Vice President Biden said the US could stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014 if requested. Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured dozens of Taliban, Haqqani Network, and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commanders and fighters in Helmand, Ghazni, Khost, Wardak, and Kunduz. The Taliban killed two civilians in Farah.
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In Kunduz, a senior Taliban and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander was killed along with the Taliban’s shadow governor of Khanabad, and a senior facilitator involved in a recent suicide assault was captured.
Muhammed Saleem Saeed Braikan, who is on Saudi Arabia’s list of 47 most wanted terrorists, is married to Osama bin Laden’s daughter Fatima and is a senior leader in al Qaeda. Braikan is believed to be operating along the Afghan-Pakistan border.
Security forces detained an al Qaeda leader in Diyala, six Islamic Army of Iraq fighters in Baghdad, and a member of parliament’s bodyguard in Wasit, and broke up a plot to assassinate provincial council members in Anbar. Insurgents wounded 13 civilians in five bombings in Baghdad.
Three Somalis, including a soldier, were killed in a hand grenade attack in the Wadajir district. Shabaab has ordered high schools in Beledweyne to turn over lists of students to be used in recruiting fighting.
A Saudi named Muhammed Saleem Saeed Braikan (or Buraikan), who is on the updated list of the Kingdom’s 47 most wanted terrorists, married a daughter (she was just 12 years old at the time) of Osama bin Laden, and is well tuned into al Qaeda’s operational plans and may be aware of bin Laden’s location […]
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None of the 47 al Qaeda operatives are in Saudi Arabia. Twenty-seven of them are thought to be in Pakistan and Afghanistan, 16 are thought to be in Yemen, and four more are believed to be in Iraq.
A suicide bomber killed three policemen in Kandahar. Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured dozens of Taliban commanders and fighters in Ghazni, Kandahar, Helmand, Nangarhar, Kunar, Khost, Logar, Kunduz, and Farah. ISAF is investigating reports it accidentally killed three Afghan police in an airstrike in Day Kundi.
Security forces killed an insurgent in Mosul and detained seven more, and detained two members of an assassination cell in Fallujah and a Naqshabandiya leader in Kirkuk. Insurgents killed Hit’s the police chief and two civilians in Mosul.
The interior ministry released the list of the 47 most wanted Saudis. Of those wanted, 27 are thought to be in Pakistan and Afghanistan, 16 are in Yemen, and four are in Iraq.
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Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula killed three electricity department workers and a security guard in an IED attack in Abyan. The government deported four Egyptians accused of aiding Houthi rebels in the north.
A civilian was killed in a hand grenade attack in Mogadishu. Shabaab’s governor of Mogadishu urged Somalis to aid those stricken by drought. Shabaab fired three officials in Bu’ale.
The Taliban commander, who was captured in Farah province, “is definitely associated with Qods Force,” an ISAF official told The Long War Journal.
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