Security police sought charges against three men arrested last year for plotting terror attacks against targets in Scandinavia; they are thought to have links to al Qaeda. Mikael Davud, a Uighur, and Shawan Sadek Saeed Bujak, an Iraqi Kurd, both confessed to plotting attacks; the third suspect, David Jakobsen, an Uzbek, was released last year.
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Police don’t intentionally kill criminals. ‘Targeted assassinations’ is a far better description for the Predator strikes.
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Polish troops fear going “straight to Poznan” if they accidentally kill civilians in Afghanistan.
The US’s allies will remove thousands of troops from Afghanistan in the next two years.
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Admiral Mullen said the Asia Times journalist’s death was ordered by the Pakistani government but had no evidence that the ISI executed the attack.
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An Afghan official said that 11 civilians were killed in an ISAF airstrike in Ghazni; ISAF is investigating the claim. The Taliban killed six Afghan policemen in Uruzgan. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban leaders and fighters in Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, Ghazni, Khost, Paktia, Paktika, and Wardak.
President Saleh made an appearance on Yemeni television. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters killed 10 soldiers in an ambush in Abyan. Security forces killed an AQAP commander and several fighters in Abyan.
The US indicted Faouzi Ayoub for passport fraud. Ayoub, who was born in Lebanon and is a US citizen, tried to illegally enter Israel in 2000 to conduct a bomb attack for Hezbollah. Ayoub is currently missing.
A human rights official claimed that Syrian troops killed 22 people and wounded more than 80 more during a crackdown in the city of Hama. Amnesty International accused the government of committing “crimes against humanity.”
Somali soldiers killed two civilians in Mogadishu. A prominent clan elder was beheaded in central Somalia. Police captured 10 suspected Shabaab fighters in the capital.
US intelligence officials now believe that Ilyas Kashmiri was killed in the June 3 Predator airstrike in South Waziristan. Kashmiri, a Pakistani, is a top al Qaeda military commander and strategist.
Abu Obeida Yusuf al ‘Annabi, a member of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s shura, said the group pledged fealty to Ayman al Zawahiri. “We pledge to you to be obedient, and we consider ourselves one of the arrows of Islam,” he said.
Ilyas Kashmiri, a top military commander and strategist, was targeted in a June 3 Predator strike in South Waziristan.
German prosecutors charged Arid Uka, a 21-year-old Kosovo Albanian, with murder for killing two US soldiers near the Frankfort airport in March. The suspect allegedly had been motivated by watching jihadist propaganda online.
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