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Philippine military attacks Abu Sayyaf encampment in heavy fighting
Yearly Archives: 2009
Iraq
Attacks on Eid were rare; only one attack in Babil, with three killed, was reported. Security forces detained 17 wanted men in Baqubah and six more in Basrah, an al Qaeda operative near Hillah and a female al Qaeda operative in Muqdadiyah, and a weapons smuggler and deal near Ramanah. Al Qaeda’s Islamic State of […]
United States
US stadiums, hotels on watch for terrorists
Afghanistan
Afghanistan election review will be based on sample
Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Fighting fire with fire
Afghanistan
The Independent Election Commission and the Electoral Complaints Commission will use a sampling instead of an investigation to determine voter fraud; more than 20 percent of the 5.5 million ballots are thought to be tainted. The Pentagon is urging General McChrystal to delay a request for more troops. Two ISAF soldiers and “several insurgents” were […]
Italy
A 41 year old Algerian national has been arrested in Rome, Italy. He is alleged to have links to the Islamic organization, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA). He is wanted by Algerian authorities for his terrorist links. Although holding an Irish passport, the man has evaded an extradition order issued by Algeria since 2003.
Somalia
Shabaab has proclaimed its allegiance to Osama bin Laden in a video entitled “At your service, Osama” distributed in Mogadishu, where a public screening was also organized. In the video appears Abu Mansour al Amriki, an American citizen in charge of military training for Shabaab. Six civilians were killed in Mogadishu after insurgents and government […]
Iran
President Ahmadinejad warned against a military attack against Iran. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei blamed the western media for poisoning Iran’s Qods Day celebration. The US and Iran are headed into the Oct. 1 negotiations worlds apart.
Pakistani Army, Taliban clash in Waziristan
The Taliban claimed 45 Pakistani soldiers were killed in a battalion-sized assault in North Waziristan. The military claimed 26 Taliban fighters were killed in airstrikes in South Waziristan, while eight more were killed in North Waziristan.
Somalia
Video: Somali crowds vow allegiance to bin Laden
Philippines
Eight Philippine troops were killed in an ambush by Abu Sayyaf fighters. The soldiers were returning to base from a mission in which they overran an Abu Sayyaf camp of 200 fighters near the town of Indanan on Jolo Island. Nineteen Abu Sayyaf fighters were killed in the Army assault on the camp, which was […]
Pakistan
Sources: US eyes more drone hits on terror havens
United States
Timeline of Events in NYC Terror Probe
Najibullah Zazi and the New York/Colorado raids
Najibullah Zazi. AP photo Over the weekend, three men were arrested and charged in the ongoing terror probe centered around New York and Colorado. The three men are Najibullah Zazi, 24; his father Mohammed Wali Zazi, 53; and Ahmad Wais Afzali, 37. Though all three were charged with making false statements to authorities, terrorism charges […]
Pakistan
Saeed under ‘house arrest’, was Pak army’s iftar guest
Pakistan
Security forces detained Abu Faraj, a Taliban commander who was behind suicide attacks in Swat. Faraj was wounded by soldiers before he was captured in Swat. Police killed one suicide bomber in Buner; two others escaped. The suicide bomber was planning to assassinate the provincial education minister.
Iran
Israel says still has military option on Iran
McChrystal to resign if not given resources for Afghanistan
Within 24 hours of the leak of the Afghanistan assessment to The Washington Post, General Stanley McChrystal’s team fired its second shot across the bow of the Obama administration. According to McClatchy, military officers close to General McChrystal said he is prepared to resign if he isn’t given sufficient resources (read “troops”) to implement a […]
General McChrystal’s report on Afghanistan and external influences
The Washington Post has leaked an unclassified version of General Stanley McChrystal’s long-awaited report on Afghanistan. The full report, all 66 pages, can be found here. The Washington Post provides a good roundup of the report. In short, and it should come as no surprise, McChrystal calls for a change in strategy by ISAF, which […]
Lashkar-e-Taiba chief again placed under house arrest
Hafiz Saeed is placed under house arrest in Lahore for the second time in 10 months. Police filed charges against Saeed for preaching jihad and raising funds for terror activities just days ago.
Afghanistan
Afghan jails are base for al-Qaida and Taliban, says US commander
Afghanistan
According to a leaked report, General McCrystal is seeking more troops and a change in strategy or the US will encounter “mission failure.” Coalition and Afghan troops have halted offensive operations to observe the UN’s International Day of Peace.
Afghanistan
McChrystal: More forces or ‘mission failure’
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
An Algerian newspaper has cited a “security source” who indicates that AQIM leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar has shown signs of surrendering in a peace treaty with the Algerian government. If true, it will be major blow to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb™s operations. Belmokhtar, the infamous smuggling baron, formed the semi-independent southern branch of AQIM […]
Somalia
Shabaab seized control of Yeed town on the border with Ethiopia from government forces after clashes that killed at least 17 people. Militiamen of the Ethiopian rebel group the Ogaden Liberation Front (OLF) crossed the border and helped the Somali insurgents. Shabaab fighters shot dead two demonstrators protesting the arrest of three religious leaders in […]
United States
The FBI said it found hand-written notes by Najibullah Zazi that described how to make bombs. His fingerprints were also found on bomb-making materiel. Zazi, who admitted to receiving explosives training in Pakistan, is one of three Muslims detained by the FBI. His father and Ahmad Wais Afzali, an imam at a mosque in Queens, […]
Iran
President Ahmadinejad said he was proud that his denials of the Holocaust have enraged the West. Russian President Medvedev said Israel is not planning on a preemptive strike against Iran. Russia’s head of the assembly, Mironov, denied any US-Russia deal on Iran.
Mahdi Army members assassinated in Syria?
Muqtada al Sadr, the leader of the Mahdi Army. An interesting report from Omar at Iraqi The Model: Unknown gunmen assassinated 30 Mahdi Army commanders in the Syrian capital Damascus. The killings, made in the past few weeks, were all made “quietly, inside the victims apartments”, said an unnamed source in the Sadr movement. The […]
Pakistan
Pakistan foils terror plot in latest success