India
Pak aims to block lawsuit against ISI chief in US court
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Al Qaeda
US interviews ‘hostile’ bin Laden widows, with Pakistan officials
Al Qaeda
WikiLeaks papers reveal Guantanamo detainees’ talk of post-9/11 plots
Egypt
Islamist leader pursues Egypt’s presidency
United States
Banned terror group seeks US rebirth
Al Qaeda
Pakistan army chief balks at US demands to cooperate
Osama bin Laden’s Internet connection
Details of bin Laden’s modus operandi emerge.
Pakistan
US Predators killed seven “militants,” including “foreigners” in an airstrike in Datta Khel in North Waziristan. Police arrested four Pakistani Taliban members in Karachi.
Al Qaeda
Former US ambassador charts new policy course for Pakistan
Afghanistan
Security forces accidentally killed a policeman and a woman during a raid in Nangarhar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Khost, Logar, Wardak, and Badghis. A policeman killed two ISAF soldiers in Helmand. India’s prime minister announced $500 million in aid to Afghanistan.
Taliban
Taliban join the Twitter revolution
Al Qaeda
Big love: bin Laden’s six wives
Al Qaeda
How bin Laden emailed without being detected by US
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Eulogies and fury: Jihadists eager to avenge bin Laden’s death
United Kingdom
British military warns it is stretched to capacity
Egypt
Crime wave in Egypt has people afraid, even the police
Pakistan
Pakistan’s effort to resocialize former Taliban
Al Qaeda
Osama bin Laden’s wife: ‘I’ll stand with you’
Shabaab
Omar Hammami, the American who is also known as Abu Mansoor al Amriki, spoke at a public rally in Afgoye for Osama bin Laden. Hammami vowed to avenge bin Laden and said the establishment of a global caliphate would come soon.
Kenya
Kenyan police are protecting President Barack Obama’s step-grandmother after she received threats from Shabaab. “We received reports of plans to attack the home of Mama Sarah Obama and we immediately put in place adequate security measures,” a local police chief said.
Afghanistan
What does Bin Laden death mean for Afghan war?
Al Qaeda
Osama bin Laden’s family tree
Al Qaeda
Bin Laden death ‘not an assassination’ – Eric Holder
Al Qaeda
‘Pakistan wasn’t bin Laden’s only hideout,’ says Prime Minister Gilani
American Shabaab commander speaks at rally for Osama bin Laden in Somalia
Omar Hammami appeared in public with other top Shabaab leaders and vowed to avenge the al Qaeda leader’s death. Hammami said that “the caliphate shall soon be reborn.”
US Predators strike in al Qaeda haven of Datta Khel
Several “foreigners” are said to have been killed in the North Waziristan strike. The US has launched three attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas over the past week.
Iran
Russia has sent the nuclear fuel needed to start the Bushehr plant. The trial of three American hikers, two of whom are still in Iranian custody, has been postponed.
France
Police arrested six men linked to Islamic terrorists, including an “Indian native” and several Frenchmen, during separate raids in Paris and “two of its heavily immigrant suburbs.” The cell leader has “a high level of technical training.”
Al Qaeda
Taliban leaders aid hunt for al Qaeda, Afghans say
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