Afghanistan
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Yearly Archives: 2009
Iraq
Americas – Iraq PM admits US troops may stay
Swat Taliban leader ‘alive, healthy and has never been wounded’ – spokesman
Shah Doran, Fazlullah’s deputy, has been reported killed. Muslim Khan, the spokesman for Fazlullah, said the Taliban are prepared to retake Swat.
United States
Unmanned aircraft take on increased importance
Pakistan
US focuses new intelligence effort on Taliban
Pakistan
Analysis: Drone strikes begin to turn the tide
Pakistan
Pakistan – Islamic schools seed fresh fears of terror
North Korea
US military monitors potential North Korean weapons proliferation
Pakistan
Holbrooke praises Pakistan™s IDP rehabilitation efforts
Pakistan
Indian officials deny receiving Pak dossier: Indian media
Pakistan
Court: Confession won’t stop Mumbai terror trial
Pakistan
US sees Pakistan securing Swat before attacking Mehsud
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‘Camouflage Angel™ spends last moments with US combat casualties
Somalia
Twenty-five people were killed after Shabaab and Hizbul Islam forces attacked African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu; a Red Cross worker was among those killed. Fifteen civilians were wounded in a hand grenade attack in Bosasso in Puntland.
Al Qaeda
Bryant Neal Vinas, the American-born al Qaeda operative caught in Pakistan, provided intelligence that allowed the US to target al Qaeda leaders and training camps in Pakistan’s tribal areas as well as information on a possible attack on a Long Island railway. In January 2009 he pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder US nationals, providing […]
Iraq
Iraqi forces detained nine wanted men in Jalawlaa. A vehicle ban has been imposed in Baqubah after a bombing wounded three people. The Anbar provincial government posted a wanted list for more than 1,500 people accused of supporting terror attacks. The Iraqi Integrity Commission issued 1,455 arrest warrants for corruption cases this year.
Al Qaeda
US citizen captured in Pakistan gives window into Al Qaeda’s world
Afghanistan
Afghan and Coalition forces killed five Taliban fighters in an airstrike in Ghazni, and captured nine Taliban fighters in Helmand province and three more in Kandahar province. The Taliban killed three NATO soldiers in the south, captured two Afghan soldiers, and killed a civilian during an ambush on a presidential candidate in Baghlan province.
Pakistan
Taliban say Fazlullah still ‘alive’
Mauritania
Two suspected terrorists with links to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb have been arrested in Mauritania. They are accused of plotting to attack the facilities of the National Industrial and Mining Company (SNIM), the largest mineral extracting company in Mauritania. One of the suspects arrested is a Sudanese national.
Iran
Mousavi continued to call for legal action to resolve the June 12 election dispute. Mousavi’s wife claimed that her brother was arrested in the election crackdown as a means of coercion. President Ahmadinejad’s cabinet quarreled over his pick for vice president. The Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned western sanctions on its civilian aircraft, arguing that the […]
Pakistan
In Peshawar, Kalashnikovs sell like hot cakes
Pakistan
Pakistan – ‘Mehsud network being targeted with precision™
Pakistan
Pakistan to investigate bomb attack on French engineers
Pakistan
Pakistan: Rehman Malik slams US drone strikes
Pakistan
Security forces killed 27 Taliban fighters during operations in Swat, Buner, and Dir, and 10 more during airstrikes on a Taliban training camp in South Waziristan. The bodies of four Mehsud tribesmen loyal to Baitullah were found in Tank. Three small Taliban groups opposed to Baitullah reformed the Abdullah Mehsud Group.
Pakistan
Waziristan a tough nut for Pakistani forces – Los Angeles Times
Osama bin Laden’s son thought killed in Predator strike
Sa’ad bin Laden is believed to have been killed in a US Predator airstrike in Pakistan’s tribal areas. The report has not been confirmed.
Afghanistan
Marines face Taliban resistance in clashes in Afghanistan’s Helmand province
Indonesia
After analyzing DNA samples, the National Police concluded that the remains of two suspected bombers were misidentified, leaving their true identities a mystery. Some experts and officials have identified weaknesses in Indonesia’s anti-terrorism crackdown after last week’s bombings, the first Islamist terrorist attack in Indonesia in four years.