Israel
Israeli air strike kills three Gaza terrorists
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Pakistan
Pakistani officials are accusing India of being behind the Lahore attack; India’s home minister said the accusations are ‘complete rubbish.’ A cricket official present at the attack said security was suspiciously lax. The Taliban bombed a school in Bajaur.
Iran
Iran says it will launch first atom power plant in summer
Pakistan
Pakistan: Drone attacks — a survey
Pakistan
Pakistan: How the terrorists duped security in Lahore
Pakistan
Pakistan: Two suspects accused of liberty ambush held
Iraq
Two Iraqis were killed and 21 were wounded in a bombing in Mosul. A senior Awakening leader was killed in an IED attack in Balad. Security forces detained 10 wanted men in Baghdad, three in Diyala, and three more in Nasariyah. MNF-I denied rumors that it released two Iranian prisoners.
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Philippine security forces prevent MILF bomb attack
Afghanistan
Three Canadian soldiers were killed in an IED attack in Kandahar province. A suicide attack outside the Bagram Air Base wounded three US contractors. The minister of the interior said elections would be safer in the summer than in the spring.
Pakistan
Pakistan’s militants ready for more
Iran
The commander-in-chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps said his country’s missiles can target Israel’s nuclear facilities. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attacked the US for its continuing ‘unconditional’ support of Israel. Saudi Arabia urged Arab countries to unite and stand against Iran.
Taliban violate Swat truce, kill two soldiers
The military failed to respond to ambush. President Zardari claimed talks are being held with ‘traditional local clerics’ and not the Taliban.
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Indian and US investigators determined the identity of two of the Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives involved in the Mumbai attacks. Abu Al Qama, LeT’s operations chief in India, is Mazhar Iqbal; Zarar Shah, the trainer of the assault team, is Abdul Wajid. LeT had plans to set up an operational base in Colaba in South Mumbai.
Pakistan
President Zardari: Pakistan is steadfast against terror
Pakistan
Pakistan: Lahore attack fuels a nation’s unravelling
Pakistan
A terrorist assault team attacked a convoy transporting the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore. Six police and one civilian were killed, and seven cricketers and 11 policemen were wounded; the attackers escaped. Sixty suspects are being questioned. Sufi Mohammed threatened to end negotiations in Swat, where the Taliban killed two soldiers. Five Shia were […]
Somalia
Hizbul Islam, a coalition of Islamists groups fighting the Somali government forces and African Union peacekeepers, has rejected a ceasefire offer from President Ahmed. “We will attack the enemy and their stooges anytime we want,” the spokesman for Hizbul Islam said.
Iraq
AP count: Iraqi deaths hover near lowest level
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait: Security stepped up at Saudi embassy amid attack fears
Iraq
Key Iraq training units still being developed
Algeria
Security forces killed 16 al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb during a weekend raid on an enemy base in the town of Bilda, about 50 miles south of the capital of Algiers. The raid was launched based on intelligence information gathered from a cell that was disrupted earlier last week.
Pakistan
Pakistan: Indian expert blames local militants for Lahore attacks
Philippines
One day after Philippine President Macapagal-Arroyo announced the intention to resume peace negotiations with the Moro Islamic Front (MILF), intense fighting erupted between the Army and the MILF on the island of Mindanao. Two Filipino soldiers were wounded, along with an undetermined number of insurgent causalities.
Afghanistan
Govt writ in Kandahar limited to three districts: Wafa
Iraq
Iraqi security forces detained 14 wanted men in Sulaimaniya, six in Basrah, five in Baqubah, and four more in Kirkuk. A policeman was killed in Al Kut. The number of detainees in Coalition custody dropped below 14,000.
Iran
The US Treasury Department designated 11 companies under Executive Order 13382 as Weapons of Mass Destruction proliferators and froze their assets for their ties to Iran’s Bank Melli. The US, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and China have committed to ‘direct diplomacy’ with Iran over its nuclear program.
Pakistan
Pakistani terrorists assault Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore
A 12-man squad hit the cricket team as it traveled to a stadium in the eastern city. Five policemen and two civilians were killed; seven Sri Lankan cricketers and 11 security personnel were wounded.
Yemen: New terror camps as a city falls to jihadists
Al Qaeda-linked terror groups establish new training camps throughout the county as an Islamic Emirate is declared in the city of Jahr.
Iraq
In Arab Jabour, troops step aside, serve as ‘enablers™ for the Iraqis