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Yearly Archives: 2009
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MILF defends Abu Sayyaf hostages
Baitullah Mehsud takes credit for Pakistan attacks, threatens US
Pakistan’s Taliban leader threatened to strike in Washington and said the recent attacks on the Lahore police training center, a military convoy in Bannu, and a special police unit in Islamabad were in response to the US air campaign targeting Taliban leaders in Pakistan’s tribal areas.
Yemeni detainee at Gitmo to be freed
The US Justice Department has agreed to release a Yemeni detainee from Guantanamo. The detainee, Ayman Saeed Abdullah Batarfi, is a well-educated orthopedic surgeon who allegedly worked for al Qaeda and assisted the organization’s chief anthrax scientist.
Iran
US to retain pressure on Iran Guards
Yemen
Yemeni inmate to leave Guantanamo
Al Qaeda
Obama abandons ‘war on terror’ phrase
Iran
Gates prefers sanctions to diplomacy for Iran
Iran
On the eve of a conference on Kabul, Iran’s deputy foreign minister rejected the role of NATO forces in the country. “The presence of foreign troops cannot bring peace and stability for Afghanistan,” Mohammad Mehdi Akhoundzade said. “It encourages radicalism.”
Pakistan
Pakistan needs help to fight terrorism: US
Pakistan
A terrorist assault on a police training center in Lahore killed more than 30 recruits and officers. The South Waziristan-based Fedayeen-e-Islam said it conducted the attack. A Taliban suicide bomber killed four security personnel in Bannu. Security forces launched a new operation in Khyber.
Waziristan-based terror group takes credit for Lahore assault
The Fedayeen-e-Islam, a front for the Jaish-e-Mohammed, said it conducted the attack on the Lahore police training center in retaliation for the Pakistan military’s presence in the tribal areas
Iraq
US seeks to reassure Sunni allies
Pakistan
Pakistan: Lahore under Siege, Hostage Crisis Engulfs the City
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber dressed as a policeman killed nine people, including five policemen, and wounded several others in an attack on a police station in Kandahar’s Andar district. Three policemen were killed in an IED attack in Paktia province.
Iraq
Insurgents killed two security personnel and wounded six more during attacks in Mosul. Three Awakening fighters were killed near Hillah. Security forces detained seven wanted men in Babil, four men behind a politician’s murder in Ninewa, and a “dangerous” wanted man in Amarah. The British have begun their withdrawal from Iraq.
Pakistan
Pakistan: Home-grown Al-Qaeda led militants ‘behind Lahore attack’
Yemen
Saudi Jihadist accuses Iran of sponsoring al Qaeda
Hezbollah
Hezbullah, UNIFIL butt heads in Yohmor
Israel
Details behind the Attack on Arms Smugglers in Sudan
Sudan
Arab leaders snub al-Bashir warrant
Thailand
Four militants were killed and two were captured after ambushing a squad of ten soldiers on foot patrol in Narathiwat province. Prime Minister Vejjajiva announced four strategies to resolve violence in the south, including massive spending on projects that will continue until 2012.
Philippines
The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross made another appeal to Abu Sayyaf hostage takers to release three Red Cross volunteers who were abducted and are held on Jolo island. A senator argued that Abu Sayyaf was testing the government and that the military should not withdraw its forces from Jolo island.
Iraq
Britain to start Iraq pullout on Tuesday
Pakistan
Pakistan: A survivor recounts attack on police academy
Terrorists storm Lahore police academy, kill more than 30
A terrorist assault team launched a complex attack against a police academy, killing dozens of recruits and officers. The attack is the latest in a series of complex military assaults by Pakistani terror groups.
Afghanistan
Ex-Commander Says Most Afghan Taliban Want Peace
Pakistan
The Taliban captured 12 policemen in Khyber, freed three policemen in Hangu, and banned unaccompanied women from markets in Malakand. The government blocked seven illegal FM channels in Charsadda. Sufi Mohammed warned of violence in Swat if President Zardari did not sign legislation approving sharia.
Pakistan
US rules out troops in Pakistan
Iraq
Iraqi forces detained 20 insurgents in Baghdad and nine al Qaeda fighters in Diyala, Insurgents killed six Iraqis in Basrah, and wounded 15 Iraqis in Mosul and four more in Baghdad, and eight policemen in Kirkuk.