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US seeks wider CIA role in Pakistan
Yearly Archives: 2010
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
Al Qaeda
Adam Gadahn, the American-born al Qaeda spokesman, urged Western Muslims to carry out terror attacks. “To my Muslim brothers residing in the states of the Zio-Crusader coalition … know that Jihad is your duty as well,” Gadahn said on a propaganda tape.
Pakistan
The Pakistani military killed 12 Taliban fighters in helicopter strikes in Arakzai. General Wyne, the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, said the Taliban’s network has been broken and the group is on the verge of defeat.
Iraq
Insurgents killed four soldiers and a policeman in bombings in Abu Ghraib, Baghdad, and Mosul. An insurgent died in a premature detonation in Amarah. Security forces detained 14 wanted men in Mosul.
Shabaab leader vows to avenge death of top al Qaeda leader
Sheikh Abu Mukhtar Robow (left) and Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan (faced covered) in a propaganda video acquired by The Long War Journal. Remember those reports from a few weeks back which claimed that Shabaab was in disarray as Sheikh Abu Mukhtar Robow, the terror group’s deputy leader, split from the group and pulled his forces […]
Somalia
Senior Shabaab leaders Ali Mohamad Rage and Sheikh Muktar Robow sponsored a Shabaab parade of thousands of fighters in the capital of Mogadishu. Robow said Shabaab would avenge the death of Mustaf Abu Yazid, the top al Qaeda leader and financier killed in a US predator strike in May 2010.
Afghanistan
A four-man Taliban suicide assault team was killed after breaking into a UN compound in Herat. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Khost, Paktika, and Kunar.
Suicide assault team storms UN compound in western Afghanistan
Afghan police and security guards defeated the attack after three members of the Taliban team were able to enter the compound.
Iran
Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said UN sanctions are dead. The Iranian representative to the UN urged all nations to disarm their nuclear weapons. Security forces detained four Jundallah members involved in the July mosque bombing in Zahedan.
Kohistan, Chitral are quiet terrorist havens in northwestern Pakistan
Spiegel has an interesting report on how the Taliban are sheltering in areas of Pakistan far removed from the tribal areas that have become the focus of discussion. Kohistan is one such area, as Spiegel notes, and the Pakistani Army isn’t viewed as a threat. In fact they are often “quite nice”: Rafiullah, 25, is […]
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters gunned down a colonel in the intelligence branch near his home in Mukalla in Hadramawt province. AQAP has put out a hit list of more than 50 intelligence and security officials targeted for assassination.
Turkey
Security forces detained five members of an al Qaeda cell in Izmir in western Turkey. The cell was supporting al Qaeda operations in Afghanistan, and included fundraisers and a computer programmer who was attempting to jam NATO UAV signals.
Pakistan
The Taliban killed six soldiers in an IED attack Arakzai and five civilians in a bombing in a mosque in Peshawar. The US approved a $2 billion military aid package to Pakistan, but cut of certain units from funding due to human rights violations.
Siraj Haqqani sheltering in Kurram, near area of US helicopter strikes
The operational leader of the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network is thought to have been in the same area in Pakistan where US Apache helicopters carried out cross-border attacks last month. Siraj’s presence in part sparked the Pakistani military’s outrage over the incursion.
More shocking news: Iran backs Shia terror groups in Iraq
A US military map of Iran’s operations inside southern Iraq, from 2007. This map formed the basis of the LWJ report, The Ramazan Corps and the ratlines into Iraq. Click to view full size. In case you are curious why the release of the Wikileaks documents pertaining to Afghanistan, and now Iraq, have sparked little […]
Thailand
Insurgents killed a Muslim schoolteacher after he left mosque in Yarang district of Pattani province. Two insurgents killed a Buddhist official of the Provincial Electricity Authority in Pattani’s Khok Pho district.
Philippines
Suspected Moro Islamic Liberation Front fighters killed two village officials in Maguindanao province. The two officials were ambushed by gunmen after their vehicles were hit by landmines. The chairman and councilman of Barangay Liab in Mamasapano town were participating in electoral activities.
Somalia
Twenty people were killed during a failed Shabaab offensive that sought to retake control of Balad-hawa district on the Kenyan border. Puntland claimed it took control of Shabaab’s last safe haven in the Galgala mountains. The African Union is seeking an air and naval blockade of Somalia.
Afghanistan
Taliban leaders in talks lack ‘influence’
Al Qaeda
An Insurgent’s Road Trip from Pakistan to Afghanistan
Pakistan
Pakistan kept in the dark about Afghan peace contacts
Hizb-i-Islami
Afghan insurgents dismiss peace talks, NATO upbeat
Somalia
AU asks UN for Somalia air and naval blockade