A US Predator strike killed four “militants” in South Waziristan. A policewoman and a civilian were killed in a bombing outside a courthouse in Nowshera. A Pakistani official denied leaking the name of the CIA station chief; the name was incorrect.
Afghan police killed two Taliban fighters while repelling a large attack in Nuristan. The Taliban killed four ISAF soldiers in attacks in the south and the east. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Khost, Logar, Nangarhar, Kunduz, Jawzjan.
So many foreign jihadis are arriving in the Afghan-Pakistan border area that “there are problems finding places for them to stay,” according to a recently captured terrorist.
During a recent firefight in Qalat in Zabul province, 10 al Qaeda operatives were killed.
Five former and current Pakistani Army officers, all majors, are on India’s list of most wanted terrorists. The list includes al Qaeda commander Ilyas Kashmiri, Indian Mujahideen leader Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed, and Sajid Mir, a handler of the terrorists who asaulted Mumbai.
A Shabaab leader in Marka vowed to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden and said local businessmen have donated weapons for the task. Shabaab has banned alcohol and Tobacco.
The attack took place in an area controlled by Mullah Nazir, a Taliban leader supported by the Pakistani state. Nazir recently said he is “part of al Qaeda.”
Columns of tanks are reported to be moving toward the city of Hama, where anti-regime protests have been ongoing. Syrian forces are also cracking down in Duraa, Homs, and Baniyas. The European Union announced an embargo against Syria.
Security forces claimed to have arrested the “mastermind” who sparked violent attacks by Muslims against Christians at a church in Cairo. The government extended former President Mubarak’s detention.
Ibragimkhalil Daudov, who is also known as Emir Salih, has been named the “commander of the Dagestani Front of the Caucasus Emirate’s Armed Forces.” Doku Umarov, the leader of the Caucasus Emirate, announced Daudov’s appointment in a statement released at Kavkaz Center.
The Taliban killed six policemen in an ambush in Ghazni and three civilians in a suicide attack in Laghman, and assassinated a reconciled Taliban leader and four former fighters in Kunduz. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Zabul, Paktika, Kunar, and Baghlan.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and Jemaah Islamiyah have commented on the al Qaeda emir’s death.
Abu Bakr al Baghdadi al Qurashi, al Qaeda in Iraq’s emir, claimed credit for the recent suicide attack in Hillah that killed 24 policemen. Baghdadi said the attack was executed to avenge Osama bin Laden’s death. “We are not of those who shed tears and sit idly by crying like women,” he said.
Insurgents killed a civilian in Baghdad and targeted for assassination a director general of the Iraqi Police. Police arrested 10 wanted men in Maysan province.
Security forces attacked and killed six anti-Saleh protesters in Taiz. Pakistan will repatriate Osama bin Laden’s wife, Aml Ahmed Abdul Al Fatah Al Sadah, to Yemen.
Abdul Shakoor Turkistani, the leader of the Turkistan Islamic Party, is also in control of the terror camps. He was given the job just weeks before Osama bin Laden was killed.
Abu Bakir Bashir, the leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, said Osama bin Laden was going to “heaven” but denied links to the terror chief. “I don’t know if it’s [his death] true, but if he is dead, God willing he will go to heaven.”
“If the US military and the intelligence apparatus arrested and killed Bin Laden, why didn’t they show the body?” asked Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi.
Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi claimed Osama bin Laden died years ago from an undisclosed sickness. “If the US military and the intelligence apparatus arrested and killed Bin Laden, why didn’t they show the body? Why did they throw it in the sea?”
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb praised Osama bin Laden and credited him for the uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Yemen. “Do not cry for him…. Instead rise and go on his path. Rise and thwart the American Zionist Western unjust aggression with all of your power and energy.”
NATO strike aircraft bombed military weapons depots in the town of Zintan. Human Rights Watch accused pro-Gaddafi forces of “repeated indiscriminate attacks” in the mountain towns of Nalut, Takut, and Zintan.
Police arrested 23 people suspected of being involved in the Sunday massacre at a Coptic church in Cairo, bringing the total to more than 200 detained. Twelve people were killed after radical Muslims attacked the church.
Twenty-three Taliban fighters and two policemen were killed during two days of fighting in Kandahar. The Taliban killed four policemen in Ghazni and a tribal elder in Paktika. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban commanders and fighters in Ghazni, Jawzjan, Baghlan, and Kunduz.
Security forces killed seven fighters from the Islamic Caucasus Emirate during a raid in the Kizlyar district in northern Dagestan. One soldier was also killed during the fighting. A journalist from an Islamic newspaper was killed in Dagestan.
Atiyah Abd al Rahman, a senior al Qaeda commander, is believed to be linked to three suspected terrorists who were detained in Dusseldorf. Abdeladim K. a Moroccan who led the Dusseldorf cell, was in contact with Atiyah.
The Taliban said Colin Rutherford “could face a trial” if their demands are not met.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb denied involvement in the bombing at a cafe in Marrakesh that killed 16 people. “We deny any link to this explosion and declare we are in no way involved in this operation,” the AQIM statement said.
Eighteen people, including al Qaeda’s governor for Baghdad and seven security officers, were killed during a failed jailbreak. Insurgents killed three civilians and a policeman in Baghdad and Kirkuk. Security forces detained 12 wanted men in Ninewa and Baqubah.
A local clan militia in Beledweyn claimed to have killed seven Shabaab fighters. Two government soldiers were killed during infighting in Mogadishu. Shabaab took control of the village of Buursaar, and arrested an accountant in Kismayo for aiding the government.
Twelve people were killed after more than 500 Salafists gathered outside a Christian church in a Cairo suburb to demand that a woman rumored to have converted to Islam be released. The prime minister called an emergency cabinet meeting.