Iran’s Armed Forces Chief of Staff said the military “would inflict a heavy loss and damage” on any US forces that attacked Iran. The chief of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said the IAEA’s report was unfair and unjust. The oil minister halted gasoline imports and claimed Iran can produce enough for domestic supply.
Fatah al Islam supporters carry the body of their leader, Abdulrahman Awad, after he was killed in August. Awad is draped in the flag of the al Qaeda front group the Islamic State of Iraq. Reuters photo. Last month, Lebanese troops killed Abdulrahman Awad, the leader of the al Qaeda-linked Fatah al Islam terror group, […]
Eight of the last 15 strikes have taken place in Datta Khel. Four “militants” were reported killed.
The US killed five “militants in an airstrike in North Waziristan. “Miscreants” torched a church in Karachi. The Taliban bombed a girls’ school in Peshawar.
Islamist fighters killed 40 Tajik soldiers in an ambush in the Rasht Valley. The fighters are thought to have been led by Mullo Abdullo, an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander who is allied with the Afghan Taliban.
An Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander is said to have led an ambush in the Rasht Valley, a haven for Central Asian terrorists.
The Taliban killed nine people in attacks in Paktika and Badghis. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Khost, Paktia, Paktika, Logar, and Nangarhar.
Eighteen Iraqis were killed in a suicide attack in Fallujah and two car bombings in Baghdad. An insurgent was killed in a premature detonation in Fallujah. Security forces detained 18 wanted men in Basrah, a leader in Ansar al Sunnah in Kirkuk, and a “Saudi infiltrator” in Wasit.
Counterterrorism police from Detachment 88 killed two “terrorists” during a raid in North Sumatra province; the terrorists’ families have been detained. Detachment 88 has been accused of torturing six Christians.
Philippine soldiers killed Abu Sayyaf commander Abdukarim Sali during a firefight in Basilan. Sali was wanted for his involvement in the kidnappng of 20 people, including three Americans, in May 2001.
Both the US Department of Defense and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps denied reports that seven US soldiers were in Iranian custody after crossing the border. President Ahmadinejad claimed that the IAEA gave “false” details on Iran’s nuclear program.
Police arrested a Somali-born British man at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on suspicion of terrorism based on a tip from British intelligence. The suspect was traveling to Uganda when he was detained.
Earlier today, FARS News Agency claimed that seven US soldiers were detained inside Iran in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan. The report has since been withdrawn, and interestingly enough both the US Department of Defense and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, and even Pakistan’s foreign minister, have denied the report. From Iran’s Press TV: IRGC […]
Seven of this month’s 14 strikes have taken place in the Datta Khel region in North Waziristan. The area is a known haven for al Qaeda.
Northwest Pakistan sees surge of drone strikes
Thea Taliban killed 41 people in attacks on polling stations in Nangarhar, Kunar, and Baghlan, but failed to block the parliamentary election; 92 percent of the polling stations remained open. Security forces killed 18 Taliban fighters in Kunduz, an al Qaeda-linked district commander in Kunar, and a Haqqani Network fighter in Khost, and captured a […]
Security forces killed 12 al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb fighters during fighting along the border with Mali. Five Mauritanian soldiers have also been killed in the fighting. Fighting has spilled over into Mali.
Security forces detained three suspects in the Sept. 3 suicide attack in Tajikistan that killed two policemen. The three men belong to the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
The deputy governor of Abyan province survived an assassination attempt after al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters ambushed his convoy; three bodyguards were wounded. Security forces are interrogating Ghawdal Mohammad Saleh Naji for his role in planing and coordinating the June attack on a security headquarters in Aden.
The Taliban’s shadow district governor for Shigal was associated with top al Qaeda leader Qari Zia Rahman, and has been linked to the first female suicide bomber in Afghanistan.
Special ops and the ‘end of combat’ in Iraq
Fearing Qaida, US cartoonist of Prophet forced into hiding
Insurgents killed four Iraqis in a bicycle bombing in Huweija, and a soldier and an interior ministry official in Baghdad. Security forces killed one insurgent and detained four more in Mosul, and arrested 14 wanted men in Basrah.
Abdul Haq al Turkistani, the leader of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Party and a member of al Qaeda’s Shura Majlis, was killed in a strike in Mir Ali.
Coalition and Afghan forces killed and captured several Taliban and Haqqani Network commanders and fighters in Kandahar, Uruzgan, Kabul, Khost, and Logar. A Taliban fighter was killed in a premature detonation in Ghazni. The Taliban killed two ISAF soldiers in the south, and kidnapped 18 election workers and campaigners in Badghis.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula announced the death of Hani Abdu Mosleh Shalan in a US airstrike in Yemen earlier this year. Shalan was described by AQAP as “a field commander.” He had been detained at Guantanamo Bay before being released to Yemen.
Danish police now believe that the Chechen man detained after a letter bomb prematurely detonated in Copenhagen had intended to send the bomb to the newspaper Jyllands-Posten. The newspaper had printed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed and has been the target of several terrorist plots.
Fifteen people were killed and more than 50 were wounded in a mortar exchange between government and Shabaab forces in Mogadishu. A UN official called for the number of foreign troops in Somalia to increase to 20,000.
Police arrested five “suspected Islamists” thought to be involved in a plot to assassinate the Pope in London. The five Muslim men, several of whom are from Algeria, are employed as street cleaners for a city contractor.
Two Yemeni soldiers were killed in an ambush in the al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula stronghold of Shabwa province. Security forces detained five al Qaeda fighters in the district of Lauder in Abyan province, another AQAP stronghold.