Terroism News

India Army has foiled another major infiltration bid on Saturday in Fateh Gali region of Keran sector in Kashmir, attempted to resupply the trapped infiltrators with food and ammunition from across the LoC, with active connivance of the Pakistan army. Four militants have been killed and six AK 47 rifles, pistols and ammunition were recovered from them.

Following a tip-off from an arrested terror suspect, police teams from Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh arrested 2-suspects while 2-others escaped in a 12-hour joint operation in Puttur, Andhra Pradesh in which a police inspector succumbed to stab wounds. The suspects were involved in about 10-cases in Tamil Nadu and were allegedly planning bomb blasts in a temple at Tirumala.

Indian Army has recovered war-like stores of arms and ammunition from Keran sector along the Line of Control in Kashmir valley on Monday, as the operation against militants holed up there entered the 14th day. According to army officials recoveries included seven AK 47 rifles, four pistols, one sniper rifle, 20 UBGL grenades, two radio-sets and other war-like stores.

Army chief General Bikram Singh has blamed the Pakistani army for aiding terrorists and Pakistani special troops for the massive infiltration bid in Keran sector, J&K that lasted for 15-days before ending Tuesday. The recent infiltration bids are seen as providing "covering fire'' to the infiltrators, to push in as many terrorists as possible into J&K before the onset of winter.

42 prisoners including a woman, who were convicted of terrorism-related charges, were hanged in Iraq. With violence on rise, more than 5000 people have been killed over the past six months in terrorist acts and Iraq has executed 132 people this year, so far. Later Thursday, a bomb exploded in a street in western Baghdad, killing 3-people and wounding 8-others.

Indian security forces have arrested a top commander of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist outfit named Junaid, who was working with the outfit for the past 14 years, from Bandipora district of Kashmir Valley. The forces also recovered one AK-56 rifle with two magazines and 60 rounds from his possession. He had managed to escape last month from the neighbouring Ganderbal district.

On Thursday, a patrol party was attacked by armed Maoists in Gadchiroli leading to death of three police commandos, police official Dharamdas Bhusari said. The incident took place near Shevargaon village in the dense forests close to the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh state border.

During his interrogation by NIA, Indian Mujahideen co-founder Yasin Bhatkal has revealed his plan to kidnap Indian Jews and use them to bargain for release of Pakistan's Dr Aafia Siddiqui, a convict serving an 86-year prison sentence in 9/11 US terror attack. Following the revelation, Indian agencies are reportedly tracking activities of IM and keeping an eye on Jewish establishments.

A joint statement issued after PM Manmohan Singh's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin noted, "States that provide aid, abetment, and shelter for terrorist activities are themselves as guilty as the terrorists. Speaking about the Mumbai terror attacks, both the leaders called strict legal actions against the perpetrators. Singh backed Putin's intervention in preventing a military intervention in Syria.

World's most wanted woman Samantha Lewthwaite aka 'White Widow', who was involved in the terrorist attack on Westgate mall, Nairobi, wrote a 34-lined poem expressing her 'love' for the Al-Qaida founder Osama Bin Laden. In the poem (which was found on her laptop), she wrote: "Oh sheik osama my father, my brother. My love for you is like no other."

A day after eight serial blasts that killed six and left 83 injured in Patna, police have arrested two suspected terrorists -Tausim and Imtiyaz- and detained several others. One of the accused, who is being considered as the mastermind, has reportedly confessed to his crime. Raids have been conducted in several areas of neighbouring Jharkhand in connection with the blasts.

According to sources, suspected Indian Mujahideen operative Afzal Usmani(37) has been re-arrested by Maharashtra's Anti-Terrorism Squad. A massive manhunt had been going on for Usmani after he escaped from a courtroom in Mumbai on September-20. Usmani, who had previously been arrested in August, 2008, is accused of the 2008 bomb blasts in Gujarat that killed 57 and injured nearly 200-people.

Amid questions raised by international rights groups over controversial US drone attacks, death of '2160 militants and 67 civilians' in the attacks have been reported by Pakistan. Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif raised the issue with US President Obama in their maiden meeting on October-23. However, US claims that drone attacks are precision proof and have killed many top terrorists.

Suspected IM operative Ujair Ahmad, during a joint interrogation by the National Investigation Agency and Ranchi police, denied that the Ranchi module received any international funding but accepted IM used funds raised in the name of charity for minority welfare to sponsor Ranchi module that allegedly conspired bomb blasts to assassinate Narendra Modi during his rally in Patna last Sunday.

To ensure secure assembly elections in Chhattisgarh's Maoist-affected Bastar region after the poll boycott call by Maoists, the home ministry has increased the number of unarmed aerial vehicles (UAVs) for round-the-clock surveillance. About half a dozen indigenous UAV Netra, owned by the CRPF, have been deployed and over 50,000 security forces have been inducted in the region.

The dead body of Ainul Ansari, a suspect in October-27 Patna serial bomb blasts -- who died on Friday sustaining brain injuries-- still awaits its last rituals as his family has refused to claim it. Ainul violated Islam by getting involved in terrorism. He was not my son, said Ainul's 70-year-old father.

In connection with Patna and Bodh Gaya blasts, Chhattisgarh Police on Monday arrested seven members of the banned organisation SIMI. The arrests happened after raids in Patna and Ranchi revealed SIMI links with terrorists accused for the blasts. Five more members of the banned outfit have been arrested in the past two days, police said.

In his 60-page confession statement, prime accused in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, Abu Jundal, has admitted that he was the first to suggest the idea of carrying out blasts in Mumbai, Pune and Gujarat in 2005. Moreover, the LeT operative also claimed that he wanted to take part in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, but was forbidden later.

National Investigation Agency has arrested BJP youth wing leader, Jitendra Sharma, in connection with the murder of ex-RSS pracharak Sunil Joshi, making the first arrest of a BJP leader in a Hindutva terror case. Mastermind of several blasts, including those in Samjhauta Express, Mecca Masjid and Malegaon targeting minorities, Joshi was allegedly killed by his own associates in Dec-2007.