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Monthly Archives: April 2007
Afghanistan
Securing the Afghan-Pakistani border
Indonesia
Twenty members of Jemaah Islamiyah, including Abu Dujana and Zulkarnain, trained on the slopes of a volcano on Java Island just this year, according to the confessions of suspects captured in raids last week.
Iran
An Iranian diplomat detained in Baghdad in February is reported to have returned to Iran. Iraq is pressing for the release of the IRGC agents captured in Irbil. Iran is indicating it will not try the 15 captive British sailors. Iran may have a nuclear weapon by 2009. A former FBI agent has gone missing […]
Somalia
Over 380 have been killed during the past four days of fighting in Mogadishu. A TFG government car was hit with an IED attack. The Hawiye clan, which supports the Islamic Courts, issued a press release concerning a cease fire agreement with the Ethiopians.
Sudan
Gunmen kill five African peacekeepers in Darfur
Iraq
Shiite Cleric Opposes US Plan to Permit Former Baath Party Members to Join Government
Talibanistan expands in the NWFP
Districts of Bannu, Lakki Marwat and Swat are Taliban country NWFP/FATA map. Red agencies/districts are openly controlled by the Taliban; yellow are under threat. Click map to view. As Pakistan’s civil war continues, the Northwest Frontier Province slips further into the darkness of a Taliban ruled state. During a recent meeting between senior government political […]
Pakistan
Taliban supporting MMA leader Qazi Mohammed was arrested to prevent his participations in protests against Musharraf. Las Masjid leader Abdur Ghazi vowed to continue to oppose the Musharraf regime. Five were killed in fighting between the Taliban and Uzbeks in Waziristan. The Tank tribes vowed to support the government and oppose the presence of foreign […]
Iran
Iran: Public Mostly Supports Detention Of Britons
Pakistan
Pakistan’s man in the middle
Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s Eastern Front – Along the Pakistani border, al Qaeda and Taliban fighters take their best shots
Afghanistan
Thirteen Taliban and 3 police were killed during fighting in southeastern Afghanistan. Five Afghans were killed and 10 wounded after a suicide car bomb hit the Mehtar Lam PRT. Three children were killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Afghan Army convoy Laghman province.
Al Qaeda
Schoolgirls massacred, Shiites executed in Iraq
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda Is Seen as Restoring Leadership
The Baghdad Security Operation Order of Battle: April 2, 2007
The Baghdad Order Of Battle as of April 2, 2007. Click map to view. By DJ Elliott, CJ Radin and Bill Roggio The past week has seen some interesting developments as the Iraqi government and Coalition ramp up the Baghdad Security Plan. Al Qaeda in Iraq conducted three major mass casualty attacks nationwide. Nearly half […]
Iraq
Iraq’s Shia militia ‘stood down’
Iran
About 200 “demonstrators” lit off firecrackers and threw rocks at the British embassy Tehran. Iran is due to release more “confessions” from the captured British sailors in their custody. Forty-eight percent of the British public oppose using force against Iran under any circumstances.