Showing posts with label suicide bombings. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Syria Bomber Hailed as 'Hero' by Family
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| Abdul Waheed Majeed moments before his attack in February |
Abdul Waheed Majeed, of Crawley, died last month when he drove a truck bomb at the gates of Aleppo Prison.
His brother Hafeez said that his family wanted to challenge the idea that the attack represented a terrorist threat to the UK. More than 30 people have been arrested this year as police step up operations to stop people fighting in Syria.
The government fears that some people going to fight in Syria against President Bashar al-Assad's regime will become radicalised and battle-hardened by joining al-Qaeda linked groups.
Security chiefs believe that hundreds of people have gone to fight in Syria and their return poses the greatest national security challenge since to the UK since 9/11.
Speaking exclusively to Newsnight, Hafeez Majeed said he believed his 41-year-old brother had died trying to save Syrian people who were being tortured in the regime's prisons.
"If my brother had been a British soldier and there were British people in that prison and the act of heroism or bravery that he did, I know he would have been awarded the posthumous Victoria Cross," said Mr Majeed. » | Dominic Casciani, Home affairs correspondent, BBC News | Tuesday, March 11, 2014
The full story of Abdul Waheed Majeed's life and death is on Newsnight, BBC Two at 2230 GMT.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Suicide Attack Hits Tunisia Resort Town
Monday, September 23, 2013
Pakistanis React with 'Shock and Anger' at Latest Attack
More than 80 people died and 120 were left injured after Islamist bombers detonated two deadly devices outside a church in Peshawar on Sunday.
This attack was the latest in a series of attacks on Pakistani Christians, who represent about 1.6% of the country's overwhelmingly Muslim population.
The BBC's Shazeb Jilani is in Pakistan where protesters told him that they will not 'tolerate' violence against minorities. Watch BBC video » | Monday, September 23, 2013
Thursday, February 21, 2013
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: It would have been the most devastating terrorist attack on British soil leaving hundreds dead – and by al-Qaeda inspired but “home-grown” Islamic fanatics.
Up to eight suicide bombers carrying backpacks rammed with explosives and armed with guns were to carry out a horrifying blend of the 7/7 and Mumbai atrocities.
The jihadi gang planned to walk in to crowded, public places shooting indiscriminately before simultaneously detonating their terrible homemade payloads killing hundreds on their wake.
Although no firm target was settled on, the 2012 Olympics may have been one along with soldiers based in this country.
They even boasted about "hitting" David Cameron, his friends and other non – believers in the "land of Satan".
The plot was the most significant since the plans to blow up transatlantic aeroplanes with liquid bombs in 2006 and is likely to have led to the largest loss of life from a terror attack on UK shores. » | Tom Whitehead, Security Editor | Thursday, February 21, 2013
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Suicide bomb gang guilty of plotting 'worst ever terror attack in Britain': The ringleaders of an al-Qaeda backed British jihadi group have been found guilty of plotting the worst terror attack on UK soil. » | Tom Whitehead | Thursday, February 21, 2013
BBC: Police: Birmingham terror trio 'wanted this to be their 9/11' – Three Birmingham men convicted of planning a campaign of terrorist attacks in the UK "wanted it to be their 9/11", according to police. ¶ Assistant Chief Constable Marcus Beale said all three had set out "to cause some serious harm". ¶ Irfan Naseer, 31, Irfan Khalid, 27, and Ashik Ali, 27 were found guilty at Woolwich Crown Court of planning to set off up to eight bombs in rucksacks and possibly detonate bombs on timers. (+ BBC video) » | Thursday, February 21, 2013
Thursday, December 01, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Two suicide bombers have killed at least 80 people at a paramilitary training centre in northwestern Pakistan in apparent revenge for the killing of Osama bin Laden.
The Pakistan Taliban immediately claimed responsibility and said bigger attacks were to follow.
The attack on Friday morning in Charsadda district is the bloodiest since US forces killed bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2.
A suicide bomber on a motorbike struck at the gates just as young recruits boarded buses to go on leave after their course.
Police in Shabqadar, close to the border with Afghanistan, said a second explosion came seconds later.
At least 65 of the dead were recruits at the Frontier Constabulary training site while the rest were civilians. More than 100 people were also injured.
"This was the first revenge for Osama's martyrdom. Wait for bigger attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan," Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said afterwards.
"Two of our fedayeen (suicide bombers) carried out these attacks." » | Rob Crilly, in Islamabad and Laura Roberts | Friday, May 13, 2011
Saturday, July 03, 2010
HINDUSTAN TIMES: Hundreds of people Saturday joined protests across Pakistan against the suicide bombings of the Data Darbar shrine in Lahore, even as Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said militants were targeting cities to divert the people's attention from the war against terror.
Lahore remained in mourning for the second day for the terrorist attack on the shrine of Hazrat Ali Hajweri, considered the patron saint of the city. Forty-five people were killed and over 200 injured when two suicide bombers blew themselves at the shrine on Thursday.
At some places in Lahore, protests turned violent as demonstrators marched through the streets, burning tyres and forcing traders to close their businesses.
Police used batons to disperse them and arrested over a dozen protesters who were demanding that authorities should take action against extremist elements involved in the desecration of the shrine.
Protests were also organised in cities across Punjab, including Rawalpindi, Chakwal, Faisalabad and Multan, and at several places in southern Sindh province, including Karachi, Hyderabad and Larkana.
Life in many towns and cities were affected by strikes called by different organisations like the Sunni Tehrik and Jamaat Ahl-e-Sunnat. >>> Press Trust of India , Islamabad / Lahore | Saturday, July 03, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Suicide bombers in two cars killed 26 people and wounded 53 in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Sunday.
The attackers drove down a crowded street and blew themselves up simultaneously.
The morning bombings followed attacks late on Saturday that killed seven people, underlining the dangers of a resurgence of violence in the face of a persistent political vacuum more than three months after a general election.
The bombers targeted the Baghdad branch of the Trade Bank of Iraq, the conduit for much of the government's foreign exchange transactions and its dealings with investors.
The bank is on a busy thoroughfare through the mainly Sunni Arab Mansur district that provides access from western Iraq to the fortified Green Zone government and embassy compound in the city centre.
The twin bombs marked the deadliest day in Iraq since May 10 when four bombs in the mainly Shia central city of Hilla and other attacks killed more than 100 people - the highest toll of this year. >>> | Sunday, June 20, 2010
Monday, April 05, 2010
THE TELEGRAPH: Taliban militants armed with guns and suicide vests targeted the US consulate in Pakistan's northwestern capital and unleashed carnage at a political rally on Monday, killing 43 people.
The apparently co-ordinated attacks were the deadliest so far this year in nuclear-armed Pakistan, where the government is closely allied to the US-led war against al-Qaeda and in neighbouring Afghanistan.
The ability of heavily-armed militants to get so close to the US mission and other military installations, such as the provincial headquarters of Pakistan's premier spy agency, will raise further questions about endemic insecurity.
Up to 15 militants armed with explosives and driving in two vehicles targeted the heavily guarded US consulate in Peshawar, a city of 2.5 million on the edge of Pakistan's lawless tribal belt, setting off multiple explosions.
"The target was certainly the American consulate but they didn't succeed in getting there," said Pakistani police officer Ghulam Hussain.
"One of the suicide bombers blew himself up close to the gate. Police guarding the US consulate started retaliatory fire. More blasts took place. We have recovered unexploded material from four different points," he said.
Three powerful explosions and bouts of gunfire echoed through the area, where the attacks occurred at a checkpoint about 20 yards from the US consulate where heavy thick smoke spewed into the sky.
"We can confirm there has been an attack on the US consulate Peshawar facilities," US embassy spokeswoman Ariel Howard told AFP, unable to provide any details about the nature of the attack, possible damage or casualties. >>> | Easter Monday, April 05, 2010
TIMES ONLINE: A 28-year-old computer science teacher has been identified by her family as the second of two female suicide bombers who killed dozens of people on the Moscow metro a week ago, a newspaper has reported.
Rasul Magomedov recognised his missing daughter Maryam after being shown photos of the remains of the unidentified suicide bomber, the novayagazeta.ru website said.
More than 50 people have been killed in suicide attacks in Russia over the past week, both in the Moscow metro by bombers Russian media have dubbed “black widows”, and in a town in the turbulent North Caucasus region of Dagestan.
Fears of a new bombing campaign against the Russian heartland increased after a double bomb attack on a railway line on Sunday which security forces said was linked to the earlier attacks.
“My wife and I immediately recognised our daughter Maryam. When my wife last saw our daughter she was wearing the same red scarf we saw in the pictures,” Mr Magomedov, a teacher from the village of Balakhany in Dagestan, told Novaya Gazeta.
Mr Magomedov said his daughter graduated with a degree in mathematics and psychology from the Dagestan Pedagogical University in 2005. She returned to her village, lived at home and taught computer science at a local school.
“I would really like the investigation to uncover the true picture of what happened. We cannot even suggest how Maryam could get to Moscow. Yes, she was religious. But she never expressed any radical beliefs,” he said. >>> Foreign Staff | Easter Monday, April 05, 2010
Friday, April 02, 2010
RUSSIA TODAY: One of the Metro bombers could be teen widow – report: A Russian daily has suggested that one of the suicide bombers who carried out attacks in the Moscow Metro on Monday could be a 17-year-old widow of one of Islamic terrorist leaders. >>> | Friday, April 02, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: MOSCOW—Two bombs ripped through Moscow's subway system Monday, killing at least 34 people on their way to work. Officials said two female suicide bombers may have been responsible.
The first explosion occurred at about 7:52 a.m. local time (11:52 p.m. ET), killing at least 19 people at the Lyubyanka metro station, not far from the Kremlin, Moscow chief prosecutor Yuriy Syomin told reporters at the scene. About 11 were wounded.
"One could presume that the explosives were strapped to someone's body," Mr. Syomin said.
Half an hour later, some 15 people were killed by a blast at the Park Kultury station, on the same metro line, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov told reporters. "The blasts were caused by two suicide female terrorists," he said.
Both bombs exploded when the doors to the metro carriage were open, injuring passengers inside the train cars and on the platforms deep underground in the world's busiest subway system, according to officials.
A female suspect with dark hair and a black dress was seen on surveillance video, said Vladimir Markin, an investigator for the prosecutors office. >>> Richard Boudreaux, Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and William Mauldin | Monday, March 29, 2010
—Ira Iosebashvili contributed to this article
THE TELEGRAPH: Two female suicide bombers known as “black widows” blew themselves up in Moscow’s busy metro during morning rush hour killing at least 35 people, according to the Russian authorities.
A further 40 people were reported badly wounded.
Though no group has so far claimed responsibility for the atrocity, security sources said early indications suggested that the suicide bombers were from the volatile North Caucasus region that includes Chechnya.
If that is right, it would be the first time since 2004 that Islamist extremists have struck the Moscow metro, raising the terrifying spectre of a new bombing campaign aimed at Russia’s biggest cities.
Prosecutors opened a criminal case immediately, saying they would be working on the basis that the explosions were the work of terrorists.
The bombers struck two separate metro stations in central Moscow – Lubyanka and Park Kultyry - in a carefully coordinated attack.
At least 22 people were reported dead at the Lubyanka metro station, which is situated close to the headquarters of the FSB security service, the successor agency to the KGB.
Witnesses said an explosion tore through one of the carriages as the train was coming into the station killing commuters onboard as well as people standing on the platform. Dozens were reported wounded.
One witness, a policeman, said the bomb went off as the train’s doors opened and people poured out. Officials said the suicide bombers were wearing belts around their bodies packed with explosives. There were unconfirmed reports that they had set off the bombs using their mobile phones.
A second explosion at the busy Park Kultyry metro station located close to Moscow’s famous Gorky Park followed about forty minutes later. >>> Andrew Osborn, in Moscow | Monday, March 29, 2010
TIMES ONLINE: Women suicide bombers kill dozens in Moscow Metro attacks: Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up aboard packed underground trains at the height of the rush hour in Moscow this morning, killing 38 people and leaving an estimated 62 injured, according to the Russian security service. >>> Will Stewart in Moscow and Jenny Booth | Monday, March 29, 2010
RUSSIA TODAY: Two blasts in Moscow Metro, dozens killed: Two explosions have rocked the Moscow Metro this morning, claiming dozens of dead and injured. >>> | Monday, March 29, 2010
LE FIGARO: Selon les autorités russes, deux femmes ont actionné des bombes dans deux stations différentes, tuant au moins 36 personnes.
Le métro était bondé, ce lundi matin, dans la capitale russe. Alors que les Moscovites se rendaient au travail, deux violentes explosions ont causé la mort de plusieurs dizaines de personnes. La première déflagration a eu lieu à 7h50 (5h50 en France) à la station Loubianka, au centre de la capitale russe et à quelques encablures du siège principal du Service fédéral de sécurité (FSB, ex-KGB). La violente explosion s'est déclenchée à proximité du second wagon du train et a tué au moins 24 personnes, à la fois sur le quai et dans la rame de métro, et plusieurs dizaines de blessés.
Environ 50 minutes plus tard, vers 8h40 (6h40 en France), une seconde explosion à la station Park Kultury a fait 12 morts et 15 blessés, selon les forces de l'ordre. >>> Par lefigaro.fr | Lundi 29 Mars 2010
NZZ ONLINE: Terror in der Moskauer Metro: Mitten im Berufsverkehr haben sich am Montagmorgen Selbstmordattentäterinnen in zwei Zügen der Moskauer U-Bahn in die Luft gesprengt und mindestens 35 Menschen mit in den Tod gerissen. Mehr als 70 Fahrgäste wurden verletzt.
Wie der russische Inlandsgeheimdienst FSB mitteilte, zündeten die Frauen ihre Sprengsätze an den Stationen Lubjanka, wo auch die Geheimdienst-Zentrale liegt, und Park Kultury im Zentrum der russischen Hauptstadt. Hunderte Rettungskräfte waren im Einsatz.
Zuletzt hatten islamistische Terroristen aus der Konfliktregion im Nordkaukasus immer wieder damit gedroht, im ganzen Land Anschläge zu verüben. Nach Angaben von Ermittlern tragen die Anschläge auf die Metro die Handschrift der Islamisten.
Die Sprengstoffanschläge mit einer Wucht von 3 beziehungsweise 1,5 Kilogramm TNT erfolgten im Abstand von weniger als einer Stunde: der erste um 7.56 Uhr Ortszeit (5.56 Uhr MESZ), der zweite 44 Minuten später. Täter möglicherweise aus dem Nordkaukasus >>> (sda/reuters/ddp)/ii. | Montag, 29. März 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
TIMES ONLINE: A leading Muslim organisation in Britain has issued a fatwa against suicide bombings and terrorism, declaring them un-Islamic.
Minhaj-ul-Quran, a Sufi organisation based in East London which advises the Government on how to combat radicalisation of Muslim youth, will launch the 600-page religious verdict tomorrow. It condemns the perpetrators of terrorist explosions and suicide bombings.
The document, written by Dr Muhammed Tahir-ul-Qadri, a former minister of Pakistan and friend of Benazir Bhutto, declares suicide bombings and terrorism as "totally un-Islamic". It is one of the most detailed and comprehensive documents of its kind to be published in Britain.
The fatwa, which was released in Pakistan last month, uses texts from the Koran and other Islamic writings to argue that attacks against innocent citizens are "absolutely against the teachings of Islam and that Islam does not permit such acts on any excuse, reason or pretext".
Dr Tahir-ul-Qadri, who is based in Canada and has written more than 400 books on Islamic law, said: "All these acts are grave violations of human rights and constitute kufr, disbelief, under Islamic law." >>> Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent | Sunday, January 17, 2010
Sunday, October 18, 2009
LE FIGARO: Au moins 20 personnes, dont cinq commandants de l'armée religieuse iranienne, ont été tués.
Attentat-suicide contre le pouvoir en Iran. Cinq commandants des Gardiens de la révolution, l'organisation paramilitaire aux ordres du Guide suprême iranien, ont été tués dans un attentat-suicide qui a fait vingt morts et une quarantaine de blessés.
Les faits se sont produits dans une région proche de la frontière irano-pakistanaise, au sud-est du pays. Les commandants des Gardiens se trouvaient à l'intérieur d'un véhicule et se rendaient à une réunion quand un assaillant a fait sauter les explosifs qu'il avait en sa possession, faisant sauter leur véhicule. >>> | Dimanche 18 Octobre 2009
WELT ONLINE: Unter den 20 Opfern sind auch fünf ranghohe Kommandeure. Noch ist unklar, wer für den Anschlag verantwortlich ist. Verdächtigt wird die sunnitische Organisation Dschundallah (Brigade Gottes), die schon mehrfach Anschläge gegen die Revolutionsgarden und schiitische Ziele im Südosten des Landes verübte.
Bei einem Selbstmordanschlag im Südosten des Irans sind nach Angaben der staatlichen Nachrichtenagentur IRNA mindestens 20 Menschen getötet worden. Unter den Opfern seien fünf ranghohe Kommandeure der Revolutionsgarden, berichtete IRNA.
Zahlreiche weitere Menschen wurden verletzt. Die Kommandeure fuhren dem Bericht zufolge zu einem Treffen in der Region Pischin an der Grenze zu Pakistan, als sich der Attentäter in die Luft sprengte.
Zu der Bluttat bekannte sich zunächst niemand. Der Verdacht fiel auf die sunnitische Organisation Dschundallah (Brigade Gottes), die schon mehrfach Anschläge gegen die Revolutionsgarden und schiitische Ziele im Südosten des Landes verübt hat. >>> AP/lac | Sonntag, 18. Oktober 2009
THE NEW YORK TIMES: RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — At least five commanders of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps were killed and dozens of others left dead and injured in two terrorist bombings in the restive region of the nation’s southeastern frontier with Pakistan, according to multiple Iranian state news agencies.
The coordinated attacks appeared to mark an escalation in hostilities between Iran’s leadership and one of the nation’s many disgruntled ethnic and religious minorities, in this case the Baluchis. The southeast region, Sistan-Baluchistan, has been the scene of terrorist attacks in the past, and in April the government put the elite Guards Corps in control of security there to try to stop the escalating violence.
Iranian officials have accused foreign enemies of supporting the terrorist insurgents and repeated that charge Sunday, a day before Iran is set to meet for another round of sensitive talks on its nuclear program with several Western countries.
“There is no doubt that this violent and inhumane act was part of the strategy of foreigners and enemies of the regime and the revolution to destroy unity between Shias and Sunnis and create divisions among the unified ranks of the great Iranian people,” said a statement issued by the Revolutionary Guards through the official IRNA news service.
A terrorist group calling itself Jundallah — or Soldiers of God — took responsibility for the attacks, according to the state-owned Press TV. The group is made up of ethic Baluchis, who can also be found in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and has taken credit for other attacks in the region in recent years.
The Jundallah has ties across the border into Pakistan, and Iranian officials say it has been encouraged, financed and armed by the United States. >>> Michael Slackman | Sunday, October 18, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
TIMES ONLINE: The suicide bombers behind the deadly twin blasts at Jakarta hotels on Friday were members of the al-Qaeda-linked regional terror outfit Jemaah Islamiyah, Indonesian police said today.
Police also confirmed they had identified one of the two suicide bombers.
Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) has carried out dozens of bombings in Indonesia over the past decade including the 2002 attacks in Bali that left more than 200 dead, mostly foreign tourists.
"We confirm that the attackers are from Jemaah Islamiyah because there are similarities in the bombs used," Indonesia’s national police spokesman Nanan Soekarna told a press conference in Jakarta earlier today.
He said an exploded bomb left in a guestroom of the JW Marriott, which was attacked along with the nearby Ritz-Carlton, resembled devices used in the Bali bombings and one discovered in a recent anti-JI raid on an Islamic boarding school.
"They are from the same school. We found similar tools, similar materials and similar methods," he said. >>> | July 19, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS (Pakistan): ISLAMABAD: Maulana Abdul Aziz was greeted by hundreds of cheering people at the Red Mosque here on Thursday night.
Earlier in the day, he was freed by the Supreme Court on bail.
Speaking to Geo News, he said that a brutal operation was launched against them in the Red Mosque. He said: “Our struggle was for a noble cause to implement Islam across the country for which efforts would continue.”
To a question, he denied that he was released as a result of any deal. But admitted that a deal was offered to him which he rejected.
Responding to another question, Maulana Aziz said that he considers suicide attacks in the country as unjustified. However, he added that such attacks against Kufaar were correct.
Maulana Abdul Aziz is due to lead the Friday prayers in Lal Masjid tomorrow. [Source: The International News (Pakistan)] | Thursday, April 16, 2009
Sunday, February 03, 2008
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: SENIOR American military officials have produced photographs that they said showed the bodies of two women suicide bombers who attacked two popular pet markets, causing Baghdad's deadliest blasts in months.
The photographs showed the lifeless faces of two dark-haired women with oblique eye fissures, a wide gap between the eyes and a flat nose bridge - characteristics consistent with Down syndrome.
The commander of US forces in Baghdad, Major-General Jeffery Hammond, said: "There are some indications that these two women were mentally handicapped.
"From what I see, it appears that the suicide bombers were not willing martyrs - they were used by al-Qaeda in Iraq for these horrific attacks.
"These two women were likely used because they didn't know what was happening and they were less likely to be searched." Suicide bombers had Down syndrome, photos show >>> By Garrett Therolf and Ned Parker in Baghdad
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