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February 2006
The Counter Terrorist
SSI Newsletter
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Taliban turn to suicide attacks
By Scott Baldauf | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN – Fourteen successive suicide bomb attacks have shaken this province in a way that nearly four years of guerrilla insurgency has not.
Afghan officials say they have made strides in the last few days to shut down terror networks that launched these attacks, arresting 20 insurgents this week. But Taliban spokesmen say their suicide attacks, including a deadly bombing Wednesday in Khost Province, have only just begun.
While it is impossible to verify such claims, the use of suicide bombers has already given the Taliban a renewed visibility. Once deemed unacceptable in Afghan culture, suicide attacks have become common this winter, including the Jan. 15 assassination of Canadian diplomat Glyn Berry in Kandahar and an attack the following day that killed 23 Afghans in the border town of Spin Boldak. The suicide attacks have had a devastating effect on the morale of Afghans, and have begun to force foreign aid workers to change the way they deliver aid in the southern part of the country.
Interpol alerted to 13 dangerous al Qaeda operatives who tunneled their way out of Yemen prison in Sanaa last Thursday
Among them were Jamal Badawi, mastermind of the USS Cole bombing in Oct. 2000 which killed 17 US sailors, and Fawaz al-Rabe’ie, sentenced to death for bombing the French oil tanker Limburg in 2002.
DEBKAfile adds: While cracking down on terrorists in conjunction with the US, Yemen’s Abdullah Salah has been accused of operating a revolving door in his prisons from time to time in the hope of reducing the al Qaeda threat to his regime. More...
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Find out what the Arabic Media is really saying - MEMRI
by SSI Staff
A research project offers up the best selection of video clips with translation
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) explores the Middle East through the region's media. MEMRI bridges the language gap which exists between the West and the Middle East, providing timely translations of Arabic and Farsi media, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in the Middle East.
Founded in February 1998 to inform the debate over U.S. policy in the Middle East, MEMRI is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit, 501 (c)3 organization. MEMRI's headquarters is located in Washington, DC with branch offices in Berlin, London, Jerusalem, and Baghdad, and has a project active in Sweden. MEMRI research is translated to English, German, Hebrew, Italian, French, Spanish, and occasionally Turkish and Russian.
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