Two Spanish soldiers were killed and one was critically wounding in a suicide attack in Herat. Afghan intelligence officials arrested three suspects behind the kidnapping of a CBC journalist. The kidnapping occurred in Kabul a month ago and was covered up by the media to facilitate negotiations.
Violence in the South is rising as the political crisis in Bangkok has diverted attention from the region. Two Muslim terrorists were killed in a shootout in YAla province. Nine Army rangers were wounded in an IED attack in Narathiwat province.
Egypt sends bin Laden’s wandering son to Qatar
Pentagon surveying US alternatives to Guantánamo
Report details attack on GIs in Afghanistan
Hundreds of Muslim supporters of Bali bombers Amrozi, Mukhlas, and Imam Samudra clashed with police after their bodies were returned to their families. Rioters shouted “Jihad” as they paraded the bodies through the streets. Hundreds of police were driven from the towns.
An intelligence report stated there are “extremist concentrations” in “London, Birmingham, with significant extremist networks in the South East, notably Luton.” Thousands of jihads are supporting terror attacks inside the UK and abroad. “The majority of extremists are British nationals of south Asian, mainly Pakistani origin but there are also extremists from north and east […]
Israeli spies linked to murder of Hezbollah chief
Indonesia executes 3 Bali bombers by firing squad
Canadian journalist freed in Afghanistan
Pakistani forces killed 10 Taliban fighters wearing Frontier Corps uniforms in Swat, 25 fighters in Bajaur, and seven more in Mohmand. Eight civilians were killed by Pakistani military mortar fire in Swat. The Taliban murdered two “US spies” in North Waziristan. The Pakistani government will now refer to the Taliban as “miscreants.”
Coalition and Afghan forces killed 20 Taliban fighters in Ghazni province, and killed 10 and captured 13 more in Eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban killed the governor of Ghor province in an ambush. Coalition forces captured three Taliban leaders in Uruzgan province.
Fighting between Shabaab and Somali and Eithiopian troops north of Mogadishu killed 10 people. Hassan Dahir Aweys rejected the idea of talks to patch up rifts in the Islamic Courts. Pirates seized a Danish cargo ship with a crew of 13.
Coalition forces captured 22 al Qaeda operatives throughout Iraq. Iraqi Security Forces captured 14 al Qaeda operatives in northern Iraq, 12 insurgents in Ninewa, an al Qaeda leader in Fallujah, and another leader in Baqubah. Two Iraqi soldiers were killed in Mosul. One US soldier was killed in Baghdad.
Indonesia executed the three convicted members of Jemaah Islamiyah for the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people. Imam Samudra, Amrozi Nurhasyim, and Ali Ghufron were killed this afternoon after appeals for a stay were turned down. The bombings were funded by al Qaeda.
Pakistan Officials: Taliban Kills 2 Afghans Over Spying Accusations
Pirates Seize Danish Ship Near Somalia
Suicide bombing kills 8 in western Iraq/a>
A US strike on a Taliban and al Qaeda camp in North Waziristan killed 14 people. Twenty Taliban were killed in Pakistani airstrikes in Bajaur. One Taliban fighter was killed in a clash with a tribal militia in Swat. Police defused a bomb in a market in Hangu. Anti-Taliban pamphlets were distributed in Mohmand.
Abu Ghazwan, the former leader of the “northern Baghdad belts,” was killed in a joint raid in the Tarmiyah region.
Pakistan: Lawyers may be prosecuted under terror laws
Coalition forces captured 24 al Qaeda operatives in raids throughout the country. US troops detained a known Special Groups leader in the Rashid district of southern Baghdad. Three Iraqis were killed and 16 were wounded in three IED attacks in Baghdad. One Awakening fighter was killed and four were wounded in an IED attack north […]
Afghan Awakening
An Afghan report said a Coalition airstrike and clashes with the Taliban Kandahar province earlier this week killed 37 civilians and 26 Taliban fighters; the Taliban sought shelter near a wedding party during the fighting. Afghan forces killed one Taliban fighter and captured six during raids in Herat, Ghazni, and Khost. Australia has no plans […]
Graves dug for Bali bombers awaiting execution
Thai security forces kill 2 insurgents in Yala
Suspected Terrorists Challenge Their Detention at Guantanamo Bay
Up to 14 killed in the first cross-border attack in Pakistan’s tribal areas in one week. Three of al Qaeda’s top 20 leaders have been killed in recent strikes, said General Petraeus.
Sunni families begin to return to a neighborhood in northwestern Baghdad that was the focal point of the Mahdi Army’s efforts at sectarian cleansing more than a year ago.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb threatened to strike western targets in Algeria and North Africa in its latest videotape. The group cited Western encroachment and “the government’s policy of starving its citizens.” Islamist terrorists kidnapped and then assassinated the mayor of the northern Algerian town of Timezrit.