Abd Al-Ra’Ouf Abu Zaid Mohamed Hamza was involved in the murder of a USAID employee and his driver in 2008. Hamza’s father is a senior cleric in Ansar al-Tawhid, which, along with al Qaeda, claimed credit for the assassinations.
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An armed group continued to occupy the Interior Ministry; the Justice Ministry said it is drawing up plans to disband militias. Two security patrols in Benghazi were targeted in coordinated attacks, one by a car bomb and the other by a gelatina. The car bomb injured four security force members seriously, and three others received […]
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A man was hospitalized after a package exploded in his hand, blowing it off, outside a McDonald’s restaurant in downtown St. Petersburg. A video by Doku Umarov, leader of the Islamist Caucasus Emirate insurgency, was released recently, the first since November. In the video, Umarov vowed to prevent the 2014 Winter Olympics from taking place […]
Amanda Korody and John Nuttall, who are tied to a terror plot in British Columbia, converted to Islam at some point in the past few years. Neighbors said that “radical Islamist tapes” could be heard playing from their home. Authorities have described the couple as “self-radicalized.”
Secretary of State Kerry said after discussions with Russia that a proposed peace conference on Syria is not likely to occur before at least September. Prosecutors in the trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning said documents found in Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan prove he sought information from WikiLeaks. NSA leaker Edward Snowden is having […]
US drones killed six Haqqani Network fighters in a strike in Danday Darpa Khel in North Waziristan. The Taliban killed six Frontier Corps troops in an attack in Peshawar.
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Taliban deny power-sharing concept with Afghan government
The strike took place in a village where two senior Haqqani Network leaders have been killed by the US over the past several years.
Four Nepalese security guards and three Afghans were killed in a Taliban suicide assault in Kabul. Three Taliban fighters and a member of the Afghan Local Police were killed in a clash in Kunduz. The Taliban killed three civilians in an IED attack in Farah.
Insurgents killed at least 53 Iraqis in a series of attacks throughout the country. Among those killed were two policemen and 28 civilians in Baghdad, four policemen and seven terrorists in Baaj, and an Awakening fighter and three civilians in Abu Ghraib. Also a suicide bomber killed four people at a funeral in Baqubah.
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Canadian authorities announced the arrest of two Canadian-born citizens in a terror plot involving pressure cooker bombs. The two suspects, who were “inspired by al Qaeda ideology,” targeted a public gathering at the British Columbia Legislature in Victoria on Canada Day, July 1.
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AMIA prosecutor ordered not to present findings to US congress
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At least 48 members of the Muslim Brotherhood have been banned from traveling out of Egypt. Security sources warned that jihadists are poised to take over parts of the Sinai if President Morsi is overthrown. The army stepped up patrols near the Suez Canal. Canada closed its embassy in Cairo amid ongoing protests in the […]
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Vigilantes in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, burned the home of Mala Othman, a politician accused of supporting the Islamist terror group Boko Haram. Human Rights Watch urged Nigeria to prosecute grave crimes by Boko Haram, not incorporate them into an amnesty deal. The head of the amnesty committee asked Islamic leaders to convince […]
An armed group forced the Interior Ministry to close. A British Embassy spokesman in Tripoli dismissed as “factually incorrect” a report that hundreds of British soldiers are to be deployed to Libya to help train the Libyan military. The UK has offered to train 2,000 Libyan soldiers, but the location of the training would be […]
Iran importing missile-grade ore from Germany, France
Authorities disrupted an al Qaeda-inspired terror plot that targeted the British Columbia Legislature in Victoria during Canada Day celebrations yesterday. Canadian citizens John Stewart Nuttall and his wife Amanda Marie Korody, of Surrey, B.C., were arrested after a five-month investigation and face terror charges for planning to detonate three pressure cooker bombs outside the Legislature […]
The suicide assault team attacked a base in an area of Kabul where logistics and other contracting companies are located, killing seven people, including four Nepalese guards.
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