United Kingdom
Helmand province sees governance, economic improvements
Yearly Archives: 2010
Pakistan
Pakistani customs officials stopped 152 NATO supply trucks from crossing the Chaman border into Afghanistan. Two Pakistani soldiers were killed in an IED attack in North Waziristan. A teacher at the Jamia Binoria madrassa in Karachi who was associated with the Sipah-i-Sahab was murdered outside his home.
United States
Failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad was sentenced to life in prison, and during his hearing threatened more attacks. “Brace yourself, the war with Muslims has just begun,” he told the court. “The defeat of the U.S. is imminent, inshallah,” he said.
Iraq
The US ambassador to Iraq said that Muqtada al Sadr’s participation in an Iraqi government would be problematic for ties with Iraq. Insurgents killed a senior police commander and two women in Mosul. Security forces killed a suicide bomber in Diyala and detained an insurgent in Baghdad.
China
Special report: The Pentagon’s new cyber warriors
France
Authorities arrested 12 suspected terrorists in raids throughout southern France. Police seized weapons and munitions from nine men arrested in raids in Marseilles and nearby Avignon. Three men linked to the French national of Algerian origin detained in Italy this week were arrested near Marseilles and Bordeaux.
Philippines
Security forces captured an Abu Sayyaf Group fighter in Lamitan city, Basilan. Bidung Ismael was wanted for seizing a hospital and kidnapping foreigners in 2001.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed a tribal leader in Takhar and eight civilians in Kandahar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and members in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Khost, Paktika, Wardak, and Takhar.
Al Qaeda
Euro terror alert spotlights voiceprint technology
Al Qaeda in Iraq
US – Worker spoke of jihad, nuclear agency says
Al Qaeda’s #3 misidentified again
An al Qaeda leader named Sheikh Younis al Mauritani has been identified as al Qaeda’s external operations chief and number three in the organization. According to US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal, he is neither.
Al Qaeda
Taliban ‘remove German militants’ bodies’ after attack
Al Qaeda
‘German Taliban’ video posted on al-Qaeda website
Al Qaeda
Sidiqi family speaks out about arrest
Al Qaeda
France arrests 12 in anti-terror sweep
Afghanistan
US Military orders less dependence on fossil fuels
Al Qaeda
German Islamists reported killed in US drone attack
IMU-linked Taliban shadow governor captured in Afghan north
Coalition and Afghan forces captured Saifullah, the shadow district governor of Chahar Darah in Kunduz, a known Taliban and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan safe haven.
Al Qaeda
Times Square bomber faces sentencing in NYC
Iran
President Ahmadinejad warned that US troops should leave the Middle East. Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman said that Tehran is open to resuming nuclear talks. A UK soldier was arrested for attempting to smuggle weapons into Iran.
Bangladesh
Police arrested three men, including a senior Lashkar-e-Taiba leader, during a raid in Dhaka. The commander, Khurram, a Pakistani citizen who is also known as Muhammad Selim, has been identified by other captured LeT operatives as the local leader of LeT.
Thailand
A Thai court rejected a US request to extradite Victor Bout, a Russian arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death.” Bout has shipped arms to the Taliban, Hezbollah, and the Islamic Courts in Somalia.
Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda announced the death Sa’ad Mohammad al Shahri , an al Qaeda operative wanted by the Saudi government since 2005. Al Shahri, whose father was a colonel in the Saudi Army, was killed in a recent US airstrike in Afghanistan.
Tajikistan
Five soldiers were reported to have been killed during clashes with Islamist fighters in the Rasht district. Police killed one of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan fighters who escaped from a prison in Dushanbe in August; four escapees have been killed and seven have been captured.
Wanted Saudi al Qaeda operative killed in Afghanistan airstrike
Al Qaeda announced the death of Sa’ad Mohammad al Shahri, a Saudi citizen who has been on a list of most wanted by the Kingdom since 2005.
Russia
Insurgents killed a village administration head and a local farm director in Dagestan. The bomb scare that forced a plane bound from Moscow to Grozny in Chechnya was a hoax.
Al Qaeda
Germany plays down threat of terror sttack
Al Qaeda
US drone ‘kills eight Germans’ in Pakistan amid terror plot fears
Taliban
Afghan offensive fails to reassure residents
More on the Hamburg mosque’s connections to the European plot
CNN confirmed Thomas Joscelyn’s report that the Taiba (Al Quds) Mosque in Hamburg of 9/11 fame is at the heart of the plot to carry out Mumbai-like assaults in Europe. The CNN report highlights some more of the players in the plot. Also note that some of the Germans traveled “overland through Iran” [for more […]