United States
New York estimates cost of terror trials will be more than $400 million
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Somalia
More than 20 Somalis were reported killed in shelling in Mogadishu. The chief of Somalia’s Army survived an assassination attempt in Mogadishu. Shabaab denied it was trying to extort money from the World Food Program.
Iraq
Seven Iraqis were killed in a series of bombings that targeted police and a lawyer in Hit in Anbar province; another Iraqi was killed in a bombing in Khanaqin. Security forces detained three wanted men in Mosul. A member of parliament denied Iraq released Qais Qazali.
Russia
Police killed two suspected insurgents during a counterterrorism operation targeting the terrorists behind the Jan. 6 suicide attack that killed six policemen outside Makhachkala. The two men were killed by police after barricading themselves in a home.
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed nine civilians, including four children, in an attack at a market in Paktia. The Taliban killed three policemen in Uruzgan, and wounded the governor of Khost and six others. Afghan and coalition forces detained three Taliban commanders and an undisclosed number of fighters in raids in Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, and Wardak.
Yemen
General Petraeus puts Al Qaeda threat in Yemen in perspective
United States
Police: Man saying ‘I want to kill Jews’ removed from Miami flight
Taliban’s Number 2: ‘You leave, we (might) talk’
The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press news agency has published an e-mail interview with the second-in-command of Afghanistan’s Taliban, Mullah Baradar Akhund (a hat tip to Juan Cole at the Informed Comment blog for sharing the US Government’s Open Source Center’s translation of the story). In addition to the usual “we’re winning, we’re going to keep […]
Al Qaeda
1 in 5 freed from Gitmo returns to jihad
Pakistan
Pakistan: Taliban brainwashes kids with visions of virgins
Dawood Ibrahim, al Qaeda, and the ISI
Mafia and terror kingpin Dawood Ibrahim. The Congressional Research Service has issued a solid report on the nexus between criminal syndicates and terrorist groups. Entitled “International Terrorism and Transnational Crime: Security Threats, U.S. Policy, and Considerations for Congress,” the report has a section devoted to Dawood Ibrahim, the criminal don of South Asia. The report […]
Pakistan
Dawood is a terrorist, has ‘strategic alliance’ with ISI, says US
Al Qaeda
Jordanian bomber™s path remains a mystery to his family
Al Qaeda
Suicide bombing puts a rare face on C.I.A.™s work
Yemen
Yemen says bomb suspect may have met radical cleric
United States
US enlists dubious aid in anti-terror campaign
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Indonesian police recognize connection between illegal immigration and terrorism
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Thai PM pledges to pacify insurgency
Egypt
Six Coptic Christians and one security guard were killed and three other persons were injured during a Coptic Christmas midnight Mass in the town of Nag Hamadi, 40 miles from Luxor. The gunmen sprayed the crowd with an automatic weapon from their vehicle as Mass ended. It is suspected that the attack came as retaliation […]
Sahara Emirate
An offshoot of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, dubbed the Sahara Emirate, has released a propaganda video. The leader is a former member of AQIM, and the group is made up mostly of young Mauritanians. The group claims to operate in Mauritania, Mali, Algeria, and Morocco, and is suspected of being behind the kidnapping […]
Algeria
An engineer working for the Canadian corporation SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. was kidnapped by five armed gunmen on the way to work. The abducted engineer was forced into the car of the gunmen in Djebahia, 150km from Algiers. The engineer was working on a water treatment plant. Police are negotiating for the employee™s release.
Rise of a petrocarbon empire: Iran and Central Asia
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) and his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov. Photo by AFP. During a recent visit to Iranian expatriates in Turkmenistan, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made several announcements about the Islamic Republic’s energy alliances with Central Asia. One development in particular stood out. In a joint press conference, Ahmadinejad and Turkmen president Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow announced […]
Iran
Tehran will prosecute five protesters. Foreign Minister Mottaki stressed that Tehran’s relationship with Baghdad is strong and is “based on mutual respect.” Bahrain’s speaker of parliament called for expanded bilateral ties with Iran.
US killed al Qaeda’s Lashkar al Zil commander in airstrike
Mustafa Abu Yazid, al Qaeda’s leader in Afghanistan, confirmed that Abdullah Said al Libi was killed in a US airstrike. Yazid confirmed this in a tape praising the suicide attack on the CIA base in Khost.
United States
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian national who attempted to blow up a flight to Detroit, was arraigned today. Abdulmutallab is facing six charges including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, which is punishable by up to life in prison. He will be arraigned in a US district court in Detroit on Friday.
Kashmir
A suicide bomber killed three soldiers in an attack on an Army base in Tararrkhal region in Pakistan-held Kashmir. An Indian policeman was killed and eight more were wounded in a suicide attack and gunbattle in Srinagar in Indian-held Kashmir.
Pakistan
The US killed 17 Taliban and al Qaeda fighters during a dual attack on a training camp in North Waziristan. The Abdullah Azzam Brigade opened an illegal FM radio station in Khyber. Police seized 700 kilograms of explosives in Swabi.
Iraq
Insurgents killed two children in Mosul and a civilian near Khanaqin. Five Iraqis were killed in a car accident with US troops in Hillah. Iraqi forces detained 28 wanted men in Basrah, three gunmen in Kirkuk, two insurgents in Mosul, and an al Qaeda leader in Jalawlaa.
US, Afghan forces target insurgent leaders in the East
ISAF said 23 “key insurgent leaders” were killed in eastern Afghanistan between mid-November and December 2009.
Al Qaeda
US forges alliance with Saddam Hussein officers to fight al-Qaeda