US charges 6 Pakistani Americans, including 2 imams, with aiding Taliban
Two of the people charged, who are both imams, were arrested in Florida, and another person was arrested in Los Angeles. The other three are on the run in Pakistan.
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Syria
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United States
The US has charged six Pakistani Americans “with conspiring to provide, and providing, material support to a conspiracy to murder, maim and kidnap persons overseas, as well as conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, specifically, the Pakistani Taliban.” Three men, including two imams, were arrested in the US and three more […]
Al Qaeda
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Pakistan
The Taliban claimed a suicide attack that killed 75 Frontier Corps troops and five civilians in Charsadda. US Predators killed four “militants” in North Waziristan. The Taliban bombed five NATO fuel tankers in Khyber.
Afghanistan
Afghan intelligence officials broke up a Pakistani plot to assassinate the Indian attache in Jalalabad. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Khost, Badghis, Baghlan, Uruzgan, and Paktika. The Taliban killed an ISAF solider in the south.
Yemen
Security forces killed three protesters. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters killed five soldiers in an ambush in Marib. Qatar said it no longer backed the GCC initiative for President Saleh to resign.
Somalia
Shabaab displayed the body of a captured African Union soldier. Ten people were killed during heavy fighting in Mogadishu; another five were killed in Beletweyne. Shabaab’s spokesman threatened to attack Uganda.
Libya
Italy’s foreign minister said it is likely that President Gaddafi was wounded in a recent NATO airstrike and is no longer in Tripoli. The Libyan rebels are seeking recognition from the US.
Taliban suicide bomber kills 80 at Pakistani Frontier Corps training center
“This was the first revenge for Osama’s martyrdom. Wait for bigger attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan,” a Pakistani Taliban spokesman said.
US Predators strike again in North Waziristan
The US has stepped up its Predator campaign after a lull in strikes that lasted several months. Today’s strike is the fourth in seven days.
Pakistan
US Predators killed seven “militants,” including “foreigners” in an airstrike in Datta Khel in North Waziristan. Police arrested four Pakistani Taliban members in Karachi.
Afghanistan
Security forces accidentally killed a policeman and a woman during a raid in Nangarhar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Khost, Logar, Wardak, and Badghis. A policeman killed two ISAF soldiers in Helmand. India’s prime minister announced $500 million in aid to Afghanistan.
Shabaab
Omar Hammami, the American who is also known as Abu Mansoor al Amriki, spoke at a public rally in Afgoye for Osama bin Laden. Hammami vowed to avenge bin Laden and said the establishment of a global caliphate would come soon.
Kenya
Kenyan police are protecting President Barack Obama’s step-grandmother after she received threats from Shabaab. “We received reports of plans to attack the home of Mama Sarah Obama and we immediately put in place adequate security measures,” a local police chief said.
American Shabaab commander speaks at rally for Osama bin Laden in Somalia
Omar Hammami appeared in public with other top Shabaab leaders and vowed to avenge the al Qaeda leader’s death. Hammami said that “the caliphate shall soon be reborn.”
US Predators strike in al Qaeda haven of Datta Khel
Several “foreigners” are said to have been killed in the North Waziristan strike. The US has launched three attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas over the past week.
Iran
Russia has sent the nuclear fuel needed to start the Bushehr plant. The trial of three American hikers, two of whom are still in Iranian custody, has been postponed.
France
Police arrested six men linked to Islamic terrorists, including an “Indian native” and several Frenchmen, during separate raids in Paris and “two of its heavily immigrant suburbs.” The cell leader has “a high level of technical training.”
Al Qaeda
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Afghan villagers beat back Taliban assault in the north
The Taliban continue their highly-touted spring offensive.
Afghanistan
Afghan Local Police repelled a Taliban attack in Jawzjan; 17 Taliban fighters and 1 policeman were killed. Three Taliban fghters and two policemen were killed in a clash in Paktika. Security forces captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar.
Iraq
Two policemen were killed in a bombing in Tikrit in Salahadin. Iraq’s political parties will debate extending the US troop presence beyond December 2011.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
Nasir al Wuhayshi, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s emir, threatened the US for killing Osama bin Ladem. “What is coming is even worse, what awaits you is more intense and more damaging,” he said in a statement released on jihadist forums.
Somalia
Puntland forces killed 21 Shabaab fighters in Galgala after Shabaab forces ambushed a military convoy. Five soldiers were killed in the ambush. Three people were killed as Shabaab forces and elements of the Ras Kamboni Brigade clashed near Dhobley.
Syria
Security forces killed 13 people while shelling homes and opening fire on anti-government protesters in the town of Harra. Syria sent a detained Al Jazeera reporter to Iran. The UN has suspended most of its operations in Syria.
Libya
Libyan rebels claimed to have taken control of the airport in Misrata and have driven pro-Gaddafi forces from the city. NATO continues to strike at military installations run by Gaddafi’s forces.
Voice of Jihad releases 3-year-old interview with Jalaluddin Haqqani
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Badruddin is “an operational commander” in the Haqqani Network, sits on the Miramshah Regional Military Shura, and aids al Qaeda fighters operating in Afghanistan.
Kuwait
A fight broke out in a Kuwait City mosque after the imam wanted those in attendance to take part in a ceremony that would commemorate al Qaeda emir Osama bin Laden. Some of the worshipers protested, sparking the clash.