Pakistan
Pakistan Detains Founder of Group Suspected in Mumbai Attacks
Monthly Archives: December 2008
India
India Vows No Retaliation
Pakistan
Taliban extract heavy tribute to let vital Nato supplies pass
Pakistan
Lashkar-e-Taliban leader Hafiz Saeed has been placed under house arrest. A US strike in South Waziristan killed seven terrorists. Indian demanded Pakistan turn over 40 wanted terrorsts. One tanker was destroyed in an attack near a shipping terminal in Peshawar. Pakistan forces may have detained the mastermind behind the attacks on NATO convoys.
Afghanistan
Police and Coalition forces detained five members of the Haqqani Network who were behind IED attacks in Khost. The US hopes to deploy three of the four additional combat brigades into Afghanistan by the summer of 2009. Canada appears to have rejected a US request to extend the Afghan mission beyond 2011.
Europe
Police in Belgium detained 14 suspected Muslim terrorists during raids in 16 locations in Brussels and one in Liege. The arrests came just hours before the beginning of a European Union summit. One of the men is a suspected suicide bomber.
Iraq
US, Iraq set up detainee transfers
Pakistan
Pakistan: Planner of attacks on NATO supplies in Peshawar arrested?
Afghanistan
Special forces land crushing blow on Taliban in Afghanistan
Iraq
A suicide bomber killed 55 Iraqis in an attack on a tribal meeting between Sunnis and Kurds at a restaurant in Kirkuk. President Talabani was to have visited Kirkuk. Coalition forces captured six al Qaeda fighters in Baghdad and Mosul, and detained a “criminal leader” in New Baghdad. Iraqi forces detained four “suspects” behind attacks […]
Afghanistan
Road work stalls in Afghanistan™s ‘Valley of Death™
Afghanistan
EU Urged to Speed Up Afghan Police Mission
Iran
Iranian support for Iraq insurgency appears to wane: US general
Somalia
Somali security forces desert, govt vanishing: U.N.
Somalia
Somali pirates captured two Yemeni fishing boats and 22 Yemeni fishermen. The German government approved the German Navy to assist the EU in its anti-piracy fight in the Gulf of Aden. Ethiopian troops took control of Abudwaq district in Galgadud region. The United States expressed concernsabout Somalia and Yemen based terrorist safe houses.
Al Qaeda
Iraq restaurant bomb kills 55: police
Pakistan
The Hindu News – Pakistan crackdown on Jamaat-ud-Dawa an eyewash
US strike in South Waziristan kills 7
Three “foreigners” among those killed in the latest attack in Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas.
Pakistan places Lashkar-e-Taiba leader under ‘house arrest’
Hafiz Saeed is under house arrest for three months; Lashkar-e-Taiba offices closed in Karachi, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, and Azad Kashmir.
Lashkar-e-Taiba
The United Nations Security Council named Jamaat-ud-Dawa as a front group of Lashkar-e-Taiba, and proscribed its leader Hafiz Saeed and three others. Pakistan security services detained Zarar Shah, a communications expert who helped the Mumbai attackers communicate with Lashkar-e-Taiba commanders in Pakistan.
Lebanon
Fatah al Islam, an al Qaeda linked group operating in Lebanon, said Syrian forces killed Shaker al Abssi, the group’s leader. Abu Mohamad Awad has been named the new leader of the terror group.
UN declares Jamaat-ud-Dawa a terrorist front group
Hafiz Saeed and three other leaders have been named as terrorists. Pakistan has vowed to act.
Afghanistan
Six policemen and a civilian were killed by Coalition forces in a friendly fire incident in Zabul province. Afghan and Coalition forces killed four Taliban fighters in Helmand province and captured a suicide bomb facilitator in Nangarhar province.
Iraq
Coalition force killed one al Qaeda operative and detained 18 more during raids in central Iraq. No security incidents were reported in Baghdad today. One civilian was killed and two others were wounded win an IED attack in Jalawlaa.
Somalia
Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, leader of the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS), arrived in Mogadishu. African Union peacekeepers, along with Islamic Courts Union (ICU) fighters set up security patrols throughout the city. Shabaab destroyed graves in Kismayo after accusing locals of worshiping “dead people.”
Pakistan detains Lashkar-e-Taiba communications expert
Zarar Shah set up the network that allowed the Mumbai attackers communicate with Lashkar-e-Taiba commanders in Pakistan. Shah also is a liaison to Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence agency.
Pakistan
Pak govt blocks UN resolution against former ISI chief Hamid Gul
India
India identifies Mumbai attackers
Afghanistan
Friendly Fire Kills 6 Afghan Police
Pakistan
Mumbai Terror Group Trained American Jihadists