On a relatively quiet day, the Jihad continues relentlessly on all fronts. We have reports from Iraq, Gaza, Israel, Judea and Samaria, Waziristan, Kashmir, Afghanistan, and Germany.

In Iraq, terror attacks killed 50 and injured more than 70.

Terrorists unleashed a slew of explosions across Iraq, killing more than 50 people and injuring about 70.

Two car bombs went off simultaneously on Wednesday at a market in Bayaa, a Shiite district in southwestern Baghdad, at dusk when people were about to have dinner to break the fast they keep in the holy month of Ramadan. The explosions killed at least 32 people and left 28 injured, police said.

“There has been an increase in violence in the past few days. We had been expecting it,” US military spokesman Major General Kevin Bergner said.

A suicide bomber drove an explosive-laden car into an Iraqi Army patrol in Mosul of the northern Nineveh province and blew it up on Wednesday afternoon, killing three civilians and wounding a soldier, a police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Meanwhile, another suicide bomber on Wednesday rammed his explosive-laden car into a court building under construction in the al-Maliyah district in southern Mosul, killing three people and injuring 47 others, most of whom were workers in the building.

In addition, the security forces foiled another suicide truck bomb attack on Wednesday when policemen in western Mosul shot dead a truck driver before he reached the target.

The source quoted Duraid Kashmoulah, governor of Mosul, as saying that a curfew was imposed in the city until further notice due to the recent security deterioration that claimed hundreds of lives.

Earlier on Wednesday, a suicide truck bomb hit a house of a tribal leader in the Nineveh province, killing 10 people and wounding nine others.

The attack was followed by two car bomb blasts on Wednesday at a town in Baghdad’s neighbouring Salahudin province. At least seven people were killed and five others wounded.

Update: 59 dead and 120 injured.

Bomb attacks killed 59 people and wounded more than 120 across Iraq on Wednesday when suspected Al Qaeda militants stepped up a campaign of violence coinciding with the holy month of Ramadan.

From Gaza, a rain of mortar shells and Kassams fell on Negev towns.

Gaza-based terrorists fired four Kassam rockets and some 25 mortar shells at Israeli towns in the western Negev Wednesday morning.

Though ten shells fells short and landed within Hamas-controlled Gaza, others landed near the Kissufim and Erez crossings, and 11 of them fell in the Ein HaShlosha area. Kassam rockets landed near Or HaNer and Mefalsim, in the Sderot area, and near the border fence. No injuries were reported.

Barak proposed to donate $100 to charity or reduce the supply of electricity to Gaza by 7 megawatts in response to each Kassam that land in Israel. That’ll show them!

A military committee set up by Defense Minister Ehud Barak recommends, among other things, that Israel reduce the electricity it supplies to Gaza by seven megawatt-hours following every Kassam rocket attack. The recommendation follows the Cabinet decision of last week defining Hamas-run Gaza as a “hostile entity.”

Inside the Gaza zoo, the Jihadis attacked the few remaining Christians.

The 2,500 remaining Christians in Gaza have been under attack of late. An 80-year-old Christian woman was recently robbed by a man demanding, “Where is the money, heretic?” Her family members said the “robber would never have dared to attack a Moslem woman that way.” The attack followed a brutal break-in of a Christian church and school several weeks ago. Stocking-clad men hurling grenades blew open the entrances and stole computers and religious items. They also smashed many crucifixes in the buildings.

In the Judea and Samaria open zoo, terrorists played hide and seek with Israeli troops, as usual.

Seven wanted terrorists were arrested throughout Judea and Samaria overnight Wednesday. Four of the arrested were made in the Arab village of Atra, north of Ramallah, one in Ramallah itself and another in a small village west of the city. The seventh terrorist, apprehended in Shechem, was involved in the lynching of two IDF reservists in 2000.

Terrorists targeted in soldiers in Jenin with a bomb, and in Shechem’s Ein Beit Ilma slums, where the IDF has been operating for over a week, terrorists opened fire on troops. No injuries were reported in either incident.

On Tuesday, an Arab terrorist attempted to enter the Machpelah Cave (Tomb of the Patriarchs) in Hevron. The man was armed with a large knife and was apprehended by Border Police.

In Waziristan, militants killed two ‘US spies’.

Suspected Taliban militants killed an Afghan national and a settled district resident for being US spies in North Waziristan, as a military convoy escaped two improvised-explosive device attacks, officials said on Wednesday. Wazir Badshah hailed from Hangu district and the Afghan was a resident of Khost province in Afghanistan, who went missing some four months ago. A letter found near the two bodies close to a military check-post east of Miranshah charged the two executed men with spying for the United States, the officials told Daily Times. The militants slit the throat of Badshah, in his 30s, on Monday night and left the body on a road near Mir Ali town, a stronghold of foreign militants in North Waziristan. He (Wazir) was a hypocrite and American spy. Such people deserve such treatment, the letter read. In the same area, the authorities also found the body of refugee Maulvi Shamsuddin, 45, who was kidnapped by militants three months ago on accusations of spying, the officials added.

In Indian Kashmir, fighting left twelve dead, eleven Jihadis and an Indian policeman.

Eleven suspected Muslim militants and a policeman were killed in gunbattles in Indian Kashmir, police said Wednesday. Four militants were killed Wednesday as they crossed into southern Poonch and northern Kupwara districts from the Pakistani-zone of the divided state, a police spokesman said. A de facto border divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan, which both claim the scenic Himalayan region in full. Police said government troops also shot dead two “wanted commanders of the pro-Pakistan rebel group Hizbul Mujahedin in southern Doda district early Wednesday. Five more militants and a policeman were killed in three gunbattles in Poonch, Kupwara and Kulgam districts late Tuesday, the spokesman added. “It is the bloodiest fighting since the start of Ramadan,” the spokesman said. Ramadan began in Muslim-majority Kashmir on September 14. Ramadan in Kashmir has often been marked by increased violence, as militants believe those who die fighting during the holy month gain more heavenly rewards.

In Afghanistan, over 100 Taliban Jihadis were killed. Yea!

The number of Taliban killed in a major operation underway in southern Afghanistan passed 100 on Wednesday, US-led coalition said after earlier announcing 61 were dead, AFP reports.

The fighting, involving international ground and air forces, started on Tuesday in the Musa Qala district of the southern province of Helmand, the coalition said in a statement. The initial estimate by the ground force commander assessed that more than 104 insurgents were killed thus far in the engagement, the statement said.

Musa Qala district centre was captured by the extremist Taliban in early February and has been in rebel control since, becoming one of the insurgents major strongholds. There have been a handful of major battles in Afghanistan this year in which international militaries have said the number of rebels killed had passed 100.

Turns out that in Germany Jihadis planning to blow up American targets acquired detonators from Syria and received their orders from Pakistan. What a surprise!

Three terrorism suspects arrested this month in Germany had acquired detonators that originated in Syria and received direct orders to act from operatives in Pakistan, the German interior minister said Tuesday.

The minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, told reporters in Washington that the detonators were smuggled into Germany from Syria through Turkey and that the suspects were days away from acting on plans to target Americans in Europe. He did not disclose further details about the connections to Syria and Turkey, adding, “We don’t really know more.”

“We know that this is a clear network, highly conspiratorial,” Schaeuble said after two days of meetings with U.S. security officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. “The demand came from Pakistan . . . ‘You should go on for action. Do not go on preparing for months and months and months, but now is the time to take action in the first half of September,’ and they did.”

Police arrested the three suspects, two of them German citizens who had converted to Islam, on Sept. 4 in a village in western Germany. Investigators said the suspects had assembled ingredients for building homemade bombs and had intended to attack Americans in Germany, possibly at Ramstein Air Base and the U.S. Consulate in Frankfurt.

German officials said the suspects had trained at camps in Pakistan run by the Islamic Jihad Union, a Central Asian network based in Uzbekistan and Pakistan. U.S. and German investigators said they were examining whether al-Qaeda operatives may have been involved in organizing the plot but have not uncovered firm evidence of a connection.

U.S. and European intelligence officials have become increasingly concerned about the ability of al-Qaeda and affiliated networks to launch operations in the West from refuges in Pakistan.

The day before police arrested the three terrorism suspects in Germany, authorities in Denmark broke up a cell they said was plotting attacks in that country. Danish officials have said at least one of the suspects had trained in Pakistan. Jakob Scharf, director of the Danish Security Intelligence Service, said the cell was taking orders from “a leading al-Qaeda person.”

In Germany, it is not against the law to attend a terrorist training camp outside the country.

German lawmakers are debating whether to change the law but have been unable to find a solution. Some legislators have said that it should not be illegal simply to attend a training camp and that prosecutors should have to prove intent to engage in terrorism; others argue that such an approach would be impractical.

And so it goes.

Europe is so far gone that Soros is probably considering an investment in Iranian prayer rug businesses.

All is quiet on the Jihad front.