Terrorist Attacks against Christians increase 309% in Africa

A statement by Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations in Geneva explains the terrorist attacks against Christians have increase to 309% in Africa, Middle East and Asia.
In a speech given by the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations in Geneva, Mons. Silvano Tomasi, he noted that 2.2 billion people face this problem worldwide.

He says that Christians are not the only victims, but the numbers are hard to ignore. About 70 percent of the world's population faces religious restrictions. Terrorist attacks on Christians in Africa, the Middle East and Asia have increased 309 percent between 2003 and 2010.Tomasi said religion is not a threat, but a resource. The problem, he says, rises when governments and extremists consider minority religions harmful and offensive because they differ from a country's main religion.

When it comes to developed countries, mostly in the West, the persecution is not necessarily violent, but cultural. It's usually seen when people face hostility, scorn and even ridicule for their beliefs. It's a situation faced by many, but above all, says Tomasi, by Christians.

Iran will hit back Israel strike with terror attacks - US

US officials who have charged the likely Iranian responses to any attack by Israel on its nuclear program believe that Iran would get revenge by launching missiles on Israel and terrorist-style attacks on United States civilian and military personnel overseas.

While missile retaliation against Israel would be virtually certain, according to these assessments, Iran would also be likely to try to calibrate its response against American targets so as not to give the US a rationale for taking military action that could permanently cripple Tehran’s nuclear program. “Iranians have been pretty good masters of escalation control,” said Gen James E Cartwright, now retired, who as the top officer at Strategic Command and as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff participated in war games involving both deterrence and retaliation on potential adversaries.
The Iranian targets would include petroleum infrastructure in the Persian Gulf, and American troops in Afghanistan, where Iran has been accused of shipping explosives to local insurgent forces.US officials believe that there is no hard evidence that Iran has come to a decision to build a nuclear bomb.

Terrorist Bashir jailed for 15 years for terrorist acts

On Monday Indonesia's top court upheld a 15-year jail term against Islamist militant Abu Bakar Bashir for terrorist acts; reversing an earlier decision to slash the sentence to nine years.

Indonesia's top court has upheld a 15-year jail term against Islamist militant Abu Bakar Bashir for terrorist acts, reversing an earlier decision to slash the sentence to nine years.

Bashir is regarded as a spiritual leader of militant Islam in Indonesia -- the world's most populous Muslim country -- and is an outspoken supporter of Al-Qaeda-style jihad, but the 73-year-old has always denied being a terrorist.
In June last year a lower court sentenced him to 15 years in jail, but upon appeal the High Court slashed it to nine, citing lack of evidence and old age."Abu Bakar Bashir is proven to be guilty officially and convincingly of committing terrorist acts," the Supreme Court said in its ruling, which is final.

UN Security Council condemns ‘terrorist attack’ on Israeli

On Thursday the UN Security Council condemned a “terrorist attack” against an Israeli diplomat in India, without making any mention of allegations against Iran.

The 15-nation council said in a statement that it “condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack in New Delhi” on February 13 in which an Israeli diplomat was badly injured.
The council also condemned an attempted attack in the Georgian capital which followed. An Israeli embassy employee found a bomb on his car and contacted police who defused the device.

7 terrorists killed and 25 arrested in Russia

In North Caucasus the law enforcement bodies of Russia executed 7 terrorists and 27 terrorists were arrested including the leader of the illegal military group in Dagestan Adul Abdulkarimov as a result of military operations.APA reports that during the operations leaders of 2 group and 5 militants were killed.

Amir of Dagestan province Ibrahimkhalil Davudov and leader of Khasavyurt terrorist group Magomed Gasimov were also killed. 4 secret armament depots of the terrorists were found as a result of operations. A lot of ammunitions were seized from the depots.

U.S. slaps terrorism authorizes on Iranian intelligence agency

The Obama administration is slapping sanctions on Iran’s ministry of intelligence and security, claiming that it supports global terrorism, commits human rights abuses against Iranians and participates in ongoing repression in Syria.

On Thursday the Treasury Department announced that it added the ministry to its list of specially designated global terrorists. The step freezes any assets the group may have in U.S. jurisdictions, bars Americans from doing business with it and bans ministry employees from travel to the United States. The effect of the sanctions will be largely symbolic as it is not known to have holdings in the U.S.
The announcement said the ministry had helped al-Qaida agents in Iran and provided then with identity cards and passports and had given money and weapons to al-Qaida in Iraq.

Bangkok explosions linked to the New Delhi attack

On Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, an Iranian man carrying explosives blow his own legs and wounded four other people in two blasts in Bangkok, Thai authorities said. A third blast took place in a nearby house.
Bangkok has been on the watch for a terror attack since police last month charged a Lebanese man suspected of planning a strike following a US warning that tourist areas might be target.

"Yesterday's incident was caused by current international tensions in world politics," National Security Council Secretary General Wichean Potephosree told a news conference.National Security Council chief Wichean Potephosree said that, the authorities are investigating the possible targets and if there was any link between Tuesday's explosions in Bangkok and one a day before New Delhi — an attack Israel blamed on Iran. Authorities say it's unclear whether the Bangkok explosions were linked to the New Delhi attack.

Negotiation: Boko Haram Terrorists

Terrorists are frequently small groups claiming to speak, even without explanation, for a whole set of populace in pursuing concealed motives.
There is nothing to wonder in front of this kind of questions like Negotiation with which individuals and on what terms? Unfortunately, present shocking information of the collateral spoil inflicted on the nation is too important for all lovers of human race to disregard.

According to Amnesty International, at the Madrid Summit on Democracy and Terrorism in March 2005, the essentials of fighting terrorism thus: “self-governing standards and values are necessary tools in the fight next to terrorism. Any victorious stratagem for dealing with terrorism requires terrorists to be out-of-the-way. As a result, the first choice must be to delight terrorism as criminal acts to be handled through accessible systems of law enforcement”.

Haram insurgent Islamic faction with a screening to appeasing them to reverse off their exceptionally unruly and devastating activities is quite unlucky.

Cyber Crime Attack - Israeli hackers release Arab credit card details

Cyber attacks between Israeli and Arab hackers was raised yesterday, as a shadowy Israeli group released the details of 4,800 Arab credit-card holders and tried to launch attacks on the websites of the UAE Central Bank and the Arab Bank Palestine.

Early yesterday, hackers who said they were Israeli posted the credit card numbers, security codes and expiration dates of the cards, which they said they obtained from the website of a major Saudi bank. The Central Bank said the website did become inaccessible for about 20 minutes but the problem had been quickly solved.The Arab Bank website remained inaccessible for most of the day when accessed in Abu Dhabi.
"They did target the website, but they didn't do any damage," said Bob Thomson, chief manager of information technology projects at the Central Bank, who described the incident as "a concentrated attack".The hackers' email message to The National linked to an online warning calling on "terrorists to stop their terrorist acts against Israel and attempts to disrupt the normal course of life in Israel".

Five tourists dead in Ethiopia terrorist attack

Gunmen in Ethiopia's north attacked a group of European tourists traveling in one of the world's lowest and hottest regions, killing five, wounding two and kidnapping two, an Ethiopian official said Wednesday. Ethiopia called the attack "an act of open terrorism" and said the gunmen came from neighboring Eritrea and attacked the tourist group before morning on Tuesday. Three Ethiopians were also taken hostage. Eritrea denied it was involved.

Ethiopian Communications Minister Bereket Simon said,”Austrian, Belgian, German, Hungarian and Italian nationals were among those in the tourist group”. Two Germans, two Hungarians and an Austrian were among the five killed, according to an Interpol report cited by the spokesman for Hungary's prime minister.
Two Belgians were seriously hurt and two Italians escaped unharmed, the report said. Two Germans were kidnapped.Austria's foreign ministry confirmed that an Austrian man from the province of Upper Austria was among the five dead. Germany's foreign minister also confirmed two German deaths, news agency dapd reported.Those wounded in the attack arrived in Addis Ababa Wednesday evening, where they were met by embassy personnel. A British diplomat at the airport said it was possible one British tourist was among the group attacked.

NAM condemns terror attack against Iranian scientist

On Thursday Iranian Permanent Representative to United Nations Mohammad Khazaee said that member states of Non-Aligned Movement have condemned terror attack on Iranian scientist and violation of Iran's airspace by the US stealth observation aircraft.

“NAM members states supported Iran’s two proposals to condemn terror attack on Iranian Physics professor and violation of Iran airspace by US spy drone, “ Khazaee told IRNA on the sidelines of NAM first meeting in 2012 at UN.

“NAM representatives to United Nations accepted the two plans made by the Islamic Republic of Iran and will finally issue a statement to condemn the assassination and stealth drone spying as two terrorist actions against Iran,' he said.Khazaee said that it is crystal clear that certain terrorist groups with the help of Zionists and other foreign governments and organizations are behind such terrorist operations.
“Despite all kinds of political and economic pressures and terrorist attacks targeting the Iranian nuclear scientists, the enemies could not prevent our nation from exercising its right to produce nuclear energy which is completely for peaceful purpose,“ Khazaee added.'We are confident that such blind terrorist operations will not stop Iranians from defending their legitimate rights enshrined by Non-Proliferation Treaty. The Islamic Republic of Iran reserves the right to take legal action with the internal and international courts against state terrorism exercised by the hostile regimes.'

British voice behind a call to supports for Somalia's terrorists

Video reports of al-Shabaab battles with Somali forces feature jihadist with London tone of voice. An aggressive Islamist group in Somalia that has declared its allegiance to al-Qa'ida is using a young British man to file video propaganda from the front lines of the country's civil war to try to draw English-speaking Muslims to the Horn of Africa for jihad, The Independent can reveal.

The man, who stays behind the mask throughout his videos, speaks in fluent English with a clear London accent and presents breathless reports of battles that the militant groups have fought against Somali government and foreign forces.Intelligence sources and terrorism experts believe the man was either born in Britain or spent considerable time here and that he may have even had some media training before heading abroad to join the militant network..The Independent has collected at least three videos in which the man features.
The first – which runs for 11 minutes and is titled "African Crusaders" – was released in June 2010 and only contains the man's voice. A second 21 minute long video – "Mogadishu – the Crusader's Graveyard" – was released a month later and shows the young reporter appearing with his face covered in front of burning tank that he claims was destroyed by Islamist fighters.

Swedish Journalists sentenced to 11 years prison for supporting terrorism

Two Swedish reporters were sentenced to 11 years of prison for supporting terrorism. A court in Ethiopia on Tuesday sentenced two Swedish journalists to 11 years in prison on charges of supporting terrorism after the two illegally entered the country with an ethnic Somali rebel group in a case that has been criticized by media rights groups.

Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye were the two Swedish journalists who supported terrorism. Judge Shemsu Sirgaga ruled that the two freelance journalists — Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye — will serve “rigorous imprisonment” following their convictions last week.Ethiopian troops had captured Persson and Schibbye six months ago during a clash with rebels in eastern Ethiopia’s restive Somali region, a no-go area for reporters. Ethiopia considers the rebel group a terrorist organization, and it is very difficult for journalists to gain access to the region. Rights groups say that is so abuses there are not exposed.

The international community has closely followed the terror trial against the Swedes. Rights groups and diplomats say Ethiopia’s anti-terrorism proclamation restricts freedom of expression and is used as a tool to crack down on dissent.

Pakistan measures to halt terrorist attacks on airports

On December 15 Azam Tiwana, director general of the Airport Security Force (ASF), said that,”Authorities have taken special measures at Pakistan’s airports to prevent terrorist attacks using small aircraft, Brig”.

Addressing listeners at the ASF head office and academy in Karachi, he said terrorists could attempt to replicate the now-defunct Tamil Tigers terrorist group’s attacks on Colombo International Airport in Sri Lanka, Jang reported.

He said the ASF has taken special measures and has equipped its staff with anti-aircraft guns, media reported.

IAF choppers to provide live demonstration of terror hit

Planning to offer a real-time picture on ground during terrorist attacks to security forces, the Indian Air Force has arranged two of its Mi-17 helicopters in Mumbai and Delhi. These helicopters have been equipped with imaging systems and sensors to allow live video footage of terror attacks to the command and control centers, IAF officials said.

As per IAF's plans, the footage will be used to give a holistic picture to the troops and security forces on ground who can then take synergized action against terrorists, the officials said. The plan to deploy these choppers was initiated in the aftermath of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, they said. India has taken several measures after the attacks to protect vital installations and points against any hit from the sea or aerial route.The Air Force is also planning to deploy its frontline fighter aircraft such as the SU-30MKI in the National Capital region (NCR) to ward off any possible aerial threat.
During the Commonwealth Games last year, the IAF had deployed its unmanned aerial vehicles to provide security cover to the mega event. IAF has also procured the C-130J Special Operations aircraft which can be used to airlift and deploy quick reaction teams at any location in the country in case of any such attack.

New York Terrorism “lone wolf” - suspected has Islam convert

The New York City terrorism plot followed a solitary online path to violent radical Islam, family members and law enforcement officials say.Jose Pimentel, 27, is being held without bail on state terrorism charges after his arrest on Saturday.Jose Pimentel is a Manhattan man who was arrested on Nov. 20, 2011 on charges of plotting to build and detonate bombs in New York.

Mr. Pimentel, a Dominican-born Muslim convert who is also known as Muhammad Yusuf, was said to have been fascinated by the American-born Muslim militant Anwar al-Awlaki. Officials said that Mr. Pimental began plotting a bomb attack in August 2011. But it was the death of Mr. Awlaki, who was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in September, that refocused his efforts, they said.He had been under police surveillance for more than two years and was arrested after he had come close to completing at least three bombs. Police say he plotted, as an al-Qaeda sympathizer, to use explosives to attack post offices, police buildings and US military-service members.
Pimentel's defense lawyer, Joseph Zablocki, said that Pimentel, who had a minor criminal record for credit card theft wasn't a serious threat.While the police department kept the FBI informed of the case, a person familiar with the investigation said federal officials were unsure about how much of a threat Pimentel posed and how large a role the informant played in moving him to act.Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said that Mr. Pimentel was not part of a conspiracy, had no known contacts abroad and, in the mayor’s words, “appears to be a total lone wolf.”

10 most Dangerous Countries in the World under Terrorism

There are many Countries in the World which are not economically and politically secured and some are under terrorist attacks where terrorism is killing hundreds of people daily, Countries which are not economically strong have very weak armed forces that’s why some terrorist gangs have taken over them,
Here is the list which will tell you about the 10 most dangerous countries in the world to go by the year 2011, I hope you people would wish to know the like this list of terrorist countries.

1.Somalia

2.Iraq

3.Afghanistan

4.Haiti

5.Pakistan

6.Sudan

7.Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

8.Lebanon

9.Zimbabwe

10.Palestinian Territories

Terrorists a real threat to Canada | CSIS Official warns

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is Canada's national intelligence service which is responsible for collecting, analyzing, reporting and publishing intelligence on threats to Canada's national security. The CSIS official warns terrorists a real threat to Canada.

Lone-wolf terrorists, cyber thieves and meddling foreign states are among the biggest threats to Canada, a top spy official has warned in a rare public speech.

“The threat is not just one of foreign terrorists invading our borders, but of violent extremists developing from within,” Andy Ellis, an assistant director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, told a security conference in Ottawa on Wednesday.
But he added that CSIS is going abroad to counter threats, and continues to dispatch spies to Afghanistan.

Pope Benedict XVI condemns religious terrorism in the name of God

POPE Benedict XVI has condemned religiously-motivated terrorism at a meeting with 300 leaders of world religions in Assisi aimed at repudiating violence in the name of God.POPE Benedict XVI said, “We know that terrorism is often religiously motivated and that the specifically religious character of the attacks is proposed as a justification for the reckless cruelty that considers itself entitled to discard the rules of morality for the sake of the intended 'good'.
"This is not the true nature of religion. It is the antithesis of religion and contributes to its destruction," he added during the day of inter religious council held in St Francis of Assisi's birthplace in northern Italy yesterday.

More than 50 Islamic representatives were attending the talks as well as Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, a Zoroastrian, a Bahai and representatives of Taoism, Confucianism and traditional religions from Africa and America.The pontiff admitted that Christians were guilty of having used violence in the name of God in the past."It is true, in the course of history; force has also been used in the name of the Christian faith. We acknowledge it with great shame. But it is absolutely clear that this was an abuse of the Christian faith," he said.He also called on all those present to "try to identify the new faces of violence and discord more closely."The event marks the 25th anniversary of the first interreligious meeting in Assisi, organised by John Paul II in 1986, and is intended to be a "journey of reflection, dialogue and prayer for peace and justice in the world". For the first time, four atheists will also attend the meeting, which is being criticized by Catholic fundamentalists who are strongly against the idea of dialogue with other religions.

Iran's supreme leader warns US over assassination allegations

On Sunday 16th Oct Iran's supreme leader warned the United States for any measures taken against Tehran over an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington would draw out a "resolute" response.Two men, including a member of the Iranian special foreign actions unit known as the Quds Force, have been charged in New York federal court with plot to kill the Saudi diplomat, Adel Al-Jubeir. U.S. officials have said no one was ever in any immediate danger from the plot.The Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated that, “if U.S. officials have some delusions, (they must) know that any unsuitable act, whether political or security, will meet a resolute response from the Iranian nation".
Iran also demanded that a diplomat be allowed to visit one of the men in prison. Khamenei's comments may reflect Iranian concerns that Washington would use the Al-Jubeir case to ratchet up sanctions and recruit international allies to try to further isolate Tehran.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been blunt in saying the United States would use the allegations as leverage with other countries that have been reluctant to apply cruel sanctions or penalties against Iran."By attributing an absurd and meaningless accusation to a few Iranians, they tried ... to show that Iran is a supporter of terrorism. ... This conspiracy didn't work and won't work," he said. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for his part, dismissed the U.S. accusations as a fabricated "scenario." Iranian lawmakers and analysts have said Iran would not benefit from killing the Saudi ambassador in Washington, even if it might have sought to punish its Saudi rivals for intervening in Bahrain to crush a Shiite-led uprising there. Majority Shiite Iran regarded with deep suspicion on the Arab side of the Gulf, which is largely Sunni.

"The Americans seek to close the circle around Iran at the international level. ... It's a prelude to transferring Iran's dossier to the U.N. Security Council," he said in comments posted on the fararu.com news website Sunday.