Yearly Archives: 2006




Somalia’s Foreign Fighters

Sheikh Hassan Turki flaunts the involvement of “foreign fighters” in Somalia as Shariah law is enforced in Kismayo Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and Sheik Yusuf Indohaadde during a news briefing, Saturday, June 17, 2006. AP photograph, click to view. Al-Qaeda’s involvement in the rise of the Islamic Courts has been a well know fact for […]


7-Eleven Dropping Venezuela-Backed Citgo




Iraq

Iraq suicide attacks at all time high


Al Qaeda

Video threatening the Pope by Zawahiri expected shortly





Iraq

Another leader of the 1920 Revolution Brigades (unnamed) has been arrested. Sunni tribal leaders in Anbar have pledged their support for the Shiite led government. Sunni groups are calling for the disarming of militias (read Sadr’s Mahdi Army).Task Force 145 appears to have struck again in Baqubah.


Morocco

Moroccan security arrests members of Hizb-ut-Tahrir





Pakistan

President Karzai is skeptical of Pakistan’s deal in Waziristan. President Musharraf angrily responds. Musharraf also claims Quetta is not a Taliban command center.



Somalia

Ethiopia claims it has not deployed troops inside Somalia. Residents of Kismayo continue to riot despite a curfew, as the ICU bans khat in the city. Cinemas and sporting events have also been shut down in the city.


Harmony: The Attyia – Zarqawi Letter

An analysis of the Attyia al-Jaza’ri letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Al Rayah – the flag of al Qaeda. Click image to view. The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point has published the letter written by Attyia al-Jaza’ri (the Algeria), which was addressed to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the deceased leader of al Qaeda in Iraq. […]


Taliban says Osama alive: report



Iran

Russia, Iran Agree Timetable For Bushehr Nuclear Reactor


Iraq

The Iraqi police are a target. Police in western Anbar have made significant progress in opposing the insurgency. A police station south of Baghdad is destroyed by a car bomb. Terrorists damaged a police station in Babil province during a suicide vehicle attack.


Pakistan

Pakistani sentenced for trying to sell missiles to Al Qaeda


Iraq

Iraq duty extended for 3,900 in 1st AD




Turkey

Turkey: Army will protect country from Islamists