Taliban leader Mullah Nazir, who fought the Uzbeks in Waziristan, said he would provide shelter to Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar, but does not support the Taliban. China admitted East Turkistan Liberation Organization terrorist train at Pakistani camps. Thousands of Pakistanis protested in Lahore and Islamabad against the rise of Islamist extremism.
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Abu Sayyaf beheaded seven captives and delivered two of the heads to civilians, who were ordered to take them to the Philippine Army. Abu Sayyaf commander Albader Parad is believed to have ordered the beheadings.
NATO and Afghan forces killed 27 Taliban in engagements in Helmand and Herat provinces, and another 10 in fighting in Kapisa. Five al Qaeda were captured in Nangahar province. Afghan and Pakistan troops clashed over the border fence.
After negotiations resumed, he government gave into a demand by the Lal Masjid and will rebuild 2 of 7 destroyed mosques. The Umm-e-Hassan, a woman’s madrassa under the Lal Masjid, is at the forefront of enforcing sharia in Islamabad and the Talibanization of Pakistan. A Pakistani convention of ulema “declared suicide attacks un-Islamic and opposed […]
Over 20 were killed and 40 wounded in fighting in Mogadishu. Thirty-one MPs, including the former Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheik Aden, who supported the Islamic Courts, were dismissed from parliament.
Muslim insurgents murdered two Buddhists in Narathiwat, and then beheaded one of them. A police colonel lost an arm and a leg in an explosion while investigating a bombing attack against utility targets in Narathiwat.
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The Algiers and Casablanca suicide campaign may have been planned over 3 years ago in Sudan. One of the Algiers car bombs was denoted by remote control. Madani Mezrag, the former leader of the Armed Islamic Group, denounced al Qaeda.
The Taliban killed 5 UN workers in a roadside bombing in Kandahar, while the Taliban conducted attacks in the northern provinces of Kapisa and Herat. The U.S. claimed Iranian made weapons have been intercepted inside Afghanistan.
Lal Masjid clerics suspended negotiations with the government after the discovery of “aerial surveillance and spraying of suffocating gas on the mosque.” The Taliban issued letters in North Waziristan which ban drugs and alcohol, and claim murders will be tried under the Pakistan Penal Code, not sharia. Freed London airline plot suspect Rashid Rauf claimed […]
Abu Omar al Baghdadi, the leader of al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq, released an audio tape pleading with the Islamic Army in Iraq to mend the rift between the two groups. Baghdadi also claims Iraq is a “‘university of terrorism’ producing highly qualified warriors since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.”
Britain is forming an “inter-departmental group” which “will bring together research, information and communications units to generate material to rebut extremist ideology aimed at the media.” The group is directed at al Qaeda use of the Internet and “new media.”
Abu Sayyaf kidnapped 7 men on Jolo Island. The fighting between the Philippine Army and the Moro National Liberation Front is intensifying on Jolo Island, with 17 MNLF fighters, 3 soldiers and 1 civilian killed over the past 3 days.
Marines building several Combat Outposts in the Amiriya-Ferris region in Anbar Iraq. Click map to view. A crucial element of the Baghdad Security Plan is the establishment of security both inside the Baghdad neighborhoods and in Baghdad’s outer belts – the regions about 30 miles outside of the city, where over 80 percent of the […]
The Taliban killed almost 700 civilians last year. NATO claimed “several key extremist leaders from the ongoing insurgency” were killed during attacks last week in Helmand province. A Taliban suicide bomber killed 10 police in the northern city of Kunduz.
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The MQM party held a large rallyin Islamabad opposing the “threat of ‘Kalashnikov Sharia™ of Islamabad™s Lal Masjid clerics.” The Lal Masjid clerics vowed to stop the sale of alcohol in the capitol. The Ahmadzai Wazir tribe promised not to shelter Uzbeks in South Waziristan. The Taliban claims “foreigners” are leaving North Waziristan.
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