Yemen
The US has urged President Saleh to sign the agreement with the opposition and step down. Yemeni troops shelled tribesmen who have laid siege to a Republican Guards camp outside of Sana’a; one person was killed.
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Australia
Muslim group reportedly wants sharia law in Australia
Iran
A female Al Jazeera journalist who was detained in Syria and transferred to Iran has been released in Qatar. The IAEA fears that Iran has hacked officials’ computers and cell phones.
NATO
US falls out of favor with NATO ally
Iraq
UK’s eight-year military presence in Iraq to end on Sunday
Indonesia
Indonesia: Antiterror agency links terrorist anger to New Order approach
Syria
Over the past three days, security forces killed 27 people in the town of Tel Kelakh on the border with Lebanon. Security forces also beat anti-regime students who were protesting in Aleppo. President Assad’s regime has killed more then 700 protesters in the past two months.
Al Qaeda operative arrested in Karachi was ‘courier’ between bin Laden, Zawahiri: Pakistani officials
Muhammad Ali Qasim Yaqub was captured in Karachi on May 4, where he has lived with his family “for some time.” He is said to be linked to Anwar al Awlaki and Ramsi bin Alshib.
Indonesia
Counterterrorism police believe they killed Sigit Qordhowi during a gunfight in Sukoharjo, Central Java last weekend. Sigit is a suspect in the December 2010 attack on a police station as well as several church bombings. He has also appear in a jihadist propaganda tape.
The Gitmo Files: An agent of Iran
A leaked threat assessment prepared at Guantanamo describes one current detainee and his father as “Iranian agents.” The detainee, Haji Hamidullah, allegedly “murdered 71 people.” The leaked file connects several others to Iran, including two members of Hamid Karzai’s government.
Pakistan
Clash in NW Pakistan kills 2 police, 15 militants
Afghanistan
Trouble ahead in Pakistan’s new US phase
Haqqani Network
Pakistan woos insurgent group
Al Qaeda
CIA flew stealth drones into Pakistan to monitor bin Laden house
Pakistan
Pakistan – Malik holds lacuna in ATC responsible for release of terrorists
Pakistan
Security forces killed five suicide bombers, including three women, in Quetta. The suicide bombers are thought to be Chechens or Uzbeks. Witnesses failed to show up in the trial of TNSM chief Sufi Mohammed.
Afghanistan
Pakistani troops and NATO helicopters exchanged fire on the border. Security forces killed and captured scores of Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, Nangarhar, Paktika, and Ghazni.
The Taliban
Hamid Gul, the former head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, is reported to have asked Mullah Omar to leave Quetta in Pakistan and return to Afghanistan or Iran. The ISI would facilitate Omar’s move to either country, the report said.
Iraq
Insurgents killed an Interior Ministry major and a civilian in Baghdad, and two Iraqis in Babil. Terrorists executed and beheaded a Christian in Kirkuk after demanding $100,000 in ransom.
Al Qaeda
Saif al Adel is reported to be al Qaeda’s new emir; the report is unconfirmed. Pakistani security forces in Karachi arrested Muhammad Ali Qasim Yaqub, who was described as “working directly under al Qaeda leaders along [the] Pak-Afghan borders.”
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters killed two soldiers and a civilian in an attack in Mukalla in Hadhramout province. The family of Osama bin Laden’s Yemeni widow wants her to be returned home from Pakistan.
Somalia
Shabaab’s spokesman warned Djbouti not to send troops to join African Union forces in Mogadishu. Security forces killed two Shabaab fighters in Hiran. Shabaab arrested “gang” members in Lower Shabelle and Bay.
Nigeria
Boko Haram, a radical Islamist group with ties to al Qaeda, has rejected an amnesty deal offered by the governor of Borno. A Boko Haram spokesman said the group does not recognize democracy.
Libya
State-run television claimed pro-Gaddafi forces hit a NATO warship off the coast of Misrata; an unnamed NATO official denied the report. Libya’s oil minister has defected to the anti-Gaddafi rebels.
Pakistan
Lawmakers angry with Pakistan warn of cuts in aid
Is Saif al Adel the acting leader of al Qaeda?
The News claims that al Adel is al Qaeda’s acting emir and Ayman al Zawahiri remains the chief of military operations.
Doku Umarov says Russia is part of ‘a single theater of war’
“The Jihad is spreading, steadily and inevitably, everywhere,” the leader of the Islamic Caucasus Emirate said.
Islamic Caucasus Emirates confirms death of ‘Russian bin Laden’
Abdullah Kurd was a leader in the International Islamic Battalion, al Qaeda’s foreign legion in the Caucasus.
Suicide assault team defeated in Quetta
Pakistani officials said the attackers appeared to be “Uzbek or Chechen.” The Pakistani Army claimed to have captured a senior al Qaeda operative in Karachi.
Afghanistan
AP sources: Raiders knew mission a one-shot deal