Investigators hunted for clues on Sunday as to whether al Qaeda was behind the suicide bombing of a Qatar theater that killed a Briton, the first such attack in the U.S.-allied Gulf Arab state. The bomber, an Egyptian national, rammed a car laden with explosives into the one-story theater near a British school in the capital Doha during a production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" Saturday, officials and witnesses said. An Interior Ministry statement on state media identified the suicide attacker as Omar Ahmad Abdullah Ali, who also owned the vehicle. Egypt's Foreign Ministry had no immediate comment.
An Interior Ministry official earlier said the blast had injured 16, mostly Arabs and Asians. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, which came two days after the suspected leader of al Qaeda's wing in Saudi Arabia urged Muslims in Qatar and other Gulf states to wage holy war against "crusaders" in the region. Brigadier General Ahmad al-Hayki said in televised comments that the Interior Ministry was investigating any al Qaeda link. "It is too early to characterize the bombing or to draw any kinds of links or connections," a U.S. embassy spokeswoman said.
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Well, the Jooos are always available... kinda like "pilot error"...
I know it's far too much to ask, but I kinda wish it was pure payback for hosting and owning Al Jizz. BTW, have your Royal Personages divested themselves of their shares in Al Jizz, yet? I recall that was something floating around not long ago.
Oh well, from one distorted POV, it could hardly have happened to a more deserving nicer buncha guyz. Our congratulations condolences, it's so appropriate unfair. Too bad it wasn't Royals jihadis in a work accident - and that particular sentiment is almost honestly meant.
Yemeni security forces yesterday killed three members of an anti-US group, whose leader was killed in clashes with government forces last September, official sources said. The three men, who belonged to the "Believing Youth" group, were killed in a gunfight with security forces in the Saada province. They were reportedly leading members in the group, whose armed supporters fought government forces in remote mountains of Saada for more than 10 weeks. The clashes, that left more than 400 soldiers and rebels dead, ended on Sept. 10 with the killing of the group's leader Hussein Badruddin Al-Houthi. Yesterday's clash erupted when a group of five Believing Youth members refused to surrender while on their way back from an arms market out of the province's center, a website run by the Defense Ministry said citing an unnamed local official.
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Eeny Meeney, Miney, and Moe. Believing Youth with tags on their toes
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My, my, isn't this is a novel name for a terorist.
At least 60 people were injured in a massive explosion at a British theater near a British school in the Qatari capital yesterday evening. The explosion that occurred at the Doha Player Theater near the Doha English School was so powerful that it could be heard virtually all over the tiny capital city, residents reported. The blast occurred in an area where the US Embassy used to be located before the mission moved to new premises.
Had an old map, did they?
How smart do you have to be to use Mapquest? Oh, right ...
Police cordoned off the area immediately after the blast which sent plumes of smoke rising from the site in the sleepy capital. Dozens of ambulances were seen ferrying the injured to hospital "I believe there are some people injured," British Charge D'Affaires Eric Mattey said, adding that it was not still clear if the blast was "a criminal act. We are waiting for the police report." A medical source said "dozens of people were injured," but independent sources put the figure at "at least 60". It was not known if anyone was killed in the blast. The nationalities of the injured people were also not known immediately. But most of the people attending the play at the theater were foreigners. Al-Jazeera TV aired footages showing fires from the blast and said it occurred "near a foreign school" while a play was under way inside the establishment. The satellite news channel said a blaze broke out in the building and the blast set some cars in the area on fire. A witness said a small building near the school had been damaged but the school itself did not appear to have been hit.
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Police have arrested nine of the 18 Iranians said to have infiltrated into the country. The men were allegedly dumped off a beach in Shuaiba after sailing aboard a dhow, reports Al-Anba daily. A security source said, some Shuaiba Port employees who saw the men swimming ashore informed the port authorities and the port management called the police. Police are looking for the remaining infiltrators. Police are also looking for 15 other Iranians said to have sneaked into the country in a similar manner over the last week. In yet another incident, police are looking for an Iranian man, who slipped through the Shuwaikh Port immigration without stamping his passport.
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Crews inserted to foment unrest nodoubt. Isn't Iran just wonderful to it's Shia brothers? Trying to destablise a democratic Iraq before it get past it's first few baby steps.
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employees who saw the men swimming ashore -Sounds like illegals (economic refugees). Maybe ethnic Arabs from Khuzestan looking for work. This is happening on a larger scale with Iranian Kurds. Iraq already a more attractive place than Iran.
TOKYO - A Japanese official has proposed ending six-way talks on North Korea's nuclear ambitions and taking the issue to the United Nations Security Council if Pyongyang does not return to the stalled talks before June, Kyodo news agency reported.
So that the French can then stall the whole thing.
Akitaka Saiki, deputy director general of the Japanese Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, made the proposal at a conference Thursday in Shanghai on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program, Kyodo quoted sources close to the six-way talks as saying in its report late on Saturday. "If North Korea continues to be allowed to postpone a conclusion (to the talks) by its tactics of not attending, the effect on Japan's security will be great," the sources quoted Saiki as saying at the conference, which was closed to media.
The comment marked a departure from previous public comments by Japanese government officials, who have never publicly mentioned any specific deadline for ending the six-way talks or spoken of referring the issue to the UN Security Council, Kyodo said. However, the proposal may have been put forward to gauge the reaction of other parties to the talks rather than as the official stance of the Japanese government, Kyodo quoted the sources as saying.
The comments were made at an informal conference attended by envoys and scholars from the United States, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea—all the parties to the six-way talks besides North Korea. Conference participants included Joseph DeTrani, the US special envoy to the six-way talks, Kyodo said.
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The last time something like this went to the Security Council, didn't France get Iraq invaded? This feels like a big stick to me.
The only problem is, right now we're a bit busy with Syria and Iran. France stalling a bit isn't necessarily a bad thing; let them expend diplomatic capital stalling the wrong battle.
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I'd asy it's China that's getting the pressure, not France. It will be interesting to watch East Asian reaction to this statement.
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TW - other than our Air Force, recon and intel capability, and logistical resupply of some materials, I suspect the S.Koreans could pretty much handle the job on their own. BTW, as the third largest contingent in Iraq, I'm sure their Army is getting some real valuable hands on experience in civil affairs and infrastructure rebuilding that they might see in the near future.
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The last time something like this went to the Security Council, didn't France get Iraq invaded?
Amb. Bolton ought to make sure that fact gets pointed out :-)
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The widely celebrated Six-Way Talks have and will do absolutely nothing. The quickest way to solve the North Korea problem is to have the Nork government fall, followed by a massive relief operation. In that way, the most North Koreans will be saved.
If the Chicoms want to enable the Norks by giving aid, fuel, etc, then let them be the sugar daddies and bear the cost. That cost will not only include a cash drain, but nuclar armed Japan and possibliy Taiwan.
The Six-Way Talks are just a way for Kimmie to get attention and intimidate his neighbors with the "Sea O' Fire" thing.
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I'll trust to your expertise on the military stuff, Spavimble ;-) but everything I've seen out of South Korea says they have absolutely no enthusiasm for using violence to end Kim's regime. (I'm not sure they actually want Kim to fall -- they've seen the cost borne by W.Germany post-unification.) I realize my imagination is limited by my ignorance, but I don't see how a UNSC resolution would change their attitude.
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The US might have made a deal with China that once it's been mulled over by the UNSC, the other powers will give China permission for a regime change, as long as they do it quick and clean, without letting it spread. Everyone who likes the status quo will be happy, the Norks will still be a buffer between the South and the US and China, yet will start on the path to development and away from the whole Stalinist thing. Everybody wins something.
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Since the US and EU love to give money away, we could together cover the cost of reunification of Korea if it came to that. Or at least share the cost. The Norks need to go. They are a menace to everyone, especially their own people.
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Spavimble - I believe that you may be overly optimistic on the ROK Army's acquiring significant hands-on experience. The Seoul regime is so reluctant to suffer any casualties that they have, essentially, restricted themselves to their own base. The Korean newspapers have reported VERY little on their activities. The only article I saw recently (and I read five Korean [English language] Korean newspapers every day) discussed the possibility of the ROK Army installing bidots in their latrines(!). A comment to a reporter by one of the locals in the town of Irbil said something to the effect that ROK Army personnel seemed to be really nice people and that the locals might get to like them even more ... if they were to ever actually get out into the town.
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Turkey's chief public prosecutor has formally ruled that there is no evidence whatsoever to suggest that Saudi businessman and philanthropist Yassin Abdullah Al-Qadi has had contact with or has assisted the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization. Al-Qadi's lawyers at Peter Carter-Ruck and Partners said that the ruling followed an extensive and prolonged investigation covering Al-Qadi's personal, commercial and charitable activities. The probe concluded that, far from being a member or supporter of Al-Qaeda, Al-Qadi was above board and his actions were at all times wholly legitimate. Consequently, the prosecutor declared that there was no ground for proceedings to be brought against Al-Qadi.
Al-Qadi's name was, in October 2004, added to the UN's list of persons suspected of financing terrorism at the insistence of the United States. Reacting to the Turkish decision, Al-Qadi said he was extremely pleased that truth had prevailed. He felt that the Turkish investigation was the first truly objective inquiry into the allegations linking him with Al-Qaeda that had surfaced in the aftermath of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Regarding a similar US case against him, he urged the US authorities to deal with it in a similarly objective fashion and to have the courage to admit that its allegations against him are entirely wrong.
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An al Qaeda-linked suicide bomber assassinated the top anti-corruption police officer in the northern city of Mosul on Sunday, and U.S. troops said they killed 24 insurgents in a battle on the outskirts of Baghdad.
The suicide bomber, wearing an explosive vest, walked into the offices of the Mosul police anti-corruption department and blew himself up, killing department head Brigadier Walid Kashmoula, the U.S. military said. Another Iraqi was wounded.
Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq, led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said it had killed "the apostate Walid Kashmoula who is the top American agent" in the area. "This will be the fate of those who stand by the polytheists," al Qaeda Organization for Holy War in Iraq said in a statement posted on an Islamist Web site. During Kashmoula's funeral on Sunday afternoon, gunmen fired on the procession following his coffin, killing two people and wounding at least 14 others, police said.
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Investigators searched the rubble of a car-bombed building in Beirut for clues to an attack yesterday that boosted fears of renewed bloodshed in Lebanon and complicated already troubled negotiations between rival political groups over the formation of a new government. The explosion wounded nine people and devastated an eight-story apartment building in the largely Christian New Jdeideh neighborhood shortly after midnight, sending panicked residents in their pajamas into the street. It blew off the fronts of some structures, left a seven-foot-deep crater, damaged parked cars and shops and shattered windows for several blocks. The motive behind the attack wasn't immediately clear.
In response, the army announced stricter measures against any security violators. "The army will not allow that freedom of expression be abused in order to harm security and stability," a military statement said. The bomb came amid the withdrawal of Syrian troops to eastern Lebanon and Syria after a 29-year presence in this former civil war-ravaged country.
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Insurgents attacked coalition forces Sunday on the outskirts of Baghdad, and the resulting clashes left 24 militants dead and six soldiers wounded, the U.S. military said. Seven insurgents also were wounded in the fighting, the military said in a statement. The clash was among the largest involving insurgents since the Jan. 30 elections, and came on a day of bloody attacks by militants.
The number of people killed in the bombing of a festival at a Shiite Muslim shrine rose to at least 30 Sunday, and frightened pilgrims jammed onto buses trying to escape the southwestern village that was hosting the annual veneration of a Shiite saint.
The bomb, which also injured 20, went off Saturday, hitting devotees as they were eating dinner at the shrine in Fatehpur village, 210 miles south of Quetta in restive Baluchistan province.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack on the event attended by both Shiite and Sunni Muslims, as well as minority Hindus.
Shoaib Nausherwani, Baluchistan's home minister, said 30 people died, up from 27 Saturday, but did not explain the three new reported deaths. The shrine's caretaker, Syed Sadiq Shah, put the death toll at 44.
The blast left a 2-foot deep crater and added to security woes in Baluchistan province, hit last week by fighting between government forces and renegade tribesmen.
Police puzzled over the motive for the attack on the event. Officials said it could have been religious violence or the result of a personal dispute over control of the shrine of 19th century Shiite saint Syed Raqil Shah.
"This is the biggest gathering in Baluchistan. Everyone comes here, even Hindus. There is no distinction here between a Shiite and a Sunni," Shah said. "God's curse be on those who did this. They have killed innocent people."
"This is a sad and terrible moment for us," said Faiz Mohammed, a pilgrim boarding a bus — one of many departing Fatehpur with hordes of passengers aboard, crammed inside and sitting atop.
"We come here every year, and this year we saw lots of people lose their loved ones," said the native of Jacobabad, a city in Sindh province.
The pilgrims came from other regions of Baluchistan or neighboring Sindh province to mark the anniversary of the death of the saint whose tomb is inside the shrine.
Up to 20,000 people had gravitated over the weekend for the three-day event at Fatehpur, an arid village of about 50 mud brick homes.
Provincial police chief Chaudhry Mohammed Yaqoob said investigators believed the blast was caused by a time bomb packed with about 6.6 pounds of explosive and ruled out an initial theory it was a suicide attack. He said the bomb went off in a crowded area.
Shah, the shrine's caretaker, said he was distributing food to worshippers at the shrine when the bomb detonated nearby. He was unhurt.
"The sound of the explosion was terrifying. I saw some people being blown up into the air. Then I saw body parts falling. Then there was a stampede. People were running about everywhere. Nobody knew what had happened," he said.
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Afghan officials said Sunday they have arrested a suspected suicide bomber. The officials identified the bomber as Shahbaz Khan and said he was a Pakistani citizen who had crossed into Afghanistan to target coalition and Afghan troops. He was arrested in southeastern Khost province, which borders Pakistani, following a tip.U.S., Afghan and Pakistani officials believe that hundreds of Taliban and al-Qaeda suspects fled to the neighboring Pakistani districts of south and north Waziristan after the collapse of the Taliban regime three years ago.
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Pakistan deployed specially trained anti-Al-Qaeda commandos to guard against sectarian violence as two Sunni militants planning to attack parades by rival Shiites blew themselves up.
The so-called Quick Reaction Force -- which formerly battled militants linked to Osama bin Laden's terror network in tribal areas near Afghanistan -- will patrol in sensitive central and northwestern regions. The deployment comes ahead of Ashura, the ceremony marking the death about 1,300 years ago of the prophet Mohammed's grandson, when minority Shiites traditionally stage processions featuring graphic displays of self-harm. The ceremony, which starts late Saturday, is often marked by clashes with Sunnis. Last year's festival was one of the most violent, with 48 people dying in a bloody attack in the southwestern city of Quetta.
Police in Quetta said two members of a banned Al-Qaeda linked Sunni extremist group had killed themselves with a grenade early Friday after a raid on their hideout. "The militants could have attacked Shiite processions in the city today and there is also a possibility they were planning to attack the main Ashura procession" on Sunday, said provincial police chief Chaudhry Muhmmad Yaqub.
With tensions remaining high, the commandos were biding their time but would be sent out "on an urgent basis to deal with any situation," said Lieutenant General Safdar Hussain, army commander in North West Frontier Province. In a statement Thursday he said troops had been ordered to stay alert in all places where sectarian clashes may happen and "preempt any terrorist acts" during the Ashura ceremonies.
The commando force showed its prowess at a dress rehearsal in the central city of Multan on Thursday, where pretend militants attacked a mock Shiite procession and staged a chase with military helicopters and grounds forces. "We wanted to assess the ability of the force and test the security arrangements," the force's commander Brigadier Mohammad Ibraim told reporters.
Ashura is held on the 10th day of Muharram, an Islamic mourning month for Imam Hussein whose death in battle in 680 AD led to the split between the Shiites and Sunnis. Shiites mark the day by parading the streets of major cities, beating their chests and whipping themselves with sharp knives fixed to iron chains. Reciting elegies and hymns, participants carry black banners and march behind the replicas of Hussain's tomb in Iraq. However the processions often spark clashes with Sunnis, who make up 80 percent of Pakistan's 150-million population. They oppose the public displays of grief, one of a number of doctrinal differences between the sects.
The situation in Pakistan is also tense following deadly riots in the Himalayan gateway town of Gilgit last month prompted by the slaying of a top Shiite leader, and the shooting of a Sunni shrine's custodian in Islamabad this week. The commandos are being deployed in parts of Punjab, Pakistan's largest province, and in North West Frontier Province on the Afghan border, which have been hit by unrest in previous years. Tens of thousands of police and paramilitary forces are covering the rest of the country, officials said, including 4,000 in Islamabad and 15,000 in Karachi. Authorities in Punjab have declared about a dozen places including Jhang, Multan, Faisalabad and Bahawalpur as sensitive areas.
"Miscreants trying to disturb peace will be crushed with an iron hand," said the military commander of Faisalabad, Lieutenant General Javed Alam Khan. Clashes between Sunni and Shiite militants in Pakistan have claimed thousands of lives over the past several years.
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will patrol in sensitive central and northwestern regions. The deployment comes ahead of Ashura,
Dang, how many Ashuras are there in a year? Seems like we just had the big bleed a month ago.
QUETTA, Pakistan - At least 35 people were killed and scores injured Saturday when a powerful bomb ripped through a crowd of pilgrims as they ate their evening meal near a mosque in southwestern Pakistan, officials said. The apparently home-made device exploded as thousands of devotees gathered at the memorial to a Sufi saint in the remote town of Fatahpur, around 300 kilometres (180 miles) from Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province. It was not immediately clear if the bombing, the bloodiest this year in Pakistan, was a result of longstanding sectarian tensions between rival Shiite and Sunni sects or whether it was linked to a tribal rebellion in the region.
It can be so hard to tell.
Officials said no one had claimed responsibility for the attack, which happened at around 10:30 pm (1730 GMT). "I can confirm that 35 bodies have been counted," local district administrator Mahmood Mari told AFP. Many more people were wounded but it was unclear how many, because most of them were rushed to hospitals in nearby areas as the town has only basic medical facilities, he added. Between 10,000 and 20,000 people had gathered Saturday for an annual pilgrimage at the shrine of saint Cheesal Shah, said Syed Kami Shah, the brother of the shrine's custodian. Sufism is a semi-mystical branch of Islam that believes music, dance and song are ways of reaching God. Devotees from the rival Sunni and Shiite sects were at the site, as well as a number of Hindus, Shah added.
All the excuse any holy man needs to authorize a bombing.
Many of them had only just sat down to eat when the bomb went off, witnesses said. A second, unexploded bomb was found near the shrine shortly after the first device detonated, mayor Umrani said. It was removed safely.
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There is no evidence that the Bugtis had anything to do with this.
Given it was an attack on a Sufi shrine, it is more likely to be Lashkar-e-Jhangvi or some other sectarian fascist group.
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Oh, darn. Not that I'll apologize to that band of cutthroats, but I do hate being wrong.
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The Bugtis aren't bad, they just have a fanatical hatred of pipelines.
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And anything else invented after the 12th Century.
Except Kalashnikovs. Those they like.
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Four Maoists, including a top rebel official, were killed in an encounter with the police in Warangal district of India's southern Andhra Pradesh yesterday. Rebel commander D.V.K. Swamy, alias Yadanna, was killed along with three other guerrillas in a fierce gunfight that lasted several hours, said police officer Batti Lal Meena. Swamy supervised operations in Warangal district, the rebels' biggest stronghold, and nearby areas. The gunfight occurred in the dense Venkatapuram forest in Warangal, about 210 km north of the Andhra Pradesh capital, Hyderabad. Police were searching for more rebels believed hiding in the same area, Meena said.
Swamy had earlier eluded police in about 20 encounters, and the state government had announced a reward of 300,000 rupees ($6,700) to anyone who helped catch him. Among the three others killed, one was a woman. She was identified as Prameela, wife of North Telangana special zonal committee member Somanna. The police recovered some weapons, including an AK-47 rifle, from the scene of the encounter.
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Mirpur police, conducting a lightning swoop, arrested Yakub Ali, son of Sher Ali, from a ground floor residence belonging to Gias Uddin at Lalkuthir under Mirpur police station at about 4 am. Yakub, hailed from Purba Bagkhail village under Patia upazila of Chittagong district, went into hiding after ten trucks loaded with sophisticated arms and am munitions were seized from Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Limited (CUFL) jetty on April 2, last year. Recently, Chittagong police submitted a chargesheet, accusing four persons — Yakub Ali, Ataur Rahman, Akbar Ali and Hafijur Rahman — in the huge arms and ammunitions smuggling incident. In the police interrogation, Yakub Ali also pointed out that shortly after the arms seizure he had been staying at different parts of the capital city of Dhaka and industrial city of Khulna. Recently, he came from Khulna and started staying at the residence "Habib Monjil" at Lalkuthir under Mirpur police station, police said.
Meanwhile, the police administration is yet to decide whether Yakub Ali would be sent to Chittagong police station or Joint Interrogation Cell (JIC) for interrogation. "The law-enforcing agencies had been looking for Yakub for a long time," one police officer said.
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A weary looking Asadullah Al Galib, chief of Ahle Halith Andolan, was denied bail yesterday by the Gaibandha magistrate court in two consecutive bomb blast cases. He was later sent to Gopalganj, where he will face a nine-day remand. It was the second time Galib appeared before the Gaibandha magistrate court in connection with the bomb cases. At the same time, 15 other militants arrested in the same cases were also produced before court.
Galib's defence laywer, Sirajul Islam Babu, had prayed for bail, but after it was denied the court fixed a bail hearing date on March 20. Appearing sick and depressed, Galib appealed to the magistrate for three days of rest. The Magistrate denied, however, ordering him to submit a petition through the jailer. Galib was brought to Gaibandha from the Joint Interrogation Cell (JIC) in Dhaka on March 19, ending a ten-day police remand as granted by the Gaibandha Magistrate court on March 9. Sirajul Islam Babu, Galib's lawyer, met briefly with him in the court hazat to discuss the progress of the cases. Galib was also visited at the court hazat by his son, Ahmed Abdullah Najib. Shamsul Alam, the former president of Ahle Hadith Jubo Sangha, Rajshahi University said, "He (Galib) is the victim of a conspiracy from his opponents and also incorporated in false cases."
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Investigators hunted for clues on Sunday as to whether al Qaeda was behind the suicide bombing of a Qatar theater that killed a Briton, the first such attack in the U.S.-allied Gulf Arab state. The bomber, an Egyptian national, rammed a car laden with explosives into the one-story theater near a British school in the capital Doha during a production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" Saturday, officials and witnesses said. An Interior Ministry statement on state media identified the suicide attacker as 
Yemeni security forces yesterday killed three members of an anti-US group, whose leader was killed in clashes with government forces last September, official sources said. The three men, who belonged to the "Believing Youth" group, were killed in a gunfight with security forces in the Saada province. They were reportedly leading members in the group, whose armed supporters fought government forces in remote mountains of Saada for more than 10 weeks. The clashes, that left more than 400 soldiers and rebels dead, ended on Sept. 10 with the killing of the group's leader 
At least 60 people were injured in a massive explosion at a British theater near a British school in the Qatari capital yesterday evening. The explosion that occurred at the Doha Player Theater near the Doha English School was so powerful that it could be heard virtually all over the tiny capital city, residents reported. The blast occurred in an area where the US Embassy used to be located before the mission moved to new premises.
Police have arrested nine of the 18 Iranians said to have infiltrated into the country. The men were allegedly dumped off a beach in Shuaiba after sailing aboard a dhow, reports Al-Anba daily. A security source said, some Shuaiba Port employees who saw the men swimming ashore informed the port authorities and the port management called the police. Police are looking for the remaining infiltrators. Police are also looking for 15 other Iranians said to have sneaked into the country in a similar manner over the last week. In yet another incident, police are looking for an Iranian man, who slipped through the Shuwaikh Port immigration without stamping his passport.
Turkey's chief public prosecutor has formally ruled that there is no evidence whatsoever to suggest that Saudi businessman and philanthropist 
Investigators searched the rubble of a car-bombed building in Beirut for clues to an attack yesterday that boosted fears of renewed bloodshed in Lebanon and complicated already troubled negotiations between rival political groups over the formation of a new government. The explosion wounded nine people and devastated an eight-story apartment building in the largely Christian New Jdeideh neighborhood shortly after midnight, sending panicked residents in their pajamas into the street. It blew off the fronts of some structures, left a seven-foot-deep crater, damaged parked cars and shops and shattered windows for several blocks. The motive behind the attack wasn't immediately clear. 
Afghan officials said Sunday they have arrested a suspected suicide bomber. The officials identified the bomber as 
QUETTA, Pakistan - At least 35 people were killed and scores injured Saturday when a powerful bomb ripped through a crowd of pilgrims as they ate their evening meal near a mosque in southwestern Pakistan, officials said. The apparently home-made device exploded as thousands of devotees gathered at the memorial to a Sufi saint in the remote town of Fatahpur, around 300 kilometres (180 miles) from Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province. It was not immediately clear if the bombing, the bloodiest this year in Pakistan, was a result of longstanding sectarian tensions between rival Shiite and Sunni sects or whether it was linked to a tribal rebellion in the region.
Four Maoists, including a top rebel official, were killed in an encounter with the police in Warangal district of India's southern Andhra Pradesh yesterday. Rebel commander D.V.K. Swamy, alias Yadanna, was killed along with three other guerrillas in a fierce gunfight that lasted several hours, said police officer Batti Lal Meena. Swamy supervised operations in Warangal district, the rebels' biggest stronghold, and nearby areas. The gunfight occurred in the dense Venkatapuram forest in Warangal, about 210 km north of the Andhra Pradesh capital, Hyderabad. Police were searching for more rebels believed hiding in the same area, Meena said.
Mirpur police, conducting a lightning swoop, arrested Yakub Ali, son of Sher Ali, from a ground floor residence belonging to Gias Uddin at Lalkuthir under Mirpur police station at about 4 am. Yakub, hailed from Purba Bagkhail village under Patia upazila of Chittagong district, went into hiding after ten trucks loaded with sophisticated arms and am munitions were seized from Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Limited (CUFL) jetty on April 2, last year. Recently, Chittagong police submitted a chargesheet, accusing four persons — Yakub Ali, Ataur Rahman, Akbar Ali and Hafijur Rahman — in the huge arms and ammunitions smuggling incident. In the police interrogation, Yakub Ali also pointed out that shortly after the arms seizure he had been staying at different parts of the capital city of Dhaka and industrial city of Khulna. Recently, he came from Khulna and started staying at the residence "Habib Monjil" at Lalkuthir under Mirpur police station, police said. 
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