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Iraq
How Technology Almost Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social – Not Electronic
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Al Qaeda
Al-Furqan Attempts Comeback with Second Video
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Iran
Split verdict for Iranian negotiator accused of spying
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Pakistan
Musharraf Retires As Pakistan Army Chief
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Iraq
Popular Iraqi general reassigned
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Iraq
Talks Are Set on Ending Battle of Iraq
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Iraq
Bush meets powerful Iraqi Shiite leader
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Pakistan
Musharraf bids farewell to army brass
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Iraq
Tigris River Bridge Repaired in Less Than Three Days
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Iraq
Ayatollah Sistani urged Shia to protect Sunnis. Twenty-eight al Qaeda fighters were captured in Kirkuk. US forces killed a senior al Qaeda leader in Mosul and two al Qaeda leaders north of Baiji. The Mosul bridge damaged by an al Qaeda truck bombers was repaired in three days. The Islamic Army in Iraq in Mosul split from the central organization. Six Iraqis were killed and seven wounded after a suicide bomber attacked the Diyala police headquarters in Baqubah.
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United States
FBI dismisses Fort Huachuca terror plot story
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Iran
Iran: A Missile by Any Other Name
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Iran
US wages covert war on Iraq-Iran border
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Pakistan
President Musharraf will resign as army chief of staff one day before taking his new oath as president. The military said 20 Taliban and 4 soldiers were killed during fighting in Swat; the Taliban refuted the numbers. The Interior Minister said Swat will be resolved by the pols in January. A girl’s school in Peshawar was bombed.
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Iran
Iranian government clamping down on dissent
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Palestinian Territories
Can Hamas be ignored? – METimes
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Iran
Iran attacks Syria’s role at Annapolis peace summit
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Palestinian Territories
Abbas slammed as ‘traitor™ at anti-Annapolis rallies
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Afghanistan
A suicide bomb in a market in central Kabul killed two civilians and wounded four; Gulbuddin Hekmatyar claimed responsibility for the attack. A British friendly fire incident in late September killed two Danish soldiers in Helmand province. Afghan commandos captured seven Taliban during an operation in Zormat district in Paktia province.
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Iraq
US forces kill five civilians in two shootings
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Afghanistan
Suicide blast in Kabul, two dead
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Iran
Iran says has built new long-range missile
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Pakistan
Musharraf prepares to shed army uniform
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Doku Umarov declares Islamic Caucasus Emirate
Al Qaeda-linked Chechen terrorist establishes emirate in the Russian Republics of Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkana, Karachay-Cherkessia, and beyond.
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Russia
Doku Umarov, the successor to Shamil Basayev, the slain leader of the Chechen jihad, has declared the creation of the Caucasian Emirate. “We, the Mujahideen, went out to fight the infidels not for the sake of fighting but to restore the Shariah of Allah in our land,” said Umarov “Today in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Palestine our brothers are fighting.”
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Al Qaeda
As Sahab, al Qaeda’s media wing, will release a new tape by Osama bin Laden, titled “A Message to the European People.” The tape was announced on jihadi forums, along with a statement urging jihadists to distribute this notice to various Western sites to “convey to them the reality of losing their war and facing the reality of the unseen truth.”
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Iraq
Iraqi Soldiers Thwart Terror Suspects Disguised As Bride and Groom
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Iran
The US commander in Sadr City said Iran is still supporting the Qods Force-backed Special Groups cells. Iran has produced its first batch of nuclear fuel pellets while the IAEA “is not able to confirm that Iran’s nuclear work is entirely peaceful.” An Iranian Air Force F-4 fighter crashed in the Sea of Oman.
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Iraq
The parliament will debate the extension of the Multinational Forces Iraq mission. Nominees for the ministers of transport and justice have been announced by the cabinet. Coalition forces detained 10 al Qaeda operatives during raids along the Tigris River Valley in Iraq. Iraqi Forces detained an al Qaeda commander and two Special Groups operatives and found 18 IEDs during three separate operations; three more Shia extremists were arrested in Diwaniyah. Insurgents killed 11 members of a journalist’s family in their home in Baghdad.
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Iran
US commander: Iran still supporting Iraqi militias
