Heavy fighting between the Lebanese Army and al Qaeda linked Fatah al-Islam continued late Tuesday evening. “Units are now defusing booby-traps and cleansing the buildings and positions that the gunmen abandoned,” according to the Army. Fatah al-Islam denied reports that 7 members surrendered to Fatah.
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Saudi Arabia arrested 3 members of the Saudi branch of Al Qaeda involved with publishing jihadist information online. One of the men, Abu Ussaid Al Falluji, “occupied a ‘top position in their deviant organisation.™”
al Qaeda and Taliban active in Waziristan, says Sherpao
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Rival Palestinian forces clash near Gaza crossing
Taliban: Bin Laden alive and well
[UPDATE2] Shah Mansoor Dadullah, the new military chief for the southern zone and younger brother of the slain Taliban military commander Mullah Dadullah, has appeared in his first videotaped interview with al Jazeera. Mullah Sher Mohammad, the Taliban’s regional commander in Panjwai, the birthplace of the Taliban in Kandahar, has been captured.
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Iran warns against new sanctions
“Six Days
Ar Ramadi, Iraq, provincial capitol of Al Anbar province, the biggest and western most province of Iraq. In the mind of many the Wild West, home to disaffected Sunni Tribes who even Saddam Hussein could not control. Last summer in a classified report that was leaked to the Washington Post the situation was characterized as “dire.” When I arrived in this city, the thought of being here in the daylight was unthinkable.
Over this last six days, in this city there have been no reported insurgent attacks.
None.
Zip.
Zero.
Nada.
No roadside bombs.
No snipers.
No “other small arms fire.”
No car bombs.
No RPGs.
Last fall there was virtually no government here and the report that was ballyhooed as an admission of failure, had every reason to be perceived as accurate.
And then things changed. The people of Al Anbar understood what the Islamist vision for them was and they did not like it. The decided to help the coalition.
On a daily basis AQIZ agents and weapons caches are turned into the Iraqi Police.
Now certainly the enemy plots and plans, They want to disturb this respite in the most spectacular manner they can. But as each day passes the Iraqi Security Forces grow stronger too. Economic life returns to Ar Ramadi and Al Anbar the people of the area can once again see a future that is not filled with death and despair.”
This is great news period!
Four executed for adultery in Pakistan
One soldier was wounded in a bombing and 1 civilian in a shooting near schools in Narathiwat province. Insurgents derailed a train on Monday after remove bolts from the tracks in several locations in Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat. Service has been suspended until Thursday.
Six Days in Ramadi
Another 30 Taliban were killed when a boat on the Helmand River was sunk by NATO and Afghan forces. A NATO airstrike killed 24 Taliban in the Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar province. nine Taliban and 1 Afghan solider were killed in fighting in Khost and Paktia.
The Return of al-Sadr
The Taliban imposed a curfew in Darra Adamkhel and have been enforcing sharia. Multiple bomb threats have been made against courts in the NWFP. A nursing school in Islamabad has been shut down over a rumor Christian nurses defaced the Koran. The campaign was organized by the Lal Masjid. President Musharraf implemented new, strict controls […]
By Gene E. Blanton, who is currently embedded with the Multi-National Forces West Training Center in Habbaniyah. Support for Gene’s reporting was provided by Public Multimedia Inc. I’ve had the privilege to hang around the men of the Multi-National Forces West Training Center in Al Anbar Province, Camp Habbaniyah, Iraq led by CWO-5 “Gunner” Terry […]
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Aden Hashi Ayro has been named al Qaeda operations chief in Mogadishu, according to the Somali government. Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed it executed the two US soldiers kidnapped south of the capital in mid may.
Apaches disrupt enemy attack on aircraft (Iraq)
Iraqi army kills al Qaeda leader in Baghdad
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