The DC Circuit Court ruled on Friday that al Qaeda facilitator Hussain Salem Mohammad Almerfedi is properly detained at Guantanamo. According to a leaked threat assessment, Almerfedi operated out of an al Qaeda safehouse in Iran.
Somali officials have confirmed that Fazul was killed at a checkpoint near Mogadishu.
A female, thought to be the niece of the interior minister, may have carried out the attack.
The US has increased activity against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula as the civil war in Yemen rages.
Two of Mullah Nazir’s senior commanders said they would send even more fighters into Afghanistan to avenge US predator airstrikes in South Waziristan
A strike on a “major training center” in North Waziristan killed 18 terrorists, including “Punjabis,” while an attack on a vehicle in South Waziristan killed four “militants.”
The strikes took place in areas controlled by Mullah Nazir. “Punjabi Taliban,” Arabs, and Uzbeks are said to be among those killed. Al Qaeda commander Ilyas Kashmiri is also reported to have been killed in the same area just four days ago.
A purported photo of Kashmiri’s corpse has turned out to be that of a Mumbai suicide bomber, and HUJI misspelled the group’s name twice in the press release announcing his death.
A Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami spokesman said that Kashmiri, one of al Qaeda’s top military commanders, was killed in yesterday’s attack in Wana. His death is a major blow to the terror group.
The attack took place in Wana, an area controlled by Taliban and al Qaeda commander Mullah Nazir. Ilyas Kashmiri was among those killed.
Miqdad, a German citizen who is also known as “Abdullah the Essen,” was killed while fighting US forces in Baghlan in April 2011. He wanted “to kill Germans.”
The al Qaeda commander, who was captured in Balkh province, was “a Pakistan-based attack planner” and accompanied Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in 2001.
The IMU facilitator was involved in the May 28 attack that killed two senior police leaders in the north and wounded the governor of Takhar and ISAF’s top general for Regional Command North.
More than 200 Taliban fighters attacked a police station in Dir from across the border in Kunar province. Twenty-three security forces personnel have been reported killed.
The Taliban commander is associated with the Mullah Dadullah Front, a radical Taliban subgroup closely linked to al Qaeda.
The Taliban detonated a car bomb in the city while a suicide assault team attacked the Italian-manned Provincial Reconstruction Team base.
The chief of police for the Afghan north and the police commander for Takhar province were among those killed, while ISAF’s commander for the north and Takhar’s governor were wounded.
“We had warned them before and warn them again that they should disband this anti-Taliban peace committee otherwise we will continue to attack them till they are totally eliminated,” the Taliban’s spokesman said.
“Our mujahideen can come and go at their own will,” the head of the Hizbul Mujahideen said. “There is no question that the army can stop us.”
The US indicated that additional actions would be taken against the Islamic Caucasus Emirate.
Twenty-four Pakistanis have been killed and more than 45 have been wounded, some critically.
The police station housed a unit of the Crime Investigation Department as well as commandos from the Special Services Group.
The al Qaeda operative is providing intelligence on the Qaeda network that funnels terrorists into Afghanistan. Before he reached Afghanistan, he traveled through Iran, where a recruiter attempted to convince him to become a suicide bomber.
Seven “foreigners” were reported killed in the terrorist haven of North Waziristan.
The Pakistani Taliban killed four naval personnel and destroyed at least two airplanes, including a P-3C Orion. Ten Pakistani troops were killed in the fighting.
A leaked US State Department cable details the network of radical Islamist madrassas in South Punjab and their role as an engine of jihad.
Four suicide bombers and six Afghans, including five security personnel, were killed during a 10-hour-long clash at a police headquarters in Khost.
A suicide bomber detonated in a cafeteria as medical students were eating lunch. The hospital is frequented by Afghan military personnel and is in a high-security zone.
The Taliban leader organized al Qaeda fighters in the Pakistani city of Quetta. The raid is the second that targeted al Qaeda in Zabul in the past two weeks.
The strike took place in the town of Tappi near Miramshah, the stronghold of the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network.