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Irishman wants to kill for Islam
Yearly Archives: 2009
Al Qaeda
Biometric tests to identify rebels in Afghanistan
Pakistan
Security forces killed 12 Taliban fighters in Swat and five more in South Waziristan; seven fighters also surrendered in in Swat. The Taliban assassinated a tribal leader in Bajaur; three Taliban fighters were killed while attempting to assassinate a tribal leader in Peshawar. Police detained eight suspected terrorists in Peshawar.
Russia
The Caucasus Emirate claimed that a commander and nine fighters were killed in Saturday’s attack by Russian and Chechen forces. The leader was identified as Emir Islam, the commander of the Achkhoi-Martan sector of the Southwestern Front. The Chechen president said Doku Umarov may have been killed. Insurgents targeted a police checkpoint and a security […]
Iraq
Insurgents killed one child and wounded 12 Iraqis in attacks in Mosul, Ninewa, and Khanaqin. Security forces detained nine wanted men in Basrah and an al Qaeda operative near Kirkuk. Iraq and the European Union signed an agreement on counterterrorism, human rights, and trade.
United States
Gates blocks release of detainee abuse photos
Afghanistan
Clinton sets benchmarks for progress in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghan and Coalition forces killed eight Taliban fighters in Paktika and detained five more in Wardak. Six Taliban fighters and five Afghan soldiers were killed in Nuristan. The Taliban killed a British soldier in Helmand province.
Taliban kill Bajaur opposition leader, target Peshawar leader
The Taliban continue their campaign to weaken the tribal opposition in Pakistan’s northwest.
Afghanistan
Afghan insurgency tests German troops
Somalia
Insurgents attacked an AMISOM base in South Mogadishu. Gunmen killed a former member of the Transitional government in Beledweyne. Somali troops are staging a large operation against insurgents in western Gedo region. The US AFRICOM has “no plans” to arm the unmanned planes that are carrying out reconnaissance flights off the coast of Somalia.
Al Qaeda
A web of lone wolves
Afghanistan
High costs weigh on troop debate for Afghan war
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: British troops in Helmand kill 80 Taliban in 10 days of fighting
United Kingdom
Tories investigate their own Muslim website
Pakistan
CIA says it gets its money’s worth from Pakistani spy agency
British advocate negotiations with the Taliban Quetta Shura
A British memo that advocates reconciliation with the Taliban – all the way to the top level with the Quetta Shura – has surfaced. The BBC has the report: “We must weaken and divide the Taliban if we are to reduce the insurgency to a level that can be managed and contained by the Afghan […]
Afghanistan
UK ‘backs Taliban reintegration’
Pakistan
US using drones after host states™ consent: Petraeus
Canada
Khaled Nawaya was freed after one month in jail. Nawaya, a Saudi-born Syrian citizen, was arrested one month ago at the border while trying to smuggle nearly $1 million in Canadian mint gold coins. Mounties found 9/11 videotapes and a Hezbollah ring in Nawaya’s possession. He was a flight instructor in Oakland, Calif., and was […]
Pakistan
The Taliban took credit for the suicide attack against a police checkpoint in Peshawar that killed 12 people. The military killed 15 Taliban fighters in Swat and Malakand, 12 in Arakzai, seven in South Waziristan, and two more in Mohmand.
Attacks will increase in Pakistan: Qari Hussain
Scores of children train to become suicide bombers at a camp run by Qair Hussain in Spinkai, South Waziristan. Image courtesy of AfPax Insider. Qari Hussain Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban commander and trainer of child suicide bombers, has threatened to step up attacks throughout the country if the military did not end operations in South […]
Bangladesh
Police arrested three members of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba for plotting to conduct terror attacks against US and Indian interests in the capital of Dhaka. The arrests were made with intelligence gleaned from US terror suspects David Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana.
Iraq
Iraqi security forces detained 23 al Qaeda operatives in Khanaqin, Mosul, Kirkuk, Bayji, and Duwayarh; 23 wanted men in Basrah; eight insurgents in Salahadin, Diyala, and Karbala; and four more insurgents in Fallujah. Insurgents wounded one Iraqi in a bombing in Balad Ruz.
Afghanistan
Afghan and Coalition forces killed 13 Taliban fighters and detained 11 more in Wardak, Balkh, and Herat provinces. The Taliban killed two US soldiers and a civilian contractor in IED attacks in southern and eastern Afghanistan.
Somalia
After two days of heavy fighting, the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) said they had captured seven Ethiopian towns along the border with Somalia. “A significant number of Ethiopian troops have been killed and their military hardware captured or destroyed”, the group said. An Iranian senior naval commander announced that the navy has decided to […]
Spain
An Algerian accused of providing financial and logistical support to terrorists abroad through counterfeiting identity documents was arrested in Pamplona, northern Spain. The arrest in Spain is part of a Europe-wide crackdown on an Algerian terrorist-supporting cell that has led to the issuing of 17 warrants and the arrest of 10 suspects. The suspect is […]
Suicide bomber kills 10 at Peshawar checkpoint
Peshawar has been hit hard in the Taliban offensive; one-third of the major Taliban attacks have taken place in the northwestern province. Clashes were reported throughout the northwest.
Somalia
Royal Navy witnessed pirate kidnapping of couple
United States
The Fort Hood shooting: Connecting the dots