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Iraqi forces search for Qods Force agents

November 7, 2009 2:28 AM ET
By Bill Roggio


Security officials in Al Kut have launched a search for four known Iranian Qods Force operatives.
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Pakistani Army enters key Taliban town

November 6, 2009 2:11 PM ET
By Bill Roggio


Soldiers have begun to clear the town of Makeen, where slain Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud based his operations.
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Two US paratroopers missing in western Afghanistan

November 6, 2009 11:45 AM ET
By Bill Roggio


Two US paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division went missing during a resupply mission. Twenty-five Coalition troops have been wounded during a search for the soldiers.
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US Army major behind Fort Hood murders expressed sympathy for Islamic terrorists

November 5, 2009 9:50 PM ET
By Bill Roggio


Nidal-Malik-Hasan-thumb.jpgMajor Nidal Malik Hasan, the US officer who killed 11 soldiers and wounded 31 more during a shooting spree, likened suicide bombers to a soldier diving on a grenade and, according to a former co-worker, supported attacks against US troops at home and abroad.
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Army retakes fort in South Waziristan

November 5, 2009 10:22 AM ET
By Bill Roggio


The Ladha Fort was abandoned by the Frontier Corps during the summer of 2008 after the Taliban besieged the region. The Army said 28 Taliban fighters have been killed during fighting over the past day.
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US kills 4 in North Waziristan airstrike

November 4, 2009 9:09 PM ET
By Bill Roggio


predator-uav.jpgUnmanned aircraft targeted al Qaeda and Taliban operatives in the Mir Ali region.
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Pakistani troops enter another Taliban-held town

November 4, 2009 4:59 PM ET
By Bill Roggio


Heavy fighting has been reported in Ladha as soldiers have entered the Taliban stronghold. Two suicide bombers were killed in Hangu.
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Pakistan captures two Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan

November 3, 2009 11:21 AM ET
By Bill Roggio


Luqman-Ameen-Abdullah.jpgThe military said the towns of Kanigoram and China are secured and that Sararogha is in the process of being cleared. The Taliban claim to have conducted strategic withdrawals from the region and to be preserving their forces to fight "a long war."
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Suicide bomber kills 34 Pakistanis in Rawalpindi

November 2, 2009 7:35 AM ET
By Bill Roggio


The blast took place in a high-security area populated by hotels and military installations. The government has offered bounties for Taliban leaders.
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Pakistani Army surrounds major Taliban strongholds in South Waziristan

November 1, 2009 8:34 PM ET
By Bill Roggio


The military said Makeen and Sararogha are now surrounded while troops have cleared half of Kanigoram.
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US moves on domestic jihadis

November 1, 2009 4:10 PM ET
By Wes Bruer


Luqman-Ameen-Abdullah.jpgA high number of terrorist plots have been disrupted in the US this year. Several of the Islamists who have been detained have been traced back to Pakistan's tribal areas.
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Haqqani Network, al Qaeda, behind attack on UN guesthouse in Kabul

November 1, 2009 8:54 AM ET
By Bill Roggio


The attack was a joint operation between the Haqqani Network and the Lashkar al Zil. Siraj Haqqani and Ajmal, a senior Lashkar al Zil commander, have been implicated by Afghan intelligence.
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Fighting spreads in Pakistan's northwest

October 31, 2009 8:15 AM ET
By Bill Roggio


In Khyber, seven Pakistani troops were killed in an IED attack. In South Waziristan, 21 Taliban fighters and two soldiers were killed as the military closes in on Sararogha. And in Arakzai, 12 Taliban were killed in strikes.
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Pakistani troops advance on Uzbek stronghold in South Waziristan

October 29, 2009 10:52 PM ET
By Bill Roggio


Soldiers are close to surrounding the town of Kanigoram, the scene of two Predator strikes this year. The passport of an al Qaeda operative involved in the 9/11 attacks has been found by the military at a camp in Sherwangi.
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89 killed in car bomb attack in Peshawar

October 28, 2009 8:29 AM ET
By Bill Roggio


The car bomb took place in a crowded bazaar in the provincial capital. Hundreds are wounded. The blast leveled a mosque.
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Kashmiri, Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives aided 2 Americans in foiled Danish terror plot

October 27, 2009 7:14 PM ET
By Bill Roggio


The senior al Qaeda military commander and two Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives aided two Americans as they plotted to strike at a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
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Al Qaeda takes credit for Baghdad suicide bombings

October 27, 2009 10:59 AM ET
By Bill Roggio


Al Qaeda's front, the Islamic State in Iraq, said the attacks were against "the rejectionist Shi'ite state." The attacks are thought to have been executed from inside the International Zone.
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Taliban, Army clash throughout Pakistan's northwest

October 26, 2009 8:50 PM ET
By Bill Roggio


Recent clashes in South Waziristan, Bajaur, and Hangu have reportedly killed 46 Taliban fighters and 12 soldiers. The Taliban are reinforcing in South Waziristan via North Waziristan despite the military's peace agreement with Hafiz Gul Bahadar.
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Suicide bombers target Iraqi ministries, kill 132

October 25, 2009 2:19 PM ET
By Bill Roggio


A pair of suicide bombers detonated simultaneously outside of Iraqi government buildings in the heart of Baghdad, killing more than 130 Iraqis in one of the worst attacks in the capital in years.
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US strikes in Bajaur tribal areas, kills 27 Taliban, al Qaeda

October 24, 2009 7:37 AM ET
By Bill Roggio


The airstrike targeted a meeting of the Bajaur Taliban shura. Faqir Mohammed narrowly survived the attack. The attack is the first outside Waziristan since April.
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The government's allegations against Tarek Mehanna

October 23, 2009 10:20 PM ET
By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross


tarek-mehanna-thumb.jpgFederal authorities in Boston said Mehanna has been charged with conspiring with others on terror attacks against shoppers in US malls.
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    November 7, 2009:

    Afghan and Coalition forces killed 18 Taliban fighters in the Nawbahar district in Zabul and detained several Haqqani Network fighters in Khost. Seven Afghan security personnel and one civilian was killed during a friendly fire incident while searching for two missing US soldiers in Badghis. The UN said it will only withdraw an estinated 200 personnel.


    Hamid Essouffi, aka Abdel Hamid Abou Zeid, the prominent Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb commander, has been badly wounded in fighting with Algerian security forces in Adrar province. Zeid leads the Taregh Ibn Ziyad brigade operating in the Sahara-Sahel region that stretches throughout Mali, Mauritiania, Niger and southern Algeria. Zeid’s brigade is responsible for the beheading of the British hostage Edwin Dyer last May.


    November 6, 2009:

    Security forces killed 24 Taliban fighters in South Waziristan, eight in Swat, and two in Mansehra. The Taliban killed a Frontier Corps troop in Hangu. Police arrested two suspected terrorists in connection with the Headley and Rana plot in the US. Iran claimed Pakistan released the leader of Jundallah days before the suicide attack in Sistan-Baluchistan.


    The Iraqi parliament missed its deadline to pass election reform laws. Security forces detained 11 wanted men in Diyala, four Special Groups operatives in Al Kut, three members of the Promise Day Brigade in Baghdad, and two al Qaeda operatives in Sharqat. Insurgents wounded five civilians in Mosul and killed an Awakening fighter near Kirkuk.


    Shabaab members stoned a man to death for adultery in Merka but spared his pregnant girlfriend until she gives birth. A prominent Somali businessman was killed in Bosaso. Masked gunmen tried to kill Abdullahi Hilowle, one of the commanders of Hizbul Islam in lower Shabelle region. Hizbul Islam leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys held talks with businessmen in Mogadishu to ask for support.


    Two ISAF soldiers who were operating in western Afghanistan are missing. The Taliban killed two US soldiers and one ISAF soldier in southern Afghanistan. US and Afghan forces detained "a group" of Taliban fighters and a senior Taliban facilitator in Kandahar, and a former security chief of southern Ghazni province.


    The IAEA reported that Iranian scientists may have tested components of the nuclear warhead. Mohamed ElBaradei said IAEA inspectors found "nothing to be worried about" at the Qom nuclear site. Japanese and Canadian journalists have been arrested for reporting on the Nov. 4 riots.


    Police arrested three Islamist terrorists, including a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative, during a raid in Chittagong. The three men were "making plans to hit US targets," a police officer said. Dozens of suspected Islamist terrorists have been arrested in Bangladesh over the past week.

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