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Iran
Don’t pressure Iran, says Russia
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Pakistan
The military hit South Waziristan with air and artillery strikes; two tribal leaders are thought to have been killed. The Taliban claimed credit for the suicide attack in Shangla and vowed to conduct further attacks. Investigators said three Uzbeks may have been among the assault team that attacked Army GHQ.
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Kidnapped priest seen three times in Philippines
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Thailand extends emergency rule over southern provinces
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Italy
Police arrested an Egyptian and a Libyan for suspected links to Mohammed Game, a Libyan who detonated a bomb hidden in a toolbox at an army barracks in Milan. One soldier was wounded in the bombing. The Libyan helped transport Game to the barracks and the Egyptian helped Game acquire explosives.
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Saudi Arabia
Two suspected al Qaeda operatives were killed and another was detained in a shootout with police at a checkpoint in Jizan province on the southern border with Yemen. One policeman was also killed. The men were wearing burqas and had suicide vests, explosives, and weapons in their possession.
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Iraq
A suicide bomber killed six Iraqis and wounded 10 more in an attack on a tribal leader in Baqubah. Insurgents killed two soldiers and wounded four more in an attack in Kirkuk. Security forces detained three wanted men in Amarah, two insurgents in Fallujah, and an al Qaeda leader in Diyala.
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Iraq
Iraq: Maliki’s State of Law bloc to pay for campaign with member donations
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Pakistan
Soldiers turning rogue Pak’s new terror headache
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Afghanistan
Forty Taliban fighters belonging to slain Taliban leader Ghulam Yahya Akbari surrendered and joined the government in Herat. Afghan police killed two Taliban commanders in Zabul and 15 fighters in Kandahar. Security forces detained two Taliban fighters in Takhar. A UAV crashed in eastern Afghanistan.
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What’s wrong with Pakistan’s Army? A former officer’s perspective
Earlier, I noted that the Pakistani military’s lack of response to the assault on Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi is going to have serious repercussions. A comment from a former Pakistani Army officer, passed along from my friend Ravi Rikhye at Orbat.com, drives the point home. The note below was written by Agha H. Amin, a retired cavalry officer in the Pakistani Army currently working for a power transmission company in Afghanistan. Mr. Amin provides a scathing look at the Pakistani military and its inability to quickly and effectively respond. The military’s authority has eroded and is no longer feared…
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Taliban take credit for Shangla and Army GHQ attacks
Aftermath of the Shangla suicide attack. AP photo. The Taliban have taken credit for the Shangla suicide attack against a military convoy as well as the assault on the Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi. Dawn reports on the Taliban taking credit for the Shangla attack: A boy aged about 13 and wearing a suicide vest threw himself at a military convoy passing through a Alpuri town on Monday, the latest in a wave of attacks that have killed 125 people in Pakistan in eight days, officials said. ‘We claim responsibility for the Shangla suicide attack. This is revenge for our…
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Al Qaeda
The safe haven myth
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Somalia
Shabaab has taken control of north Mogadishu after Hizbul Islam militias pulled out from the area. Twenty fighters with a battle wagon from Hizbul Islam defected to the government. Insurgents and government soldiers clashed in the Abdul Aziz and Shibis districts in Mogadishu. Hizbul Islam™s public services officer, Sheikh Sulayman Sahal Muuse Abu Hanifa, gave NGOs a 15-day ultimatum for registering with the group.
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Ilyas Kashmiri survived last month’s airstrike in Pakistan
The operational commander of the Harakat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami and Brigade 313 was thought killed in a Sept. 14 strike in North Waziristan. Kashmiri has granted an interview with a Pakistani reporter.
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France
A French physicist of Algerian decent who works at the CERN facility at the Franco-Swiss border has been charged in a French court. Anti-terrorism magistrates in Paris have filed preliminary charges against the 32-year-old man for various terrorist offenses, including contacting Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb operatives and interest in committing terrorist attacks.
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Afghanistan
Rushed training ‘risks turning Afghan troops into cannon fodder’
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Afghanistan
Number of US troops in Afghanistan overlooks thousands of support troops
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When will a Waziristan operation be ‘suitable’?
Taliban fighters in South Waziristan. Reuters photo. With four large-scale Taliban attacks in Pakistan since Oct. 4, including the brazen assault on the Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, the Pakistani government and military are still talking about considering discussing the possibility of issuing orders to provide for a principled decision to launch an offensive against Hakeemullah Mehsud’s faction of the Taliban in South Waziristan. Here is what Major General Athar Abbas, the military’s top spokesman, said today (via the Associated Press of Pakistan): Pakistan Army is determined to undertake military operation against terrorists in South Waziristan at a suitable time,…
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Pakistan
More violence
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Pakistan
Pakistan – Tehrik-i-Taliban claims responsibility for army HQ attack
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Pakistan
A Taliban suicide bomber killed 41 civilians and soldiers in an attack on a convoy in Shangla. Security forces killed 15 Taliban fighters in Bajaur and five more in South Waziristan, and detained 28 suspects in Islamabad and Rawalpindi and five Harkat-ul Mujahideen fighters in Dera Ismail Khan. The Taliban bombed a school in Hangu.
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Pakistan
Pakistan GHQ attackers demanded militant release: Army
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Pakistan
Pakistan Police launch crackdown in Dera Ismail Khan
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Iraq
Police arrested Iyad Jalal Abdulwahid, Izzat Ibrahim al Douri’s senior aide and a financier of Ba’athist insurgents. Iraqi security forces detained 10 wanted men in Basrah, seven in Salahadin, and three more in Kirkuk. Also detained were five insurgents in Baghdad, four insurgents in northern Taji, including a car bomb cell leader behind attacks in Ramadi, and a sniper in Ramadi.
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Pakistan
Pakistan – Soviet-era refugee camps are Taleban breeding ground
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Al Qaeda
Tales from the Bin Laden clan
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Rawalpindi attack mastermind previously arrested and released
Dr. Usman was arrested in October 2008 for his involvement in the September 2008 suicide attack on the Islamabad Marriott. He is a former soldier and has extensive links to Pakistani jihadi groups.
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Indonesia
Police announced that forensic examination of the two men killed last week in a raid south of Jakarta will identify them as wanted terrorists Saifuddin Zuhri and his brother Mohammad Syahrir. The brothers are suspected of recruiting men for the July 17 bomb attack in Jakarta. Saifuddin was considered a successor to Noordin Mohammad Top, who was killed in a raid last month.
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Two men killed in police raid were Jakarta bombers
