Authorities arrested eight Kurdish men in Copenhagen suspected of sending as much as $24.6 million to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been banned in Turkey, the US, and the European Union. Police said more arrests may be forthcoming in the investigation, which is linked to the Copenhagen-based Kurdish television station Roj TV.
Authorities are investigating recent bomb threats at four US universities. Henry Dewitt McFarland III, a former Marine who is converting to Islam, was arrested in Harlingen, Tex., and charged with making a terroristic threat, after he phoned a crisis line and threatened to blow up a building at the U. of Texas, Brownsville campus and […]
UN confirms ‘foreign elements,’ jihadis, in Syria
US Warns Judge’s Ruling Impedes Its Detention Powers
Pakistan – ‘North Waziristan operation to stay under wraps’
Post-2014: Taliban cadre warns of civil war in Afghanistan
The US has suspended combat operations with Afghan forces. ISAF killed an al Qaeda facilitator, an Afghan soldier who killed a US soldier and defected to the Taliban, and more than a dozen insurgents in airstrikes in Kunar. ISAF apologized for an airstrike that killed eight women in Laghman.
The suspension of combined combat patrols by units below the battalion level takes place as green-on-blue attacks continue to spike.
A suicide bomber killed seven Iraqis in an attack outside the Green Zone in Baghdad; a member of parliament was among 24 people wounded. Security forces captured a senior al Qaeda financier in Diyala.
Iran said saboteurs used explosives to cut electrical power to its uranium enrichment plant. The head of Iran’s atomic energy organization said “terrorists and saboteurs” may have infiltrated the IAEA. German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Iran’s nuclear program a threat to the entire world.
General Mohammed Ali Jafari, the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, said that his force had high-level advisers in Lebanon. Lebanese President Michel Suleiman demanded that Iran explain its statement.
Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah called for sustained protests against an anti-Islam film. Nasrallah also urged governments to censor websites carrying the trailer from the film and asked Muslims to boycott those websites.
The continuing rise in insider attacks is a key element of Taliban propaganda and an undeniable problem for Coalition forces.
A Salafist leader escaped from a mosque that had been surrounded by security forces seeking to arrest him over clashes at the US Embassy. Since the attack on the embassy, 100 US citizens have been evacuated from Tunisia.
Security officials said that Abul Qaqa and another senior Boko Haram leader may have been killed during a raid in Kano. Abdul Qaqa has been reported killed and captured in the past.
Islamists from the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa destroyed the mausoleum of a Muslim saint, and are said to be planning to destroy another soon. The African Union and the Economic Community of West African States asked Nigeria for help in addressing the situation in Mali.
Egypt: Islamist parties announces biopic on life of Prophet Mohammed
Norway – Internet hate could be made a crime
A bombing blamed on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) killed eight policemen and wounded nine in Bingol province. Protesters in Hatay demanded that Turkey stop supporting the Syrian opposition; close Syrian refugee camps, which now shelter 78,000 people; and expel opposition activists. The government claimed to have killed 500 PKK rebels in nearly 1,000 operations […]
Sharia in Mali Gets Chad Talking
Armada of international naval power massing in the Gulf as Israel prepares an Iran strike
About 500 Islamist protesters organized by the Scandinavian arm of the Hizb ut-Tahrir gathered outside the US Embassy in Copenhagen on Sept. 16, condemning the US presence in the Middle East and carrying protest banners. One said: “Freedom of expression, a means of oppression.” A spokesman accused the US of creating an atmosphere of Islamophobia. […]
In Jakarta, hundreds of protesters from the Islamic Society Forum clashed with police outside the US Embassy and hurled Molotov cocktails and tried to ignite a fire truck. Protests took also place in Medang and Badung. In Solo, protesters stormed KFC and McDonald’s restaurants, forcing them to close.
Asadullah is the second Afghan member of al Qaeda killed in the past week. He organized and directed attacks, and was behind the Aug. 8 suicide attack in Asadabad that killed three US soldiers and a USAID employee.
The Taliban claimed the “Khalid ibn al Walid group” and the “Omar bin al Khattab group” were part of the attack, and said they used silencers.
Taliban Raid on NATO Base Inflicted Severe Damage
Pakistan journalists’ choice: Face death, or jail
Tough words from general on Afghan insider attacks
Pakistan – Rs10 million bounty offered for anti-Islam filmmaker
Fourteen civilians were killed in an IED attack in Lower Dir. The Taliban freed the driver of a university professor who was kidnapped in Peshawar on Sept. 7.