Pakistan
Pakistan’s failing war on terror
Yearly Archives: 2009
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The UK agrees to aid in resumption of formal peace talks between MILF and Philippines
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Muslim separatist campaign has intensified in Thailand
India
India blocks millions of mobiles for security reasons
Iran
Iran offers $20m to militants for fighting west
Somalia
Shabaab fighters reportedly disarmed Hizbul Islam top leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, according to state radio. Security forces in Bosaso captured a wanted pirate called Omar Hassan Osman, also known as Baqalyo, who hijacked and received $4 million in ransom from an Italian ship.
United States
The US Attorney’s office has announced that hearings for David Coleman Headley will be deferred indefinitely. Headley was scheduled for preliminary and detention hearings on Dec. 4 for his role in a conspiracy to carry out attacks abroad on behalf of Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Pakistan
Pakistani journalist critical of the military is threatened
Iraq
Civilian deaths in Iraq have dropped to a six-year low in November. Iraqi and US forces detained 11 al Qaeda fighters in Northern Iraq and two more in Diyala, and four insurgents in Dalouiya. Insurgents killed a civilian and wounded a soldier and 14 more civilians in Kirkuk, Baghdad, and Mosul.
Pakistan
Pakistan’s Zardari on the ropes
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed a civilian and wounded three more in a bombing in Uruzgan, and wounded a policeman in an attack on checkpoints in Kunduz. Afghan and Coalition forces detained four Haqqani Network fighters in Khost. Australia said it will increase police and civilian aid to Afghanistan.
United Kingdom
British Muslim woman lawmaker pelted with eggs
Iran’s fist still clenched
An IRGC Navy fast attack speed boat (near boat). Image from Fars News. Thanksgiving weekend gave President Obama little to be thankful for in terms of the administration’s nuclear negotiations with Iran. Not only did Tehran turn down the offer of sending its nuclear material to Russia for enrichment, but the Iranians also declared a […]
Afghanistan
UK – Special forces provide unique abilities in Afghanistan
Iran
Senior cleric denounces Iranian militia for crackdown
Suicide bomber kills Pakistani politician
A member of a secular Pashtun political party who served in the provincial assembly was killed as he greeted Eid well-wishers outside his home in Swat.
Al Qaeda
Italy’s Gitmo detainees linked to al-Qaida base
Iran
Tehran warned that it will take strong action against five detained British sailors whose yacht entered Iran’s Persian Gulf waters. China announced that more talk, not tougher sanctions are needed to resolve the Iranian nuclear dispute.
Al Qaeda
Algerian Guantanamo detainee transferred to France
Hekmatyar offers terms for ‘peace’ in Afghanistan
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of a faction of the Hezb-i-Islami that is allied with the Taliban and al Qaeda, is toeing the Taliban line on conditions for “peace” in Afghanistan: a full US/NATO withdrawal and the “transfer of power to an Islamic government” (read: the Taliban). He even went one step further and is calling […]
Somalia
Pirates seized a Greek-flagged supertanker transporting oil to the US. Several Hizbul Islam officials led by warlord Sheikh Ahmed Mohammed Islam Madobe fled to Kenya, after Shabaab seized two towns near the border. Reports said the fleeing officials held meetings with top Kenyan security officials and are currently in the capital Nairobi.
Iran
US says Iran enrichment plans ‘completely unacceptable’
Al Qaeda
Jihadist revisions or just a change of heart?
Israel
Hezbollah plans to continue arming to fight Israel
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US helps Philippines in fight against IEDs
Pakistan
Security forces killed 10 Taliban fighters in Kurram and detained 10 in Swat and South Waziristan. The Frontier Corps said 61 Lashkar-e-Islam, Taliban, and Uzbek and Afghan fighters have been killed since the latest operation began in Khyber last week.
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Swiss minaret ban ‘extreme Islamophobia’
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Lashkar-i-Taiba denies links to US arrests
Iran
Iran holds yacht with 5 UK nationals
Afghanistan
British troops fear defeat at home, not in Afghanistan