Pakistan
Drones push Taliban from a Pakistani haven
Yearly Archives: 2010
Afghanistan
Neighboring countries ponder a post-occupation Afghanistan
Al Qaeda
Algeria to arm civilians against Islamist militants
Suicide bomber kills 60 at mosque in Pakistan’s northwest
The blast in Darra Adam Khel is the latest in a string of bombings and suicide attacks at religious sites in Pakistan. The Taliban claimed the attack.
Iran
Cuba and Iran criticized the human rights record of the United States at the UN. Tehran arrested four Kurds who are alleged to have the support of the British government. Tehran blocked public access to former President Khatami’s website.
Pakistan
The US Treasury sanctioned leaders of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba terror groups. The military killed eight Taliban fighters in Arakzai. The government fired 800 education employees for failing to stop Taliban attacks on schools.
Afghanistan
Pentagon spokesman explains significance of July 2011 in Afghanistan
Mali
Tribesmen from Timbuktu have reportedly killed five Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb fighters in clashes in the north. The attack is being reported as retaliation for AQIM’s killing of an army lieutenant colonel as he left a mosque. The army only confirms the killing of one man in an attempted arrest of an AQIM […]
Nigeria
Authorities have begun to deport over 700 immigrants in the north that they suspect could be susceptible to recruitment by Boko Haram. The security crackdown caused by fears of immigrants joining Boko Haram has led the government to expel migrants back to Chad, Niger, and Cameroon.
Philippines
Security forces arrested a bombing suspect in Manila thought to be linked to the Abu Sayyaf Group or MILF. Intelligence indicate that 10 foreign terrorists are meeting with Abu Sayyaf leaders and planning attacks in the Manila Metro area. Police seized 562 kilograms of bomb-making material and detained four people in Limay, Bataan.
Reflections on Osama bin Laden, and his continuing relevance
Earlier today, I did a rather lengthy written interview with a journalist from an online Romanian newspaper. In light of the new tapes Osama bin Laden released last month, he put a number of questions to me about the al Qaeda leader. I thought the following, adapted from the interview but maintaining its Q&A format, […]
Al Qaeda
Ayman al Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s second in command, issued a videotape calling for the release of Pakistani scientist and al Qaeda operative Aafia Siddiqui, who is in prison in the US for attempting to kill US law enforcement officials. Zawahiri threatened attacks in the US and Pakistan if Siddiqui is not released.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured Taliban and Haqqani Network leaders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Paktia, Khost, Logar, and Nimroz. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the east. Twenty Taliban fighters surrendered in Herat.
US Treasury sanctions leaders of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba
Massod Azhar, the leader of the Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders Azam Cheema, a top military commander, and Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki, a political official, were placed on the US list of specially designated global terrorists.
Afghanistan
Afghan attorney general investigates alleged voting fraud
Lebanon
Lebanon cracks down on Internet freedom
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Yemen terror response shows flaws
Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
Iraq – Al-Qaeda prompts Christians to flee
Yemen
Two people were killed in a car bombing in Dalea province. More than 130 employees of the Yemen Airways Company at Sana™a airport are under investigation for connections to the parcel bomb plot. US military officials want to increase military aid to Yemen by $100 million.
Al Qaeda
Official: 1 Yemen bomb 17 mins. from exploding
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
YouTube has begun to remove hundreds of sermons and other videos made by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula cleric Anwar al Awlaki. YouTube began removing the videos after the parcel airline bomb plot from Yemen was discovered.
France
Police arrested two brothers accused of having “links to a criminal enterprise with a view to preparing a terrorist act.” Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux said 27 of 85 terror suspects detained this year remain in custody.
Turkey
The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks, a faction of the Kurdistan Workers Party, claimed it carried out the Oct. 31 suicide attck in Istanbul that wounded 32 people. “We as TAK claim responsibility for the action carried out against the police force of Turkish fascism at Istanbul’s Taksim Square,” the groups said in a statement released on […]
Al Qaeda
YouTube withdraws cleric™s videos
Al Qaeda
Yemen™s drive on al Qaeda faces internal skepticism
Palestinian Territories
An Israeli unmanned strike aircraft killed Mohammed al Nemnem, a senior operations commander of the al Qaeda-inspired Army of Islam. Nemnem was involved in “directing a terror attack against American and Israeli targets in the Sinai Peninsula, in cooperation with Hamas elements in the Gaza Strip,” the IDF stated.
Al Qaeda
Al-Qaeda terrorists linked to plane bomb plot operating in Britain, says Theresa May
Turkey
‘Faith in Islam’ to top Turkish school reform
Afghanistan
Taliban foothold grows in Afghan north: governor
Pakistan
Pakistan should fulfil pledges on Mumbai attacks – Obama