Suicide assault team defeated in Quetta
Pakistani officials said the attackers appeared to be “Uzbek or Chechen.” The Pakistani Army claimed to have captured a senior al Qaeda operative in Karachi.
Author Archives: Bill Roggio
Pakistani Army arrests ‘senior al Qaeda commander’ in Karachi
The Pakistani military’s official announcement of the capture of a Yemeni known as Abu Sohaib al Makki is unusual.
Pakistani troops open fire on ISAF helicopters at Afghan border
Two Pakistani soldiers were wounded. Pakistan claimed that US helicopters had crossed the border and opened fire.
Pakistan
US Predators killed 10 “militants,” including four “foreigners” in North Waziristan. The Taliban claimed credit for killing a Saudi consular official in Karachi.
Text of letter to the Department of Justice on Ali Mussa Daqduq
Five US senators are concerned that Daqduq will be tried in a US federal court, and not at a military commission.
US Department of Justice plans to prosecute Hezbollah commander captured in Iraq
Ali Mussa Daqduq, a senior Hezbollah commander tasked to train and organize the Shia terror groups in Iraq, was responsible for the kidnapping and murder of US soldiers in Karbala in 2007. Justice wants to try him in the US.
Afghanistan
The Taliban killed four ISAF soldiers in an IED attack in the south and three civilians in a mortar attack in Kunar. Security forces killed and captured scores of Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Khost, Paktia, Wardak, Logar, Baghlan, Balkh, and Faryab. Forty Taliban fighters reconciled with the government in Takhar.
US Predators kill 10 ‘militants’ in Mir Ali
The attack took place in an area that hosts a number of regional and international terror groups. Four “foreigners” were reported killed.
Iraq
Insurgents killed six Iraqis in separate attacks in Baghdad and Kirkuk. Iraqi security officials claimed that Shia terror groups are behind a wave of assassinations of government officials over the past several months.
Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters are thought to have killed a Yemeni soldier in Zinjibar in Lahj province. A security official claimed the government would take “drastic steps” to put an end to protests.
Somalia
Shabaab killed five pro-government troops and two Ugandan officers in separate attacks in Mogadishu. A Somali newspaper claimed that the demonstrators celebrating Osama bin Laden’s death were paid by an NGO allied with the government.
Iran
Supreme Leader Khameni and President Ahmadinejad have been feuding over the dismissal of the intelligence minister. The UN said Iran is partnering with North Korea to build nuclear missiles. The government executed 25 people in the past week.
Libya
NATO said it must widen the target set lest President Gaddafi remain in power. The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor is seeking warrants for the arrest of Gaddafi.
Taliban kill Saudi diplomat in Karachi
The attack is the second against the Saudis in Karachi in a week.
Senior Haqqani Network leader captured in Khost
The Haqqani Network commander is the brother of Jan Baz Zadran, who is considered to be the thrid in command of the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network.
Lashkar-e-Taiba rallies for bin Laden
Hafiz Saeed rallies 4,000 in Lahore. More than 100,000 Osama bin Laden posters have been sold in Pakistan in the past week.
Algeria
The government is set to free from prison more than 7,000 Islamist fighters held after the civil war in the 1990s, according to Islamists. The government believes this will allow it to avoid protests that have plagued other regimes.
Pakistan
The Taliban executed two “US spies” in North Waziristan and blew up a school in Khyber. Three Pakistani Americans in Swat denied criminal charges filed by the US that they support the Taliban. Senator Kerry is in Pakistan to deliver a “tough message” to Pakistan.
Russia
Police detain 2 Tablighi Jamaat extremists in southern Russia
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Khost, Wardak, Logar, and Balkh. The Taliban killed a British soldier in Helmand.
Iraq
Security forces killed an insurgent in Mosul and detained 17 more in Hawijah. Insurgents killed five people in Baghdad and a tax collector in Tikrit.
Yemen
The opposition said the GCC-backed plan for president Saleh to step down from power is dead. A court is considering the appeal of two al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives who were convicted of killing Spanish tourists.
More on Pakistan’s jihad
Frustration mounts in Washington over Pakistani complicity in supporting terror groups, but there is little will to do something about it.
Somalia
A Shabaab commander was killed and two Pakistani fighters were wounded in Mogadishu. Two people were killed during fighting in Luq. Somali forces arrested five Shabaab fighters in Garbaharey. Djibouti said it would send two battalions of troops to Mogadishu.
Taliban deny Osama bin Laden’s death will impact Afghan war
The Taliban said the war would continue as long as Westerners “are bent on continuing their colonialist ambitions against the Islamic Ummah.”
Egypt
The Egyptian Islamic Group said it would hold a million-man protest in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to demand the release of Omar Abdel Rahman, its spiritual leader, who is serving a life term in a US prison. Rahman was convicted for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Tunisia
Police arrested two suspected al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb operatives near the Libyan border. The two men, who were traveling to Libya, were captured with explosive belts and were carrying Afghan identity papers.
Afghanistan
Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Paktia, Paktika, Khost, Jawzjan, Kunduz, Kandahar, and Helmand. Afghans in Nangarhar claimed police killed four protesters. A Taliban suicide bomber wounded eight people in Khost.
Pakistan
Six people were killed in Kharian in an explosion caused by a bomb place on a bus. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Libya
Government officials claimed that a NATO airstrike in Brega killed 11 Muslim clerics. NATO claimed it hit a command and control center in the city.