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Pakistan
Retired Pakistani major charged with acting as al-Qaeda go-between
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Yemen
US to check Al Qaeda fallout on Yemen, Somalia
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Afghanistan
Petraeus: Wait until December 2010 to gauge US success in Afghanistan
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Afghanistan
Taliban establishes elaborate shadow government in Afghanistan
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Afghanistan
Pay increase boosts applications for Afghan security forces
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Al Qaeda
Cleric in Fort Hood probe grew more radical in Yemeni jail
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Israel
Did US group raise funds for Hamas?
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Al Qaeda
Iraq: Attacks do not signal return to post-Saddam era, says expert
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Al Qaeda
Petraeus reveals boost in US counterterror effort
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Iraq
Five Iraqis were killed in two bombings in northeastern and southern Baghdad. Security forces detained a senior Promised Day Brigade commander in Baghdad, a female suicide bomber recruiter in Baqubah, and 11 wanted men in Basrah and 11 more in Amarah. Iraqi border guards arrested 130 people for illegally entering Iraq from Syria.
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Iraqi troops capture Mahdi Army military leader
A senior Promise Day Brigade facilitator with direct links to leadership in Iran was captured in Baghdad. Iraq has stepped up operations against the Mahdi Army.
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Afghanistan
How the Afghanistan air war got stuck in the sky
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Pakistan
Pakistan’s Peshawar, epicenter of jihad
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Pakistan
5 Americans detained in Pakistan; no reason given
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Iraq
Iraq’s Maliki blasts foreign support for bombings
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Al Qaeda
Africa drug trade fuelling terrorism and crime, says UN
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Muslims account for 85 percent of casualties in al Qaeda attacks
The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point recently released a stunning report which found that Muslims have accounted for 85 percent of the casualties from al Qaeda attacks between 2004-2008. Even more astounding, during the last two years of the study (2006-2008), the percentage of al Qaeda’s Muslim victims skyrocketed to an almost-unbelievable 98 percent. The report’s findings decimate the claims made in 2007 by al Qaeda’s second-in-command, Ayman al Zawahiri. In response to questions posted on an online jihadi forum, Zawahiri responded to criticism about Al Qaeda’s indiscriminate killing of Muslims by insisting that “al Qaeda has not killed…
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India
India – Software industry high on terrorists’ target list: Home secretary
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Al Qaeda
Petraeus says progress will be slow in Afghanistan
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Afghanistan
Afghan and Coalition forces killed five Taliban fighters in Kunduz and three more in Kandahar. The Taliban killed two civilians in an IED attack in Uruzgan. Thirty Taliban fighters surrendered to the government in Baghlan.
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Iran
Iran claimed that a new UN station to detect nuclear explosions built near its border is used for spying by the West. Saudi Arabia denied it kidnapped an Iranian nuclear scientist during the Haj. A judiciary official said Iran will “show no mercy” toward opposition protesters.
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2 Arab al Qaeda members killed in North Waziristan strike
The identity of the Saudi al Qaeda operatives is not known.
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New charges against Headley for 2008 Mumbai attacks
David Coleman Headley, and a snapshot from his passport. Images from The Hindu. In October, 49-year-old Chicago man David Headley (born Daood Gilani) was arrested for his role in planning terrorist attacks against the Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten and two individuals associated with the notorious Muhammad cartoons incident. Subsequent to Headley’s arrest, news broke that he was also being investigated for a possible role in the 2008 urban warfare terror plot that struck Mumbai. On Monday, new federal charges were filed against Headley alleging that he conducted surveillance on behalf of Lashkar-e-Taiba (“LeT”) prior to the Mumbai attacks. A number…
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United States
US sees homegrown Muslim extremism as rising threat
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‘We will wait till January for our offensive’ – Hakeemullah
Taliban commander Hakeemullah Mehsud at a press conference in Peshawar in 2008. Hakeemullah Mehsud, the leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, came out of hiding to talk to CNN about the military operation in South Waziristan and the Taliban’s planned response: “We will wait till January for our offensive since we are stronger during the snowing season,” Mehsud said. He told CNN he remains confident despite the large-scale military operation currently targeting him and his fighters in the province of South Waziristan. “We have conserved our energy and have not lost our morale,” he said. The leadership…
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Pakistan
A Taliban suicide assault team killed 12 people during an attack on an Inter-Services Intelligence agency building in Multan. The US killed three Taliban fighters in an airstrike in North Waziristan. Security forces detained 14 Taliban fighters in Swat and four more in South Waziristan.
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Somalia
Eight Somalis were killed in shelling in Mogadishu. Three soldiers were killed during fighting within the ranks. Unknown gunmen killed an imam in Bosaso. Shabaab banned the sale of khat in Afmadow.
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Al Qaeda
‘Sleeper cells’ in Lebanese Palestinian camps
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Pakistan
Ex-Taliban in action to sniff out comrades-in-arms
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Pakistan
Serving officers in Pak Army linked to 26/11?
