal alias Toofan Mullah who has allegedly been declared as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan's caretaker chief.
Details regarding the impending operation are still emerging.
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[Quqnoos] Pakistani Taliban confirmed the death of a senior commander, who was killed in a US drone attack in northwestern Pakistan
Mohammad Qari Zafar's death, which was reported earlier by Pakistani intelligence officials, marks the latest success from US secret CIA-run drone program in Pakistan.
US unmanned aircrafts have carried out more than 100 missile strikes near the Afghan border since 2004, killing several senior militant leaders, including the leader of Pakistani Taliban, Baituallah Mahsud.
The Taliban described Zafar as a martyr in a statement faxed to local journalists and pledged to avenge his death, the Associated Press reports.
"The Mujahedeen will soon take revenge against the Pakistani government for his killing anywhere in the country," said the statement.
Pakistani officials publicly oppose such drone strikes as violations of the country's sovereignty.
Pakistani intelligence officials said last week that Zafar was killed Wednesday along with 13 other insurgents in the Dargah Mandi area of the North Waziristan.
Zafar, who was a senior member of the banned Al Qaeda-linked militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, coordinated the March 2006 suicide car bombing of the US consulate in Karachi.
He was also believed to be behind the September 2008 truck bomb blast at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad that killed 54 people.
The US had posted a $5 million dollar reward for information leading to his capture.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] A curfew was imposed on a southern Indian town on Tuesday after two people were killed when Muslims rioted to protest against a newspaper article they said offended Islam, police said. One of those killed was shot by police, who opened fire as they tried to stop hundreds of Muslims attacking shops and vehicles in Shimoga town, its police chief S. Murugan said.
The town is about 250 km (170 miles) from Bangalore, the nerve center of India's $60 billion outsourcing industry that runs services from software coding to managing computer networks and call centers. Bangalore is the capital of Karnataka state, ruled by the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, and if the violence spreads in reprisal attacks it could disrupt business.
Hundreds of Muslims took to the streets on Monday after a local newspaper published what it said was an article by controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin challenging the traditional Muslim veil as curbing women's freedom.
Hundreds of Muslims took to the streets on Monday after a local newspaper published what it said was an article by controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin challenging the traditional Muslim veil as curbing women's freedom.
They vandalized shops and damaged vehicles. Protests also spread to Hassan town. Police said Hindus had retaliated at some places.
Nasrin denied writing the article and said she suspected a deliberate attempt to malign her.
"The incident that occurred in Karnataka on Monday shocked me," she told Reuters in an email.
"I learned that it was provoked by an article written by me that appeared in a Karnataka Newspaper. But I have never written any article for any Karnataka newspaper in my life. The appearance of the article is atrocious."
She added: "In any of my writings I have never mentioned that Prophet Muhammad was against burkha (Muslim veil)."
Nasrin's work has sparked trouble in India in the past.
She fled Bangladesh for the first time in 1994 when a court said she had "deliberately and maliciously" hurt Muslims' religious feelings with her Bengali-language novel "Lajja", or "Shame", which is about riots between Muslims and Hindus.
At the time, thousands of radical Muslims protested against her, demanding that she be killed for blasphemy, and some have continued to threaten her life ever since.
She spent about a decade in Western Europe and the United States before arriving in India in 2004 on a temporary residential permit.
Periodic protests by Indian Muslim hardliners have erupted against the doctor-turned-writer, who describes herself as a secular humanist, and criticizes religion as an oppressive force.
In 2004, a Muslim cleric in India offered a $440 reward to anyone who was able to successfully humiliate her by blackening her face with shoe polish or ink or by garlanding her with shoes.
Several of her books have been banned in India and Bangladesh because they upset hardline Muslims.
The European Parliament awarded her the Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought in 1994.
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Never confront Muslims with the truth.
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A string of three suicide bombings killed at least 30 people and wounded 48 others in the former insurgent stronghold of Baqouba on Wednesday, including a blast from a suicide bomber who rode in an ambulance with the wounded before blowing himself up at a hospital, police said.
The bombingsIraq's deadliest in weekscome as Iraq is preparing for March 7 elections that will decide who will oversee the country as U.S. forces go home and help determine whether Iraq can overcome deep sectarian tensions. American and Iraqi officials have warned repeatedly that insurgents were expected to launch such attacks in an attempt to disrupt the crucial vote.
Police spokesman Capt. Ghalib al-Karkhi said the blasts struck in quick succession in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad. First, a suicide car bomb targeted a local government housing office next to an Iraqi Army facility. Within minutes, another suicide bomber driving a vehicle struck the headquarters of the provincial council, Mr. Karkhi said.
A third suicide bomber, wearing an explosives vest, rode in an ambulance with the wounded to the city's emergency hospital as rescuers and victims from the first two blasts were being rushed in for treatment, he added.
Most of the victims came from the blast at the hospital, Mr. Karkhi said. Police later safely detonated a fourth car bomb about 220 yards from the hospital.
Insurgents often spread out bomb attacks as a way to maximize damage as rescuers and others rush to the scene to help or ferry the victims to hospital for treatment.
One witness in Baqouba described being thrown against a nearby wall by the first blast and said that immediately after the explosion, Iraqi security forces began firing their weapons. The witness said she hid in a nearby building, then when the situation appeared to have calmed down, went outside only to hear another blast go off seconds later.
"The place was covered with dust and the smell of TNT powder was all over the area, where panicked people were running and cars were colliding with one another," said the witness. She spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns.
The provincial police chief, Maj. Gen. Abdul-Hussein al-Shimari, was in the hospital at the time of the blast, but was unharmed, Mr. Karkhi said.
Baqouba, Diyala's provincial capital, is a mixed Shiite-Sunni city. Both the city and the province were flashpoints of the insurgency, although they have quieted since the height of attacks in 2006 and 2007.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Many Iraqis say that for four years they have seen little of their elected representatives, but now that it's election time, they all turn up bearing gifts.
Guns, watches, expensive hotel stays and even cash are being used to woo voters in Sunday's parliamentary election, Iraq's second full national ballot since the 2003 U.S. invasion.
Playing down the importance of guns that allies of the prime minister have given as gifts, an Iraqi government official said: "They do not cost much, less than $300 or $400 each."
Media reports of the presents have surfaced only recently, but the government official said the guns were given more than a year ago, and none had been handed out since.
The fact that $300 or $400 is not considered a substantial sum for a handout is indicative of the funds being lavished on voters in the oil-producing country ahead of the ballot.
Journalists are being offered mobile phones, and voters watches, while long delayed public works and other services have suddenly and ostentatiously been carried out or improved.
"What's the cost of a watch when you compare it to what others are giving out?" said a candidate, defending the gift giving and speaking on condition of anonymity.
Days before the vote, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki opened a new bridge on Tuesday after months of delays, while energy officials have suddenly got around to distributing new and improved gas tanks that power stoves and boilers.
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Israeli forces raided a village in the northern West Bank on Wednesday and wounded two members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, one seriously, a senior Palestinian security officer said.
Islamic Jihad said in a statement that the two men, leaders wanted by Israel for eight years, had fought gunbattles through the night with the Israeli forces. They had been wounded and detained, it said. This is the first time in almost a year there has been a confrontation in the West Bank on this scale, the Palestinian security official said.
A large force of Israeli troops had mounted the overnight raid in a village near the northern West Bank town of Jenin, the Palestinian officer, responsible for security in the area, told Reuters. The officer said it was the biggest raid mounted by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since December, when Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinian men they suspected of having shot dead an Israeli settler.
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The son of a founder of the Palestinian militant group, Hamas, Tuesday told CNN that he was a spy for Israel.
For 10 years, Mosab Yousef said he gathered information about Hamas terrorist plots and fed them to Israel's domestic security service Shin Bet.
Yousef, in an exclusive interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, said he did it because he came to believe that Hamas was practicing "exceptional cruelty" against its members and "killed people for no reason." Nothing gets by this guy.
He has now written a book, "Son of Hamas" detailing his exploits from his new base in the United States where he has lived since 2007. CNN could not independently confirmed his story and Israel has refused to comment.
In the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, a former Israeli handler said of Yousef: "One insight of his was worth 1,000 hours of thought by top experts."
Yousef told CNN: "They offered me to work for them. My goal was to be a double agent and attack them from the inside."
But then his views changed.
"After I was tortured by Shin Bet I was transferred to prison [where] Hamas tortured Hamas members and I became confused who was really my enemy ... I accepted to meet Shin Bet."
Yousef said he agreed to spy on Hamas and that his decision was partly a moral one. "My people did not understand this. Shin Bet is committed to a constitution but Hamas targets civilians. There's a difference between targeting a terrorist and civilians."
He said that in part his transformation was due to spiritual reasons. "Later on, I became a Christian, during that time, the first few months, and I was convinced by the principle of loving your enemies. And I saw that my enemy, who I thought that they were my enemies, they had morality, they had their responsibilities more than my own people."
He added: "As a Shin Bet agent, when I had information I helped arrest people, otherwise they hit randomly. When I specified a particular person I had a condition - not to kill that person ...
"In 10 years working for Shin Bet I am not responsible for killing one terrorist. I care about my people, my problem was their [Hamas'] ideology.
His father, Sheikh Yousef, is serving time in an Israeli prison. He recently wrote a letter from jail saying that the whole family "inclusively and exhaustively denounce our eldest son."
An attorney for the elder Yousef obtained a statement last week from the father saying Hamas knew of his son's contact with Israeli intelligence and adding that he "was not on any day an active member in the ranks of Hamas."
Asked if he feels in danger because of what he's done, Yousef says he is not afraid. "Death is not the worst thing that can happen to a human being, physical death. The worst, spiritual and soul death. This is what really scares me."
The Israeli government, including Shin Bet, has not offered CNN official comment, and his family has broadly denied his story. But an intelligence source told Amanpour that the core claims are true, this is a "modus operandi of how Israeli agents work," to penetrate the opposite side, to try to get as much information as possible.
But the source added some of the high profile claims of thwarting terrorism or helping with high-level captures are "gross exaggerations."
John Holmes, the United Nation's humanitarian chief, has revisited the Gaza Strip, a year after Israel's assault on the territory ended. He told Al Jazeera that it was disappointing how little has changed since the war and that there has been no real possibility of reconstruction, mainly because of Israel's siege of the Strip.
He said the blockade resulted in misery for the Palestinians. "They're living in a kind of open-air prison. They're still suffering from this kind of collective punishment they've been suffering for three years now." He says that as if it's someone's fault other than that of the Gazooks themselves ...
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They voted Hamas, they got Hamas, and all the things that come with it.
Criminal thugs running the Gaza means there is little choice for the neighbors (Israel and Egypt) except to treat the place like a prison.
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In most countries, attempted murder will land you in jail. Gaza is no exception.
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Gaza is a prison where the inhabitants made a choice of being criminals, so it is a home-grown self-imposed prison. They have nobody to blame but themselves. Even Egypt will not really have much to do with them. They have become a pain-in-the-a$$ of everyone they have dealt with.
Mr. Holmes must learn to understand the principle of cause-and-effect, the same lesson, that the Palestinians must learn.
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More like open-air asylum for criminally insane, buba.
p.s. If Western Civilization is to survive, you and all you Tranzi pals will have to be placed into similar institutions.
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Why a prison? "The Project," a 1980's literary development by the insidious Muslim Brotherhood, sees the Palestinian problem as a galvanizing agenda for all bloodthirsty Muslims, AND THEY DON'T WANT IT TO GO AWAY.
Otherwise, the Muslims would just go back to fighting amongst themselves, as they have for over thirteen hundred years.
Note: "The Project" is a big part of the problem with all of the Islamic disharmony and hatred occurring in Europe these days, and it's spreading globally each year.
Hamas suspects the security forces of an Arab state were behind the assassination of a senior group operative in Dubai earlier this year, the Al-Quds Al-Araby daily reported on Tuesday.
Mahmoud Nasser, a member of Hamas' political bureau, told the newspaper that slain commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was likely being tracked by agents from Jordan and Egypt prior to the January 19 killing.
Nasser said he had been given information regarding such efforts to kill Mabhouh, adding that the evidence indicated that the assassination was carried out earlier than the alleged agents had planned.
According to Nasser, Mabhouh was in possession of "dangerous" information seen as dangerous to particular Arab elements seeking to topple Islamist resistance.
Nasser oversees Hamas' ties with Iran and worked closely with Mabhouh, sometimes referred to as his deputy. Hamas raised these accusations after a prelimary investigation immediately following the murder, and match early suspicions raised by Dubai as well.
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Will everyone who was NOT involved in whacking this guy please raise your hand?
Indonesia has detained 13 suspects believed to have been from a group taking part in an Islamic terrorist militant training camp in a remote part of Aceh province, a national police spokesman said on Wednesday. Police from the elite anti-terrorism unit were still searching for dozens more suspects who had fled during a raid on the camp last week, said spokesman Edward Aritonang. "Among those captured, several were trainers who it appears had received training overseas," said Aritonang, who declined to elaborate.
Aritonang said three rifles, 8,000 bullets, and other documents linking the suspects to an Islamic militant group had been seized. "We don't know what their targets were, or for what reasons, because we are still hunting dozens more from the group," he said.
The local Kompas newspaper reported that the Aceh group may have links with perpetrators who were convicted for the 2004 Australian embassy bombing in Jakarta.
During the raid last week, commando knives, VCDs on the Bali bombings, books about jihad, military uniforms and millions of rupiah in cash, were also found, Aceh's police chief said.
Terrorists Suspected Islamic militants shot dead a father and his young daughter in Thailand's troubled south, while a roadside bomb wounded five soldiers, police said Wednesday.
Gunmen opened fire on the Muslim man and his three daughters as they rode a motorbike home from a religious school in Pattani province Tuesday, killing the 44-year-old man and his seven-year-old daughter, police said.
Early Wednesday a 15 kilogram (33 pound) bomb hidden in a gas canister in neighbouring Narathiwat province wounded five rangers as they drove in a pick-up truck to meet community leaders, they added.
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[Dawn] The US Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by Guantanamo inmates from China's Uighur minority to be freed on US soil, in a decision sure to bring relief to the Obama administration.
[Dawn] Military operation against militants was underway in Khyber agency's Bara tehsil, DawnNews reported. 
[Quqnoos] Pakistani Taliban confirmed the death of a senior commander, who was killed in a US drone attack in northwestern Pakistan
[Asharq al-Aswat] A curfew was imposed on a southern Indian town on Tuesday after two people were killed when Muslims rioted to protest against a newspaper article they said offended Islam, police said. One of those killed was shot by police, who opened fire as they tried to stop hundreds of Muslims attacking shops and vehicles in Shimoga town, its police chief S. Murugan said.
