Al Qaeda
US Acknowledges Killing 4 Americans in Drone Strikes
Monthly Archives: May 2013
Pakistan
One Drone Victim’s Trail From Raleigh to Pakistan
MUJAO suicide bombers hit uranium mine, barracks in Niger
The al Qaeda-linked Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa said the suicide attacks were intended to punish Niger for “cooperation with France in the war against Sharia” in Mali.
Sweden
Rioting in Stockholm suburbs continued for the fourth night in a row, and spread to southern suburbs including Hagsätra, where rioters attacked a police patrol, seriously wounding one officer. Last night alone firefighters dealt with 80 fires. The rioters have thrown rocks at police and firefighters; torched hundreds of cars; and attacked schools, stores, an […]
United Kingdom
Authorities arrested two unnamed suspects, a man and a woman from Greenwich, in the brutal murder of a soldier in Woolwich, and identified one of the suspects at the crime scene as UK-born Michael Olumide Adebolajo, a Muslim convert of Nigerian origin. Both Adebolajo and another suspect are known to authorities and were the subject […]
United Kingdom
Mum talked down Woolwich terrorists who told her: ‘We want to start a war in London tonight’
Syria
West may boost Syria rebels if Assad won’t talk peace
Canada
Canadian foreign minister warns of possible civil war in Iraq
Afghanistan
Security Concern Halts Foreign Investments in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
NATO Member Countries To Keep Soldiers Post 2014
Germany
In about-face, Germany backs blacklisting Hezbollah
France
Paris supports labeling Hezbollah over Assad ties
Argentina
Two Argentina bombing suspects among Iran presidential hopefuls
American killed in US drone strike, US Attorney General says
Jude Kenan Mohammed was the eighth member of Daniel Boyd’s terror cell in North Carolina. He traveled to Pakistan in 2008, was arrested, skipped bail, and is thought to have traveled to Pakistan’s tribal areas. He may have been killed in a strike in 2011 that occurred in an area controlled by the Haqqani Network.
Afghanistan
Afghan interpreters given right to apply for asylum
Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, Hezb-i-Islami Takes Its Extremism Into Politics
United States
The government acknowledged that US drone strikes have killed four US citizens in Pakistan and Yemen, including Anwar al Awlaki, who planned a jetliner bombing over Detroit in 2009 and had a key role in a 2010 plot to bomb US-bound cargo planes. Ibragim Todashev, a Chechen acquaintance of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, […]
Pakistan
Debate Aside, Number of Drone Strikes Drops Sharply
Hezbollah
Iran and Hezbollah Support for Syria Complicates Peace-Talk Strategy
Egypt
Authorities secured the release of seven security personnel who were kidnapped last week by Islamist gunmen in the Sinai. Following their release, authorities reopened the Rafah crossing with Gaza. Hamas congratulated Egypt on securing the release of the security personnel. Jihadists attacked an Egyptian army outpost in the Sinai for approximately 15 minutes.
Libya
Police responding to reports of a clash at a tourist chalet outside Benghazi found gunmen and about 200 gelatina bombs as well as bomb-making materials. Nine people are being investigated; the military said the bombs were for fishing, not terrorism, but another report alleged the bombs belonged to a terrorist cell. A small bomb detonated […]
Tunisia
Abu Iyad al Tunisi, the leader of Ansar al Sharia Tunisia, called the ruling Islamist Ennahda party a “tyrant” after the arrest of the group’s spokesman and the prevention of rallies by the group over the weekend. Al Tunisi, a follower of al Qaeda-linked Abu Qatada, is wanted for the September 2012 attack on the […]
Denmark
Convicted terrorist Said Mansour, ‘the bookseller from Brønshøj’, was charged again with terrorism last week, after a tipoff from Scotland Yard linked to the investigation of extremist cleric Abu Qatada in London. Like Qatada, Mansour is wanted by Jordan. Two weeks earlier, one-legged Chechen bomber Lors Doukaev was deported to Belgium to serve out a […]
Sweden
For the third night in a row, rioters burned cars in suburbs around Stockholm. The unrest started in the suburb of Husby, where a week ago police fatally shot a man who was menacing a woman and the police with a machete. On May 19, over 100 cars were torched; on May 20, more than […]
United Kingdom
Two men jumped out of a car in Woolwich near the military barracks and attacked a UK soldier who was wearing a “Help for Heroes” charity shirt, slashing and beating him until he was dead. The attackers tried to film the attack, and then waited near the scene, one ranting jihadist propaganda, his hands covered […]
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Muhajireen Brigade official calls on Hamas to end campaign against Salafi jihadists
The top sharia official from the Muhajireen Brigade, an al Qaeda-linked jihadist group in Syria, slammed Hamas’ recent crackdown against Salafi jihadists in the Gaza Strip. The official also called on Hamas to join hands with the Salafi jihadists in Gaza to fight Israel.
United States
A three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the government need not release photographs of the corpse of Osama bin Laden. The court accepted the contention of the Obama administration that the CIA could keep the photographs secret, as an exception to the Freedom of Information Act, because their release might […]
Afghanistan
Drones: Myths And Reality In Pakistan – International Crisis Group