Pakistan
Pakistan’s Swat: A state within state
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Saudi Arabia
The Saudi-isation of Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan: The Power of the Pulpit
Lebanon
Lebanon U.N. force finds explosives outside base
Pakistan
Living under duress: Swat residents subjected to many ‘dos and don™ts™
Afghanistan
Mullah Abdul Rasheed, a senior Taliban commander in Uruzgan, was killed in an airstrike. A British soldier was killed in an IED attack in Helmand province. The Dutch may stay in Afghanistan past 2010. The Australians hope to leave Afghanistan by 2012.
Israel
The View From Israel: Victors in a Necessary War
Yemen
Radical Yemeni cleric Abdul Majid al Zindani has called on all Arab leaders to open camps for Arabs and allow them to volunteer for Jihad against Israel. “Open camps for volunteers to replace the Arab armies which are unable to standby their brothers in Palestine,” Zindani said. Zindani was named by the US Treasury as […]
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Relatives of Hafiz Saeed, the leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba / Jamaat-ud Dawa, have raised funds for the terror group while living and working in mosques in the eastern United States and in California. Saeed’s brother and brother-in-law are currently in US jails, while another brother was deported.
Israel
IDF begins deploying reservists into Gaza as part of ground ops
Pakistan
More than 40 Taliban and 20 Frontier Corps troops were killed in a Taliban assault ona base in Mohmand; more than 25 Frontier Corps troops have been captured. A ceasefire has been imposed in Hangu after 30 people were killed in sectarian clashes. Three Pakistanis were killed in a mortar attack in Hangu. A Senator […]
Israel
The IDF bombed smuggling tunnels along the Philadelpi route and found a booby-trapped school in Gaza City. Israeli intelligence believes Hamas has been damaged in the current offensive. Hamas fired 24 rockets into Israel and has fired anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli aircraft.
Iran
Lethal Technology Making Way From US to Iran Via Front Companies
United Kingdom
UK: Gaza protest ends in violence
Iraq
Violence dropped by 90 percent in Baghdad during 2008. Three policemen were killed in a shootout in Mosul and four more were wounded in a car bombing. A US soldier was killed in an IED attack in Baghdad on Jan. 10. Security forces detained ten insurgents in Kirkuk and a senior leader of Ansar al […]
Somalia
Somali Islamists clash as Ethiopians withdraw
Taliban assault military base in Mohmand
The Taliban attacked a Frontier Corps base in battalion strength; 40 Taliban fighters and 15 Frontier Corps troops reported killed; more than 25 troops reported missing. Four soldiers were mutilated in Bajaur.
Saudi Arabia
Saudi accused in 2000 hijacking arrested in Iraq
Yemen
The Yemeni Interior Ministry released Salim Hamdan, an admitted driver for Osama bin Laden, who has been found guilty of supporting terrorism by a military jury at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Hamdan was transferred to Yemeni custody in November 2088 after serving a little over five years of a five and a half year sentence.
Somalia
Three Somalis died after releasing the giant Saudi Super-Tanker. Spain is sending a frigate and a plane to assist pirate fighting efforts. Two aid workers held hostage for 108 days were released.
Iraq
Iraqis learn the efficiency, complexity of US logistics
Iran
US Rejected Aid for Israeli Raid on Iranian Nuclear Site
Afghanistan
Australian special forces killed a Taliban leader and several other fighters during an operation in Uruzgan province. CENTCOM commander General David Petraeus said Iran should have an interest stabilizing the situation in Afghanistan, but there are “major conflicting interests” with the West.
Afghanistan
US, Iran share interests in Afghanistan: Petraeus
Pakistan
Tribal leaders in the northwest pledged 60,000 fighters if there is a war with India. Seventeen Pakistanis were killed and more than 30 were wounded during sectarian clashes in Hangu. The Taliban are running sharia courts in Swat.
Al Qaeda
In a message released on the Internet, al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Omar al Baghdadi vowed to support the Palestinians in Gaza. “We in Iraq shall not abandon our (Arab) people in Gaza … And we shall step up our operations against the American occupiers,” he said.
Iraq
Iraqi forces detained 16 wanted men in Baghdad, two in Kirkuk, and two more in Tal Afar. US and Iraqi troops detained a Special Groups operative in Baghdad. An Iraqi soldier was killed in an IED attack in Touz Khormato.
Israel
The Israeli Defense Force dropped leaflets in Gaza City that warned it is about to begin a “new phase in the war on terror,” and that it will “escalate” the operation. Israeli troops killed the chief of Gaza City’s rocket cells. Hamas launched 10 rockets into Israel, wounding 14 Israelis.
Pakistan
Pakistan: 11 killed in Hangu clashes
Lebanon
The Lebanese Army arrested seven members of Lebanese Hamas who admited they were behind the Jan. 8 rocket attack into northern Israel. The Army and UNIFIL found a cache of 34 Grad rockets inside two bunkers in southern Lebanon.