Afghanistan
US sending training agents to Afghanistan to stem infiltration of local forces
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Pakistan
Dying to tell the story
Guantanamo
Lawyers for Guantanamo detainees allowed to see leaked files
Afghanistan
Afghan Taliban cede ground in the south, but fears linger
Al Qaeda facilitator properly detained, DC Circuit Court finds
The DC Circuit Court ruled on Friday that al Qaeda facilitator Hussain Salem Mohammad Almerfedi is properly detained at Guantanamo. According to a leaked threat assessment, Almerfedi operated out of an al Qaeda safehouse in Iran.
35 Pakistanis killed in bombing at Peshawar market
The Taliban have carried out five major attacks in the Peshawar area in the past week.
Somalia
Shabaab claimed credit for a suicide attack that killed Somalia’s interior minister. Shabaab said the bomb was “planted in his home by the mujahideen, and specifically under his bed,” according to a translation of the statement provided by the SITE Intelligence Group.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed 15 civilians in a bombing in Kandahar, a police chief and an officer in a suicide attack in Khost, and an ISAF soldier in the south. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, and Kunduz.
Iraq
Iraqi officials requested that Congressman Rohrabacher leave the country after saying Iraq should pay the US for the cost of liberating the country. Insurgents killed 10 Iraqis in attacks in Mosul and Tikrit. A US soldier was killed on June 8 while conducting combat operations in southern Iraq.
Al Qaeda
Announcement of Hamza bin Laden as Osama bin Laden successor posted, immediately removed on jihadi forums
Yemen
Yemen’s Saleh health ‘bad’ a week after blast
Yemen
The Defense Ministry claimed that 21 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters and 19 soldiers were killed during clashes in Lawdar and Zinjibar. Six soldiers and three “gunmen” were killed in Lahj.
Al Qaeda
Somali troops killed Fazul Abdullah Mohammed during a shootout at a checkpoint near Mogadishu on June 8. Fazul was the head of al Qaeda in East Africa and a senior Shabaab commander. He was wanted for the 1998 suicide attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and other terror attacks.
Afghanistan
Probe: Afghan troops ran, hid during deadly attack
Al Qaeda
‘US Africa embassy bomber Fazul Abdullah Mohammed dead’
Al Qaeda
Suspect behind US Embassy bombings is killed
Pakistan
Ahmadiya community fit to be killed, says pamphlets in Pakistan
Afghanistan
Hopes are low as Afghanistan’s Karzai visits Pakistan
Iraq
Iraq will ask US troops to stay post-2011, says Panetta
Afghanistan
Karzai calls on Pakistan to eradicate militants
United States
IMF hit by sophisticated cyberattack
Pictures of al Qaeda leader Fazul Mohammed’s corpse, SUV, and weapon
On June 8, Radio Mogadishu claimed the man pictured was “Abdurrahman Canadian,” but a Somali official told The Long War Journal that the photograph is of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed.
The Onion’s satire on Pakistani duplicity hits the mark
The US passed along intelligence on terrorist camps in North and South Waziristan, but Pakistani military “raids” come up empty.
Back to Anbar: ‘Senator’s Son: An Iraq War Novel’
An effective piece of historical fiction documents hard lessons from Iraq.
Al Qaeda’s East Africa chief Fazul Mohammed killed in Somalia
Somali officials have confirmed that Fazul was killed at a checkpoint near Mogadishu.
Al Qaeda
New challenge for US-Pakistan ties
Egypt
As Islamists flex muscle, Egypt’s Christians despair
Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, IMU-Taliban alliance chips away at the stone
Denmark
Denmark – Terror attack accomplice found guilty in Chicago
Norway
Norway – Jewish community ‘disappointed’ over Muslim apology