Mullah Omar's missiles: a field report on suicide bombers in Afghanistan.
GARDEZ, TRIBAL AREA OF EASTERN AFGHANISTAN, MAY 2007-- On an unusually warm spring day, my Afghan driver drove me out of Kabul, and we made our way down a road known as "IED alley" that leads to the Pakistani border. (1) On the way he pointed out...

'Box from sky' scares citizens.
PUNE: The falling of a box containing weather measuring units attached to a balloon sent by the India Meteorological Department on Wednesday created a scare among the people in Bijlinagar, Chinchwad, who thought some bomb had been dropped from the air. It all started around 5 pm,...

The myth of Aqi: fighting Al-Qaeda in Iraq is the last big for keeping U.S. troops in the country. But the military's estimation of the threat is alarmingly wrong.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In March 2007, a pair of truck bombs tore through the Shiite marketplace in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar, killing more than 150 people. The blast reduced the ancient city center to rubble, leaving body parts and charred vegetables scattered amid pools of...

Razon hits claims linking explosion to gov't figures.
Byline: ROY C. SINFUEGO Director General Avelino Razon Jr., chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), yesterday rebuffed claims of that the killer blasts pulled in Glorietta Mall in Makati City early last Friday afternoon was a doing of the administration, singling out Armed Forces of the...

ARAB ISRAELI RELATIONS - Dec 29 - Israel Set For Ground Invasion.
Israeli warplanes continue pounding the Gaza Strip as the casualty toll in the two-day offensive reached 296 killed and over 900 injured. At least 180 of the injured were in critical condition, Palestinian medical sources said. The UN Security Council urged an immediate end to all military activities in...

'Bombs' recovered from Thane pond.
THANE: The Wada police in Thane district retrieved 22 bomb-like explosives from the bed of a pond on Wednesday. Eighteen of these were used bombs still containing explosives which may have led to a major disaster had they been put in the iron melting furnaces in factories in the...

IRAQ - The Salafi Phenomenon.
In its Aug. 2 edition, The Christian Science Monitor looked at the origins and goals of Salafi militancy, and of al-Qaeda in particular. Its briefing explored how the movement was evolving at a time of concern about terror cells in Western cities such as London. Is the global jihad...

110 people injured in fire, blasts at PNP ammunition dump.
Byline: ELENA L. ABEN & JOEL ATENCIO A total of 110 people, seven of them policemen, two civilians, and 101 patients in a drug rehabilitation center, were injured when a lightning hit the ammunition dump in a police camp in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig causing a fire...

Dump-yard blast triggers rumours of terror plot.
BANGALORE: At 6.45 am on Saturday, several residents of Bhattarhalli in Hoskote woke up to a loud noise a blast at the BBMP garbage dump. After a search operation, the police found it was just a chemical reaction caused due to unscientific disposal of garbage. The four-hour-long...

Sting operation: scientists use bees and wasps to sniff out the ellicit and the dangerous.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's the ultimate way to pull off a sting: Teach a group of ordinary honeybees to ignore flowers and, instead, focus on vapors from explosives used in bombs. Then send the bees off in teams to sniff out terrorists. Or track the molecular trail of...