Nigeria
Boko Haram fighters shot and killed a police officer as he was manning a checkpoint in the northern state of Bauchi. The Boko Haram insurgency has spread to three provinces in the far north.
Monthly Archives: October 2010
United States
Farooque Ahmed, a 34-year-old Virginian, was taken into custody today. Ahmed believed he was assisting al Qaeda to plan attacks on Washington DC’s metro station. The FBI was aware of his activity before the attempt and had been watching him closely until his arrest.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Khost, Nuristan, Herat, and Baghlan. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the north and torched nine NATO supply trucks in Farah.
Russia
Security officials broke up a foreign financial network that funded the Caucasus Emirates. Police defused a bomb in Makhachkala, the capital of Chechnya. Security forces found an abandoned terrorist camp in a mine in Kabardino-Balkaria.
Afghanistan
We’ve been in Afghanistan, we didn’t like it – Russia’s NATO envoy
Al Qaeda
Osama bin Laden threatened to carry out attacks in France unless the country repeals the burka ban and withdraws its troops from Afghanistan. “The only way to safeguard your nation and maintain your security is to withdraw your forces from Bush’s despicable war,” bin Laden said in an audiotape.
Iran
US tries restart of talks with Iran
Yemen
A suicide bomber killed only himself in an attack in Al Nor in Taiz province. The governor of Shabwa province denied the Al Kor mountains are Yemen’s version of Tora Bora. Several tribal leaders in Abyan called for opposition to al Qaeda.
Al Qaeda
Republicans probe Gitmo transfers to Europe
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Drones spur Yemenis’ distrust of government and US
Hizb-i-Islami
Afghans, West try to lure Taliban fighters out of war
US kills 6 in pair of Predator strikes in North Waziristan
The pair of strikes are the first in nine days. One of the strikes took place in Datta Khel.
United States
The FBI arrested Abdel Hameed Shehadeh and a federal court has charged him for attempting to join al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan, Jordan, and Somalia. Shehadeh, an American citizen, also created jihadist websites and attempted to recruit a friend.
Russia
Russia and NATO plan joint initiative in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
US military campaign to topple resilient Taliban hasn’t succeeded
Taliban
Taliban teen describes path to jihad
Al Qaeda
Canadian Gitmo prisoner said to be ‘full of rage’
Al Qaeda
Saudi border with Yemen is still inviting for al Qaeda
Pakistan: North Waziristan operation is not on the table
Just days after the US government committed to providing the Pakistani military more than $2 billion in aid, the top general in the northwest said an operation in North Waziristan won’t happen anytime soon. From Dawn: Pakistan will consider mounting an anti-Taliban offensive in North Waziristan only when other tribal areas are stabilised, a senior […]
Pakistan
Lieutenant General Malik said the military is not going to carry out an operation in North Waziristan in the next six months. The Inspector General of the Frontier Corps said Arakzai is 90 percent cleared of the Taliban. Six Taliban fighters and one soldier were killed in fighting in Arakzai.
Anti-Taliban tribe in Kurram cut off by Pakistani Army
The Pakistani military has cut off the Shia, anti-Taliban Turi tribe from any remaining support it may have received from neighboring Afghanistan. The BBC reports: The blockade comes amid reports that the Turis have once again refused to allow the militants to enter Afghanistan via Kurram. The Taliban have been trying to launch operations around […]
Iran
Iran has begun loading nuclear fuel into the core of the Bushehr reactor. The Bushehr plant will be connected to Iran’s electrical grid by February, officials said.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed a district police chief and three policemen in an IED attack in Herat province. Security forces killed an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander who doubled as a Taliban district shadow governor in Takhar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Helmand, Logar, and Paktia.
Tajikistan
Security forces killed three Islamist fighters and detained one more during operations in the Rasht Valley. Tajik President Emomali Rahmon denied the Taliban are involved in fighting in the Rasht Valley and said the situation is under control.
Iraq
Insurgents killed seven Iraqi soldiers and seven civilians in separate attacks in Khalis, Kirkuk, Baghdad, and Mosul. An undersecretary in the planning ministry dodged an assassination attempt. Tariq Aziz, Saddam Hussein’s foreign minister, has been sentenced to death by hanging.
Somalia
Ten people were killed in clashes between government forces and Shabaab in Mogadishu. Shabaab said the Mustafa Abu Yazid Brigade killed several Somali troops during the fighting. Gunmen assassinated two prominent clerics in Adado.
Russia
Police defused a bomb planted outside a concert hall in Grozny in Chechnya. Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said he should be given more latitude from Russia in battling the Caucasus Emirate. Islamist fighters are primarily using weapons taken from military depots.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan strategy works, needs time, general says
Yemen
Fifteen al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters surrendered to the governor of Abyan. The government claimed the Awalik mountain range is free of AQAP influence. A Yemen journalist is on trial for links to AQAP cleric Anwar al Awlaki.
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda’s media plays follow the leader