Yearly Archives: 2010

Shabaab denies rift between top leaders, pledges allegiance to Osama bin Laden

| October 9, 2010

Sheikh Abu Mukhtar Robow (left) and Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan (faced covered) in a propaganda video acquired by The Long War Journal. Sheikh Abu Mukhtar Robow, the deputy leader of Shabaab, has denied recent reports of a rift between him and Sheikh Mukhtar Abu Zubeyr, Shabaab’s leader. The reports, which have surfaced in the Somali […]

India

| October 8, 2010

India – Threat to blow up JN Stadium, BSE keeps cops busy

Pakistan

| October 8, 2010

US Predators killed nine terrorists, including several foreigners, in strikes in North Waziristan. The Taliban destroyed 27 NATO fuel tankers in Mithri. The government said it would likely reopen the Khyber Pass to NATO traffic on Oct. 9. An explosion destroyed a mosque in Khyber.

Thailand

| October 8, 2010

Insurgents killed one soldier and wounded another after ambushing a patrol in Narathiwat’s Si Sakhon district. Insurgents killed three employees of a wholesale chicken company in Pattani’s Sai Buri district.

Philippines

| October 8, 2010

A Chinese-Filipino student was kidnapped by suspected Abu Sayyaf Group members in the southern region of Mindanao. Gunmen are demanding a ransom of $116,000 for the release of the college freshman after he was abducted in the town of Jolo in Sulu province.

Somalia

| October 8, 2010

Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansour, Shabaab’s deputy leader, denied there was a dispute between him and Shabaab’s top leader, Sheikh Mukhtar Abu Zubeyr. Robow also declared that Osama bin Laden was “our leader.”

Afghanistan

| October 8, 2010

The Taliban killed the governor of Kunduz and 14 others in a bombing at a mosque in Takhar. Combined forces also killed and captured several Taliban members in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Khost, Logar, and Wardak. The Taliban killed a British soldier and two ISAF soldiers in the south, and a tribal elder in Farah.

Al Qaeda

| October 8, 2010

US Predators killed Mohammed Usman, a senior aide to Osama bin Laden and the ‘spymaster” for Ilyas Kashmiri’s Brigade 313. Usman had nearly two decades of experience in jihad in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and helped unite various Pakistani terror groups.

Yemen

| October 8, 2010

The provincial governor of Shabwa said there is no indication that Anwar al Awlaki has ties to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The Interior minister said there is no evidence linking a security guard that killed a French worker to al Qaeda.

Al Qaeda

| October 8, 2010

Participants say Kabul meeting was ‘brainstorming session,’ not Taliban talks

Al Qaeda

| October 8, 2010

‘Hope is not a strategy’ – outgoing US Security Advisor Jones voices concern on Pakistan

Iran

| October 8, 2010

Germany’s foreign minister said Iran must “come clean” to the world about its nuclear program. President Ahmadinejad is in Southern Lebanon as part of a “visit for unity” trip. Terrorists killed police and civilians in Iran’s western Kurdistan province.