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Indonesia: More likely to be implicated in Koran scandal
Indonesia: More likely to be implicated in Koran scandal
Afghan air force hobbled by safety and maintenance problems
Afghan Local Police group deserts to Taliban-led insurgents
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Boko Haram fighters killed nine construction workers during an attack on a camp in Maiduguri. A captured spokesman for Boko Haram accused a senator of funding the terror group.
Ahmed Agiza, who was arrested in Sweden in 2001 and handed over by the CIA to Egypt along with fellow Egyptian Mohammed Alzery, has been granted permanent residency in Sweden. In earlier years, Agiza was a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and had worked closely with Ayman al Zawahiri.
The al Qaeda-linked terror group claimed credit for four suicide attacks, an assault on a Syrian TV station, and dozens of attacks on security forces and the “ghosts,” President Assad’s private militia.
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ISAF confirmed that a Saudi al Qaeda leader named Hanzallah and several fighters were killed in the July 1 strike in Kunar. The Afghan military claimed 82 Taliban fighters were killed during operations.
The US said it is “sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military.” The route through Pakistan was closed for more than seven months.
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Insurgents killed 36 Iraqis in bombings in Diwaniyah, Karbala, and Taji. Security forces captured a senior al Qaeda leader in Ramadi.
President Assad expressed regret over shooting down a Turkish jet. Turkey scrambled fighter jets for a third day after Syrian helicopters flew near to the Turkey-Syrian border. Eighty-five Syrian soldiers defected to Turkey. A Human Rights Watch report said the Syrian intelligence agencies were running torture centers across the country.
US drones killed four al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters in Shabwa. The military said it captured four Egyptians, two Jordanians, a Somali, a Tunisian, and a Dagestani during raids against AQAP. An intelligence officer was killed in a bombing in Sana’a.
Gunmen killed a former deputy police chief in Puntland. A pro-government faction of the Ras Kamboni Brigade vowed to take Kismayo from Shabaab. Kenya said it would press the fight against Shabaab.
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Violence within the country continues to rise, and tensions with Turkey have escalated dramatically since Syria shot down a Turkish jet. A new UN peace plan has little chance of success.
Two of the men were identified as Hussein Rubai and Fahad al Harithi, and “were known for ties to al Qaeda and provided shelter for militants.”
The interior minister said that the military has killed 18 al Qaeda fighters in Tizi Ouzou province in the Kabylia region over the past two weeks. The minister said terror cells in the mountainous region are supported by local residents.
Police arrested a 35-year-old Tunisian suspected of financing and recruiting for al Qaeda, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Fatah al Islam, and the Islamic State of Iraq. The suspect, a website administrator from the southern city of Toulon, was detained after a yearlong investigation.
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ISAF confirmed that Hanzallah was killed in the July 1 airstrike in Watahpur. He is the third senior al Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Taiba leader killed in the district in the past five weeks.