Lashkar-e-Taiba had a list of 320 locations throughout the world as potential targets for for military-style terror assaults such as the one carried out in Mumbai, India in November 2008. The list was discovered on the computer owned by Zarar Shah, Lashkar-e-Taiba’s communications chief and a key figure in the Mumbai attack who is in […]
Attack targeted a Shia funeral procession in Dera Ismail Khan. Curfew imposed, shoot on sight orders issued after violent riots ensued.
The Pakistani government must withdraw the Army from Swat, release all Taliban prisoners, withdraw any criminal cases, and clear the way for sharia in Swat under peace terms demanded by the Taliban.
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The Swat Taliban want the government to release its followers, drop all criminal charges, and withdraw the military. Jamaat-e-Islami demanded the implementation of sharia throughout all of Pakistan.Security forces killed 14 Taliban fighters in Bajaur. Punjab province ordered the closure of two facilities in Attack used by NATO supply convoys.
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Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb posted photographs of four of the six Western hostages currently being held by the terror group. Shown were the four vacationers kidnapped in Mali; the two Canadian diplomats kidnapped in Niger have not been shown.
Kyrgyzstan’s parliament voted 78-1 to cancel the lease agreement with the US on the Manas air base. The base is used to move supplies and men into Afghanistan. The US will have 180 days to vacate the base if President Bakiyev signs the bill.
Police arrested a suicide bomber in Kabul. Police and Coalition forces detained two members of an IED cell in Khost. The Republic of Georgia will send 100 soldiers to Afghanistan.
Interior Advisor Rehman Malik claimed Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar and terror crime boss Dawood Ibrahim are currently not in Pakistan. Azhar was previously under ‘house arrest.’
An Iraqi soldier killed three other soldiers then committed suicide. A suicide car bomber killed one policeman in Mosul. Six civilians were wounded in IED attacks in Baghdad and Fallujah. Security forces detained three drug dealers in Dhi Qhar and a wanted man in Wasit.
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Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in Bajaur. The Taliban bombed two schools in Swat and blew up the press club in South Waziristan. The Taliban will temporarily halt attacks in Bannu. The government said Masood Azhar and Dawood Ibrahim are not in Pakistan.
The main figure behind the Malakand peace accord has agreed to hunt Indian intelligence agents in Pakistan’s Taliban-infested northwest while denouncing democratic rule.
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Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the December 2008 kidnappings of two Canadian diplomats and the January 2009 kidnappings of four European tourists. “We announce to the general public that the mujahideen reserve the right to deal with the six kidnapped according to Islamic Shariah law,” a spokesman said in a videotape.
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The US has authorized 8,000 Marines and 9,000 soldiers to deploy to Afghanistan by the summer. The Afghan government has granted amnesty to 60 former Taliban fighters who claimed they had been coerced or tricked into fighting. British troops destroyed four drug labs during a large operation in Helmand province.
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Security forces detained 25 wanted men in Diyala, 14 in Baghdad, six in Mosul, and six more in Basrah. A local official was arrested in Wasit. One policeman was killed in Mosul and a politician was killed in Baghdad.
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Pakistan’s senior leaders have endorsed a peace agreement that imposes sharia on a large area of the northwest and ends military operations in Swat. The Taliban will use this agreement to further consolidate its control.
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The upper house of the British parliament ruled that Abu Qatada can be deported back to Jordan where he faces jail for terrorism charges. Qatada is considered the spiritual leader of al Qaeda in Europe and is thought to sit on the terror group’s committee that passes religious edicts.