United Kingdom
UK – Concern grows over foreign involvement in spy’s death
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Denmark
Denmark raises terror preparedness after hotel blast
United States
US will ‘never™ be at war with Islam: Obama
Hizb-i-Islami
Arab fidayeen behind 9/11 attacks – Hekmatyar
United Nations
UN expert: ‘Terrorism in Central Asia needs to be battled now™
Egypt
Egyptians, though angry, see beyond the Quran-burning hype
Tajikistan
Tajik border guards killed 20 Taliban and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan fighters as they attempted to cross the border from Afghanistan. The Taliban and IMU fighters are thought to have been fleeing an ISAF and Afghan operation in Kunduz.
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Khost, Logar, Paktia, and Nangarhar. The Taliban killed a mother and father of six in an IED attack in Kandahar. A British soldier died of wounds sustained in an attack more than two weeks ago.
Iraq
Wikileaks reportedly will release nearly 300,000 classified military documents relating to the Iraq War. Wikileaks, with the help of other news agencies, is said to be scrubbing the documents to ensure sensitive information that puts people’s lives at risk does not occur, as it did with the leakage of Afghanistan documents.
Somalia
Somali troops defeated a Shabaab suicide attack at the seaport in Mogadishu. A suicide bomber hijacked a fuel truck and entered the seaport, but failed to detonate his bomb.
Iran
The chief of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said the Bushehr nuclear reactor would go online in the next month. Bahrain’s interior minister said Iran had no links to recently arrested “spy cells.” Tehran canceled the release of a female American hiker accused of spying.
United States
Obama uses Bush plan for terror war
Somali troops defeat suicide attack on Mogadishu port
A Shabaab suicide bomber hijacked a fuel truck and entered the seaport, but was stopped before he could detonate his bomb.
United States
Panel: Commercial flights remain top terror targets
Afghanistan
US trying to track missing weapons issued to Afghan police
India
Despite terror threats, Mumbai gets into festive mood
Afghanistan
Afghan government struggling to keep support of Islamic council
Is ‘constructive disengagement’ the solution in Somalia?
On Thursday, Joshua Foust published an article at PBS’s Need to Know that, though avoiding the term “constructive disengagement,” mirrors the arguments advanced by Bronwyn Bruton’s report for CFR, and those made by Fareed Zakaria in the wake of the bombings al Shabaab executed in Uganda. Though constructive disengagement is often advanced as a minor-league […]
Pakistan
Exclusive: Taliban and US get down to talks
United Kingdom
UK – Defence spending: thousands of troops to be cut
Tajikistan
Tajiks increasingly turning to Shari’a to resolve disputes, family affairs
Somalia
Somali militants try piracy to fund attacks
Iraq
‘Iraq WikiLeak bigger than Afghan leak’
Pakistan
Flooding deepens age-old fissures in Pakistan
Al Qaeda
Old friend challenges Bin Laden
Guantanamo
Pentagon eases some rules on Guantánamo coverage
Afghanistan
Study cites drone crew in attack on Afghans
Afghanistan
First Medal of Honor for a living Afghan war vet
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Al-Qaeda emerges from the shadows in south Yemen
Pakistan
Three Pakistanis in North Waziristan were killed in shelling that originated from Afghanistan. Twelve tribesman were killed in a water dispute in Kurram. A Jaish-e-Mohammed member and an Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat member were killed in Karachi.