Philippine troops detained Jemaah Islamiyah bombmaker Giovanni De Ocampo and four associates after a clash in the southern Compostela Valley province. Ocampo was a leader in the communist New People’s Army. Books written by executed Bali bombers Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra are being sold in Indonesia despite a ban.
Books by Bali bombers being sold
Hezbollah denies involvement in abduction of Lebanese soldier
Bombings in Mosul and Kirkuk killed three soldiers and one civilian, and wounded 20 others. Security forces detained one wanted man in Baghdad and two more in Khanaqin, and five members of a group involved in the bombings of policemen’s homes in Anbar.
Pakistan crisis: Army chief Kayani meets PM Gilani
Coup fears prompt Pakistan crackdown
Now, Taliban knocks on Peshawar’s door
Swat agreement unnerving the US: Top intelligence official
The US Senate Majority Leader stated that Lashkar-e-Taiba has links with Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence agency and that it was built by the ISI to fight in Kashmir. ‘So its [LeT’s] relationship to the Pakistan intelligence service is very disturbing,’ Senator Reid said.
Iran says capitalism on verge of collapse
Three people were killed in Peshawar after an assault team attempted to kill the chief minister of the Northwest Frontier Province.
Seven Afghan soldiers were killed in an IED attack in Khost province. Four civilians were killed and six were wounded in an IED attack in Helmand province. Afghan and British forces have launched an operation in the Kanishin area of Helmand province.
Somali extremists said recruiting in US
A former Guantanamo detainee, Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, is now one of the Taliban’s main commanders in southern Afghanistan. Rasoul is reportedly in charge of countering America’s surge of forces in Afghanistan.
Somalia’s council of ministers on Tuesday endorsed a plan to introduce sharia, or Islamic law, in the country, a key demand by Islamists who are opposed to the government. Germany’s navy handed over nine suspected Somali pirates to Kenyan authorities.
Bomb kills 4 civilians in southern Afghanistan
US halted some raids in Afghanistan
Army has to do something: Musharraf
The Army and Rangers have deployed in Punjab province to disrupt the Long March. Police have begun arresting members of the opposition, including Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, and Imran Khan. Security forces claimed to have killed 35 Taliban fighters in Dara Adam Khel.
Mullah Abdullah Zakir, the Taliban’s top operations officer in southern Afghanistan, was a detainee at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility. The US released Zakir and 12 other Taliban fighters to Afghan custody in December 2007. The Afghan government later released him.
Bali bombers ‘would testify against Hambali’
Alleged Al Qaeda sleeper agent in court for first time
Muslim extremists shout abuse at British soldiers during home-coming march
A suicide bomber killed more than 28 Iraqis, including tribal leaders, military officers, policemen, and journalists, as they toured a market in Abu Ghraib. Two civilians were killed and six were wounded in a bombing in Mosul; one child was killed in a bombing at a wedding in Mosul. Security forces detained 18 wanted men […]
Major-General Hassan Firouzabadi, the top military commander, said the US is “warmongering” and he sees no change in policy toward his country. Iran is counting on Russia to facilitate the opening of the Bushehr nuclear power plant by September 2009.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other al Qaeda operatives filed a document with the military commission at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility admitting to their role in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. The five al Qaeda operatives described themselves as the “9/11 Shura Council” and said charges against them are “a […]
The US Government Accountability Office said attacks on local Afghan security forces have tripled over the past year; on average, more than 56 police officers were killed per month. An Afghan reporter who worked with the Canadian media was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in the city of Kandahar.
Battle for Pakistan
Pakistan – How we lost Swat
Musharraf offers to become President again