Iran
Clinton: MKO Cooperation ‘Key’ In Considering Terrorist Designation
Yearly Archives: 2012
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb released an Italian aid worker who was kidnapped in Algeria in October 2011, and a Malian gendarme who was kidnapped in December 2011. In exchange, Mali reportedly freed an AQIM operative from Mali known as Abderrahmane Ould Amadou al Azawad.
Algeria
The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, an al Qaeda splinter group, claimed credit for a suicide attack against gendarmes in Tamanrasset that wounded 22 people. The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa was established in December 2011 to conduct attacks in West Africa.
Afghanistan
Head of British PRT in Helmand: Afghanistan to Face Security Challenges After 2014
Al Qaeda
Zawahiri hails shrinking US influence
Al Qaeda
Top US General warns of coordination between al-Qaeda-linked African terror groups
Al Qaeda
The 7/7 widow and a boom in British jihad
Hezbollah
Lebanon – Prosecutors propose new charge for Hariri suspects
Afghanistan
Afghan army says Taliban infiltration very sophisticated
Egypt
Egypt parliament starts debate on constitution body
Taliban ‘offer every assistance’ to al Qaeda, says terrorist leader
Al Qaeda religious leader and ideologue Sheikh Khalid bin Abdul Rehman al Hussainan says that the Taliban continue to support al Qaeda.
Pakistan
Pakistan Builds Web Wall Out in the Open
Al Qaeda
Israel Guards Against Terror From Laxly Patrolled Sinai
United States
Betim Kaziu, a US-born resident of New York City, was sentenced to 27 years in prison for trying to join al Qaeda. Kaziu had traveled to Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, and Kosovo in his quest.
Afghanistan
US-Afghanistan deal in danger as Hamid Karzai holds firm on demands
Afghanistan
Pakistan – Mysterious backlash: Team asked to investigate missing containers finds their names in FIR
Pakistan
Pakistan – Police bar Ahmadis from entering worship centre
Indonesia
Indonesia – Acehnese peace dividend not yet realized
Denmark
Four Swedish residents were charged with terrorism and weapons crimes for plotting an attack on a Copenhagen newspaper. Munir Awad, Omar Abdalla, Mounir Dhahri, and Sahbi Zalouti had planned to “kill as many people as possible” at the newspaper’s offices.
Pakistan
Fifty-five Pakistanis, including 10 soldiers were killed in fighting and a suicide attack in Khyber. The Taliban killed an intelligence officer and a Chinese woman in Peshawar.
Afghanistan
Five US soldiers and a translator may be punished for the burning of Korans. The Taliban killed an intelligence official in Uruzgan. Seven people, including four ISAF soldiers, were wounded in a suicide attack in Kandahar.
Yemen
Ansar al Shariah, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s political front, claimed it killed a CIA officer in Aden; the military denied the report. Twenty-two Houthis were wounded in a bombing at a anti-US rally in Saada.
Somalia
The Kenyan military killed 30 Shabaab fighters in an airstrike in Hirigle. Somali and African Union forces claimed to have ejected Shabaab forces from their last strongholds in Mogadishu.
Afghanistan
US probe of Koran burning finds 5 soldiers responsible, officials say; clerics demand trial
Iran
Barack Obama: I’m not bluffing on military action against Iran
55 Pakistanis killed in violence in Khyber
A suicide bomber killed 22 people outside a mosque, while 10 Pakistani soldiers and 23 Lashkar-e-Islam fighters were killed in a clash at a military checkpoint.
Nigeria
The Joint Task Force killed four Boko Haram members during a clash yesterday in Borno. Officials blamed Boko Haram for a bomb blast at a factory in Maiduguri that killed three people.
China
China to unveil military budget after US Asia pivot
Afghanistan
Afghan clerics demand punishment for Koran burners
US adds Taliban commander involved in IED, suicide attacks to terrorism list
Abdul Samad Achekzai has been linked to at least 11 suicide attacks against Afghan and Coalition forces in 2010 and 2011.