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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Afghanistan
Foreign UN staffers return to Afghanistan
Afghanistan
US is reining in Special Forces in Afghanistan
Pakistan
India involvement can™t rule out in Lahore attack: Pakistani Interiro Minister Rehman Malik
Pakistan
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said the Taliban should not attack his province as they both opposed military rule. The Taliban offered a peace deal to Sharif. The military will end the South Waziristan operation on March 30. Security forces killed four Taliban operatives in Swat.
Maliki, Allawi surge in Iraq’s early vote count
Prime Minister Maliki looks strong in the South, while Iyad Allawi gets the vote in much of the North. The Shia Islamist parties are coming in a distant third.
Palestinian Territories
‘Hamas used kids as human shields’
China
Newly powerful China defies Western nations with remarks, policies
Taliban
US personnel facing threat, ambassador tells FM
Iraq
A suicide bomber killed six Iraqis and wounded 14 more in an attack in central Fallujah. Insurgents killed a policeman, an imam, and a civilian in Mosul. The US handed over the Taji detention facility to the Iraqi government.
Hakeemullah Mehsud is alive, says former ISI officer
Khalid Khawaja, the “consigliere” for the Taliban and al Qaeda, said that two of his associates met with the Pakistani Taliban leader on March 9.
Afghanistan
Holbrooke hails Marja operation, relationship with Pakistan
United Kingdom
Muslim gangs are imposing sharia and forcefully recruiting members at the high-security Long Lartin jail. Prisoners reportedly watch al Qaeda videos, smuggled in by prison guards, on TVs in their cells. Some leaders are convicted terrorists.
Al Qaeda
Osama bin Laden’s son, Khalid, called for Iran to free members of his family. “They requested a number of times to leave Iran, only to be beaten and silenced,” he said in a message released by the Global Islamic Media Front, a propaganda arm of al Qaeda that is thought to be based in Germany.
Afghanistan
Police killed five suicide bombers before they could strike in Paktika, and captured a Taliban commander and four fighters in Balkh. The Taliban killed six civilians in an IED attack in Kandahar and an ISAF soldier in a rocket attack in Bagram.
Iraq
US transfers prison, 2,900 ex-insurgents to Iraq
Taliban
Pakistan intelligence calls for Afghan border to be closed
Yemen
Yemeni strike aircraft targeted an al Qaeda camp in Abyan province on March 14; two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula commanders are said to have been killed. Three more strikes were launched in Abyan today.
Iran
China has become Iran’s number one economic trading partner, surpassing the West. France announces that it is considering unilateral sanctions against Iran. Osama bin Laden’s son, Khalid, called for Iran to release bin Laden family members from custody.
Yemeni airstrike hits al Qaeda camp
The Yemeni military claims two top al Qaeda military leaders were killed in an airstrike yesterday. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said a top financier and military commander was killed earlier this year.
Afghanistan
Shaken Afghan city seeks more support from Kabul
Afghanistan
Afghanistan/Pakistan: Contractors tied to effort to track and kill militants
Taliban
Kandahar attacks are a warning to NATO, says Afghanistan Taliban
Pakistan
Eighteen Taliban fighters were killed in airstrikes in Arakzai. Securirty forces rounded up 175 suspected terrorists in Rawalpindi and 24 more in Lahore. The political agent in Bajaur urged the tribes to oppose the Taliban.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed a Taliban commander and 13 fighters, and detained four commanders and five fighters in Logar, Paktika, Kandahar, Helmand, and Farah. Thirty Taliban fighters reconciled with the government in Herat. The Taliban killed a Pakistani worker in Kandahar.
India
Counterterrorism police detained four terrorists, including two men directed from within Pakistan who were tasked with conducting attacks inside Mumbai. Indian intelligence believes Pakistan’s ISI will use Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s fighters and the Lashkar-e-Taiba to attack Indians in Afghanistan.
Iraq
Prime Minister Maliki’s State of Law Alliance has taken the early vote lead in Baghdad, Basrah, Babil, Najaf, Karbala, and Muthanna, while Iyad Allawi’s Iraqiya party leads in Ninewa, Diyala, Anbar, and Salahadin, and has a slim lead in Kirkuk over the Kurdish party. The Iraqi National Alliance only leads in Maysan and Diwaniyah. The […]
Iran
The European Union may consider unilateral sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. UN sanctions against Iran may not be ready until June. Security forces detained more than 30 people claimed to be linked to a cyber network providing support for the Iranian opposition.
Ireland
Police released Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, or Jihad Jamie, from custody, along with three other Muslim suspects in the plot to murder Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks. Three suspects are still in custody. Paulin-Ramirez married an Algerian who was also detained; it is unclear if he is still in custody.
Pakistan
Pakistan – Societal perspectives on terrorism