FDD's Long War Journal

IAEA

Pakistan calls for access to nuclear technology

2 Uighur Gitmo detainees transferred to El Salvador

One of the Uighur detainees transferred to El Salvador was deemed a “high” risk by US officials because of his alleged ties to senior al Qaeda operatives.

Jemaah Islamiyah

Malaysia landmarks were terror targets: minister

Taliban release photos, videos of Kabul suicide teams

Afghan and US officials have accused the Haqqani Network of executing the April 15 assaults in Kabul and the provincial capitals of Paktia, Logar, and Nangarhar.

Sahbi Zalouti, one of four defendants accused of plotting a terror attack on a Danish newspaper, testified that a co-defendant, Mounir Dhari, had received orders while in Pakistan to “kill as many as possible” in Denmark. The defendants had also planned attacks on other Danish targets.

On soldiers posing with corpses

While the pictures are distasteful, they don’t rate an international scandal.

Afghanistan

Reprehensible that Pakistan’s ISI maintains ties with Haqqani network: Senator John McCain

Jamaat-ud-Dawa

Pakistan – Give me more security, my life is in danger: Hafiz Saeed

Al Qaeda

Pakistan has no connection with terrorist organisations: Sherry Rehman

Yemen

Officials said that six al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters were killed in airstrikes in Lawdar and four more were killed in Ja’ar. Pakistan has delayed the deportation of Osama bin Laden’s wives and children to Yemen.

Sudanese al Qaeda fighter killed in Yemen

Bara’a Muhammad Salim al Sudani is said to have fought in Pakistan under al Qaeda military leader Abu Laith al Libi before joining al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Afghanistan

Clinton to continue to press Pakistan on Haqqani network

Afghanistan

No evidence yet that Kabul attacks were planned on Pakistan soil: US CJCS Dempsey

Al Qaeda

Pakistani Prison Attack Raises Unsettling Questions

United States

The trial of Adis Medunjanin, a co-conspirator with Najibullah Zazi and Zarein Ahmedzay in a 2009 plot to bomb New York City’s subways, opened today. All three had gone to Pakistan for jihad in Afghanistan, but were told by two senior al Qaeda operatives to return to New York and conduct operations there. Medunjanin was […]

Haqqani Network blamed for coordinated attacks in Afghanistan

Afghan officials said a Haqqani Network operative captured in Nangarhar admitted that his group was behind yesterday’s suicide assaults in four provinces.

Al Qaeda

Was brazen Pakistan jail break an inside job?

Afghanistan

Pakistan – DPC vows to stand firm against resumption of NATO supplies

Taliban launch coordinated attacks in Kabul and 3 provinces

Suicide bombers and assault teams struck in the capital and in Nangarhar, Paktia, and Logar.

Special operations forces kill IMU leader in Kunduz

ISAF and Afghan forces continue to target the leadership cadre of the al Qaeda and Taliban-linked group in northern Afghanistan.

US drones kill 21 AQAP fighters in separate strikes in southern Yemen

Seven al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters were killed in a strike in Baydah today, and 14 more were killed in a strike in Lawdar on April 11.

Afghanistan

US officials: Drone strikes will go on in Pakistan

Al Qaeda

Over 181,000 have fled recent NW Pakistan fighting: UNHCR

United States

Agron Hasbajram, an Albanian citizen residing in Brooklyn, N.Y., pled guilty to a terrorism charge, admitting he had tried to travel to Pakistan to join a jihadist group. He also sent money abroad to fund terror activity in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and had contact with a group in Pakistan that claimed to have murdered US […]

Denmark

Four Swedish residents charged with plotting an attack on a Danish newspaper pled not guilty to terror charges. The Danish crown prince was at the newspaper offices on the day of the planned attack. Prosecutors allege that the suspects have links to terror groups in Pakistan, and may have trained there.