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Did YouTube help nab the Times Square bomber?
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Pakistan
Security agencies detained two friends and several family members of the Times Square bomber. The ambassador to the US said the bomber, a Pakistani-American, is a “disturbed individual.” Hakeemullah Mehsud sent a letter to Aifa Siddiqui’s sister promising to attack the US for Aifa’s detention.
United States
Pakistan still key link for US terror suspects
United States
Pakistan: NYC bomber likely ”disturbed individual”
United States
Police detonate suspicious bag at Bush Airport
United States
Times Square bomb plot: Documents found near bomb suspect’s former Shelton home
Pakistan
Pakistan makes arrests over Times Square bomb
Times Square bombing suspect trained in Pakistan’s North Waziristan
According to the criminal complaint filed today against Faisal Shahzad, he has admitted to having trained in a camp in Waziristan. Other links to Pakistan have also emerged.
United States
Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad said to implicate himself; probe expands to Pakistan
Iraq
Iraqi forces captured Abu Abdullah al Shafi, the leader of Ansar al Islam. Security forces also detained a wanted Saudi al Qaeda fighter in Mosul and 20 wanted men in Basrah. A Syrian suicide bomber carried out one of four attacks on foreign embassies in Baghdad last month.
Times Square bomber trained in Waziristan camp
Faisal Shahzad. Last night my intelligence sources said it was very likely that Faisal Shahzad, the main suspect in the failed Times Square car bomb attack, had trained in Pakistan’s tribal agency of North Waziristan. From The Long War Journal: While the exact movements of Faisal are not yet known, US intelligence officials contacted by […]
Pakistan
Deadlock over Pakistan’s Mumbai suspects
Iraq
New deBaathification moves unlikely to change Iraq™s political scene
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US naval power threatened by new weapons: Gates
Somalia
Shabaab blamed US contractor Xe for dual blasts at a mosque that killed more than 40 people on May 1. Both Shabaab and Ahlu Sunna Waljama™a claimed victory after clashes in Mogadishu. Pirates seized a Yemeni vessel; nine crewmen are in custody.
Iraq
Shiite militia reviving in post-election Iraq
US Military
The US military transferred two detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility to authorities in Bulgaria and Spain. The names of those released have not been given. The US has transferred 590 detainees to foreign countries since 2002; an estimated 20 percent have returned to the battlefield after being released.
Afghanistan
Gen. Stanley McChrystal on India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and ‘gravitational pull’
Afghanistan
US military growing concerned with Obama’s Afghan policy
Afghanistan
New NATO idea to avoid killing innocent Afghans
Afghanistan
The governor of Kandahar said there will not be a military operation in the province. The Taliban killed two British soldiers and a Canadian soldier in the south and executed a “spy” in Kunduz. Two Taliban fighters were killed in a premature detonation while planting an IED in Zabul. Seventeen schoolgirls have been poisoned in […]
Pakistan
Pakistan vows to help US over New York bomb suspect
Pakistan
US citizen from Pakistan arrested in Times Square bomb case
Times Square plot broadens, as many as 8 suspects detained in Pakistan
More arrests have been made in the failed terror plot on New York’s Times Square in Pakistan. Fox News is reporting at least 8 suspects have been arrested in connection with the plot. From Fox News/CBS News: Between four and eight people have been taken into custody for questioning in Pakistan in connection with the […]
NATO
New NATO idea to avoid killing innocent Afghans
Iraqi forces arrest leader of Ansar al Islam
Abu Abdullah al Shafi, the top leader of Ansar al Islam, was captured along with seven associates during a raid in Baghdad. Shafi has close ties with Osama bin Laden.
Pakistan
New York bomb puts Pakistan in spotlight
Iran
President Ahmadinejad called for the UN to reprimand the US for nuclear aggression. US Secretary of Defense Gates said Iran is seeking to challenge US naval supremacy in the Persian Gulf. The Iranian navy announced new war games will commence in the next few weeks.
Pakistan
Drones kill low-level militants, few civilians: US
FBI arrests Pakistani-American sought in failed Times Square car bombing
Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized American citizen from Pakistan, was detained while trying to leave the country. Faisal purchased the SUV used in the failed attack.