Monthly Archives: January 2011

Somalia

| January 10, 2011

Sweden – Muslim Council head ‘clueless’ over terror plot

Pakistan

| January 9, 2011

‘The killer of my father, Salman Taseer, was showered with rose petals by fanatics. How could they do this?’

Philippines

| January 9, 2011

Philippine Rangers killed two Abu Sayyaf fighters and detained another during operations in the town of Tipo-tipo in Basilan province. The military estimates Abu Sayyaf has 340 fighters in its ranks.

Pakistan released HUJI chief, unable to keep him behind bars

| January 9, 2011

Last week our sources confirmed a report that Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the leader of the Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI, or the Movement of Islamic Holy War), was released from Pakistani custody in early December 2010 (you can read the report and all the information about Akhtar’s connections to al Qaeda and Pakistan’s military and intelligence service here.) […]

Afghanistan

| January 9, 2011

Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Nangarhar, Logar, Kunar, and Kunduz. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south and a French soldier in the east.

Somalia

| January 9, 2011

During a rally in Baidoa, Sheikh Muktar Robow, Shabaab’s deputy leader, called for Somalis to go to Mogadishu to wage jihad. Shabaab banned men and women from exchanging handshakes.

Yemen

| January 9, 2011

A Yemeni minister said the media “is exaggerating” the threat posed by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in the country. A California man was sentenced to five years in a US prison for spying for Yemen.

Iran

| January 9, 2011

Iran deported a woman who was arrested this week and accused of being a “US spy.” The outgoing chief of Israeli Mossad said Iran will not have a nuclear device until 2015. Afghans are protesting Iran’s fuel blockade.

Pakistan

| January 9, 2011

Pakistan – More than 40,000 protest blasphemy law change: police

Al Qaeda

| January 9, 2011

2 French hostages killed by al-Qaeda kidnappers during failed rescue attempt

Pakistan

| January 8, 2011

Two Taliban fighters died in a premature detonation in Khyber. The Taliban bombed a health clinic in Mohmand. Security forces arrested four “religious extremists” in Quetta.

Afghanistan

| January 8, 2011

Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, and Kunar. The Taliban killed two Afghan soldiers in Logar, three civilians in Helmand and Khost, and an ISAF soldier in the east.