Libya
Insight: Arms and men out of Libya fortify Mali rebellion
Monthly Archives: February 2012
‘We in MYC are now part of al Qaeda East Africa’
The Muslim Youth Center, Shabaab’s affiliate in Kenya, said that the groups would fight “under the banner of AQEA (al Qaeda East Africa).” AQEA has long reported to al Qaeda’s most senior leadership.
Nigeria
Security forces re-captured Kabiru Sokoto, Boko Haram’s Christmas Day bomber who escaped from prison on Jan. 18. Some Nigerians are fleeing to Cameroon to escape the threat of Boko Haram violence.
Germany
Arid Ukan, an ethnic Albanian Muslim from Kosovo, was sentenced to life in prison for an attack at Frankfurt airport in 2010 that killed US two soldiers and seriously wounded two more.
Afghanistan
Afghan president postpones handover of US prison
Pakistan
Pakistan – Drones are producing more militants: Khar
Al Qaeda
Bin Laden Death Photos FOIA Case Focuses on His Burial at Sea
Iran
Iran turns to barter for food as sanctions cripple imports
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Iran’s seaborne trade suffers as sanctions mount
Shabaab formally joins al Qaeda
The announcement formalizes the longstanding close working relationship between the two terror groups.
Al Qaeda
To be abducted in the Philippines
Afghanistan
President Karzai said ISAF aircraft killed several children in Kapisa. The Taliban killed two policemen in an IED attack in Helmand. Security forces captured two Taliban commanders in Helmand and Nangarhar.
Hezbollah renounces its support of Iran
Recanting an earlier statement, Hezbollah’s leader said that the group would not support Iran in the case of an Israeli attack.
Iraq
Insurgents killed a policeman near Kirkuk. The government is seeking to tighten the rules for security contractors operating in Iraq.
Yemen
The chief of the Criminal Investigation Department in Al Houta was killed by “gunmen;” al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters are suspected of carrying out the attack. The military killed two members of the Southern Movement in Dhale who were protesting the upcoming election.
Syria
The Syrian army intensified its artillery bombardment of Homs, causing widespread casualties. Russia said Syria was not bombarding Homs or other urban areas. The opposition claimed Syria’s military is stockpiling chemical weapons near Homs. China met with the Syrian opposition for the first time.
Shabaab
Shabaab and al Qaeda formally said the two groups have merged. Ayman al Zawahiri announced “the joining of the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement in Somalia to Qaedat al-Jihad, to support the jihadi unity against the Zio-Crusader campaign and their assistants amongst the treacherous agent rulers.”
Nigeria
The chief of the secret police in Kano said that Boko Haram fighters wear police uniforms when conducting attacks on security forces. “The sect members disguise as policemen… to launch attacks on police personnel and make it look like policemen are sent to kill their colleagues,” he said.
Somalia
Kenyan forces claimed a senior Shabaab military commander named Abu Yahya and 13 fighters were killed in an ambush in Dalayat. Shabaab claimed its forces killed six Kenyan troops in the south. The death toll in yesterday’s suicide attack in Mogadishu has increased to 15 killed.
United Kingdom
Nine British Muslims were sentenced to terms of five to 16 years for plotting to bomb UK targets including the London Stock Exchange. Three of them, Mohammed Shahjahan, Usman Khan, and Nazam Hussain, also planned to set up a training camp in Pakistan to prepare jihadists for attacks in the UK.
United States
Jesse Curtis Morton, a.k.a. Younus Abdullah Mohammad, a Muslim convert from New York who ran the extremist website Revolution Muslim, will plead guilty to charges of threatening the creators of a US TV show that had depicted the Prophet Muhammad costumed as a bear.
Egypt
Islamists in Egypt halt filming of TV series
Commander killed in drone strike ‘funneled Pakistani jihadists’ to al Qaeda
Badr Mansoor used his links with the Taliban and Harakat-ul-Mujahideen to recruit leaders and fighters into al Qaeda. US intelligence officials said Mansoor is but a part of al Qaeda’s “deep bench” in Pakistan.
Al Qaeda
Libya: Algeria, Libya sign accord to fight cross-border arms trade
China
US likely to scale down plans for bases in Japan and Guam
Al Qaeda
GOP Report Criticizes Transfers From Guantánamo
Libya
Libya’s New Government Unable to Control Militias
Afghanistan
Afghan Forces Will be Good Enough to Hold Security: US General
Philippines
Exclusive: US military seeks more access in Philippines
Afghanistan
US still lacks Guantanamo transfer safeguards: lawmakers