Pakistan
Foreign minister Khar said the US risked losing Pakistan as an ally if it continues to accuse the ISI of supporting terror groups. Four “militants” were killed in an IED attack in Khyber.
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed five ISAF soldiers in the east and the west. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban fighters Kandahar and Khost.
Yemen
President Saleh returned to Yemen after convalescing in Saudi Arabia for three months. The US State Department urged Saleh to step down.
Tunisia
Tunisian troops clashed with dozens of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb fighters who crossed the border from Algeria. Six AQIM fighters are believed to have been killed.
Iran
Iran Adds Palestine Statehood Wrinkle
Morocco
Adel Othmani, the prime suspect in the Marrakesh bombing that killed 17 people in April, retracted his confession and told the court he was set up by the intelligence service. Othmani faces the death penalty if convicted.
Afghanistan
Crowds weep as slain former Afghan president buried
Pakistan
As sparks fly, Pakistan warns US You will lose an ally
Haqqani Network
Pakistan Condemns US Comments About Spy Agency
Russia
Six people were killed and 61 more were wounded during three separate bomb blasts in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan. The blasts took place near the Interior Ministry building. Police killed one “militant” thought to be behind the bombings.
Al Qaeda
Pakistan: Rift widens with new US allegations, blunt threat
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Commander: Special ops ready, willing and under pressure
Iran
Iran’s Ahmadinejad attacks West, prompts walk-out
ISI supported attack on US Embassy, ISAF HQ in Kabul
Communications intercepts linking the ISI to the Kabul attack have sparked fury from US officials.
Pakistan
Admiral Mullen directly accused the ISI of supporting the Haqqani Network; Pakistan’s defense and interior ministers denied the charges. Pakistan placed the founder of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi under 10 days of house arrest. The Taliban killed five Pakistanis in Bajaur and two more in Khyber.
Afghanistan
Afghan intelligence said the Taliban’s Quetta Shura was behind the assassination of the chief of the High Peace Council. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and IMU commanders and fighters in Helmand, Khost, Wardak, and Kunduz.
Yemen
Nine people have been killed in mortar fire and sniper attacks in the capital of Sana’a. Fighting broke out between government forces and “unknown militants” in Al Houta, the provincial capital of Lahj.
Iran
Iran freed two US hikers jailed for spying. Venezuela and Cuba defended Iran’s right to run a nuclear program. The EU gave a blanket offer to resume Iran nuclear talks. US-based Iranian opposition groups said Iranians will take to the streets on Friday.
Nigeria
Boko Haram killed a lawyer and a government worker in an attack in Maiduguri. Police denied that 22 individuals arrested in Lagos are linked to Boko Haram.
US designates Hamas operative linked to Iran, al Qaeda
Hisham Muhammad Isma’il Abu Ghazala is also linked to Ansar al Islam and has served as an IED and attack facilitator in northern Iraq.
Afghanistan
Clinton: Killing won’t stop Taliban peace efforts
Al Qaeda in Iraq
US uses drones to target al-Qaeda in the Horn of Africa
Sweden
A Swedish paper reported that Swedish cartoonist Lars Viks was the target of the foiled murder plot at a Gothenburg art gallery on Sept. 11, for which four suspects were arrested. One suspect has been released but the other three remain in custody.
United Kingdom
A court released Habib Ahmed, 32, a member of a British al Qaeda cell who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in December 2008 for plotting a “massacre” in Britain. At the time of his arrest, he was carrying notebooks written in invisible ink with contact data for key al Qaeda figures.
Afghanistan
Letter Found in Pocket of Rabbani’s Assassin
Afghanistan
If Not The Taliban, Then Who Killed Rabbani?
Afghanistan
Afghan Agency Pins Assassination on Top Taliban
Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s Abdullah Abdullah: The Taliban Does Not Believe In Peace Talks
Al Qaeda
US Senate ties Pakistan aid to Haqqani crackdown
Admiral Mullen: Pakistani ISI sponsoring Haqqani attacks
During a Senate hearing today, Admiral Michael Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, highlighted the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence Agency’s role in sponsoring the Haqqani Network – including attacks on American forces in Afghanistan and the US Embassy in Kabul.