Pakistan
Taliban will soon capture Islamabad, says Mullah Nazir
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Pakistan
The US killed four Taliban fighters in an airstrike in South Waziristan. Security forces detained more than 150 Afghans and tribesmen in Lahore. Police in Karachi detained five Lashkar-e-Jhangvi fighters. The Buner tribes are organizing more lashkars to fight the Taliban who are advancing in the district.
United Kingdom
Imam wins landmark battle against ‘Muslim McCarthyism’
United Kingdom
Hundreds of counterterrorism police detained 12 men in northwestern England. Ten of the men are Pakistani nationals in the country on student visas. The raids were carried out after a sensitive document hand-carried by a senior official had been photographed and published.
Iran
An American journalist has been charged with espionage. Iran is open to negotiations with the US “should it really and truly be based on honesty, justice and respect,” President Ahmadinejad said. The US, Russia, China, France, Germany, and Britain will invite Iran to hold talks on its nuclear program.
Afghanistan
Fewer airstrikes in Afghanistan mirror tactical shift
Afghanistan
Afghan troops killed six Taliban fighters as they were planting IEDs in the district of Shaheed Hasas in Uruzgan province. A Coalition soldier was killed during combat in southern Afghanistan. Poland will send an additional 320 troops to Afghanistan.
Europe
Italy: Jihadists exalt Abruzzo earthquakes
Somalia
Canadian arrested in Somalia allegedly member of Islamist militia
Pakistan
Al Qaeda gang that attacked NATO convoys arrested in Karachi
Europe
Austrian Al-Qaeda cell watched for 3 years
Iraq
Seven Iraqis were killed and 23 were wounded in a car bombing in a Shia neighborhood in Baghdad. Fallujah has been put under curfew after an April 7 suicide attack. Security forces detained an al Naqshabandiya member in Kirkuk. President Talabani warned of al Qaeda’s return to Baghdad.
Philippines
Seven accused Abu Sayyaf conspirators, including two police officers, who were arrested on April 2 were released without charge. The Regional Peace and Order Council of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao agreed to mediate potential future peace talks between Abu Sayyaf and the government.
Somalia
Pirates have seized a cargo ship with a crew of 21 Americans about 400 miles off the coast of Somalia. The US crew appears to have regained control of the ship. Secret talks between the government and Hizbul Islam are reportedly underway; unconfirmed reports indicate Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys is participating in the negotiations.
US Predator kills 4 in South Waziristan strike
The latest attack took place in the tribal areas run by Mullah Nazir. A Predator fired on a vehicle in the town of Gangi Khel, the scene of a strike in January.
Iraq
Bomb kills 7 near Baghdad Shi’ite shrine: police
Pakistan
Pakistan arrests 5 militants planning attacks
Pakistan
Alarm at LoC but it’s jihadis, not Taliban
Afghanistan
Afghan villagers often pleased with security gains but unwilling to help US troops
Pakistan
Sixteen Taliban fighters, three policemen, and two tribal fighters were killed during fighting in Buner. The Taliban killed two policemen in Kohat and bombed a music shop in Peshawar. Tribes in Dir threatened to attack the Taliban if hostages are not released.
Iraq
Wanted Saddam deputy says to topple Iraq government, forge US ties
Iraq
Iraq bombs linked to militias that fought with US against al Qaeda
Iran
Major powers look at new ways to coax Iran
Afghanistan
The world’s youngest terrorist – aged 11 – arrested for being a potential suicide bomber
Saudi Arabia
Security forces detained 11 members of a suspected al Qaeda cell operating in the mountains of southern Saudi Arabia. The cell had plans to “attack policemen, kidnap local citizens, and rob banks in order to finance their terrorist activities” and “were in touch with al Qaeda elements outside Saudi Arabia,” an interior ministry spokesman said.
Taliban advance on Buner
The Pakistani Taliban seek to spread sharia by force in a small district in Pakistan’s northwest.
Hezbollah
2006 Israel-Lebanon war looms large in Pentagon debate on future
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces killed four Taliban fighters and captured two more in Kandahar province. Two NATO troops were killed and eight were wounded in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan.
Iraq
A car bomb killed nine Iraqis in Baghdad. A suicide bomber killed one person and wounded 35 more in Fallujah. Security forces detained 65 wanted men in Basrah, 43 more in Dhi Qhar, and 10 insurgents in Kirkuk. An Iraqi tribal leader was assassinated near Mosul. President Obama visited Baghdad for talks with Prime Minister […]
Pakistan
Pakistan: Country ponders militancy and ‘war on terror’