Gilani says Cameron's remarks against Pak can affect war on terror

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said that the issue of hostile statements made by British Prime Minister David Cameron would be taken up at a diplomatic level, and warned that such statements could adversely affect the war against terrorism. "Such statements could affect the war against terrorism," The Dawn quoted Gilani, as saying.

The Prime Minister further referring to Pakistan's role in the war on terror, pointed out that the country had suffered more casualties and deployed more forces to fight terrorism than the entire US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan.

"Pakistan has never claimed to be a super power, but is currently undertaking efforts against terrorism in its best capacity," he added. Cameron has provoked a diplomatic row with Pakistan, when he accused Islamabad of "exporting terrorism".

Pakistan poll finds Taliban support

The US polling group, Pew Research Centre, has done a survey in Pakistan to determine how Pakistanis view the Taliban and other terrorist groups.

While the general public still views the Taliban as a threat, the survey found, they are regarded more favourably than last year. The results indicated that US drone strikes had caused resentment and most Pakistanis want the US to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
Just 15 per cent of Pew's respondents approved of the Taliban but 18 per cent expressed favorable views of al-Qaeda. Last year, ten per cent of respondents approved of the Taliban and nine per cent approved of al-Qaeda. The poll, which was taken in main urban areas, discovered that the number of Pakistanis calling the Taliban and al-Qaeda a serious threat had declined.

US, UK, India criticize Pakistan as terror haven

Pakistan's top spy agency is coming under increased pressure over its alleged links to and sponsorship of terrorists and Taliban insurgents, as the fallout continues from Sunday's leak of tens of thousands of documents on the war in Afghanistan.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, India's foreign ministry, and the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff have all expressed concerns about Pakistan's spy agency in the past two days.Pakistan is ostensibly cooperating with the US in an effort to squeeze Al Qaeda terrorists and their allies in the remote mountainous regions along the border with Afghanistan.
But Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has long been suspected of playing a double game, with some elements in the spy agency allegedly having links to the Taliban and other terror groups targeting India and other foreign interests.

Pakistan Kidnapped former Pakistan agent Colonel Imam pleads for life

The former Pakistan intelligence agent known as the godfather of the Taliban emerged in a video today pleading for his life, four months after he was captured by an Islamic extremist group.

One of the most famous former officers of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, Colonel Imam said his life was in danger unless the authorities meet his kidnappers demand to free a number of prisoners held for terrorism.Imam,
whose real name is Sultan Amir Tarar, worked alongside Afghanistan's mujahideen to defeat the Soviet occupation.In the mid-1990s, as an ISI agent in the country, he spotted the potential of the then emerging Taliban movement and helped nurture it. After 2001 he was forcibly retired from the ISI after being considers too radical.

Leaked documents fail to upset Obama's drive for victory in America's longest war

The shock of the disclosure of tens of thousands of secret documents about the war in Afghanistan has inspired a debate on the war, but had few other apparent aftereffects.

President Barack Obama said they did not raise any new concerns, and Congress went on to send him $33 billion to pay for the troop surge there. There was no indication that already strong anti-war sentiment is about to boil over.

It is certainly not a popular war. There have been more than 1,100 U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan, by Associated Press count, since fighting began in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
But mostly the gloomy picture in the battlefield reports, which cover the period 2004 to 2009, has reinforced a sense of war weariness.Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., a critical Congressional supporter of the war, advised Americans on Tuesday to not "overhype or get excessively excited" about the disclosures.

Crash that killed Canadian caused by missile

One of the thousands of classified Afghanistan war documents controversially released Sunday by the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks shows that a Canadian military photographer who died in a 2007 helicopter crash that also killed six other NATO troops was the victim of a heat-seeking missile fired by Taliban forces, shedding new light on a previously downplayed threat in the Afghan war zone.

The destruction of the American CH-47 Chinook transport chopper on May 30, 2007, killed 30-year-old Master Cpl. Darrell Jason Priede an Ontario-born, New Brunswick-based photographer who took pictures for the Canadian military publications Combat Camera and Army News along with one British and five U.S. soldiers.
But, according to a U.S. military report made public by WikiLeaks and highlighted Sunday by the New York Times, one of three news agencies given weeks of advance access to the massive database of classified documents, witnesses quickly identified the weapon used in the helicopter strike near Kandahar as a heat-seeking, surface-to-air missile rather than a rocket-propelled grenade as widely reported.

Prosecutor at terror trial says 2 men planned spectacular explosion at JFK airport in NYC

Two men accused in a terrorist plot hoped to cause a spectacular explosion that would kill thousands at New York's Kennedy International Airport and avenge U.S. oppression of Muslims, a prosecutor said Monday at the men's trial.

The defendants wanted to blow up jet fuel tanks at the sprawling airport, causing an explosion "so massive ... that it could be seen from far, far away," Assistant U.S. Attorney Zainab Ahmad said in closing arguments in federal court in Brooklyn. Their vision prompted them to code name the plot "The Shining Light," the prosecutor said.
Defense attorney Mildred Whalen countered by accusing a government informant of manipulating a ragtag crew of delusional dupes who had "seen too many Bruce Willis movies." She called her client Russell Defreitas a "weak-minded, foolish man with a big mouth."

Defreitas, 66, a former JFK cargo handler, and Abdul Kadir, 58, once a member of Parliament in Guyana, were arrested in 2007 before they could get beyond the planning stages after the informant — a convicted drug dealer — infiltrated the plot and made a series of secret recordings.

'Al-Qaeda kills French hostage'

Al-Qaeda in North Africa says it has killed French engineer Michel Germaneau, who was abducted in Niger in April. In an audio statement broadcast by Al Jazeera on Sunday, the head of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said his group killed the Frenchman on Saturday in response to a raid by France and Mauritania against the group.

"[French President Nicolas] Sarkozy was unable to free his compatriot through this failed operation but he definitely opened one of the gates of hell on himself, his people and his nation," the man, identified as AQIM leader Abu Musab Abdul-Wadud, said.

"As a quick response to the despicable French act, we confirm that we have killed hostage Germaneau in revenge for our six brothers who were killed in the treacherous operation," the voice in the tape, which resembled that of other recordings attributed to Abdul-Wadud, said.

US condemns leaked Afghan 'secrets'

The US government has condemned the leak of more than 90,000 military documents on the war in Afghanistan, including details of Afghan civilian deaths, covert operations against the Taliban and alleged US fears that ally Pakistan is aiding the Taliban.

James Jones, the US national security adviser, said the US "strongly condemns the disclosure of classified information by individuals and organizations which could put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk and threaten our national security".
"These irresponsible leaks will not impact our ongoing commitment to deepen our partnerships with Afghanistan and Pakistan; to defeat our common enemies; and to support the aspirations of the Afghan and Pakistani people." The unverified documents allegedly consists largely of classified reports and assessments from junior officers in the field that analysts use to advise policymakers.

Canada joins crackdown on radical Muslim cleric

The RCMP’s senior counterterrorism officer singled out radical preacher Anwar Al-Awlaki yesterday as a common thread among young Canadian extremists. Assistant Commissioner Gilles Michaud said Awlaki, a Yemeni-American terrorist leader, had been popping up during investigations of “the individuals that are of concern to us.”

“He’s a major, major factor in radicalization,” Ass. Comm. Michaud, head of the RCMP’s National Security Criminal Investigations section, told the National Post in an interview.
“This individual, basically he’s born in the U.S., so he knows the Western culture and whatnot, he knows the words to use and how to get to the young people.”The RCMP have been investigating radicalized Canadians who have travelled to such countries as Somalia and Pakistan for terrorist training.

Venezuela's Chavez warns Colombia amid tensions

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned Colombia against provoking a conflict, saying any attack on his country would trigger a reaction.

Chavez insisted he wants peace during a speech Friday night but raised the possibility of a conflict, saying his top generals were constantly evaluating the situation along the Colombian border and that he was in contact with commanders at border posts to make sure they don't "fall for provocations."

"Imagine a war between Colombia and Venezuela. That would be something to cry over for a hundred years," Chavez said. "But you understand that if we are attacked, we aren't going to stay with our arms crossed.
"Chavez announced he was breaking off diplomatic relations with the neighboring country on Thursday and placed his military on alert, accusing Colombia's U.S.-allied government of fabricating evidence showing Colombian rebel bases inside Venezuela.

Iraqi minister says 4 al-Qaida inmates escape jail

Four al-Qaida-linked detainees have escaped from a Baghdad area prison that was handed over by the U.S. to Iraqi authorities a week ago, Iraq's justice minister said Thursday - a daring escape that embarrasses a government struggling to prove it is capable of operating without U.S. oversight.

Dara Noureddin said the four, awaiting trial on terrorism charges, escaped from the high security prison formerly known as Camp Cropper.

The escape is the second to come to light in Iraq in about a week, and spotlights concerns about how prepared are
Iraqi authorities to take full control of the country as U.S. combat forces are to be sharply scaled back by next month.

US applies sanctions to three Taliban leaders

The move will see three men added to the US terrorist blacklist, banning transactions with Americans as well as freezing their assets and travel. The presidential executive order comes after a top US military commander requested the move.

The men were added to a UN sanctions list earlier in the week. The three insurgent leaders include a financial kingpin of the Haqqani network, a group allied with the Taliban and which is believed to have links with al-Qaeda.
Gul Agha Ishakzai, a childhood friend of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, senior Taliban treasurer Amir Abdullah and Nasiruddin Haqqani from the Haqqani network are being blacklisted.

Two killed in attack on Russian power station

Two security guards were killed in a suspected "terrorist act" when an explosion struck a hydroelectric power station in the Kabardino-Balkaria region of Russia's North Caucasus on Wednesday, officials said.

Russia is trying to contain an upsurge of attacks by rebels in the mainly Muslim provinces on its southern flank who took their war to the Russian heartland in March with suicide bombings on the Moscow metro that killed at least 40 people.
A powerful blast ripped through part of the Baksanskaya plant, Rushydro HYDR.MM, Russia's largest hydroelectric power producer which runs the station, said in a statement.

Va. man charged with supporting Somali terror group, twice tried to travel to Somalia to fight

A man known for posting an online warning to the creators of "South Park" that they risked death by mocking the Prophet Muhammad was arrested Wednesday and charged with offering himself as a fighter to a Somali terror group linked to al-Qaida.

Zachary A. Chesser, 20, of Oakton, Va., told FBI agents that he twice tried to travel to Somalia to join al-Shabab as a fighter. On the most recent attempt, earlier this month, Chesser brought his infant son with him as he tried to board a flight from New York to Uganda so he would look less suspicious, according to an FBI affidavit.
Chesser was barred from the July 10 flight and told by the Transportation Security Administration that he was on the no-fly list, according to the affidavit.

While Chesser told the FBI that he had intended on July 10 to join al-Shabab, he told them in a July 14 interview that he subsequently changed his mind because of the July 11 bombing in Uganda that killed more than 75 people watching the World Cup, for which al-Shabab claimed responsibility.

Revenge of the Lady spymaster

Invading Iraq and Afghanistan has increased the terror threat in Britain, the former head of MI5 said yesterday. In apparent revenge for being forced out in 2007, Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller dismantled Tony Blair's case for war and Labor’s claims that it would not put us at risk.She said the conflicts had radicalized a generation of young British Muslims - substantially increasing the risk of a terrorist atrocity on UK soil. The former spy chief said MI5 had been swamped with leads about potential terror plots after the invasion.

'Our involvement in Iraq radicalized, for want of a better word, a whole generation of young people - not a whole generation, a few among a generation - who saw our involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan as being an attack on Islam.'

Key Pakistani counterterrorism official resigns

Officials say the head of a federal group meant to coordinate Pakistan's fight against terrorism has resigned amid a bureaucratic turf battle. Asif Syed, a senior official at the National Counterterrorism Authority, says its chief, Tariq Pervez, resigned Tuesday.

A second government official says Pervez resigned because he couldn't persuade his superiors to place the organization under the prime minister's office where it would have more power to force intelligence and security services to cooperate.
The official says the government decided to place the group under the Interior Ministry. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

Al-Qaida Magazine Draws Attention, But Few Fans

Ever since it appeared on the Web several weeks ago, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula's Inspire magazine has been the subject of intense scrutiny by U.S. intelligence officials. Inspire is a 67-page glossy online publication that appears to have been published by al-Qaida's increasingly aggressive arm in Yemen.

Yet for all of the attention the magazine has received in the Western media, it hasn't seemed to get much traction with the very audience it is supposed to attract: aspiring violent jihadists. Law enforcement officials say they can't remember when a media offering from al-Qaida has ever been the subject of so much discussion.
The magazine, they claim, is different because of how very American it seems to be. It is written in colloquial English. It has jazzy headlines and articles that would seem mainstream — if they weren't about terrorism.

Mexican car bomb likely used Tovex

A drug gang that carried out the first successful car bombing against Mexican security forces likely used an industrial explosive that organized crime gangs in the past have stolen from private companies, a U.S. official. The assailants apparently used Tovex, a water gel explosive commonly used as a replacement for dynamite in mining and other industrial activities, said the U.S. official, who is familiar with the investigation but spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the Mexican-led investigation.

The U.S. official had no other details on how the bomb was constructed, and Mexican officials declined to comment. The car bomb killed three people - including a federal police officer –in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, and introduced a new threat in Mexico's drug war. Mexican authorities say the assailants lured police and paramedics to the scene through an elaborate ruse seemingly taken out of an Al-Qaida playbook.

A street gang tied to the Juarez cartel dressed a bound, wounded man in a police uniform, then called in a false report of an officer shot at an intersection. They waited until the authorities were in place to detonate the bomb.

2 Killed and 11 Escape in Brazen Afghan Jailbreak

A suicide bomber slipped through the Afghan capital's tight security ring Sunday, killing three civilians near a busy market two days ahead of an international conference hosting representatives from about 60 nations, officials said.

An American service member died in a roadside bombing in the south and other weekend attacks left 14 Afghans dead, reports said, as the Taliban meet the arrival of thousands more U.S. troops this year with a rising tide of violence.

The Kabul bomber was on foot near the market and his target was unclear, police official Abdul Ghafar Sayedzada said. Hospitals reported three civilians killed, including a child, public health official Kabir Amiri said. Health Ministry spokesman Ghulam Sakhi Kargar said about 45 people were wounded.

Turkey's tourist resorts threatened with terrorist campaign

Turkey has been threatened with a new terrorist campaign of "torture and massacre" targeting tourist resorts as the holiday season gets under way. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a Kurdish separatist group, has said it plans a wave of violence following the breakdown of a year-long ceasefire.

The PKK strategy will target major Turkish cities, rather than just army patrols and bases in the Kurdish heartlands. These are likely to include the metropolises of western Turkey, including those popular with tourists and businessmen, which have occasionally been hit by bombings in the last decade.
A triple-bombing struck the resort of Marmaris in 2006, while a year later a suicide bomber struck a popular shopping street in the capital, Ankara.

Are Tea Parties Racist? Is Al Qaeda?

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People released this statement: “Over 2,000 NAACP delegates today unanimously passed a resolution—as amended—called ‘The Tea Party Movement,’ asking for the repudiation of racist Tea Party leaders.”

That same day, a White House official told ABC News’s Jake Tapper that “al Qaeda is a racist organization that treats black Africans like cannon fodder and does not value human life.” (It was a follow-up to President Obama’s statement that “these terrorist organizations
… do not regard African life as valuable in and of it.”)A day later, an Iowa Tea Party group “replaced a billboard comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin, calling the sign a bad decision that reflected poorly on the organization.”

Car bomb signals news dimensions to Mexican Drug war

A drug cartel has used a car bomb for the first time in Mexico's decades-long fight against traffickers, setting a deadly trap against federal police in a city across the border from Texas, the mayor of Ciudad Juarez said Friday.

Mayor Jose Reyes said federal police have confirmed to him that a car bomb was used in the attack that killed three people Thursday.

It was the first time a drug cartel has used a bomb to attack Mexican security forces, marking an escalation in the country's already raging drug war.Federal police and
paramedics were lured to the scene by a phone call reporting that shots were fired at a major intersection and a municipal police officer lay wounded at a major intersection, Reyes told The Associated Press.

Alleged al-Qaida plotter held in U.K. on U.S. warrant

A Pakistani man alleged to have plotted a major al-Qaida attack in Britain and wanted by U.S. authorities over the New York subway bomb plot was ordered held in custody. Abid Naseer, 24, was arrested July 7 on a U.S. extradition warrant on charges of providing support to a foreign terrorist organization, conspiring to support a terror group and "conspiracy to use destructive force."

He appeared via a videolink at London's City of Westminster court and was ordered held until another hearing in the case on Aug. 11. Naseer was among 12 people arrested last year in anti-terrorism raids across northern England.
All were released without charge, but authorities insisted they had thwarted a major al-Qaida bomb plot in the northern city of Manchester. Few details were released, but authorities said a Manchester shopping mall was likely among the targets.

Afghan health team abducted; local official killed

Gunmen kidnapped five Health Ministry employees in Afghanistan's volatile Kandahar province while insurgents killed a district official elsewhere, reportedly on the orders of the Taliban supreme leader, officials said. Also in the south, two U.S. service members were killed in a roadside bombing, NATO said. No more details were released.

Insurgent bombings, gunbattles, assassinations and abductions have been increasing this year as thousands of American troops partnered with Afghan forces fan out in the militants' southern strongholds to try to wrest back control and establish effective local government.

Members of a medical team were abducted while returning to Kandahar city, the provincial capital, after visiting a project in Maiwand district, provincial spokesman Zulmi Ayubi. The gunmen forced the car to stop about a mile (two kilometers) outside Maiwand and abducted two doctors, a pharmacist, a nurse and their driver, Ayubi said. The Health Ministry issued a statement calling for their release.

Petraeus wants Taliban in Pakistan on terror list

The new military commander in Afghanistan and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee are urging the State Department to add to its terrorist list some Afghan insurgent commanders who operate from hiding places in neighboring Pakistan.

Commander of NATO forces Gen. David Petraeus wants some leaders of the Haqqani network added to the list, a senior U.S. Defense official in Washington said Wednesday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in order to describe internal administration discussions.On Tuesday, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., urged the State Department to take the same action. Levin is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Both asked for sanctions against the al-Qaida-linked group, led by Jalaluddin Haqqani and his son Siraj. The Haqqani network launches attacks against U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan from the Waziristan tribal region in Pakistan.

Arab TV airs video of Times Square car bomber

The man who pleaded guilty to carrying out the attempted Times Square car bombing appeared in a video recorded before the failed attack that shows him meeting with senior Pakistani Taliban leaders and vowing to strike the U.S.

In the video, aired in segments Wednesday by the Dubai-based television station Al-Arabiya, Faisal Shahzad said the attack on the New York City landmark would avenge the deaths of Muslims killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"All the Muslim Arabs that have been martyred - I will take revenge on their behalf," he said. "I really wish that the hearts of the Muslims will be pleased with this attack, God willing."

One of the figures he praises as a martyr is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the former leader of al-Qaida in Iraq who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq in 2006.

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Judge permits trial of Guantanamo detainee in US

The first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be prosecuted in a civilian court was cleared for trial Tuesday by a judge who said a two-year interrogation and five-year detention were not grounds for dismissal because they served compelling national security interests. Ahmed Khalfan Thalami was interrogated by the CIA for important intelligence information, U.S. District Judge Lewis A.

Kaplan wrote in a decision that rejected defense requests to toss out the indictment on the grounds that Ghailani was denied a speedy trial. "No one denies that the agency's purpose was to protect the United States from attack," Kaplan wrote.

Ghailani is charged in the August 1998 bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa that resulted in the deaths of 224 people, including 12 Americans.

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Police union says LA airport vulnerable to attacks

Security cutbacks have made Los Angeles International Airport vulnerable to a terrorist attack, its police union complained in a letter to airport officials who deny the allegation.

The Airport Police Officers Association told their police chief in a letter last month that the force was spread too thin in the central terminal area, and there have been fewer random checks of vehicles entering the airport.

Reductions in the deployment of personnel and cuts to the budget for training are making the airport "more vulnerable to a terrorist attack than at any time since 9/11," wrote Marshall McClain, president of the police union.

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Hezbollah Terrorists Plotting On U.S. Border

Speaking of the Islamist enemy cropping up in unlikely places, Iran’s favorite terrorist outfit, Hezbollah – a menace to Israel and Lebanon – has been caught plotting right in our backyard.

For years, experts who already have their hands full with the persistent threat of Al Qaeda have warned of the rise of Hezbollah in our midst. The day has arrived.Mexican authorities have rolled up a Hezbollah network being built in Tijuana, right across the border from Texas and closer to American homes than the terrorist hideouts in the Bekaa Valley are to Israel.Its goal, according to a Kuwaiti newspaper that reported on the investigation: to strike targets in Israel and the West.
Over the years, Hezbollah – rich with Iranian oil money and narcocash – has generated revenue by cozying up with Mexican cartels to smuggle drugs and people into the U.S.

Seattle Cartoonist Added to Terror Leaders Hit List

-->A Seattle cartoonist who drew a satirical cartoon suggesting an “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!” — an idea she later disavowed — reportedly has been placed on a hit list by a terror leader linked to the failed Times Square car bombing.

Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki has put cartoonist Molly Norris among a list of nine other cartoonists, authors and journalists whom al-Awlaki blamed for “blasphemous caricatures” of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, the New York Daily News reported.
He did so in an English-language al-Qaida magazine called “Inspire,” saying that “the medicine prescribed by the Messenger of Allah is the execution of those involved,” according to the newspaper.It also said that FBI officials had warned Norris that they consider it a “very serious threat.”

4 Arrested in S. Africa Trying to Sell Nuclear Device

LAn international police sting at a Pretoria South Afric petrol station has netted four men involved in the sale of a highly radioactive metal suspected to be destined for use in a dirty bomb.

The high-risk operation by the Hawks’ specialised tactical unit was carried out yesterday.Police recovered some Caesium-137 contained in a protective cover, but admitted they had yet to find a larger device, which was set to be sold on the black market for R45 million.
CCTV footage shows how undercover members of the Hawks’ organised crime unit stormed through a Sasol garage, opening fire on the suspects with semi-automatic weapons, sending terrified customers, motorists and petrol attendants fleeing.

Recruiting terrorist in US prison

You’ve heard their names: alQaida, Hamas, Hezbollah, Taliban and Islamic Jihad. What most haven’t heard is that these terrorist organizations are setting up shop in U.S. and Latin American prisons under the guise of ministry. Counterfeit chaplains are converting prisoners to an extreme form of Islam with an eye to cultivate terroristic saboteurs and martyrs willing to wrap themselves in explosives and detonate on Main Street U.S.A.

The Jihadist endgame is even more diabolical, which is to cause death and disease of biblical proportions to usher in the end of the world and their Messiah, the Al-Imam al-Mahdi, better known as the anti-Christ. Does that sound any more far-fetched than Jihadist hijackers flying into the World Trade Center on their way to an eternal date with 72 virgins?

Dr. J. Michael Waller, Annenberg Professor of International Communication for the Institute of World Politics, warns of the inroads that radical Muslim chaplains are making in American prisons — North, Central and South America included.

Testifying before the Senate’s Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, Dr. Waller stated that Muslim chaplaincies are “one of several avenues of infiltration, recruitment, training and operation” for terrorist organizations who are backed by foreign governments like Iran and Syria, who want to gain a foothold in the Western Hemisphere..

Twin suicide bombs kill 62 in Pakistan tribal area

A pair of suicide bombings killed 62 people outside a government office in a region along the Afghan border where the Pakistani army and U.S. missiles have had some success in decreasing the number of such attacks.

The assault, which wounded at least 111 people, was one of the deadliest in Pakistan this year. There was speculation that the bombers were targeting anti-Taliban tribal elders visiting the government office in the village of Yakaghund, part of the Mohmand tribal area in the country's northwest.

The attackers struck within seconds of each other as two U.S. senators met with Pakistani leaders in the capital, Islamabad, to discuss their countries' cooperation in the fight against terrorism, much of it being waged in the lawless tribal belt bordering Afghanistan where al-Qaida and the Taliban have long had redoubts.

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Home-Grown Extremists as Threatening as Al Qaeda

Fifteen years after the Oklahoma City bombing, the specter of domestic terrorism has returned to haunt the Obama administration, with a warning from the FBI that “home-grown and lone-wolf extremists” now represent as serious a threat as Al Qaeda and its affiliates, The Times reported on Saturday.

The warning, from the FBI Director, Robert Mueller, came as the former President Clinton drew parallels between the Oklahoma City tragedy and a recent upsurge in anti-government rhetoric, while American television audiences heard Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, describe the “absolute rage” that drove him to plan an attack that killed 168 men, women and children.

An FBI spokesman said Friday that Mueller was referring to right-wing extremist groups and anti-government militias, as well as American Islamists, in his testimony to the Senate committee that must approve the FBI’s $8.3 billion budget. Last month federal agents arrested nine members of a Christian militia based in Michigan, calling itself the Hutaree. They have been charged with plotting to murder local police with a stash of guns, knives and grenades.

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12 people were killed by bombs

At least 12 people were killed by bombs this morning in Baghdad, a day after 50 were killed by militants in the Iraqi capital. Iraqi officials said the bombs targeted pilgrims taking part in the final day of a Shia religious holiday.

Police and hospital officials said the dead were believed to be pilgrims on their way home from visiting a mosque in northern Baghdad to mark the anniversary of the death of a revered Shia figure.

Hundreds of thousands of devout Shia Muslims from across the country walked to Baghdad to take part. But the crowds have made prime targets for Sunni insurgents.

Though violence has dropped across Iraq, religious processions, holy sites and security forces are still regularly targeted by insurgents trying to reignite sectarian bloodshed that had the country teetering on the brink of civil war from 2005 to 2007.

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Norwegians Arrest Terror Suspects

Three men suspected of plotting to build explosives and commit acts of terror were arrested on Thursday, according to Police Officials in Norway. The men are also accused of having ties to Al-Qaeda. Government officials say that the men had hoped to build bombs with peroxide in them, bombs which the government called portable and highly destructive.

Two of the arrests took place in Oslo, while the third arrest took place in Germany. Despite one of the arrests occurring in Germany and claiming there were ties to suspects in other countries, officials would not comment on specific connections between these arrests and other terrorism cases in the United States and Europe.

Further arrests are a possibility as a result of the ongoing investigation, which landed the first terrorism related suspects detained in Norway since 2006.

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Police arrest Pakistani man on US terror charges

Police on Wednesday arrested a Pakistani man suspected of being an Al-Qaeda operative in northeastern England after US authorities issued a warrant for his arrest.

Abid Naseer, 24, is sought by the United States on charges of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organisation, conspiring to provide material support, and conspiracy to use a destructive device.

He was arrested by British counter-terrorism police last year on suspicion of plotting mass casualty attacks in England and of being an operative of Al-Qaeda, although he was never charged.

The British government subsequently tried to deport him but while an immigration court acknowledged he was "an Al-Qaeda operative who posed and still poses a serious threat", it ruled his safety could not be guaranteed in Pakistan.

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A former US Congressman has pleaded guilty

A former US Congressman has pleaded guilty in connection with a terrorist financing conspiracy that sent money to al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan, the US Justice Department said on Wednesday.

Mark Deli Siljander, who represented Michigan in the House of Representatives from 1981-87 and was a delegate to the UN under President Ronald Reagan, pleaded guilty to acting as an agent for an Islamic charity with ties to international terrorism, according to Beth Phillips, US Attorney for the western district of Missouri.

Siljander was the last of five co-defendants in the case that involved the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA) of Columbia, Missouri. IARA was shut down by the US government in 2004 for connections to terrorism.

The Justice Department had charged that IARA, whose headquarters were in Sudan, also funnelled money to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the militant Afghan leader and former prime minister of Afghanistan who leads the country's second-largest insurgent group.

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Behind UK terror offences

More than two-thirds of Islamism-related terrorism offences or suicide attacks in the UK over the last 10 years were perpetrated by British citizens, according to a report published.

Some 69% of such incidents from 1999 to 2009 were carried out by Britons, the study by think-tank The Centre for Social Cohesion found.

Almost half (46%) were committed by individuals of a south central Asian ancestry, while the second and third most frequent regions of origin were eastern Africa (16%) and northern Africa (13%).

Some 48% of the 127 Islamism-related terrorism offences or suicide attacks, collectively referred to as Islamism related offences (IROs), were committed by individuals living in London, the report found.

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Former Israeli military man caught spraying Polish ghetto

A former Israeli Air Force captain was caught spray-painting pro-Palestinian graffiti on the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto last week.

Israel's Channel 10 has reported the ex-military man turned activist, Yonatan Shapira, was caught on camera spray painting slogans such as "Free all ghettos" and "Free Palestine and Gaza" on the walls of the Jewish ghetto, where Israelis were rounded up by Hitler's soldiers during WWII.

Shapira went to the ghetto, a revered site for Jews, to hoist a Palestinian flag onto the wall before launching his act of pro-Palestinian graffiti. He later said he was proud of his work and the political statement it conveyed.

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Death, life term for biological arms offenders proposed

"The Foreign Office has asked the federal government to enact a law awarding death penalty for those who would use or attempt to use biological weapons in Pakistan or outside, and life imprisonment for those offenders who develop, manufacture, import, export, acquire, possess control or retain a biological weapon inside the country's territories.

The offenders under this new proposed law, to be taken by the federal cabinet Wednesday (today), would be tried in a sessions court only upon a complaint in writing made by an officer authorized by the federal government.

The provisions of CCPr 1898 shall be applicable for the purpose of trial and other proceedings. The new law is being introduced to meet the international obligations.

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Detained Salvadoran wanted in Cuba

A Salvadoran man wanted by Cuba as a suspect in a series of bombings was arrested with a false passport at Caracas' airport, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday.

Chavez said the suspect, Francisco Chavez Abarca, was detained upon arrival Thursday by Venezuelan intelligence agents and is accused of placing bombs in Havana in 1997.

He called the Salvadoran a "big terrorist" who is closely associated with Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles, a former CIA operative wanted for allegedly plotting the 1976 bombing of a Cuban plane that killed 73 people.

"My heart tells me this gentleman came here to kill me. I have no doubt," the president said.

"I'm sure this man didn't come here for tourism. He came here to place bombs, to see how to hunt an objective that has a price: my head," Chavez said, adding that he is tightening his security.

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