Dahir Gurey Sheikh Ali Guled, a senior Shabaab military commander, was killed in fighting in Mogadishu. The government claimed 20 Shabaab fighters were killed in Mogadishu; Shabaab denied the report. Shabaab took credit for yesterday’s suicide assault on the Mogadishu airport.
Nur Mohammed was plotting to carry out attacks during parliamentary elections. He was “involved in improvised explosive device and suicide attacks in Kabul city.”
Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Zabul, Paktia, Khost, and Kabul. Eleven people were wounded in a protest in Badakhshan against the scheduled Koran burning in the US. President Karzai urged the Taliban to join the peace process.
Tehran denied claims of the existence of a second secret enrichment site. Iran will free a woman held on espionage charges. Supreme Leader Khamenei said Israeli-Palestinian peace talks are a Zionist cover-up.
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Police have warned citizens of Mumbai to be on the lookout for two foreign terrorists. Photos of Kalimuddin Khan and Hafiz Sharif have been released to the public and police believe the two men have been sent to the city to carry out attacks.
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Pete Seda, the co-founder of Al Haramain Islamic Foundation in Ashland, Oregon, was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the government and filing a false tax return. Seda is accused of funneling more than $150,000 to terrorists in Chechnya.
Security forces killed four “militants” during a raid in the Sergokalinsky district is Dagestan. Police arrested three suspected terrorists who are thought to have been involved in yesterday’s suicide attack in Vladikavkaz.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula issued a hit list of 55 security officials in Abyan. Al Qaeda killed a soldier in an ambush in Abyan. The government claimed it seized documents proving links between the southern separatist movement and al Qaeda.
Insurgents killed four people in attacks in Baghdad and brutally murdered and beheaded a mosque imam and his wife in Miqdadiyah. Four al Qaeda members escaped from a US prison in Baghdad.
A suicide bomber killed five people in an attack at the home of Baluchistan’s Finance Minister; the minister was not hurt. The Taliban killed 10 tribesmen in an IED attack in Kurram. The US may have killed an Islamic Jihad Group commander in yesterday’s strikes in North Waziristan.
Karzai divides Afghanistan in reaching out to Taliban
Earlier this month, a DC district judge ruled that a facilitator for the HIG is properly detained at Guantanamo. The detainee, Shawali Khan, allegedly plotted attacks against American forces on behalf of his uncle, a HIG commander based in Quetta, Pakistan.
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The commander, who is known as Qureshi, is said to have been killed in yesterday’s second strike in the Datta Khel area in North Waziristan.
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US soldiers ‘killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies’
The Taliban killed an Afghan soldier and two policemen in Herat, and an ISAF soldier in the south. Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Khost, Paktia, and Kunduz.
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A five-man assault team penetrated the first layer of security at Mogadishu International Airport. Two African Union soldiers and three civilians were killed.
A Shabaab suicide assault team penetrated security at the airport in Mogadishu; five Shabaab fighters, two African Union troops, and three civilians were killed in the attack. Fifteen people were killed in fighting in Mogadishu.
A Caucasus Emirate suicide bomber killed 16 people and wounded 98 more in an attack in the southern city of Vladikavkaz in the Russian Republic of North Ossetia. The bomber detonated his car in the middle of a market in the city.
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A Caucasus Emirate suicide bomber killed 16 people and wounded 98 more in an attack at a market the southern city of Vladikavkaz.
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