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    September 5, 2010:

    National police have killed an Abu Sayyaf Group commander and his two aides in a 15-minute gun battle at a house in Maimbung, Sulu province. The Abu Sayyaf commander, Gafur Jumdail, is the younger brother of the group's top leader, Umbra Jumdail. Other Abu Sayyaf members may have been wounded in the raid.


    Bahraini authorities accused 23 Shia activists who are protesting the Sunni-dominated government of being members of a "sophisticated terrorist network." The suspects are said to have been planning to overthrow the government, conduct violent acts, and use a propaganda campaign against the current regime.


    Security forces killed 23 Taliban fighters in Kunar and a Taliban district commander in Takhar, and captured a Haqqani Network commander in Khost and a Taliban commander in Paktia. The Taliban killed a British soldier and an ISAF soldier in the south, and freed a Japanese journalist.


    Mauritanian authorities have captured a drug trafficker with links to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Ahmed Ould Baba Ahmed was arrested in Rosso, close the Senegalese border, and is thought to have a connection to the Lemzarrab operation last February in which authorities clashed with drug traffickers on the Mali border.


    Iraqi troops repelled an al Qaeda suicide assault on a Baghdad military headquarters; five suicide bombers, four Iraqi soldiers, and three civilians were killed. Security forces detained 66 wanted men in Karbala, five members of the Soldiers of Heaven in Diwaniyah, and two terrorists in Samawa.


    Four policemen and two "militants" from the Southern Movement were killed during yesterday's fighting in Lahj province. Al Qaeda killed a tribal leader and two of his bodyguards in Abyan.


    September 4, 2010:

    A suicide bomber killed five people and wounded more than 30 in an attack on a military base in the town of Buinaksk in Dagestan. A second bomb was detonated as first responders headed to the attack scene. The driver of a Dagestani minister was killed in a car bomb attack.


    Israel claimed footage from an unmanned aircraft showed that a large explosion in the village of Shehabiyeh took place at a Hezbollah weapons depot. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah brushed off the government's call for the disarming of militias in Beirut.

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