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Thursday, May 1, 2008 (Islamabad)
Several people were feared killed on Thursday when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the office of an Islamic group in Pakistan's restive Khyber Agency, officials said.

The suicide bomber targeted the office of the ''Amar bil maroof wa nahee aanelmunkar'' (promotion of virtue and prevention of vice force), the religious police of a group led by Haji Namdar at Bara, the main town of the northwestern Khyber Agency.

A spokesman for Haji Namdar said the head of the suicide bomber has been found.

Official sources said Haji Namdar ( Taliban ) was the actual target of the attack though he escaped unhurt. He is a rival of Mangal Bagh Afridi, another radical leader who heads the Lashkar-e-Islam group.

Haji Namdar at Bara
Haji Namdar has time and again announced his support to the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and even invited the Afghan Taliban to his area through his illegal FM radio station, while the invitation, some believe, was accepted

http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=14442





Official sources said Haji Namdar was the actual target of the attack though he escaped unhurt. He is a rival of Mangal Bagh Afridi, ( al Quada ) another radical leader who heads the Lashkar-e-Islam group.
http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080048492


And all the while, the Army of Islam, under the leadership of Mangal Bagh Afridi, a former driver, grew more powerful and more militant.

http://www.pakspectator.com/profile-of-mangal-bagh/

Wikipedia

Army of Islam (Arabic: جَيش الإسلام‎ Jaysh al-Islām), also known as Tawhid and Jihad Brigades,^[1] is the name used by the Dughmush-sometimes rendered "doghmush"- Hamula (clan) for their militant and takfiri activities.^[2] It is located at the Tzabra neighborhood in the center of the Gaza Strip bordered by Israel and Egypt.

Notorious for their kidnapping of BBC reporter Alan Johnston and capture of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Army of Islam, which appears to draw inspiration from, or is linked to al-Qaeda


Summary by
Gerald
Anthropologist ad Magnum

Deep Background our confidential source told us of an ealier
attack on the Taliban, seems aQ didn't like the talks between the Paki Gov and Taliban.
It was a serious attack and was reported, just that it has not yet been revealed it was al Qaeda vs Taliban.

But under the Pashtun code, the guest has obligations, too: to obey the national law and not to do something than endangers his host ( like attack the host ). Whatever bin Laden's motivations for being in Afghanistan, his presence has turned into a catastrophe for the Afghan people. The extremist Wahabi strain of Islamic fundamentalism that he preaches is popular in Saudi Arabia and Yemen but foreign to most Afghans, even to some members of the Taliban."

So we are keeping the details quiet, I don't understand the underlying paradigm, yet. G

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Al-Zawahiri Tape, 9.20.07

Al-Zawahiri called on the Muslims in the Maghreb to bring Andalusia back into the fold of Islam, and stated that this could only be done by "purging the Islamic Maghreb of the French and the Spanish who have returned there."

The PURGE BEGINS:?
Islam?

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Hamas arrests over BBC reporter

Hamas arrests over BBC reporter


Alan Johnston has been held since 12 March

Hamas security forces in Gaza have detained members of the Palestinian militant group which claims to have abducted BBC reporter Alan Johnston.

Among the arrested was Khattab al-Maqdisi, a spokesman of the Army of Islam group, Hamas said.

"The arrests were carried out after all negotiation attempts... failed to free the abducted journalist," the Hamas-run interior ministry said in a statement.

Alan Johnston was kidnapped in Gaza on 12 March.

The BBC is holding a rally for Mr Johnston on Monday to mark the 16th week since his disappearance.

Growing tension

"The arrests are targeting figures who were involved in the abduction of the journalist," the interior ministry statement said.

It said Hamas acted after "the use of peaceful means failed to free" the British reporter.

Earlier, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said Mr Maqdisi was detained after he opened fire on members of Hamas's security forces in Gaza City.

He said Hamas would investigate claims by the Army of Islam - a small armed group - that Mr Maqdisi was injured during the arrest.

Mr Abu Zuhri also accused the clan which allegedly controls the Army of Islam of abducting 10 Hamas students.

Tensions between Hamas and the Army of Islam have been growing since Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip last month by force.

Hamas has demanded that the Army of Islam release Mr Johnston, threatening to "use all means to secure his life and to free him". http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6260970.stm