Yearly Archives: 2007

Iraq

Baghdad™s ‘Gated Communities™ explained



Serbia

Wahabi leader killed in clash with Serbia police




Al Qaeda

Al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq formed a ‘cabinet’ of ministers for its shadow government. The Islamic State of Iraq also released a video of the murder of 20 members of the Iraqi security forces.


Somalia

Over 20 were killed and 100 wounded during Thursday’s fighting in Mogadishu. A suicide car bomber attacked an Ethiopian army base in the capital.


Iraq

Islamic State of Iraq Issues the Execution Video of Twenty Captured Employees of the Iraqi Ministries of Defense and Interior


Iran

Leading Shi’ite Religious Authority Ayatollah Montazeri Expresses Sharp Criticism of Ahmadinejad


Iraq

Islamic State of Iraq Announces Establishment of the Cabinet of its First Islamic Administration


Thailand

Muslim insurgents killed two young Buddhist women in drive by shooting and burned a school in Narathiwat province. Thai officials claim insurgents are now using car door openers to detonate bombs after security forces began using electronic countermeasures. The Prime Minister said reconciliation with Muslim insurgents is not an option.


Pakistan

Taliban leader Mullah Nazir, who fought the Uzbeks in Waziristan, said he would provide shelter to Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar, but does not support the Taliban. China admitted East Turkistan Liberation Organization terrorist train at Pakistani camps. Thousands of Pakistanis protested in Lahore and Islamabad against the rise of Islamist extremism.


Israel

Gates Assures Israel on Plan to Sell Arms to Saudis


Iraq

Ammar Al-Hakim escapes assassination in southern Baghdad


Iraq

General Details US Military Operations in Iraq, Afghanistan


Iraq

Iraqi tribal chiefs forming an anti-insurgent party


Philippines

Abu Sayyaf beheaded seven captives and delivered two of the heads to civilians, who were ordered to take them to the Philippine Army. Abu Sayyaf commander Albader Parad is believed to have ordered the beheadings.


Afghanistan

NATO and Afghan forces killed 27 Taliban in engagements in Helmand and Herat provinces, and another 10 in fighting in Kapisa. Five al Qaeda were captured in Nangahar province. Afghan and Pakistan troops clashed over the border fence.


Pakistan

After negotiations resumed, he government gave into a demand by the Lal Masjid and will rebuild 2 of 7 destroyed mosques. The Umm-e-Hassan, a woman’s madrassa under the Lal Masjid, is at the forefront of enforcing sharia in Islamabad and the Talibanization of Pakistan. A Pakistani convention of ulema “declared suicide attacks un-Islamic and opposed […]


Somalia

Over 20 were killed and 40 wounded in fighting in Mogadishu. Thirty-one MPs, including the former Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheik Aden, who supported the Islamic Courts, were dismissed from parliament.


Thailand

Muslim insurgents murdered two Buddhists in Narathiwat, and then beheaded one of them. A police colonel lost an arm and a leg in an explosion while investigating a bombing attack against utility targets in Narathiwat.


Al Qaeda on the Offensive

Eleven major suicide bombings inside Baghdad over the past five days threaten to erode remaining political support for the Baghdad Security Plan. Now is the time for flexibility. Banner of the Islamic State of Iraq. Click to view. After a relative lull in major, mass casualty suicide attacks inside Baghdad, al Qaeda in Iraq has […]





Iraq

Iraq PM says govt not weakened by Sadr pullout


Iraq

Iraqi Cabinet Changes Could Help Reconciliation, Gates Says



Sudan

Why Sudan is now allowing UN troops in Darfur


Algeria

The Algiers and Casablanca suicide campaign may have been planned over 3 years ago in Sudan. One of the Algiers car bombs was denoted by remote control. Madani Mezrag, the former leader of the Armed Islamic Group, denounced al Qaeda.