Security forces killed Naib Nasirov, a “gunman” who was wanted for the murder of several policemen as well as plotting to attack senior politicians in Dagestan. Police defused two bombs, including one attached to the body of a dead man, in the city of Stavropol.
View Larger Map The same day that Pakistan closed down NATO’s supply lines to Afghanistan moving through Khyber in the north, “militants” attacked in the city of Shikarpur and savaged a convoy carrying fuel and supplies destined for troops in Afghanistan. From Geo News: More than 27 oil tankers, meant for Nato’s fuel supply and […]
Pakistan closed NATO’s supply route in Afghanistan after claiming three Frontier Corps troops were killed by US troops in a cross-border strike. Twenty-seven NATO fuel trucks were destroyed in an attack in Shikarpur. Eight Germans and two Britons were killed in the Sept. 8 Predator strike in North Waziristan.
Security forces detained 75 wanted men and suspected terrorists during raids in Basrah, Samara, and Diyala, and a senior al Qaeda leader in Baghdad. One policeman was killed in an armed bank robbery in Baghdad. A suicide bomber killed only himself in an attack near Sulaimaniya; the suicide bomber had entered Iraq from Iran.
The government of the Puntland region said a Voice of America report serves to “appease Al Shabaab.” Shabaab’s spokesman said the UN meeting on Somalia was a failure. Kenya sentenced 11 Somali pirates each to five years in jail.
The Taliban killed five ISAF soldiers in separate attacks in the south and three civilians in a suicide attack in Kandahar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and members in Kandahar, Uruzgan, Helmand, Ghazni, Zabul, Khost, Paktia, Kabul, Badghis, and Kunduz. ISAF admitted it accidentally killed four civilians in Ghazni.
Eight Germans and two Britons are said to have been killed in the same strike that killed an Islamic Jihad Group leader who trained Germans to return to their home country to carry out terror attacks.
Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al Kurbi confirmed the US carried out airstrikes in Yemen but claimed the actions were halted in later December 2009. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters killed three Yemeni soldiers while ambushing a convoy carrying the governor of Shabwa province.
Failed Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad had planned to conduct a second attack in the US, two weeks after the May 1 attempt in New York City, federal prosecutors said in documents filed in court. Shahzad used Internet webcams to case the Times Square area to determine how he could maximize casualties; he hoped to […]
Pakistan claimed three Frontier Corps troops were killed by ISAF helicopters. ISAF confirms its helicopters briefly engaged Haqqani Network forces across the border.
Security forces killed 15 Islamist fighters in Dagestan and thwarted two terror plots. Seventeen policemen were wounded in a bombing on a highway in Dagestan. Russian Prime Minister Putin put himself in charge of a special commission to deal with Caucasus security issues.
Waliur Rahman Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban of the Mehsud tribe in South Waziristan and Hakeemullah Mehsud’s deputy, said the Taliban is allied with al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden is alive, Predator strikes have killed many fighters but serve as a recruiting boon, and the Taliban has a 18,000-man army.
Reuters scored an interview with Waliur Rahman Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban of the Mehsud tribe in South Waziristan and Hakeemullah Mehsud’s deputy. Waliur conducted the interview from North Waziristan (despite claims from North Waziristan Taliban leader Hafiz Gul Bahadar that the Mehsuds have been ejected). Below are some excerpts. Waliur says the […]
Security officials claimed NATO forces killed three Pakistani soldiers in a cross-border attack in Kurram. Pakistan’s foreign minister said the military may respond to cross border raids from Afghanistan. Up to 20 Britons may be training at terror camps in Pakistan.
Eleven Somalis were killed in mortar attacks in Mogadishu. Shabaab kidnapped a journalist and burned a large amount of Somali money. Merger talks between Hizbul Islam and al Shabaab are on hold but will continue.
ISAF killed a senior al Qaeda leader and an IED facilitator in an airstrike in Kunar. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network members in Kandahar, Helmand, Ghazni, Khost, and Paktia. The Taliban killed an ISAF soldier in the south.
US-born al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn criticized Pakistan’s response to the floods in a videotape released on the Internet. “While the generals, politicians and puppets try to hide their war crimes from public view, they have done little … (for) the suffering of the flood and war-ravaged people they claim to represent and serve,” he […]
Abdallah Umar al Qurayshi, a senior al Qaeda commander who coordinated Arab fighters in Kunar and Nuristan provinces, an explosives expert named Abu Atta al Kuwaiti, and several Arab al Qaeda commanders were killed in the Sept. 25 airstrike in the Korengal Valley.
Al-Qaeda terror plot targeting Europe uncovered
Afghan Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said that reports of talks with the government are “completely baseless” and called for the withdrawal of NATO forces. “We want full and unconditional withdrawal of all invading forces from our country,” Mujahid said.
Four policemen and the chief of the extremism control department were gunned down at a cafe in Izberbash in Dagestan. Kavkaz Center claimed Issa Khashagulgov, who was detained by police, is a human rights activist and not a member of the Caucasus Emirate.
According to Sky News, the recent spike in US Predator strike in Pakistan (21 this month) can be attributed to an attempt to foil Mumbai-like terror assaults in major European cities: Intelligence agencies have intercepted a terror plot to launch Mumbai-style attacks on Britain and other European countries, according to Sky News sources. Sky’s foreign […]
The US killed four “militants” in a Predator airstrike in South Waziristan. The Pentagon said last weekend’s cross-border raids may have been the result of “communication breakdowns.” An intelligence report characterized the MQM political party as a terrorist group.
Drones as occupational hazard
Two Iraqis were killed in a bombing in northern Baghdad. Security forces detained 10 al Qaeda leaders in Salahidin, Ninewa, Wasit, Babil, and Baghdad, and two wanted men in al Kut. A US soldier has been arrested for shooting and killing two fellow soldiers in Fallujah.
A suicide bomber killed the deputy governor of Ghazni and five others. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network members in Kandahar, Helmand, and Khost, Paktika.
Reports from Pakistan indicate that Sheikh Fateh al Masri, al Qaeda’s leader for Pakistan and Afghanistan, was killed in a Sept. 25 Predator strike in Datta Khel in North Waziristan. The report is unconfirmed.
Sheikh Fateh al Masri, the leader of Qaedat al Jihad fi Khorasan, is thought to have been killed in the Sept. 25 strike in Datta Khel in North Waziristan. The reports of his death are unconfirmed.
The strike is the third in South Waziristan this month, and took place in territory controlled by Mullah Nazir.
Suicide bomb kills Afghan vice-governor, five others