Abu ‘Asim al Tabuki Mansour Nasser al Bihani waged jihad in Bosnia, Dagestan, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. He trained Omar Hammami, the American military commander in Shabaab. Two of Abu ‘Asim’s brothers are currently being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
A district police chief was among those killed. ISAF killed a Taliban commander who planned suicide operations.
Abd al Moeed bin Abd al Salam was an important member of the Global Islamic Media Front and translated al Qaeda’s propaganda, according to his martyrdom statement.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said the US killed Abdul Rahman “so that America would not be afflicted in the future with another Awlaki.”
The suicide bomber attacked a group of Shia who were commemorating Ashura. Another suicide bomber killed four more Shia in Mazar-i-Sharif.
On Nov. 28, a DC district court ruled that Iran and Sudan were culpable for al Qaeda’s 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. The attacks killed more than 200 people and were al Qaeda’s most successful operations prior to 9/11.
The US military’s supply routes through Pakistan to Afghanistan constitute a major vulnerability for the US in its relations with Pakistan. That may change in the near future.
Nassar al Awlaki urged Muslims to keep Anwar’s message alive “by spreading his teachings, sermons, and lectures,” and condemned the US airstrikes that killed his son and grandson.
A key anti-Taliban militia commander died in a sophisticated IED attack in Hangu City. Taliban fighters operating in Khyber and Arakzai are likely suspects in the attack.
Ayman al Zawahiri confirmed that Atiyah was killed in a US Predator drone strike in August. Atiyah was one of al Qaeda’s top leaders.
Another Turkish fighter is said to have been killed in a recent US Predator airstrike in Mir Ali, Pakistan.
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan said commanders and fighters from Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Russia, and Germany have been killed during fighting in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
President Karzai announced the second phase of the transfer of security responsibility from ISAF to the Afghan National Security Forces. This will be a more difficult test for the ANSF than the first phase.
ISAF appears to have been hunting the al Qaeda operative for seven months. The operative “served as a courier between Afghanistan and Pakistan and delivered supplies to insurgents.”
Pakistan’s unprecedented response to the attack in Mohmand is curious, especially given the countless reports over the past six months of Pakistani military forts shelling Afghan territory. US and Afghan officials have claimed the airstrike on Nov. 26 was in self-defense.
The Pakistani government said the Shamsi Airbase in Baluchistan should be vacated within 15 days, and ordered the closure of NATO’s supply lines to Afghanistan after US helicopters killed 28 Pakistani troops in the Mohmand tribal agency.
US attack helicopters hit a military check post in Mohmand, Pakistani military officials claimed. In response, Pakistan has shut down NATO’s supply route through the Khyber Pass.
Afghan and Coalition forces recaptured a dangerous Taliban military commander after he escaped from a prison in Kandahar three years ago.
Abu Dher al Barmi, an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan cleric and spokesman, said Pakistan is the greatest enemy of jihadists.
Ibrahim Suleiman Hamad al Hablain is also on the Saudis’ list of 85-most-wanted terrorists.
Ongoing Afghan security operations in Ghazni province have resulted in the death of one senior Taliban commander and the arrest of a top Taliban financier, according to Afghan authorities.
The al Qaeda facilitator “trained insurgents and worked as a courier.” He was killed in the same district in Wardak where 31 US troops, including 17 Navy SEALs, and seven Afghan troops were killed when their helicopter was shot down in August.
The families of Ibrahim Adam and Mohammed Azmir said they were killed in a strike in the Waziristan region three months ago. Azmir was the brother of a senior al Qaeda leader who also killed in Pakistan. Adam fled Briton while under a controversial “control order” for terrorism charges.
The video shows uniformed Haqqani Network fighters conducting a variety of training exercises in a camp in North Waziristan.
The strike took place in Ramzak in North Waziristan, an area which has not been targeted in the past. The Pakistani military operates a large base in Ramzak.
The Behsud district in Nangarhar, where the al Qaeda leader was targeted, is a known hub of jihadist activities.
Five Predators fired up to 10 missiles at a “sprawling compound” along the border with Pakistan. “Foreign fighters” are said to be among those killed.
Al Koud is the latest town in Abyan province to fall to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
The terror group said “a solder in our brigade” killed six people, including four security personnel, in Taraz on Nov. 12.
Five people have been reported killed in the main town in North Waziristan. The area is under the control of the Haqqani Network.