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Pakistan
Bhutto’s Killing Caught On Camera
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Pakistan
Baitullah Mehsud denied he was involved in the Bhutto assassination. A Bhutto aide said the slain PPP leader was shot in the head. At least 33 Pakistanis have been killed in rioting since Thursday; banks, police, railway stations, vehicles, and restaurants have been torched or vandalized. The Taliban bombed a girls’ college in Bajaur agency.
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A closer look at slain al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Abdullah
The al Qaeda regional emir killed in November served as tactical commander, IED maker and cell leader, foreign fighter facilitator, and tribal liaison.
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Iran
Iran military force fears threat from within
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Pakistan
Are Pakistan’s Nukes Secure?
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Palestinian Territories
Two Israeli soldiers were killed after being attacked while hiking off duty in Hebron; two members of Islamic Jihad were killed in the ensuing fight. The IDF raided a hospital in Hebron to search for wounded Islamic Jihad fighters. The IDF killed a senior Islamic Jihad operative and six others in Gaza. The IDF killed a bodyguard of a Fatah negotiator as he resisted arrest.
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Pakistan
How did Pakistan’s Bhutto die?
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Pakistan
Bhutto’s Death: Gunshot, Shrapnel, or Fracture?
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Pakistan
Pakistan elections in doubt
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Iraq
A car bomb in Baghdad killed 10 Iraqis and wounded 66. Coalition forces killed five al Qaeda operatives and detained 14 during operations in central and northern Iraq. Iraqi troops detained four al Qaeda fighters, including a Saudi national, in Samarra. Iraqi forces arrested four al Qaeda fighters north of Hillah. Awakening forces killed an al Qaeda leader near Khalis.
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Iran
Ten killed, 66 wounded in Baghdad blast
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Afghanistan
Poland Expected to Send Additional 400 Troops to Afghanistan
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Pakistan implicates Baitullah Mehsud in Bhutto assassination
An alleged phone intercept produced by the interior ministry details a conversation between Baitullah Mehsud and an underling, who takes credit for the attack.
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Making sense of the European Union-Afghan political row
Matt Dupee looks at the expulsion of two European Union and United Nations diplomats and the heated debate over their and British intelligence’s involvement in talks with the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
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Al Qaeda
Spanish police arrest 6 suspected jihad recruiters
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Iran
Russia denied reports that it is shipping the S-300 air defense missile system to Iran. Iran has received its second shipment of nuclear fuel from Russia.
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Iraq
Multi-National Force Iraq – Petraeus: Violence Down in Iraq; al Qaeda Still a Threat
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Pakistan
Many Had the Desire, Means to Kill Bhutto
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Pakistan
US Brokered Bhutto’s Return to Pakistan
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Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto was standing in the sunroof of her vehicle when she was shot; the shooter then detonated his explosives. Her body has been flown back to her home town, her husband and children have arrived in Pakistan. Riots took place in Karachi, Lahore, and Peshawar; 10 have been reported killed. Four were also killed prior to a rally for Nawaz Sharif. The PML-N, Sharif’s party, will boycott the January 8 election.
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Indonesia
Jemaah Islamiya leader: ‘Immoral acts’ of victims caused Java disaster
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Caucasus
Russia jails troops over Chechnya
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Afghanistan
US and Afghan soldiers take search for Taliban to mountain ranges in southern Afghanistan
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Afghanistan
US backs talks with Taliban as envoys expelled
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Pakistan
Violence grips Pakistan as Bhutto to be buried
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Pakistan
Benazir Bhutto’s body arrives home for burial
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Al Qaeda
Islamist websites have indicated a new Osama bin Laden tape, titled “The Path to Foiling Plots in Iraq,” will be released shortly. The tape will discuss the Islamic State of Iraq and Al Jazeera’s misrepresentation of bin Laden’s tape from November. Mustafa Abu al Yazid, the leader of al Qaeda in Afghanistan, denied involvement in the recent suicide attack at a mosque in Chardassa.
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Pakistan
At least 10 killed in violent protests in Pakistan
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Iraq
The Iraqi Army claimed to have captured the minister of defense of the Islamic State of Iraq. Coalition forces killed 11 Special Groups fighters in Al Kut. US and Iraqi forces killed 12 al Qaeda operatives and detained 37 near Miqdadiyah. US forces captured two “extremists” believed to be behind the kidnappings of three US soldiers last May. Coalition forces captured 19 al Qaeda operatives in raids throughout Iraq; Iraqi forces captured four. Al Qaeda fighters kidnapped 22 Iraqis at a fake checkpoint near Balad Ruz.
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Report: Islamic State of Iraq defense minister captured
The Iraqi military claimed to have captured Ahmed Turki Abbas. Abu Ayyub al Masri, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, is listed as defense minister for the Islamic State of Iraq, but his real job is the emir.
