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“A car bomb exploded Monday near a hospital in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing at least 10 people…..in one of the biggest attacks since the end of the civil war that ousted former dictator Moammar Gadhafi….”
“Twin car bombs killed around 40 people and wounded many more in a Turkish town near the Syrian border on Saturday and Turkey said it suspected Syrian involvement……..
The bombs ripped into crowded streets in the early afternoon in Reyhanli, scattering cars and concrete blocks in the town in Turkey’s southern Hatay province, home to thousands of Syrian refugees……….”
U.S.: Russia Withheld Intel on Boston Bomb Suspect
By SIOBHAN GORMAN and EVAN PEREZ in Washington and ALAN CULLISON in Makhachkala, Russia
“……In 2011, Russia sent an alert to the Federal Bureau of Investigation about alleged bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, prompted in part by text messages between his mother and a Russian relative. The texts suggested Mr. Tsarnaev was interested in joining militant groups that Russia blames for attacks in the Caucasus region, according to U.S. officials briefed on the investigations.
U.S. officials call these text messages the most important in a series of missed signals between the two countries……..
The U.S. officials say they learned about them roughly a week after the April 15 bombings. Several officials say such precise information would have led to a deeper examination of Mr. Tsarnaev, who died a few days after the bombing in a police confrontation…..”
Pakistan blast: ‘Five killed’ in attack on JUI-F election candidate
“……The attack took place in the town of Hangu while Sayed Janan was campaigning for the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl party. It is unclear if he was hurt……”
WASHINGTON — “………….Al Qaeda propagandists for several years have called on their devotees in the United States to carry out smaller-scale solo attacks and provided the online education to teach them how.
“I strongly recommend all of the brothers and sisters coming from the West to consider attacking America in its own backyard,” wrote Samir Khan, an American who joined Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch……………
“The effect is much greater, it always embarrasses the enemy, and these types of individual decision-making attacks are nearly impossible for them to contain,” Mr. Khan wrote in a Web publication.
The Boston Marathon bombing………….offers an unsettling example of just how devastating such an attack can be, even when the death toll is low. It shows how plotters can construct powerful bombs without attracting official attention. It offers a case study in the complex mix of personality and ideology at work in extremist violence. And it raises a pressing question: Is there any way to detect such plotters before they can act?…………”
Intelligence alert over terror attack on US consulate in Mumbai
Mateen Hafeez, TNN | May 6, 2013, 03.26 AM IST
“……….A copy of the single-page letter was passed on by Sanjay Kumar, command intelligence officer, western naval command. The letter has ‘Al-Jihad’ written on top, much like a logo or the name of an organization. It said US consulate officials are the targets and told the Americans to vacate the consulates. It also said, “We shall carry out blasts in public places and railway stations of Hyderabad, Bangalore and Mumbai in July this year.”…….”
CNN: “Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body is to undergo a second “independent”
autopsy demanded by his relatives before the Boston bombing
suspect is laid to rest.”
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