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20 December 2012 20 December 2012 THOUGHT FOR THE DAY THE PTSS DAILY began as a means of keeping PTSS FLASH POINTS Marshall Center Alumni abreast of news related to TOP HEADLINES terrorism. THE PTSS DAILY is neither an academic journal nor the effort of a research directorate or a large SPECIAL: A COMPOUNDING PROBLEM BETWEEN BAGHDAD AND THE KURDS staff. Early each morning, articles that are cited in THE COUNTERTERRORISM NEWS BY NATION & REGION PTSS DAILY are culled from hundreds of sources with AFGHANISTAN the intent of providing you with the most current news, CANADA discussions and commentary on terrorism and related CHAD & CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC issues such as piracy or narco-terrorism. These articles, EGYPT FRANCE curated from news media, academic and international GERMANY sources or submitted by many of you, give our growing INDIA network a snapshot of this pernicious threat. INDONESIA Every effort is made to ensure that credible articles are IRAQ HE AILY ISRAEL chosen, but the intent of T PTSS D is to deliver IVORY COAST wide coverage. You – the professional – must be the KENYA final discriminator on the merit of a particular article and LIBYA its value to your profession. To ensure that THE PTSS MALI DAILY is both relevant and valuable to the reader, we NEPAL welcome and highly encourage comments from you. NIGERIA PAKISTAN/AFPAK PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY GEORGE C. MARSHALL PHILIPPINES EUROPEAN CENTER FOR SECURITY STUDIES RUSSIA RWANDA LTG (Ret.) Keith W. Dayton, Director SRI LANKA Dr. Robert Brannon, Dean, College of International SUDAN/REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN Security Studies SYRIA TUNISIA PTSS DAILY EDITORIAL STAFF UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Col (Ret.) Professor Nick Pratt, Executive Editor YEMEN Mrs. Brenadine C. Humphrey, Managing Editor GENERAL COUNTERTERRORISM NEWS SUBSCRIPTIONS AL QA’IDA & AFFILIATES COMMENTARY & OPINION To subscribe, unsubscribe, submit comments or news items, please e-mail: [email protected]. CYBER WARFARE LEGAL ASPECTS & LAWFARE NARCO-TERRORISM NETWORK NOTES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY TRANSPORTATION SECURITY WMD TERRORISM This is a Curated News Aggregation service. All material is EVENTS & EDUCATION copyrighted. For reuse, please contact original copyright holder. COUNTERTERRORISM HUMOR Contributor Comments and Reader Comments are copyrighted by individuals. Contact the PTSS Daily for reuse permissions. Thought for the Day | back to top | The PTSS DAILY Journal team is either on travel, on leave or in America, but we all wish each and every reader a joyous and holy Christmas season and happy holidays. We are going to be back tracking terrorist events on 7 January 2013. Until then, be safe. Flash Points | back to top | JTIC Flashpoints JTIC 20 December 2012 SYRIA: Anti-government militants operating under the unified national military command established in early December claimed on 19 December to have seized control of the towns of Halfaya, Latamneh, Kafr Nabouda, Hasraya, Kafr Zeita, and Tibat al-Imn in the west of Hama governorate in a series of assaults earlier that day. The attacks were part of an offensive on the governorate announced by senior military command member Qassam Saadeddine on 16 December. (Reuters) INDONESIA: Four police officers were killed and two others were wounded when unidentified militants on motorcycles opened fire on them during a patrol in the village of Kalora in the Poso district of Central Sulawesi province on 20 December. Provincial police chief Brigadier General Dewa Parsana subsequently announced the arrest of one suspect in the attack, whom he described as a “terrorist”. (Jakarta Globe) CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: The so-called Seleka CPSK-CPJP-UFDR militant coalition - reportedly composed of renegade factions of three militant groups, the Union des Forces Democratiques pour la Rassemblement (UFDR), the Convention des Patriotes pour la Justice et la Paix (CPJP), and the Wa Kodro Salute Patriotic Convention (CPSK) – claimed on 19 December to have seized control of the town of Kabo in Ouham Prefecture earlier that day. Militant commander Colonel Joseph Zoundeko alleged that his fighters had killed 12 soldiers and taken six others prisoner during the attack, although this could not be verified. (Reuters) AFGHANISTAN: At least four police officers were killed and three others were wounded when one of their fellow officers opened fire on them at a check post in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province on 19 December. A spokesman for the provincial governor, Javid Faisal, claimed the assailant had poisoned the officers’ food prior to the attack. (Khaama Press) UNITED KINGDOM: Five envelopes containing bullets were sent to the Northern Ireland Assembly in the Stormont area of Belfast in Northern Ireland on 19 December. The packages were separately addressed to David Ford, the Northern Ireland Minister of Justice and leader of the Alliance Party; Naomi Long and Gerardine Mulvenna, both members of the Alliance Party; and two members of Sinn Fein, Alex Maskey and Gerry Kelly. Reports speculated that the threats were linked to the decision taken by Belfast City Council on 3 December to limit the number of days the Union Flag would be flown at Belfast City Hall. (Belfast Telegraph/Reuters) INDIA: Two soldiers were wounded when suspected Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) militants opened fire on them during a search operation in the village of Sadapora in the Sopore area of Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir state on 19 December. One suspected militant was killed in retaliatory fire during the incident, which came one day after five suspected LeT militants were killed in the same village. (PTI) KENYA: Two civilians were wounded in a suspected double grenade attack by unidentified militants outside the Al-min mosque in the predominantly Somali-populated Eastleigh district of the capital Nairobi on 19 December. No claim of responsibility was made for the attack, which was the fourth explosive attack in Eastleigh in December. (Reuters/Al-Jazeera) ISRAEL: An Arab Israeli national, identified as Mohammed Mafarja, aged 18, was charged by state prosecutors on 19 December with planting an improvised explosive device (IED) that wounded 27 people on a passenger bus in Tel Aviv on 21 November. The indictment, which was read out in Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court, claimed Mafarja had carried out the attack on behalf of Hamas in order to avenge the killing of the commander of Hamas’ armed wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Ahmad al-Jabari, in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip on 14 November. (Reuters/Times of Israel) IRAQ: Two soldiers were killed in a small-arms attack by unidentified militants on a security checkpoint in the Al- Ziraii area north of the city of Mosul in Ninawa province on 19 December. (NINA) SUDAN: A resident of the Kassab refugee camp in the Kutum area of North Darfur State was shot and wounded by alleged pro-government militiamen on motorcycles in the camp on 19 December. In a subsequent statement, the leader of the camp, Taher Ismail, claimed the gunmen had attempted to steal sheep during the attack. (Radio Dabanga) FURTHER READING: JTIC Brief: Old Dogs, New Tricks - Northern Ireland’s “New IRA” OSINT Summary: South African Police Foil Suspected White Supremacist Plot Flashpoints courtesy of JTIC. Top Headlines | back to top | U.S. Plans For Possibility That Assad Could Lose Control Of Chemical Arms Cache Washington Post by Craig Whitlock and Carol Morello 16 December 2012 As Bashar al-Assad’s hold on power steadily weakens, U.S. officials are increasingly worried that Syria’s weapons of mass destruction could fall into the hands of Islamist extremists, rogue generals or other uncontrollable factions. Last week, fighters from a group that the Obama administration has branded a terrorist organization were among rebels who seized the Sheik Suleiman military base near Aleppo, where research on chemical weapons had been conducted. Rebels are also closing in on another base near Aleppo, known as Safirah, which has served as a major production center for such munitions, according to U.S. officials and analysts. Read more at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-plans-for-possibility-that-assad-could- lose-control-of-chemical-arms-cache/2012/12/16/f4912be2-4628-11e2-a685-c1fad0d6cd1f_story.html Al-Qaida Hit By Cyber Attack WTop 18 December 2012 Key al-Qaida websites were knocked offline more than two weeks ago and are still dark, according to U.S. intelligence sources. Read more at: http://www.wtop.com/807/3163232/Al-Qaida-hit-by-cyber-attack Bomb Alert Prompts Plane’s Evacuation In Paris Airport: Report Xinhua 18 December 2012 A Turkish Pegasus passenger plane was evacuated on Tuesday at Paris’ Orly airport due to a bomb alert, the daily Le Parisien reported. The 146 persons were evacuated at 2:15 p.m. local time (1315 GMT) following an anonymous threatening phone call to the Embassy of France in Turkey. “The aircraft was towed to a specific zone in the airport where it will be inspected by a team of dog handlers,” Le Parisien quoted a close source to the affair as saying. Read more at: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-12/19/c_124114445.htm Freed Reporter Links Captors To Assad Wall Street Journal by Nour Malas 18 December 2012 Richard Engel, the NBC News foreign correspondent freed with colleagues Monday after five days of captivity in Syria, on Tuesday said he believed his kidnappers were Shiite militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad who planned to exchange the U.S. news team for prisoners held by the rebels. Read more at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324407504578186911390459672.html?mod= googlenews_wsj Russia Sends Warships Toward Syria For Possible Evacuation New York Times 19 December 2012 Russia sent warships to the eastern Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday, the Defense Ministry announced, in what appeared to be preparation for a possible evacuation of Russian citizens from Syria.
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