France
French MP says UK is ‘losing fight against Islamic extremists’
Yearly Archives: 2010
Pakistan is not conducting ‘surgical’ raids in North Waziristan
Buried at the end of this Wall Street Journal article on Admiral Mike Mullen’s infatuation with Pakistan (a topic worthy of a book in itself), are these two completely false paragraphs that claim Pakistan is conducting covert operations against al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the Haqqani Network based in North Waziristan: Pakistan currently conducts “surgical” […]
Afghanistan
Afghan: Consult system on military ops not working
Pakistan
Pakistan – Why attack the shrines?
Taliban spokesman: Qari Hussain Mehsud is alive
The Pakistani Taliban are denying reports that Qari Hussain Mehsud was killed in a recent Predator strike. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesman Azam Tariq has contradicted news reports about Qari Hussain’s death in a drone strike and described it as part of a campaign to demoralise the Taliban. Talking to reporters from an undisclosed location on Saturday, […]
Pakistan
Sixteen people were killed in attacks in Karachi. Security forces killed two Taliban fighters and detained another in Swat. The Taliban bombed a school in Peshawar.
Al Qaeda
US military, civilian officials claim progress in Afghan war
Germany
Merkel says German multicultural society has failed
Afghanistan
In Afghan south, US faces frustrated residents
Al Qaeda
Sunnis in Iraq allied with US quitting to rejoin rebels
Pakistan
Pakistan – How to defuse a human bomb: rescuing Taliban™s teenage recruits
United States
Pakistan seeks drone technology
Iraq
Security forces arrested seven Iraqis who had killed 12 Iraqi soldiers in an assault at the Rusafa army base on Sept. 5 and three soldiers at a checkpoint near Baghdad in July. The attackers confessed to working for al Qaeda.
ISAF launches operation in Kandahar’s Panjwai district
ISAF and Afghan forces launched a combined operation into Kandahar’s Panjwai district, a Taliban stronghold. Three villages are the target of the operation, which is being carried out by US and Canadian forces, as well as more than 800 Afghan troops. From The New York Times: Hundreds of Afghan and American troops on Saturday made […]
Afghanistan
Coalition and Afghan forces launched offensives in Panjwai in Kandahar and the Pech River Valley in Kunar. Security forces killed 11 Taliban fighters in Helmand, Takhar, and Ghazni, detained two leaders in Helmand and Paktika, and freed 37 prisoners held by the Taliban in Helmand. The Taliban killed four people in bombings in Uruzgan and […]
Morocco
Police busted an international drug trafficking ring with links to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. The ring had a base in Mali and was connected to Latin American cartels. Six people, including two Spaniards, were arrested.
Somalia
Shabaab took control of the town of Dhusamareb from Ahlu Sunna Wal Jama™a after the Sufi group battled a rival clan for control of Adado. Shabaab forces attacked the town of Elgal in Hiran province, sparking heavy fighting.
Yemen
Australia warned its citizens against traveling to Yemen, and said its embassy and hotels are likely targets of terror attacks. Intelligence officials in Abyan said they seized al Qaeda documents that detailed plots that are to be carried out in the province.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Yemeni Security forces captured Saleh al Raymi, a suspected senior al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula financier, at Sana’a International Airport. Raymi, a Saudi citizen, was traveling from Saudi Arabia. The Yemeni interior ministry offered a $100,000 reward for eight AQAP operatives.
Iran
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said talks over Iran’s nuclear program are likely to begin in November. Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi said two US hikers should be tried for spying. A top IRGC official said the West is attempting to sow divisions between Sunni and Shia Muslims.
Pakistan
Pakistan – TTP plans poisonous gas attacks
Al Qaeda
Before ’08 Mumbai attacks, US was warned key figure in plot had terror ties
Iraq
Pentagon bracing for release of 400,000 secret Iraq reports
Al Qaeda
Pakistan – FO defends military policy in northwest
Somalia
Save the Children calls for release of Somalia hostage
Conflicting reports mean the death of senior Pakistani Taliban leader unlikely
The Taliban denied that Qari Hussain Mehsud was killed, while US intelligence officials refused to confirm the reports. Qari Hussain is known as the “teacher of suicide bombers.”
Al Qaeda
Probe links European plot to 9/11
Shabaab
Somali militias clash, undermining new strategy
Saudi Arabia
Jaber Jabran al Faifi, a former detainee at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, surrendered to Saudi authorities. Faifi left Saudi Arabia after his release in 2006 and joined al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Pakistan
The US killed nine “militants’ in a pair of airstrikes in Mir Ali in North Waziristan. The Taliban killed five Pakistani soldiers and captured one other during an attack on a checkpoint in South Waziristan, and also killed three truck drivers in attacks on NATO supply trucks in Khyber and Kalat. Four tribal militia members […]