Banner announcing Bekkay Harrach latest release, “O Allah, I Love You (Part 1).” Less than a day after Bekkay Harrach, alias Al Hafidh Abu Talha al Almani, appeared in a video threatening Germany with attacks, he appeared in another video posted Saturday on the militant forums associated with al Qaeda and allied movements. The video, […]
Security forces killed eight Taliban fighters and detained 43 more in Swat. Swat Taliban commander Sher Muhammad Qasab died in custody. Taliban fighters killed four people in an attack at a bazaar in Hangu. Pakistan has placed 83 wanted terrorists on a watch lsit.
The military attacked a large gathering of Abu Sayyaf fighters in Sulu province, employing airstrikes and artillery to attempt to serve warrants on three Abu Sayyaf commanders. The military has sustained its offensive against Abu Sayyaf despite the holy month of Ramadan.
One US soldier was killed and 12 more were injured when a Blackhawk helicopter crashed at Balad Air Base. The cause of the crash has not been disclosed. One Iraqi was killed and four more were wounded in an IED attack in Iskandariyah. Security forces detained 31 wanted men in Thi Qhar and one more […]
Kashmiri terrorists in training. Image from Der Speigel. New details have emerged about Ilyas Kashmiri, the al Qaeda and Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami leader who is thought to have been killed during a US Predator strike in North Waziristan earlier this month. The News and Middle East Transparent reported that Kashmiri had been a commando in the elite […]
Two US soldiers were killed in the South and another soldier was killed in the East. Afghan and Coalition forces killed a Taliban commander and detained “several” Haqqani Network fighters during raids in Kandahar and Khost. The CIA is expanding the number of agents, analysts, and paramilitary personnel in country.
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The FBI arrested three Muslim men in connection with a suspected al Qaeda plot. An airport shuttle bus driver and his father were detained in Denver, Colorado, and another man was detained in Queens, New York; all three were were charged with lying to investigators about a plot to detonate an improvised explosive device somewhere […]
“Use suicide attacks to kill them,” al Qaeda-linked Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys said during a sermon, referring to African Union troops.
A top Islamist leader, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, called for more suicide attacks against African Union peacekeepers. Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage, talking at Nasrudin mosque in Mogadishu, has warned schools not to use textbooks provided by the United Nations. A second senior Shabaab official addressed thousands of people in the football stadium of […]
Haji Turkistan Bhittani. Turkistan Bhittani, the government-backed Taliban leader in the Abdullah Mehsud Group who has battled with Baitullah Mehsud’s forces, surrendered to the Pakistani government, according to reports from Dawn and The News. The Abdullah Mehsud Group is considered “pro-government” as it does not advocate attacks against Pakistan, yet its leaders still support fighting […]
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Terrorists in the southern district of Doda kidnapped three policemen and executed two of them; the other was able to escape. Security forces killed a top Lashkar-e-Taiba commander during a raid in the in Khandidar area of Desa.
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Two Pakistanis were killed in a bombing at a security checkpoint in Darra Adam Khel. Abdullah Mehsud Group commander Turkistan Bhittani has gone into protective custody. A Pakistani intelligence report claims India and Afghanistan are supporting the Taliban. The interior minister said seven Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives will be tried for their involvement in the Mumbai assault.
Mullah Omar said that Britain and the US should learn from past foreign interventions in Afghanistan and that the Taliban is prepared for a protracted campaign. “We have preparedness for a long war,” Omar said in his latest statement, released on the Internet.
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The government said talks with Syria have failed after the Syrians refused to hand over two Baathist leaders behind recent attacks in Baghdad. Security forces detained 33 terrorists in Baqubah, and 10 wanted men in Basrah. Insurgents killed a child and an Iraqi soldier in separate attacks in Mosul.
Maulana Abdullah Aziz surrounded by his armed guard. AP photo. A Pakistani court has recently dismissed terror charges against Maulana Abdullah Aziz, one of the two leaders of the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, who led an uprising in Islamabad in 2007 that resulted in the deaths of more than 100 people. Dawn reports: A […]
Mullah Omar. Mullah Mohammed Omar, the overall leader of the Taliban movement (the Amīr al-Mu’minīn or Commander of the Faithful), has released a rare statement, which has been published on the Internet. In the statement, titled “The Afghan Historical Background and the Impetuous Outburst of the British Ambassador,” Omar advises the British to study Afghan […]
A suicide bomber killed two children in Herat province, and 12 civilians were wounded in two bombings in Khost. The Taliban killed three Afghan soldiers and one Danish soldier. A suicide bomber attacked a Hungarian convoy in Pul-e-Khumri; no casualties were reported. Five people were killed in a shooting at a mosque in Jawzjan province.
The United Nations is investigating the use of its vehicles by suicide bombers who killed 17 African Union peacekeepers at their main base. Shabaab overran UN compounds in Jowhar and Baidoa in May and July, which has given rise to speculation that the vehicles were captured then. Gunmen have killed the secretary of the influential […]
Bekkay Harrach, alias Al Hafidh Abu Talha al Almani, warned that Germany would be attacked is Chancellor Merkel is re-elected and the country does not withdraw from Afghanistan.