Yearly Archives: 2006

Pakistan

| September 21, 2006

President Bush says he would strike at bin Laden if he was in Pakistan. President Musharraf disagrees. Six American helicopter gunships have allegedly violated Pakistan’s air space by intruding into North Waziristan. The Taliban killed a government worker and two others in South Waziristan. Ten tribals were arrested in North Waziristan for helping the Taliban. […]

Somalia

| September 21, 2006

Security has been tightened in Baidoa after the suicide attacks against President Ahmed. The CIA (more likely the FBI) is sending a team to investigate the suicide attack. The Jamestown Foundation believes Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed is a ‘moderate.’

Somalia

| September 20, 2006

Somalia Drifts Toward Fragmentation as Regional Powers Polarize

Al Qaeda

| September 20, 2006

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Sept. 11 mastermind, to face hearing

Afghanistan

| September 20, 2006

“We must destroy terrorist sanctuaries beyond Afghanistan, dismantle the elaborate networks in the region that recruit, train, finance, arm and deploy terrorists,” President Karzai said during his speech at the UN. On CNN, he said Taliban leaders are hiding in Pakistan. NATO has agreed to increase the deployment of troops and air assets.

Pakistan’s Safe Haven

| September 20, 2006

We are watching the slow-motion disintegration of Pakistan as a sovereign state The federally Administered Tribal Areas and North West Frontier Province. Click to enlrage. Pakistani officials and government friendly news outlets continue to spin the Waziristan Accord as a successfully strategy in dealing the the Taliban. The Pak Tribune’s Akbar Jan Marwat echoes the […]

Thailand

| September 20, 2006

The military coup in Thailand has been successful in overthrowing the government of PM Thaksin. B Raman states Thaksin “neglected the bleeding ulcer of jihadi terrorism in the three Muslim majority provinces of Southern Thailand,” and this was a major reason for his downfall.

Iran

| September 20, 2006

Rebuttal to Time’s ‘Preparing for War with Iran’ article

Turkey

| September 20, 2006

Iran protests Turkey™s grounding of official plane

Israel

| September 20, 2006

Israel says it will complete the withdrawal from Lebanon within days, despite the fact that the United Nations has yet to come close to raising and deploying the 15,000 additional UNIFIL troops. Hezbollah may have cracked Israel’s communications systems during the war. “The IDF will definitely have to operate in Gaza,” says IDF Chief of […]

Al Qaeda

| September 20, 2006

Internet Jihadis React to Alleged Nuclear Plot on the United States

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| September 20, 2006

The Associated (with terrorists) Press – Bilal Hussein

Belgium

| September 20, 2006

Belgium ‘secretly’ had Turk militant arrested in Holland

Iraq

| September 20, 2006

An al Qaeda suicide campaign is underway in Iraq. An attack in a Ramadi market kills 13; 21 killed in Tal Afar; 25 killed in a Mosul market; and 7 on a strike on a Baghdad police headquarters.

India

| September 20, 2006

Four members of Lashkar “sleeper cell” arrested in Gujarat

Al Qaeda

| September 20, 2006

Jund al-Sham calls for Pope Benedict XVI to be punished under Islamic (‘Sharia’) law

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| September 20, 2006

US Navy boosting security off W.Africa

Iraq

| September 20, 2006

Abizaid says Iraq troop cut not imminent