Monthly Archives: February 2012

Libya

| February 10, 2012

Insight: Arms and men out of Libya fortify Mali rebellion

Nigeria

| February 10, 2012

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

| February 10, 2012

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.

Iran

| February 9, 2012

Iran turns to barter for food as sanctions cripple imports

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| February 9, 2012

Iran’s seaborne trade suffers as sanctions mount

Afghanistan

| February 9, 2012

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.

Iraq

| February 9, 2012

Insurgents killed a policeman near Kirkuk. The government is seeking to tighten the rules for security contractors operating in Iraq.

Yemen

| February 9, 2012

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

| February 9, 2012

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

| February 9, 2012

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

| February 9, 2012

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

| February 9, 2012

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

| February 9, 2012

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

| February 9, 2012

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.

Al Qaeda

| February 9, 2012

Libya: Algeria, Libya sign accord to fight cross-border arms trade

China

| February 9, 2012

US likely to scale down plans for bases in Japan and Guam