Monthly Archives: February 2011

Al Qaeda

| February 4, 2011

US said to reduce civilian deaths after increasing CIA Pakistan strikes

Afghanistan

| February 4, 2011

Security forces killed 15 Taliban fighters in Nangarhar. The Taliban attempted to assassinate Kandahar’s chief of police, for the second time in three days; the suicide bomber killed only himself. Officials in Parwan said the Taliban are plotting attacks from Pakistan.

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

| February 4, 2011

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula kidnapped an Italian woman who was touring the desert south of the town of Djanet. Algerian security forces launched an operation in an attempt to recover her.

Former Taliban commander dies at Gitmo

| February 4, 2011

Awal Gul, a former Taliban commander, died of an apparent heart attack at Guantanamo on Tuesday. According to the US military’s declassified files, Osama bin Laden allegedly gave Gul $100,000 to help al Qaeda members escape Afghanistan after 9/11.

Egypt

| February 4, 2011

Egypt – Unrest could trigger economic collapse says former UN secretary general

Egypt

| February 4, 2011

Hezbollah confirmed that Sami Chehab, a cell leader who was arrested by Egyptian security forces, was among thousands of inmates who escaped from jails in the country. Twenty-one other Hezbollah operatives are said to have escaped Egyptian prisons.

Yemen

| February 4, 2011

Police wounded three protesters in Mukalla after opening fire on the crowd. The Army shelled the town of Radfan in Lahj, wounding three people, after a patrol was attacked. The US delivered four Huey II helicopters for use in counterterrorism operations.

Somalia

| February 4, 2011

Five people were killed during fighting between Shabaab and Alhu Sunnah Wal Jama’a in Guriel. Shabaab executed a teen-aged boy in Mudug. The government denied Shabaab claims that soldiers are removing women’s niqabs.

India

| February 4, 2011

In a pluralistic part of India, fears of rising Islamic extremism

Al Qaeda

| February 4, 2011

WikiLeaks cables: FCO ‘refused to speak with doomed British hostage’

Iran

| February 4, 2011

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei again linked political upheaval in North Africa to the Iranian Revolution. Tehran is building new storage capacity to hold petroleum reserves.

Maliki: Iran, Syria are arming Iraqi terror groups

| February 3, 2011

In 2009, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Malik accused both Iran and Syria of arming terror groups operating inside Iraq. Now AFP has the story, via the Wikileaks cables: Maliki’s comments to then-US ambassador to Baghdad Christopher Hill came in the midst of a year-long diplomatic row with Damascus that prompted both Iraq and Syria […]

Al Qaeda

| February 3, 2011

WikiLeaks cables: British Muslims travelling to Somalia for ‘jihadi tourism’

Pakistan

| February 3, 2011

Three people were killed in a bombing at a shrine in Lahore. Three Taliban fighters and a soldier were killed during fighting in Arakzai; the Taliban also bombed a school in the tribal agency. The Taliban destroyed two NATO containers in Khuzdar.

Tajikistan

| February 3, 2011

A video of Alovuddin Davlatov, an Islamist commander that security forces claimed to have killed in early January, has surfaced. Security forces detained several Salafists for illegally teaching children.

Afghanistan

| February 3, 2011

The Taliban killed five civilians in a bombing in Kunduz and a cleric in a mosque in Laghman. Security forces detained an “insurgent financier” in Nangarhar and five Taliban fighters in Kabul. Twenty-five Taliban fighters defected in Samagan.