Denmark Prosecutor Charges Cartoonist Attacker With Terrorism
July 4, 2010 by Fatima Paracha
Filed under Europe
One of the top Danish prosecutors charged a Somali man with terrorism on Friday for allegedly trying to kill a cartoonist who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad. Joergen Steen Soerensen said that the man, who cannot be named under a court order, wanted to “seriously frighten the population” and destabilize Denmark in the attack on cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. The [...]
Kurdish rebels suspected in bombing
Kurdistan Freedom Falcons claimed responsibility of an attack which killed five and wounded twelve people in Istanbul on Tuesday. The Kurdish rebels detonated a remote-controlled bomb inside a bus carrying military personnel and their families. These rebels fighting for autonomy in the country’s Kurdish-dominated southeast have planned their attacks on Turkish targets this month and [...]
NY Times Square bomb case makes feds warn Pakistanis leaders to “check your families for terrorism ties”
May 24, 2010 by Fatima Paracha
Filed under Politics
The Faisal Shehzad case has led feds to issue a chilling warning to Pakistani leaders: check your family and staff for terrorist ties, according to reports. According to a reports released by Philip Shenon, the U.S. has warned civilian and military leaders in Pakistan that they need to worry about a newly uncovered breeding ground [...]
Surviving Mumbai gunman convicted over attacks
A Pakistani national has been convicted over his role in the deadly 2008 Mumbai (Bombay) attacks by an Indian court. Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, 22, the sole surviving gunman, was found guilty on charges including murder, waging war on India and possessing explosives. The attacks left 174 people – including nine gunmen – dead, and [...]
Detroit jet bomb suspect Abdulmutallab ‘shown in video’
Video has emerged which appears to show the alleged Christmas Day Detroit plane bomber attending a desert training camp run by al-Qaeda in Yemen. The video released by ABC News shows a man resembling Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab firing a rifle and making a “martyrdom” statement to camera. Gunmen are shown firing at British, UN and [...]
Russia leader Dmitry Medvedev visits bomb-hit Dagestan
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has visited Dagestan the day after it was hit by suicide attacks, and promised “tough, severe” anti-terror tactics. He flew to the North Caucasus republic for talks with regional leaders, after 12 people were killed on Wednesday. Funerals for many of the victims from the Moscow bombings — who ranged from [...]
Iraq’s holy city, Shiite – Attacked by terrorist’s car bomb; 3 killed
BAGHDAD – Shiite holy city was amazed by a shocker car bomb burst out near bus pilgrims of Najaf on Saturday, killing three innocent people, including two Iranians, on the eve of key national elections, officials said. Last week’s blasts in other Iraqi cities also have killed dozens of passing people, emphasizing warnings that revolutionaries [...]
Airport body scanners draw mix reactions
Burbank, California – Bob Hope International airport was one of the first recipients of the newly enhanced full body scanner from the Transportation Security Administration. This, after the Obama administration heightens its security efforts against terrorism following the spoiled bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight where the suspect was able to hide the explosives inside [...]
Suspected world’s computer wizards – stolen million of virus-infected computers; arrested in Spain
Madrid – Spanish authority had detained three men alleged of creating the world’s biggest network of virus-infected computers which usurp more than 13 million computers. The enormous infected computers come from different sources in the world; universities, government agencies, banks, and other non-government sectors. More than half of the largest companies in the Unites States [...]
Constitutional court grants deletion of stored telecoms data in Germany
Immense quantity of handset and e-mail data held in telecom companies must be deleted, the country’s highest court has ruled in Germany. Germany court overturned a 2008 law obliging communications data to be kept for six months. This declaration was made to track all necessary and vital information to fight the enormous group of terrorist. [...]
Germany: nearly 35, 000 jammed complaints supersede by telecoms
Telecommunications companies, hand held with enormous and mammoth of wedged recorded telephone and e-mail data in Germany which all must be deleted. The constitutional court upturned a 2008 law involving communications statistics to be kept for six months for the flipside of any terrorism that may occur. The law tactically premeditated to struggle terror campaign [...]
US thinking to provide more Aid to Pakistan
February 27, 2010 by Noumana Sohail
Filed under Top news, World
The administration of Obama is thinking to make a plan for giving more financial aid to Pakistan of approx $1.45 billion for funding water, energy and other projects as well as to support media campaigns to counter terrorist views. The 2010 spending plan obtained by Reuters was sent to lawmakers late on Thursday as a [...]
Pakistan, India hold first official talks since 2008 Mumbai attacks
February 25, 2010 by Fatima Paracha
Filed under Asia, General, Politics, Top news
Pakistan and India held their first official talks after 15 months on Thursday. The last talks held between the two rival countries were before the 2008 Mumbai siege. Both sides said they wanted to rebuild the trust shattered in that attack, making the meeting a first step towards a renewed peace process. The nuclear-armed rivals [...]
Second bomb explosion hits Pakistan city
February 5, 2010 by Fatima Paracha
Filed under Asia, General, Top news
Police say a bomb has exploded outside a hospital in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi, wounding around 50 people. Police say at least five people have been killed by the bomb that went off outside a hospital in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi. The hospital was treating many of the victims of a bombing targeting the city’s [...]
Iranian Nuclear Physicist Killed in Bombing
January 13, 2010 by Jennie Miranda
Filed under Asia, General, Top news, World
TEHRAN, Iran — A nuclear physics professor at Tehran University was killed on January 12, 2010 by a bomb-rigged motorcycle parked outside his home in Iran’s capital, state media reported. Massoud Ali Mohammadi had just left his house on his way to work when the remote-controlled explosion went off, state run Press TV said. The [...]
Obama’s Approval Rating Decreases
President Obama’s job aprroval rating has hit a new low, according to the latest national opinion poll released Monday, January 11, 2010. A CBS News poll conducted last January 6, 2019 found that 46 percent approve of how Obama is handling his job while 41 percent say they disapprove of the president’s performance governing United [...]
US vows to pursue plane bomb plotters
President Barack Obama has pledged his administration “will not rest” until all those behind an alleged plot to bomb a US plane are brought to justice. In his first public comments on last Friday’s incident, Mr Obama said he had ordered two reviews – of US terrorism databases and air travel screening. The accused, Umar [...]
Kidnapped Colombian Governor killed
Colombian authorities say the kidnapped governor of southern Caqueta province has been found dead. To what is again another shame on all the global talks on anti-terrorism, is the news that the kidnapped Columbian Governor has been found dead with a slit in his throat. President Alvaro Uribe said the kidnappers appeared to have cut [...]
Suicide bomber kills eight in Kabul
A suicide car bombing struck Kabul, capital of the war-ravaged Afghanistan, killing at least eight people and injuring 40 others on Tuesday. The attacker blew himself up outside the gate of a hotel in Wazir Akbar Khan district, which is home to many aid agencies and embassies. The district is one of the most heavily-guarded [...]
