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Iran Focus/AFP
Iran was accused of supplying weapons to the Taliban after security forces found dozens of Iranian-made mines in a rebel cache in western Afghanistan. Afghan police and intelligence agents raided a Taliban compound in Farah province on Thursday and discovered 130 mines, 60 of which were made in Iran, Farah governor Mohyiddin Balouch told AFP. When asked who could be behind the supply of weapons he replied: "It is the Iran government." He added: "We have intelligence reports that these mines had recently entered Farah from Iran." He said: "We know that there is a government in Iran which has controls over the borders. Without the knowledge of the Iranian government it is difficult to send weapons out." United States and NATO officials have also in the past said that Iranian weapons were being supplied to the extremist Taliban, which is waging a bloody insurgency against Afghanistan's US-backed President Hamid Karzai.
Afghan authorities secure the site of a recent Taliban suicide bombing that took place at Kabul's most luxurious hotel.
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Terrorist attacks rising in Pakistan: US State Dept report Source: NewKerala.com Washington, May 1: Terrorist attacks against noncombatants have more than doubled in Pakistan from 2006 to 2007, while deaths from such attAcks have quadrupled to 1,335 fatalities, according to a report released by the US State Department. The new statistics showed that terrorist strikes against nonmilitary targets worldwide remained virtually unchanged in 2007 from 2006, at roughly 14,500 attacks, but the number of deaths from those attacks increased to 22,685 from 20,872, according to statistics compiled by the National Counterterrorism Center. ''It’s a fair statement that around the globe, people are getting increasingly efficient at killing other people,'' Russ Travers, deputy director of the counterterrorism center, told reporters.
Source: NewKerala.com Washington, May 1: The attacks, which killed and injured both Muslims and Hindus in India last year, were probably conducted by extremists hoping to incite anger between the Hindu and Muslim communities, according to the US State Department. The Department’s annual report on terrorism, released here yesterday notes, Indian officials claim that the perpetrators of these attacks have links to groups based in Pakistan and Bangladesh, particularly Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, and Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami, among others. These groups are also involved in terrorist activity in Jammu and Kashmir. Al-Qaeda
Focuses on Musharraf and Pakistan Al-Qaeda and Taliban forces based in Pakistan are reducing raids into neighboring Afghanistan as they focus instead on attacking President Pervez Musharraf's government, a US commander said. "Insurgents have declared war against the government of Pakistan'' and are taking advantage of the political turmoil there, Major General David Rodriguez, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan, told reporters at the Pentagon yesterday. Rodriguez described al-Qaeda as an "opportunistic enemy'' that will "go where it can get the biggest game and the best effect of their operations.'' Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in an audio message released in September, called on Pakistanis to rebel against Musharraf to avenge an army assault on a pro-Taliban mosque in the capital, Islamabad. More than 800 people have been killed in suicide bombings and other attacks in Pakistan since the July raid on the Red Mosque...Briefing reporters, Rodriguez was asked whether cross- border raids into Afghanistan had dropped because insurgents are remaining in Pakistan to fight the government...His comments echo those of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who said last month the number of fighters crossing the border is down about 40 percent because "al-Qaeda right now seems to have turned its face toward Pakistan.''...US intelligence officials say that al-Qaeda has established a haven in Pakistan's tribal regions. More than 80 percent of suicide bombers staging attacks in Afghanistan are trained, recruited or sheltered in Pakistan, the United Nations said in a report published last year. PK
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