Sunday, December 12, 2010

Asian Defense News: South Korea fishing boat sinks in Southern Ocean

South Korea fishing boat sinks in Southern Ocean

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A South Korean deep sea trawler has sunk in the Southern Ocean, killing four crew members, officials say.

Rescue officials said 18 of the 42-man crew remain missing, while 20 have been rescued.

The ship is said to have gone down more than 2,000km (1,250 miles) south of New Zealand.

Eight of the crew were South Korean; eight Chinese, 11 Indonesians, three Filipinos and one Russian were also on board, Seoul's Yonhap news agency said.

South Korea's foreign ministry said the 614-tonne ship sunk at around 0430 South Korean time on Monday (1930 GMT on Sunday).

Twenty sailors were rescued by another fishing boat operating nearby, the South Korean foreign ministry said in a statement.

Seoul said it had asked New Zealand to help in the rescue effort.

New Zealand's maritime spokesman Ross Henderson told AFP that all vessels in the remote area had been told to go to the site to help search for survivors. A helicopter has also been sent to the area, he said.

There had been no distress call before the ship sunk, he added.

DTN News - BREAKING NEWS: Sweden Suicide Bomber: Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly Was Living In Britain

Asian Defense News: DTN News - BREAKING NEWS: Sweden Suicide Bomber: Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly Was Living In Britain
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources The Telegraph - UK dated Dec 13. 2010
(NSI News Source Info) LONDON, UK - December 12, 2010: An Islamic suicide bomber who attacked Christmas shoppers in Sweden at the weekend is a British university graduate and was living in this country until two weeks ago.

Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly tried to set off a car bomb packed with gas canisters in a busy shopping street in Stockholm. The car caught fire and the bomber fled the scene before blowing himself up 300yd away 15 minutes later, injuring two bystanders.

It emerged last night that Abdulwahab, who was due to turn 29 yesterday, is a former physical therapy student at Bedfordshire University in Luton, and that his wife and three young children still live in the town.

MI5 is now investigating possible links with extremists in Luton, whether the bomber was radicalised at the university and claims that he was helped by an extremist group in Yemen, the base for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

The suicide bombing follows an attempt by Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab, a former student at University College London, to blow himself up last Christmas on a flight to Detroit.

Abdulmutallab had trained in Yemen, but had become increasingly radical during his time in Britain. The security services and police are concerned that British university campuses have become breeding grounds for extremism. Neighbours told The Daily Telegraph last night that they had last seen Abdulwahab at the 1930s semi-detached house in Luton, Beds, two and a half weeks ago. The couple have two young girls and a baby son. His wife, Mona, a Swedish citizen, is said to run a home beauty company.

Tahir Hussain, 33, a taxi driver who lives nearby, said: “I used to see him around often. He didn’t say much but seemed nice. I used to see him walking with his kids.

“I was shocked when I heard what happened because I never thought he could do such a thing.”

Mr Hussain said that the couple had been living there for a year and that Abdulwahab used to go to Friday prayers at the Islamic Centre in Luton.

The bomber had recently advertised on a Muslim dating site for a second wife, saying he was looking for a “lady 25-30 who lives in UK for marriage”. The site, Muslima.com, said he was born in Baghdad, Iraq, and moved to Sweden in 1992 and then to Britain in 2001 to study for a degree in physical therapy, marrying in 2004.

On his Facebook page, he included a group called Yawm al-Qiyaamah, meaning Day of Judgment, that featured a montage of Tower Bridge in flames.

Reports from Sweden said Abdulwahab was shouting in Arabic and carrying six pipebombs, one of which exploded, along with a rucksack full of nails and explosives.

A paramedic said the bomber had no injuries to the face or body in general but looked as if he had been carrying something that exploded in his stomach. One witness said the bomber had worked as a sandwich board advertiser in the Drottninggatan shopping area.

Carl Bildt, the Swedish foreign minister, said it was “a most worrying attempt at a terrorist attack”, adding that it “failed – but could have been truly catastrophic”. Theresa May, the Home Secretary, said: “The Swedish government have indicated they believe this was a terrorist attack. We will be talking to them about the details of that attack.”

Abdulwahab’s father, Thamer, 61, who lives in Tranås, south of Stockholm, said his son had been at the family home on Friday.

“After he woke up Saturday morning, he took his car and drove off,” he said. “He did not say if he was going to Stockholm or elsewhere.”

An Yemeni Islamist website, Shumukh al-Islam, published a photograph of Abdulwahab in dark glasses, saying: “It is our brother, mujahid Taymour Abdel Wahab, who carried out the martyrdom operation in Stockholm.”

Twelve minutes before the bombing on Saturday, a Swedish news agency received a message with two sound files, one in Swedish and one in Arabic, that was also sent to the Swedish Security Police. The message criticised Swedes’ silence over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed and Swedish soldiers serving in Afghanistan. Abdulwahab said: “Now your children, your daughters and your sisters will die as our brothers, our sisters and our children are dying.”

He also asked his family for forgiveness for misleading them about a trip to the Middle East: “I never went to the Middle East to work or to make money, I went for jihad.” He asked his wife to kiss the children on his behalf. “Tell them Daddy loves them,” he added.

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  • DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Russia Warns Poland On Hosting US F-16 Fighter Jets And C-130 Hercules Transport Aircrafts

    Asian Defense News: DTN News - DEFENSE NEWS: Russia Warns Poland On Hosting US F-16 Fighter Jets And C-130 Hercules Transport Aircrafts
    Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith from reliable sources Defense War News Updates / Defense News / Pictures of The Day
    (NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - December 12, 2010: Russia has warned Poland against hosting American fighter jets as part of a NATO missile system plan, saying that it would attempt to counter the move.

    The US has offered to periodically station some of its planes in Poland beginning in 2013. Last month, Poland announced that it will accept the US proposal to host American F-16 fighter jets and Hercules transport aircraft.

    Moscow says Warsaw should change its decision. The Russian defense ministry says Moscow will take the plans into account and carry out its own military development projects in response to the US move.

    This is after WikiLeaks released documents revealing that NATO has secret plans to defend Poland and the Baltic states against Russia, the Voice of Russia stated.

    Russian representative to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, said that the leaked documents “cast a shadow on the results of the Lisbon Summit.”

    The summit had adopted a statement last month that "clearly says the security of NATO countries and Russia is intertwined, and the NRC [NATO Russia Council] member states will refrain from any use or threat of the use of force against each other," a Russian foreign ministry spokesman told Interfax news agency.

    NATO Chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen responded to the ordeal by saying the alliance does not consider Russia a threat to Poland.

    Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told CNN's Larry King in a recent interview that a threat from Iran is nonexistent. He also said that Russia would be forced to react in developing new nuclear weapons technology unless the United States Congress ratifies the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).

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