Terrorism

KOLKATA - Ashim Chatterjee, one of the leading figures of the bloody Naxalite revolt of the late 1960s, says the mass massacre Tuesday of security personnel in Chhattisgarh is "social terrorism" and blamed Maoists for causing "meaningless" bloodshed.

JAGDALPUR - Home Minister P. Chidambaram reached this Chhattisgarh town Wednesday to attend a \'martyrs\' ceremony\' for the 76 security personnel massacred by guerrillas in the worst attack since the Maoist rebellion began 43 years ago.

Islamabad, April 7 (IANS/AKI) The Al Qaeda was behind the attack on the US Consulate in Peshawar and was seeking to provoke a serious political crisis, a Pakistani senator has said.

RAIPUR - A day after 76 troopers were massacred in the worst ever Maoist attack, hundreds of para-military men and state police personnel assigned to track down the killers are scared to enter the jungles of Chhattisgarh Wednesday fearing a repeat of the 'bloody Tuesday' incident.

BAGHDAD - Seven successive blasts ripped through residential buildings across Baghdad Tuesday, killing 35 people and injuring 140, in a second such attack in the Iraqi capital in three days.