GUERILLA WAR

Lebanon's Hezbollah movement has blamed Israel for a car bomb attack which killed a senior official in the Lebanese port of Sidon on Monday.Ali Dib, also known as Khodr Salameh, was killed instantly when his car was destroyed by the blast in a suburb of the city.

Eyewitnesses say two bombs planted by the side of the road were simultaneously detonated as the car drove by.



No-one has admitted responsibility for the attack, and Israel has not yet commented on the incident.
Hezbollah officials have vowed revenge on Israel.
"This crime will not go unpunished, and Israel will regret having committed it," said Hezbollah official Nabil Qauk, speaking at the scene of the blast.
He described Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak as a "number one terrorist".
Security services were quoted as saying that a bomb placed in a car at the roadside could have been triggered by remote control as Ali Dib's car passed by.
Witnesses were quoted as saying an Israeli aircraft was seen overhead at the time of the blast.

History of attacks
Three years ago, two of Ali Dib's close relatives were killed while travelling in his car, when it was destroyed in an Israeli helicopter assault.
In June this year, Israel carried out its heaviest air raids against Lebanon for three years, targeting power stations and roads and killing at least eight people.
Israel warned more strikes were inevitable if Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon continued launching rocket attacks on Israel.
The June attacks were ordered by the government of outgoing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
His successor, Ehud Barak, has said he will end Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon as part of planned peace talks with Lebanon's powerful neighbour, Syria.
Since June, relative calm has prevailed in southern Lebanon.
But a BBC Correspondent in Lebanon says Hezbollah's vow of revenge suggests the period of calm may have come to an end.

Guerilla war
Hezbollah is leading a guerrilla war seeking to oust 1,500 Israeli soldiers and the 2,500 militiamen in the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army from the occupied zone.
Israel first invaded Lebanon in 1978, in retaliation against raids by Palestinian fighters.
It later pulled back, leaving the SLA to patrol much of the captured territory.
It invaded again in 1982, this time leaving its own troops to maintain its "security zone".

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TAMIL TIGER WAR

The Tigers, who want an independent Tamil state within the south Asian country, have in recent months sparked an upsurge in violence.
The rebels, who feel the Tamil minority have been marginalised by successive governments controlled by Sri Lanka's Sinhalese majority, have fought since 1983.
More than 70,000 people have been killed in the violence.






Civil war: The Tamil Tigers have wages a bloody struggle for their own homeland since 1983


Today all three men seized in Britain were arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
They will be questioned later today at high security Paddington Green police station in central London.
The spokesman said: "At 6.30am today officers from Counter Terrorism Command supported by Dyfed-Powys Police executed search warrants at a number of residential and business addresses in Newtown, Powys.
"Further warrants were executed at addresses in Mitcham and Surrey. Three men were arrested.
"A 46-year-old and 39-year-old were arrested at separate addresses in Powys and a 33-year-old was arrested in Mitcham on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
"This is part of a long-term investigation into alleged funding and procurement activity in support of terrorism overseas and two people have already been charged in connection with this investigation.
"It is not linked to al Qaeda-type activity or inspired terrorism.
"It is in relation to support, procurement and fundraising for a proscribed organisation, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers)."
Nine rebels were today killed in fresh fighting across the front lines of the civil war, the military said Tuesday.
The scattered battles today took place across the Jaffna, Vavuniya and the Welioya fronts bordering the Tamil separatists de facto state in the north, the military said.
Rebel spokesman Rasiah Ilanthirayan could not be reached for comment. Both sides ro utinely exaggerate enemy casualties while underreporting their own.



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