Monthly Archives: July 2007

Al Qaeda

| July 6, 2007

Jihadist James Bond’ Gets 10 Years for Running Extremist Web Sites

Morocco

| July 6, 2007

Morocco has raised the security alert to the maximum level after a visit from US and European intelligence officials. The Interior Ministry said it received “reliable intelligence information” an attack is imminent.

Iraq

| July 5, 2007

Sergeant Jesse Kelsch: Someone You Should Know

Thailand

| July 5, 2007

Muslim insurgents sabotaged the rail track between Yala and Narathiwat provinces, forcing trains to suspend services. Three soldiers were wounded in two IED attacks in Yala and Nahathiwat. Two insurgents were killed by police in Pattani.

The battle at the Red Mosque

| July 5, 2007

A Pakistani soldier takes position on an army armoured vehicle [Reuters]. Click to view. Reports of an assault underway; Aziz goes on TV; captured Islamists will return to the NWFP The confrontation between the Taliban-supporting Islamists of the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, and the Pakistani government in the heart of Islamabad appears to be […]

Iraq

| July 5, 2007

Iraq’s acting speaker urges end to party boycotts

Al Qaeda

| July 5, 2007

Homemade, Cheap and Dangerous – Terror Cells Favor Simple Ingredients In Building Bombs

United Kingdom

| July 5, 2007

Britain has reduced the threat level from critical to severe. One of the two Glasgow bombers left a suicide note behind.

Iraq

| July 5, 2007

Iran: Reports Of Death Sentence Spark Concern Over Ayatollah’s Fate

Afghanistan

| July 4, 2007

Twenty Taliban were killed during fighting in Ghazni and Zabul provinces. Six Canadian troops were killed in an IED attack on their convoy in the Panjwai district of Kandahar. A US general stated the high civilian death estimates are innaccurate.

Yemen

| July 4, 2007

“Scores of al Qaeda suspects” have been arrested in Sana’a, Abin, and Aden, following the suicide attack that killed 10 at the temple of the Queen of Sheba in Marib province. Security has been increased at government buildings, embassies, and for government officials in wake of the attack.

Pakistan

| July 4, 2007

[UPDATE2] Government forces detonated a series of explosions at the front wall of the Lal Masjid; CNN claimed the wall was “demolished.” Up to 20 have been killed and 200 wounded during the fighting, while about 1,200 students have left the mosque. The Religious Affairs minister asked Abdul Aziz to call for the student’s surrender. […]

Al Qaeda

| July 4, 2007

Ayman al-Zawahri, al Qaeda’s second in command, released a 1:35 long videotape where he addresses an “array of Middle Eastern topics from Iraq to Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian territories and Egypt.” He also called for all Muslims to participate in al Qaeda’s war against the West.