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Al Qaeda threatens India with 'humiliation' if Pakistan is attacked

Mustafa Abu Yazid, al Qaeda's commander in Afghanistan, said India will "pay a heavy price" if it attacked Pakistan. This is Yazid's fifth propaganda tape since the Pakistani military insisted he was killed last summer.


Al Qaeda's paramilitary 'Shadow Army'

The 'Lashkar al Zil' or Shadow Army is comprised of al Qaeda, Taliban, and allied terror groups, and operates as a paramilitary force in Pakistan's northwest and in eastern Afghanistan.


Suicide bomber kills more than 30 at Shia mosque in central Pakistan

More than 50 were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated in a crowd of worshipers outside a Shia mosque in Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab province. Al Qaeda affiliate Laskhar-e-Jhangvi is the likely suspect.


Former Islamic Courts Leader elected president of Somalia

Sheikh Sharif Ahmed is elected president by the newly expanded parliament. Sharif led the conquest of southern Somalia in 2006.


Pakistani PM: Most of tribal areas 'cleared of the terrorists'

Gilani made the claim despite Taliban control of North and South Waziristan, Arakazi, Khyber, Mohmand, Bajaur, and most of Kurram, as well as much of the Northwest Frontier Province. His chief adviser claimed government is in control of 98 percent of Bajaur.


The Jihadi Brothers

A DC court ruled that Ghaleb Nassar al Bihani, a detainee at Guantanamo, is being lawfully detained as an enemy combatant. Al Bihani is one of several brothers who have served al Qaeda in some capacity.


Shabaab takes control of Somalia's seat of government

The al Qaeda affiliate moved into the southern town of Baidoa after Ethiopian forces pulled out, ending a two-year occupation.


Arabian Peninsula al Qaeda groups merge

Al Qaeda in Yemen announced its merger with Saudi Arabia's al Qaeda organization to form al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The Yemeni government supports Hamas.


Return to Jihad

Two former Guantanamo detainees appear in an al Qaeda propaganda video. Both detainees have senior positions in al Qaeda in Yemen and have been accused of working with a charity operating in Iran.


Suicide bomber targets African Union troops in Mogadishu

More than 13 civilians and security personnel were killed in the attack. Shabaab claimed credit for the strike.


Sleeper Agent

What will the new administration do with the only enemy combatant held on US soil? Originally published at The Weekly Standard.


US strikes al Qaeda in North and South Waziristan

predator-uav.jpgMore than 20 people have been reported killed in dual strikes inside the Taliban-controlled tribal agencies.


Saudi al Qaeda operative involved in London bombings detained in Pakistan

Security officials said Zabi ul Taifi was among seven al Qaeda operatives captured during a raid in a village near the provincial capital of Peshawar.


Osama's son coordinates call between Zawahiri and Iran's Qods Force

Sa'ad bin Laden facilitated communications between Ayman al Zawahiri and the Iranians after the September 2008 assault on the US embassy in Sana'a, Yemen.


US sanctions senior al Qaeda members operating in Iran

Sa'ad bin Laden and three other senior al Qaeda members operating from Iran are placed on the US list of terrorists. Mustafa Hamid is al Qaeda's primary link to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps.


The USS Cole plotter's unbelievable story

The ACLU's quest to free a terrorist who admitted his responsibility for the USS Cole bombing.


Banned Pakistani terror group re-emerges under new name

Jamaat-ud Dawa, the banned front for the Lashkar-e-Taiba, renamed itself the Movement for the Safeguarding of the First Center of Prayer and held a protest in Lahore.


Shabaab and rival Islamist group clash in central Somalia

Somali Islamist groups vie for power as Ethiopian forces begin their withdrawal from the country.


Taliban assault military base in Mohmand

The Taliban attacked a Frontier Corps base in battalion strength; 40 Taliban fighters and 15 Frontier Corps troops reported killed; more than 25 troops reported missing. Four soldiers were mutilated in Bajaur.


Terrorist Penpals

A new program by Amnesty International advocates "Solidarity with Guantanamo Detainees."