Iraq
Iraqi PM Warns Turkey About Military Acts
Monthly Archives: June 2007
Iraq
Being Careful of Your Friends in Iraq
Afghanistan
Up 60 people were killed, including an unknown number of Taliban, when a boat sunk on the Helmand River in the Kajaki district. Ten Taliban and 5 members of a police commander’s family were killed after the Taliban attacked his home. A bicycle bomb injured several people in an attack near a mosque in Uruzgan […]
Iraq
Locals Rise Up Against al Qaeda — at a Cost
Al Qaeda
Sunni Iraqi attacks on al Qaeda persist
United States
Three Muslims were arrested for plotting to “set off explosives in a fuel line that feeds John F. Kennedy International Airport and runs through residential neighborhoods.” One of the suspected “predicted the attacks would destroy ‘the whole of Kennedy.’” Al Qaeda leader Adnan El Shukrijumah is suspected to be behind the plot.
U.S. Naval Task Force strikes at 1998 al Qaeda Embassy bomber
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the intelligence chief for the Islamic Courts and other unnamed high value targets attacked in Puntland, Somalia Fazul Abdullah Mohammed. Click to view. Six months after Ethiopia’s invasion of southern Somalia to oust the al Qaeda backed Islamic Courts, the Transitional Federal Government, backed by Ethiopian armed forces and a small contingent […]
Somalia
The U.S. Navy struck at an as yet unidentified target from off the coast of Somalia. Puntland forces clashed with Islamists off the Bargale coast after receiving a tip that about 35 “‘Islamist remnants™ including foreign al Qaeda linked operatives” were in the area. An Islamist boat was captured. “The foreign fighters include Yemenis, Afghans, […]
Iraq
The Perfect Enemy
Yemen
Yemen: terror suspect will not go to US
Afghanistan
NATO and Afghan forces killed 27 Taliban, including 20 in the Zhari district of Kandahar and 6 in Paktia province. Seven Taliban leaders were captured in Ghazni and Khost provinces.
Pakistan
Over 10,000 Taliban gathered on the border near Quetta to hear a speech by the brother of dead Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah. This meeting, called the ‘Martyred Mulla Dadullah Conference™ meeting was “arranged by MMA™s main party Jamiat-i-Ulema Islam (Fazl).” The Taliban killed 13 in an attack on the home of Tank’s political agent. The […]
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US Naval Forces Europe Prepares For AFRICOM Stand Up
Kashmir
Rebel Violence Leaves Three Soldiers, Two Militants Dead in Indian Kashmir
Al Qaeda
Experts: al Qaeda boosts video offensive
Iraq
Back Channels | A general says Iraq is not hopeless
Iraq
US forces storm house of Sadr’s office head in Baghdad
Iraq
Suspicion falls on Mehdi Army
Iraq
Stryker Unit Ready for Diyala Operations
Iran
IAEA director Mohamed ElBaradei said his primary mission is to stop ‘new crazies’ from going to war with Iran over its nuclear program. “I have no brief other than to make sure we don™t go into another war or that we go crazy into killing each other. You do not want to give additional argument […]
Iran
The Iranian Connection
Lebanon
The Lebanese Army entered the Nahr Al-Bared in force in pursuit of the al Qaeda linked Fatah al-Islam. Two soliders were killed as tanks and armored columns rolled into the camp under the cover of artillery and naval gun fire. “Lebanese security sources said the militants were pinned down in one area.”
Amariyah, the Anbar Salvation Council and Reconciliation
Banner of the Islamic State of Iraq. Click to view. The Anbar Salvation Council fights al Qaeda in Baghdad – the second confirmed expeditionary engagement, as reconciliation is on the table The news of battles between al Qaeda in Iraq on one side, and the residents of the Baghdad district of Amariyah, the Islamic Army […]
An Interview with General Dempsey
Tom Bevan of Real Clear Politics and I had the opportunity to conduct an interview with Lieutenant General Martin E. Dempsey, the Commander of Multi-National Security Transition Command – Iraq (MNSTC-I). LTG Dempsey’s command is responsible for developing, organizing, training, equipping, and sustaining the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF), which includes the Iraqi Army, Iraqi National […]
The Intellectual Grunt – Part Two
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. Lt. Col. McGrath touring his battle space between Fallujah and Ramadi. Click to view. CAMP HABBANIYAH, AL ANBAR PROVINCE, IRAQ: To the uniformed, the term “intellectual grunt” may […]