Police are widening the scope of the Chardassa suicide bombing that targeted the interior minister after indications of al Qaeda’s involvement have surfaced. The suspect is now believed to be a man aged 18-20. The Interior Ministry is the “only civilian body fully trusted by Western intelligence” [see our update on April 28].
Afghan and NATO troops killed 75 Taliban in the first day of an assault in the Sangin district of Helamnd province. Afghan police killed 4 Taliban and wounded 7 after beating off a Taliban attack on teh Spera district police center in Khost province.
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Abu Ayyub al-Masri, from a video found last year. Click to view. Sunni tribes claim Abu Ayyub al-Masri killed in battle near Taji; if true, the Anbar Salvation Council would get the credit: Islamic State of Iraq issues denial Representatives from Iraq’s Interior Ministry are reporting that Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the leader of al Qaeda […]
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Pakistan’s interior minister Top Taliban Target
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Country Reports on Terrorism 2006
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(Iraq) Suicide bomber kills 32 at funeral
Five British Muslims were convicted of plotting terrorist strikes throughout the country, and sentenced to life. The men “were charged with planning to use homemade fertilizer bombs on targets including London nightclubs, trains, and the gas and power network.” Some had links to senior al Qaeda leaders and trained in Pakistan. – The plotters. The […]
Muslim insurgents killed 1 and wounded 25 in a bombing at a market in the suthern province of Pattani. Insurgents also shot and killed a father and son, and beheaded the father. This was the 28th beheading.
President Bashar Assad extolled the virtures of Hamas, Hezbollah and the Iraqi insurgency, and admitted his involvement in terrorism. “To the east there is the resistance in Iraq, to the west there is the resistance in Lebanon and to the south there is the resistance of the Palestinian people,” Assad said at a rally. “We, […]
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US sees dispute between Iraq, Saudis
Bad Deal in Bajaur
The Baghdad Order Of Battle as of April 30, 2007. Click map to view. The city of Baghdad continues to see a drop in sectarian violence attributed to death squads, while suicide car bombings remain al Qaeda’s most deadly tool. After prior week’s car bomb offensive by al Qaeda, which included 11 major suicide attacks […]
A NATO and Afghan forces killed 136 Taliban in a weekend offensive in the Zerkoh Valley of Herat. U.S. forces killed 14 Taliban in Khost. NATO and Afghan forces launched Operation Silicon in the Sangin district of Helmand province.
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Somalis warily returning to their battered capital
Aftermath of the Sherpao suicide bombing. Click to view. Suicide strikes continue to emanate from Pakistan’s tribal region, a Taliban safe haven As the death toll in Saturday’s suicide assassination attempt against Pakistani Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao in his home district in Charsadda has risen to 31 killed, with 15 of the 60 wounded reported […]
Yemen accused of ‘genocide’
2 ‘US spies™ murdered; Soldier killed in N Waziristan check-post attack
Artillery in Baghdad – Listening to the sounds of shelling in a city at war.