United States
US seeks role in Afghan jail
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz leader seeks to bar US contractors from supplying fuel to American base
Afghanistan
Woodward book portrays Obama aides™ battles
Afghanistan
Woodward book details Obama battles with advisers over exit plan for Afghan war
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Yemen military besieges town it says is a hide-out for Qaeda militants
Caucasus
Tatar strongman’s departure boosts Chechen ambitions to become top Muslim region
Iraq
Iraq Shi’ite-led blocs set deadline to nominate PM
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of five French nationals and two Africans in Niger. It is reported that Abu Zeid, a southern emir of AQIM, is likely behind the abductions. The kidnappings are suspected of being an inside job.
Algeria
Two Algerian police were killed by a roadside bomb planted by suspected al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb fighters in the town of Bordj Menaiel. Three civilians were also injured in the attack. A police officer was killed while trying to defuse a bomb planted by Islamists in Boumerdes.
Al Qaeda
Al-Qaida claims kidnapping of 5 French in Niger
US strike kills 16 in South Waziristan
The strike is the first that hit in an area under the control of “good Taliban” leader Mullah Nazir since July 25. Nazir’s aide is rumored to have been killed in the strike.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Taliban fighters seek reintegration, officers say
Hizb-i-Islami
Afghan warlords hedge bets, contest elections
Italy
Catholic Church backs Muslim struggle to build Milan’s first mosque
Iraq
Children of al-Qaeda in Iraq pay for sins of their fathers
Afghanistan
Defense officials predict slow Afghan progress
Afghanistan
British pensioner arrested in Taliban stronghold on Afghan border
Iraq
Insurgents killed two policemen in Kirkuk and a government official in Tarmiyah. Security forces detained 13 al Qaeda operatives near Karbala and a senior leader in Mosul, and five wanted men near Kirkuk.
Afghanistan
Nine ISAF soldiers died in a helicopter crash in Zabul. Security forces killed and captured scores of Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Zabul, Helmand, Khost, Nangarhar, Baghlan, and Kunduz. The Taliban killed six construction workers in Parwan and an Afghan soldier in Herat.
Iran
The Obama administration said sanctions against Iran are working; private experts disagreed. Tehran denied any political motivations for a diplomat’s defection. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps received shipment of new Fateh-110 surface-to-surface ground missiles.
Somalia
Prime Minister Sharmake resigned after a long-running feud with President Sharif. Ten people were killed in fighting in Mogadishu. Puntland police arrested the imam of the Salahudiin Mosque and another person in Galkayo for propagating “terrorist ideology.”
United States
The FBI arrested Sami Samir Hassoun and charged him with attempting to plant a bomb near Chicago’s Wrigley Field. Hassoun, a Lebanese citizen, was unknowingly working with undercover FBI agents to plot attacks, and discussed other plots with federal agents.
Tajikistan
The defense ministry said that 25 soldiers were killed in the Sept. 19 ambush of a military convoy int eh Rasht Valley, and denied reports that 25 soldiers were missing. The opposition Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan denounced the attack.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed it kidnapped a a senior intelligence official in Saada in August, and demands a prisoner exchange for two of its imprisoned leaders. Yemen forces have cornered Anwar al Awlaki, a senior Saudi al Qaeda operative, and an estimated 25 to 60 fighters in an operation in Huta in […]
Mauritania
The Mauritanian army has captured six suspected members of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb during an offensive operation in northern Mali. The army used aircraft to bomb a convey of vehicles said to be carrying members of AQIM. Mauritania is accused of killing two civilians and wounding four others in the airstrike.
Tajikistan
Radical Islam challenges Central Asian leaders
Afghanistan
Attacks down, voting up in Afghan elections
France
Security forces are on full alert in Paris after receiving credible threats of a female suicide bomber planning to attack in the city’s transport system. Also, the rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris has been given bodyguards after he received “real threats.”
France
France on full alert for suicide bomb threat on Paris transport
Al Qaeda
Al-Qaeda ‘expand into Uganda’