Monthly Archives: March 2008

Israel

| March 25, 2008

Israel to allow Jordanian-trained Palestinian forces to deploy in West Bank

Yemen

| March 25, 2008

The SITE Intelligence Group reported an Internet posting from al Qaeda in Yemen claiming responsibility for a mortar attack on the US embassy in Sana’a last week. A schoolgirl and policeman were killed and 19 Yemenis wounded in the attack.

Egypt

| March 25, 2008

A cargo vessel under contract to the US Navy opened fire on a small boat in the Suez Canal after it failed to obey multiple warning steps and continued to approach the vessel at a high rate of speed. One man was killed and three others injured in the ensuing gun fire.

Pakistan

| March 25, 2008

Yousuf Raza Gillani was sworn in as Pakistan’s new Prime Minister by President Pervez Musharraf. Gillani was elected prime minister by a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly or lower house of parliament. Insurgents blew up 36 oil tankers destined for Coalition forces in the Khyber Pass area, 100 injured.

Iraq

| March 24, 2008

Iraq cleric’s militia starts protest, shuts stores

Yemen

| March 24, 2008

Yemen released five individuals held for questioning in a mortar attack on the US embassy in Sana’a last week. The Interior Ministry denied that an al Qaeda link had been established as earlier reported by the state run al Thawra newspaper. Investigations are ongoing the ministry reported.

Iraq

| March 24, 2008

Report: Saddam Hussein™s Son Plotted London Assassination Attack

Al Qaeda

| March 23, 2008

Suspected Muslim militant, said to have trained with al-Qaeda, is arrested