Afghanistan
Afghanistan does not want ‘proxy wars’, says Karzai
Monthly Archives: March 2010
United Kingdom
Foreign intelligence companies hack into British companies
Al Qaeda
Success of lone gunmen may shift al-Qaida strategy
Iran
President Ahmedinejad said “even more wars” cannot save Israel from its downfall. US Secretary of Defense Gates said Iran’s support for the Taliban is “pretty limited.” The three US hikers imprisoned in Iran have contacted their families.
United Kingdom
Prosecutors charged Rajib Karim with preparing an act of terrorism and providing assistance to others to conduct terrorist acts overseas, likely in Yemen. Karim works at a call center for British Airways and had access to information on flight bookings.
Sweden
Three Swedish newspapers, including the country’s largest daily, Dagens Nyheter, and a television station reproduced the cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed’s face superimposed on a dog’s body. The news outlets reproduced the controversial cartoon after multiple threats to Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who drew the cartoon.
Pakistan
Pakistan, Afghanistan agree to revive jirga process
Al Qaeda
Detained herdsmen tell of roles in Nigeria killings
Afghanistan
Afghan Taliban leaders flee possible arrest
Al Qaeda
Marjah fears return of warlords
Afghanistan
Making war and peace in Afghanistan
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US – Review drops two-war force size paradigm
Pakistan
The Taliban killed six members of a US aid agency in Mansehra. A US airstrike killed 15 Taliban fighters in North Waziristan. Sixty-six Taliban fighters from South Waziristan who trained to carry out attacks are believed to have entered Sindh. There will be no negotiations with the Taliban in South Waziristan, the political agent said.
Somalia
Fighting between government forces and Shabaab fighters in the north of Mogadishu killed 17 people, including a “white Shabaab member.” Shabaab beheaded two employees of a telecommunications company in the capital accused of spying. As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted to a web of corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants, […]
US airstrike kills 15 in North Waziristan
Five Predators fired seven missiles at Taliban fighters in a village near the Afghan border. The attack is the second in three days.
United States
Behind the scenes, crafting the US no-fly list
Pakistan
Upset by US security, Pakistanis return as heroes
Iraq
Saddam Hussein weighed nuclear ‘package’ deal in 1990, documents show
India
India not to wind-up Kabul mission
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has released Alicia Gomez, one of three kidnapped Spanish aid workers who were taken hostage in Mauritania in November 2009. The government denied a ransom was paid, although the government is said to be in the process of transferring $5 million to AQIM for the release of the two […]
Al Qaeda
Swedish media reprint cartoon that inspired alleged murder plot
Mauritania
Mauritanian security forces killed three armed fighters and captured 18 more while intercepting a convoy in the northeast outside of Chegga, near the Algerian and Mali border. The convoy was in a military zone known to be used by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Large stores of drugs were found in the trucks.
Lebanon
Talks on Hezbollah’s weapons have little chance of success – analysts
United States
Federal prosecutors filed charges against Colleen R. LaRose of Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, for plotting to murder an individual in Europe and providing material support to terrorists. LaRose referred to herself as JihadJane. She has been linked to the seven Muslims arrested in Ireland for plotting to kill a cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed as a […]
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed five Afghans in Khost. Three civilians were killed in an IED attack in Marja. The Taliban killed a policeman in Kunduz. Afghan and Coalition forces detained two Taliban commanders and more than 20 Taliban fighters during raids in Jawzjan, Helmand, Kandahar, and Khost.
Indonesia
President Yudhoyono confirmed that Bali bombing mastermind Dulmatin was one of three terrorists killed during a raid outside of Jakarta on March 9. Dulmatin was a top Jemaah Islamiyah commander and bomb maker, and was wanted by the US for killing seven Americans in Bali in 2002.
How not to wage a counterinsurgency
The Adezai lashkar, just a few miles outside Peshawar. Image from the BBC. Two of the major reasons the Awakenings were so successful in Iraqi’s Anbar province and beyond were: 1) the Awakening received support from the Iraqi government and the US, to include military backup in case of an attack; and 2) there was […]
Iran
An Iranian naval vessel successfully test-fired a new anti-ship missile. The US Secretary of Defense visited Saudi Arabia to discuss Iran. President Ahmadinejad said foreign troops in Afghanistan are not a solution for peace.
US aid group attacked in Pakistan’s northwest; 6 killed
Six Pakistanis working for World Vision International, including two women, were killed after the Taliban stormed their office in Mansehra and opened fire.
Indonesian bombing mastermind Dulmatin confirmed killed
The president of Indonesia confirmed that the Bali bombing plotter was killed in yesterday’s raid in a Jakarta suburb.