Yearly Archives: 2006

Operations Swarmer nets some results while the media coverage of the war continues to disappoint

An update on North & South Talibanistan, and across the border in Afghanistan

Joint U.S. and Iraqi cordon & search operation enters day 2

Swarmer is the latest in a series of Air Assault missions, not a “wag the dog” moment

A joint U.S. & Iraq force launches large air assault operation; Iraqi military uniforms discovered

Parliament meets; Sectarian violence, not civil war; Planned attack on the IZ broken up

Sectatian violence does not a civil war make, and has anyone heard from Zarqawi lately?

The arrests of leaders Rahman and Bangla Bhai are leading to further arrests and deaths of al Qaeda linked JMB

Drawing the battle lines on the Afghan-Pakistani border

A wave of bombings in Sadr City; al Qaeda operatives arrested, some claims are a bit optimistic to say the least

Fighting continues in North Waziristan; Shariah law declared in South Waziristan; The worst-case scenario

Political developments, where’s the civil war, and Operation Tribal Chivalry launched in Anbar – by tribal sheikhs?

Operations Lion and Minotaur are a continuation of a successful counterinsurgency plan

Anbar tribes and tribes from the city of Hawijah oppose Zarqawi’s jihad

The strike in Danda Saidgai, suicide bombing in Karachi & fighting in Miranshah make Pakistan’s “miscreant” problem difficult to paper over

Fresh on the heels of the arrest of Abdur Rahman, Bangladesh nabs the other most wanted terrorist in the country

The 101st strikes and establishes a battle position in Yusufiyah

A closer look at the suicide bombing at the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, and the chaos that is Karachi

al Qaeda attacks are being masked as sectarian violence; negotiations over forming the government continue

Coalition forces are investigating claims Zarqawi may have been detained in the raid in the Jazerra region

Coalition forces take down al Qaeda camps in the rural areas of Anbar

Attack occurred in Karachi just prior to President Bush’s visit; Pakistan releases details on new al Qaeda leader plotting attacks on U.S.

Abdur Rahman, one of the original signatories of Osama bin Laden’s 1998 fatwa declaring war against the West, is arrested; CNN obscures his ties to al Qaeda

The Saudis kill six involved in Abqaiq attack, including three on the most wanted list; Jordan thwarts an al Qaeda plot

Pakistani Army initiates an offensive in Waziristan as President Bush begins tour of the region

The pros & cons of al Qaeda funneling both novice and experienced jihadis into Iraq

Radioblogger has the transcript of last evening’s discussion with Hugh Hewitt on the situation in Iraq.

The bombing at the Golden Mosque has not instigated civil war in Iraq

Fighting in Doura district of Baghdad seems to be locus of fighting; QRFs established to address hot spots

A status report on the violence in Iraq and prospects for civil war; Sadr’s role