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Pakistan
Report Gives ‘Measure of Assurance’ on Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons
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Thailand
Muslim insurgents bombed two discotheques in the southern province of Narathiwat. Thirty-one were injured as the blasts occurred both inside the discos and outside as the clubs emptied. Three policemen and two civilians were wounded in a bombing outside a food store in Yala.
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Iraq
Coalition forces captured the Special Groups recruiter for Karbala Province and 21 al Qaeda operatives during operations in central and northern Iraq. The Iraqi Army arrested 40 al Qaeda fighters, including a Saudi national, in northern Babil and another six in Haditha. Police captured an al Qaeda leader and two aides in Baqubah. A suicide bomber killed 11 and wounded seven in an attack on an Awakening checkpoint in Tarmiyah. Another suicide bomber killed one Awakening fighter and wounded three north of Hillah.
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Afghanistan
The Taliban killed 27 Afghan police and soldiers in attacks in southern and eastern Afghanistan. Sixteen police were killed in an attack on a police outpost in Kandahar; one was killed were in a bombing in Paktia, four were killed in a bombing in Uruzgan, and two were killed in Musa Qala in Helmand.
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Pakistan
Pakistan officials predict January elections delay
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Pakistan
US Predators targeted Egyptian Islamist scholar Sheikh Essa in North Waziristan after Bhutto’s assassination. Twenty were killed in the latest round of sectarian fighting in Kurram. The Pakistani military has deployed troops in Sindh and Quetta. The Taliban mortared a police checkpoint in Mardan.
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Iraq
Iraqi Sunni leaders hit back at ‘weak’ bin Laden
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The State of Jihad: 2007
A year-end roundup of the major developments in the Long War in the primary and secondary theaters across the globe.
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Iran
Iran says its first atom plant to start in mid-2008
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Thailand
Three blasts in Thailand south wound 27
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Iraq
Coalition forces killed six al Qaeda operative and detained 14 during operations in central and northern Iraq. Iraqi security forces arrested 40 insurgents and defused 32 IEDs in Baghdad. US troops arrested an al Qaeda leader near Kirkuk. The Salahadin Awakening Council on Sunday called on Osma bin Laden to order his followers to stop targeting and killing Iraqis. Al Qaeda kidnapped 13 Iraqis in Salahadin. Basrah’s police chief escaped two assassination attempts.
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Pakistan
Pakistan: US Special Forces On Standby Over Nuclear Threat
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Al Qaeda establishes “a haven in Diyala”
The Miqdadiyah region in eastern Diyala province has emerged as al Qaeda in Iraq’s base of operation in the country. US and Iraqi forces have conducted operations in the region, but Diyala remains violent.
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Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto’s son and husband have been designated to succeed her in the PPP; the PPP will not boycott the election. Elections may be delayed until early March. Two suicide bombers attacked the home of Ijazul Haq, a senior leader of the PML-Q and former minister for religious affairs in eastern Pakistan. Sectarian fighting in Kurram agency resulted in 15 killed.
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Afghanistan
Mullah Omar relieved Mullah Mansoor Dadullah of his command; Dadullah rejected the claim, but a Taliban spokesman stated Omar will release an audio to confirm. Coalition forces captured nine Taliban and killed “several” in Zabul province. Ten Afghans were killed in Taliab ambushes in Helmand and Wardak province. A Canadian soldier was killed in an IED attack in Kandahar province.
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Pakistan
Suicide attackers strike as Benazir’s party prepares for talks.
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Pakistan
Bhutto’s son, husband to succeed her
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Pakistan
Pakistani TV shows pictures of Bhutto attackers
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Taliban dismisses senior Afghan commander [Updated]
Mullah Mansoor Dadullah, the Taliban commander for southern Afghanistan, has been relieved of duty by Mullah Omar. Dadullah denies claim, calls it a “conspiracy.”
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Al Qaeda
Bin Laden says US seeks to exploit Iraqi oil
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Al Qaeda
Has al-Qaeda Adopted a New Terror Tactic?
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Pakistan
Al Qaeda Network Expands Base in Pakistan
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Al Qaeda
‘Aussie Taliban’ walks free: First pictures
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Pakistan
Musharraf cracks down on rioters
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Saudi Arabia
Ten Saudis return home from Guantanamo Bay prison
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Pakistan
Militants, Bhutto aides allege cover-up
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Pakistan
Rioting in Pakistan Kills 38, Causes Tens of Millions of Dollars in Damage
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Turkey
Turkish security forces captured 19 al Qaeda operatives planning attacks in the major cities. The military is using Israeli-made Heron UAVs with help of Israeli crews to hunt PKK terrorists, according to a report in a Turkish daily.
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Iraq
Coalition forces killed three al Qaeda operatives and detained 34 during operations in central and northern Iraq. Coalition forces detained six Special Groups members during operations in southern Iraq. Police killed five insurgents and captured five in Tal Afar. US forces arrested a police chief and four officers in Kirkuk. Iraqi soldiers discovered a weapons cache in the home of one of the bodyguards of Adnan al Dulaimi. Leaflets were distributed near Al Kut warning against setting up Awakening councils in Wasit province.
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Pakistan
Video: Pakistan’s Zapruder film
