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Al-Qaeda: Alive and well in South Africa
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Canada
Convicted Palestinian terrorist Mahmoud Mohammed Issa Mohammad was finally deported to Lebanon after exhausting legal avenues to remain in Canada, where he has lived since 1987. A Greek court had convicted him of killing an Israeli in a terror attack on an El Al jet in Athens in 1968; he was released after serving less […]
Tunisia
Tunisia cracks down on Ansar al-sharia militants after clashes
Afghanistan
Afghan Forces Lack Equipments to Defend Borders
Turkey
Turkey – New Islamic banks ready to open soon
Al Nusrah Front
Under the black flag of al-Qaeda, the Syrian city ruled by gangs of extremists
Syria
The opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the two-year conflict has killed at least 82,000 people so far and 12,500 are missing. The Assad regime, which is accused by both Turkey and the Syrian opposition of executing a recent deadly bombing in the Turkish border town of Reyhanli, denied responsibility for the attack. The […]
Turkey
Turkey claimed that the twin bombings in Reyhanli were instigated by an “old Marxist terrorist organization” linked to the Assad regime. The Interior Minister said nine suspects had been arrested, all Turks, and claimed that the attack was not linked to al Qaeda, to the Syrian opposition, or to Syrian refugees. Prime Minister Erdogan alleged […]
Egypt
Wild rumours of Hamas interference in Egypt find audience
Hezbollah
Assad forces gaining ground in Syria
Libya
In Benghazi, two police stations were attacked and a bomb exploded next to a military police camp. Gunmen killed an intelligence officer in Derna. BP followed the US, France, and the UK in pulling some staff out of Libya due to security concerns. Anti-militia protesters in Tripoli blamed Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood for supporting […]
Afghanistan
US and Afghans Negotiate Future
France
Convicted Algerian terrorist Said Arif escaped from house arrest in a car belonging to the family who owned the hotel at which he was staying. The al Qaeda-linked member of the “Chechen Network” planned attacks in France, Spain, and elsewhere.
Iraq
A suicide bomber killed three people in an attack outside the home of an intelligence general in Mosul. Al Qaeda killed a colonel in Al Qaim. Two Iraqi soldiers and three “gunmen” were killed in fighting north of Mosul. The Defense Ministry said it would provide support to tribes that fight al Qaeda in Anbar.
European Union
EU moving toward ban of Hezbollah’s military wing
Hamas and Salafi jihadists at odds over rocket fire from Gaza into Israel
Tensions between Hamas and Salafi jihadists in the Gaza Strip continue as members of the Hamas-run Field Control Force prevent rocket launchings from Gaza by Salafi jihadists.
Egypt
The Interior Minister announced the arrest of three members of an al Qaeda-linked cell that was said to be planning a suicide attack on a Western embassy in Egypt. At least one member of the cell had traveled to Iran and Pakistan for military training. Privately Egyptian officials said the target was the US embassy. […]
Israel
Prime Minister Netanyahu is planning a trip to Moscow soon to convince Russia not to provide Syrian with S-300 missile defense systems. A Palestinian was sentenced to four years in prison for terror-related activities.
Syria
A Russian official backtracked on the recently announced US-Russian plan to convene a meeting between the Assad regime and the opposition to resolve the conflict; he said holding such a meeting by the end of May is “impossible.” The US ambassador to Turkey is said to have met with a rebel commander at a Turkish […]
Afghanistan
Poppy Cultivation Rises in Badakhshan
Al Nusrah Front
Hezbollah and Al Qaeda Fighters Edging Closer to Full Scale Confrontation
Turkey
Two car bombs exploded outside administrative buildings in the town of of Reyhanli, killing at least 40 people and injuring 100 more. A border crossing near Reyhanli was the site of a bombing in February that killed 14 people; the Syrian opposition alleged the attack had targeted one of their delegations.
Sweden
Female Swedish MPs subject to threats: report
Egyptian interior minister: Al Qaeda cell plotted suicide attack against Western embassy
Egypt’s interior minister said that three members of an al Qaeda cell that was plotting to attack a Western embassy have been arrested. The cell received training in Iran and Pakistan and contacted al Qaeda in Algeria. The cell also has ties to the so-called Nasr City Cell.
Tunisia
Foreign Minister Jarandi said about 800 Tunisians are currently fighting with Islamist rebels in Syria; 132 Tunisians are said to have been killed in Aleppo in February alone. The Interior Ministry claims that border controls have kept some 1,000 Tunisians from traveling to Syria to fight. Police clashed with about 1,000 Salafists in Tunis who […]
Panjwai district chief of police: ‘Pakistan has been trying to bring Afghanistan under its control’
District Chief of Police Lieutenant Colonel Sultan Mohammad discusses the roots of the insurgency, the Kandahar massacre, poppy eradication, and Panjwai’s improvement in security.
Italy
Authorities announced the arrest of four Tunisians on April 30 from an Islamist terror cell in Puglia; the cell leader, Ben Hassen Hosni Hachemi, was arrested in Belgium. Two other cell members, a Tunisian and a Moroccan, are thought to have fled to Tunisia. The group recruited jihadists, trained on Mt. Etna, and planned to […]
Philippines
Foreign Minister Albert del Rosario recommended that the Philippines pull its 342 troops out of the UN peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights, following the recent abduction of four troops by the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, a Syrian rebel group that abducted 24 Filipino troops in March. He said the rebels are using the four troops […]
United States
White House documents show that the administration’s talking points on the September 2012 Benghazi attack were revised 12 times and scrubbed of references to CIA warnings and the al Qaeda-linked Ansar al Sharia group that perpetrated the attack. The US penalized additional entities for violating Iran sanctions. Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was already a […]
Pakistan
Pakistan – Terror threats: Taliban plotting major attacks, cabinet told