Police arrested five Pakistanis in an area where militants from the Shabaab-linked Allied Democratic Forces have been based. The suspects, who are thought to have ties to militants, had entered Uganda in the Ntoroko district, which borders the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Indian authorities arrested Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari, one of the Pakistan-based handlers of the Lashkar-e-Taiba assault team that conducted the 2008 Mumbai attacks. After a three-year manhunt, Ansari, a.k.a. Abu Hamza and Abu Jindal, was found in Saudi Arabia, where he was recruiting for new attacks.
Musa supported both al Qaeda and the Taliban in the Waygal district in Nuristan. The airstrike also killed “numerous other insurgents.”
Mullah Nazir said the vaccination program is being used by the US to gather intelligence and conduct drone strikes in the tribal areas. He follows Hafiz Gul Bahadar, who shut down the program in North Waziristan two weeks ago.
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The poisoning attacks on Afghan girls’ schools are taking place with increasing frequency in the northern provinces of Takhar and Sar-i-Pul. Since the middle of April, at least 10 attacks have been made on nine schools, and approximately 650 pupils have been sickened.
Taliban fighters executed a fellow commander in Parwan province following accusations he had an “illicit relationship” with a local woman. In Nangarhar province, suspected insurgents detonated a music CD stall in Jalalabad City.
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Afghan officials think poison was used to sicken more than 100 female students in the northern province, marking the ninth suspected poison attack in northern Afghanistan since April.
Pentagon chief all but rules out apology for Pakistan
A State Department report notes that harassment of US official entities in Pakistan has “reached new levels of intensity” since the events of 2011. The report describes the harassment as “deliberate, willful and systematic” and says it included blocking shipments for both assistance programs and construction projects.
The tape is the second released by al Qaeda and its media arm, As Sahab, since al Libi was reported killed in a drone strike in North Waziristan on June 4.
The Taliban took control of an upscale hotel at a lake on the outskirts of Kabul for 12 hours before Afghan commandos killed the members of the suicide assault team.
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A court convicted Bali bomber Umar Patek on all charges and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. The al Qaeda and Jemaah Islamayah-linked terrorist, whose bombmaking contributed to the deaths of over 215 people in attacks on nightclubs and churches, was arrested in early 2011 in Abbottabad, Pakistan, a few months before the raid […]
Abubakar Shekau, the terror group’s leader, and two senior leaders who “have close links to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb,” have been added to the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
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In the wake of bloody attacks on police in Bonn and Solingen, authorities slowly begin to crack down on radical Islamist organizations in Germany.
Eleven Taliban fighters and three Afghan policemen were killed in the attacks, which were likely carried out by the Mullah Dadullah Front.
The Taliban commanders killed in Nangarhar “facilitated the movement of foreign fighters across the border from Pakistan into Afghanistan.” The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan commander was involved in the kidnapping of four aid workers in Badakhshan.
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“Polio campaigns are also used to spy for America against the mujahideen (holy warriors), one example of which is Dr. Shakil Afridi,” a statement released by Hafiz Gul Bahadar said.
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Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula demolished tombs in several villages outside of Jaar just days before withdrawing from the city. Former Guantanamo detainee Ibrahim Suleiman al Rubaish said the group destroyed the sites as AQAP is “reviving their jihad.”
The US Army is returning to Nuristan province in northern Afghanistan, reoccupying outposts that were abandoned in 2010. But the move is only temporary, and after the US forces depart a significant security risk for Kabul will remain.