A SHOREHAM town centre road was cordoned off this morning (Tuesday) amid fears unexploded bombs had been found. Royal Navy bomb squad officers were called to Western Road after what were believed to be unexploded devices were found in a house.
Gap-year student Jaime said: "The whole street has been cordoned off. We are not allowed out of our houses." It is believed council workers had been clearing a house in the street when they came across the unexploded devices.
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Iraq: Cellphone-Bomb Gang Broken Up
Baghdad, 6 March - Iraqi police have uncovered a new terror technique adopted by the insurgents, a cellphone used, not simply as a trigger for a bomb, but as an explosive device. According to the Iraqi news portal Nasariya.net, police in the capital have in recent days arrested an insurgent whom at first appearance seemed similar to hundreds of others belonging to al-Qaeda linked or Baathist groups behind much of the recent bloodshed.
What set him apart was that he headed a gang which had developed a new technique, which enabled him to insert small quantities of explosives inside mobile phones.
The man, 23, whom the portal says lived in the comfortable al-Doura neighbourhood of Baghdad, reportedly confessed to police his role in various killings and explosive attacks, mainly targeting the heavily fortified Green Zone. According to the police, it is the first time that insurgents there have used a similar technique. The man was charged with training other members of the group, who were subsequently arrested.
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Karachi, 6 March - At least 12 al-Qaeda linked militants were killed on Tuesday in a clash between the militants and tribesmen in the Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan, which lies on the border with Afghanistan. The Zalikhail tribe of South Waziristan clashed with the militants in the restive tribal region's town of Azam Warsak. The killing was carried out to avenge the killing of their tribesmen by Uzbek militants linked to al-Qaeda.
According to sources in South Waziristan, the problem started from a personal rift between a Zalikhail tribesman, Malik Saeed, and a group of Uzbek militants. On Monday some of the Uzbek and Tajik militants opened fire on Malik Saeed and as a result, Malik Saeed’s two brothers and one Afghan refugee in the tribal area were killed. The incident reportedly caused immense resentment among the Zalikhail tribal people and they sent armed youths to search out the killers and execute them. This morning the tribal youths found the group in Azam Warsak market and killed them.
South Waziristan is the home of the Uzbek warlord Tahir Yaldeshiv, the chief of Islamic movement of Uzbekistan, an Al-Qaeda linked group. Reports say that there are hundreds of foreign militants, most of them Uzbeks, Chechens and Arabs, who have been in hiding in Pakistan's tribal areas having fled there from Afghanistan after the US-led forces removed the Taliban from power in 2001.
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Reporter Who Died in Fall Probed Weapons
Mar 6, 2007
MOSCOW -- A journalist who plunged to his death from his apartment building window faced threats while reporting on a highly sensitive story that Russia planned to sell sophisticated missiles to Syria and Iran, his newspaper reported Tuesday.
Ivan Safronov, a military affairs writer for the daily Kommersant, died Friday after plunging from a stairwell window between the fourth and fifth stories. Kommersant reported Tuesday that Safronov had told his editors he was working on a story about Russian plans to sell weapons to Iran and Syria via Belarus.
The deals, if concluded, could upset the balance of power in the Middle East and strain Russia's relations with Israel and the United States, which have strongly objected to earlier Russian weapons sales to the two countries.
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