Pakistan
Pak officially admits LeT role in 26/11: TV report
Pak officially admits LeT role in 26/11: TV report
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A US Predator strike in North Waziristan killed five Taliban fighters. The Taliban destroyed two NATO fuel tankers and several shops in an attack in Khyber. Security forces detained 18 Taliban fighters in Swat and Malakand and one of the murderers of a Polish engineer in Islamabad.
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Suicide bombers carried out the attacks on the Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott hotels. Top and his Tanzim Qaedat al-Jihad is the prime suspect.
Three US soldiers were killed during a mortar and rocket attack on a base in Basrah. Security forced detained nine terrorists in Diyala and five wanted men and two “Iranian infiltrators” in Basrah.
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The Taliban killed 11 civilians, including five children, during a bombing in Spin Boldak in Kandahar province, and a British soldier during an IED attack on Thursday. Afghan and US forces killed “several” Haqqani Network fighters during a raid on a base n Paktia and detained three more in Logar.
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A photo presentation of Jemaah Islamiyah’s leaders and the organization.
Police detained Mufty Obaidullah, a senior operative in the India-based Asif Reza Commando Force. The group is a criminal-terrorist organization with close ties to Harkat-ul-Jihadi-e-Islami, the Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence agency. Obaidullah was attempting to expand the network in Bangladesh.
US and Afghan forces raided a large base run by the Haqqanis in a remote mountainous region that straddles the Khost-Gardez Pass.
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Today’s strike killed five Taliban fighters. The attack is the first to take place outside South Waziristan since May 16.
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The Haqqani Network commander has been a major target of US forces. The US has launched attacks against him in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The senior al Qaeda leader serves as the terror group’s emir of and ambassador to Iran.
Bombs explode outside hotels in Jakarta
The notorious Taliban commander trains children to serve as suicide bombers at his camps in South Waziristan.
Twin bombings at the Ritz-Carlton and Marriott hotels in Jakarta killed at least 11 people, including foreigners, and wounded dozens more. The bombings are the first such attacks since the second Bali bombing in October 2005. Jemaah Islamiyah and the Tanzim Qaedat al-Jihad are the primary suspects.
Hakeemullah is one of the Pakistani Taliban’s most able and effective commanders and is a rising star in movement.
The senior Shabaab military commander has close links to al Qaeda.
Eleven people have been reported killed. The bombings at the Ritz-Carlton and Marriott hotels in Jakarta are the first terror attacks inside the country in years. Two other bombings have been reported in Jakarta.
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