Saturday 16 April 2011

News on terror(2011 Apr 11 - 17)

Александр Лукашенко. Кадр телеканала НТВ
Belarus: Apr 11 (Monday) "A blast tore through a packed metro station near Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko's headquarters Monday killing at least 12 people and wounding 100 others, in a suspected act of terror. Lukashenko also ordered the head of the KGB to "immediately investigate and consider everything until the last detail. All those responsible must be found." [1]
According to State Security Committee of Belarus(KGB) was arrested 2 men who are suspected in the act of terror on metro station.
Apr 13 Lukashenko: "Crime was detected". "The main thing is that we know who and how made this act of terror; however we still don't know why it was madden. But this question also will be clear soon." [2] [3]




The State Security Committee of Belarus suggested 3 possible reasons for this act of terror: 1) Destabilization of the political and social life in Belarus. As it was tolled the terrorist wanted to bring chaos and an unsatisfying of the government. 2) The terror act was the answer from extremists organization. "One of the case of anarchy group is ending now, and we accept the idea that it (metro station event) was a revenge on KGB for this case". 3) It was made by a human with mind disease.[5] After all interrogations the last reason was chosen as a main one.

There are some analytics who argues that we should expect repressions from Belarus government, [4]
but, I think, by calling these people crazy the government made a good step for the idea of approaching repressions exploding.



Afghanistan:  Apr 13 (Wednesday) A suicide bomber has killed at least 10 people in an attack on tribal elders in eastern Afghanistan, the interior ministry has said. Pro-government tribal elder Haji Malik Zarin was killed in the blast in Kunar province near the Pakistan border. Mr Zarin, a close ally of President Karzai, died along with his son and another family member. A Taliban spokesman denied the group carried out the attack, saying that Mr Zarin had "his own enemies". President Karzai's office described the killing as a "tragic loss". He was killed as a village shura, or meeting of local elders, came to an end in Asmar district. "The suicide attacker approached them, hugged Malik Zarin and then detonated the explosives strapped to his body," district police chief Mohammad Shoaib told the AFP news agency. The attack took place when elders from two tribes - some of them former warlords - were meeting to resolve a dispute, police told the Reuters news agency. [6]

Afghanistan: Apr 16 (Saturday) Five foreign and five Afghan troops have died in an attack in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.
A Taliban suicide bomber wearing a military uniform hit an Afghan army base near the city of Jalalabad, the Afghan defence ministry said. In the two most recent incidents, the attacker was wearing an offical Afghan uniform.  [9]

Gaza Strip: "The number of Shiites is increasing in the Gaza Strip, which has a majority of Sunni population, an Iranian website reported last week. Iran, on the other hand, is irritated by a notable rise in the number of Sunnis in the Iranian southwestern province of Khuzestan, whose population has a majority of Arabs.
The conservative Asr Iran (Iran Age) Website reported that a large number of Palestinians in Gaza have converted to the Shiite doctrine within the past few years, although the enclave is controlled by the Sunni Islamist Hamas rulers".
[7]

Other news

Sudan: "Khartoum- US special envoy for Sudan, Princeton Lyman said that the issue of removing Sudan from terrorism list has a lots of details that his administration discuss moreover there is consultation on that in the congress and President Barak Obama Particularly has currently started these steps". [8]  However, 3 countries are still existing in U.S. list of the State Sponsors of Terrorism. [10]

Country Designation Date
CubaMarch 1, 1982
IranJanuary 19, 1984
SudanAugust 12, 1993
SyriaDecember 29, 1979


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