A jihadist who shares the same name as Ayman al Zawahiri’s deputy and Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law is said to have been killed. As the martyrdom announcement was not released through official al Qaeda channels, the report is unconfirmed.
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Hafiz Gul Bahadar’s spokesman said reports that Bahadar ordered Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan leader Hakeemullah Mehsud and others to leave the tribal agency were “fabricated.”
The US Treasury Department designated six al Qaeda members who work for a terror network based in Iran. One of the six leaders designated today was identified as al Qaeda’s “operations chief” earlier this month; he was also reported to be involved in plotting an attack set to coincide with the tenth anniversary of 9/11.
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Mayor Hamidi, the fourth senior official in the south to be assassinated this month, was killed in a hallway near his office. The suicide bomber hid the explosives in his turban.
The Chinook was shot down just outside an Afghan base. No US soldiers were killed. The Taliban claimed two of its fighters were killed while shooting down the helo with RPGs.
“I give you allegiance of obedience in good and hard times,” al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Emir Nasir al Wuhayshi said in a audiotape released today. Wuhayshi also said that the groups’ “project is to institute the Shariah of Allah on Earth.”
The Taliban facilitator has “direct ties to senior al Qaeda members and arranges escape routes for them to safe havens in Pakistan.” A senior Afghan official said that five “foreign fighters” were killed during the operation in Ghazni.
Afghan officials said that foreign fighters were among the Haqqani Network fighters killed during yesterday’s assault on an encampment in Paktika province.
Early reports suggested that Friday’s terrorist attack in Norway was the work of jihadist groups. However, updated accounts suggest that it may be the work of a right-wing extremist.
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ISAF said that more than 50 Haqqani Network fighters were killed during a daylong battle in Paktika province.
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A statement announcing Omar’s death was placed on Voice of Jihad, while texts were sent from the cell phones of spokesmen Mujahid and Yousuf.
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Abu al Zubeir al Jabri was killed while attacking a US base on July 15, according to a statement released on a jihadist website.
Recent raids in Takhar targeted a commander linked to Iran and a facilitator who aids in suicide attacks.
Jan Mohammad Khan, the former governor of Uruzgan province, and Mohammad Hashim Watanwal, a parliamentarian from Uruzgan, were killed during a suicide assault at Khan’s compound.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei told President Zardari that the US is the real enemy of Pakistan. President Ahmedinejad said Iran hopes to open a gas pipeline to Pakistan by 2013. Argentina demanded that Iran turn over suspects in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center that killed 85 people.
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Unidentified “sources” say that reports of the top al Qaeda leader’s death are premature.