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Monthly Archives: April 2008
Mauritania
Mauritanian police stormed an al Qaeda safe house in the capital Nouakchott searching for Sidi Ould Sidina, an Algerian terrorist who escaped from a court hearing last Wednesday. Two police officers were killed during the assault. Sidina managed to escape for a second time, but police discovered and confiscated his fully operational explosives lab.
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Non-essential US staff evacuated from Yemen
Afghanistan
A clash in Helmand province left one police officer and four Taliban dead. A Coalition airstrike in Zabul killed three Taliban while they traveled on motorcycles. A woman and a child from a nomadic tribe who had pitched their tents nearby were injured in the strike. Iranian security forces shot and killed 13 Afghan refugees […]
Iran
Hamas-Iraq: Al-Qaeda in Iraq is Subservient to Iran; ‘The US is Our Main Enemy, But a More Dangerous Enemy is Iran’
Egypt
Egypt warns militants against border breach
Hezbollah
Indonesia: Hezbollah-owned TV begins broadcasts
Pakistan
Pakistan: Committee set up to begin dialogue with militants in north-west
Iran
In Search of a Cover for al Sadr
Pakistan
The provincial government of the Northwest Frontier Province has launched a new peace initiative with Mullah Fazlullah’s Taliban forces in Swat. The TNSM, a banned Taliban group, met with a police chief of Malakand agency to negotiate the withdrawal of charges against the group. Seven were killed in rioting in Karachi after an MQM parliamentarian […]
Yemen
An Internet posting by al Qaeda in Yemen, which claimed responsibility for Sunday’s mortar attacks on a residential compound in Sana’a, said the group perpetrated the attacks Saturday on two security checkpoints in Hadramout, southern Yemen that left one soldier dead and several wounded. The statement said the group would not rest until all polytheists […]
Libya
The Libyan government released 90 members of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group after they renounced violence. The prisoners were serving sentences ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment. The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group officially joined al Qaeda in November 2007.
Al Qaeda
An unconfirmed report indicated Abu Ubaidah al Masri died of hepatitis. Ubaidah was a senior al Qaeda operative who served as the former operations chief in Kunar, Afghanistan. He most recently served as an al Qaeda operations chief for global strikes.
Clashes continue in Baghdad, Basrah
Sadr cancels demonstration in Baghdad, claims Shia clerics instructed him not to disband the Mahdi Army. Iraqi and US forces continue to strike at the Mahdi Army and other Iranian-backed terror groups in Baghdad and Basrah.
Somalia
Ethiopia is deploying 14,000 troops into Somalia after Shabaab fighters have taken over towns throughout the country. A Shabaab suicide bomber rammed a car into the gate of the complex housing peacekeepers from Burundi; one soldier was wounded. Six people were killed in an IED attack in Hiran.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed 17 road workers and wounded 16 in an attack in Zabul province. Five Taliban were captured during separate raids in Uruzgan and Khost provinces. Coalition forces identified two Taliban fighters captured during an operation in Helmand province in March. An ISAF soldier was killed and one wounded during an attack in Ghazni […]
Iran
Iraqi rogues and a false proxy war
Iraq by the numbers: April 2008
As part of General Petraeus’ and Ambassador Crocker’s testimonies to Congress, Multinational Forces Iraq released statistics on the improving security situation and the current level of violence in Iraq, al Qaeda in Iraq’s area of operations, and the development of the Iraqi security forces.
Iraq
Sadr did not refer dissolving Mahdi Army to top Shiite clerics
Iraq
Religious leaders tell al-Sadr to keep militia intact
Yemen
Yemen: Al-Qaeda behind attack against Americans
Iran
Iran says installing 6,000 enrichment centrifuges
Pakistan
Pakistan’s nuclear command stays unchanged: official
Al Qaeda
Algeria: Deadline for Austrian hostages expires
Iran
Iran Condemns Iraq Green Zone Attacks
Iraq
Ninewa MPs calls for dissolving Peshmerga fighters
Iraq
Iran: Radical Shia cleric in holy city of Qom, says expert
Iraq
Builders of Nations
Yemen
The US State Department ordered the evacuation of all nonessential embassy personnel following a mortar attack on a residential complex housing western diplomats and oil workers. The US Embassy was targeted by mortars in mid-March. No injuries were sustained in either attack. In an Internet statement, al Qaeda in Yemen claimed Sunday’s mortar attack was […]
Iraq
The Iraqi government said it would ban the Sadrist movement from participating in elections if it did not disband the Mahdi Army. Iraqi security forces killed 10 “criminals” during operations in Basra. Coalition forces detained four Special Groups operatives and killed one in Baghdad. The Nasiriyah SWAT captured a Special Groups leader. US helicopters killed […]