United Kingdom
UK – Muslim police say Islam not to blame for terror attacks
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Afghanistan
Taliban overhaul image to win allies
Pakistan
Britain increasing Pakistan anti-terror spending: Brown
Iran
The US, Russia, France, Britain, and Germany are expecting China to get on board with a tougher sanctions regimen on Iran. The government is planning on placing new limits on cash withdrawals for citizens.
The Mehsud tribe will not hand over Hakeemullah
Hakeemullah Mehsud, left. AFP photo. Be sure to take the customary mega-dose of salt that is required when reading about reports of “peace agreements” in Pakistan’s tribal areas. The Mehsud tribe has agreed, at the deadline, to a seven-point list of demands thrust upon it by the government. According to the Press Trust of India […]
Nigeria
What’s behind Christian-Muslim fighting in Nigeria?
Al Qaeda
Why Al Qaeda finds sympathy in Yemen
United Kingdom
Britain cuts terror fight in Pakistan as pound falls: minister
Al Qaeda
Al-Qaida, offshoots rebuilding in Pakistan, Yemen and Africa
SecDef defines AQAM
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates neatly describes what al Qaeda and allied movements, or AQAM, is during his visit to India. From The Washington Post: In a press conference after two days of meetings with Indian officials, the Pentagon chief said al-Qaeda had formed a “syndicate” of terrorist groups with Taliban factions in Afghanistan […]
United States
Clinton lifts US ban on Muslim scholar
Pakistan
A tribal militia killed a Taliban commander and four fighters in Mohmand. The Taliban wounded a member of the provincial parliament and four others in a bombing in Peshawar. Two flights from Karachi received bomb threats.
United States
The Fort Hood report: Why no mention of Islam?
Kazakhstan
Shadowy arms deal traced to Kazakhstan
Airstrikes target home of Yemeni al Qaeda leader
Yemeni air force fighters targeted the home of al Qaeda’s leader in Marib province multiple times. No casualties have been reported.
Iraq
A suicide bomber wounded 36 people, including 18 soldiers and five policemen, in an attack at a base in Mosul. An insurgent killed a policeman in a bombing in Mosul. Security forces detained 12 wanted men in Basrah, three members of an IED cell in Baqubah, and two al Qaeda leaders behind recent attacks in […]
Yemen
The military bombed the home of an al Qaeda operative said to have been killed in an airstrike last week. Both the US and the UN added Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to their lists of terrorist entities. Thirty-six former American prisoners are thought to have joined al Qaeda in Yemen.
United States
Military brass keep mum on Fort Hood suspect’s career
Afghanistan
Suspect in Afghanistan shooting is removed from NY courtroom after outburst
Al Qaeda
Ex-convicts from US said to join Yemen radicals
Al Qaeda
US officials admit to intelligence failures in connection with bomb plot
Somalia
Stop hiding in Kenya, Somali MPs told
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Dutch far-right MP in court over anti-Islam comments
Afghanistan
Afghan and Coalition forces killed a Taliban facilitator and five fighters, and detained two more fighters during operations in Kandahar, Kunduz, and Logar provinces. The Taliban killed a road worker in an IED attack in Paktika province. The government plans to more than double the size of the security forces to 400,000 personnel by 2015.
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda could provoke new India-Pakistan war: Gates
Afghanistan
Afghans plan dramatic increase in security forces
Tehran tests the Monroe Doctrine
Jamsheed and Carol Choksy of Indiana University wrote an insightful piece in RealClear Politics this morning addressing Tehran’s investment in leftist governments in South America. Their conclusion reinforces the belief that Iran is projecting a preponderance of power globally to put US and other Western allies in a bind. The Latin American angle is especially […]
Iran
Tehran rejected the IAEA’s plan to ship uranium abroad. US intelligence agencies corrected policy statements on Iran’s nuclear program made in the 2007 NIE report. More than 40 protesters were arrested by police, on the basis of photographs taken at protests.
India
Police arrested Mohammad Abdul Khwaja, the south India chief of of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, during a raid in Hyderabad. Khwaja, who also goes by the name Amjad, is believed to be involved in terror attacks in Hyderabad, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Jaipur, and Ahmedabad.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Italy: North Africa poses ‘greatest terrorist threat’