Iraq
Eight policemen were killed in Ramadi, and two policemen and a finance ministry employee were killed in Baghdad. A suicide bomber wounded four people in Ramadi.
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Somalia
Pirates based in Garad in Puntland have “relocated to Hobyo and El Dhanane.” Three people were killed during infighting between Ahlu Sunna Wal Jama’a forces in Guriel. US diplomats warned Eritrea not to back Shabaab, according to a 2009 memo.
Taliban
Militants use mosques to plot attacks – senior Afghan security official
Jordan
Jordanian Islamists to meet king but say protests will continue
Denmark
Mohamed Geele, who broke into the home of Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard last year, was found guilty of terrorism, attempted murder, and aggravated assault. Geele had developed links to Shabaab after moving to Denmark in 1995.
Egypt
Egypt – Regime seeks to appease after days of violence
Yemen
Allies of President Saleh held a counter-rally in Sana’a in support of Yemen’s ruling party. The US Embassy in Sana’a issued a travel warning to US citizens in the capital.
Iran
WikiLeaks: UK Treasury ‘slow to act in blocking terrorist finance’
Pakistan
Pakistan MP drops effort to repeal blasphemy laws
Iran
Israeli official sees cyber alternative to “ugly” war
Iran
A London-based think tank claimed Iran could have nuclear weapon in one or two years. Iraq’s Prime Minister Maliki accused Iran of arming foreign fighters. India announced it will pay for Iranian oil in euros, using an intermediary bank.
Thailand
Terrorists killed five Buddhists, including an education supervisor, in an attack in the village of Krabue in southern Pattani province. Five Muslim insurgents attacked the Buddhists from the back of a pickup truck.
Jordan
Jordan’s Islamists want new PM to step down
Iraq
Exodus of Christians from Iraq intensifies
Al Qaeda
Inside the Muslim Brotherhood’s plans for Egypt’s future
Egypt
Tariq Ramadan interview: “A point of no return”
Germany
Germany – ‘Terror warnings are risky for every interior minister’
Egypt
Sharia law in Egypt if a majority ‘allows it’ – former Muslim Brotherhood spokesman
Egypt
US reexamining its relationship with Muslim Brotherhood opposition group
Egypt
ElBaradei’s role cast in doubt
Pakistan
Fifteen Taliban fighters and three Pakistani soldiers were killed in fighting in Mohmand. The Taliban killed nine people in a bombing in Peshawar. A Pakistani soldier was killed in an exchange of fire with Afghan troops in Khost province.
Al Qaeda
Egypt’s upheaval puts militants in the lurch
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed two Afghan soldiers in Helmand and an ISAF soldier in the south. Security forces captured a Haqqani Network facilitator in Khost and nine Taliban fighters in Kapisa. Twenty-five Taliban fighters surrendered in Samagan and 11 more surrendered in Farah.
Shocking: London Tube bombers guided by contact in Pakistan
Remember all of those reports claiming that “homegrown terrorists,” and not al Qaeda, were responsible for the July 7, 2005, London Tube suicide attacks? Despite numerous reports showing that al Qaeda was behind the attack (such as the capture and interrogation of senior al Qaeda leader Abd al Hadi al Iraqi, the London attack mastermind […]
Egypt
Six countries in the Arab world where ‘winds of change’ are blowing
Al Qaeda
WikiLeaks: FBI hunts the 9/11 gang that got away
Al Qaeda
Qatari men may have coordinated with 9/11 terrorists: WikiLeaks cable
Egypt
Egypt revolt has Iran in a spin
Iraq
Insurgents killed a policeman in Mosul and an intelligence officer and a trade ministry employee in Baghdad. Security forces arrested an Islamic State of Iraq leader in Wasit.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula announced the execution of Colonel Ali Mohammed al Husam, the deputy director of the Political Security Service in Sada’a province. Husam was kidnapped in August 2010. AQAP demanded that the government free two terrorists detained last year.