A police operation involving 1,000 officers raided homes of radical Salafi Islamists suspected of plotting against the state and seized “a comprehensive quantity of evidence.” The organizations targeted are the Die Wahre, the Dawa FFM, and the Miliatu Ibrahim, which has already been banned. Reports say there are about 4,000 active Salafists in Germany.
The strike is the second in 24 hours. The US has attacked targets in Miramshah’s bazaar four times since the beginning of March 2010; two top-level al Qaeda leaders were killed in those strikes.
US drones killed four “militants” in North Waziristan. The Taliban bombed a school in Kohat. US Defense Secretary Panetta said aid to Pakistan should be conditional, but is not for halting payments.
The Taliban killed a farmer in Faryab accused of being a “spy” and an ISAF soldier in the south. Fourteen schoolgirls were poisoned in Kabul. One day after ISAF said it would not conduct airstrikes on homes, the US Department of Defense said strikes on homes could occur.
Seventy Iraqis, including Shia pilgrims and five soldiers, were killed in a series of coordinated bombings and attacks in Baghdad, Hillah, Karbala, and Balad. Al Qaeda in Iraq likely executed the attack. Two AQI fighters were arrested in Wasit.
The military said 30 al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters were killed in three airstrikes in Azzan. At least one of the strikes was conducted by US drones in Azzan; nine AQAP fighters were killed.
The Al Nusrah front claimed credit for a suicide attack in Idlib on June 1 that targeted a military base. Al Nusrah claimed it followed the suicide attack by ambushing Syrian troops who were attempting to conduct a rescue mission; the convoy was hit with seven IEDs.
The US accused Russia of arming the Assad regime. Russia defended its arms sales and accused the US of arming rebels. Saudi Arabia and Qatar supplied weapons to rebel forces. The Syrian army continued toattack the town of Haffa with helicopters and tanks as rebel forces withdrew.
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The terror group said the “special martyrdom-operation” included a suicide attack inside a Syrian military camp and was followed up by an ambush that included seven IEDs.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said it would begin “quick operations and painful strikes” against the Yemeni state now that the group has lost control of several major strongholds.
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The strike took place near Miramshah, a stronghold of the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network.
The coordinated bombings were carried out in four major Iraqi cities.
The strike took place in Azzan, where al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters have retreated after losing control of Jaar and Zinjibar.
A federal court sentenced Haji Bagcho, an Afghan drug kingpin, to life in prison for conspiring to sell heroin in the US and use the proceeds to fund the Taliban. His heroin transactions in over 20 countries had supported Taliban military activities in eastern Afghanistan as well as the Taliban governor for Nangarhar province.
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A suicide bomber killed two people in Balkh. Two suicide bombers killed only themselves in Uruzgan. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south and a civilian in Paktia.
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Zinjibar and Jaar were under the control of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula for one year. The terror group claimed it abandoned the cities to prevent civilian casualties.