Pakistan
Two journalists held after helping media probe Mumbai attacker™s background
Yearly Archives: 2009
Caucasus Emirate leader thought killed in raid
Chechen and Russian forces think Doku Umarov may be among the more than 20 jihadis killed during a raid in Chechnya. Three of Umarov’s senior aides were killed in the attack.
Pakistani generals linked to US terror suspects
Ajmal Kasab, the lone Lashkar-e-Taiba operative captured after the Mumbai assault, outside of the train station. Mohawat Hussain Rana, one of two US-based terror suspects involved in plots to attack a Danish newspaper as well as targets in India, has two brothers serving in senior positions in the Pakistani Army. Rediff News reported that Rana […]
Al Qaeda opens new training camp in Yemen
More than 400 fighters from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Somalia are housed in the Abyan camp, one of several operating in the country with the knowledge of the government.
United Kingdom
Muslims must quit British Forces, says Iranian envoy Abdolhossein Moezi
United States
Ohio US attorney: shift some attention from terror
Pakistan
Suicide bombers killed 10 Pakistanis in an attack on an intelligence headquarters and killed seven more in an attack on a police station in Bannu. Twelve soldiers and six Taliban fighters were killed in fighting in South Waziristan. Nine missing soldiers in Mohmand have returned to base. The Taliban torched five NATO fuel tankers in […]
Iraq
Security forces detained 34 suspects in Basrah; 15 al Qaeda operatives in Jananiyah, Rashidiyah, and Khanaqin; a former Baathist leader turned al Qaeda operative in Sulaymaniyah; and a Mahdi Army member in Baghdad. Insurgents killed a Christian boy in Mosul and wounded seven Iraqis in Baqubah and Khanaqin.
Somalia
The French navy captured 12 suspected pirates off the coasts of Somalia. Rwandan police are holding four Somalis for illegally entering the country. One of those arrested was carrying a forged South African passport. Hizbul Islam appointed a new Islamic administration in the Hiran region.
‘Lashkar-e-Taiba is a member of al Qaeda’
Osama bin Laden escorted by the Black Guard. Jean-Louis Bruguiere, a former French investigative magistrate who specialized on al Qaeda and investigated the terror group in Pakistan, has more damning information on al Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the groups’ ties to each other and the Pakistani state. From Reuters: In an interview, Bruguiere said he was […]
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Secretary Clinton urges Philippines to strike peace deal with MILF
Algeria
An Algerian court has sentenced Abdelmalek Droukdel, the leader of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, to death in absentia. In addition, 48 accused AQIM co-defendants received various sentences, including other notorious AQIM emirs. Already sentenced to death for other terrorist attacks, Droukdel received the current death sentence for his group’s involvement in the April […]
United States
Muslim man arrested for ‘anti-Christian’ mall disturbance
Khamenei sanctions new intelligence agency
According to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), a Paris-based group comprised of Iranian exiles (and some insiders in Iran), Tehran’s Grand Ayatollah, Ali Khamenei, has sanctioned the creation of a new intelligence organization charged with shielding the regime from domestic uprisings. Hassan Taeb, previously a lead commander of the Basij militia, is […]
United States
A US government official said 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and conspirators Walid bin Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Ahmed al Hawsawi will be moved from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to New York City to be tried in a federal court. US Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce […]
Afghanistan
The Taliban took credit for a suicide attack on a military convoy on Jalalabad Road near Camp Phoenix in Kabul; nine ISAF troops, 10 contractors, and several civilians were wounded. Afghan and Coalition forces killed two Taliban fighters and detained a commander and several more fighters in Wardak, Khost, Kandahar, and Zabul. Germany will send […]
Saudi Arabia
Saudi women may soon practise law
Iran
Western diplomats said the Qom nuclear plant is seven years old. The US government moved to seize property with ties to Tehran. An Iranian exile group reported the creation of a new domestic intelligence agency created by Khamenei.
India
India likely will request terror suspects David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana be extradited from the US. Indian intelligence believes Headley scouted Mumbai for the Lashkar-e-Taiba prior to the November 2008 terror assault. Headley is also suspected of scouting five other Indian cities for possible attacks.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Interview: Abdullah Abdullah
United States
Guantanamo detainees heading to US
United States
Fort Hood shooting suspect’s superiors questioned behavior
United States
Death penalty rare, executions rarer in military
Suicide bomber targets Pakistani intelligence headquarters in Peshawar
Ten Pakistanis have been reported killed and more than 35 wounded in an attack that targeted the headquarters of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency in the provincial capital. A second suicide attack killed seven at a police station in Bannu.
Somalia
Masked gunmen killed chief judge Sheikh Mohamed Abdi Aware, who recently sent four members of Shabaab to jail in Bosaso, and killed a lawmaker in Garowe in Puntland. Two boarding units from a Norwegian frigate came under fire from pirates while on an inspection mission close to the coast. EU foreign ministers will endorse a […]
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An Afghan development model: Small is better
Afghanistan
Dutch troops’ method in Afghanistan gains new prominence
Afghanistan
Afghan police burdened by military expectations
United States
The FBI moved to seize four mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper in New York City that are owned by the Alavi Foundation, which is a front for the Iranian government. The total assets are worth more than $500 million. Fort Hood shooter Major Hasan may have wired money to Pakistan.
Spain
A court said the Pakistani Taliban ordered a cell of men based in Pakistan and India to conduct suicide attacks in Barcelona’s subway system. Eleven members of the cell were detained in January 2008 after one of the cell members turned himself in to authorities.