Al Qaeda
Canadian gets life for plot against US embassies
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Yemen
EU urges Yemen to track down tourist killers
Pakistan
The Pakistan military claimed it killed 90 Taliban after Taliban attacks on a convoy and a fort in South Waziristan. Seven Taliban were detained in Swat. Two terrorists escaped from prison; 13 guards were arrested for involvement. Eleven suicide bombes are thought to have entered Rawalpindi.
Iraq
Fighting between the Iraqi Army and the “Soldiers of Heaven,” a cultish Shia terror group, resulted in about 50 killed and 100 wounded in the southern cities of Basrah and Nasiriyah. US Air Force B-1 bombers destroyed an al Qaeda training camp near Arab Jabour. Coalition forces killed 13 al Qaeda operatives and detained three […]
Palestinian Territories
Collective punishment for Gaza is wrong: U.N.
Algeria
US Rules Out Military Bases in Africa: Official
Iran
US: number of Iran bombs in Iraq already equals December
Pakistani military claims 90 Taliban killed in attacks
Taliban killed after ambushing convoy, assaulting a fort in South Waziristan. Skewed casualties do not match pattern of engagements. Al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Jhangvi kill 10, wound 25 in suicide bombing at Shia mosque in Peshawar.
Iraq
Iraqi troops clash with Shiite cult
Palestinian Territories
Israel flattens Hamas ministry in Gaza Strip
Palestinian Territories
Israeli warplanes struck the Hamas-run interior ministry in Gaza City, the Hamas marine headquarters in Deir Al Balah, a rocket cell in northern Gaza and the Jabaliya refugee camp; four were killed and at least 30 injured. Palestinians have fired “at least 130 rockets and mortar shells” at Israel over the past three days. The […]
Yemen
Two Belgian tourists were murdered when gunmen opened fire on a tour group in Hadramut province. The unsophisticated attack targeted Yemen’s fledgling tourist industry and follows an internet posting by Al Qaeda in Yemen demanding the release of incarcerated al Qaeda members. A July suicide bombing that killed seven Spanish tourists also followed a web […]
Pakistan
CIA links al Qaeda, allies to Bhutto attack
Thailand
Thailand claims Al Qaeda funding Muslim separatists; PM Surayud issues a statement
Mauritania
US Marines will train Mauritania’s Camel Corps, which patrols the region bordering Algeria, the Western Sahara, and Mali, in counterinsurgency tactics. Security forces are interrogating two al Qaeda operatives suspected of being behind the murder of four French tourists.
Pakistan
Frontier Insurgency Spills Into a Pakistani City
Pakistan
Flour shortage deepen Pakistan™s turmoil
Thailand
Al Qaeda is funding the Muslim insurgency in the southern provinces, said a government spokesman. “The situation has intensified recently because they received money from overseas, from the international terror organisation al-Qaeda,” Chaiya Yimvilai said. The government has denied al Qaeda involvement in the insurgency in the past.
Al Qaeda
Bin Laden Son Wants to Be Peace Activist
Iran
Israel would not dare attack Iran: Ahmadinejad
Al Qaeda in Iraq’s shrinking area of operations
A Phanton Phoenix update: A years worth of combat operations shrinks al Qaeda in Iraq’s area of operations from urban to rural areas. Ethno-sectarian violence is down 90 percent Baghdad.
Iraq
US Commander Charts Iraqi Security Forces™ Progress
Pakistan
A suicide bomber killed 10 and wounded 25 in an attack on a Shia mosque in Peshawar. The Taliban captured a second paramilitary fort in Saklatoi in South Waziristan. The military is planning an operation to retake the Sararogha Fort in South Waziristan Agency. The Taliban fired four rockets at the Kamra Air Force base. […]
Iraq
Interview with US Army Lt. Col. John Nagl
Iran
GAO Report Challenges Effect of Longtime US Sanctions on Iran
Iraq
International Agencies see good year for Iraq
Palestinian Territories
The Israeli Air Force killed at least seven Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as Hamas launched over 40 Qassam rockets into the Sderot region. Defense Minister Barak said the military will intensify operations in Gaza to end the Qassam attacks. Hamas said captured Israeli soldier Corporal Shalit would vanish if Israeli attacks in Gaza did […]
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda leaders Tahir Yuldashev and Abdul Khaliq Haqqani released a video where they called for a jihad against the Pakistani military and the government. “Jihad is compulsory in Pakistan as it is compulsory in Afghanistan,” said Yuldashev. Footage included the aftermath of the fighting in Mir Ali in North Waziristan in October 2007 and […]
Iran
Iran training Iraq militants: Petraeus
Syria
Syria says it has Lebanese allies, not ‘tools’