Sri Lanka assures continued support to counter Global terrorism

Jul 24, 2009

Phuket, Thailand, 24 July, (Asiantribune.com): Sri Lanka will continue to support global measures to counter the scourge of terrorism, including the early conclusion of the Global Convention on Terrorism, assured Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister.

Speaking at the  16th ASEAN Regional Forum, Phuket,  Sri Lanka Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama further said subscribing to the UN Convention dealing with Terrorism, Sri Lanka is party to the NPT treaty and its related Safeguard Agreements as well as other related Agreements under the framework of the IAEA, such as the Convention on Nuclear Safety and the Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident among others.

Americans linked to terrorism abroad

July 23, 2009

John Walker Lindh

Age: 28

Captured in Afghanistan in 2001, the California native was charged with conspiring to kill Americans and aiding terrorists. He pleaded guilty in 2002 to lesser offenses and is serving a 20-year sentence at a prison in Indiana.

Jose Padilla

Age: 38

Arrested in 2002 and initially accused of plotting with Al Qaeda to detonate a “dirty bomb,” he was held for years as an “enemy combatant.” Padilla, of Chicago, was convicted in 2007 of terrorism support charges. He’s now serving a 17-year sentence at the federal Supermax prison in Colorado.

Adam Gadahn

Age: 30

Born in California, he has appeared in Al Qaeda videos as a propagandist. Indicted on a charge of providing material support to terrorists, he’s been sought since 2004 by the FBI, which offered a $1-million reward for his capture.

Source: Times research

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-americanjihad-box23-2009jul23,0,2139757.story

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Bombing and global terrorism

Anak Agung Banyu Perwita ,  The Jakarta Post ,  Jakarta   |  Thu, 07/23/2009 10:45 AM  |  Opinion

The latest terrorist attacks, on the Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott hotels in Jakarta, highlight the fact that containing the global threat of terrorism remains crucially important.

Global terrorism spreads with globalization. By making the world’s borders more porus, communications faster and the transfer of funds easier, globalization facilitates terrorism.

Heads Firmly in the Sand – Western Diplomacy & the Rise of Terrorism in the Horn of Africa

Ahmed Mohamed Egal

July 22, 2009

Introduction

During the last six months we have witnessed the effective collapse of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) lead by Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, as Al-Shabaab and its allies have seized control of nearly all of Somalia, including Mogadishu, where Sheikh Sharif and his ministers cower in the Presidential Palace (Villa Somalia) under the protection of the AMISOM forces. The Western Powers and the UN Security Council persist in deluding themselves that the TFG remains the “government” of Somalia and that it is capable of mounting an effective fight against the extremists of Al-Shabaab and its allies, notably the Hizb-al-Islam of Hassan Dahir Aweys. This delusion has lead the US to send some US$ 10 million of military aid to the TFG last week, while the TFG, for its part, has clearly enunciated its abject helplessness by declaring a state of emergency and appealing for foreign troops to be urgently sent to Mogadishu to save it from being overrun by the jihadists. Indeed, in what would be a cruel irony, it is likely that most of the arms and munitions sent to the TFG by the US will fall into the hands of the very extremists that they were to be used against.

Possible honor killing in Canada: Three Muslim sisters murdered; parents and brother arrested

July 23, 2009

Rona Amir Mohammed’s sister, Diba Masoomi, said: “We are convinced that this is a crime of honour.” We learn here that “the teenage girls dressed in modern fashion,” which may have been part of the problem.

Pamela has been following this strange and terrible story very closely, and has photos and much more information here.

“Family held in canal deaths,” by Andrew Chung for the Toronto Star, July 23 (thanks to all who sent this in):

MONTREAL–Police are investigating the death of three sisters found in their car at the bottom of the Rideau Canal in Kingston three weeks ago as a possible “honour” killing.

Four SIMI members held in Akola after a meeting, 34 absconding

Yagnesh Mehta, TNN 20 July 2009, 10:56pm IST

SURAT: The Maharashtra police has foiled an attempt by banned organisation Students’ Islamic Movement of India

(SIMI) to carry out terror

activities on Independence Day in parts of the country. The police revealed the plan

Cops smash UK theft to order gang

20. 07. 09. – 15:00

Romanian police has smashed a multi-million pound crime ring where criminals stole heavy goods vehicles from the UK, Italy, France and Belgium and shipped them to Romania to be sold at a fraction of their real value.

More than a million pounds of machinery stolen to order mainly in the United Kingdom but also in other EU countries has already been identified by the police. They say it was shipped to Romania where it was dumped in specially built storage sites in remote woodland locations until a buyer had been found.

Jakarta Hotel Bombings: On the Ground

by The Daily Beast

Dita Alangkara / AP Photo

This, Too, Shall Pass

by Reihan Salam

The bombings are a black eye for the country’s government, but Reihan Salam says Indonesia won’t turn into another Pakistan, thanks to a robust democracy that makes it the envy of the region.

Indonesia has had an extraordinarily good run. The Islamist terrorist attack that struck two international hotels in the heart of Jakarta won’t change that. This was the first successful attack in the country since 2005. That attack followed the spectacular 2002 Bali bombing that killed or maimed hundreds of tourists, thus bringing what had been America’s war on terrorism to Southeast Asia. The consensus is that Friday’s attack was perpetrated by some of the bedraggled remnants of Jemaah Islamiyah, the local answer to al Qaeda.

Clinton: North Korea has “no friends”; must denuclearize

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By Martin Petty
and Jack KimPosted 2009/07/23 at 6:03 am EDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton smiles as she leaves a press briefing during Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ministerial meeting on Thai island of Phuket July 23, 2009. REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad

PHUKET, Thailand, July 23, 2009 (Reuters) — North Korea has no friends left to shield it from the international community’s demands that the country scrap its nuclear activities, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday.

Dick Cheney ordered the CIA to conceal counter-terrorism plan from Congress

Chris McGreal, Washington

guardian.co.uk, Sunday 12 July 2009 17.41 BST

The former US vice-president Dick Cheney ordered the CIA to conceal a highly secret counter-terrorist programme from Congress for eight years, possibly in breach of longstanding oversight laws.

Democratic leaders in Congress are planning hearings to establish how and why information about the programme was withheld. The details have been revealed to members of intelligence committees but not been made public.