Yearly Archives: 2009

Somalia

| March 13, 2009

ICU calls for Somali government to implement Sharia law

Pakistan

| March 12, 2009

A US airstrike on a Taliban training camp in Kurram killed more than 15 fighters. Security forces killed 18 Taliban fighters in Mohmand and detained nine ‘foreigners’ in South Waziristan. A suicide bomber killed three people in an attack on a fort in Khyber and bombed 20 shops in Nowshera and an internet cafe in […]

Bangladesh

| March 12, 2009

The government claimed that al Qaeda-linked Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh was involved in the coup attempt by the border police that resulted in the murder of 73 officers. “Not all BDR (Bangladesh Rifles) men were involved (in the mutiny) … and some JMB (Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh) links have been found,” the commerce minister said.

Iraq

| March 12, 2009

Three Iraqi soldiers and two policemen were killed in three separate attacks in Mosul and Ninewa province. A Sunni cleric was gunned down in Basrah. Security forces detained 20 wanted men in Maysan province, two Naqshabandiya members in Makhmour, and an al Qaeda leader in Diyala.

Somalia’s rising tide of extremism

| March 12, 2009

Four high-level US officials discussed the terrorist threat emanating from Somalia, as well as the Somali terrorist recruiting network on American soil, this week. The officials confirmed that al Qaeda and its allies are growing stronger by the day in East Africa.

Afghanistan

| March 12, 2009

The US appointed General Karl Eikenberry the new US Ambassador to Afghanistan. A British bomb squad was ambushed in Helmand. Afghan journalists marched in Kandahar to protest poor security.

Iraq

| March 12, 2009

Iraqi PM says terrorists are losing capability

Hezbollah

| March 12, 2009

Hezbollah must ‘recognize Israel, halt violence’ prior to US talks

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| March 12, 2009

Thailand to deploy more troops to troubled southern provinces

Pakistan

| March 11, 2009

The Chief Minister of the Northwest Frontier Province escaped an assassination attempt in Peshawar. The Zardari government had hundreds of members of the political opposition arrested in an attempt to disrupt the Long March. Security forces detained 45 suspected Taliban fighters in Hangu. A NATO supply truck was torched near Quetta.

Jemaah Islamiyah

| March 11, 2009

Philippine troops detained Jemaah Islamiyah bombmaker Giovanni De Ocampo and four associates after a clash in the southern Compostela Valley province. Ocampo was a leader in the communist New People’s Army. Books written by executed Bali bombers Amrozi, Mukhlas and Imam Samudra are being sold in Indonesia despite a ban.

Hezbollah

| March 11, 2009

Hezbollah denies involvement in abduction of Lebanese soldier

Iraq

| March 11, 2009

Bombings in Mosul and Kirkuk killed three soldiers and one civilian, and wounded 20 others. Security forces detained one wanted man in Baghdad and two more in Khanaqin, and five members of a group involved in the bombings of policemen’s homes in Anbar.

Pakistan

| March 11, 2009

Swat agreement unnerving the US: Top intelligence official

Lashkar-e-Taiba

| March 11, 2009

The US Senate Majority Leader stated that Lashkar-e-Taiba has links with Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence agency and that it was built by the ISI to fight in Kashmir. ‘So its [LeT’s] relationship to the Pakistan intelligence service is very disturbing,’ Senator Reid said.

Iran

| March 11, 2009

Iran says capitalism on verge of collapse