Yearly Archives: 2007

United Kingdom

| July 5, 2007

Britain has reduced the threat level from critical to severe. One of the two Glasgow bombers left a suicide note behind.

Iraq

| July 5, 2007

Iran: Reports Of Death Sentence Spark Concern Over Ayatollah’s Fate

Afghanistan

| July 4, 2007

Twenty Taliban were killed during fighting in Ghazni and Zabul provinces. Six Canadian troops were killed in an IED attack on their convoy in the Panjwai district of Kandahar. A US general stated the high civilian death estimates are innaccurate.

Yemen

| July 4, 2007

“Scores of al Qaeda suspects” have been arrested in Sana’a, Abin, and Aden, following the suicide attack that killed 10 at the temple of the Queen of Sheba in Marib province. Security has been increased at government buildings, embassies, and for government officials in wake of the attack.

Pakistan

| July 4, 2007

[UPDATE2] Government forces detonated a series of explosions at the front wall of the Lal Masjid; CNN claimed the wall was “demolished.” Up to 20 have been killed and 200 wounded during the fighting, while about 1,200 students have left the mosque. The Religious Affairs minister asked Abdul Aziz to call for the student’s surrender. […]

Al Qaeda

| July 4, 2007

Ayman al-Zawahri, al Qaeda’s second in command, released a 1:35 long videotape where he addresses an “array of Middle Eastern topics from Iraq to Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian territories and Egypt.” He also called for all Muslims to participate in al Qaeda’s war against the West.

Red Mosque cleric Abdul Aziz captured wearing burka

| July 4, 2007

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 […]

United Kingdom

| July 4, 2007

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.

Pakistan

| July 4, 2007

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 […]

Iraq

| July 4, 2007

Iraq PM to shrink cabinet in reshuffle – aide

Iran

| July 4, 2007

Iraq: Latest US Charges On Iran Raise Tensions

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| July 4, 2007

Choosing a Narrative and Making Sense Out of Chaos

A day’s fighting at Islamabad’s Red Mosque

| July 4, 2007

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. […]

Afghanistan

| July 3, 2007

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 […]