Yemen
US drones killed Sheikh Abu Zubeir ‘Adil al’Abab, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s senior sharia official, in a strike on Oct. 4. Security forces seized a parcel in Sana’a that contained explosives and bomb-making material.
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Somalia
Several people were killed in an IED attack in Baidoa. A civilian was gunned down in Kismayo. Twenty people were wounded in a bombing at a wedding in Mogadishu.
Nigeria
Boko Haram fighters reportedly killed 23 people in a series of attacks in the northeastern city of Potiskum. Several buildings were also destroyed in the fighting.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
A letter purportedly written by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb emir Abdelmalek Droukdel indicates that the organization is fractured and disorganized. “The organization is sick,” Droukdel’s letter supposedly said.
Afghanistan
Al-Qaida in Afghanistan is attempting a comeback
Israel
Israeli troops boarded a ship that tried to break through Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip. The pro-Palestinian activists aboard did not resist. The ship was diverted to an Israeli port.
AQAP’s top sharia official killed in recent drone strike
Sheikh Abu Zubeir ‘Adil al’Abab, AQAP’s sharia official and fourth-most important leader, was killed in the Oct. 4 drone strike, according to a Yemeni journalist closely linked to the group.
Insider attack kills 6 Afghan policemen in Helmand
The Taliban continue their campaign against Afghan security forces in the volatile southern province.
Libya
Libya Gaddafi death anniversary: Unfinished business
Afghanistan
Afghanistan feels pressure in hunt for Swat Taliban chief
Bahrain
Bahrain says it has identified suspects in police bomb attack
Omar Hammami says ‘friction’ exists between Shabaab, foreign fighters
In a dated tape, the American Shabaab commander appeals to influential clerics and jihadists to intervene to resolve tensions between foreign jihadists and local leaders in Somalia.
Al Qaeda
Leaders meet on Mali crisis but little progress made
Lebanon
Blast in Beirut Is Seen as an Extension of Syria’s War
Ansar al Sharia
Suspect in Benghazi Attack Scoffs at US
CIA
How US Ambassador Chris Stevens May Have Been Linked To Jihadist Rebels In Syria
Afghanistan
Afghan entrepreneur defies war to squeeze out a juice empire
Pakistan
Pakistan – Religious intolerance: Second church attacked in Karachi in 10 days
Pakistan
Pakistan – JUI-F warns against parliamentary resolution on North Waziristan operation
Ansar al Sharia
Documents Back Up Claims of Requests for Greater Security in Benghazi
Al Qaeda
Dane’s Wild Tale of Ruse to Find Anwar al-Awlaki
United States
Ally Financial latest US bank to face cyber attack
United States
CIA Director David Petraeus asked for 10 more armed drones; the CIA currently has 30 to 35. The US military has hundreds more. Howard Willie Carter II was arrested on child pornography charges; he is thought to be involved in a plot to blow up the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan. A military court ruled […]
Pakistan
Malala shooting shows challenge to girls education
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CIA seeks to expand drone fleet, officials say
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed 15 civilians in an IED attack in Balkh. President Karzai said immunity for US soldiers is unlikely after security is fully transitioned in 2014.
CIA
Early CIA report blamed militants for Benghazi attack
Al Nusrah Front commanded Free Syrian Army unit, ‘Chechen emigrants,’ in assault on Syrian air defense base
The al Qaeda-linked group said it “had the command and the planning and the participation of the Al Fajr [Dawn] Islamic Movement and the field command of a group of Chechen emigrants” to execute last week’s attack on a Scud and anti-aircraft missile base in Aleppo.
Iraq
Four Pakistani Shia pilgrims and a police officer were killed in bombings in Balad and Diyala. Military intelligence forces captured members of “a terrorist cell” in Baghdad.
Lebanon
A huge car bomb exploded in central Beirut, killing eight people and injuring 78. Wissam al Hassan, chief of the information branch of Lebanon’s internal security service, was killed. Hassan had led the investigation that implicated Syria and Hezbollah in the assassination of a former prime minister of Lebanon.