Taliban suicide bomber kills 9 at Jalalabad Airfield
The Taliban claimed credit for the suicide attack that killed six Afghan civilians, two security guards, and a soldier.
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Al Qaeda
Pakistan begins demolition of bin Laden’s compound
Afghan troops kill 2 US Army officers in Kabul
NATO has withdrawn all of its personnel from the Afghan ministries after today’s shooting.
Afghanistan
Pakistan – Hizb-e-Islami hails appeal
Suicide assault team attacks police in Peshawar
The Abdullah Azzam Brigade claimed the attack and said it was carried out to avenge the death of Badr Mansoor, an al Qaeda and Taliban leader who was killed in a US drone strike on Feb. 9.
US adds Indonesian group, 3 leaders to terrorism list
Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid and three of its leaders, including the acting emir, who is linked to Jemaah Islamiyah’s notorious al Ghuraba cell in Pakistan, have been listed as global terrorists.
United States
Majid Khan, a high-value Guantanamo detainee linked to al Qaeda operations in the US, Pakistan, and Southeast Asia, reached a plea deal with US military prosecutors. The plea makes him eligible for release to Pakistan if he complies with requests to testify at US military tribunals for the next four years.
Afghanistan
US Says Pakistan Upbeat on Eventual Cooperation
Taliban seize opportunity in Koran controversy
“Several Urdu speakers, described as Pakistanis, made speeches” during protests outside of Bagram Air Base.
Al Qaeda
Pakistan receives US surveillance aircraft
Al Qaeda
Pakistan – Malik says 27 terrorist groups involved in Benazir’s murder
Turkish jihadists eulogize commander killed in Waziristan
Sinan Tekin, a Turkish national who was known as Emir Yunis, led a group of foreign fighters along the Afghan-Pakistani border.
Al Qaeda
Afghan Police Catch Terrorists Taking Children to Pakistan
Al Qaeda
Pakistani Taliban Turn to Kidnapping to Finance Operations
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Pakistan – Despite ban, JuD, ASWJ chiefs reach Rawalpindi for rally
Afghanistan
Security forces killed three Taliban fighters and captured eight more in Kandahar, Helmand, Nangarhar, and Kunar. The Afghan military ordered its troops to move their families out of Pakistan.
Al Qaeda ‘operates in Afghanistan under the flag of the Islamic Emirate’: Taliban spokesman
Speaking of al Qaeda, Afghan Taliban spokesman Abdullah Wazir said: “They are an example of discipline and accuracy in the execution of missions and operations entrusted to them by the Military Command of the Islamic Emirate.”
Haqqani Network
Pakistan – Parachinar bombing exposes TTI-TTP peace accord
Afghanistan
Pakistan – Torkham gate closure irks traders, labourers
Iran
Pakistan won’t support US attack on Iran: Zardari
Afghanistan
Hamid Karzai confronts Pakistan leadership
Al Qaeda
Pakistan: Security forces open fire on crowd protesting suicide bomb in Parachinar
‘Good Taliban’ leader Fazal Saeed Haqqani kills 39 civilians in Kurram suicide attack
Fazal Saeed defected from the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan last year after condemning attacks on civilians. He represents all that is wrong with the Pakistani view of the “good Taliban.”
Treasury: Iranian intelligence supporting al Qaeda
The US Treasury Department designated the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security for its human rights abuses and sponsorship of terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda and its affiliate, al Qaeda in Iraq.
Indonesia
Pakistan, Indonesia join money-laundering blacklist
Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s Karzai in Pakistan for talks on Taliban
US Predators kill 19 ‘militants’ in 2 North Waziristan strikes
Seven terrorists are reported to have been killed in a village near Miramshah, and 12 more, including Uzbeks, were killed near Mir Ali.
Inter-Services Intelligence Agency
Pakistan – With Pasha due to retire, names for probable DG ISI successors crop up
Report: New leader of al Qaeda network in Iran named
A new leader of al Qaeda’s network in Iran has been reportedly named. Muhsin al Fadhli is a longtime al Qaeda operative who was involved in al Qaeda in Iraq’s operations as well as al Qaeda’s 2002 attack on a French naval vessel.
United States
US military prosecutors accused Majid Khan, 31, of conspiring with al Qaeda to blow up gas storage tanks in the US and bomb Western targets in Indonesia, and of trying to assassinate the president of Pakistan. Khan, currently detained at Guantanamo, is the husband of “Lady al Qaeda” Aafia Siddiqui, who is in prison for […]