Pakistan
A tribal lashkar killed three Taliban fighters; three more Taliban fighters were found killed in Arakzai. An Awami National Party leader was killed in Mardan. The US will donate $190 million in flood aid.
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Algeria
The US Department of Defense announced the transfer of Saiid Farhi to Algeria. Farhi was detained at the Guantanamo Bay detention faciliy after being detained in Pakistan in 2001 for associating with al Qaeda and the Taliban. A US court ordered Farhi’s release in November 2009.
United States
The FBI arrested Emerson Begolly, an Internet jihadist who has voiced his support for the Taliban and al Qaeda. Begolly, who was detained in New Bethlehem, Pa., bit two FBI agents and had a gun in his possession during the arrest.
Bangladesh
The Jamaat ul Mujahideen Bangladesh threatened to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and bomb a prison if its associates are not released from jail. Four of the six top leaders of the MB were captured in 2005 and executed in 2007.
Al Qaeda
Blast awakens Egyptians to threat from religious strife
China
Navy intel chief discusses China’s military advances
Al Qaeda
UK – Train stations on alert over terror threat fears
Watershed tribal engagement in Sangin?
Josef Patterson, a platoon commander out of Camp Pendleton, meets with the Alikozai tribe last week. In exchange for quelling insurgent attacks against coalition forces, elders have asked for more Afghan-led patrols and reconstruction projects. AP image. Hopeful news about a tribal peace deal in the turbulent southern Afghan province of Helmand has been making […]
France
Islam now considered ‘a threat’ to national identity by almost half of French and Germans, according to new poll
Afghanistan
The US will send an additional 1,400 Marines to the south in the spring. Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Ghazni, Kunar, and Nangarhar. The Taliban killed a policeman in Nimroz.
China
Democratic countries confronting their own creeping challenge of censorship
Armenia
Iran – ‘American’ detained as alleged spy amid crackdown on Christians
Hezbollah
Lebanon – Proposed ban on sale of land between Muslims and Christians sparks controversy
Iraq
Security forces detained 11 wanted men in Diyala, an “armed group” attempting to carry out a rocket attack near Baghdad’s airport, and a corrupt Army officer in Baghdad. Iraqi soldiers and intelligence officials foiled an attempt to blow up a church in Mosul.
Mali
The man who was detained for hurling a small explosive device and opening fire at the French embassy in Bamako claimed to be a member of al Qaeda. The man is said to be a Tunisian citizen. Police cannot confirm the man’s claims.
Somalia
Shabaab forces near Kismayo executed a man accused of spying for the Ethiopian military and detained three people in El Bur. A Somali military commander threatened to battle Shabaab forces in Beledweyn.
Iran
Iranian authorities arrested a 55-year-old American woman on charges of spying. A lawmaker said “spiteful states” are not welcome to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Pakistan
Chaos over Mumtaz Qadri’s court appearance
Al Qaeda
Egyptian police fear repeat of new year’s bombing in Alexandria
Israel
Israeli MPs back ‘McCarthyite’ probe on rights groups
Iraq
Iraqi cleric implores followers to show discipline
Pakistan
Former boss feared Pakistan suspect’s “extremism”
Pakistan
After assassination, Pakistan’s Christians fear for their lives
Norway
Islamic terrorist organization recruits Norwegian Somali youths
Turkey
Turkey defends release of militants despite public outcry
Afghanistan
US, Afghan forces displace Taliban in eastern Afghanistan
Pakistan
Barelvi clerics feted Governor Taseer’s assassin and warned Pakistanis not to mourn Taseer’s death, while lawyers showered the assassin with rose petals as he entered a courtroom. The US and Pakistan are stalemated over the transfer of drone technology.
Russia
Four “militants” were killed in a special operations raid in the city of Khasavyurt in Dagestan. Gunmen fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a Russian Orthodox Church in the town of Ordzhonikidze in Ingushetia; the church caught fire.
Welcome back, Sadr
Muqtada al Sadr. Muqtada al Sadr, the Iranian-backed, pseudo-cleric derisively known as Mullah Atari and hailed in US media circles as “the most powerful man in Iraq,” has returned from his self-imposed three-year-plus-long exile in Iran. Sadr left Iraq after the US and Iraqi security forces stepped up operations against his now-disbanded Mahdi Army in […]
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed three ISAF soldiers in attacks in the south and east and three civilians in Uruzgan. Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Ghazni, Wardak, and Nimroz. CENTCOM suspended contractors Bennett-Fouch Associates and K5 Global.