France
Israel – Gov’t concerned French arms for Lebanese Armed Forces will go to Hizbullah
Monthly Archives: December 2010
United States
Taliban respond extensively to Obama administration’s war strategy review
United States
Pakistani intelligence official denies agency role in revealing name of CIA station chief
United States
Turn in your bin Ladens
Al Qaeda
US memo, jailed Indian Mujahideen man reveal Al Qaeda’s India links
Abu Sayyaf
Abu Sayyaf leader gets 23 years in US prison
Iraq
The Iraqiya party, led by Iyad Allawi, will join a government headed by Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki. Iraqiya agreed to join after a ban on three members of its party was lifted. The government is expected to be formed on Monday.
Quetta Shura ‘inspector’ killed in the Afghan north
Map of Afghanistan’s provinces. Click map to view larger image. Special operations forces took out a senior Taliban “inspector” in an airstrike in northern Afghan province of Badghis. From the ISAF press release: Coalition forces conducted a precision air strike in Bala Murghab district in Badghis province, killing a senior Taliban leader Dec. 17. Mullah […]
Afghanistan
Afghanistan – Reassuring hands: a US crew’s urgent flight
Taliban leader linked to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Islam captured in Afghan east
ISAF mentioned the Lashkar-e-Islam for the first time, just one day after US Predators pounded the group’s strongholds across the border in Pakistan’s Khyber agency.
Al Qaeda
Why we must stick with Obama’s Afghan strategy
United States
Revamping of airport checkpoint system urged
Sweden
Sweden bomber’s father-in-law ‘not sad’ for death
Iraq
Iraq entices investors to bid for power profits
Afghanistan
The Americans are in our house. What will the Taliban think?
Al Qaeda
Printer bomb plot: police unwittingly considered transporting live device
Afghanistan
Child labor helps war-torn Afghan families survive
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured scores of Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters during raids in Kandahar, Helmand, Nangarhar, Kapisa, and Badghis. The Taliban killed two civilians in a suicide attack in Kandahar and an ISAF soldier in the south.
Somalia
A Shabaab commander criticized overall leader Sheikh Muktar Abdirahman Abu Zubeyr for fighting against the rival Hizbul Islam, and said “the fighting in Burhakaba was not jihad.” Shabaab seized control of Burhakaba from Hizbul Islam after weeks of heavy fighting.
Yemen
The four Americans who escaped an attack at a cafe in Sana’a worked for the CIA. US counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said al Qaeda in Yemen poses a larger threat to the West than the Pakistan branch.
Iran
The Chairman of the US Joint Chief of Staff Admiral Mullen said Iran is still pursuing nuclear weapons, and said the US is prepared to deal with Iranian aggression. Pakistan said it would cooperate with Iraq in investigating the Chabahar suicide attack.
Afghanistan
A formerly persecuted minority gains clout in Afghanistan
Al Qaeda
Pakistani role is suspected in revealing US spy’s name
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan lays foundation for parliamentary democracy
Pakistan
US Predators killed 54 Taliban and Lashkar-e-Islam fighters in three airstrikes in Khyber. The ISI is believed to have outed the CIA station chief in Islamabad. The Taliban bombed a girl’s school in Peshawar.
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters during raids in Helmand, Nangarhar, Paktia, Khost, and Badghis. The Taliban killed a French officer in the east and an ISAF soldier in the south. A suicide bomber died in a premature detonation in Kandahar.
Sweden
The Stockholm suicide bomber has been linked to radical jihadist preacher Abu Hamza. SAPO is now searching the Facebook page of the Stockholm suicide bomber to look for possible links to other jihadists.
Al Qaeda in Iraq
White House reports frustrations in Yemeni relations
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Al-Qaeda promises Christmas terror
Thoughts on AfPak strategy review
The Obama administration has released a five-page summary of its annual strategy review on Afghanistan and Pakistan. In our view, the document is mostly ho-hum with no really major revelations or insights. The surge of military forces in Afghanistan is definitely having some positive effects in that country. But there is scant evidence that Pakistan’s […]