YEMAN Car Bomb Kills Wounds Dozens of Worshippers at Bin Salman Mosque in Saada, Yemen

YEMAN: Car Bomb Kills, Wounds Dozens of Worshippers at Bin Salman Mosque in Saada, Yemen
Friday, May 02, 2008

An explosion that occurred in a booby-trapped motorcycle parked outside the Bin Salman Mosque in Saada, Yemen today has left at least eighteen people killed and 45 others wounded. Most of the victims were worshippers filing out of the mosque after Friday prayer...

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AFP.Google.com gets us up-to-date with this report...
Eighteen people, mostly soldiers, were killed in Yemen on Friday when a blast blamed by authorities on Shiite insurgents exploded at the entrance to a mosque in the rebels' stronghold... A booby-trapped motorcycle exploded as hundreds of Muslim faithful were leaving the Bin Salman mosque in the northwestern town of Saada after Friday prayers, according to military sources at the site... Forty-five people were wounded... The attack on the mosque, located near an army barracks, raised fears of an escalation in violence between the government and Shiite rebels whose insurgency in the mountainous province of Saada has claimed thousands of lives since 2004...
Read the full report HERE

Many Say Hizbullah Will Deal 'Major Blow' To Israel

Friday, February 15, 2008
DailyStar.com brings us this story today and it goes in part like this ...The aftershocks of Mughniyeh's killing could even increase the chances for civil strife here, said Ahmad Moussalli, a professor of political science and Islamic studies at the American University of Beirut... "We are close to a major conflict," he said. "We are at a point of some kind of war. It's very dangerous. You will see Hizbullah hardening its [domestic] position, rather than softening."... Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's words at Mughniyeh's funeral on Thursday about an "open war" between Hizbullah and Israel were not a mere fulmination fueled by the moment, Moussalli added... "It is a declaration of war, kind of," he said...
Read the rest HERE

Hizbollah’s Commander Threatens Israel With 'Open War'

Hizbollah Commander Sayyed Nasrallah
Threatens Israel With
'Open War'
Thursday, February 14, 2008

.Hizbollah commander Sayyed Nasrallah has said the group is ready for "open war" with Israel if the Jewish state wants it after a leading member of the terror group was killed... Nasrallah was speaking by video link at the funeral of Imad Mughniyeh in Lebanon...
Read this report at SKYNEWS.com
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>>> International Herald Tribune has this report... Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki came to Lebanon on Thursday to attend the funeral ceremony for the slain top Hezbollah commander and offered condolences to the militant's family... Mottaki, accompanied by Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh, shook hands with and later stood in line of the grieving nearest of kin and associates of Imad Mughniyeh, killed in a car bomb in Syria late Tuesday...
Read the story at link below...
Iran's foreign minister at funeral in Lebanon of slain Hezbollah commander Mughniyeh

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Hezbollah Supreme Military Commander Killed In Syria

Hezbollah Supreme Military Commander
Imad Fayez Mughniyeh
Killed In Syria Car Bombing
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

DEBKAfile’s military sources [bring us this] report that Imad Fayez Mughniyeh, the Hizballah’s supreme commander and plotter of major anti-US and anti-Israel terror operations in the last 25 years reportedly died in a car bomb explosion in the Damascus district of Tanzim Kafr Susa Tuesday night, Feb. 12...
Read the report in full at link below...
Major coup in war on terror: Notorious Hizballah terrorist hostage-taker Imad Mughniyeh killed in Damascus

>>> JPOST.com has this report, (with News Video and other related links,) that starts off like this... Imad Mughniyeh, Hizbullah's chief of operations, was considered over the past 25 years one of the world's most-wanted terrorists, involved in endless attacks against Israel and the United States, including the abduction of two IDF reservists in 2006 and the bombing of US embassies in Africa...
More at link below...
'Mughniyeh co-founded Hizbullah'

>>> IsraelNationalNews.com has this take on the story... The Hizbullah terrorist organization late Tuesday night lost a top commander in a powerful car bombing the group said was carried out by Israeli operatives in Damascus. Journalists were prevented by Syrian police from approaching the vehicle following the blast... Imad Mughniyeh, considered to be the mastermind behind most, if not all of Hizbullah’s terror attacks, was one of the group’s most senior commanders in Lebanon. He lived in hiding for years and was able to evade the public eye until Tuesday night’s attack...
Hizbullah Accuses Israel in ‘Most Wanted’ Commander Assassination

>>> ABCNews.com reports...
Although he managed an impeccably low profile, Imad Mughniyeh was an extremely important figure in the underground world of terrorism. His death is a significant achievement for the intelligence organization that caused it.
U.S.-Wanted Terror Suspect Killed in Syria

>>> Bloomberg.com has this update on the story this afternoon and it goes in part like this... Mughniyeh was indicted in the U.S. for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA Corp. airliner, during which an American Navy diver was killed. Israel has accused him of involvement in the 1990s bombings of the Israeli Embassy and a Jewish center in Argentina that killed more than 120 people... The U.S. also wanted Mughniyeh for the April 18, 1983, bombing of the American Embassy in Beirut, al-Arabiya television said. Seventeen U.S. officials, including Robert Ames, the Central Intelligence Agency's top Middle East analyst, and other CIA staffers were among the 63 people who died in that attack...
Read the rest at link below...
Hezbollah Commander, Wanted by U.S., Killed in Syria

Old Photo from FBI Wanted Poster – Newer from Hezbollah Media Office

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Al Qaeda’s Inspiration Killed, Israel Blamed

News Video posted on LiveLeak by barnesy

Car Bomb Found in Central London

Car Bomb Found in Central London

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A car bomb planted in central London would have caused "carnage" if it had exploded, police sources have said... A controlled explosion was carried out on the car, packed with 60 litres of petrol, gas cylinders and nails, in Haymarket, near Piccadilly Circus... An ambulance crew saw smoke coming from the green metallic Mercedes, near the Tiger Tiger nightclub at 0130 BST... "International elements" are believed to be involved...
Read this story in full at the BBC News website
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>>> Telegraph.co.uk has these reports...
* In full: Police statement
* Car bomb 'primed to be set off by mobile'

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>>> TimesOnline.co.uk reports...
Analysis: Police expected Baghdad-style attack
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>>> ThisIsLondon.co.uk had this take on the story and it starts off like this... An international manhunt was launched tonight to find the gang ->>> The Sky News website reports... believed to be linked to al Qaeda - that came within moments of blowing up hundreds of revellers in a London nightclub... As the capital remained on high alert, fresh details emerged of the 'massive' car bomb - primed with petrol, gas canisters and nails - discovered by police in the heart of the West End...
Read the rest at link below...
Hunt for Al Qaeda terror gang behind 'massive' London bomb attack
(Has lots of photos)

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>>> The Sky News website reports...
Hero Cop May Have Saved Scores Of Lives
(Has videos and photos)

3:00pm CDT: Sky News updates above link... Now saying Police have confirmed that not one, but two massive car bombs were set to explode in the heart of London's West End.

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