Showing posts with label blast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blast. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

26/11 attacks planned one year in advance, reveals Headley




Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist-turned-approver David Coleman Headley revealed in a Special Court that the dastardly 26/11 attacks in Mumbai was planned out over a year in advance by various groups and agencies of Pakistan, here on Tuesday.

Continuing his deposition via videoconferencing before Special Judge G. A. Sanap for the second consecutive day from a US jail, Headley said that in 2006, ISI official Major Pasha and LeT functionary Sajid Mir and others met to discuss plans to set up a business for (him) Headley in Mumbai.

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Jakarta explosions: 4 attackers dead, including 2 suicide bombers



Four people suspected of being behind the gunfire and serial explosions in the Indonesian capital Jakarta today are dead, including two who were allegedly suicide bombers, police said.
Two civilians are also confirmed as having died, taking the total death toll in the attacks to six, Deputy National Police Chief Budi Gunawan told reporters.
Two attackers were killed in a shootout with police, while two others were suicide bombers, he said.
Of the two recent civilian deaths, one was a foreigner, Gunawan said.
Jakarta police spokesman Muhammad Iqbal added that five police personnel, one foreign civilian and four Indonesian civilians were injured, he said.
Witnesses said at least one gunman had attacked a cafe in the city centre -- near a cluster of embassies -- shooting at bystanders, as a series of explosions rocked the area.