Somalia
Somalis Still Flood Yemen, Going From Worse to Bad
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Jihadist releases bio of Yemeni al Qaeda operative killed in Somalia
Abu ‘Asim al Tabuki Mansour Nasser al Bihani waged jihad in Bosnia, Dagestan, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. He trained Omar Hammami, the American military commander in Shabaab. Two of Abu ‘Asim’s brothers are currently being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
Iran
Iran displayed footage of the US RQ-170 stealth UAV that the Iranian military claimed it downed over Kashmar. Iranian officials claimed it was brought down using “electronic warfare” and said it would reverse-engineer the aircraft.
United States
Sayfildin Tahir-Sharif, a Canadian citizen, was indicted in Brooklyn on charges relating to the deaths of five US soldiers in a suicide bombing in Iraq in April 2009. He remains in Canadian custody after his arrest in Edmonton in January 2011; the US seeks his extradition. A Canadian prosecutor said the suspect’s real name was […]
Myanmar
Myanmar – Nuclear Weapons Ties With North Korea Are Denied
Pakistan
Pakistan in grip of military: AHRC
Afghanistan
A suicide bomber killed a district police chief and five other Afghans in Kunar province. ISAF killed a Taliban commander in Kunar and several fighters in Helmand. The Taliban killed a British soldier in Helmand.
Afghanistan
Pakistani Extremist Group In Focus After Unprecedented Attack On Afghan Shi’a
Afghanistan
Closing NATO routes tells a lot about US-Pakistan relationship: General Dempsey
Al Qaeda
Sweden – ‘There’s no reason to fear another attack’
Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
The last days of a suicide bomber
Yemen
Fourteen people were killed during fighting between Salafists and Houthis in Sa’ada. Tribal fighters killed two al Qaeda fighters in Abyan. Gunmen blew up an oil pipeline in Shabwa.
Somalia
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon visited Mogadishu and the Presidential Palace. Somali parliamentarians urged him to replace the UN’s representative to the country.
Egypt
Egypt Islamists on collision course with military
Egypt
Muslim Brotherhood Quits Egypt’s Constitutional Panel
Afghanistan
Pakistan upgrades air defences on Afghan border in wake of Nato air strike
Egypt
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood suspends co-operation with military leadership
Suicide bomber kills 6 Afghans in mosque attack
A district police chief was among those killed. ISAF killed a Taliban commander who planned suicide operations.
African Union
The African Union’s Peace and Security Council listed Somalia’s Shabaab and Nigeria’s Boko Haram as terrorist groups. Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army was also identified as a terrorist group.
Pakistan
“Militants” torched 20 NATO fuel and supply trucks at a depot in Quetta. Major General Ashfaq Nadeem said that the ISAF strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers was part of a US “plot” to aid the Taliban.
20 NATO supply trucks torched in Quetta
“Militants” hit the trucks carrying fuel and supplies as they were parked in a truck terminal.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Anwar al Awlaki’s son said he hoped ‘”to attain martyrdom as my father attained it” just before he was killed in a US Predator airstrike, according to a Yemeni journalist. Nasser al Awlaki, Anwar’s father, denied he supports terrorism.
Yemen
Nine al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters were killed while attacking a military outpost near Zinjibar; one soldier was also killed. The government released the head of the opposition Southern Movement party.
Al Qaeda
‘Extremists’ within reach of Pakistan nukes: Gingrich
Somalia
Somali troops killed two civilians as famine relief was handed out in Mogadishu. Islamic clerics in Bosaso spoke out against Shabaab for killing a senior imam.
Nigeria
More than 100 members of the Oodua People’s Congress, a militia, marched through Lagos firing weapons in the air to protest the attacks by Boko Haram. “We are going to retaliate [against Boko Haram] if there is any bomb blast hitting any place,” a leader of the group said.
Afghanistan
Afghan pass shows struggle of handover
Germany
Halil S., a 24-year-old German man, was arrested in Bochum on suspicion of providing financial and logistical support to al Qaeda’s “Dusseldorf Cell,” which planned bombings in Europe. Police also conducted raids in the apartments of five other suspects, 11 other homes, and two shops; an additional man, Florian M., was arrested in Kiel for […]
Afghanistan
Drone Crash in Iran Reveals Secret US Surveillance Bid
Iran
Iran blocks US ‘virtual embassy’