Pakistan
Pakistan – Terror war strategy needs to be changed: ISI chief
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Afghanistan
Former US envoy calls for Afghanistan™s partition
Iran
Ayatollah Khatami warned the West over new UN Security Council sanctions on Iran. President Ahmadinejad hailed a meeting of the D8 in Abuja. Tehran has “yet to confirm” the stay of the stoning sentence for Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani.
Suicide bomber kills 65 in northwestern Pakistan
The Taliban claimed the attack in the lawless tribal agency of Mohmand.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Insurgents supplying info on Taliban to US and Afghan forces
Al Qaeda
Kenya: Iraq, Afghan, Pakistan fighters in Somalia
Afghanistan
Petraeus reviews directive meant to limit Afghan civilian deaths
Iraq
Smugglers in Iraq blunt sanctions against Tehran
United States
US given access to Europeans’ bank data under deal approved by EU
Pakistan
Fear belies Pakistan boasts of becalmed borderlands
Iraq
Five Shia pilgrims were killed in an IED attack in southern Baghdad. Two people were killed as insurgents bombed the homes of three policemen in Ramadi. Security forces detained 53 people in Basrah.
Somalia
The government claimed it killed two “foreign trainers” for Shabaab in Hiran; their nationalities were not disclosed. One person was killed in a blast at a Hizbul Islam headquarters near Mogadishu. Shabaab is compelling civilians to fight against the government and African Union forces in Mogadishu.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed six Afghans in Paktia and two ISAF soldiers in the south, and kidnapped two government officials in Ghor. Security forces detained a Haqqani Network facilitator and three fighters in Khost.
Pakistan
Pakistan busts gang of website hackers: official
Afghanistan
Survey of Afghans points to rampant corruption in government
Al Qaeda
Islamist preacher warns France against banning the burka
Al Qaeda
UK – Airline bomb plotters convicted
Iraq
Iraq Shi’ite pilgrims trudge on as bombs continue
Afghanistan
Afghan companies say US did not pay them
United States
Terrorism cases force more Muslim Americans to grapple with homegrown jihad
Norway
Police arrested three Muslim men for plotting a terrorist attack and for links to al Qaeda. Two of suspects are from Iraq and Uzbekistan, and the third is of Uighur origins. The three men are believed to be linked to terror plots in the US and Britain.
Iran
Russia’s foreign minister said Iran’s nuclear program should not be the only agenda item for the Iran Six talks. Opposition leader Mousavi criticized President Ahmadinejad’s response to new UN sanctions. Tehran promoted “Islamic haircuts.”
More Taliban ‘need to die’ before fighting ends: Musa Qala police chief
In an interview with The Long War Journal, Musa Qala District Police Chief Haji Abdul Wali discusses the Taliban problem and the need for NATO forces to remain in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – ‘Courageous restraint’ putting troops lives at risk
Indictments reveal coordinated NYC and London plots
An indictment unsealed today by the Dept. of Justice reveals that the foiled 2009 NYC subway terrorist attack uncovered in the Najibullah Zazi investigation was a much more ambitious plot than previously known. The NYC plot was planned to coincide with a similar suicide attack on the London transit system and was coordinated by senior […]
Al Qaeda
Pakistani ambassador: Groups that create militias are not acceptable to Pakistan
Afghanistan
Number of Afghans gone AWOL in US reaches 46
Afghanistan
Rodriguez describes changes to operations in Afghanistan
Iraq
A suicide bomber killed 32 Shia pilgrims as they were marching in northern Baghdad. Eighteen more Iraqis, including two policemen, were killed in attacks throughout the country. Security forces detained 12 suspected insurgents in Kirkuk and three al Qaeda operatives in Mosul and Baghdad.
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda has appointed Sheikh Fateh al Masri, an Egyptian, as the emir for Afghanistan and the wider Khorasan. Al Masri reportedly commanded forces in Afghanistan and also directed attacks inside Pakistan, including the terror assault on two Ahmadi mosques in Lahore.