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As chaos ensued
in the streets of Cairo, a crack Hezbollah-Hamas team of terrorists broke 22
Hezbollah members - convicted of plotting terror attacks in Egypt and Israel --
out of the Wadi Natrun prison in Egypt. |
Hezbollah-Hamas Team Breaks
Members
Out of Egyptian Jail
DEBKAfile
A joint Hezbollah-Hamas unit used the havoc in Egypt to storm the Wadi Natrun
prison north of Cairo Sunday, breaking out 22 members of the Hezbollah's
spy-come-terror network, tried and convicted in Egypt for plotting terrorist
attacks in Cairo, the Suez Canal and Suez cities and on Israeli vacationers in
Sinai in 2007-2008. The second object of the break-in was to release Muslim
Brotherhood inmates to boost the anti-Mubarak street protests now in their
second week across Egypt. In April 2009, Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah
admitted he had sent Sami Shehab to Egypt to establish the network. It soon
became one of the most dangerous terrorist cells ever to be exposed in the
region in recent years. Among its members were also combatants of the radical
Palestinian Hamas. Thursday, Mahmoud Qmati, Hezbollah member of the Lebanese
parliament, was glad to announce that all 22 members of the network, including
its leader Sami Shehab, had been freed from jail and returned home safely. He
provided no information on how this happened...
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 MI6
Warns of New Suicide Bomb Wave
The London Telegraph
MI6 has warned that Britain faces a "unique" threat from a generation of
home-grown terrorists who are not on the intelligence services' "radar", secret
documents have disclosed. British-born radicals who undergo terrorist training
and become "suicide operatives" will leave the authorities "hard pressed" to
prevent an attack, according to a top counterterrorism official at the Secret
Intelligence Service. The problem of home-grown terrorists is officially
expected to blight Britain for years to come and "will not go away anytime
soon." The warning was sounded in a private briefing from a senior MI6 official
to visiting American Congressmen amid growing US fears over the radicalization
of young British Muslims. The leaked documents, contained in diplomatic
dispatches from the cache of tens of thousands of US embassy cables leaked to
the WikiLeaks website, also highlight American government concerns that the
British intelligence services are struggling to combat Muslim extremists because
of budget cuts and a wave of lawsuits from terror suspects.
 WikiLeaks:
Terrorists Seek to
Convert Children's Toys to Bombs
The London
Telegraph
Terrorists are planning to use children's toys such as
teddy bears to get bombs onto planes, according to
leaked diplomatic dispatches. Airport security staff are
being urged to examine "children's articles" after US
intelligence concluded that terrorists were plotting to
fill them with explosive chemicals. The threat was
disclosed at a meeting in Spain between Janet
Napolitano, the US Secretary of Homeland Security, and
European ministers in January 2010. Ministers said that
planes remained the "priority target" for al-Qaeda.
Terrorists are attempting to manufacture nitrocellulose,
a chemical which can become highly explosive if tightly
packed. Details of how to prepare the chemical, which
cannot be detected by airport X-ray machines, have been
found in al-Qaeda training manuals...
 13
Dead as Islamist Rebels
Clash
in Philippines
AFP/News.com.au
Weeks of clashes between rival Muslim rebel groups in the southern Philippines
have left 13 people dead and forced thousands of others to flee their homes, the
military said Thursday. More than 1000 rebels armed with rifles,
rocket-propelled grenades and mortars have been involved in the fighting, as the
two sides seek control of valuable farmland on Mindanao island, local army
commanders said. 13 fighters from both sides had been killed and nine others
wounded since the clashes began on January 9. Another 800 families had been
evacuated to escape the fighting, which was occurring in rice fields and rural
villages about 60 kilometers from Cotabato City, a main trading centre of the
south, according to Patria. The feud is between a commander of the Moro National
Liberation Front (MNLF), the country's original Muslim separatist group, and a
commander from the breakaway Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), he said.
 'Al-Qaeda
on Brink
of Using Nuclear Bomb'
The Vancouver Sun
Al-Qaeda is on the verge of producing radioactive
weapons after sourcing nuclear material and recruiting
rogue scientists to build "dirty" bombs, according to
leaked diplomatic documents. This news coming as a
leading atomic regulator has privately warned that the
world stands on the brink of a "nuclear 9/11." Security
briefings suggest that jihadi groups are also close to
producing "workable and efficient" biological and
chemical weapons that could kill thousands if unleashed
in attacks on the West. Thousands of classified American
cables obtained by the WikiLeaks website and passed to
The Daily Telegraph detail the international struggle to
stop the spread of weapons-grade nuclear, chemical and
biological material around the globe. At a NATO meeting
in January 2009, security chiefs briefed member states
that al-Qaeda documents found in Afghanistan in 2007
revealed that "greater advances" had been made in
bioterrorism than was previously realized.
 US
State Dept. Issues Worldwide Terror
Warning for US Citizens
AFP/Yahoo! News
The State Department Monday issued an updated warning on the "continuing threat
of terrorist actions" for US citizens worldwide, and a second advisory
cautioning travel to Britain. "The Department of State remains concerned about
the continued threat of terrorist attacks, demonstrations, and other violent
actions against US citizens and interests overseas. US citizens are reminded
that demonstrations and rioting can occur with little or no warning." "Current
information suggests that Al-Qaeda and affiliated organizations continue to plan
terrorist attacks against US interests in multiple regions, including Europe,
Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. These attacks may employ a wide variety of
tactics including suicide operations, assassinations, kidnappings, hijackings,
and bombings," said the advisory, which updates the last Worldwide Caution post
from August 2010.
 Palestinian-Fired
Rockets Hit
Southern Israel
NewKerala.com
Two rockets on Monday hit the western Negev area in
southern Israel leaving four people injured, the Haaretz
newspaper reported. The attacks were perpetrated using
two Grad rockets that were fired from the Gaza Strip
into the cities of Netivot and Ofakim. The rockets
damaged one car and four individuals were treated for
shock. The first attack took place in Netivot, located
approximately 9 miles east of Gaza. Minutes later, a
second Grad rocket hit Ofakim, which is about 15 miles
from Gaza. The rocket strikes took place on late Monday.
No groups have claimed responsibility for the attack.
Last month, over 13 rockets struck the western Negev
area. Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that over 200
Grad missiles, Qassam rockets and mortar shells were
fired from the Gaza Strip into Israeli in 2010.
 Hezbollah
Agents in Gaza
Training Terrorists
AP/Yahoo! News
Israel's minister of strategic affairs said Thursday the Lebanese Hezbollah
guerrilla group has infiltrated agents into the Gaza Strip to train Palestinian
militants. Gaza is ruled by the Hamas militant group, which, like Hezbollah, is
sworn to Israel's destruction. The minister, Moshe Yaalon, Israel's former
military chief of staff, told reporters that "Hezbollah experts can get into the
Gaza Strip, like the Iranian rockets are coming to the Gaza Strip." He said
Hezbollah militants can go from Lebanon to Sudan, then to Egypt and on to Gaza.
Israel charges that archenemy Iran sends rockets and other weapons to Gaza
militants, smuggling them into the seaside strip through tunnels under the
Gaza-Egypt border. Yaalon said Hezbollah has a special unit, called 1800, to
deal with the Palestinian militants. He said the Lebanese guerrillas also
operate in the West Bank, paying militants.
 Tunisian
Islamist Leader Returns from 22-Year Exile
BBC News
The leader of Tunisia's main Islamist movement has
returned home after 22 years in exile following the
ousting of President Ben Ali earlier this month.
Thousands of people went to the airport to welcome
Rachid Ghannouchi, 69, as he arrived in Tunis from
London. He told AFP he would not run in the next
presidential poll but his party would contest a
parliamentary election. Observers say his return is the
most potent symbol yet of the change that has swept the
country since then. Mr. Ghannouchi fled Tunisia after a
crackdown President Ben Ali against his banned Ennahda
movement. He returned after the interim government's
announced that media curbs would be lifted, banned
political parties allowed to register and political
prisoners given amnesty.
 Russia
'Identifies' Domodedovo Airport
Bomber Suspect
BBC News
The suicide bomber who killed 35 people at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport was a
20-year-old man from the North Caucasus, Russian investigators say. The Federal
Investigative Committee made the announcement in a statement on its website. But
spokesman Vladimir Markin said the man's name would not be released, while
investigations continued. Some 180 people were injured during Monday's blast at
the airport's international arrivals hall. The investigative committee said that
the bombing was aimed "first and foremost" at foreign citizens. "I would
especially like to note that it was by no means an accident that the act of
terror was committed in the international arrivals hall," Mr. Markin said in the
statement. At least seven foreigners were killed in the bombing at the airport -
the busiest serving the Russian capital. The arrivals hall was full of people as
several international flights had just landed.
 Hamas
Gunmen from Gaza Battle
Egyptian Forces in Sinai
DEBKAfile
Gunmen of Hamas's armed wing, Ezz e-Din al Qassam, crossed from Gaza into
northern Sinai Sunday, Jan. 30 to attack Egyptian forces and push them back.
They acted on orders from Hamas' parent organization, the Egyptian Muslim
Brotherhood, confirmed by its bosses in Damascus, to open a second, Palestinian
front against the Mubarak regime. The Muslim Brotherhood is therefore more
active in the uprising than it would appear. DEBKAfile's military sources report
that Hamas gunmen went straight into battle with Egyptian Interior Ministry
special forces (CFF) in the southern Egyptian-controlled section of the border
town of Rafah and the Sinai port of El Arish. Saturday, Bedouin tribesmen and
local Palestinians used the mayhem in Cairo to clash with Egyptian forces at
both northern Sinai key points and ransack their gun stores. |
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Averaging 4.8 attacks
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