Pakistan
US sharpens focus on Lashkar-e-Taiba
Yearly Archives: 2008
Iraq develops the National Police mechanized forces
Iraq’s National Police will begin to take over internal security as capabilities increase, freeing the Army to focus on external threats.
Pakistan
India gives info tying Mumbai gunmen to Pakistan
Pakistan
Declare Jamaat-ud-Dawa a terrorist outfit: India to UN
India
India urged the UN Security Council to declare Lashker-e-Taiba front group Jamaat-ud-Dawa a terrorist organization. Police have named a fifth suspect in the Mumbai attack. An Indian patrol boat nearly boarded the Lashkar ship used in the Mumbai attack.
Pakistan
Pakistan: Former spies to be ‘declared terrorists’ in bid to curb ISI
Pakistan
Hamid Gul: The man who knows too much
Saudi Arabia
Saudi dissidents claimed security services formed a militia loyal to the government and comprised of al Qaeda members. The al Qaeda-linked militia was created to support the government against domestic revolts and foreign threats, the dissidents said, much like al Qaeda fighters are used in Yemen.
Philippines
The Philippine military believes a senior Jemaah Islamiyah operative was one of five terrorists killed during clashes with the Abu Sayyaf in Sulu. Two Jemaah Islamiyah operatives were wounded in the fighting. The military also said 60 Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Abu Sayyaf fighters were killed in fighting in Basilan.
Somalia
Witnesses: Ethiopian troops pouring into Somalia
Pakistan
Former Pakistani Intelligence Official Denies Aiding Group Tied to Mumbai Siege
Somalia
Ethiopia pullout opens door for Somali Islamists
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Lashkar-e-Taiba actively recruits Westerners, specifically Britons and Americans, and trains them in their camps inside Pakistan. Several Lashkar members have moved on to join al Qaeda and have conducted attacks or plotted to do so inside Western countries.
Al Qaeda
3 Guantanamo detainees withdraw offer to confess
Iraq
Iraqi police arrest 30 in fatal truck bombings
Iraq
British troops out of Iraq by June: media reports
Pakistan
Masood Azhar, the founder and leader of the Jaish-e-Mohammed, has been placed under house arrest. India said all of the Mumbai terrorists have been traced back to Pakistan. A 10-year-old boy was killed in a suicide bombing in Buner.
Hezbollah
Hezbollah’s Forum Hosted in USA
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces killed a senior Taliban leader in Logar province. Police and Coalition forces detained nine Haqqani fighters in Khost province. The US Department of Defense is fast-tracking the development of lighter MRAPs for Afghanistan.
Iraq
Iraqi forces detained 17 wanted men in Basrah and disabled 50 IEDs in Diwaniyah. Coalition forces detained 14 al Qaeda fighters in raids throughout Iraq. US troops detained two al Qaeda fighters and three Special Groups operatives in Baghdad.
Jaish-e-Mohammed leader placed under ‘house arrest’
Masood Azhar has been in Pakistani custody two other times in the past. Pakistan said operations against jihadi terror groups would continue.
Pakistan
More than 50 NATO vehicles and supply trucks were destroyed in a Taliban attack in Peshawar. The Army confirmed it is conducting operations against Lashkar-e-Taiba. A government official was kidnapped in North Waziristan. Three men were beheaded in Swat.
Iraq
Police commandos will protect historic sites: Iraq
Pakistan
Pakistan: Military poised for more militant raids in Punjab
Iraq
Iraqi mayor among 34 hurt by roadside bomb
Iran
Iran says will not halt atom work despite US demand
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi and eight other terrorists were arrested during government raids on Lashkar-e-Taiba camps and offices in Muzaffarabad. A Pakistani helicopter gunship reportedly fired on the camp in Shawai Nullah. Further raids are expected in Muridke, Sheikhupura, and Faisalabad.
Afghanistan
The International Council on Security and Development said the Taliban have a permanent presence in 72 percent of Afghanistan; the Afghan government said the report is “questionable” while NATO said the report is not “credible.” The US Marines are shifting their focus to Afghanistan. Canada has deployed an air wing to Kandahar.
Iraq
General Odierno said al Qaeda still has the capacity to return to areas it once controlled. US forces detained four Hezbollah Brigades operatives in Baghdad. Iraqi forces detained 16 insurgents in Baghdad and al Qaeda’s emir in Miqdadiyah.
Al Qaeda
Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other al Qaeda operatives in detention in Guantanamo Bay have informed a judge they want to immediately confess their guilt at their military tribunal. The confessions may result in Mohammed receiving the death penalty.