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Monthly Archives: October 2010
Pakistan
Security forces killed 17 Taliban fighters in Swat and Arakzai. The Taliban bombed two schools in Bajaur and torched two NATO trucks in Khuzdar.
Pakistan
Pakistani security officials seek larger role in negotiations with Taliban
Philippines
Authorities arrested five suspects in the bus bombing in the town of Matalam on the southern island of Mindanao. One detainee gave the whereabouts of four other accomplices in the attack who were later arrested in a raid in Cotabato city. Their connection to the Islamist groups blamed for the attack remains undisclosed.
Nigeria
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen killed a local chief in the northern city of Bauchi. Neighborhood chief Tukur Ahmad was killed in front of his home after attending Friday prayers at the local mosque. The Nigerian army has been deployed to Maiduguri in an attempt to halt the escalating violence.
Iraq
The secret Iraq files: The war – A snapshot of Al-Qaeda in Iraq
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Logar, and Kunar. The Taliban killed a Danish soldier in the south.
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Iraq war logs: British blunder may have let al-Qaida kingpin Zarqawi go free
United States
Muslims speak out against NPR’s political correctness
United States
Pakistan resists US push to expand terror fight
Afghanistan
Suicide attack on UN begs the question: How safe is Herat, Afghanistan?
Al Qaeda
Afghan warlords prepare to rearm as Taliban arrive for peace talks in Kabul
Iran
Iran restricts social sciences seen as ‘Western’
Afghanistan
Karzai seeks list of aid projects needing security
Somalia
Twenty people were killed in clashes between Shabaab fighters and government forces in the Boondere district north of Mogadishu. Shabaab commander Mohammed Said Atom is believed to be hiding in Somaliland after Puntland forces attacked his bases in the Galgala mountains.
United States
A Texas court sentenced Adan Mirza, a Pakistani national, to 15 years in jail for aiding and supporting the Taliban and the illegal possession of weapons. Mizra, who was in the US on a student visa, also trained to wage jihad with a group of others.
Yemen
The government said the Awlaki tribe has agreed to cooperate in expelling al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula from Shabwa province and has launched an operation in the Said district. The foreign minister claimed there are 400 AQAP fighters in Yemen and the government is hunting them.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Anwar al Awlaki, the US-born cleric and recruiter for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, appeared on a short videotape produced by the Al Malahim Foundation, AQAP’s propaganda arm. Awlaki urged Muslims to wage jihad and criticized “the Yemeni corrupt religious scholars who are run by the government or political opposition parties.”
Iran
Feda Hussein Maliki, Iran’s ambassador to Afghanistan, has passed along millions of dollars in bribes to Umar Daudzai, Afghan President Hamid Karzai™s chief of staff, in an effort “to advance Iranian interests.” Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei lauded the Basij for “defusing complex enemy plots during the post-vote unrest.”
Iran
Iran, trying to skirt sanctions, attempts to set up banks worldwide
Al Qaeda
Despite successful US attacks on Taliban leaders in Afghanistan’s northwest, insurgency remains in control
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Mix of trust and despair helped turn tide in Iraq
Al Qaeda
US seeks wider CIA role in Pakistan
India
India is waging a lone battle against terror
Al Qaeda
Western media getting Afghanistan wrong
Iran
Document says Iranians crossed border to arrest hikers
Pakistan
Pakistani Taliban leader’s former bodyguard nabbed, sources say
United States
Wikileaks: UN calls for US to investigate torture claims revealed in leaked reports
Iraq
Maliki says foes will use US leaks against him
Afghanistan
Iran said to give top Karzai aide cash by bagful