The Irate Nation Est. 2001

Rush of terror alerts on three continents plus Middle East

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In the last three days, the governments of eleven countries have scrambled to elevate their preparedness levels for Islamist terror, or enforced extraordinarily stringent security measures. Another six governments have pursued these steps without fanfare.

Friday and Saturday, Jan. 22-23, India placed its airlines and airports and those of all of South East Asia -Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka - on alert for a possible airplane hijacking by al Qaeda or Lashkar-e-Taibem. The UK elevated its terror threat level from "substantial" to "severe" - one below top and suspended direct British airline flights to and from Yemen.

Saturday, US airport authorities were warned that at least two female suicide bombers of "non-Arab appearance" and bearing Western passports may have been sent to America by al Qaeda-Yemen - either to blow up US-bound flights or commit suicide attacks inside the country.

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Indian flights over SE Asia on hijack alert

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The Indian Home Ministry has put all Air India/Indian Airlines flights operating in South Asia on high security alert after intelligence warnings that Islamic fundamentalist groups aligned to the Al-Qaeda or Lashkar-e-Taiba plan to hijack an airliner, according to New Delhi TV reports.

The target may be an Air India/Indian Airlines aircraft operating to and from "any one of the SAARC countries" any time "in the near future".

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India’s nuclear plants on alert for possible terror attack

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The Press Trust of India news agency reported that nuclear plants were put on alert Monday, Nov. 16 in the wake of the arrests in the United States of two suspects of complicity in the Mumbai attacks a year ago in which 171 were killed. David Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, both of Chicago, are held to have maintained ties with the al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) which was held responsible for those attacks.

Two Insurgents Seeking Refuge in a Cave Killed by a Bear

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As if gunfire and airstrikes were enough to worry about, now militants have something else to watch out for — territorial bears.

Two Muslim separatists in Kashmir, India, were mauled by a bear Sunday night after they encountered the animal in a cave where they had sought shelter, according to reports. Two other militants escaped the attack, one with serious injuries.

US masses naval-air-marine might in Arabian Sea opposite India, Pakistan, Iran

Three US aircraft carriers with strike groups, task forces and nuclear submarines have piled up in the waters of the Arabian Sea opposite the shores of India, Pakistan and Iran, and in the Persian Gulf.

DEBKAfile's military sources report that the US began massing this formidable array of floating firepower at the outset of the Islamist terrorist attack on the Indian city of Mumbai last Wednesday, Nov. 26.

Tehran responded typically with a threat of retaliation should the Americans decide to use the Mumbai terrorist attack to hit Iran.

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