Monthly Archives: May 2012

Algeria

| May 9, 2012

Algerian government struggles to interest population in elections dubbed freest in 20 years

Syria

| May 9, 2012

Fearful nights in Damascus as unrest gets closer

Afghanistan

| May 9, 2012

The Taliban killed five policemen in an IED attack in Herat and closed a girls school in Ghazni after killing the headmaster. More than 100 schoolgirls are thought to have been poisoned in Balkh. Security forces detained several Taliban fighters in Helmand, Ghazni, and Wardak.

Iraq

| May 9, 2012

Insurgents killed four people in attacks in Diyala province. Turkey said it would not extradite Vice President Hashemi despite an INTERPOL red notice for his arrest.

Yemen

| May 9, 2012

A Saudi double agent within al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula provided information on the latest underwear bomb plot and intelligence that led to the drone strike that killed Fahd al Quso. President Hadi refused an offer by Salafist clerics to mediate between AQAP and the government.

Somalia

| May 9, 2012

Three Shabaab fighters died in two separate premature detonations while planting IEDs in Mogadishu. Shabaab arrested more than 100 tribal elders for attempting to travel to the capital to participate in the drafting of a constitution. The leader of Somali Religious Council called the draft constitution un-Islamic.

United Kingdom

| May 9, 2012

The European Court of Human Rights denied the appeal of radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada against the UK’s deportation order. The UK has been seeking to send him to Jordan since his arrest in 2002.

IAEA

| May 9, 2012

US institute says sees “new activities” at Iran site

Bin Laden docs hint at large al Qaeda presence in Pakistan

| May 9, 2012

Badr Mansoor led just one Pakistani “company,” and has been reported to have more than 2,000 fighters under his command. For the last three years, the US government has maintained that al Qaeda has only 300 to 400 operatives in Pakistan and that the network is on the verge of defeat.

Pakistan

| May 8, 2012

US House subcommittee mulls making aid for Pakistan subject to conditions

Afghanistan

| May 8, 2012

Security forces killed 29 Taliban fighters in Paktika, Paktia, Ghazni, and Kabul. The Taliban killed seven Afghan policemen in the east and west, and four education officials in Paktika. NATO plans to apologize for recent airstrikes that killed civilians.

Iraq

| May 8, 2012

An Iraqi court ordered the release of Hezbollah commander Musa Ali Daqduq, but he will remain in prison as his case is appealed. INTERPOL issued a Red Notice warrant for Vice President Tariq al Hashemi.

Egypt

| May 8, 2012

Al Qaeda has about 500 operatives in Egypt, according to Nabil Naim, a leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.”It doesn’t have a large number of men” in Egypt, Naim claimed.

Yemen

| May 8, 2012

Yemeni officials are angry that the US did not inform the government of an airline plot hatched in the country. The US is sending military trainers back into Yemen.

Somalia

| May 8, 2012

Nine people were killed using heavy fighting in Mogadishu. Security forces prevented a suicide attack and captured two suspected bombers at a checkpoint in Mogadishu. “Gunmen” killed a Somali soldier and an immigration official in the capital.