Pakistan
Mumbai gunmen all from Pakistan: Indian minister
Yearly Archives: 2008
Afghanistan
Coalition troops killed 16 Hezb-i-Islami fighters in Kabul. Three civilians were killed in a suicide attack on a German convoy in Kabul. A female UN employee and a security contractor were killed. The German general in charge of special forces savaged his country’s efforts in Afghanistan.
Somalia
Two people were killed and 10 were wounded in three bombings in Baidoa. Ethiopian forces are being surged into southern Somalia prior to a planned pullout. The Islamic Courts flogged five people in Baladwein.
Pakistan
Pakistani Army official calls Baitullah Mehsud, Fazlullah ‘patriots’
India
Indian Mujahideen email threatens Delhi
Iraq
Iraqi forces detained 105 “wanted men” in Basrah, 18 in Mosul, 15 in Baghdad, and eight al Qaeda fighters in northern Iraq. US forces captured an al Qaeda in Iraq car bomb cell leader and three “criminals” in Baghdad. The UN said “militants” would try to disrupt elections.
Captured Mumbai attacker implicates Pakistani military, intel
Lashkar-e-Taiba operative Ajmal Amir Kasab said the Pakistani Navy and Dawood Ibrahim’s criminal network aided in the attack, while information shows the terrorists made phone calls to senior Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders.
Afghanistan
Suicide bomber hits German embassy vehicle in Kabul
Somalia
Somali pirates to release Ukraine ship with arms
Iraq
All options are open, resistance legitimate right – Sadrist MP
Iraq
Militants will try to disrupt Iraq election: U.N.
India
Urban jihad comes to town
Pakistan
Pakistani militant group focus of US intelligence
India
Aide: India’s home minister offers to resign
US military defines Mahdi Army as ‘militia insurgency group’
The move may signal a change in posture against the Mahdi Army and Muqtada al Sadr. It also highlights the
decline of the Sadrist movement over the past two years.
India
Mumbai: Why did NSG take 9 hrs to get there?
India
Mumbai locals helped us, terrorist tells cops
India
Captured Mumbai terrorist Azam Amir Kasab said locals in the city assisted in executing the attacks; he revealed names and addresses of at least five people. As a result of the 62-hour siege in Mumbai, 195 people have been confirmed killed and more than 300 were wounded.
India
A Marine Officer on the Mumbai tactics
Pakistan
A US strike in North Waziristan killed three. President Zardari warned India “against over-reaction” on the Mumbai attacks. Pakistani defense sources said the situation with India may force the military to withdraw its 100,000 troops from the Afghan border. Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Pakistani Taliban denied involvement in the Mumbai attacks. Thirteen people were killed and […]
Iraq
Iraqis find 33 bodies beneath former Al Qaeda ‘court’
Al Qaeda
Bin Laden-inspired group wants Asian caliphatee
India
Indian official: Terrorists wanted to kill 5,000
India
Mumbai photographer: I wish I’d had a gun, not a camera. Armed police would not fire back
Nigeria
300 bodies taken to mosque on 2nd day of riots
Iraq
US training Iraqis to defeat deadly roadside bombs
Pakistan
Save Pakistan To Save Us
Indian commandos end 62-hour siege of Mumbai
Officials said 195 people have been killed, including 22 foreigners, and more than 300 are reported wounded so far. A captured terrorist said the attack was organized by the Lashkar-e-Taiba and originated in Pakistan.
Iraq
A rocket attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad’s International Zone killed two civilians and wounded 15. Coalition forces captured a senior member of the Hezbollah Brigades in Baghdad, eight Special Groups fighters, and six “criminals” in Baghdad. Iraqi forces detained a “Mahdi Army Special Groups (JAM-SG) criminal leader” and two al Qaeda operates in […]
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces killed 52 Taliban and captured one commander in operations throughout the country. Thirty-three fighters were killed in Helmand province, 12 were killed in Kandahar province, four were killed in Farah province, and three were killed in Ghazni province. The Taliban commander was captured in Ghazni as he tried to escape a […]