CHANDIGARH INDIA : Chandigarh police on Wednesday busted a sex racket with the arrest of four women, including a post-graduate working for a slimming centre.

The others include a 45-year-old woman who supplied girls and charged Rs 2,000-20,000 from clients, police said.

“We sent a decoy customer who paid Rs 2,000 as advance to (the madam),” Deputy Superintendent of Police J.S. Khaira told reporters. “(The madam) showed the decoy customer three girls. We arrested them while taking the remaining amount.”

Al-Qaeda’s most wanted militant leader Abu Yahiye Gadahn was arrested from Karachi. Abu Yahya is considered as a close associate of Osama Bin Laden.
According to sources, Abu Yahya was arrested from an area surrounding the super highway, on the outskirts of Karachi. The arrested militant commander has been shifted to Rawalpindi for further investigation.
Abu Yahya is a US citizen and assumed to be a commander of foreign militants fighting in Afghanistan against the US. He was living with Osama Bin Ladin after 9/11 attacks in New York. His name is included in the top ten wanted on the CIA list.
American government has welcomed the arrest of Abu Yahiye and called it a success against the war on terror.

Dubai’s police chief plans to seek the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the head of Israel’s spy agency over the killing of a Hamas leader in the emirate.
Dahi Khalfan Tamim said that he would ask the Dubai prosecutor to issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and the head of Mossad, a news channel reported. Tamim has said he is almost certain that Israeli agents were involved in the killing of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh at a Dubai hotel in January, calling for Mossad’s boss, Meir Dagan, to be arrested if it is proved responsible. Tamim said that Mossad had “insulted” Dubai and Western countries whose fraudulent passports were used by suspects in the assassination. Dubai has asked the US Federal Bureau of Investigation to look into prepaid cards issued by the Meta Financial Group’s MetaBank which the suspects used, a United Arab Emirates newspaper said. Citing an FBI source, The National newspaper said the investigation would look into any Israeli involvement in the killing. Thirteen of the 27 suspects used prepaid MasterCards issued by MetaBank, a regional American bank, to purchase plane tickets and book hotel rooms, the newspaper said, quoting Dubai police. The UAE, a US-allied Arab state that backs the Palestinian drive for an independent state and an end to Israeli occupation, has no diplomatic relations with Israel. But it has established low-level political and trade links in recent years, with some Israeli officials attending events in the Gulf Arab state. Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer competed in the Dubai Championships last month. Members of the hit squad used fraudulent passports from Britain, Ireland, Germany, France and Australia. Residents of Israel with the same names as the suspects, holding dual nationalities, have said their identities appear to have been stolen. The passport abuse has drawn criticism from the European Union, and some of the governments involved have summoned the Israeli ambassadors to their countries to protest.

MOSCOW: Two bomb blasts in Russia’s turbulent region of Ingushetia on Friday killed at least one policeman and injured another 16 people.

The local police commander of the region’s largest city, Nazran, was amongst the injured.

JERUSALEM : Israel on Friday shrugged off calls for its top spy to be arrested in the killing of a Hamas commander.

“The Dubai police has provided no incriminating proof,”

The Dubai police chief said on Thursday he wants Mossad chief Meir Dagan to be arrested if the agency is behind last month’s killing of Mahmud al-Mabhuh, a top commander of the Islamist Hamas movement that rules Gaza.

“The threats against Meir Dagan are absurd,” the Israeli official said.

“The accusations are baseless. Police have not explained the circumstances of his death, or even any proof that he’s been assassinated. All there is are videos of people talking on the telephone,” he said.

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Katie Morgan Arrested, Detained Katie Morgan, Katie Morgan Poster: A call to the Oak Street Bridge in Roseburg Tuesday night led to the arrest of a Roseburg man being held now at about $ 1 million bail.

Roseburg police say three men contacted the bridge, and found one had a warrant for his arrest.

Police say they tried to stop Donny Lynn Morgan, 20, but the man who fought with the officers and broke free.

Morgan crossed the bridge, but was stopped on the other side.

During the incident, Morgan had put his coat on the river while fleeing officers. An officer had to enter the river and retrieve his coat.

Morgan was presented at the Douglas County Jail on charges of Escape II, tampering with evidence, resisting arrest, interfering with police, carrying a concealed weapon, illegal possession of marijuana.

Morgan is being held in $ 985,000 bail.

SRINAGAR: While demanding an apology from the Karnataka police, the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) on Saturday lodged a strong
protest against the arrest of its two players in Bangalore where they had gone to participate in a national championship.

“Our boys were harassed and then released. The Bangalore police should apologise for the harassment of players. The JKCA will decide tomorrow (Sunday) whether or not the team should withdraw from the tournament,” general secretary of JKCA Saleem Khan said.

Describing the Saturday’s incident as ‘most unfortunate and shocking’ Khan said, “We are in touch with our president and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah to decide the future course of action.”

He said the team had been accommodated inside a hostel in the stadium complex by the hosts and their baggage had been checked during check-in Friday.

The arrest of the two players has shocked the cricket lovers here who say the players were harassed as they belonged to the valley.

Senior state government officials were on toes as the news of the arrest of Parvez Rasool and Mehraj-ud-Din who were picked up by the Bangalore police on the suspicion of carrying explosive reached them on Saturday afternoon.

Sources said top police officers contacted their counterparts in Bangalore immediately to ensure the players were released without any delay.

“Such incidents are unfortunate and only add to the alienation. The development should have been handled carefully without the media hype,” said a former cricketer.

A senior JKCA member said the bags had been given to the players by the association before their departure and had been purchased in New Delhi recently.

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN: Four children on the way to school have been killed and several wounded in militants attack in Kalaya area of Orakzai Agency.

According to sources, militants opened fire with automatic weapons on the children going to school in the capital of Orakzai Agency Kalaya. Four children have been killed on the spot and several injured.

Local tribes started retaliatory action against the militants soon after the incident, however, no official action launched so far.
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LONDON: Jittery US authorities unintentionally hampered an investigation into a plot to blow up at least seven transatlantic airliners, a former British police commissioner said on Tuesday.

Andy Hayman, who worked on the case, said he suspects that the US authorities, fearful of US deaths if the plot was carried out, pressured Pakistan to arrest the suspected mastermind of the plot prematurely.

Hayman, former assistant commissioner of specialist operations in the Metropolitan Police in 2006, said that arrest “hampered our evidence-gathering and placed us in Britain under intolerable pressure.”

A British court on Monday found three men guilty of plotting to blow up transatlantic airliners using liquid explosives, in what would have been a “terrorist event of global proportions.”

The plot, whose discovery in 2006 triggered wide-ranging new rules on carrying liquids on commercial aircraft, was to carry out bombings on aircraft flying from London’s Heathrow airport to the United States and Canada.

A counter-terrorism operation to prevent the plot was the biggest ever in Britain, costing 35 million pounds (57 million dollars, 40 million euros).

Hayman said throughout the investigation, then British prime minister Tony Blair and US president George W. Bush were being briefed.

“Fearful for the safety of American lives, the US authorities had been getting edgy, seeking reassurance that this was not going to slip through our hands,” Hayman said, writing in the Times.

“We thought we had managed to persuade them to hold back so we could develop new opportunities and get more evidence to present to the courts. “But I was never convinced that they were content with that position. In the end, I strongly suspect that they lost their nerve and had a hand in triggering the arrest in Pakistan.”

“The arrest hampered our evidence-gathering and placed us in Britain under intolerable pressure.”

The arrest in Pakistan of suspected mastermind Rashid Rauf, a British-Pakistani citizen, forced British police to bring forward their arrests in Britain of a number of suspects under surveillance.

Police were forced to move quickly, fearful that Rauf’s arrest would tip off the suspects and possibly prompt them into action.

“We believed the Americans had demanded the arrest (of Rauf) and we were angry we had not been informed,” he said.

“We were being forced to take action, to arrest a number of suspects, which normally would have required days of planning and briefing.”