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Monthly Archives: July 2010
Israel
Israel failed in ship interception planning: reports
Iran
Russian President Medvedev warned that Iran is close to building a nuclear bomb. Tehran claimed to have produced an additional 20 kg of 20 percent enriched uranium. Israeli President Netanyahu called Iran “the ultimate terrorist threat.”
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Karzai to push for removing up to 50 ex-Taliban officials from UN blacklist
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US training of Pakistani forces faces hurdles
Afghanistan
Afghan government seeking bigger slice of aid pie
Pakistan
Pakistan must take on Haqqani network:US
Afghanistan
Britain’s top general in Afghanistan admits ‘courageous restraint’ must change
Shabaab suspected of carrying out bombings in Uganda
Sixty-four people were killed in bombings at two restaurants while watching the World Cup final soccer match in Uganda’s capital of Kampala, raising fears that the al Qaeda-linked, Somalia-based Shabaab carried out the attacks. Al Jazeera has a very good article on the attack and the background, a portion of which is excerpted here: “These […]
Afghanistan
LA police teach Marines how to train Afghan police
Uganda
A pair of bombings killed 64 people at restaurants in the capital of Kampala. The blasts took place as soccer fans were watching the World Cup final match. Shabaab is strongly suspected of carrying out the attacks; the al Qaeda-linked Somali group threatened attacks in Uganda last week.
Pakistan
Security forces killed 22 Taliban fighters in airstrikes in Arakzai, and detained 50 Taliban fighters in Nowshera and 20 members of the Punjabi Taliban in southern Punjub. The Taliban killed a soldier in an IED attack in Khyber. A leader of the anti-Taliban Awami National Party was killed in Buner.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has given France a 15-day extension to exchange prisoners, otherwise the terror group will execute the 78-year-old French national, Michel Germaneau. “The mujahedeen [holy warriors] decided to grant a final extension to France that will not be repeated and will not exceed 15 days, starting on Monday,” AQIM’s online […]
Iraq
Insurgents killed a soldier, an Awakening fighter, a tribal leader, and a spokesman for the Baghdad Provincial Council in attacks in Baghdad and Mosul. Security forces detained the mufti, or cleric, for al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq during a raid in Baghdad.
Somalia
Shabaab detained more than 100 young Somalis as part of their efforts to press civilians to fight for them. Three security personnel were killed in an IED attack in Bosaso. Kenya has deployed more troops along the Somali border and has closed two crossing points.
‘Foreign Taliban’ direct the insurgency in Musa Qala: Deputy district governor
In an interview with The Long War Journal, Musa Qala Deputy District Governor Mohammad Akbar Khan discusses the Taliban, governance, reconstruction, and Coalition support in the Helmand district.
On patrol in Karamanda
US Marines from the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment and an Afghan policeman cross a wadi as they enter the town of Karamanda in Musa Qala. Photo by Bill Ardolino for The Long War Journal Bill Ardolino published an article on the the US Marines from the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment operating near the […]
Afghanistan
Afghanistan air drops provide life support to troops
Al Qaeda
Al Qaida magazine urges killing of those who defame Mohammed
Hezbollah
Hezbollah says it has list of targets in Israel
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Al Qaeda claims south Yemen security HQ attack
Afghanistan
Security forces killed 23 Taliban, including a Taliban commander linked to al Qaeda, in Ghazni, Zabul and Kandahar, and detained four more in Kandahar. The Taliban killed a district governor and 14 policemen in attacks in Kunduz and Badakhshan, and an ISAF soldier in the south. Britain claimed the Taliban have gained strength in Helmand.
Yemen
Security forces detained 10 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in Hadrmout province. AQAP claimed the June 19 attack on a security headquarters in Aden that killed 11 people. A court upheld the death sentence of four AQAP operatives involved in terror attacks.
Tunisia
A Tunis court has sentenced eight men up to 12 years in prison for belong to a terrorist cell. All of the men denied the charges of inciting terror and asserted that they were tortured to induce confessions. Two were convicted in absentia after they fled to Sweden and France and claimed asylum.
US military begins to link Afghan Taliban to Pakistani terror groups
In a shift from the past, the US military is beginning to identify Pakistan-based terrorists, including the Lashkar-e-Taiba and Chechen and Arab fighters, as being directly associated with the Afghan Taliban.
Counting al Qaeda
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Bill Roggio published an article at The Weekly Standard on recent claims by the CIA and other intelligence agencies that there are merely 50-100 al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan. When CIA director Leon Panetta declared on a Sunday talk show in late June that “we’re looking at maybe 50 to 100” al […]
Pakistani military, Taliban clash in South Waziristan
Six Pakistani soldiers were killed in Taliban attacks on security posts in the Mehsud tribal areas. The military said 38 Taliban fighters were killed in counterstrikes. Just 10 days ago, the military claimed that South Waziristan was cleared of the Taliban.
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Iraq withdrawal: A US unit prepares Mosul police for self-rule
Iraq
Wanted: Jihadists to marry widows
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Under threat of violence, Somalians play soccer — or watch — at their peril