Opposition leader Mousavi said the Green Movement will persevere despite a government crackdown. Iran’s opposition is pleased with the US’ decision not to enforce sanctions on Internet sites they use for protest. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said new sanctions will not stop Iran’s nuclear program.
David Headley pled guilty to scouting the city of Mumbai for the 2008 terror assault as well as plotting to kill a Danish cartoonist who drew an image of the Prophet Mohammed. Headley passed along intelligence to Lashkar-e-Taiba for the 2008 Mumbai attack that resulted in the deaths of 175 people.
Pakistan arrests ‘halt secret UN contacts with Taliban’
Obama’s Jakarta home district sees shift in Islam
Security forces killed six Taliban fighters and two civilians in Kohat, and detained a Taliban leader in Karachi. Two wanted Swat Taliban commanders were among five killed in a military operation. Prime Minister Gilani said the government is “not in a rush” to launch new offensives in the northwest.
Three people were killed in fighting in Mogadishu. Shabaab detained two reporters and shut down a radio station in Bardhere. Some members of Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama’a rejected the agreement with the government. Pirates attacked a Dutch warship; the Dutch released the pirates after boarding their ships.
Prime Minister Maliki’s State of Law party has a 39,905 vote lead over the secular Iraqi National Movement, with 89 percent of the votes counted. The final vote count is expected to be released within days. Al Qaeda in Iraq beheaded two security officials in Sharqat.
Al Qaeda in Iraq’s counter counter-insurgency manual
Interview with Yusuf Raza Gilani
Australian forces in Afghanistan facing major challenge as Dutch withdraw
Soaring IED attacks in Afghanistan stymie US counteroffensive
NATO plans ‘northern Afghanistan offensive’
CIA director says secret attacks in Pakistan have hobbled al-Qaeda
General McChrystal said that shaping operations in Kandahar have already begun. Coalition and Afghan forces killed a Taliban commander and killed or detained an undisclosed number of fighters in Kunar, Kandahar, and Helmand. A suicide bomber killed only himself in a premature detonation in Helmand. The Paris Club agreed to cancel more than $1.6 billion […]
A previously unknown group thought to be linked to al Qaeda fired a rocket into Israel and killed a Thai worker. “The Jihadist mission came in response to the Zionist assaults against the Ibrahimi and al Aqsa mosques and the continued Zionist aggression against our people in Jerusalem,” a group calling itself Ansar al Sunnah […]
The US State Department announced that it “feels a sense of urgency” about addressing the Iranian nuclear program. President Obama stated that thwarting Iran’s nuclear program is a top priority. Tehran said it is ready for a nuclear fuel swap on its own soil, an offer which has been previously rejected by the West.
Geneive Abdo reports in Foreign Policy that Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s fence-sitting days are over; he is officially an ally of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: In exchange for Rafsanjani’s loyalty, the supreme leader appears to have given him power over a new bill that will establish a National Elections Commission to reform the electoral process. Not only […]
India – Headley may rat on Lashkar aide to escape death
Tehran accused of arming Taleban with weapons and explosives
US – Commanders tout value of training indigenous forces
McChrystal disagrees with Holder: bin Laden is wanted alive
The US killed eight Taliban fighters in a pair of airstrikes in North Waziristan. The Taliban killed five security personnel and blew up a NATO fuel tanker in Khyber. Ten Taliban fighters and three militia fighters were killed in a clash in Kurram. A Taliban commander and 38 fighters surrendered in Bajaur.
While news reports have focused on the death of senior al Qaeda operative Sadam Hussein Al Hussami, who is also known as Ghazwan al Yemeni, at the hands of the US in the March 10 airstrike in North Waziristan, one of the three other al Qaeda operatives killed in the same attack was also a […]
The US killed Sadam Hussein Al Hussami, who is also known as Ghazwan al Yemeni, in an airstrike in North Waziristan on March 10. Hussami was a top operative in al Qaeda’s external operations network. He aided in the suicide attack on Combat Outpost Chapman, which killed seven CIA officials and a Jordanian intelligence officer.
The parties of Prime Minister Maliki and former Prime Minister Allawi are in a dead heat in the parliamentary election, with more than 80 percent of the votes counted. Security forces detained seven wanted men in Basrah and two Naqshabandiya fighters in Makhmour. Insurgents killed a Christian in Mosul.
Sadam Hussein Al Hussami, who is also known as Ghazwan al Yemeni, was a top operative in al Qaeda’s external operations network. He aided in the suicide attack on Combat Outpost Chapman, which killed seven CIA officials and a Jordanian intelligence officer.
With more than 80 percent of the vote counted, Maliki’s State of Law party and Allawi’s secular Iraqi National Movement party are in a dead heat.
McChrystal reports on progress in Afghanistan
Taliban fight in Afghan town with fear campaign
Combat dogs take to the skies for secret missions in Afghanistan