Police arrested a German national of Turkish descent for plotting to conduct attacks in Germany. The suspect, a Muslim man identified as Yusuf O, is believed to be a member of the so-called “German Taliban Mujahideen,” trained in Waziristan, and has been seen in several propaganda tapes.
Six Taliban fighters and two Pakistan troops were killed in a clash in South Waziristan. Security forces killed four Taliban fighters in Mohmand.
AP sources: Pakistanis tip off militants again
The US again provided to Pakistani officials intelligence on terrorist facilities. Pakistani officials again tipped off the terrorists before conducting the Potemkin raids.
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Yonathan Melaku, a US Marine Reservist from Ethiopia and a Muslim, was arrested inside Arlington Cemetery for carrying suspicious package labeled ammonium nitrate. He also had a notebook with phrases such as “Al Qaeda,” “Taliban rule,” and “defeated coalition forces” written in it.
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Three Taliban fighters wearing military uniforms killed nine people in an attack on a police station in the capital.
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Karzai: Afghanistan, US in contacts with Taliban
President Karzai claimed the US is in peace talks with the Taliban. A suicide assault team killed nine people in Kabul. The Taliban killed nine security guards and torched 15 fuel and supply trucks in Ghazni and killed two ISAF troops in the south.
Al Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq claimed it carried out the May 26 assassination of the Justice and Accountability chief. Security forces detained 57 wanted terrorists in Mosul. Insurgents killed two policemen and three civilians in attacks in Baghdad, Baqubah, and Ramadi.
Seven Iranian soldiers were killed in a minefield on the Iraqi side of the border in the Kurdistan area. Iran launched a second satellite into earth’s orbit.
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Boko Haram said it carried out the suicide attack that targeted a senior police official in Abuja. “We are responsible for the bomb attack on the police headquarters in Abuja, which was to prove a point to all those who doubt our capability,” it said in a statement.
King Mohammed VI vowed to change the constitution to give more power to the parliament and the prime minister, as well as reform the judiciary. The king would still exercise power with the military, national security, and religious affairs.
The United Nations Security Council unanimously voted to delink the Taliban from the al Qaeda terrorism sanctions list. There are 138 Taliban leaders and operatives on the list.
Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage “announces the renewal of its allegiance to the Emir of Qaedat al-Jihad,” according to a statement released on an al Qaeda-linked forum.
The Pakistani military claimed it killed 12 Afghan Taliban during yesterday’s fighting in Bajaur. Tribesmen blocked a border crossing point in Chaman. The US will replace two Orion maritime aircraft destroyed in a Taliban attack in Karachi.
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Helmand and Khost. The Taliban killed two British soldiers in the south.
Security forces arrested al Qaeda’s governor for Salahuddin province and an associate in Tikrit. Insurgents killed a soldier in Baghdad, a policeman in Fallujah, and a civilian in Mosul.
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The Inter-Services Public Affairs branch denies accusations that the military tipped off al Qaeda and the Haqqani Network to avoid a raid based on intelligence provided by the US, describing the claims as “totally false and malicious.” The CIA has provided evidence to the contrary.
An unnamed Saudi official claimed that President Saleh will not return to Yemen. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took control of parts of the city of Huta in Jahj province. Ten AQAP fighters were detained in Abyan.
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