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Iran could play role in al-Qaida, post-bin Laden
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The Taliban
Hamid Gul, the former head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence, is reported to have asked Mullah Omar to leave Quetta in Pakistan and return to Afghanistan or Iran. The ISI would facilitate Omar’s move to either country, the report said.
Somalia
Shabaab’s spokesman warned Djbouti not to send troops to join African Union forces in Mogadishu. Security forces killed two Shabaab fighters in Hiran. Shabaab arrested “gang” members in Lower Shabelle and Bay.
Is Saif al Adel the acting leader of al Qaeda?
The News claims that al Adel is al Qaeda’s acting emir and Ayman al Zawahiri remains the chief of military operations.
Text of letter to the Department of Justice on Ali Mussa Daqduq
Five US senators are concerned that Daqduq will be tried in a US federal court, and not at a military commission.
US Department of Justice plans to prosecute Hezbollah commander captured in Iraq
Ali Mussa Daqduq, a senior Hezbollah commander tasked to train and organize the Shia terror groups in Iraq, was responsible for the kidnapping and murder of US soldiers in Karbala in 2007. Justice wants to try him in the US.
The Gitmo Files: 2 of Afghanistan’s most wanted hid leadership roles while in US custody
Two of the Taliban’s most senior commanders successfully hid their leadership roles from interrogators and analysts at Guantanamo. Both were subsequently transferred to the custody of the Afghan government but were freed and rejoined the Taliban.
US Predators strike in al Qaeda haven of Datta Khel
Several “foreigners” are said to have been killed in the North Waziristan strike. The US has launched three attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas over the past week.
Syria
Security forces killed 13 people while shelling homes and opening fire on anti-government protesters in the town of Harra. Syria sent a detained Al Jazeera reporter to Iran. The UN has suspended most of its operations in Syria.
Business is still booming at Afghan and Pakistani terror camps
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.
Egypt
Iran’s push for regional domination gets Arab Spring boost
Al Qaeda appoints new leader of forces in Pakistan’s tribal areas
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.
Egypt
Khaled el-Islambouli, the nephew of Anwar Sadat’s assassin, returned to Egypt after years of exile in Iran. Egypt’s ruling military council has lifted the entry ban against him and nearly 2,000 others, many of them Islamists who went to Afghanistan in the 1980s. Khaled’s father, Mohammed el-Islambouli, who is wanted for attacks in Egypt in […]
US Predators kill 13 ‘militants’ in North Waziristan strike
“Foreigners” were among those killed in the al Qaeda hub of Datta Khel in Pakistan.
Al Qaeda
Report highlights alleged Iran force’s Al-Qaeda links
After bin Laden: who will lead al Qaeda?
Osama will be difficult to replace, but al Qaeda will choose a new emir from a cadre of top leaders with years of experience.
Iraq
Insurgents killed two civilians in Baghdad and a police chief in Ninewa. An Iraqi general denied reports in the Iranian press that Iraq was hosting Israeli warplanes to attack Iran.
Osama bin Laden’s son also reported killed during raid in Pakistan
Khalid bin Laden, one of Osama’s younger sons, was among those killed yesterday during the special operations raid that killed Osama in a fortified mansion in an upscale area of Abbottabad in Pakistan. Amal al Sadah, Osama’s Yemeni bride, was wounded.
Bahrain
Hackers group says it will target Iran on Sunday
Al Qaeda plot in Germany linked to Waziristan
The cell leader returned to Germany in 2010 to recruit operatives for a major attack.
Egypt
In shift, Egypt warms to Iran and Hamas, Israel’s foes
ISAF captures HIG’s provincial commander for Khost
Special operation teams have hammered Hizb-i-Islami Gulbuddin’s command in an area of Khost under the control of the Haqqani Network.
Hezbollah
Bahrain accused Hezbollah of training Shia opposition members at camps in Iran and Lebanon. “Evidence confirms that Bahraini elements are being trained in Hezbollah camps specifically established to train assets from the Gulf,” a government report said.
Bahrain
Bahrain crackdown fueling tensions between Iran, Saudi Arabia
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group leader ambushed by Qaddafi’s forces
A top Libyan Islamic Fighting Group leader known as Urwah was killed in an ambush by Colonel Muammar Qaddafi’s forces earlier this month. Urwah was reportedly detained by Iran in 2004 but allowed to return to Libya to fight Qaddafi.
Zawahiri’s brother-in-law killed in Afghanistan
Osama Hassan was a member of the Egyptian Islamic Group and may have played a role in getting that group’s external faction to merge with al Qaeda in 2006.
Taliban/IMU commander killed in airstrike in Afghan north
Mullah Abdul Fatah Haqqani commanded and controlled facilitation networks for “foreign fighters” in Baghlan.
Afghanistan
A Taliban suicide bomber killed two soldiers inside the defense ministry in Kabul. The Taliban killed six policemen in an IED attack in Ghazni and kidnapped nine Iranian road workers in Farah. Security forces killed and captured several Taliban, HIG, Haqqani Network, and IMU commanders and fighters in Uruzgan, Ghazni, Khost, and Baghlan.
ISAF captures IMU/Haqqani Network facilitators in Ghazni
One Haqqani Network commander “provided safe havens for foreign fighters traveling from Kunduz to Paktika province and Pakistan for tactical training and operations” while the other also worked for the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
ISAF captures Taliban/Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander in Afghan north
The raids highlight the integration of the IMU into the Taliban and the establishment of suicide camps in the Afghan north.