Yearly Archives: 2007

A look at the surge from Baghdad

By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, who is currently embedded with the 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery in western Baghdad. Support for Daveed’s reporting was provided by Public Multimedia Inc. As I write this, I’m nearing the end of my time embedded with the 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery (known as 2-32), which is working with the 2nd […]







Pakistan

A suicide bomber rammed a car into a military convoy in Tank and killed 2 soldiers and wounded 8. The Taliban shot and killed a senior paramilitary commander in a sophisticated ambush in Tank just hours after 4 Taliban were killed in a firefight. Two explosions in Quetta killed one and wounded 2.


Iraq

US troops free 41 from ‘Qaeda torture camp’


Grandkids and War Zones

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. CAMP HABBANIYAH, AL ANBAR PROVINCE, IRAQ: In September 2005, when I told my wife, Shelia that I was going to be embedded with the 2nd Marine Division in […]


Afghanistan

Ten Taliban and 2 police were killed after the Taliban conducted an ambush in Kandahar, while the U.S> captured 2 al Qaeda in Khost, including a cell leader. A Taliban spokesman claimed the Taliban has launched a new operation. “We will target our enemies and use our tactics – suicide bombs, remote-controlled (roadside bombs) and […]


Al Qaeda

A Middle Eastern intelligence agency intercepted a letter from Ayman al-Zawahiri to Abu Ayyub al-Masri which encouraged al Qaeda in Iraq to fight beyond Iraq’s borders. “Zawahiri claims that it is defeating US forces and urges followers to expand their campaign of terror… He conjures a vision of an Islamic state comprising Lebanon, Palestine and […]


Iraq

Sadr meets lieutenants to discuss new direction


Iraq

al Qaeda chief urges Iraqis to export jihad




Iraq

Iraq: Week One from a USMC Field Historian




Iran

Iran says it’s uncovered spy rings from US, allies


Iraq

Prime Minister and US Ambassador in Anbar


Iraq

Secret cell terrorist leader captured in Sadr City


Iraq

16 ‘directly related’ to US troops’ capture held


Pakistan

The Taliban killed 3 soldiers and wounded 7 in an IED attack in Tank. The Taliban kidnapped two doctors in Lakki Marwat. A “militant” was killed when his hand grenade exploded prematurely, while the Taliban ordered music shops closed. The Lashkar-e-Islami attacked the home of a journalist in Peshawar.


United States

The UK extradited Syed Hashmi, a Pakistani chraged with ‘supplying the unspecified equipment for al-Qaida ‘to fight against United States forces in Afghanistan,’” to the USA. A Houston jury convicted Syed Maaz Shah, a Pakistani sophomore at the University of Texas at Dallas, of weapons charges. “The FBI says Mr. Shah and other men on […]


Palestinian Territories

Palestinian terrorists wounded two security guards during an attack in East Jerusalem; the two attackers were killed. The IAF killed 7 Palestinians during 11 air strikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza strip. Hamas warned Israel to “forget” kidnapped soldier Gilad Schalit if senior leaders are targeted.


Thailand

Muslim insurgents shot and killed a Muslim man, and wounded 2 paramilitary troops in an IED attack in Yala province. A village leader and two Muslim men were killed in drive by shootings in Narathiwat province.


Attacking Sadr’s Mahdi Army

The Mahdi Army. Click image to view. Mahdi Army targeted in Baghdad, Basra and Kut Within 24 hours after the return on Muqtada al Sadr from his self imposed four month exile in Iran, Coalition and Iraqi forces launched five high profile attack against the extremist elements of his Mahdi Army. Today, U.S., British, Polish […]


Pakistan: Hostage of the Taliban

NWFP/FATA map. Red agencies/ districts controlled by the Taliban; yellow under threat. Click map to view. Hostage crises ended in Islamabad & North Waziristan as one begins in Bannu; anti-Taliban elements calls for help go unheeded As the political crisis over the suspension of Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry for alleged misconduct consumes the […]


Lebanon

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah warned the Lebanese army not to enter the Nahr el-Bared Palestinian camp to pursue Fatah al-Islam. A spokesman for Fatah al-Islam said the group is “ready to die.” The UNSC is pushing forward with creating a Hariri tribunal despite Russia’s objection.


Iraq

260 Iraqi terror cells dismantled, 250 hostages freed in year: minister