Pakistan
Pakistan boosts security after Lahore bombs
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Uzbek terror commander serving as Taliban shadow governor killed by US special forces
Mohammed Amin , a senior Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander, served as the Taliban’s deputy shadow governor for Takhar province. ISAF and Afghan forces have pursued the IMU in the north over the past month.
Afghanistan
Karzai’s brother calls for US to shore up Kabul Bank as withdrawals accelerate
Afghanistan
Near Kandahar, the prize is an empty town
Somalia
In Somali civil war, both sides embrace pirates
Afghanistan
Flood-hit Pakistanis and Afghans may cross to Iran: UNHCR
Pakistan
Kashmiri youth wage online struggle
Pakistan
Pakistan’s military rises to the fore
Afghanistan
Taliban noose around Wardak tightens
Pakistan
Punjabi Taliban suicide bombers killed 29 worshipers during a procession in Lahore. The Pakistani military killed more than 60 terrorists and civilians in airstrikes in Khyber, and 15 Taliban fighters in Kurram and Arakzai. The Taliban torched two NATO fuel tankers in Mastung and Khuzdar.
Punjabi Taliban kill 29 in attacks on religious processions in Lahore
The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al Almi, another name for the Punjabi Taliban, claimed it carried out the attack.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed Kandahar province’s hajj and pilgrimage chief in an IED attack and an ISAF soldier in the south. Combined forces killed and captured several Taliban leaders and fighters in Nangarhar, Logar, Khost, Ghazni, Helmand, Kandahar, and Kunduz.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
The ACLU asked a federal judge to block the US from killing al Qaeda cleric Anwar al Awlaki. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is suspected of attempting to assassinate a brigade commander in Lahj province; two of his bodyguards were wounded in the ambush.
The Taliban
The US government has designated the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan as a terrorist entity, and has named Hakeemullah and Waliur Rehman Mehsud as specially designated global terrorists. Hakeemullah and Waliur now have $5 million bounties out for information leading to their capture and prosecution.
Iran
Former British Prime Minister Blair called for the West to use force if Iran “continues to develop nuclear weapons.” The Iranian media called for France’s first lady to die.
Al Qaeda
Mauritania identifies suicide bomber recently shot as AQIM member
Iraq
Iraq: “Bring it on” worked
US Treasury sanctions Pakistani Taliban, top two leaders
Hakeemullah Mehsud and Waliur Rehman Mehsud have been designated as specially designated global terrorists for their sponsorship of terrorist acts in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the US.
Algeria
Three attacks by Islamists have left five security forces killed and over 20 injured. A suicide bomb truck attack on a military patrol left four soldiers dead and twenty others wounded in Zemmouri. Islamists attacked a police station in the provincial capital Tizi Ouzou. Islamists killed one police officer and wounded seven civilians in the […]
Afghanistan
Gas sickened girls in Afghan schools
Pakistan
Highest amount of donations for Pakistan
Pakistan
No specific threat to USAID head Raj Shah: US
Algeria
UK – Algerian web pirates 2,000 miles astray in siege of Belvoir Castle
Sweden
Sweden reopens Wikileaks founder rape investigation
Hamas
Palestinian forces arrest dozens of Hamas activists
Afghanistan
Afghan central bank insists Kabul Bank is sound
Thailand
Muslim insurgents killed another married couple in a drive-by shooting in Pattani™s Khoke Pho district. The husband and wife were heading to their rubber plantation. A Thai solder was killed by insurgents on a motorcycle in Yala’s Muang district. Three soldiers assigned as security escorts for local teachers were injured by a roadside bomb in […]