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To: Cage Rattler who wrote (1549)	9/26/2006 8:22:26 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Afghan suicide attack kills 18 POSTED: 7:35 a.m. EDT, September 26, 2006 cnn.com LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (AP) -- A suicide bomber struck outside the compound of a southern Afghan provincial governor on Tuesday, killing 18 people, including several Muslim pilgrims seeking paperwork to travel to Mecca, officials said. The attacker was stopped by Afghan soldiers at the compound's security gate, where he detonated his explosives vest, said Ghulam Muhiddin, spokesman for the Helmand provincial governor. The bomber had been walking toward a vehicle of the private military contractors who provide security for the governor, said Squadron Leader Jason Chalk, a NATO spokesman. Nine Afghan soldiers and nine civilians were killed, said Rahmatullah Mohammdi, director of the hospital in Lashkar Gah. Seventeen people were wounded, he said. The governor, Mohammed Daoud Safi, was inside the compound and was not injured in the attack. Among the civilians waiting outside the compound were Afghan pilgrims seeking permission to travel to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, Muhiddin said. The main mosque in Lashkar Gah sits across from the compound. Tuesday's suicide attack was the deadliest in Afghanistan since August 28, when 21 civilians were killed in Lashkar Gah by a bomber targeting an ex-police chief. Meanwhile, a bomb attack against a NATO patrol just south of the Afghan capital killed an Italian soldier and a child, officials said. A remote-control bomb planted under a bridge detonated when a three-vehicle military convoy passed by, said Ali Shah Paktiawal, Kabul police criminal director. Chief Corp. Maj. Giorgio Langella was killed in the blast, and five Italian soldiers were wounded, the Italian Defense Ministry said in Rome. A child riding in a car behind the NATO convoy was killed, NATO said. Four other civilians in the car were wounded. Two people were detained for questioning in the blast, which went off about 10 kilometers (five miles) south of Kabul, police said. The bloodied body of the slain soldier, with his bulletproof vest still on, lay on the ground alongside his weapon shortly after the blast, according to an AP reporter at the scene. Six Italian troops carried the victim's body to a military helicopter that landed near the blast site. Other helicopters hovered overhead as police and Italian troops cordoned off the area. Italy has some 1,600 troops in the 20,000-strong NATO-led force in Afghanistan. An Italian soldier died and two were injured on Sept. 20 when their armored vehicle overturned on a steep incline near Kabul. Four Italian soldiers were wounded Sept. 8 by a roadside bomb in the western Farah province. Taliban-linked militants have stepped up their attacks across Afghanistan the last several months, though attacks in Kabul are still much rarer than in the country's south. Attacks in the capital are mostly aimed at foreign military troops. On September 8, a suicide car bomber rammed into a U.S. Humvee, killing 16 people, including two U.S. soldiers. The attack was Kabul's deadliest since the 2001 toppling of the Taliban.

To: Cage Rattler who wrote (1549)	9/26/2006 8:26:33 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Accused terror plotter denied bail CanWest News Service via National Post ^ \| 2006-09-26 canada.com BRAMPTON, Ont. - The oldest of 18 Toronto-area men accused in a terrorism plot was denied bail Monday. Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, faces three counts under the Anti-terrorism Act: participating in a terrorist group, training for terrorism and intent to cause an explosion. Wearing a tan pullover and pants, he appeared gaunt and peered at justice of the peace Maurice Hudson while he read his decision. The 18 men, including four young offenders, are accused of planning to blow up truck bombs in downtown Toronto and behead hostages on Parliament Hill and of holding a terrorist training camp near Orillia, Ont., last December. A publication ban prevents the media from reporting on evidence presented in court. Jamal's wife, Cheryfa MacAulay Jamal, sat in the final row of courtroom seats and rested her head in one hand. The couple live in Mississauga, Ont., and have four children. She brought the youngest two to court. In an online interview, she said the family knew they were being investigated before her husband's arrest in June. "We knew they were asking our friends and their parents about us, even telling them that Abdul Qayyum was recruiting teens for jihad, but everyone knew this was untrue," she writes.