Afghan intelligence said it foiled a plot to free Taliban fighters from the Pol-i-Charki prison outside of Kabul. Three guards were arrested for aiding in the plot. Nine Taliban and al Qaeda fighters, including two Taliban commanders, were killed in southern Afghanistan. Thirty Taliban fighters were captured.
Wesley Morgan reports from Anbar province. A battalion of US Marines provides overwatch for Iraqi police in Ramadi, the city once the capital of Zarqawi’s Islamic State of Iraq.
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The US warned that al Qaeda in the Land of the Two Niles threatened to attack US citizens and allies in Sudan. Embassy officials warned staff against using a Khartoum cafe popular with Westerners and wealthy Sudanese. Sudan denies al Qaeda has a presence in the country.
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A suicide bomber killed 48 and wounded more than 100 in an attack on a tribal meeting in Arakzai. The Taliban beheaded four tribal leaders in Bajaur, kidnapped a politician and bombed two girls’ schools in Swat, and bombed a politician’s home in Dir. Security forces killed 23 Taliban fighters in Bajaur.
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Ten Iraqis were killed and 25 wounded in a car bombing in Baghdad. Four Iraqis were killed and 18 wounded in an IED attack in Mosul. Eight Iraqi soldiers were wounded in a car bombing in Fallujah. Coalition forces captured eight al Qaeda fighters in northern Iraq. Iraqi troops killed three al Qaeda fighters and […]
A suicide bomber killed a provincial intelligence officer and wounded three policemen in Khost province. NATO has tasked its troops to target the Afghan drug trade. The US is considering the creation of local militias to fight the Taliban.
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Fifty-five Pakistanis were killed and more than 100 were wounded after a suicide bomber detonated in the midst of the tribal leader’s meeting in Arakzai.
Palestinian Militant Admits Hezbollah Financial Support
Iran has sent a new Qods Force officer to replace Hezbollah’s top military commander in Lebanon. Mohammad Rida Zahidi, also known as Hassan Mahdawy, has taken over Hezbollah’s operations and coordination with Syria after Imad Mughniyeh was assassinated in Damascus in February 2008. Zahidi is also assigned to set up terror camps in southern Lebanon.
The Taliban is financing its southern operations through hawalas, or Islamic money exchanges, in the United Arab Emirates through Kandahari and Pakistani brokers. Mullah Abdul Razaq, a former minister of interior affairs in the Taliban regime with extensive connections in the UAE, is a major player in the money laundering.
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