Showing posts with label attacks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label attacks. Show all posts

Friday, May 27, 2011

HIS attacks on shops belonging to Somalis

 more than 50 shops owned by Somalis in the city of Port Elizabeth in South Africa were attacked and looted by local residents.

Police said four shops had been burned and about 200 Somalis living near the premises of the store had fled the disorders.


A leader of the Somali community told the BBC that there was some resentment in the region on the success of the Somali traders.


At least 62 people have died in attacks on foreigners which ravaged the country three years ago.


Correspondents say that in areas poor, foreign workers are often blamed for making homes and jobs in the local community.

"Bound".

"About 200 Somalis fled their shops, where a large number of them live, when other residents began to attack," Captain Andre Beetge, the Eastern Cape of the South Africa police force, is quoted by the South African as Press Association saying.


Capt Beetge put the problem to the rivalry business and said the situation was contained through the early hours of Thursday morning and people were now returning to their properties.


In total, 52 stores were looted and three were burned in the area of Motherwell and three shops were looted and a burned in Kwadwesi, the police said.


Abdirahman Yusuf Ahmed, a spokesman for the Somali community in Eastern Cape, said a shopkeeper for Somalia was hospitalized after he was tied in his shop when he was burned.


Mr. Ahmed told BBC Somali Service which, in a local residents had tried to help when the attacks began.


But the crowds ignored attempts at intervention and settled in our shop one Somali belonging to the other.


He said that recent local elections could have disturbed xenophobic sentiments in the region.


"Some parts were campaign they would expel aliens if they succeeded in elections", he said.

Friday, May 20, 2011

Bombardier Taliban attacks vehicles us in Pakistan


PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A Taliban suicide bomber dented his motorcycle in an armoured vehicle taking responsible American in the US Northwest of Pakistan Consulate, Friday, in a strike, said militants was in contrast to the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.


Two Americans suffered minor injuries, but a Pakistani from was killed and at least 10 others were injured in the attack in the city of Peshawar, officials said. The strike was the first on the West since the May 2 raid by American commandos on the hiding place of Osama bin Laden in a town in the army about three hours from Peshawar.


The Pakistani Taliban, a group allied to al-Qaeda behind scores of attacks in recent years, claimed responsibility.


"We say to the Americans and NATO, which we will carry out more deadly attacks and we can do," spokesman Taliban Ahsanullah Ahsan said in a telephone call from an undisclosed location. "We had warned that we will be to avenge the martyrdom of Osama.".


The Americans were traveling in two cars at home for the building of the Consulate strongly protected when the bomber on a motorcycle struck a vehicle, said the spokesman of the Embassy of the United States Alberto Rodriguez. Americans for the car of success were taken away from the scene in the second vehicle. The most serious injury was a broken hand, he said.


Initial police reports Pakistani account contradicted Rodriguez by suggesting it was a car bomb and made no mention of a suicide attacker. But police were still investigating.


Rodriguez refused to say what the Americans held job. The Consulate is home to diplomats, security agents and - it is widely accepted - personal CIA hunting al-Qaeda and associated groups. The building of the Consulate and a former top officer have been attacked in the past.


Peshawar is located just outside the tribal areas of Pakistan, where the Taliban and al-Qaida have bases.


The city has seen many of the suicide and other bombings that marked Pakistan over the past five years, the vast majority against the Pakistani Government and security force targets. Foreigners in Pakistan have also been taken to target but not nearly as much.


Last week, the Pakistani Taliban has killed more than 80 recruits Pakistani border paramilitary force in double attacks suicide near Peshawar. They said that these explosions were also to avenge the death of bin Laden.


Sequences Pakistani TV showed the car which was hit was a large sport utility vehicle. He seemed to have turned into a pole and the hood was damaged. Buildings nearby were also damaged in the explosion.


In August 2008, Lynne Tracy, then the top diplomat of U.S. Consulate, survived a gun attack on his armored vehicle. In April last year, activists used car bombs and grenades to strike the Consulate, killing eight people. None of the dead were American citizens, but several of security guards working for the Consulate.


U.S. raid that killed the bin Ladens in Abbottabad seriously damaged Pakistan-US relations.


Pakistan is angry, that it was not warned in advance that the SEAL team would be the storm consisting of Osama bin Laden and he had no idea that in the brain of terror was hiding it insists. The American authorities have visited Pakistan these days to try to patch up differences and ensure the continuation of the cooperation of Pakistan in the battle against al-Qaeda allies and Islamic militant groups.

Friday, May 6, 2011

Attacks to avenge Frontline Taliban promise after Ben Laden

Kabul- heavy Taliban fighters armed, appearing in a video intended to show first line activists, in the South of the Afghanistan said the killing of Osama bin Laden will encourage them to continue fighting until all the foreign troops have left the country.


It was impossible to verify the authenticity of the video, which was obtained by Reuters in the South of the Afghanistan.


Approximately six non-identified, all with their faces covered, Taliban pose assault rifles, rocket grenade launchers, machine guns and other weapons.


Three of them is committed to continue to fight foreign troops directed by NATO and Afghan forces despite the death of Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader killed by an American strike team in Pakistan Monday.


"Even if"the martyrdom of Osama Ben Laden news are true, it cannot change not our jihad policy... While it is true that he died, it will give us more motivation to continue our jihad, a hunter said in Pashto on video."."


Veterans spoke on condition that their name and a location not disclosed. Reuters obtained the images from a source in the South of the Afghanistan.


Veterans lined up across from the high walls of an unknown compound. No identifying landmarks could be seen.


"The martyrdom of Osama bin Laden will not affect our strategy and will not prevent us from our goal," the second soldier said, looking directly into the camera. "We will continue with our jihad (holy war) and sacrifice against the infidels to the day of judgment and we will avenge our martyrs."


Analysts say Taliban in Afghanistan leaders seek to distance themselves from al-Qaeda, although the links between the two Islamic groups had already decreased over the years, even though the insurgency in Afghanistan grew.


The Taliban sheltered bin Laden in the South of the Afghanistan until their Government was overthrown by U.S.-backed Afghan forces, in the months after September 11, 2001 attacks against the United States, orchestrated by bin Laden.


Bin Laden and the leaders of the Taliban, led by Mullah Mohammad Omar flees into the neighbours in Pakistan.


DOUBTS, QUESTIONS


A spokesman for the Taliban this week raised doubts as to whether bin Laden had actually been killed.


The death of Osama bin Laden has led to questions of the United States if Washington could now rethink its presence and accelerate what is planned as a progressive levy troops before transfer security responsibility to Afghan forces at the end of 2014.


Another veteran, carrying a radio similar to those often used by the commanders of the Taliban, appeared to be the leader of the group, said its fighters rest attached to Mullah Omar.


"We will continue our Jihad against foreign forces." Our slogan is Allah Akbar (God is greatest), "he says.


"Our Holy Koran says that we have the responsibility of our country and the religion to defend and protect. "Even if a Mujahedin fighter is living in Afghanistan, we will continue our Jihad under the leadership of his Excellency Amirullmomineen (Mullah Omar),", said the bespectacled Hunter.


Yet allegedly taken photos at the same time showed an arsenal including several machine guns, perforating rockets and launchers, assault rifles and other weapons.

After warnings by the senior commanders of the NATO in Afghanistan that a wave of new attacks expected on 1 may, the Taliban announced last week their "spring offensive" had started, with the Government of Afghan and foreign military on their target list.

A report published late Thursday by the network of analysts Afghanistan said that despite setbacks against the Afghan people and the troops of the coalition over the past year, the Taliban had managed to extend its influence far beyond the strongholds in the South.

"Not only the Taliban are fighting against the Afghan Government, but want to replace,", said the report.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

US Kills Osama Bin Laden a decade after the terrorist attacks of September 11

 The administration of the Obama used for tests of DNA and other means to confirm that elite forces Americans in Pakistan had in fact killed Osama bin Laden, the brain behind the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, officials said Mondayas the world absorbed the astonishing new.

Officials have said the offered only DNA testing "99.9 %" certainty that bin Laden was killed in a daring military operation in U.S.. Photo analysis by the CIA, confirmation by others on the site of raid detailed and matching physical characteristics as any height of Osama bin Laden helped confirmed the identification.


An official said that there should be no doubt someone remembered that the person killed was bin Laden.


The officials on condition of anonymity, speaks taking into account the sensitivity of the case.


Again, it was not known whether the world would never obtain Visual evidence. Body of Osama bin Laden was quickly buried at sea, and representatives of the administration was weighing the merit and the opportunity to release a photo of bin Laden, who was shot in the head.


The face of global terrorism was killed in a gunfight with U.S. forces. As expressions of relief and spontaneous celebrations assigns questions about precisely what happened and what comes next, US authorities warned that the campaign against terrorism is far more - and that the threat of retaliation was real.


"The fight continues and we will never waver", Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday. His comments had echoes of Declaration of former President George w. Bush nearly a decade ago, when al-Qaeda attack on America led to the war in Afghanistan and changed the way Americans view their own safety.


To deliver a direct message to supporters of Osama bin Laden, she promised: "You cannot wait for us."


The President Barack Obama, himself delivered the news of the assassination of Osama bin Laden in a dramatic statement from the White House later Sunday. "Justice has been rendered," he said.


The President was expected to address the issue again at a ceremony of the Medal of honor shortly before noon EDT.


Interrogateurs said officials of the CIA in secret prisons overseas developed the first strands of information eventually led to the killing of Osama bin Laden.


The military operation which ended the life of Ben Laden was mere minutes, and there is no U.S. losses.


American Blackhawk helicopters carrying troops about two dozen Navy SEAL Team six, a unit to fight on top of the page, in the compound identified by the CIA in hiding place of Osama bin Laden - military terrorism and back out again within 40 minutes. Ben Laden was shot in the head, officials said, after that him and his bodyguards resisted the assault.


Three adult males were also killed in the raid, including one of the sons of Osama bin Laden, whose officials have not been appointed. A son of Osama bin Laden, Hamza, is a member of al-Qaida. US authorities have also said a woman was killed when it was used as a shield by a male fighter, and two other women were wounded.


The compound is on a Pakistani kilometre of a military Academy, in a city that is home to three regiments of the army and thousands of military personnel. Abbottabad is surrounded by hills and mountains in the distance.


Critics have long accused elements of the Pakistani security establishment of the protection of bin Laden, although Islamabad has always denied, and a statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said his death showed the country resolve in the fight against terrorism.