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Iraq
The Iraqi government said 203 people were killed during September, the lowest total since the US invasion in 2003. Security forces killed an insurgent in Mosul and detained 45 wanted men in Basrah and IED cell members in Baghdad and Kirkuk. A US soldier was killed in a mortar attack in Baghdad.
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Bring in the Turks: Why Turkey’s presence is needed in Geneva
Iran’s nuclear facility in the mountains near Qom. A new round of diplomatic concessions has come out of the negotiations yesterday between the United Nations’ five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The biggest news coming out of Geneva is that Iran has agreed to open up its secret enrichment facility outside Qom to IAEA inspectors in the next two weeks. The Islamic Republic has also agreed to send its enriched uranium to Russia, where it will be turned into fuel for a small reactor that produces medical isotopes. At the…
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Afghanistan
Pentagon opens new inquiry on Wanat battle
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Pakistan
More on the success of Predators in Pakistan
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Pakistan
Pakistani Taliban commanders vow to carryout out suicide attacks
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Saudi Arabia
US delays Somalia aid, fearing it is feeding terrorists
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Afghanistan
US troops in Afghan ‘armed social work’
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Philippines
Three thousand US troops will rotate to the Philippines for training and humanitarian support missions next week, sparking fears that US forces may be deployed to Sulu province in the wake of the deaths of two US soldiers. Despite an ongoing truce, MILF gunmen attacked and killed two farmers in North Cotabato.
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A new Waziristan offensive?
According to Dawn, the Pakistani military has decided it can no longer wait to take on the Taliban in Waziristan: After fighting brief skirmishes against militants, the Pakistan Army plans to unfold in the next few days what military officials characterize as the mother of all battles in South Waziristan, senior military and security officials said on Thursday. ‘If we don’t take the battle to them, they will bring the battle to us,’ a senior military official said of the militants. ‘The epicentre of the behemoth called the Taliban lies in South Waziristan, and this is where we will be…
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Somalia
Senior Shabaab and Hizbul Islam leaders were killed during yesterday’s heavy fighting in Kismayo, including the commander of Anole fighters, Ali Said, and Shabaab™s top commander for the Jubba regions, Aden Dhagoweyne. A Hizbul Islam convoy of battle wagons led by former governor Sheik Abdirahman Ibrahim Ma’ow regained control of Beledweyne and imposed a curfew. At least five civilians were killed after Mogadishu’s central Bakara market was shelled.
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Iran
Tehran agreed to open the enrichment site in Qom to IAEA inspections and also agreed to send enriched uranium to Russia. Nuclear talks will continue throughout the month of October. The US threatened to increase sanctions if the agreement is not kept. General McChrystal said Iran is having a a positive influence in Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan
The Taliban killed a British soldier in an IED attack near Camp Bastion in central Helmand province and a US soldier during a gunfight in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban also kidnapped de-miners in Herat and destroyed 13 vehicles in Kunar and two fuel tankers in Kunduz.
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Afghanistan
McChrystal rejects scaling down Afghan military aims
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Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader thought killed in August strike in South Waziristan
Unconfirmed reports indicate Tahir Yuldashev was among those killed in a US airstrike in Kanigoram on Aug. 27.
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White House considers narrower war effort in Afghanistan
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Indonesia
Suicide bomber recruiter Syaifudin Zuhri bin Ahmad Jaelani, Jemaah Islamiyah military leader Zulkarnaen, bomb specialist Dulmatin, and operative Mohamad Syahrir are thought to be the prime contenders to replace Noordin Mohammed Top as the leader of the Tandzim al-Qaedat Indonesia. Top, who was killed by police on Sept. 17, is thought to have been sodomized in the past.
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Pakistan
Tahir Yuldashev, the emir of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, is thought to have been killed in an August airstrike in South Waziristan. Eighty percent of Pakistanis do not support the US war against al Qaeda and the Taliban. Two civilians were killed in an IED attack in Khyber. Two Taliban fighters were killed in a suicide attack in Swat.
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Pakistan
Poll: Pakistanis oppose assisting US terror fight
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Mustafa Abu Yazid eulogizes Baitullah
As Sahab, al Qaeda’s propaganda wing, has released a tape of Mustafa Abu Yazid, al Qaeda’s commander in Afghanistan, eulogizing Baitullah Mehsud, the former leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan. The video is 8:22 long, and unfortunately does not have English subtitles. One part, from a partial transcript, stands out. Yazid notes al Qaeda’s movement into Pakistan’s tribal area of South Waziristan, the early Pakistan military offensives there, and Baitullah’s role in helping al Qaeda regain ground. While some of Yazid’s statements are clearly propaganda (for instance al Qaeda never fully left the Wazir tribal areas, they…
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Pakistan
Pakistan ready to move Taliban fight to group™s stronghold
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Turf war in Kismayo
Shabaab and Hizbul Islam are acting quickly to curb the internecine war between their fighters in the port town of Kismayo in southern Somalia. At least 30 people have been killed in more than five hours of fighting after Shabaab launched a predawn raid against Hizbul Islam-held neighborhoods in the northern part of the city. In truth, the battle was a Mafia-style confrontation over money, not ideology. The seaport and the airport in Kismayo are lucrative sources of taxes and other income for Somali insurgents. Quite obviously, both cartels didn’t talk business in public. Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Hassan Yaqub told…
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Saudi Arabia
Saudi investigation: Would-be assassin hid bomb in underwear
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Pakistan
Why would the Pentagon worry about improved success of Predator airstrikes in Pakistan?
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Iraq
Insurgents killed three Iraqi soldiers in Mahmoudiyah, a policeman in Tal Afar, and two civilians in Baghdad. Security forces detained 20 wanted men in Basrah, 12 in Baqubah, eight more in Daqouq, and a Hezbollah Brigades leader in Sadr City.
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Iraq
The effective ambassador in Baghdad
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Lashkar-e-Taiba
Police in Dhaka detained the top leader of the Lashkar-e-Taiba in Bangladesh. Emdadullah, who is also known as Mahbub, entered the country in 2006 and has been responsible for overseeing the terror group’s movement across the border into India and has smuggled explosives into India.
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Pakistan
Provide details on Taliban, Pakistan tells US
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Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda’s leader in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu Yazid, eulogized former Pakistani Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed in a US airstrike on Aug. 5, 2009. The eight-minute tape was released by As Sahab, al Qaeda’s propaganda arm.
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Afghanistan
‘Different’ Afghan strategy urged
