Yearly Archives: 2007

Iran

| July 10, 2007

USS Enterprise headed to Mideast, replacing USS Nimitz

Al Qaeda

| July 10, 2007

Ayman al Zawahiri issued a 20-minute audiotape, threatening to retaliate against Britain for honoring the novelist Salman Rushdie, the author of The Satanic Verses. U.S. intelligence indicates an al Qaeda cell is preparing to attack inside the country.

Thailand

| July 10, 2007

Police have taken measures to secure Bangkok after receiving intelligence Muslim insurgents would attack the Asia Cup. Five soldiers were wounded in an IED attack in Pattani province.

Afghanistan

| July 10, 2007

A Taliban suicide bomber killed 19 civilians while targeting a NATO patrol in a market in Uruzgan province. Thirteen children were among those killed, and eight Dutch soldiers were wounded in the strike. Two Canadian soldiers were wounded in an IED attack on their tank in Kandahar province.

Somalia

| July 10, 2007

Four insurgent bombings killed two civilians in Mogadishu’s Bakara market. Five police, including a commander, were killed in an attack on a police stations south of the capital. Somali troops arrested 40 worshippers at a mosque while another five were wounded in a hand grenade attack south of Mogadishu.

Red Mosque leader Abdul Rasheed Ghazi killed during assault

| July 10, 2007

Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Click to view. Mosque compound still being cleared, over 100 reported killed The assault by Pakistani forces on the radical Islamist mosque known as the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, has resulted in the death of Abdul Rasheed Ghazi, the mosque’s leader. Ghazi was shot and killed in the basement of the […]

Iran

| July 10, 2007

Youth: Iran police target pro-democracy groups

The assault on the Red Mosque has begun

| July 9, 2007

The Lal Masjid in relation to the government buildings. Click to view. Pakistani security forces launch the assault on the Taliban mosque in Islamabad After a week of negotiations and skirmishes at the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, which left over 20 dead and 100 wounded, the final assault on the compound has begun. Pakistani […]

Iran

| July 9, 2007

Al Qaeda is using Iranian territory as a base for operations in Iraq, Pakistan, the Levant, and North Africa. Iran is tunneling near a nuclear facility. The IAEA said Iran has slowed down the expansion of its nuclear enrichment capabilities.

Somalia

| July 8, 2007

The Bakara market, the scene of much fighting between Somali troops and Islamic Courts fighters, has been closed and searches are ongoing. The leader of the Hawiye clan, which supports the Islamic Courts, has agreed to attend the national reconciliation meeting.

Al Qaeda

| July 8, 2007

Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the leader of al Qaeda’s Islamic State in Iraq, threatened to attack Iran if it did not stop supporting the Shia lead government. “We are giving the Persians, and especially the rulers of Iran, a two month period to end all kinds of support for the Iraqi Shiite government and to stop […]

Pakistan

| July 8, 2007

Eight “high value terrorists” wanted by Pakistan and other countries are inside the Lal Masjid, according the Minister of Religious Affairs. The commander of the Special Services Group was killed during fighting at the mosque. Ghazi claimed to have received a call from the person that attacked President Musharraf’s airplaine.

Muqtada al Sadr back in Iran

| July 8, 2007

Muqtada al-Sadr. Mahdi Army leader leaves Iraq and goes to Iran for second time this year Muqtada al Sadr, the leader of the Shia Mahdi Army and the Sadrist bloc in parliament, has left Iraq and is in Iran, military sources told Reuters. An anonymous U.S. military intelligence official and a military officer stationed in […]