Security forces killed and captured Taliban and Haqqani Network leaders and fighters in Ghazni and Logar. The Taliban killed three ISAF soldiers in the south and the east, and torched two NATO supply trucks in Wardak. ISAF is investigating reports that an Afghan soldier killed two US Marines in Helmand.
The president of Puntland, a semi-autonomous region, claimed that its security forces killed 96 Shabaab fighters under the command of Mohamed Said Atom in the Galgala region. The president said Shabaab fighters are now based in the Sanaag region in Somaliland.
An appeals court ruled that the British government cannot strip Abu Hamza al Masri of his British passport. Abu Hamza is a radical al Qaeda preacher who has been jailed for soliciting the murder of non-Mulsims and other charges. The US is seeking the extradition of Abu Hamza.
Pakistani Taliban spokesman Tariq Azam denied that leaders Hakeemullah Mehsud and Qari Hussain Mehsud were killed in US Predator strikes. The Taliban would continue to attack Pakistani security forces, Azam said.
The US cannot confirm if a bomb was responsible for the destruction of a UPS carrier in the UAE on Sept. 3, as al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed. The UAE said it is investigating the crash. A court ordered Yemeni security forces to capture Anwar al Awlaki.
Iran said it suspended the trial of three Americans hikers captured near the Iran-Iraq border last year. One of the Americans has been released and returned to the US. Iran has accelerated the construction of a natural gas pipeline to Pakistan.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released a statement on Friday claiming responsibility for the two package bombs found on board cargo planes in late October. The Saudis supplied the intelligence that was used to disrupt the plot, but US officials doubt the official Saudi story.
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The Taliban attacked two mosques in Pakistan’s northwest. A suicide bomber killed more than 60 people in an attack at a mosque in Darra Adam Khel. A Taliban fighter killed three people in a hand grenade attack in Peshawar.
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Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula recently released a statement on jihadist forums taking credit for the recent parcel bomb plot. Interestingly enough, AQAP also claimed it detonated a UPS plane over Dubai on Sept. 3, and accused the Obama administration of hiding the attack. From the AQAP statement, which was obtained by LWJ: We […]
In a statement released on jihadist forums, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed credit for the foiled parcel bomb plot as well as the downing of a UPS flight over Dubai in September. “We say to Obama, we have struck your jets three times in one year and we will continue, God willing, to […]
Radical cleric Eko Budi Wardoyo has been convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison for his roles in the killing of a priest and in a market bombing in Sulawesi that killed 22 people. Wardoyo had provided funding and transport for the perpetrators of both the Sulawesi attacks, all of whom are serving prison […]
A suicide bomber killed 10 people and wounded the chief of the Faryab provincial council. Security forces killed and captured Taliban and Haqqani Network leaders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Khost, and Parwan. The Taliban killed three ISAF soldiers in the south and the east.
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A senior Shabaab leader said that the terror group would strike in the capitals of Uganda and Burundi if their troops did not leave Somalia. “We will attack Kampala and Bujumbura and there will be mass exodus of civilians just like Mogadishu,” he stated.
In a statement released on the Internet, al Qaeda in Iraq threatened further attacks in the country. “What they have seen in that night is the beginning of the downpour, and one day out of many bloody days awaiting them,” the terror group said.
The head of the Faryab provincial council was wounded in an attack by a teen-aged suicide bomber.