Abdul Aziz after captured in a burka. Click to view. Over 700 students surrender as leader attempts to escape in crowd of women As the standoff at the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, between government forces and the radical, Taliban-supporting followers of Maulana Abdul Aziz and Ghazi Abdul Rasheed continues, one of the leaders of […]
Believers Under Siege in Pakistan
Several doctors arrested over the London and Glasgow car bomb plot were on the files of MI5. A British cleric said an unnamed al Qaeda leader told him about upcoming plots in England during a religious reconciliation meeting in Amman, Jordan. Scotland Yard sent a detective to Australia investigate an arrested Indian doctor.
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Al Qaeda and Indian Muslims
Over 700 Islamists surrendered to government forces at the Red Mosque in Islamabad, but thousands remain inside. Both President Musharraf and Tariq Azim, the Minister of Information, said clerics Aziz and Ghazi must surrender. Minister Aziz said the government does not want bloodshed but prefers to resolve the issue through dialogue, while President Musharraf said […]
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The Lal Masjid in relation to the government buildings. Click to view. Ten killed, 150 wounded during running gun battles in Islamabad; Government buildings burned; 111 Brigade deployed; uncertainty about Pakistani government’s next move President Pervez Musharraf is in full crisis mode after a days worth for fighting at the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque. […]
Fifty Taliban were killed in Zirlan Tangi in the Tora Bora region of eastern Nangarhar after crossing the border from Pakistan. Thirty-three Taliban were killed in airstrikes against positions in the Zhari district of Kandahar; four were captured. Afghan police arrested a Saudi citizen who has spent the past eight years fighting along side the […]
Australia arrest in terror probe
Pakistan’s Taliban fight each other
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Twenty-three terrorists killed after massing on Donkey Island Ramadi and Donkey Island. Click to view. U.S. Army forces, with the help of Iraqi police, beat back an attempted al Qaeda in Iraq assault on Ramadi on June 30 and July 1. At least 23 insurgents “affiliated with al Qaeda in Iraq” were killed in a […]
Batan-wielding, burka-clad, sharia-enforcing women of the Lal Masjid. Click to view. Pro-Taliban students at the Lal Masjid attack Pakistani Rangers, one killed; The Lal Masjid calls for sucide attacks Pakistani security forces have clashed with the followers of Taliban supporters Maulana Abdul Aziz and Ghazi Abdul Rasheed at the notorious Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, […]
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Police arrested Dr. Bilal Abdulla, an Iraqi, and Dr. Mohammed Asha, a Jordanian, in suspicion of being involved with the Glasgow airport car bomb attack. Eight suspects have been arrested so far in the failed Glasgow and London attacks. The Glasgow car bomb was designed to kill hundreds.
Seven police were killed in an IED attack outside Kandahar City. One NATO soldier was killed in a suicide attack in southern Afghanistan on Sunday. An estimated 600 civilians have been killed in Afghanistan this year. The European Commission has allocated €200 million to the legal system and police.
Syed Saleem Shahzad claimed the US has a green light to attack al Qaeda and Taliban camps inside Pakistan. Eight terror suspects linked to Jaish-e-Muhammad and the Taliban have been arrested in Lahore. Two terrorists were killed after the bomb they were planting on tankers destined for Afghanistan detonated prematurely.
Algerian security forces claim to have killed Ali Abu Dahdah, the military commander of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. The terror group has killed 207 civilians and security forces personnel in 2007.
A suicide car bomber killed nine and wounded seven in an attack at an ancient temple in a north province of Mareb. Seven Spanish tourists were killed. Police had warnings of a possible al Qaeda attack one month ago.
Ali Mussa Daqduq, a Hezbollah operative, captured among others Ali Mussa Daqduq, click to view. Iran’s involvement in funding, arming, and training the networks of Shia terrorist in Iraq has been an open secret in Iraq for years. The issue came to a head last winter when Coalition forces began heavily targeting the Iranian networks […]